The multi-talented "Mother of Wi-Fi" (before it was known) Hedy Lamarr was born on this day in 1914.
Beauty and brains, (not so much on the marriage side, but nobody is perfect) The hottest actress-science nerd, ever. The most desirable woman in world history! Lamarr was a movie star during the Golden Age of film and went on to invent the communication technology behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
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Nov 9, 1950: ALL ABOUT EVE premiered in Hollywood.
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Nov 9, 1965: the great Northeast power outage prompted an alert at Mount Weather. Some of the blackout docs obtained via FOIA here.
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LIFE magazine Nov 19, 1965 (pg 36)
Nov 9, 1989: the Berlin Wall came down. In the Dec. 4, 1989 edition of the Weekly World News, columnist "Ed Anger" demanded that it be put back up.
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U.S. officials pick Greenbelt, Md., for new FBI national headquarters
What will become of the Mail Robot?
Change it to Attu Island, Alaska. Then the lying corrupt FBI could (almost) see "Russia!, Russia!!, Russia!!!"... from their house.
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The commissioners were at one point solemnly passing round Kennedy’s bloodied necktie from November 22; a bullet hole was clearly visible. When the garment came to him, Dulles, puffing on his pipe, examined it for a moment and then, passing it along, remarked, "I didn’t know Jack wore store-bought ties."
NY Mag Intelligencer
Coming soon...
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Amazon November 14, 2023.
One of the funnier things MTV ever produced. From their 1980s retrospective, "Decade". View/listen from 9:20 to 11:25...
How did we get here? Do you recall?? Now you know...nothing has changed.
The entire 90 min segment is great. Turbulent changes do not affect reality on a deeper level other than to cement the status quo. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Round & round we go.
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Beauty and brains, (not so much on the marriage side, but nobody is perfect) The hottest actress-science nerd, ever. The most desirable woman in world history! Lamarr was a movie star during the Golden Age of film and went on to invent the communication technology behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
Nov 9, 1950: ALL ABOUT EVE premiered in Hollywood.
IMDB | Wiki
Nov 9, 1965: the great Northeast power outage prompted an alert at Mount Weather. Some of the blackout docs obtained via FOIA here.
LIFE magazine Nov 19, 1965 (pg 36)
Nov 9, 1989: the Berlin Wall came down. In the Dec. 4, 1989 edition of the Weekly World News, columnist "Ed Anger" demanded that it be put back up.
U.S. officials pick Greenbelt, Md., for new FBI national headquarters
What will become of the Mail Robot?
Change it to Attu Island, Alaska. Then the lying corrupt FBI could (almost) see "Russia!, Russia!!, Russia!!!"... from their house.
The commissioners were at one point solemnly passing round Kennedy’s bloodied necktie from November 22; a bullet hole was clearly visible. When the garment came to him, Dulles, puffing on his pipe, examined it for a moment and then, passing it along, remarked, "I didn’t know Jack wore store-bought ties."
NY Mag Intelligencer
Coming soon...
Amazon November 14, 2023.
One of the funnier things MTV ever produced. From their 1980s retrospective, "Decade". View/listen from 9:20 to 11:25...
How did we get here? Do you recall?? Now you know...nothing has changed.
The entire 90 min segment is great. Turbulent changes do not affect reality on a deeper level other than to cement the status quo. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Round & round we go.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell