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June 2, 1953: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey, London. It was the 1st British coronation to be televised live, with TV cameras allowed inside Westminster Abbey for the first time. It’s viewed as the first major BBC TV live event.



But there was a problem in the Abbey: the carpet...and it poured rain!


Operation Crash Recoveries under Project Moondust (1967-1972):



Many more telegrams & memos between US State Dept to various countries from Mexico to Kathmandu and the question of ownership of the fragments is not clear under the Treaty on Outer Space. No surprise the Smithsonian Institute museum played a big role on finders/keepers regards to diplomatic backchannels (what goes on public display & what remains hidden at Wright Patterson AFB) in this 93 page PDF:

Department of State (DOS) Communications Regarding Recovery of Deorbited Space Debris (Project Moon Dust)

Project Moon Dust was a covert project by the US Air Force during the Cold War that existed at the Air Force Missile Development Center at Holloman Air Force Base.

On something seemingly unrelated - UFO conspiracy theorists often quote names of Air Force programs that they believe have actually obtained extraterrestrial hardware. I am not a UFO conspiracy theorist - however, I have found validity in the project names mentioned at least. The one I am curious about is Blue Fly. I have documentation from the AF Historical Research Agency that states Blue Fly was a part of the Air Force Missile Development Center (Holloman AFB).

Project Blue Fly originated in 1961 as part of the Foreign Technology Division project activities to “exploit” when possible enemy materials. There were three projects, Blue Fly, to exploit Soviet hardware when it comes more or less permanently into US or allied hands, Round Robin, to exploit Soviet hardware when it comes temporarily into US hands (e.g. Russian aircraft landing at international or US airfields) and Moon Dust, to exploit big booster or missile and satellite equipment which fell from the air hence the name applied (e.g. the piece of Soviet equipment which fell into Wisconsin). There were two teams at Holloman ready to deploy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Another input we got was a lot less specific and the dates were earlier, and the author related it to Project Blue Book, the AF UFO investigation.

Air Force Missileers Newsletter (page 18 of Volume 19, Number 4 December 2011)

George Orwell writing in 1943...

Not much has changed. It was published in Orwell’s essay “Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War” in 1943.


Have megatons of fun with the...THE NUCLEAR WAR FUN BOOK by Victor Langer and Walter Thomas with illustrations by Brent Richardson. (1982)
128 pages of Fun for the whole family & grandparents too on rainy days!


However, you'll need to setup a Go-Fund-Me account to afford a copy...
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R.I.P. Ron Edmonds...


Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer Ron Edmonds dies. His images of Reagan shooting are indelible

TIME magazine, Behind the Photos

Ron Edmonds Photography

By the time Magnus Hirschfeld died in exile on May 14, 1935 — his sixty-seventh birthday — the German sexologist had already witnessed his own annihilation at least twice over. Presumed dead after a brutal attack by far-right thugs in early Weimar-era Munich, he got to read his own obituary in the newspaper while convalescing. And years later, shortly after the Nazi takeover of Germany, an exiled Hirschfeld viewed a newsreel of the first major book burning, which showed the SA not only casting decades of his research onto the pyre, but a bust of Hirschfeld himself.

Magnus Hirschfeld was born to a Jewish family in the Prussian spa town of Kolberg in 1868, but the man whose investigation of difference so incensed his countrymen came forth on a later birthday — May 14, 1897 — when Hirschfeld formed the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee at his medical practice in Berlin. Arising out of culturally conservative Wilhelmine Germany, this Committee was the world’s first gay activist group, from which Hirschfeld later emerged as one of history’s most important figures in the study of gender and sexuality.

Full essay: Out on the Town


If they want to play pro ball they should go to a different school. This is  yet another example of how we have lost focus. Who in Congress is pushing this nonsense?


Military Times


If you don't already see where this is going, and going soon...you're not paying attention:


https://x.com/Alfaiomi/status/1797224238232834162

Every port, refinery, nuke/power plant, food plant, and airport in CONUS needs to be hardened. As I been sayin for past few years, I'm just wondering when political opponents start getting whacked by these assassin drones, as we continue to accelerate down the proverbial slippery slope. Of course, the perpetrator will always be "a loner" in the media headlines. The implications are profound and the possibilities limitless.


What could possibly go wrong?

This is the submarine that will take billionaire Larry Connor to the Titanic shipwreck...


Though being up in Space and the forbidden depths of the Mariana Trench, I guess he knows the risks.
Dayton entrepreneur first to reach space, ocean depths in a year

June 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

All month – All the planetary action continues to be in the morning sky, with Saturn and Mars rising in the early morning hours. They are joined later in the month by Jupiter.

June 2 – In the hour before sunrise, reddish Mars hangs just beneath the crescent Moon. Find the pair low in the east with Saturn lurking nearby, toward the south.

June 3 – The crescent Moon sits beneath Mars in morning twilight. Look for them low in the eastern sky.

June 6 – New moon

June 21 – Full moon

June 24 – Jupiter is now visible low in the east before sunrise. Look for the bright planet around 10 degrees above the horizon this final week of June, forming a line with Mars and Saturn that stretches toward the south.

June 27 – Look for the Moon rising in the east with Saturn around midnight. By dawn this morning, you'll find them high in the southern sky. They appear super close together – close enough to appear in the same field of view through binoculars.

"Planet Parade" note: Some online sources have shared excitement about a "parade of planets" visible in the morning sky in early June (June 3 in particular). In reality, only two of the six planets supposedly on display (Saturn and Mars) will actually be visible. In early June, Jupiter and Mercury will be at or below the horizon in morning twilight and not visible; Uranus and Neptune are far too faint to see without a telescope, especially as the morning sky brightens. The closest thing to a planet parade will be June 29, when Saturn, the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter will line up across the morning sky.