March 8, 1930: William Howard Taft, the 27th US President (1909 to 1913) and the 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1921 to 1930), died in Washington D.C. at age 72. The only person to have held both of these offices.
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The 1944 Hanford phone directory is now online. Did you know that "Homer Simpson" worked on the Manhattan Project!
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How did Matt Groening know Homer Simpson was involved in nuclear industry from the start?? According to a nuke historian archivist who discovered it, this doc/file was not yet declassified until circa 1995.
March 8, 1954: MARILYN VS. MOSCOW - Tempo magazine
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March 8, 1958: Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895. The Wisconsin was recommissioned in 1988 as part of Reagan's 600 ship Navy but only to fire her guns for the last time in Desert Storm 1991 before being decommissioned again on September 30, 1991. As of March 2007 the Wisconsin is a museum ship operated by Nauticus in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Her final awesome salvo fury was unleashed on May 28, 1991. Volume up!
Project Paintshop: In 2023, sailors from HMS Prince of Wales volunteered to help clean and repaint Wisconsin.
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March 8, 1968: the Soviet submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific. After the U.S. found the wreck, the CIA began the top secret mission "Project Azorian" Hughes Glomar Explorer to recover the sub and its nuclear missiles using a ship with a giant hidden claw. The official story is the sub broke apart but a section was partially recovered in a covert salvage operation by the CIA in 1974.
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Project Azorian was one of the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War at a cost of about $800 million, or $4.7 billion today.
The entire salvage operation was recorded by a CIA documentary film crew, but this film remains classified...well of of course it is. FOIA attempts on the CIA are met with neither confirm or deny the existence of such documents. This type of non-responsive FOIA reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization". Dude, you just been Glomar'd!
Alternative theories::
Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell makes the claim that Project Azorian recovered virtually all of K-129 from the ocean floor, and in fact, "Despite an elaborate cover-up and the eventual claim the project had been a failure, most of K-129 and the remains of the crew were, in fact, raised from the bottom of the Pacific and brought into the Glomar Explorer".
In August 1993, Ambassador Malcolm Toon presented to a Russian delegation K-129's ship's bell. According to Red Star Rogue, this bell had been permanently attached to the middle of the conning tower of K-129, thus indicating that in addition to the bow of the submarine, the critical and valuable midsection of the submarine was at least partially recovered by Project Azorian. Additionally, Ambassador Toon is quoted from the 6th Plenum of the U.S.–Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs as saying, "Our Director of Naval Intelligence has concluded that no U.S. sub was within 300 nautical miles of your sub when it sank". Red Star Rogue places K-129 at 24°N by 163°W, less than 350 miles from Honolulu. This site is consistent with the discovery of radioactive oil reported to the Hawaii Institute of Geophysical Research at the time.
March 8, 1971: the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI pulled off the perfect heist. They broke into the Media, PA FBI field office while Frazier & Ali battled in the ring. Liberated files were mailed to reporters. J. Edgar Hoover went into a blazing towering rage.
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How to break into the FBI: 50 years later, Media burglars get local honors
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Ike" and Herbert Hoover at Bohemian Grove, July 23, 1950. How future presidents are decided:
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Happy International Women's Day which coincidentally is also International Women's Collaboration Brew Day. Found in 2014 by Sophie de Ronde, a British brew master. The first year, over 60 women in five countries brewed a pale ale called Unite.
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Last night's Designated Survivor: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
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Happy State of the Union! Until that clown leaves the White House...
And if you've never heard Puddles, you're in for a treat!
Checkout his channel for more: Puddles Pity Party
The 1944 Hanford phone directory is now online. Did you know that "Homer Simpson" worked on the Manhattan Project!
How did Matt Groening know Homer Simpson was involved in nuclear industry from the start?? According to a nuke historian archivist who discovered it, this doc/file was not yet declassified until circa 1995.
March 8, 1954: MARILYN VS. MOSCOW - Tempo magazine
March 8, 1958: Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895. The Wisconsin was recommissioned in 1988 as part of Reagan's 600 ship Navy but only to fire her guns for the last time in Desert Storm 1991 before being decommissioned again on September 30, 1991. As of March 2007 the Wisconsin is a museum ship operated by Nauticus in Norfolk, Virginia.
Her final awesome salvo fury was unleashed on May 28, 1991. Volume up!
Project Paintshop: In 2023, sailors from HMS Prince of Wales volunteered to help clean and repaint Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/HMSPWLS/status/1727789191142965252
March 8, 1968: the Soviet submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific. After the U.S. found the wreck, the CIA began the top secret mission "Project Azorian" Hughes Glomar Explorer to recover the sub and its nuclear missiles using a ship with a giant hidden claw. The official story is the sub broke apart but a section was partially recovered in a covert salvage operation by the CIA in 1974.
Project Azorian was one of the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War at a cost of about $800 million, or $4.7 billion today.
The entire salvage operation was recorded by a CIA documentary film crew, but this film remains classified...well of of course it is. FOIA attempts on the CIA are met with neither confirm or deny the existence of such documents. This type of non-responsive FOIA reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization". Dude, you just been Glomar'd!
Alternative theories::
Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell makes the claim that Project Azorian recovered virtually all of K-129 from the ocean floor, and in fact, "Despite an elaborate cover-up and the eventual claim the project had been a failure, most of K-129 and the remains of the crew were, in fact, raised from the bottom of the Pacific and brought into the Glomar Explorer".
In August 1993, Ambassador Malcolm Toon presented to a Russian delegation K-129's ship's bell. According to Red Star Rogue, this bell had been permanently attached to the middle of the conning tower of K-129, thus indicating that in addition to the bow of the submarine, the critical and valuable midsection of the submarine was at least partially recovered by Project Azorian. Additionally, Ambassador Toon is quoted from the 6th Plenum of the U.S.–Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs as saying, "Our Director of Naval Intelligence has concluded that no U.S. sub was within 300 nautical miles of your sub when it sank". Red Star Rogue places K-129 at 24°N by 163°W, less than 350 miles from Honolulu. This site is consistent with the discovery of radioactive oil reported to the Hawaii Institute of Geophysical Research at the time.
March 8, 1971: the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI pulled off the perfect heist. They broke into the Media, PA FBI field office while Frazier & Ali battled in the ring. Liberated files were mailed to reporters. J. Edgar Hoover went into a blazing towering rage.
How to break into the FBI: 50 years later, Media burglars get local honors
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Ike" and Herbert Hoover at Bohemian Grove, July 23, 1950. How future presidents are decided:
Happy International Women's Day which coincidentally is also International Women's Collaboration Brew Day. Found in 2014 by Sophie de Ronde, a British brew master. The first year, over 60 women in five countries brewed a pale ale called Unite.
Last night's Designated Survivor: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
Happy State of the Union! Until that clown leaves the White House...
And if you've never heard Puddles, you're in for a treat!
Checkout his channel for more: Puddles Pity Party
"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