Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Pfew, another hot day in paradise...




July 7, 1908: Ensign Chester Nimitz ran the destroyer USS Decatur (DD-5) aground in the Philippines. He was court-martialed, found guilty of neglect of duty and issued a letter of reprimand. It was a different era, so he was still able to make fleet admiral despite the incident.




Blackout, mascot of a Coast Guard-manned landing craft during World War II, shown here wearing his life jacket, participated in the Sicily, Italy, and Normandy invasions.


"Blackout" Has Hit Three European Invasion Beaches


Even during war time, US Sailors had more fun in taking a break and swim off an Aircraft Carrier in 1943. They use the torpedo nets to block off sharks.



For those who don’t know what torpedo nets look like, this is it...


Torpedo nets are physical barriers, often made of metal or strong netting, designed to protect ships from torpedo attacks. They are suspended around the hull of a ship and serve as a defense by intercepting and entangling incoming torpedoes before they can hit the ship's hull.


July 7, 1947: An alien spaceship supposedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. It became known as "The Roswell incident". Space scientists reject the idea it really was an alien craft, but many UFO believers still think otherwise.


“See Something, Say Something”

It's really amazing how much of this lore and phenomenon is entwined & interlocked in American life which is connected directly to Germany. Planes, weapons, saucers to rockets, space, Mars, politics, fascism, right & left wing tribes, medical field, science, mathematics, "academia", military intelligence, CIA, religion, cults, conspiracy lore to make a life long carrer from, mysticism even more, domination, you name it, you can trace it back to Prussian Germany. Now that is a conspiracy to chew on. Best conspiracy since sliced bread? I wonder why that is. [sarc]


July 7, 1928: Sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. Every major innovation since has been called "the best thing since sliced bread."

Get a load of that marketing verbiage..."Kleen Maid Bread" versus, "Clean Made Bread"!



You might be thinking, but does "sliced bread" also have a connection to German descent?? You bet yer toasted cheeks it does.

Meet Otto Frederick Rohwedder, (1880-1960), "Father of Sliced Bread"...


7/7 date is just a coincidence, lol.

Never heard of him? Well, you can toast his invention (also literally and figuratively!) and celebrate sliced bread. Bread, of course, has been ubiquitous at meal times for millennia, and the fourth Earl of Sandwich had the bread-and-filling lunchtime meal named after him by 1762, but the world would have to wait until the twentieth century for the convenience of pre-sliced bread.

Cutting Edge

Rohwedder, was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman who developed the first commercial automatic bread-slicing machine. His father, Claus Rohwedder was born on March 17, 1845 at Von-der-Geest, Germany, where he completed his education, and arrived in Davenport, Iowa in 1866. A jeweler by trade, first developed the idea in 1912 and had a prototype by 1916. The invention was not without setbacks, however. A fire destroyed his model and the blueprints for the slicer, along with the factory that was going to produce the machines, in 1917. Unwilling to leave his idea half-baked, Rohwedder started from scratch. It would be ten years before he had enough dough to try again, but by November 1928, he had a patent (1867377) for the new slicer.

The next problem was persuading bakers to try out his invention. They believed that sliced bread would dry out faster than the whole loaf and that people wouldn’t want to buy pre-sliced loaves. Undeterred, Rohwedder figured out a way to wrap the bread to prevent rapid drying (and to keep the sliced loaf together), and he finally convinced a baker friend, M. Frank Bench, owner of the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, to try the machine. The first loaf of sliced Kleen Maid Bread hit the shelf on July 7, 1928.

By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".

Any Way You Slice It

"Television is the greatest invention since sliced bread." — Red Skelton in 1951.

Meet the American who invented sliced bread: Otto Rohwedder, hard-luck hawkeye

"Where Sliced Bread Came From" A short video documentary with rare eyewitness testimony of people who were alive when it happened.



Make sure you have two slices today with wine to cleanse all your problems away.



Remembering that time when America Banned Sliced Bread. Wut?! Yes.

The year was 1943, and Americans were in crisis. Across the Atlantic, war with Germany was raging. On the home front, homemakers were facing a very different sort of challenge: a nationwide ban on sliced bread.

“To U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing—and a whale of a lot more trouble,” announced Time magazine on February 1, 1943.



So by January 18, 1943, when Claude R. Wickard, the secretary of agriculture and head of the War Foods Administration, declared the selling of sliced bread illegal, patience was already running thin. Since sliced bread required thicker wrapping to stay fresh, Wickard reasoned that the move would save wax paper, not to mention tons of alloyed steel used to make bread-slicing machines.

By March 8, the government decided to abandon the wildly unpopular measure. “Housewives who have risked thumbs and tempers slicing bread at home for nearly two months will find sliced loaves back on the grocery store shelves tomorrow in most places,” noted the Associated Press. Wickard refused to acknowledge the ire of both housewives and bakers, saying simply that the savings were less than anticipated and that it turned out there was enough wax paper to go around after all.