When did we start counting years?

When did we start counting years?

ByFabien

It’s a New Year! And this led me to ask a lot of questions about things I never thought about before, but mainly:

When did years start being numbered?

We mark the passage of time without thinking about it anymore. It’s just a thing we do. There’s a calendar, and we are looking at our watches (and phones), but it was not always the case. At least, I think so, because even if I learned at school why we divided the calendar the way we do it, and why an hour is an hour, I never knew—or asked—how it all started.

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Who Created the Addams Family?

Who Created the Addams Family?

ByFabien

It’s Thanksgiving this week, so I thought I would make a not-too-long article, in the sense of “not too much research reading to do before writing,” and there’s a new Addams Family show on Netflix. The “Addams Family Values” movie being a favorite of mine and a perfect watch for Thanksgiving, everything led me to write about:

Who Is The Creator of The Addams Family?

The answer to this question is quite simple. It was Charles Addams who created the Addams Family! The thing with this particular creation is that it evolved through time with the help of the TV adaptation first, then the movies. Each new exploration added something to the myth.

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Who Invented The Zombie?

Who Invented The Zombie?

ByFabien

It’s spooktober! Halloween month is as good an excuse as any other for watching horror films. I watch them all year round, but more so during the month of October. That’s why I rewatched one of my favorites, George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. In France, the title of the movie is just “Zombie.” Anyways, this made me curious about something I should already know:

Who Created the Zombie?

First of all, what are we talking about when speaking about zombies? Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word goes as follows:

1. a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated.

2. the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body.

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The Origins of Halloween, a modern American holiday

The Origins of Halloween, a modern American holiday

ByFabien

Fall is here and my Instagram feed is full of people celebrating it and counting the days until Halloween. It tells you a little about the kind of content I seek on this platform, but the truth is I mostly use it for cats.

Anyhow, this led me to realize that I don’t really know anything about that night of horror, except that the kids in America like to hunt for candy and it’s a good time to watch scary movies. I needed to dig a little and here is what I found.

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Who Created Mickey Mouse?

Who Created Mickey Mouse?

ByFabien

Like with the Bechdel Test, it would be so easy to simply say “Disney created Mickey Mouse,” but it’s not totally true. There’s a bit more to it than that. It’s what I discovered while I was reading about some cartooning history that led me to Mickey.

Who is the real creator of Mickey Mouse?

Everybody knows who Mickey Mouse is. After all, as the longtime corporate mascot of the mascot of the Walt Disney Company, even if you never saw any animated (short or long) movie featuring the anthropomorphic mouse, or saw him on a TV Show, you know him.

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What Was the First 3D Movie?

What Was the First 3D Movie?

ByFabien

I was watching that horrendous Jaws 3 movie and I asked myself why I put myself through this. At one point, the direction was really bad and I realized it was because the movie was supposed to be in 3D. That led me to think about the old 3D movies I already watched. The oldest is probably Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder from 1954. That’s a great movie. But…

When Did the First 3D Movie Was Produced?

We will never have the chance to see the first 3D movie ever made again. It was lost, like so many movies from that period. I’m talking about the silent era, a time of experimentation in the field of visual art that was not treated with a lot of reverence. It was the wild west. Anyway, we already talked about the invention of cinema in another article.

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What Was The First Marvel Comic?

What Was The First Marvel Comic?

ByFabien

I already wrote about what could be considered the first comics in my article Who Invented Comic Books? The history of comics is something that interests me grandly. That’s why I would like to continue to write about it, because there are some subjects to explore, like this one:

What’s the first-ever Marvel comic?

It’s not really necessary to introduce Marvel Comics to anyone nowadays, everybody has at least heard about the superhero movies that make big at the box office multiple times a year. But the story didn’t start with that.

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Who Invented the Newspaper?

Who Invented the Newspaper?

ByFabien

You would assume that some things were always here, like aspirin, only because they were always there during your lifetime. But when people talk about their extinctions, you can ask yourself, where do they come from? Today, I asked myself this question:

Who Created the Newspaper?

The idea of reporting the news is certainly not a recent one. In fact, during the period of ancient Rome, there was the “Acta Diurna,” daily news carved in stone or metal before being presented in public places. The idea apparently came from Julius Caesar, but we will not credit him for the invention of the newspaper, because it was not the same thing.

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Who Invented the Word Nerd?

Who Invented the Word Nerd?

ByFabien

Being a French, I’m sometimes a little confused about some English words. It’s not surprising, in every language, people just invent new words all the time. I’m also regularly confused when I’m listening to French people talking.

I started this blog as an exercise to just be better at writing in English. It makes sense that I’m starting to look into the vocabulary field. Let’s start with a weird one:

Who Created the Word Nerd?

In France, because of our frequent contact with American culture, we have adopted words like Geeks and Nerds, kind of. I suppose that The Big Bang Theory is also popular here.

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Who Invented the Piano?

Who Invented the Piano?

ByFabien

For some time now, I’m house hunting. I noticed that houses for rich people often have a piano in them. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but it led me to think about:

Who Created the Piano?

Originally, we didn’t talk about “piano,” but about the pianoforte, because it’s an Italian invention—the name being itself derived from clavicembalo col piano e forte (harpsichord with soft and loud).

The piano evolved from previous instruments such as the clavichord, harpsichord, and dulcimer. Based on its predecessor, it was determined that the piano can be classified as a string instrument but also as a percussion instrument because of the hammer that strikes those strings.

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Who Invented Psychedelic Art?

Who Invented Psychedelic Art?

ByFabien

This week, Cartoonist Kayfabe—a comic book YouTube channel—did a video entitled “Who Invented Psychedelic Art?” about the work of artist L.B. Cole. Watching the video, I never get the answer to the question and I went online to seek it.

Who Created Psychedelic Art?

Well, first, what is Psychedelic Art? According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of psychedelic is:

of, relating to, characteristic of, or being the period of the mid-to-late-1960s that is associated with the psychedelic drug culture.

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Who Invented Cinema?

Who Invented Cinema?

ByFabien

I sometimes cite books I read, but I also watch a lot of movies! I know, not really original. Also, I read books about the history of cinema and other actors’ biography. But I’ve never really taken a look at the origin of the medium. Until today!

Who Created Cinema?

First, as always, we are taking a look at the definition of the word. Merriam-Webster is telling us that cinema is:

1 a: MOTION PICTURE—usually used attributively
b: a motion-picture theater
2 a: MOVIES (especially: the film industry)
b: the art or technique of making motion pictures

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