The church used for the Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit movie was St. Paul’s Catholic Church in the Noe Valley neighbourhood of San Francisco. The neighbourhood was upper middle class at the time, whereas the church in the film was supposed to be in a downtrodden neighbourhood.
As such, they had to dress down the neighbourhood around the church to make the setting work.
In the original script, the action took place in Chicago. However, Whoopi Goldberg (the star actor) had started her standup career in San Francisco and felt a kinship to the city.
As such, the setting was changed once she was signed on.
The prequel, Sister Act, made $231.6 million worldwide off of a budget of $31 million. It was the eighth-highest-grossing movie of 1992.
The film was second in the domestic box office for four weeks straight as well, behind three different films that topped the charts.
However, Sister Act 2 was less successful, but still successful, as it made $125 million worldwide off of a $38 million budget. #HistoryVille
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On March 21, 2007, 30-year-old Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin was stabbed to death and burnt in her car by Muslim students for allegedly desecrating the Qur'an at a secondary school in Gandu, Gombe State, North-East Nigeria.
A mother of two, Oluwasesin was assigned to supervise an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam when one of the students wanted to enter the exam hall with books. Oluwasesin collected them and threw them outside.
The students, who claimed that one of the books was a copy of the Qur'an, started to chant "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is Great) and chased her to the school principal's office.
#OnThisDay, June 5, 1967, Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian airfields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border sparking the Six-Day War.
The Six-Day War was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighbouring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan and Syria.
In the period leading up to June 1967, tensions became dangerously heightened.
Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that the closure of the straits of Tiran to its shipping would be a casus belli.
In May, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the straits would be closed to Israeli vessels and then mobilised his Egyptian forces along...
Kudirat Abiola, the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential elections, Moshood Abiola, was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Lagos, #OnThisDay June 4, 1996.
Born in 1951 in Zaria, present-day Kaduna State, Kudirat Abiola attended Muslim Girls High School, Ijebu Ode, and married Moshood Abiola at the age of 18. She was the second of his four wives.
Although Kudirat never attended university, she used her bride price to help to pay for the education of her two sisters.
Her journey into politics began when her husband declared his intentions to contest as the president of Nigeria. She supported him via advocacy and activism.
MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: THE MOUNTAINS AND THE LOVE OF A MOTHER
There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains.
The mountain people invaded the Lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the Lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.
The Lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountains. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.
King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya (1867-1933) of Bamum, Western Cameroon, had 600 wives and 177 children.
Out of fear that important historical facts of the Bamum could be erased or corrupted, he developed the Bamum alphabet of 70 symbols and a writing system to preserve his kingdom's oral history which the French later destroyed.
Njoya, as part of ways to ensure the written language was widely adopted, established schools and directed that the Bamum language be used as a form of instruction along with the German language.
No sitting American President had more enemies than Abraham Lincoln. He had a great strategy for destroying them; he befriended them. In fact, one of them would eventually take his life.
Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) were enemies, both legal and political. Stanton did not like Lincoln, at first, at all. He had told everyone that Lincoln was an original gorilla, an imbecile, and a disgrace.
Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of gravest peril; Stanton would lash himself into a fury over the same condition of things. Stanton would take hardships with a groan; Lincoln would find a funny story to fit them.