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Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious.

The Latin motto TRAHOR FATIS (I am drawn by Fate) appears but four times in the Tarot masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, the Sola Busca deck, and yet it hangs unmistakably over the cards’ entire colorful procession of ancient Greek and Roman heroes. Armored in the style of late-fifteenth century northern Italy, they bear bagpipes, shields, lyres, pennants, staffs, and torches, while accompanied by basilisks, crows, falcons, doves, and eagles. Every single card is a miniature drama — the expressions of the highly individualized figures inviting us to speculate, like the Tarot itself, on the past and future of this cryptic world.

See this link for more: A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)


Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site.

Test: Stokes
Time: 12:25 on 7 August 1957 (GMT)
Location: Nevada Test Site, Area 7b
Test Height and Type: 1500 Foot Balloon
Yield: 19 kt


Test of the LASL XW-30 multi-purpose warhead; used in TADM (tactical atomic demolition munition), and Talos SAM (surface-air-missile) warhead. All oralloy (highly enriched uranium) DT gas-boosted system. Predicted yield 10-20 kt. Device diameter 22 inches, length 45.8 inches. Nuclear system weight 317 lb., total device weight 448 lb.


Fallout Shelter Sign and some guys who just finished testifying for the Warren Commission in Washington, DC. March 25, 1964.


The bald guy is Dallas cop Maurice "Nick" McDonald who captured Oswald at the Texas Theater. The gent holding his hat is Sen. John Sherman Cooper. Man in background is Eugene L. Boone, one of the Deputy Sheriffs who conducted the investigation in the Texas Book Depository afterward. Man with hat on is Marion Baker, a patrolman who was in the vicinity during the shooting.



American attorney and civil rights activist Mark Lane (1927 - 2016) with his new book 'Rush to Judgement', a critique of the Warren Commission's inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, September 21, 1966.


I wonder if Acting SS Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. has ever read it.


Self-proclaimed patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald; and would-be patsy Walter Henke (Kevin Crowley) in THE PACKAGE (1989).




The Arsenal of Democracy grows larger...


New Zealand endorses US push to expand weapons-making defence industrial base


U.S. Navy ships are being strategically placed across the mid east as Israel braces for retaliation from Iran - Technically, this placement is at the Operational Level of war, but nice graphic.







PHOTO OF THE DAY: The BIADmobile:


2 women in a Rytecraft Scootacar in London. It could carry 2 people up to 15 MPH (1936).


UK #1 on this day in 1982: Denys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen




Mid-Week Treat of Interesting Words...