Great Michigan Fire Great Michigan Fire The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire; some believe lightning or even meteor showers may have started the fires. Several cities, towns and villages, including Alpena, Holland, Manistee, and Port Huron, suffered serious damage or were lost. The concurrent Great Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin also destroyed several towns in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In 1881, much more than half of "the Thumb" region
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension too many master shots and two-shots that left little for the editor to work with. "Wired Magazine", in 2009, celebrated "the 25th anniversary of the release of a film near and dear to many geeks who came of age in the '80s. "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" was a great, adventurous, geeky movie, with enough silly science fiction and great characters to fill any three lousy summer blockbusters these days ... and it gave us so many great, geeky lines to quote." Cosford, in his 1984 review: "I suspect that Buckaroo's odd musings, particularly the one