Looking for Credit
Monday is 37 years since the Berlin Wall opened. Its most famous freedom anthem was a 1978 song about a rich kid, and the man who sang it on the Wall wanted his photo in the museum.
Wiggle Your Toes
Sunday is World Radiography Day, 131 years since Röntgen found the X-ray. Within 25 years it was standing in shoe stores, so kids could watch their own toe bones wiggle.
Surplus to Requirements
Next Tuesday Argentina dresses up as gauchos for Día de la Tradición. The trousers in that outfit were sewn for the Turkish army and arrived as leftovers from the Crimean War.
Honest Intentions
Tomorrow Britain burns Guy Fawkes again, and protesters everywhere wear his face. The man wanted a different king, and every official mask pays Warner Bros.
Minus the Bomb
Godzilla turns 72 today and Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan. The first time America got him, it paid $25,000 and cut out the bomb.
