The Epic 100th Post

This day in history, the following things happened:

773 Charlemagne becomes sole King of the Francs.

1782 Martin van Buren, 8th US President, is born.

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies.

1890 Fritz Lang, noted early film director, is born.

1901 Walt Disney, animator, is born. 

1932 Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

1933 Prohibition ends as Utah ratifies the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution.

1945 US air squadron Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

1974 Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC.

2011 Stuff Smart People Like published their 100th post (this one).

Our one hundredth post. We can remember a time when this blog had nary a reader. Now we're inundated with comments, letters, and proposals of marriage from strange Ukrainian women. So many great memories - like the time that Ed analyzed the flat tax. Or the time when Dean scammed his way into the Halloween costume post. And who can forget how Jordan took one for the team and wrote no less than three reviews of Twilight ( 1 | 2 | 3 ). From TED Tuesday to No Shave November to our Inaugural Podcast, we've really had some good times here.

We look forward to a future filled with insightful, if completely biased, political commentary; superb sports analysis; sensational science summaries; and phenomenal pop culture pronouncements!


-The Editors


(Source: HistoryOrb.com)