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January 6, 1839: Judgement night! The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland known as "The Night of the Big Wind". It destroyed 20% of houses in Dublin alone, 42 ships were wrecked and 250–300 fatalities.

The Night of the Big Wind became part of Irish folk tradition. Irish folklore held that Judgment Day would occur on the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January. Such a severe storm led many to believe that the end of the world was at hand.

By March 1909, over 80,000 "British" pensioners were registered of whom 70,000 were Irish. When a committee was sent to investigate this imbalance, it transpired that few births in Ireland were registered before 1865. As such, the Irish Pensions Committee decreed that if someone's age had "gone astray" on them, they would be eligible for a pension if they could state that they were "fine and hardy" on the Night of the Big Wind.

One such applicant was Tim Joyce of Co Limerick. "I always thought I was 60," he explained. "But my friends came to me and told me they were certain sure I was 70 and as there were three or four of them against me, the evidence was too strong for me. I put in for the pension and got it."

The calm before the Big Wind of 1839 was particularly eerie

As the story goes, after demonstrating his vehicle which used an "atmospheric generator" in Denver in 1921, C. E. Ammann was reportedly arrested on charges of “stealing energy from the grid” upon arrival at the Patent Office in D.C.


C. Earl Ammann's Mysterious Invention

Also, it’s an interesting synchronicity that this so-called free energy running automobile article is next to an add discussing the Pierce-Arrow, which is supposed to be the car that Tesla drove around with some wireless free energy as well. Although, most of what is claimed about the Tesla Pierce-Arrow story is complete fraud and misinformation, it is interesting.

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J. N. Davis, the proprietor of the Davis Electric Garage company, at 921 East 14th Avenue, and one of the oldest electrical men in Denver, made a thorough study of the generator.

Electrical Man Has Faith In It ~

“I believe that Mr. Ammann has at least made the invention which will revolutionize power”, Mr. Davis said. “Of course, we don’t know what is inside of the generator and the inventor would be foolish to show us. We have long known that certain minerals exist, which if properly arranged together, would furnish power. That, in substance, according to the blueprints of the invention, is the basis of the whole thing.

“If the generator has been perfected to the extent that it will propel an automobile, the rest of its work is assured. It will be the greatest invention of the age. The electricity obtained from the air, first passing through the generator, would be available for any use”. So impressed was Mr. Davis that he offered the use of his building for Mr. Ammann’s headquarters. Ammann, who is but 28 years old, came to Denver from Spokane, Washington. He is an electrical engineer and lives at the Argonaut Hotel.

Ammann Atmospheric Generator

100 years later...Electricity out of thin air...


Air-Powered Car? New Tech Pulls Electricity Out of Thin Air — Better Than EVs and Gas


Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires.





January 6, 1948: Flying Birdman of Cascadia. At 3:00 p.m. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn.

It's common knowledge that the Republic of Cascadia was home to the first modern sightings of paraterrestrial craft, colloquially known as UFOs. Although the 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" near Mount Rainier is the most famous, that was actually the second sighting following an incident three days earlier on Maury Island that also marked the operational debut of the Men in Black.

Not as commonly known though is that Cascadia was home to some of the first sightings of Unidentified Flying Humanoids (UFHs) -- mysterious individuals employing personal flying devices of unknown technology toward inscrutable ends.

It all started with a curious encounter on Jan. 6, 1948 by Chehalis, Washington resident Bernize Zaikowski (reported here from the Jan. 21 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin):

The Birdmen of Cascadia

Six years before Leonard Nimoy's 1962 telegram (with his then-wife) to President John F. Kennedy in which he protests atmospheric nuclear testing, he was JFK's cabbie in Los Angeles.





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Also by Ron Goulart (Shatner's ghostwriter)...




USA #1 on this day in 1973: Carly Simon - You're So Vain




The replies are pure joy...


https://x.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1876340645364732257


Although this is hilarious, there is a sizable portion of the American electorate that sincerely believes this with all their heart.




Apparently our friends to the North finally received a bit of good news, on a Monday! Not sure how they feel about joining the USA.