A Brief History On February 24, 2022, days after recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Digging Deeper Russia’s invasion has had five major phases thus far.  The first phase covers the period from February 24th, 2022, when Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine, to April 7th, 2022 when fighting focused away from the northeast and Kyiv and towards the south and east of Ukraine.  The second phase covers the period from April 8th, 2022, when the area of heavy fighting shifted to the south and east of…

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A Brief History Crime thriller fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Crime 101 on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM at Phoenix Theatre Great Northern Mall Stadium 10 + RPX, 450 Great Northern Mall, North Olmsted, OH 44070!  For your chance to get a pair of passes, please go to https://amazonscreenings.com/CRIMEHH29101.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles,…

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A Brief History This article presents A Timeline of the History of Western Medicine, Disease, and Public Health II (History 2716) from 1700 to the present at Columbus State Community College.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper I. A Timeline of the History of Western Medicine, Disease, and Public Health I Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. On June 11, 323 BC, one of…

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A Brief History On November 7, 2025, American science fiction action film Predator: Badlands was released in theaters in the United States by 20th Century Studios. Digging Deeper If you can believe it, this is the seventh film in the Predator franchise, and one that takes a serious turn from the others!  Unlike the more serious, general horror film genre of the other films, Badlands has a decidedly different mood for the film, something evident from the first time the title killer alien meets the femme fatale of the film, a cyborg (or synthetic as the movie calls “her”), a…

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A Brief History Absurdist black comedy fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Bugonia on Monday, October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM at Phoenix Great Northern Mall Stadium 10 + RPX, 450 Great Northern Mall, North Olmsted, OH 44070!  For your chance to get a pair of passes, please go to http://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/BUGONIAHIST27.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper In Focus Features’ explosive psychological thriller Bugonia, two conspiracy-obsessed…

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