Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

May 18, 1812: Merchant John Bellingham was sentenced to death, and hanged on the same day, for the assassination of the Tory British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, on 11 May 1812. They had speedy justice in those days. It’s the only instance in history of a British Prime Minister being assassinated...to date.


Bellingham is said to have been born in the building, at the corner of Huntingdon Street and Cambridge Street, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England.

It only now remains for me to pass the dreadful sentence of the law, which is -

"That you be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to a place of execution, where you shall be hanged by the neck until you be dead; your body to be dissected and anatomized."

Tried by the Third Middlesex jury, before Sir James Mansfield.

Trial account of John Bellingham

May 18, 1954: "If the H-Blast hit tonight, what would you do?" Ad in the Los Angeles Mirror for the "Atomic Attack" episode of ABC's Motorola Television Hour that was broadcast on this day. Starring Phyllis Thaxter & Walter Matthau and the Production company was Office of Civil Defense. It was adapted from the 1950 novel "Shadow on the Hearth" by Judith Merril.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZeE60uJnHY


UK #1 on this day May 18, 1967: Tremeloes: Silence Is Golden




May 18, 1980: freelance photographer Richard Lasher shot this epic photo of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was forced to abandon his Pinto and flee the giant plume of ash on his motorcycle. Lasher survived, the Pinto did not. "It was my fifteen minutes of fame." St. Helens did him a favor by freeing him of that Pinto.



Check out the short story: The Eruption and the Pinto - the writer very recently made contact with Lasher and will be updating the story.


https://x.com/StHelensIn1980/status/1791855837658394976


May 18, 1991: Helen Sharman from Sheffield became the 1st Briton to go into space, as part of a Soviet space mission. She was also the first British woman to visit the Mir space station.




R.I.P. Henry "Hank" Kudzik who passed away last Saturday at the age of 99. Kudzik served aboard USS Nautilus (SS-168) for eight war patrols that included the Battle of Midway and the mission to deliver Marine Raiders to Makin Island. Kudzik was also with the Nautilus when the sub rescued four nuns from behind enemy lines on Bougainville Island. He later served six war patrols aboard USS Gar (SS-206).



USS Nautilus 'Nautilus and the Nuns'




The 2024 Houston derecho storm caused damage from Space City to the Space Coast - that's right, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida! Derechos are just lines of thunderstorms that produce destructive winds over a wide swath.



For those keeping score, Houston has endured...

2015: Memorial Day flood
2016: Tax Day flood
2016: Halloween flood
2017: Hurricane Harvey
2018: 4th of July great flood
2019: TS Imelda
2020: TS Beta
2021: Grid collapse due to freeze, Hurricane Nicholas
2022: Extreme summer heat/drought
2023: Hottest summer on record (according to the weather boys)
2024: The Great Derecho



I got my 2nd PhD, wahoo!


Dr. Max Dow '24


Well, at least the poor dumbass came forward...


113-year-old tower in Death Valley National Park felled by clueless traveler

His fate will be decided next week at Badwater gallows.



"Hottest year" update:

Global warming brings coldest May in 74 years to Chile.


Mr Freeze visits Chile

The only thing that is going to stop this trend is if people start eating bugs. I see no other way out. I guess we're doomed. LOL.