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June 5, 1883: The Express d’Orient embarked on its inaugural journey from Paris to Vienna. The train was officially renamed Orient Express in 1891. The glamour and rich history of the Orient Express has frequently lent itself to the plot of many books, films, music, games, and as the subject of TV documentaries.


A one-track life

On December 14, 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate entirely and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines."


No fan of spiritualism while alive, in death it seems Thomas Carlyle changed his mind. His body had lain in its grave for nearly four decades when, in 1919, his spirit appeared to a certain Dr. Wm. J. Bryan, with the urgent need to author another text.

In 1869, the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle horrified legions of spiritualists with a letter, printed in the American Scotsman, that described the new religious movement as a “Liturgy of Dead Sea Apes”. Carlyle enlisted a favorite insult: a fable held that when a wayward tribe, who lived by the Dead Sea, refused to listen to the wisdom of Moses, they were transformed into apes, “gibbering and chattering very genuine nonsense”, as Carlyle narrated in Past and Present (1843). “They sit, with… such an air of supreme tragicality as Apes may; looking out through those blinking smoke-bleared eyes of theirs, into the wonderfulest universal smoky Twilight and undecipherable disordered Dusk of Things”. For Carlyle, the notion that people could converse with the dead, encountering vaporlike spirits as they sat in the darkness, was the latest instance of ape-consciousness, the “truest, tragicalest Humbug conceivable by the mind of man”.

The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)

The look of love...

Miniatures are a subset of portrait paintings, and within miniatures is yet another, more obscure, subset: paintings of a left eye, or a right eye, amid little else. Dubbed “lovers’ eyes” by a canny antiques dealer, nearly all miniature eye portraits were painted with watercolor on ivory in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth century. They were set in rings, lockets, brooches, toothpick cases, and the like, and gifted between lovers. Luminous, exquisite, and fragile (a drop of water might wash away the tiny brushstrokes), lovers’ eyes did not mean, as it might seem, “I have my eye on you”, but rather, “You have my heart, and here’s my eye to prove it”.

The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Giant Aryan German soldier, Jakob Nacken, thought to be the tallest soldier to fight for the German Army in WWII at 7 foot 3 inches. At age 38 he was captured in Calais France, and is seen speaking to a Canadian soldier (1944).


Nacken and his wife emigrated to the United States on the SS Atlantic from Genoa, Italy, arriving in the port of New York City in 1950. He continued doing what he was doing prior to the war as a circus performer and died in 1987. Genesis 6 Giants


D-Day was originally scheduled for June 5, 1944. But on June 4, as a severe storm approached the English Channel, General Eisenhower decided to postpone the invasion for 24 hours. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s original "D-day Statement to Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force.”



"The Great Crusade": Remembering D-Day



Commemorating The 40th Anniversary Of The Normandy Beach Landings - This Reverential 1984 British TV Documentary (1 hr 51 min) was made special because it was understood that it would be the last great reunion of its veterans. Written and presented by Desmond Hamill.

British Pathé D-Day Collection.


June 5, 1967: The "Six Day War" between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began. Israel emerged with a comprehensive victory and seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank of the Jordan River during the conflict. These territorial adjustments as we all well know remain disputed.


Myths & Facts - The 1967 Six-Day War


June 5, 1968: ABC News coverage of Robert Kennedy’s speech and shooting. The moments when the network begins to learn of the shooting start just after the 23:30 mark in this Video and described by Classic TV historian, It's About TV.


Godfathers of climate chaos, UN death cult chief urges global advertising ban on fossil fuel companies, calling the industry "godfathers of climate chaos" in a major speech. Article is chock full of lies, more lies, and damn lies.

UN Secretary General António Guterres called coal, oil and gas corporations the “godfathers of climate chaos” who had distorted the truth and deceived the public for decades.

Just as tobacco advertising was banned because of the threat to health, the same should now apply to fossil fuels, he said.

His remarks were his most damning condemnation yet of the industries responsible for the bulk of global warming. They came as new studies showed the rate of warming is increasing and that global heat records have continued to tumble.

Last year was the hottest on record and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday that the record could fall again as soon as this year.

A group of around 50 leading scientists separately reported that the rate of global warming caused by humans has continued to increase.

They found that ongoing high emissions of warming gases mean the world is moving closer to breaching the symbolic 1.5C warming mark on a longer-term basis.

“I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies,” he told an audience in New York.

“And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising.”

They need to fall quickly if global targets have a chance of being met, with every fraction of a degree of warming worsening climate impacts.

"Every degree matters; every tenth of a degree matters," says Ko Barrett, WMO Deputy Secretary General.

"The difference between 1.5C and say 2C could mean [...] dire consequences, for coastal communities, for fragile ecosystems, and the biodiversity that is contained within them, and for glaciers and the frozen parts of the world."

Ban fossil fuel ads to save climate, says UN chief

Lifelong socialist parasite for the win...He served as president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. Does the General know that anyone who owns a computer or cell phone is a client of fossil-fuel companies - including the Internet; including the thousand dollar suits he wears? It is anti-civilization to hate oil, the very substance that produced modern civilization, prosperity, health, and flourishing economies. Even the extra CO2 has benefited earth's ecosystems.


25 years of stagnation...


Our World in Data

Did something happen in 2011 to discourage development and China rocketed to the moon?
Yes. Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves discuss this issue here back in the '90s. Pretty straightforward as to Mr. Freeman and his backers' beliefs.







Word/Words of the day...

"I must break away

and get out into the mountains

to learn the news."

― John Muir