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April 23, 1348: The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England. The Order is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain. The Knights, now both male and female, used to be limited to aristocracy, but today they are chosen from a variety of backgrounds, in recognition for their public service.

In medieval times, King Edward III was so inspired by tales of King Arthur and the chivalry of the Knights of the Round Table that he set up his own group of honourable knights, called the Order of the Garter.

The order's emblem is a garter with the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense (Middle French: "Shame on him who thinks evil of it") in gold lettering. Members of the order wear it on their [Harry Potter] ceremonial garb.

Members of the Order include Emperor Akihito of Japan, Juan Carlos, King of Spain; Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden; and from Arabic nobility. It's a big club and you ain't in it.


The Order of the Garter


Spotlight on Allan Arbus (1918 – 2013) and "Grisly Lobby Display..." exploitation tips from the in the COFFY (1973) pressbook.


Allan wanted to be an actor—he would go on to an off-Broadway and a long television and movie career that included a ten-year run as the psychiatrist Sidney Freedman on the 1970s smash-hit M.A.S.H.

Allan's former wife was photographer Diane Arbus (Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971; suicide) divorced in 1969. She was best known for unrelenting direct photographs of people who are considered social deviates. Which included strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She also portrayed "normal" people in a manner that exposed the cracks in their public masks. She had a keen eye for her stark, documentary style of photography and her most famous images are those of people outside the boundaries of "proper" society.

Born in New York to a wealthy family, Diane thought the wealth to be humiliating. Anxious to leave this type of lifestyle, she married Allan Arbus when she was only 18. During World War II, Allan was trained as a photographer in the Army Signal Corps, and it was Allan who introduced his wife to photography.

After the war, the couple began to work together in fashion photography when Diane’s father asked them to produce advertising for his department store. Their work eventually appeared in magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar. Her daughter, Amy Arbus is also a famous photographer.

When the film The Shining, was released to cinemas worldwide in 1980 and became hugely successful, millions of moviegoers experienced Diane Arbus' legacy without realizing it. The movie's recurring characters of identical twin girls who are wearing identical dresses appear on-screen as a result of a suggestion Kubrick received from crew member Leon Vitali (English actor & Kubrick's personal assistant)


He is described by film historian Nick Chen as "Kubrick's right-hand man from the mid-70s onwards". Chen goes on to reveal, "Not only did Vitali videotape and interview 5,000 kids to find [the right child actor to portray] Jack Nicholson's [character's] son, Danny, he was also responsible for discovering the creepy twin sisters on the final day of auditions. The pair, in fact, weren't twins in Kubrick's script, and it was Vitali who immediately suggested Diane Arbus' infamous photo of identical twin sisters as a point of reference."

The untold story of Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive assistant

In 2004, a print of the photo was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $478,000.
In 2023, it sold for $215,900 and Identical Twins wiki.

Diane Arbus, Master of Photography

Diane Arbus (Wiki page 2 miles long)

In 2001–04, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972) was selected as one of the most important photobooks in history.

A Window into the World of Diane Arbus


Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. Naval forces on Guam, is ordered to "accept, shelter, process, and care for Vietnamese refugees as they are removed from South Vietnam to Guam."

It’s a tall order: between 100,000 and 200,000 refugees will need to be housed and fed for an indeterminate period of time.

The first 13,000 are billeted in apartments.


Morrison witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In the Pacific Theater he flew combat missions in the Grumman F6F Hellcat for the duration of World War II. He served as an instructor on nuclear weapons programs following the end of the war, while during the Korean War, he served at the joint operations center in Seoul.

November 22, 1963, Morrison took command of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, flagship of the First Fleet's Fifth Carrier Division in the Pacific, based at San Diego, California. His first act as the new skipper was to announce the death of President John F. Kennedy. The Fifth Carrier Division was transferred to the Seventh Fleet when sent to the Western Pacific early in 1964. In August of 1964 Morrison was in command of local American forces, including the USS Maddox (DD-731) from his flagship USS Bon Homme Richard making him directly in the chain of command during the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

In 1968, his promotion to rear admiral made him the youngest flag officer in the Navy.

Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for the carrier Bon Homme Richard, his first ship as an admiral, on July 2, 1971, in Washington D.C. His estranged son, Doors frontman Jim Morrison died in Paris at age 27 the following day. In 1990, Admiral Morrison visited his son's grave in Paris, France and had a plaque installed.

Morrison retired from the Navy in August 1975 as a 2-star Admiral.

The Admiral and the UFO

Back in the day, we were sitting around talking about UFOs, Area 51, and all the other lunatic alien legends.  We were laughing about the accounts of people claiming they had been abducted by aliens who then proceeded to fiddle or tamper with them.  The Admiral suddenly pronounced, “I chased a UFO once.”  We sat in rapt silence waiting for the punch line.  His story went like this:

Steve and his fighter squadron were patrolling the skies during the Korean conflict when they saw a silver object at three o’clock moving at a high rate of speed.  Steve radioed for permission to pursue the unidentified flying object.  He and a few other members gave chase for ten minutes.  When they finally got near enough to see more clearly, the object started shimmering in the bright morning sunlight.  It appeared to be picking up speed while simultaneously sending an urgent transmission.

The young aviators were fixing to blow this sucker out of the sky, when Lt. Commander Morrison, who had arrived on the scene first, discovered that the UFO was an escaped shiny metallic weather balloon.

*****

The Admiral was a specialist in electronic warfare. One of his projects was to put the first ever Navy spy satellite into orbit around the earth.  He kept a replica of the hand-sized metal sphere which had five “My Favorite Martian” antennae protruding from its center.  “Back then, that’s all we could throw up there”, the Admiral would say, “and there are still things about the project I am not allowed to discuss.”  He was true blue when it came to the rules.  “Suffer the consequences if you violate the rules.”  He was not a lenient man nor was he harsh in his application of discipline with his children and the men under his command.

Yet there was another side to him.  While the family was driving across the country on one of their many trips connected to tours of duty, the Admiral said, “The rules were made to be broken intelligently.”  I believe there is a part of him that understood that many people cannot function in a gray society or strict environment.  In that belief system, you must challenge the boundaries, but not head on.  In other words, “You must do what you want without appearing to have broken the rules.”  In essence, “Don’t get caught.  If you do get caught, you should not receive special treatment and must be punished under the full penalty of the law.”

REMEMBERING: ADMIRAL GEORGE STEPHEN MORRISON

Short interview with George Stephen Morrison and sister Anne Robin Morrison




This was a real thing back in the 1970's...




April 23, 1991: Wealthy Swiss banker Daniel Cohen had both arms amputated, was shot in the head, and then thrown out of his own private jet. All in a days work for Castor Troy.




On April 23, 1992, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Sen. Joe Biden entitled, “How I Learned to Love the New World Order”. In it, he speaks of “breathing new life into the U.N. Charter.”




Happy 5th Anniversary of Bleach Day to all who celebrate.



Relive the magic here:

Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”?

Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma and even poliomyelitis. The early studies were carried out by several physicians in USA and published in the American Journal of Surgery. However with the development of antibiotics, UBI use declined and it has now been called “the cure that time forgot”. Later studies were mostly performed by Russian workers and in other Eastern countries and the modern view in Western countries is that UBI remains highly controversial.

This chapter discusses the potential of UBI as an alternative approach to current methods used to treat infections, as an immune-modulating therapy and as a method for normalizing blood parameters. No resistance of microorganisms to UV irradiation has been reported, and multi- antibiotic resistant strains are as susceptible as their wild-type counterparts. Low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA, while any DNA damage in host cells can be rapidly repaired by DNA repair enzymes.

UV irradiation of blood was hailed as a miracle therapy for treating serious infections in the 1940s and 1950s. In an ironic quirk of fate, this historical time period coincided with the widespread introduction of penicillin antibiotics, which were rapidly found to be an even bigger medical miracle therapy. Moreover another major success of UBI, which was becoming increasingly used to treat polio, was also eclipsed by the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955 [91]. UBI had originally been an American discovery, but then was transitioned to being more studied in Russia and other eastern countries, which had long concentrated on physical therapies for many diseases, which were more usually treated with drugs in the West.

Happy 7th birthday Prince Louis...




Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues the US will no longer be the sole guarantor of European security.


Hegseth Recaps 100 Days of DOD Accomplishments During Speech at War College