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Jan 25, 1865: CSS (Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War) Shenandoah arrived in Australia seeking repairs. Despite protests from the U.S. consul, the Shenandoah was welcomed and attracted thousands of onlookers. The officers claimed Melbourne women showed them the time of their lives. 42 Aussies joined the crew. Happiest ship on the seven seas! LOL!


Shenandoah was originally a British merchant ship launched as Sea King on August 17, 1863, but was later repurposed as one of the most feared commerce raiders in the Confederate Navy. She finally surrendered on the River Mersey, Liverpool, United Kingdom, on November 6, 1865, six months after the war had ended. Her flag was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be officially furled. Shenandoah is also known for having fired the last shot of the Civil War, across the bow of a whaler in waters off the Aleutian Islands.

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The unique vessel, championed by her crews as "the world's finest deep submersible," was launched Jan 25, 1969. NR-1 was the US Navy's first and only nuclear-powered submersible.

NR-1 was the smallest nuclear submarine ever put into operation. The vessel was casually known as "Nerwin" and was never officially named or commissioned. The U.S. Navy is allocated a specific number of warships by the U.S. Congress, but Admiral Hyman Rickover avoided using one of those allocations for the construction of NR-1 in order to circumvent the oversight that a warship receives from various bureaus.


In the 70s & 80s, NR-1 conducted numerous classified missions involving recovery of objects from the floor of the deep sea. These missions remain classified and few details have been made public.

In 1995, Robert Ballard used the NR-1 and its support ship MV Carolyn Chouest to explore the wreck of HMHS Britannic, the sister ship of RMS Titanic. In 2009 she was scrapped.


American Airlines convincing people to fly in 1949...




Happy 100th birthday to legendary political hoaxer and Nixon's nemesis, Dick Tuck (Jan 25, 1924 – May 28, 2018) who was an American political consultant, campaign strategist, advance man, and political prankster who made a career out of making life miserable for Richard Nixon. With a name like that, no doubt. He was a Marine during World War II, dismantling bombs, and his post war career, planting them! Born and died in Arizona.

I say that “Dick Tuck” is a legend because the stories of many of Dick Tuck’s tricks have been exaggerated and embellished over the years (often with Tuck’s help), and some that never happened or that were perpetrated by others have been attributed to him.

Among the “Dick Tuck” performances:

    During one of Nixon’s “whistle-stop” train tours, at a stop in San Luis Obispo, California, Tuck dressed up in a brakeman’s uniform and signalled the engineer to start moving the train in the middle of Nixon’s speech.

    After the Nixon/Kennedy television debate, Tuck coached an grandmotherly woman to go up to Nixon in front of the press with a Nixon campaign button on, and give him a hug, saying “That’s all right, Mr. Nixon. Kennedy beat you last night, but don’t worry, you’ll get him next time!”

    At an appearance Nixon made in the Chinatown of Los Angeles, Tuck had a banner made that read “Welcome Nixon” in English, but in Chinese “What about the Hughes loan?” (referring to a potential scandal involving a loan that Howard Hughes had made to Nixon’s brother). None of the Nixon representatives could read Chinese, so the banner stayed as a backdrop to the photo-op. (Fortune cookies in the meal that followed also included the Chinese question).

    Before he became well-known to Nixon’s campaign team, Tuck once took charge of organizing a rally for Nixon at a large venue, but he carefully failed to publicize it. Nixon ended up speaking to a mostly-empty auditorium. Introducing the candidate, Tuck said, “Richard Nixon will now tell us about the World Monetary Fund,” which of course, was not the subject Nixon was planning to address.

    Tuck hired a number of very pregnant women to carry signs at Nixon rallies that bore the Nixon campaign slogan “Nixon’s the One.”

    Tuck would masquerade as a fire marshall, tallying up the number of people in the audience at Nixon’s indoor rallies. When members of the press asked for his numbers, he gave the lowest plausible figure.

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As the campaign progressed, Tuck would pose as a Republican operative, and convince bandleaders hired to provide music for campaign stops that Nixon's walk-on should be his favorite song - “Mack The Knife”. Needless to say, it was not Nixon's favorite song. Posing as a fire marshal to the local press, Tuck would low ball turnout estimates for Republican rallies. Wearing a stolen conductor's cap, Tuck signaled the engineer to pull out of whistle stop, while Nixon (above) was still speaking from the rear of the last car.

And then there was famous “Chinatown Caper” - so legendary it is now unclear if it occurred in 1956 or 1962, when Nixon was running for Governor of California. The story is ascribed to both campaigns, but it was in 1956 that a newspaper first broke the story that Richard Nixon's brother Donald had received an unsecured $205,000 loan from Hughs Tool Company, owned by Howard Hughs. Tuck thought it was a great story, but the national press was not talking about it. So Tuck decided to fix that.

NIXON AND TUCK

Late-stage Empire rot collapse articles are lit...


Politico

It's time...



Interesting woman...


I find it amazing that everything the democrats and the current administration is accusing Trump or the GOP of, they are already guilty of doing. They must think we're all stupid.


Jan 25, 1984: President Reagan directs NASA to build an International Space Station.




You silly journo's were warned over and over and over again that this would happen, Taylor. And what did you do? You cackled and crowed and called everyone a bigot. Who's on the right side of history now, Taylor? "Millennial journalists" LOL...


https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/17...4373139763

Her vocal cry is like nails on a chalkboard. She/they poisoned the well.


Tesla’s annual revenue:

2023: $96.8 billion
2022: $81.5 billion
2021: $53.8 billion
2020: $31.5 billion
2019: $24.6 billion
2018: $21.5 billion
2017: $11.8 billion
2016: $7 billion
2015: $4.1 billion
2014: $3.2 billion
2013: $2 billion
2012: $413 million
2011: $204 million
2010: $117 million
2009: $112 million
2008: $15 million
2007: $73 thousand

Tesla's Market Cap:

2023: $789.89 billion
2022: $388.97 billion
2021: $1.061 Trillion
2020: $668.90 billion
2019: $75.71 billion
2018: $57.44 billion
2017: $52.32 billion
2016: $34.42 billion
2015: $31.54 billion
2014: $27.95 billion
2013: $18.51 billion
2012: $3.86 billion
2011: $2.97 billion
2010: $2.52 billion

Market Cap at End of Years.


Microsoft’s valuation:

2024: $3 trillion
2021: $2 trillion
2020: $1.5 trillion
2019: $1 trillion
2000: $500 billion
1998: $250 billion
1996: $100 billion
1992: $25 billion
1991: $10 billion
1990: $5 billion
1986: $780 million (IPO)


2024:
Netflix:  261 million subscribers
Blockbuster: 1 store (in Oregon)

2000:
Blockbuster: 7,700 stores
Netflix:    420,000 subscribers

Netflix’s annual revenue:

2023: $33.7 billion
2022: $31.6 billion
2021: $29.7 billion
2020: $24.9 billion
2019: $20.2 billion
2018: $15.8 billion
2017: $11.7 billion
2016: $8.8 billion
2015: $6.8 billion
2014: $5.5 billion
2013: $4.4 billion
2012: $3.6 billion
2011: $3.2 billion


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