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Nov 1, 1611: Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. November 1st was apparently a popular date for Shakespeare’s plays to debut!

In 1604, Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" premiered at Whitehall Palace in London. Then, in 1611 on the same day, Shakespeare's "The Tempest," also debuted at Whitehall. These premieres at Whitehall were quite the honor, as plays presented there were for the English royal court. The performances would have involved the best actors of the Chamberlain's Men (later known as the King's Men under James I), and would have been seen as high recognition for Shakespeare's work.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
- William Shakespeare; The Tempest



"Bind my dreams up in your tangled hair
For I am sick at heart, my dear
Bound my dreams up in your tangled hair
For all sorrow it will pass, my dear...
Take your accusations, your recriminations
And toss 'em into the ocean blue
Leave all of your regrets and impossible longings
And scatter them across the sky behind you...
And come into my sleep
Come into my sleep
For my soul to comfort and keep
Come into my sleep
Oh yeah...
For my soul to comfort and keep...
My sleep...
Come on..."




Nov 1, 1870: In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service in 1970) makes its first official meteorological forecast. The agency was placed under the Secretary of War. The Bureau would later be moved to the Department of Commerce in 1940 and later The Weather Bureau became part of the Environmental Science Services Administration when that agency was formed in August 1966. The Environmental Science Services Administration was renamed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on October 1, 1970, with the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act. At this time, the Weather Bureau became the National Weather Service.




Nov 1, 1918: Malbone Street Wreck aka Brighton Beach Line accident: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.


Nov 1, 1941: American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.



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Nov 1, 1951: Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred United States Army soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.



Nov 1, 1952: Ivy Mike bomb, aka "The Super" - World's 1st thermonuclear weapon: 10.4 Megatons. Detonated on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the now independent island nation of the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Ivy. It was the first full test of the Teller–Ulam design, a staged fusion device.

"We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. As nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences..."

—joint statement by leaders of 5 nuclear armed nations: China, France, US, UK, Russia. Jan 3, 2022, Biden White House

And yet, with the world's eyes on Gaza, this happened:

Department of Defense Announces Pursuit of B61 Gravity Bomb Variant

Said differently, The Pentagon is building a new nuclear bomb to replace the old nuclear bomb. See: https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=1420

This sends a message that contradicts White House press release. But hey, in their eyes "it is whatever the hell I say it is."


Nov 1st 1959: the population of New York City was 8,042,783. Narrated by C. C. Baxter, while he waited to enter his apartment, which was used by company execs as a location for their affairs.




"LAKE MILTON, Nov. 1-Dual purposes are served by this combination houseboat, and fallout shelter which is stabilized by a water storage compartment below the interior floor when it is being used as a houseboat. Weight is less than 2,000 pounds. J. C. Blaney, president of Diversified Products, says the boat meets Civil Defense standards.-UPI."


The fabled "thirteen days" of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have been over, but doomsday contingency plans continued... Issued today in 1962: Emergency helicopter pick-up points for VP LBJ. Shortly after the dark storm of the Cuban Missile Crisis had passed, government emergency planners put together a document that detailed the many different places where Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson could catch a helicopter ride to an undisclosed bunker. Some of these locations are predictable (the parking lot of the CIA) and others are more interesting like the athletic field of Wilson High School.




"I just flew back from Venus. I planted a broom up there. It's ours now." - Endora. BEWITCHED, Feb 12, 1970. Got that NASA?




"One might have thought that as the news slowly leaked out, the announcement of the End of the World would have produced a certain amount of panic. In fact, the general reaction was a stunned silence—then a shrug of the shoulders and the resumption of normal, everyday business."


The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favorite of all his novels. Clarke also wrote a short step outline with the same title, published in Omni magazine (Sept 1981) and anthologized in The Sentinel in 1983.

The novel tells of a utopian human colony in the far future that is visited by travellers from a doomed Earth, as the Sun has gone nova. The Songs of Distant Earth explores apocalyptic, atheistic, and utopian ideas, as well as the effects of long-term interstellar travel and extra-terrestrial life.

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You know we have entered the endgame of the current political-economic paradigm when articles like this start coming out...


The Economist