Back in January of 1775, British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play The Rivals premiered. It introduced a character named Mrs. Malaprop. Her name was inspired by the French term mal…
SEPTEMBER 4 – The birth of billions of “Kodak Moments”
On September 4, 1888, the name “Kodak” was registered as a trademark by American inventor and entrepreneur George Eastman (1954-1932). Soon thereafter, it became a household word. Around the same…
AUGUST 25 – The man behind the curtain
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” On August 25, 1939, moviegoers throughout the U.S. heard that line for the first time, when the film version of The…
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