totally blown away to have found out this iconic scary picture is actually just of an animatronic halloween decoration. That picture and the Russian Sleep Experiment story had me in an absolute chokehold when i was a little kid, and even when i got older and accepted that it was fake, I still could never exactly account for what it was in that picture. Assumed it was some really good prosthetics, made for a macabre art piece or, I hoped, for some really obscure horror movie that I might be able to find someday. Nope! his name is Spazm and he’s from Spirit Halloween
On this day, 18 September 1809, the old price riots began in the Covent Garden Theatre in London during the opening night of Macbeth in protest at increased prices at the newly reopened venue. The original theatre had burned down, and when it reopened standard ticket prices had increased from 3 shillings and sixpence to 4 shillings. After the play ended, the audience refused to leave so the owner, John Kemble, called police, however this escalated the situation and rioters did not disperse until 2 AM. Kemble later hired a famous boxer and some of his associates to quell the protests, but this also failed and resulted in increased violence. Protests and disorder, heavily imbued with humour and merriment, continued for 64 days until Kemble reverted his prices and issued an apology.
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In 1996 a series of exquisite Roman mosaic floors was accidentally uncovered during highway construction in the modern Israeli town of Lod. The mosaics featured elegant and superbly crafted animals, fish, birds and other creatures, dating to around AD 300. They probably belonged to a private house and served as a series of reception or audience halls, where visitors would have been met and entertained.
