Silent era actress caught being a total Dix.
We've had some pumpkin thefts around the palatial Pulp Intl. offices, so we resorted to setting up a security camera, and sure enough we got a clear frame of the robber—silent film actress Dorothy Dix. Imagine our surprise. We tracked her to her lair in the basement of the local revival cinema and found all our pumpkins, plus some fly witch hats she stole from Target. Obviously, she had been reincarnated, which not only explains her presence after her death, but also her youthful appearance. We chatted and she told us she just wanted a little attention because she never really got it during her acting career, which consisted of appearances in a mere five full length films, and twice that number of short features, including, ironically, 1934's The Gold Ghost. Well, she's getting full attention here. And after telling her how many visitors we get she was thrilled. But we also had to explain the entire internet concept to her, and once she understood it she decided she was better off dead. And poof! She was gone.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1985—Theodore Sturgeon Dies
American science fiction and pulp writer Theodore Sturgeon, who pioneered a technique known as rhythmic prose, in which his text would drop into a standard poetic meter, dies from lung fibrosis, which may have been caused by his smoking, but also might have been caused by his exposure to asbestos during his years as a Merchant Marine. 1945—World War II Ends
At Reims, France, German General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms, thus ending Germany's participation in World War II. Jodl is then arrested and transferred to the German POW camp Flensburg, and later he is made to stand before the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials. At the conclusion of the trial, Jodl is sentenced to death and hanged as a war criminal. 1954—French Are Defeated at Dien Bien Phu
In Vietnam, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had begun two months earlier, ends in a French defeat. The United States, as per the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, gave material aid to the French, but were only minimally involved in the actual battle. By 1961, however, American troops would begin arriving in droves, and within several years the U.S. would be fully embroiled in war. 1937—The Hindenburg Explodes
In the U.S, at Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire and is incinerated within a minute while attempting to dock in windy conditions after a trans-Atlantic crossing. The disaster, which kills thirty-six people, becomes the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and most famously, Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field. But for all the witnesses and speculation, the actual cause of the fire remains unknown.
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