Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Today is Patriot’s Day and the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord battles which officially kicked off the American Revolution. People always bring up how the British soldiers were ordered to destroy the military stores because that’s the main point we were all taught in school. They usually forget to mention the soldiers also got there and cut down the colonists’ liberty pole. Big mistake.

“When British grenadiers arrived in Concord on the morning of April 19, 1775, they found a flag flying defiantly from the Liberty Pole. Scholars believe it was probably the Liberty Tree Flag. The Regulars cut down the pole — the only act of deliberate destruction that their officers allowed apart from the burning of military stores, which was the object of their mission. Liberty Poles also appeared in (many) other Massachusetts towns.” 

pg. 48, "LIBERTY AND FREEDOM: A VISUAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING IDEAS" by David Hackett Fischer.

April 19, 1975: On the 200th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, President Ford delivers a major address at the battlefield’s Old North Bridge, where the “shot heard round the world” was fired. More than 110,000 spectators are present to watch cannons, reenactors, and a Paul Revere rider. Ford lays a wreath with Sir Peter Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the United States.

Two hundred years ago today, American Minutemen raised their muskets at the Old North Bridge and answered a British volley. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the shot heard round the world." The British were in full retreat soon afterwards and. returned to Boston. But there was no turning back for the colonists--the American Revolution had begun.

Freedom was nourished in American soil because the principles of the Declaration of Independence flourished in our land. These principles, when enunciated 200 years ago, were a dream, not a reality. Today, they are real. Equality has matured in America. Our inalienable rights have become even more sacred. There is no government in our land without consent of the governed.

Remarks at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts

The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States. It originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn". The phrase has subsequently been applied to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, a catalyst event for World War I, and hyperbolically applied to feats in sports.



April 19, 1925: Ruth Rowland Nichols, a 24-year-old American aviator, flies from London to Paris, where she is allowed to pilot several French bombers. “This was the first time a foreign woman has ever been allowed to maneuver military machines in France.” She is the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot.

Born in 1901 to a wealthy family, Ruth’s life changed with an airplane ride.
In 1929, she was a founding member, with Amelia Earhart and others, of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of licensed women pilots. In August 1929, she and Earhart were among 20 competitors in the Women's Air Derby (also known as the "Powder Puff Derby"), the first official women-only air race in the United States. They departed from Santa Monica, California, on 18 August for Cleveland, Ohio. Nichols crashed, Louise Thaden won, while Earhart finished third in the heavy class.

During the course of her career, Nichols flew every type of aircraft developed, including the dirigible (Airship), glider, autogyro, seaplanes, biplanes, triplanes, transport aircraft, and a supersonic jet. Nichols was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1992. A propeller from her 1930s Lockheed Vega is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum's Golden Age of Flight gallery.

Ruth Nichols, Record Setter/Dare Devil, Enshrined 1992; 1901-1960



In 1924, Nichols became the first licensed woman seaplane pilot in the U.S. She eventually flew every type of aircraft developed and was rated in the dirigible, glider, autogyro, landplane, seaplane, amphibian, monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, twin and four engine transports and supersonic jets.

Nichols and her flight instructor became the first to fly non-stop from New York to Miami in 1928.

In 1929, Nichols became the first women to land in all 48 contiguous states.

Co-founder of the women’s flying organization “the Ninety-Nines”. First president of the 99s was Amelia Earhart.

November 1930 Nichols set a women’s transcontinental record of 16 hours, 59 minutes and 30 seconds, and on her return trip she set a Los Angeles to New York City record of 13 hours, 22 minutes.

In 1931, Nichols became the first women to hold three international records: altitude, speed and long distance.

Organized Relief Wings, a flying ambulance for mercy missions.

Flew faster than any woman in the world, as co-pilot in an Air Force Supersonic TF-102A Delta Dagger flying over 1,000 mph, in 1958.

Writing in her autobiography, “Wings for Life,” Ruth Nichols explained her passion: “To the public I suppose I have often seemed to be the original ‘flying fool.’ While flying over 140 different models of aircraft, I have piloted a plane in a plaster cast and a steel corset, too impatient to wait for bones to knit from the last crash. Maybe it doesn’t make sense…family and friends have urged me to keep my feet on the ground. The only people who haven’t tried to change me are flyers. They comprehend.”

From 101 Trailblazing Women of Air and Space: Aviators and Astronauts by Penny Rafferty Hamilton, PH.D.

The Ninety-Nines

Suffering from severe depression, Nichols died of an overdose of barbiturates at her home in New York City on September 25, 1960. Her death was ruled a suicide. Nichols was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.

Ruth Nichols: Defying Gravity and Expectations



April 19, 1943: Chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 in Basel, Switzerland, while working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory. He had created the synthetic drug in 1938 but this was the first time he had used it.




April 19, 1951: 19-year old Shigeki Tanaka won the Boston Marathon. He was a witness to the atomic blast aftermath at Hiroshima. He won the event in 2:27:45, the 3rd fastest time in the event’s history up to that point.

First Japanese winner of Boston Marathon in 1951 dies at 91 (Oct 4, 2022)

Tanaka was originally from Hiroshima Prefecture.

He was 14 when he saw the bright light from the Hiroshima atomic bombing from a faraway village, which he said made him hate the United States.

Tanaka became a prominent long-distance runner when he was a student at Hiba Nishi High School (now Shobara Jitsugyo High School).

When he arrived in the United States to run in the Boston Marathon, he was taken to an office of a agency linked to the country’s Department of Defense.

Officials showed him pictures of Japanese atomic bomb survivors and asked, “Is this true?”

Later, he looked back on the episode and said, “They were rude.”

Because he was from Hiroshima Prefecture, an American newspaper also called him “atomic boy” when he competed in the marathon.

Tanaka wore a pair of Japanese traditional socks called “tabi” when he ran in the race because he didn’t have good running shoes.

His feet hurt with just his socks on, but he ran in the marathon with the words of his coach in mind, “Let’s win and restore Japanese people’s pride.”

April 18, 2025: Northern Ireland born pop singer Clodagh Rogers died at her home in Cobham, Surrey at age 78. She had a number of UK pop hits including Come Back and Shake Me, Goodnight Midnight and the 1971 British Eurovision entry Jack In The Box.



Gotta luv those sparkling shorts!




UK #1 on this day in 1970: 18-year old Dana - All Kinds of Everything - Ireland Winner of Eurovision 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8W9oOgjM4


April 19, 1971: USSR launched Salyut 1, the world's first space station launched into low Earth orbit. The launch was originally planned for 12 April 1971, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight on Vostok 1 but technical problems delayed it by a week. The Salyut program subsequently achieved five more successful launches of seven additional stations. The program's final module, Zvezda (DOS-8), became the core of the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station and remains in orbit today.




April 19, 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment).
April 19, 1985 - ATF and FBI lay siege to the compound of the survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
April 19, 1993 - FBI Siege on Waco
April 19, 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing.
April 19, 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing
April 19, 2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead.

And...

- Blood Sacrifice To The Beast, a most critical 13-day period. Fire sacrifice is required on April 19.

April 19 is the first day of the 13-day Satanic ritual day relating to fire - the fire god, Baal, or Molech/Nimrod (the Sun God), also known as the Roman god, Saturn (Satan/Devil). This day is a major human sacrifice day, demanding fire sacrifice with an emphasis on children. This day is one of the most important human sacrifice days, and as such, has had some very important historic events occur on this day.
Occult holidays and Sabbats

April 19, 1982: NASA named Sally Ride as first US woman astronaut. On June 18, 1983 she became the first American woman to travel in space when NASA’s space shuttle Challenger was launched into space on its 2nd mission. Absolute zero comparison to Katy Perry.





April 18, 1992: Benny Hill died at age 68. His comedy shows on BBC then ITV were hugely popular when broadcast from 1955 to 1989. Hill described his comedy style as “seaside post card humour”. He had a UK Christmas No.1 hit in 1971 with, Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in The West) Video




April 18, 2025: in the Oval Office, Dr. Mehmet Oz was sworn-in as the 17th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump. Dr. Oz wants to create a state-mandated humiliation ritual for everyone without insurance...


https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/191...8591853824

...in a festival like setting with rides and corn dogs. Ooops, they don't have a right to corn dogs but they have a right to access a chance to corn dogs.


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