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[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 12, 1933: Leo Szilard read in the London Times that Ernest Rutherford had dismissed dreams of atomic energy as "moonshine." That afternoon, Szilard recalled, at a street corner on Southampton Row, he conceived the nuclear chain reaction.


Leo Szilard: The Conscience of a Scientist by Tristram Coffin. (8-page PDF; REPRINTED FROM THE FEBRUARY 1964 ISSUE OF HOLIDAY MAGAZINE)

Hungarian-born physicist and inventor, Leo Szilard conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1944 wrote the Szilard petition asking President Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians.

According to György Marx (fellow Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor), he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as "The Martians."

"That rumor in America, There are two intelligent races on Earth: people and Hungarians."
— Isaac Asimov


The unsent shorter version of Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to FDR, drafted with Leo Szilard, has sold at Christie’s auction for $3,922,000!




Wonder Stories, December 1934, front cover, illustrated.
Frank R. Paul (1884-1963), Take-off from Mt. Everest, c. 1934.
Offered in Over the Horizon: Art of the Future from the Paul G. Allen Collection from 23 August–12 September at Christie’s, $25,200.





PDF copy of Wonder Stories, December 1934



Paul Robeson's June 12, 1956 House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington (HUAC) testimony, (re-enactment) performed by James Earl Jones.

"Why do you not stay in Russia?" 

"Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?"




Candidate Kennedy, September 12, 1960: "I believe in an America" speech.

President Kennedy, September 12, 1962: "We choose to go to the moon" speech at Rice University.




The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Karen Chambers (Sallie Shockley) is abducted from the home of her parents (David Janssen & Phyllis Thaxter) and held for ransom. Her captors (James Farentino & Skye Aubrey) entomb her in a homemade coffin buried several feet underground, with an air hose as her only conduit to the outside world. As the police close in on the kidnappers and search for the girl, she desperately tries to stave off hysteria and to prevent the cutting off of her air supply. This movie (rumored to be a favorite of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino) was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972.



Based on the true story of the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. Remade in 1990 as 83 HOURS 'TIL DAWN.


“Are we losing the war against infectious diseases?”

- Time magazine, September 12, 1994





Royal Marines from 47 Commando seize 2,000 kilos of coke following a boarding operation involving HMS Trent's sailors, Royal Marines and embarked US Coast Guard Teams.

This photo, of Royal Marines from a Royal Navy patrol ship interdicting a "narco submarine" in the Caribbean perfectly demonstrates how hard they are to see/sea in the vast ocean. Pirates of the Caribbean! Good job boys, the Americans thank you for the spoils.


The Royal Navy has intercepted its first ever “narco sub” in the Caribbean


Why do all of Bill Gates predictions sound like threats? "What are your plans for us plebs, oh Overlord?"


Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another pandemic in less than 30 years


The Neo mobile aka an aborted DeLorean. Yes, break the system by driving an iPad car that can be remotely disabled by the system. Way to go in 2024, Jersey boy!




'Round and 'round and 'round it goes...Where it stops nobody knows.'
USA #1 on this day in 1982: