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They Live –John Carpenter took a short story from 1963 and remade it into a politically biting science fiction film where aliens infiltrate and take over American society. Space aliens, not the aliens that eat ducks from the park. Anyway, the film is famous for an amazingly long street figh...
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Hulton Archive // Getty Images Celebrations close to the Earth Halloween gained popularity in the United States in the 1840s by way of a massive Irish immigration to escape the Irish Potato Famine. The Pagan roots of the celebration may be what led to it being popular with farm communities ...
Did you know?Christie was once the subject of an investigation by the British Intelligence Agency MI5. In her novelN or M?, the character Bletchley—a British Officer in possession of wartime secrets—was a little too close to the real live codebreaker, Dilly Knox, a close friend of Chris...
The town is just 2 square miles and continuously ranks as one of the best places to live in the nation. According to The Kansas City Star, Mission Hills has long been an enclave for the Kansas City elite, as well as the town of choice for the city's old family money. Kentucky: ...
Funnyman Adam Sandler first achieved notoriety for his tenure on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1990s. Since then, he's become one of the biggest box-office draws of all time, with strings of comedic hits. Movies like "The Waterboy," "Big Daddy," "Anger Management," "Grown Ups,...
Rumors persist (thanks in part to Dylan himself) that the song was directly inspired by the Cuban missile crisis, but he reportedly performed it live a month before the nuclear showdown took place. 1964: 'A Change is Gonna Come' Ben Martin // Getty Images 1964: 'A Change is Gonna Come...
Hulton Archive, Getty Images Ford’s Theater: Then John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor, ended his full-time stage career in May 1864. The Maryland native wanted to spend most of his time on his primary interest: supporting the Confederacy. Within months, Booth was working actively with Confede...