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August 31, 1688: Writer and Puritan preacher John Bunyan died (aged 59). He’s best known as the author of the classic 1678 Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come, which is regarded as one of the most important religious novels of all time. It has been translated into more than 200 languages and has never been out of print.


Wiki  | Public domain audiobook

This documentary reveals the story of John Bunyan's life, his personal struggles, his triumphs, and his remarkable legacy.


BIAD got a new mower!


August 31, 1830: Edwin Beard Budding (25 August 1796 – 25 Sept 1846) of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England was granted a patent for his new invention, the Lawn Mower, to go into production. His mower was designed to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive gardens, described as the "Great British Object" as a superior alternative to the scythe.

The Old Lawnmower Club  | Edwin Budding: The Birth of the Lawn Mower


August 31, 1888: Mary Ann “Polly” Walker Nichols (aged 43), considered the 1st victim of the Victorian serial killer nicknamed by the press as "Jack the Ripper" was found dead in Buck’s Row, London.




August 31, 1900: Coca Cola went on sale in Britain for the first time. It was first sold in chemist shops as Cola Syrup, an over-the-counter dietary supplement for an upset stomach. It was not until the 1920s that the bottled version became generally available in the UK.


Coca-Cola lost plaque


August 31, 1940: Hollywood stars Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were married. Though they would stay married for 20 years their relationship was extremely tempestuous. In his autobiography, Olivier claimed Leigh’s mental illness caused the breakdown of the marriage.


Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion


August 31, 1997: This is how ITV News announced Diana, Princess of Wales, had died - 20 years ago today.




August 31, 2012: Popular singer and comedian, Max Bygraves, died (aged 89). He had his own TV shows and was a regular guest on other TV variety shows. He made 20 Royal Variety Show appearances. He introduced his comic monologues with the catchphrase: "I wanna’ tell you a story."

 (wait for the ending, LOL)





What all parents can learn from the troubled AI in Los Angeles schools



L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data

While some AI proponents are true believers, I'm beginning to believe its mostly vocal evangelists that know the tech is faulty and are pushing it on schools and health systems because they think it will hasten their collapse, while also giving them access to valuable consumer info which is used to feed the private defense corporations.




Thanks for the giant NSA super center in Utah that spies on everything we do, Dubya. Also thanks for the retarded agency that still pretends to make flying safe and the giant bloated Homeland Security...and endorsing Kamala. Oh and thanks for all the new intifada immigrants.



“We can do what we have accomplished thus far.”  —Kamala Harris

That’s precisely what we’re afraid of.

Kamala’s CRINGE Interview On CNN Was A Disaster! (The Jimmy Dore Show)


Gone, Gone Again By Edward Thomas

Gone, gone again,
May, June, July,
And August gone,
Again gone by,

Not memorable
Save that I saw them go,
As past the empty quays
The rivers flow.

And now again,
In the harvest rain,
The Blenheim oranges
Fall grubby from the trees,

As when I was young—
And when the lost one was here—
And when the war began
To turn young men to dung.

Look at the old house,
Outmoded, dignified,
Dark and untenanted,
With grass growing instead

Of the footsteps of life,
The friendliness, the strife;
In its beds have lain
Youth, love, age, and pain:

I am something like that;
Only I am not dead,
Still breathing and interested
In the house that is not dark:—

I am something like that:
Not one pane to reflect the sun,
For the schoolboys to throw at—
They have broken every one.