Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Good day, England.


Oops, no, not England. This is a view from a roof top this morning as Cuba enters a third day of no power. Other than those with generators, everyone still in the dark.


PHOTO OF THE DAY: Piccadilly Circus, London. John Hinde (1960).


John Hinde Ltd postcard printed in the Irish Republic showing a bird’s eye view of Piccadilly Circus looking northeast. It is 1960 and the London Pavilion is showing “The Fugitive Kind” starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and was the first film in which an actor, in this case Marlon Brando, was paid $1,000,000 for his performance; the film was a reworking of Tennessee Williams’s play “Orpheus Descending”. The film ran from 2nd September until 6th October. The bus is advertising the Food Fair at Olympia, here is a taste of what was on offer "with no credit required" in this black and white British Pathé clip.


October 20, 1720: Captain "Calico Jack" believed to have been born in Bristol, England as John Rackham, the notorious pirate of the Caribbean, was captured by the Royal Navy. He was nicknamed Calico Jack, as he often wore flamboyant, brightly-colored calico (cotton from India) clothing.


Rackham was active towards the end (1718–1720) of the "Golden Age of Piracy". He is most remembered for having two female crew members: Mary Read and his marriage to ferocious fellow pirate Anne Bonny, and his ship flew the Jolly Roger pirate flag, which was designed by his 1st ship mate Karl Starling.


Indeed, Calico Jack faced the gallows and was executed in Port Royal on 18 November 1720, his body was then tarred and gibbeted, left on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal, Jamaica as Deadman's Cay now known as Rackham's Cay. He was 37 years old.

The written publications after his death contributed greatly to the rise of his fame, and the eventual rise of the movement that romanticized pirate life enabled the myth of Calico Jack to grow. Another important impact that Calico Jack had on the modern image of pirates is his Jolly Rogers flag. While the majority of pirate crews used designs that had a depiction of full human skeletons using some weapon, Calico Jack promoted an iconic pirate flag design that today represents a synonym for a naval piracy - black flag with white human skull and two white crossed swords beneath it.

Jack Rackham is one of the main characters in the 2014-2017 Starz tv series Black Sails, portrayed by Toby Schmitz. Really good top-notch show.



Up with the roger, the vessel is close
Cannons are loaded the weapons prepared
Set up more sails the distance grows
They try to escape but we shan't care

Calico Jack Listen and hear my command
Calico Jack I lead you to victory
Calico Jack We shall win in the end
Calico Jack You may believe what I foresee...




October 20, 1822: The 1st edition of The Sunday Times was published. There were no photographs just five columns of overly dense spaced type. At the time, it had no link with The Times. The 1st editorial promised to evoke a spirit of "When the press was free and honest" in its readership, and to uphold the freedom of the press against those "emperors, kings, and their ministers" who would stifle it.



The paper was bought in 1887 by Alice Anne Cornwell, who had made a fortune in mining in Australia and by floating the Midas Mine Company on the London Stock Exchange. She bought the paper to promote her new company, The British and Australasian Mining Investment Company, and as a gift to her lover Phil Robinson. Robinson was installed as editor and the two were later married in 1894.

From 1981 to present day the paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp.


Oct 20, 1944: "I have returned", General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines after being ordered to leave by President FDR in March 1942.




October 20, 1962: Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers "Monster Mash" creeps to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The catchy tune continues to be a perennial Halloween favorite.




October 20, 1983: The Beaver Examiner reported the arrest of Bob and Doug McKenzie in "Strange Brew" (1983)




October 20, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi, age 69, the deposed autocratic leader of Libya, was brutally killed during mob violence west of Sirte. Footage of Gaddafi’s death was broadcast extensively across media networks internationally.

The "disinformation" as a term was popularized in the '80s to describe a Reagan administration propaganda campaign targeting Gaddafi with false stories about Libya's "terrorist" intentions.


DISINFORMATION - AN EXAMINATION OF SIX YEARS OF INCREDIBLE LYING


October 20, 2016: Flashback of Trump witch burning with over 17,000 comments.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOUFsCS7xYE

2020s: Hold my beer.


Meanwhile... what a guy! LOL


https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1848065250911998133