Question: What was the first Marvel comic book character to be made the subject of a major motion picture?
Yesterday’s Question answered below: In Rome today you can see trash bins and manholes with the acronym SPQR on it. The Roman Legions had it on their standards. What does SPQR mean?
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History for 10/28/2018
Birthdays: Elsa Lanchester, Cleo Lane, Charlie Daniels, Evelyn Waugh, Jonas Salk, Bruce Jenner, Joan Plowright, Edith Head, Chef August Escolfiere the great French Chef who created Peche Melba and moved French cuisine to the front rank of world cooking, Charles Grovesnor the founder of National Geographic magazine, Joaquin Phoenix is 44, Dennis Franz, Julia Roberts is 51, Bill Gates is 63,
Disney animator Don Lusk is 105!
1492- Christopher Columbus reached the island of Cuba. Here the Indians showed him how to smoke tobacco, which they called cochiba.
1726- Johnathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels"-"To Vex the World rather than Divert it."
1929- Composer Irving Berlin scolded George Gershwin for his lack of patriotism that he unloaded his stocks and bonds. The Great Stock Market Crash the following day bankrupting Irving Berlin but left Gershwin unscathed. Stick to music, Irv...
1949- Kay Kamen, Walt Disney Studios merchandising mastermind, was killed in a plane crash in the Azores. For almost two decades the Baltimore-born ad man was the mastermind behind the creation of Disney merchandising, including the wildly successful Mickey Mouse watch. By the time of his death, Disney merchandising was earning the studio $100 million a year.
1965- St. Louis Gateway Arch completed.
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