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August 11, 1934: Application for Registry of an Alien under an Act of Congress Approved March 2, 1929, for Stephan Sevastian Bondareff.


National Archives Catalog


August 11, 1942: U.S. actress & amateur inventor, self-taught, Hedy Lamarr and U.S. composer George Antheil received U.S. Patent 2,292,387 (issued to Lamarr under her married name, Hedy Markey) for a “secret communication system.” Although the invention wasn’t immediately implemented, it did lay the groundwork for technology used to maintain security for military communications, cell phones, WiFi and Bluetooth. This work led to their being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.


An invention notebook in George’s handwriting reveals that he was influenced by Philco’s 1939 Mystery Control, the first commercially available radio remote controller. With the help of Samuel Mackeown, a California Institute of Technology engineer, George ironed out the bugs in their invention, and he and Hedy applied for a patent in June 1941. Considering the familiarity with patent conventions and technical radio concepts on display, it seems likely that Mackeown wrote the patent itself.

Random Paths to Frequency Hopping

In 2019, actor and musician Johnny Depp composed a song called "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" with Tommy Henriksen. It was included on Depp and Jeff Beck's 2022 album "18".




Atomic Bomb Scientists at a US Military Base, August 1, 1945:


These scientists are group leaders in the assembly, research and check up of the atomic bombs at a Mariana base. Left to right: Norman Ramsey (Brooklyn, NY); Roger S. Warner (Boston, MA); Edward B. Doll (Los Angeles, CA); Harold Agnew (Denver, CO); Luis W. Alvarez (Rochester, MN); Lawrence Johnston (Hollywood, CA); Philip Morrison (Pittsburgh, PA; circled); Robert Serber (Urbana, IL); and Bernard Waldman.

Carnegie Mellon educated Philip Morrison (1915-2005) was present at the birth of the A-bomb. He went on to teach at Cornell and MIT. In the late 50s, he first proposed using microwaves as a way to communicate with aliens. He was a founder of the Planetary Society and SETI and received many technical awards.


Hashem Al-Ghaili (born August 11, 1990) is a Yemeni science communicator, director and producer. He is best known for his infographics and videos about scientific breakthroughs. Al-Ghaili's work in science communication gained the attention of science news sources and social media users alike.




August 11, 1984: Ronald Reagan's "we begin bombing in five minutes" joke. Story broken by the late, Ann Devroy [1948-1997] then of Gannett news. 


Press: On and Off the Record  | IT'S NOT THE FIRST JOKE ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR

On August 15, 1984 a coded message was transmitted from Soviet military headquarters in Vladivostok: "We now embark on military action against the US forces." One military unit in the region went on red alert. Soviet ships in the northern Pacific were confused.




That October, just before the 1984 election, the ad hoc duo of Jerry Harrison and Bootsy Collins performing as "Bonzo Goes to Washington" released the single "Five Minutes" inspired by Reagan’s remarks. The song was produced by Harrison and Daniel Lazerus. In the pre-Internet days most people did not hear Reagan's joke until this song release.



A hat belonging to Napoleon when he ruled France was sold for $2.1m at auction in Paris.


Napoleon had 120 hats, only around 16 are thought to remain, and in private collections we have no idea...maybe 2 or 3. Auctioneer Jean Pierre Osenat, said: "People recognized this hat everywhere. When they saw it on the battlefields, they knew Napoleon was there. That was the image - the symbol of the emperor.”


Liberal democracy: jailed for memes

Meanwhile Napoleon the dictator:

[Letter to Fouché, January 15, 1806] "I do not intend that Frenchmen should become slaves. In France, everything that is not forbidden is permitted, nor can anything be forbidden except by the laws, by the courts, or, when morals and public order are concerned, by general police measures. I say it once more:

I do not want any censorship [of books], because every book-seller is made responsible for the works he sells, because I do not wish to take responsibility for every nonsense that comes off the printing press, and, finally, because I do not want some clerk to tyrannize over the mind and to mutilate genius."

However, in 1810 Napoleon did establish book censorship. For his interference with the periodic press.


Source: The Mind of Napoleon, A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words
Edited and Translated by J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD (1955)



Business owner traumatized by Secret Service

LOL, SS has been doing whatever it takes since 1865. In modern times I'm sure they do this quite regularly. However, after 2003 when they were removed from Department of the Treasury and placed under Department of Homeland Security is perhaps the start of when things started going downhill.


This is what used to pass for "cutbacks" in the media world:



Marcus Aurelius (as usual) said it best...

"No matter what happens, keep this in mind: It’s the same old thing, from one end of the world to the other. It fills the history books, ancient and modern, and the cities, and the houses too. Nothing new at all.”