Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

And into The Month we go!

“You look tired, Anne,” he said.

“I am tired, and, worse than that, I’m disgruntled. I’m tired because I’ve been packing my trunk and sewing all day. But I’m disgruntled because six women have been here to say good-bye to me, and every one of the six managed to say something that seemed to take the color right out of life and leave it as gray and dismal and cheerless as a November morning.”

“Spiteful old cats!” was Gilbert’s elegant comment.

...

It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul. Anne was not wont to be troubled with soul fog. But, somehow, since her return to Redmond for this third year, life had not mirrored her spirit back to her with its old, perfect, sparkling clearness.

Anne of the Island (1915) by Lucy Maud Montgomery.


November 1, 1922: BBC Radio Licences went on sale at a cost of 10 shillings (50p). By the end of 1923, 200,000 licences had been issued and by 1928 this figure had risen to 2,500,000. The Post Office retained 12.5% of the fee to cover administration. The UK Government decided that the fledgling British Broadcasting Company would be funded, not by commercials, but by the introduction of a compulsory radio licence. Anyone wanting to listen to radio programmes had to have one...a situation that lasted until 1971!!

Here is the first ever reminder that this official history has ever come across... dating from January 1925:




Nov 1, 1941: American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.



A Halloween Story: Unearthing the Enigma of Moonrise


Wild story that the Fenian Brotherhood made the first real practical submarine then voluntarily disbanded in 1883 and then William "Wild Bill" Donovan created the OSS sixty years later having heard the stories of the Fenians in Buffalo, NY from his Grandpa.


"Wild Bill” Donovan - World War I Hero  | Fenian Ram


Nov 1, 1948: Torches at the Capitol.

"It was a curious anticlimax. Republicans had waited for years for the great day when the country would come to its senses and turn the Democrats out."




Nov 1, 1962: "Let's get a lock for this thing" on the editorial page of the Washington Post. Cartoon by Herbert Lawrence Block aka Herblock (1909-2001).


Within days of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., Herblock pointed his finger at Richard Nixon, proving that cartoonists have more flexibility than other journalists. He beat Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s October 10, 1972, exposé of the break-in by almost four months. In 1973, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Herb Block, and their editor, Roger Wilkins, shared a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Watergate story.

He coined the term "McCarthyism" in 1950. Herblock won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, and the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979. In 1986 he received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College, and in 1999 an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard University.

You can view his illustration works at the Library of Congress


UK #1 on this day in 1988: Enya - Orinoco Flow



Remix with some bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek4xM3f67J4



NASA Reveals Spooky Eyes in Space]


The Atlantic rag recycle will post something like this and in the same breath call RFK Jr. a conspiracy nutjob. Good thing all mine are pink!




The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say two videos spread online -- one purporting to show a man from Haiti voting illegally in Georgia and one accusing someone associated with Harris' ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer  are fake. And of course they say they were made by Russia.

Three intel agencies putting out the same message:


ODNI  |  CISA  |  FBI



A glimpse into the Quad7 operators’ next moves and associated botnets


We are really doing this days before the election? Why yes. "In case Trump wins, we goto war... But, first we scare them with our trusty 72 year old BUFF B-52s!"