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‘Super/Man’ Christopher Reeve Doc Brings Sundance to Tears

‘Super/Man’ Christopher Reeve Doc Brings Sundance to Tears

Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
 
For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






 

January 22nd 871 AD. Battle of Basing. The Saxons are defeated by the Vikings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Basing
 
January 22nd 1517 Battle of Ridaniya. The Ottomans defeat the Mamaluk Sultanate just outside Cairo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridaniya
 
January 22nd 1879 Battle of Isandlwana. The Zulus defeat the British army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana
 
January 22nd 1879 Battle of Rorke's drift begins
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke's_Drift
 
January 22nd 1901 Edward VII becomes king with the death of his mother Queen Victoria
 
January 22nd 1905 Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)
 
January 22nd 1915. Railway disaster in Mexico leads to 600 deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalajara_train_disaster
 
January 22nd 1924. Ramsey MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 
January 22nd 1927. First live commentary of a football match by Teddy Wakelam at Highbury between arsenal and Sheffield United. This was on the BBC radio
 
January 22nd 1941. Tobruk is captured from the Italians in Operation Compass.
 
January 22nd 1943 End of the battle of Buna-Gona. American and Australian forces defeat the Japanese in Papua New Guinea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buna–Gona
 
January 22nd 1944. Operation Shingle begins with landings at Anzio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio
 
January 22nd 1970. The Boeing 747 starts commercial service flying from New York to London
 
January 22nd 1973. The Supreme Court delivers its decision in Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton legalizing elective abortion in the U.S.
 
January 22nd 1973 A 707 explodes on landing in Nigeria killing 176 passengers and crew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Kano_Nigeria_Airways_Boeing_707_crash
 
January 22nd 1973 George Forman defeats Joe Frazier in the second round to become world heavyweight boxing champion
 
January 22nd 1984 Superbowl XVIII The LA Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9
 
January 22nd 1989 Superbowl XXIII the San Francicso 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16
 
Born this day Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Captain Kidd, Lord Byron, August Strindberg, D W Griffith. Conrad Veidt, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert E Howard, U Thant (UN Secretary General), Alf Ramsey (England football manager), Sam Cooke, Piper Laurie, Bill Bixby, John Hurt, Malcolm McLaren, Steve Perry , Jim Jarmusch, Tully Blanchard, John Wesley Shipp (he played the Flash and the Flash's father), Linda Blair, , Michael Hutchence and Olivia d'Abo
Died this day Shah Jahan (who caused the Taj Mahal to be built), Queen Victoria, Mike Hawthorn (United Kingdom's first Formula 1 and winner of the 1955 Le Mans 24 race which had a disastrous crash), Lyndon B Johnson, Telly Savalas, Ann Miller, Heath Ledger, Jean Simmons, Ursula K LeGuin and Hank Aaron (baseball player)

The Champions Universe has quite a few of them: the whole teams of the Cirque Sinister and GRAB (in it for the money, try not to hurt anyone); likewise Arachne, Cateran, Cybermind, Lady Blue (who actually does the Robin Hood thing), Lash, Lodestone, Signal Ghost, Vixen; zany goofs like Bulldozer, Foxbat, El Salto, or Zigzag. (You'll find the first two in Champions Villains Vol. Two, and the rest in Vol. 3.)

I used to go to a diner that had an old-school vibe. It was a few blocks from my workplace. Of course, when I switched jobs to a different city I couldn't go there anymore. The diner closed a few years ago.

Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
 
For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






 

Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
 
For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






 

Great images.  We've still got a couple of local diners that reach back into the latter part of the Pulp Era.  One's been mostly refurnished but kept a corner largely as it was originally, and the other's almost vintage throughout - barring the modern kitchen and bathrooms. 
 
There's also a great little diner out in the boondocks where all the decor is vintage stuff from WW2 - postcards, GI training manuals, photos, kit, etc.  They even play period music.  There's usually an old half track or tank out front too, but whoever was loaning them hasn't had one on display in years so maybe that's done for good.  The food's not very good, but it's a history buff's dream.

Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
 
For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






 

This game has been around since 2000:
 

Can anyone tell me what kind of bird this is?
It's outside my window every night.
 

"For God's sake, Martin--where are the car keys?"
"I--I can't remember!"

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

In honor of Martin Luther King Day--
 
I Dream A World
By Langston Hughes
 
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
 

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