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March 16, 1190: The Jewish community was chased and trapped by an angry mob inside Clifford's Tower (York Castle), England. About 150 Jews chose to commit suicide rather than be murdered or go through a forcible Christian baptism by the attackers. The castle was set on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths. One of the mob’s ringleaders, Richard Malebisse, had offered safe passage to any Jews who agreed to convert and leave the tower. A few took this option, only to be murdered as soon as they came out from the burning building.


The Massacre at Clifford’s Tower


March 16, 1925: The Army Chemical Warfare Service chief, Gen. Amos Fries (far left), sits in a chlorine gas chamber at the Bureau of Veterans Affairs in Washington. The general is getting firsthand experience of the gas that he advocates as a treatment to kill germs.


Fries has long been an enthusiast for everything poison-gas-related:

Jan. 16, 1922: The chief of the Army Chemical Warfare Service is dismayed that nations plan to ban gas warfare. "Poison gas not only is the most effective but the most humane weapon of warfare," says Gen. Amos Fries. Those who suffer from it are "dullards and the hairbrained."

To be clear, Fries wasn't just saying the U.S. needs to hold onto its gas arsenal as a deterrent; he wants to use the chemical agents as an offensive weapon in future wars. He will later claim the campaign to ban poison gas is a Communist plot.

Amos Alfred Fries  (pronounced “freeze”) was a Major General in the United States Army and 1898 graduate of the United States Military Academy. Fries was the second chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Service, established during World War I. Fries served under John J. Pershing in the Philippines and oversaw the construction of the roads and bridges in Yellowstone National Park. He eventually became an important commander in World War I. After he retired from the Army in 1929, Fries wrote two anti-communist books. He died in 1963 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.



How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.

Poison gas race to nuclear arms race, to eugenics & quackcines, Space race part deux to A.I. arms race It's an endless conspiratorial dystopian saga from generation to generation consuming trillions of dollars.

Chemical Warfare (1921) by Amos A. Fries

Army general Amos Fries played a huge role in developing the Port of Los Angeles


March 16, 1935: German Führer Adolf Hitler annouced that German rearmament and army conscription was being introduced in Germany; a direct violation of the terms of the Versailles Treaty. No action was taken by the League of Nations, apart from futile words of protest.




March 16, 1953: Las Vegas Blase About A-Bomb Tests
"Fremont st & "The Strip" will be pulsating with this sort of thing when the bomb blows up tomorrow. A mother in slacks will be pulling a lever on a 25-cent machine when the pre-dawn sky is lit with a sudden, terrible brightness." From Evening Star (Washington, D.C.).



Atomic gem from March 16, 1955: AEC Chairman Strauss declared that all nuclear detonations to date-ours, Britain's & Russia's combined have caused only a thoroughly inconsequential increase in radiation received by Americans...


Everything is fine. American radiation is that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.


On March 16, 1954, at the request of Sen. Charles E. Potter, an executive session commenced to examine the charges and countercharges between the subcommittee chief counsel, Roy Cohn. The matter would become known as the Army-McCarthy hearings.



Investigation Of Army-McCarthy Dispute


March 16, 1957: Elvis wrote this check to use as the down payment for a landmark purchase – Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee!




Beep Prepared (1961)

The Only Wile E.Coyote/Road Runner short ever to be nominated for an Oscar. Wile kinda reminds me of democrats going after Trump. LOL.





"I shall be standing outside a bunker near Upperville, Virginia, with a battle-ax ready to pack the first rat who exits after the attack subsides..." - Lon Sullivan, University City, MO. Letter to the Editor, Harper's July, 1975. In response to a May '75 COG article.



March 16, 1995: Mississippi became the last US State to ratify the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution (abolishing Slavery, which had been passed in 1865). It was later found state authorities failed to complete the necessary documentation and it was not implemented until 2013.