Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 25, 1930, Sean Connery was born. The Scotsman and former Royal Navy Able Seaman went on the star as the Lithuanian sub commander Marko Ramius in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER first published by US Naval Institute Press.






When Truman Re-Wrote the First Movie on the Atomic Bomb




Andrew Davis's Cold War thriller, THE PACKAGE, premiered August 25, 1989.




Cold War peace activist (and actress) Samantha Smith (June 29, 1972) died August 25, 1985 in a plane crash. R.I.P.



April 25, 1983, the Soviet Union released Yuri Andropov's reply letter to Maine elementary school student, Samantha Smith. Smith had written in 1982 asking the Russian leader if he was going to "vote to have a [nuclear] war."





Yuri Andropov Letter to Samantha



Nuclear War Could End the World, but What if It’s All in Our Heads? | Mirko Ilic Corp.


Trump’s official portrait is installed in the National Portrait Gallery.