Orson Welles Broadcasts The War of the Worlds (1938)
On the night before Halloween in 1938, many listeners tuned in late to Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air, missing the program's introduction announcing that it would be broadcasting an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The innovative format, which featured news segments reporting a Martian invasion, was so convincing that it panicked the listening public and brought national attention to Welles. What urban legends exist about what happened during the broadcast?

The War of the Worlds (radio)
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938 and aired over the CBS Radio network. Directed by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds.

The first half of the 60-minute broadcast was presented as a series of news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual Martian invasion was in progress (Because the Mercury Theatre on the Air was at that time a 'sustaining show' [without sponsorship], the broadcast had no commercial interruption). Some fled their homes; others merely were terrified. The news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode launched Welles to fame.

Welles's adaptation is arguably the most well-known radio dramatic production in history. It was one of the Radio Project's first studies.

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Wonderful clip about the octodopods...not too sure about the rest! LOL

Er...in regard to this assertion "The word "octopus" comes from Greek, not Latin; and the pluralization rule that changes -us to -i is Latin, not Greek.":

Octō is eight in Latin; oktō is eight in Greek. Both languages are from Proto-Indo-European, thus the frequent similarities between them. Further, when the Roman military prevailed over the Greeks, the better-educated Greek slaves ended in Roman households educating Roman children, and in this way Greek words seeped into the Latin vocabulary. Once adopted as Latin words, Latin plurals were used. That is why in English the plural for "octopus" is either "octopuses" or "octopi".

The phrase “e pluribus unum” is Latin, and it translates literally as “out of many, one.” Many people are familiar with this phrase from the context of the Great Seal of the United States, which appears on some American currency and government documents.

I was told this morning that I should slow down with the morning coffee - LOL