This Day In History – October 12

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue!  Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, along with a crew of 90 and three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - he landed on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India [...]

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Top 25 TV Characters of the Past 25 Years

Entertainment Weekly" put out a list of "The 25 Best TV Characters of the Past 25 Years,": Here's the complete list:   1.  Jack Bauer, "24"   2.  Homer Simpson, "The Simpsons"   3.  Buffy Summers, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"   4.  Tony Soprano, "The Sopranos"   5.  Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"   [...]

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This Day In History – October 9

1973  Elvis and Priscilla Presley got divorced after six years of marriage!  Priscilla was awarded nearly $1.5 million cash, $4,200 a month alimony for one year, half the sale price of the couple's $750,000 home and a 5% interest in two of Elvis' publishing companies 1986 Fox debuted as a TV network THANK YOU FOR MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN [...]

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Urban Outfitters Wants Their Workers to Work “For Free” on the Weekends.

Urban Outfitters is being slammed for asking employees to work for free on weekends.The store has seen a big increase in orders recently, and to help keep up with the orders they sent out an email asking salaried employees to work on the weekends for free. They called the unpaid shifts as a “team-building activity” [...]

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This Day In History – October 8

1995 Tim McGraw was at #1 on the Country charts with I Like It, I Love It   The song was McGraw's ninth single overall, and his third #1 hit. 1997 Boogie Nights was released!  Mark Wahlberg, meet Dirk Diggler. Dirk Diggler, meet Mark Wahlberg 2002 Trace Adkins was building a gravel road for his farm in [...]

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Woman Under Investigation for “Child Shaming” at Wal-Mart

A South Carolina mother is under investigation by the Department of Social Services after dressing her son in women's clothes and parading him around a Walmart store as punishment. Cops were called to the store and found the boy dressed in a tutu, women's boots, a women's undergarment, and a T-shirt. The word "bad" was [...]

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This Day In History – October 7

1968 The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X."  The MPAA rating system is not enforced by law; films can be exhibited without a rating, though many theaters refuse to exhibit non-rated or NC-17 rated films 1985 Lynette Woodard became the first girl to play for the Harlem Globetrotters  [...]

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Woman Wins Lottery, Immediately Quits Job.

A 50-year-old woman in southwest Michigan named Julie Leach came forward yesterday, after hitting the Powerball lottery for over $310 MILLION.She's worked at a fiberglass factory for almost 23 years, and says she was having a worse day than usual last week.  She was on her lunch break when she checked the lottery numbers. Then, [...]

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