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November 12, 1840: Auguste Rodin was born in Paris, France. He’s known for such sculptures as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais (commemorates the Hundred Years' War), and The Gates of Hell. The Musée Rodin in Paris, which opened in 1919, holds the largest Rodin collection with more than 6,000 sculptures.

A monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures.




Nov 12, 1924: The cereal later known as Wheaties is first sold, as Washburn's Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flakes in Minnesota. The product is the result of an accident at Washburn Crosby Co. when an employee dropped bran gruel onto a hot stove and it bubbled into a crispy flake.

Washburn (now General Mills) had been working to develop food products that use whole wheat, in response to growing consumer demand for healthier food. After 36 attempts, it bakes the bran-wheat mixture it had discovered into a form that withstands packaging.



"Gold Medal" is a modest success but Wheaties becomes a phenomenon due to marketing. The name change is made in late 1924, after a contest won by Jane Bausman, the wife of a company manager. Rejected names included "Nutties." The same year Wheaties airs its first radio jingle. Wheaties’ association with sports goes back to 1927 when it sponsors radio broadcasts of minor league baseball’s Minneapolis Millers. For a billboard at the Millers park, ad agent Knox Reeves thinks of a winning slogan: "Breakfast of Champions."


Wheaties’ first mascot is Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a character whose vigor is credited to his favorite cereal. In 1934 it uses an athlete endorser (Lou Gehrig) for the first time; the first man on the front of a Wheaties box is pole vaulter Bob Richards, in 1959. As a kid I practically lived on Wheaties.



November 12, 1939: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s snow cruiser designed by Dr. Thomas Poulter passes through traffic and onlookers before halting for the night in Framingham, Massachusetts.


In 1939, scientists and engineers at Chicago’s Armour Institute of Technology designed and built a massive new vehicle intended for use in Antarctic exploration. The Antarctic Snow Cruiser measured 55 feet long, weighed more than 37 tons fully loaded, and rolled on four smooth 10-foot-tall tires designed to retract and allow part of the vehicle to scoot across crevasses. The Institute loaned the $150,000 machine to the U.S. government for its upcoming Antarctic expedition headed by Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, and had the Snow Cruiser driven from Chicago to Boston (at a top speed of 30 mph) to be loaded on the ship the North Star. The crew managed to deliver the Snow Cruiser to the Antarctic ice, but the design proved faulty, and the vehicle was soon converted to a stationary crew quarters, never to leave Antarctica again. The diesel-electric hybrid powertrain was severely underpowered, and the smooth tires, designed for swampy terrain, offered very little traction, sinking into the snow. More than 75 years later, the world is still unsure where it is—the Antarctic Snow Cruiser could remain buried somewhere under sheets of ice, or it could have broken off with an ice floe, eventually sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

Here's an interesting 1 minute color movie of the nearly-disastrous unloading of the Snow Cruiser on January 15, 1940:




Thomas Poulter (1897-1978) taught physics while attending high school (1914-1918), joined the U.S. Navy in 1918 and returned to school in 1921. He was also the associate director at SRI International from 1948 till his death inside his lab where he worked on explosives, weather and eventually Biosonar.

The Poulter Laboratory at SRI International was named after him. After he retired from managing Poulter Labs he founded the Bio Sonar Lab and Marine Mammal Study Center for SRI in the Coyote Hills outside of Fremont CA in 1964. This was the first laboratory in North America devoted to studying the behavior and physiology of sea mammals.

He was second in command on the Second Byrd Antarctic Mission to the South Pole with Richard E. Byrd. The Poulter Glacier was named after him by Admiral Byrd. Byrd credited him with saving his life as the expedition leader approached death from carbon monoxide poisoning.

After his first expedition he became the scientific director of the Armour Research Foundation at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology) where he developed the Antarctic Snow Cruiser (aka "Penguin 1"). This device was built for and taken along on his second expedition with Admiral Byrd in 1939.


Into Little America documentary film (1935) Admiral Byrd's second Antartic expedition in 1934. T.C. Poulter, Erwin H. Bramhall.



RICHARD E BYRD "DISCOVERY" 1933-35 EXPEDITION PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnmxsj-prhM

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFcbK8zxOs


Secret Science and the Secret Space Program; paperback – November 12, 2014 by free energy researcher Herbert G Dorsey III. The science and technology of anti-gravity and extracting energy from space itself was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century by scientists and experimenters like John Worrell Keely, Nicola Tesla, and Thomas Townsend Brown. But today, this science is purposely overlooked and regulated to the world of "Black Projects."




Nov 12, 1970: Exploding Whale Day! - the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a beached whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators & cars for over a 1/4 of a mile. A five-foot chunk of whale blubber hit a new Oldsmobile that spectator Walter Umenhofer had bought at a dealer's "whale of a deal" promotion. Due to the physical damage and the smell that permeated the car, insurance covered the full retail value of the Olds.



The TV segment is a classic. Ya gotta see it to believe it. Blubber Ahoy! Early Internet! LMAO!



Florence, Oregon claim to fame! & fun for the kids.



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