The St. Louis Blues last missed the playoffs in 2018. Minnesota fell 5-1 in Game 6 of its first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against host St. Louis on Thursday, dropping the best-of-seven 4-2. The Blues advance for the first time since 2019, when they won the franchise’s first-ever Stanley Cup.…
In the 1930s, Wayne appeared in singing cowboy films, beginning with 1933’s Riders of Destiny. As Singin’ Sandy Saunders, 26-year-old Wayne followed the father of the singing cowboys, Ken Maynard, while preceding such musical movie stars as country music greats Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter. He passed away…
The frontman then confirmed other more exciting news, that is that the band has been working on a new album and hope to begin touring again in 2021. “Actually no Mike left the band back in 2017 but we’re currently working on a new album and hoping to start touring…
To avoid the same end, Augustus offered to give up the throne. When the people demanded that he be appointed absolute ruler, he accepted gracefully, but refused to be called dictator. By acting as if he was ruling in the best traditions of the republic, Augustus managed to rule as…
Rhode Island and North Carolina refused to ratify without a bill of rights. They did not believe they needed the federal government to defend them and disliked the prospect of having to provide tax money to support the new government. Thus, from the very beginning, the supporters of the Constitution…
Financier, soldier and inventor John Jacob Astor IV built the Astoria section of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1897. He built several other notable New York City hotels, including the St. Regis, which some have said was his greatest achievement. Astor drowned in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.…
We think the speech was a failure because Lincoln thought so. But Lincoln thought most things he did were a failure, so that’s not a good way to judge. It is true the applause following the speech was a bit scattered; people did not expect the speech to be so…
“I had a tattoo of Jaden Smith,” Vulcano says. “A very accurate portrait of a 15-year-old Jaden Smith.” Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it — Vulcano managed to show his tattoo to Smith. Sal’s tattoo was an image of Jaden Smith. This made Sal angry…
J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London King’s Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. J.K. Rowling told BBC Radio 2 that she’s working on a…
Durant, who left the Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2019 after three years, two titles, and one torn Achilles tendon in the NBA Finals, seems to have some bitterness about his exit. Though it’s not toward the team or the organization as much as it was…