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May 5, 1940: the British Grampus-class mine-laying submarine HMS Seal was captured by German forces after the sub had been damaged by a... mine. Upon inspecting the sub, the Germans concluded that Seal was inferior to their U-boats but had superior torpedoes.



She was the only submarine the Germans captured at sea during World War II. Her capture allowed the Germans to correct a critical fault in their U-boat torpedoes.
Fate: Scuttled on May 3, 1945.

Lieutenant Commander Lonsdale was the only British captain to surrender his ship to the enemy in the entire war. He, with Lieutenant Trevor Beet, faced court-martial in 1946; they were honourably acquitted.


A double headline from the May 5, 1970 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:


Caption: Thousands of protesting University of Washington students and faculty members blocked Interstate 5 for nearly an hour as they marched to a rally at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. The crowd had gathered on campus to demand that the university take a moral stand against the killing of four Kent State University students by National Guardsmen and the bombing of Cambodia by U.S. forces. About 30 state troopers in riot gear blocked the crowd at the Roanoke interchange. The crowd, in a congenial mood, sat down and continued to chant. After some impromptu negotiations with the police, the marchers left the freeway and followed Eastlake and Fairview Avenues to the courthouse.
Museum of History & Industry Collection

But what most of us don’t realize is that the day following the Kent State killings, May 5th – was indeed one of the most explosive days in American history as literally hundreds of university, college and high school campuses blew up in response – and for that day at least, the American educational system broke down.

Angry, tearful young people across the nation reacted with an intensity and in numbers not witnessed before or since.

May 5, 1970 was a Tuesday, and from coast to coast, from sea to sea, will be forever remembered by those who acted. The following is a sampling, just a sampling of what happened on American campuses that day, including from just about every state.

This is real history – our history, and we should know it.

Roundup of protests across the country

The list leaves out the University of Kentucky, where things culminated with the burning of the ROTC building (May 6) and Governor Louis Nunn sending in the National Guard.



Remember her?



John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, explored the tendency of Dixon and her fans to promote her few correct predictions while ignoring the larger number of incorrect predictions, naming this habit "the Jeane Dixon effect."

Auchincloss Brown was a major influence on 'New Age' authors amd mystics who were warning about a coming pole shift and cataclysmic Earth changes. Among those were Jeane Dixon and her protégé, veteran White House journalist Ruth Montgomery.


Ruth Montgomery wrote extensively about the subject of walk-ins whereby a person's soul can depart a anguished body and be replaced with a new soul which overtakes the body. She presented an extensive list of individuals she said were examples of walk-ins including several US presidents. William Cooper cited a few passages from her book ("Herald of the New Age") back in his "Mystery Babylon" series (specifically episode "Maitreya" first aired in 1993) that he lectures on some wild ancient religion beliefs leading up to the rise of New Age movement belief system. She died 5 months before Bill Cooper in 2001.


Remember this? We need to bring it here, state side:



May 5, 1994: American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Fay's sentence was ultimately reduced from six to four whippings after US officials requested leniency.

Singapore Carries Out the Caning of a U.S. Teen-Ager

A punishment of four lashes on the bare buttocks with a rattan cane was carried out today on an 18-year-old American who had pleaded guilty to vandalism but now insists he is innocent.

Hours before the flogging, Mr. Fay was visited in prison by his lawyers, who said afterward that he had accepted his fate.

"He is nervous and scared but is prepared to take it," said one lawyer, Dominic Nagulendran. "He will grit his teeth when he is caned."

The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times ran editorials and op-eds condemning the punishment. Meanwhile, USA Today had to up the condemning by reporting that the caning involved "Bits of flesh are said to fly with each strike, along with copious amounts of blood."

Maybe Not. Apparently, the caning did not work as after his release from prison in June 1994, Fay returned to the United States to live with his biological father, and been in trouble with the law ever since.

I was in Singapore 2 years earlier and can definitely say it was the strictest SE Asia city I ever visited and also the cleanest, you could eat off the sidewalks. Computers & software were dirt cheap and also all pirated.


Remember this show?


Adam Scott says ‘SEVERANCE’ Season 2 will release in the “somewhat near future” and “Your patience doesn't have to hold on too much longer.”  Praise be, I can't wait!



Coast To Coast AM (12/12/1997) Art Bell Shirt (prices are a tad steep)


LMAO!





On a serious note, this world has way too many energy vampires. Clip is from "What We Do in the Shadows" (2019–2024) Season 2, Episode 7 on Hulu.




New Pride Flag...Legend has it that there is rainbow under that whole mess.


Has more color than Sherwin-Williams. LOL.


Being his secret service agent must be a trip. Run around Manhattan, deliver pizzas to FDNY & NYPD, go golfing every weekend, goto F1 races, battle every intelligence agency on earth, vibe, chill, hang out with the trophy wives of Palm Beach.


He's looking at the McLaren with the same skepticism as he did the coronavirus. LOL.


"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well." ― Philip K. Dick