History Happens Every Day
April 2025 Artwork
Inspiration
Dogs Playing Poker is a series of 18 paintings by American artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, with A Friend in Need being most famous. Created in 1903, it portrays anthropomorphized dogs cheating amid a poker game. Initially commissioned for cigar advertisements, the playful series has since become embedded in American pop culture.
Homage
Worst Moms and Dads Playing Poker is based on Extra History’s series of Youtube Shorts featuring the worst parents in history. Around the table are (clockwise from left) Ivan the Terrible, Wu Zetian, Vlad Dracul, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, Henry Ford, and Calamity Jane. While not a parent, Zoey, seen slipping the ace, would make a perfectly fine mom. Art by David Hueso.
April 2025 Videos
April 1st
Otto Von Bismarck's Birthday, 1815
April 4th
Maya Angelou's Birthday, 1928
April 10th
Battle of Mollwitz, 1741
April 12th
First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin), 1961
April 16th
Battle of Culloden, 1746
April 24th
Easter Rising Begins, 1916
April 27th
Lapulapu kills Ferdinand Magellan, 1521
April 29th
Easter Rising Ends, 1916