Roslyn Carter dies

Franklin in Peanuts Movie sits all alone. Why did we never notice?

A Disturbance in the Force, the documentary about the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, will arrive on digital and Blu-Ray on December 5, 2023. Featuring interviews with Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert G.

New zombie movie Bjorn of the Dead with some familiar faces (production in 2024)

Denzel Washington teaming up again with director Antoine Fuqua to make a movie about Hannibal.

Tracy Chapman becomes 1st Black songwriter to win Song of the Year in CMA Awards' 56-year history. Luke Combs.

The first Thanksgiving was a sausage party! Ninety Wampanoag Native Americans and 50 Plymouth colonialists (Pilgrims) celebrated the first-ever autumn harvest celebration in 1621. While this celebration lasted three days, only five women were present.

According to the US National Archives, the first federal congress passed a resolution in 1789 requesting the then US president, George Washington, to name a national Thanksgiving Day. The president then proclaimed 26th November as the “Day of Public Thanksgiving” for that year.

Although subsequent presidents also proclaimed national thanksgiving days, the holidays fell on different days and months. However, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving would be held on every last Thursday of November each year and that it would be a national holiday.

In Europe, Thanksgiving is popularly known as Erntedank (“harvest thanksgiving festival”).

Data from the US Poultry and Egg Association, Americans consume more than 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving, compared to 22 million at Christmas and 19 million on Easter. Fully half of all whole turkeys eaten in the U.S. are consumed on Thanksgiving Day.

Only male turkeys — appropriately named gobblers — actually make the sound. Female turkeys cackle instead.

According to the US Calorie Control Council (CCC), an average American may consume a whopping 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving Day. A typical adult needs to spend 10 hours at a steady pace on a treadmill to burn off an average Thanksgiving meal.

It takes an average of 9.6 hours for a host to prepare a full Thanksgiving meal. How much time is spent eating that meal? 16 minutes.

The average turkey, alive and walking around, weighed 17 pounds in 1960. That increased to 19 pounds by 1980, and rose to 31 pounds today.

Around 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed every Thanksgiving. 36 percent of people eat pumpkin pie for dessert on Thanksgiving, even though opinion polls show that America’s favorite pie is apple.

Fully 20 percent of all whole cranberries sold in the U.S. are sold during Thanksgiving week. 80 percent of jellied cranberry sauce is sold during the Thanksgiving holiday. For the rest of the year, cranberries are primarily consumed as cranberry juice.

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, there’s a 5 percent increase in heart attacks nationwide.

More home-cooking-related fires occur on Thanksgiving than on any other day of the year.

About 40 percent of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup sales go toward making green bean casserole popular at Thanksgiving dinner.

In a poll, 31 percent of Americans said mashed potatoes are their favorite Thanksgiving side dish. Only six percent enjoyed green beans the most.

Donald Trump testifies along with his children

Thirty-five African elephants in northwestern Zimbabwe dropped dead under baffling circumstances between late August and November 2020. Eleven of the massive herd animals died within a 24-hour period. Earlier that same year, about 350 elephants in neighboring northern Botswana also had died suddenly over the course of three months. evidence of infection by a little-known bacterium called Bisgaard taxon 45 that caused septicemia, or blood poisoning. The deaths took place as food and water resources dwindled during the dry season, forcing the elephants to travel increasing distances to look for water and to forage.

The bear population near Glacier National Park has a problem of human creation, and it’s killing as many as eight grizzlies per year. There is a stretch of rail line that goes over the Marias Pass in and the bears are attracted to the rail line because the trains frequently drop grain, and when they consume the cold fermented grain a bear can become intoxicated to the point of either falling asleep right there on the tracks, or becoming too lethargic to effectively run away.

New Jack Reacher 12/15 (Robert Patrick maybe the bad guy)

Ryan Gosling staring in Fall Guy movie slated for March 2024.

Brittany Spears childhood home available in Kentwood, LA. $1.3 Mil. Sold in 2021 for just $275K. Three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, spans 2,299 square feet. It does come with some Brittany childhood furnishings, a “Jesus Loves Me” art piece and her childhood dog is buried in the backyard. 2nd building dance studio in back.

Millie Bobby Brown in Netflix’s Damsel 2024 – A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt and thrown into a cave with a dragon.

New Official D&D cookbook coming out: Elven Flatbread, Halfling Game Birds, written like a D&D manual.

Pat E. Johnson, the ninth-degree black belt who choreographed the fight scenes, trained the actors and portrayed a tournament referee in the first three Karate Kid films, has died at 84. Creator of the Crane Kick, trained both Pat Morita and Ralph Machio and says they bitched all the while. Other credits as a stunt person, stunt coordinator, trainer and/or fight coordinator on Buffy the Vampire Slayer; on TMNT, the Mortal Kombat movies, Enter the Dragon (1973), Batman and Robin (1997) and Wild Wild West (1999).

There are 40 new Hallmark Christmas Movies for 2023 – How is this such a thing?

1605 Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot.” Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.

1872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.

1887 Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado (6 years after OK).

1935 Parker Brothers company launches “Monopoly”

1940 FDR elected to third term

1940 Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses.

1989 Berlin Wall is opened

1994 The world’s first internet radio broadcast originates from WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2003 Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder.

Shootings, shootings, shootings…Maine, Tampa, Chicago

Matthew Perry deceased

Richard Moll dies

Tricky Dick may have had an affair with Zsa Zsa Gabor! Gabor’s longtime friend Wendy Leigh, who co-wrote her has said that Gabor allegedly had a steamy affair with Nixon. which consisted in part of him quizzing Zsa Zsa on Turkish politics (her first husband was in the Turkish diplomatic corps) and part Zsa Zsa praising him for his sexual prowess and vast endowment.

Nautilus — a reimagining of Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — in the United States and Canada. The series was initially set for Disney+.

New Garfield movie in spring 2024 with Chris Pratt and Samuel L Jackson