Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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August 22, 565: The Loch Ness Monster, commonly called Nessie, is reportedly observed for the first time. St. Columba, an Irish missionary, saw the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. According to the account, he saved a man from the creature by invoking a prayer. This sighting is the earliest recorded encounter with the famous cryptid.




August 22, 1791: The slave revolt on the French island of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, begins. It ends Jan. 1, 1804, with a slave victory. It is the only slave revolt that led to the establishment of a country free from slavery, though not from forced labour and ruled by non-whites and former captives.




Airedale Terrier with that look of "they better be giving me a lot of treats for this nonsense" or maybe he was an undercover detective specialized in disguises? German photos, from a Dutch magazine in 1925.




August 22/23, 1945: Admiral William Halsey hosted several senior U.S. and Royal Navy officers aboard USS Missouri to toast the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII. Halsey used a Ka-bar to cut the cake at the reception.






A war that has been fought many times over...





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August 22, 1963: Joe Walker made his last X-15 flight 91 and set an speed & altitude record while he was at it. He took the North American X-15 to a max speed of 3,794 mph (6,106 km/h) and a max altitude of 354,200 feet (67 miles). Walker was posthumously awarded astronaut wings in 2005.






Some days are like...



Researching the past will flood you with the work of historians. Research further back and you'll need the archeologists. Further still and the paleontologists have your answers. Where they drop off, the geologists pick up. Beyond their realm, only the physicists can help you. In between all that we have secret finance, secret societies & mystery schools, and secret physics that we aren't supposed to know anything about.