Charles Schulz Kind Of Killed Off A “Peanuts” Character
In the 1950s, Charles Schulz introduced a new character to his comic strip "Peanuts." Barely a year later, she was gone... and may have met a horrific end at the hands of the cartoonist!
In the 1950s, Charles Schulz introduced a new character to his comic strip "Peanuts." Barely a year later, she was gone... and may have met a horrific end at the hands of the cartoonist!
You win some, you lose some, hopefully you live through them all... but not always.
In 18th Century Scotland, there was a woman who was sentenced and put to death, but lived through it all to win the nickname “Half-hangit Maggie.”
It was one of the most convoluted and over-thought plots in the history of crime: a guy tried to manipulate the stock market with bombs.
This year has not been a record one for US/Canadian ties, but at least it's not like 1921, when a Canadian military official worked up a secret plan to invade a bunch of northern US cities. (And, for that matter, the US had a northern invasion plan too.)
We start our third season with a timely story, about a new pope. Though unlike popes of this time, this one decided the best way to use his new job was to exhume his predecessor’s remains and put them on trial for heresy.
Some situations are just destined to go wrong. Like the time in 1974 that Cleveland hosted Ten Cent Beer Night at the ballpark and the game ended in a forfeit/drunken riot.
In 1994, an ad campaign for a car company somehow misjudged its ad campaign so badly that the whole effort landed the company in court.
Gram Parsons saw his life take some strange turns... but nothing as strange as what happened in his afterlife.
In 1941, one of the United States recognized a state of war for a very technical reason, months before the country formally entered the second World War.