Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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September 2, 1798: The first recorded bank robbery in U.S. history occurred at the Bank of Pennsylvania in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia. Thieves took $162,821, which would be worth about $4 million in 2023. It was the perfect heist, but then, ironically, the main thief, Isaac Davis, was caught when he began depositing the stolen money back into the same bank. Not the best move. He returned the money and received a full pardon. Interestingly, this robbery happened during the deadly yellow fever epidemic. The 2020-21 panscamdemic where everyone got robbed...and still going on. Funny, not funny!


America's First Bank Robbery


Imagine if you will...The Church Committee hearings happening in real time on social media. Brains would have melted.



If Sen. John Tower (at right) didn't die in 1991 in a plane crash down in Georgia, he quite possibly would have been Sec of Defense instead of Dick Cheney.

Contrary to popular belief, Rod Serling never spoke the words "Imagine if you will...". That's actually a famous example of the Mandela Effect.

“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You are entering the Twilight Zone.” Or the Rogue Zone.


Came across this recent obituary for a man named Eugene L. Stup who worked at Fort Detrick during the height of the bio-weapons boom. Apparently, he contracted tularemia while working there. A vintage lab leak!


Eugene Stup Obituary

Gotta wonder if Stup was perhaps infected during the course of Fort Detrick's late-50s/early-60s experiments developing a live aerosolized tularemia vaccine?


LOL...


2 Weeks



After Earth has been devastated by years of pollution and nuclear war, a group of scientists send out a team of young people as well as an intelligent chimpanzee to seek out the surviving pockets of human beings in order to help rebuild civilization. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need.

The Ark II vehicle was 44 ft long, built on the chassis of a 1971 Ford C-Series (C-700) dump truck. The truck was notorious for constantly breaking down between shots. It was also reportedly hard to operate in crowded areas safely because the placement of the windows was such that the driver of the Ark was unable to see clearly. The other vehicle, the Ark Roamer, was built on a Volkswagen van chassis from a modified "Brubaker Box" kit, and while it ran well, it had a limited range. The Brubaker group built both vehicles for the series. All the sound effects inside the Ark II were previously heard as part of the U.S.S. Enterprise on Star Trek (1966).







When people underestimate the power of group ritual:



Fire + Water...



BTW, The Ukrainian Phoenix installation at this year's Burning Man was presented by the "Come Back Alive" Foundation (Повернись живим), which was founded by the current Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine. Ukrainska Pravda