Hot August 29th continued...
August 29, 1935: Legendary director WILLIAM FRIEDKIN was born.
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On August 29, 1949, at 7:00 a.m., the first Soviet atomic bomb known as First Lightning or Joe-1 by the Americans was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. The USSR became the world's second nuclear weapon state.
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The Americans had thought the Soviets would take 20 years to develop a nuclear weapon, and when this detonated only 4 years after the US, it shocked Swampington, DC. Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960) was the 'Oppenheimer' for the USSR. He died early due to a radiation accident.
August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina just after landfall, and that morning’s Times-Picayune newspaper.
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United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was officially reestablished on August 29, 2019 during a ceremony at the White House with a reemphasized focus on space as a warfighting domain.
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iOS 18.1 - now with Stalin Mode. Apple said so...
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iOS 18.1 beta adds photo 'Clean Up' AI tool
Original Stalin photo
Russian Navy Project 6363 Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine northbound under the Storebaelt (The Great Belt) Bridge in Denmark - August 29, 2024.
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Nicknamed the "Black Hole" submarine by the U.S. Navy, the Improved Kilos are extremely quiet. According to... Black Sea Fleet.
Oh no, who would have guessed, sigh...
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Newsweek
Four JOEL SCHUMACHER films, One choice. Which do you choose?
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I gotta go with Falling Down.
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William James (1842-1910) philosopher & "Father of American psychology".
We humans find many reasons to separate ourselves from each other and from nature, we must realize that we are all part of the same creation to become our best selves.
Theologian Sallie McFague, Dean Emerita of the Vanderbilt Divinity School, writes: “Once the scales have fallen from one’s eyes, once one has seen and believed that reality is put together in such a fashion that one is profoundly united to and interdependent with all other beings, everything is changed. One has a sense of belonging to the earth, having a place in it along with all other creatures, and loving it more than one ever thought possible.”
"To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. Because by going out of your mind, you come to your senses."
— Alan Watts
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August 29, 1935: Legendary director WILLIAM FRIEDKIN was born.
On August 29, 1949, at 7:00 a.m., the first Soviet atomic bomb known as First Lightning or Joe-1 by the Americans was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. The USSR became the world's second nuclear weapon state.
The Americans had thought the Soviets would take 20 years to develop a nuclear weapon, and when this detonated only 4 years after the US, it shocked Swampington, DC. Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960) was the 'Oppenheimer' for the USSR. He died early due to a radiation accident.
August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina just after landfall, and that morning’s Times-Picayune newspaper.
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was officially reestablished on August 29, 2019 during a ceremony at the White House with a reemphasized focus on space as a warfighting domain.
iOS 18.1 - now with Stalin Mode. Apple said so...
iOS 18.1 beta adds photo 'Clean Up' AI tool
Original Stalin photo
Russian Navy Project 6363 Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine northbound under the Storebaelt (The Great Belt) Bridge in Denmark - August 29, 2024.
Nicknamed the "Black Hole" submarine by the U.S. Navy, the Improved Kilos are extremely quiet. According to... Black Sea Fleet.
Oh no, who would have guessed, sigh...
Newsweek
Four JOEL SCHUMACHER films, One choice. Which do you choose?
I gotta go with Falling Down.
William James (1842-1910) philosopher & "Father of American psychology".
We humans find many reasons to separate ourselves from each other and from nature, we must realize that we are all part of the same creation to become our best selves.
Theologian Sallie McFague, Dean Emerita of the Vanderbilt Divinity School, writes: “Once the scales have fallen from one’s eyes, once one has seen and believed that reality is put together in such a fashion that one is profoundly united to and interdependent with all other beings, everything is changed. One has a sense of belonging to the earth, having a place in it along with all other creatures, and loving it more than one ever thought possible.”
"To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. Because by going out of your mind, you come to your senses."
— Alan Watts
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell