38 posts tagged 1933

The year is 1933. The Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers face-off in a rematch of the 1932 Stanley Cup final. The two teams remained basically the same. The Leafs had superstars like Busher Jackson, the Big Bomber Charlie Conacher, Gentleman Joe Primeau, King Clancy, Red Horner, Ace Bailey and Baldy Cotton.

Using IRC is always been a pain because of not so user friendly IRC desktop clients and Java based online versions, but Mibbit - a new web-based IRC chat service is going to change this, the service loads blazingly fast and don't use java as other similar services.

Fiscal disconnects or economic treason? It never ceases to amaze me that people in power [note I make a distinction between "leaders" and the powerful] don't seem to understand the cause and effect relationships between the following: 1- Corporate executive pay. You know what this is.

The 75th anniversary of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933 — when the town was known as Iowa-By-The-Sea because of its Midwestern transplants — is uniquely personalized in Tim Grobaty’s column in today’s Press-Telegram.

George Mallory, Sir Edmund Hillary, or Maurice Wilson: Who Was the First to Conquer Mt. Everest? Posted on March 8, 2008 by Jason A. Hendricks History is currently written that Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to step foot on top of the world’s highest mountain in 1953.

By David aka Highspeedhijinks Ever since Dutch custom builder Ugur Sahin came out with that killer Ferrari Dino concept, I've been keeping tabs on this guy. I'm glad I did, because his latest design, the Corvette Z03, is no doubt the coolest Vette concept design ever, factory or independent.

"Gold Diggers of 1933” (1933) is kind of a shock to the system. A quintessential “Depression” movie, it actually aspires to be a Depression movie with no claim to be anything else, an in-your-face comment on current events.

Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1933, Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The November 1932 elections saw the Nazis emerge as the largest party in the Reichstag. Leading German politicians and businessmen persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor, as a way to stabilize the government and economy.

At first blush, this letter to the editor of the Telegram and Gazette is a tour-de-force of senile induced stream of consciousness. But then I looked up some of the stuff the old man wrote about, and I'll be damned if his memory isn't pretty good: I watched the football game between the New England Patriots and the Dallas Cowboys.

Usually when thieves end up with a show car, what they were really after was the trailer. Anything inside is just a “bonus” to the lowlife scum that do this. Unfortunately when a classic is stolen there is little chance of getting the car back in one piece, but there is always hope.