Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Happy May Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Illuminati Day, Polio vaccine day, Lei Day, Beltane, Samhain (the end of the harvest season in Southern hemisphere), Maharashtra Day, "Mission Accomplished" Day, Elvis Presley married in Vegas, & "Invisible Aliens living among us".

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2020, as Loyalty Day. I call on all Americans to observe this day by learning more about the proud history of our Nation. I urge all Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings and grounds on that day."




May 1, 1328: The Wars of Scottish Independence, which had lasted for 32 years and 5 days, ended. England recognised the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state under the terms of the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton. In return, Scotland accepted English primacy in Ireland.




May 1, 1707: The Act of Union, which joined the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to form the “Kingdom of Great Britain” took effect. It implemented terms agreed on 22 June 1706. The 2 states, with separate legislatures, but the same monarch, were now united into one Kingdom.




May 1, 1852: "Calamity Jane" (Martha Cannary), was (allegedly) born in Princeton, Missouri. Explorer, army scout, pioneer, storyteller, sharpshooter, performer, dance-hall girl. Her sharpshooting skills made her a star of Wild West Shows. In 1876, Calamity Jane settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. There she became friends with Dora DuFran, the Black Hills' leading madam, and was occasionally employed by her. It's claimed she acquired her nickname as a result of her warnings to men that to offend her was to "court calamity". She died August 1, 1903, from inflammation of the bowels and pneumonia.

No one was better at spinning a good yarn than the imaginative Calamity herself. She had no high regard for truth, particularly when she was “tight as a goat” and cadging drinks in frontier saloons.

Calamity was certainly not noted for her beauty. The Black Hills Daily Times once described her as looking like the “result of a cross between the gable end of a fire proof and a Sioux Indian.”

Despite Hollywood’s later attempts to pretty her up, that description was not inaccurate. Calamity was tall for a woman, just under six-foot when wearing her high-heeled boots. Big boned and muscular, with rough, weather beaten skin and dark, stringy, seldom-washed hair, she was masculine in appearance even when wearing a dress.

Calamity is often referred to as Martha Jane Cannary (sometimes spelled Canary) but the middle name is open to question; she didn’t claim it in her so-called autobiography. Men who patronized prostitutes were called johns and trollops referred to as janes, which may explain the Jane portion of her nickname.

Calamity knew she could count on the kind-hearted people of Deadwood to help with the little girl’s education. According to Estelline Bennett, author of Old Deadwood Days, money raised at a benefit held at the Green Front saloon “was enough to have kept that child in St. Martin’s convent until she was ready for Wellesley or Bryn Mawr.”

GIRLS OF THE GULCH (Deadwood magazine)

Robin Weigert played Calamity Jane in the series Deadwood (2004–2006) and in the HBO sequel Deadwood: The Movie (2019).



May 1, 1908: Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was published in book form in the UK. It became the handbook of the Boy Scouts. Most chapters begin with hints to instructors and include campfire yarns with further sections outlining games, activities, and book recommendations. And of course about the British Empire and duty as citizens with an eclectic mix of anecdotes and unabashed personal observations and recollections.


The website ‘Scouting for Boys ‘Round the World’ database currently contains 487 editions issued in 63 countries in 44 languages.

The highly decorated Cavalry warrior fought in 4 wars.

In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests in Britain and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) announced that a statue of Baden-Powell on Poole Quay would be removed temporarily for its protection, amid fears the woke zombies may destroy it. Police believed it was on a list of monuments to be destroyed or removed, and that it was a target for protestors due to perceptions that Baden-Powell had held homophobic and racist views. The statue was installed by the BCP Council in 2008.


May 1, 1941: Hollywood classic film Citizen Kane, produced, directed, and starring, Orson Welles, had its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in New York City, USA. In 2015, Citizen Kane was ranked 1st on the BBC’s "100 Greatest American Films" list.




On May 1, 1950, in Mosinee, Wisconsin, a local American Legion outpost staged a mock Communist takeover to illustrate what life under Soviet conquest might be like. Gitlow played the role of General Secretary of the "United Soviet States of America", while ex-Communist Joseph Zack Kornfeder played the new commissar of the newly renamed town of "Moskva." A Soviet flag flew in front of the American Legion outpost.

May Day in Mosinee in 1950 was like none other. Establishing checkpoints, arresting the mayor and the newspaper editor, "liquidating" the police chief, banning some public library books, and opening a soup kitchen...

Here's a brief retrospective from the Wisconsin State Journal in 2014, including an interview with one of the participants:



Here's how a newsreel covered the 24-hour takeover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5oK5nh4A38




Read all about it...


The Small, Midwestern Town Taken Over by Fake Communists

The propaganda event had a tragic footnote: Mayor Ralph Kronenwetter—hustled out of his house at six in the morning in his pajamas, slippers, & robe by "Chief Commissar" Joseph Zack Kornfeder and four armed guards, and also the Methodist reverend...



The June 1950 American Legion magazine notes the passing of Mayor Kronenwetter.


On the cover he's looking at a Lockheed Constellation ("Connie"), a propeller-driven, four-engine airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series was the first pressurized-cabin civil airliner series to go into widespread use.

Joseph Zack Kornfeder was an Austro-Hungarian-born American who was a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of America in 1919 and Communist Party USA leader. After his wife was arrested by the secret police during the Great Terror (1937–1938), Zack became a vehement Anti-Communist and testified before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in Congress. He died age 65 of a heart attack while checking into a Washington, D.C., hotel on May Day, May 1, 1963.

D-Day in Mosinee Wisconsin

On September 17, 2020, Donald Trump flew to Mosinee, Wisconsin, to campaign for his re-election.

Funny enough, Trump held a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX2vhFEA3nA