Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 18, 1906: Xerox was founded in Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company by Joseph C. Wilson. The Xerox 914 photocopier introduced to the public on September 16, 1959, on TV, transformed office work by making info easy to share. For that reason, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer (1912-2004) said:

"The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised," says retired Admiral Thomas Moorer. "Even if documents are numbered and accounted for, it is easy to slip one out over lunch and copy it quickly."

TIME magazine (June 17, 1985) / Then came USB pen drives!


In the 2017 film The Post, Daniel Ellsberg, portrayed by Matthew Rhys, is seen using a Xerox 914 to copy the Pentagon Papers.

Admiral Moorer was implicated in a spy ring within the White House during the Nixon administration, but never prosecuted.


April 19, 1943: Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. It lasted 27 days.


Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


April 19, 1965: Gordon Moore published his article on cramming more components onto integrated circuits.


Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965 (4-page PDF)


APRIL 1973: "Meet the Furniture Girls from Soylent Green at Wickes!" There was a SOYLENT GREEN "Furniture" promotion with Wickes Furniture in Chicago. "Soylent Green is salespeople!"




In case you weren't aware, as a promotion in 1984, Wendy's produced a terrifying, photorealistic cardboard masks of Clara Peller (August 4, 1902 – August 11, 1987), aka the "Where's the Beef?" (Russian-Jew) lady. My grandma spoke Russian and thought this lady was a hoot.


Milton Bradley produced a Where’s the Beef? Board Game (1984) and a Where’s the Beef? Card Game (1984)




April 19, 1993: The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.

Historically unfortunate messaging, ATF HQ.



April 19 is the first day of the 13-day Satanic ritual day relating to fire - the fire god, Baal, or Molech/Nimrod (the Sun God), also known as the Roman god Saturn. This day is a major human sacrifice day, demanding fire sacrifice with an emphasis on children. Obviously, depending on what you read and what you choose to believe.

April 19, 1985: ATF and FBI lay siege to the compound of the survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas.

April 19, 1993 - FBI Siege on Waco
April 19, 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing.
April 19, 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed/brother captured.
April 19, 2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.

April 20, 1999 – Columbine High School massacre
April 20, 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes.
April 21, 2019 - major bombing in Sri Lanka killing over 200.

April 19, 2024: Max Azzarello picked an interesting day for his immolation.


That CNN reporter woman is like straight out of a B movie set.


"There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
    ~ Lord Byron

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
    ~ Lord Byron

Lord Byron, one of history's most influential and controversial writers died on this day in 1824 — pictured on his deathbed in a painting by Joseph Denis Odevaere.


At age 10 he became the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. He kept a pet bear at Trinity College, Cambridge (allegedly), had an affair with his half-sister, fought for Greek Independence and also wrote some poetry. George Gordon Byron was born in London in 1788 to a Scottish heiress, Catherine Gordon, and a philandering British army captain known as John "Mad Jack" Byron.

During June of 1816 Byron met fellow poet Percy Shelley and Shelley's future wife, Mary Godwin. They spent a few days together during a storm by Lake Geneva, where to pass the time they told ghost stories and Mary came up with the idea for what would become Frankenstein.

A month after Byron's passing, on 17th May 1824, his memoirs were burnt in the upstairs drawing room of a house on Albemarle Street, London. The manuscript pages of the memoirs had been entrusted by Byron to his literary executor Thomas Moore two years earlier with a mind that one day they would be published. But with Byron dead, Byron's publisher John Murray, thinking the pages' supposedly scandalous contents far too damaging to both the reputation and legacy of Byron himself and presumably also to the publisher who would publish them, ripped them up and placed them in the fire. In his book Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822 by Thomas Medwin, published that same year, the author endeavours to "lessen, if not remedy, the evil" of the burning of Byron's memoirs.


Particularly absurd images from the lacking HBO docu, "An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th" (2024), on the events surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Starring Bill Clinton, disgraced CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin, and others.




Words...


Your love’s like a trintle that flows through my veins,
A chelidonian breeze that purges my pains.
It restores my novantique heart like it's new,
Micawberous dreams of my future with you.


Good tune..."you be the judge"...