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May 21, 1792: "Allusion to the Proclamation against Seditious Writings."
A bugaboo!!!

On May 21, 1792 a Royal Proclamation in England was issued against “wicked seditious writings printed, published and industriously dispersed.” Paine received notice that he would be prosecuted in the King’s Bench for his Rights of Man. He came immediately to London to find Jordan, his publisher, had already been served with a summons, and was ready to compromise by agreeing to plead guilty. Paine refused to capitulate before the offensive of the British reactionaries, and wrote to Attorney-General Sir Archibald Macdonald, some time in May, informing him that he had no desire to avoid any prosecution.

Letters on the Prosecution of Rights of Man

May 21, 1934: Oskaloosa, Iowa became the first city in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens, including children. Local newspapers ran editorials urging cooperation. “Those with nothing to worry about need not be concerned,” they echoed.


The mayor and county sheriff at the time said:

"We know these people, and eventually, one of them is going to either steal a chicken, tell an underaged pig that she’s loved, steal the mayor’s moonshine that's stored behind his outhouse, or rob a bank. Just give it time and once it happens, we’re going to be glad we’ve got these fingerprints stored away."

The program was eventually discontinued after a few years, but it is still remembered as a pioneering effort in the field of crime prevention. Early origin of Minority Report.

No available newspaper resources suggest the program successfully fingerprinted the citizens, and the lack of mentions in the months & years following suggests the idea never got off the ground.

Tune into the Past with Ottumwa Radio: Osky Fingerprints Everyone


The Wilmington Morning Star May 21, 1947 front page...




Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962
This is actually quite difficult to build, as portable gramophones and triangular coffee tables are hard to come by nowadays...




May 21, 1975: In Tehran, Iranian terrorists shoot and kill two U.S. Air Force officers, Paul R. Shaffer and John H. Turner, at a vehicle checkpoint. The U.S. Embassy receives an anonymous call reporting the assassination and claiming that it was retaliation for the imprisonment of leftist students in Iran.


Hours after the attack, American officials received an anonymous call, which said the assassinations were retaliation for "Government atrocities against political prisoners". The Iranian government identified the terrorists as "young leftists" according to another source it said "Marxist guerrillas".

According to The Bulletin, a newspaper of Bend, Oregon, "a group identifying itself as the Revolutionary Republican Movement of the Armed Forces of Iran" also claimed responsibility.

The assassin was captured and later executed by firing squad. In 2005 a memorial was built by the War on Terror Foundation to honor Col. Paul R. Shaffer Jr. and Lt. Col. Jack H. Turner. In 2017, the family of Jack Turner filed a $35 million lawsuit against the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and Iran.



May 21, 1975: The Eiger Sanction, a new action film starring Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy, premieres in theaters. On the second day of filming, a falling rock on the north face of the Eiger kills 26-year-old British climber David Knowles and also injures a cameraman.


Other scenic scenes were shot in Zion National Park in Utah: Zion-Mount Carmel Highway; Zion Lodge; Checkerboard Mesa; the Narrows; the Hanging Gardens; the bridge over the Virgin River, and the Cave Route below the Cerberus Gendarme.

The Eiger Sanction: Tragedy on the Eiger – The Death of David Knowles


I have been asked many times in the past about the death of climber David Knowles during the making of The Eiger Sanction in the summer of 1974. Here is a story I found on file. I have also included some nice candid photos I have also had on file for quite some time. Thank you to the people who were kind enough to share these on the web. 

During filming on the face of the Eiger, English Mountaineer and crew member David Knowles was killed by rock fall. Knowles had made an ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1970. Film maker Mike Hoover was supervising the filming on the Face of the Eiger and is credited on the Film as Climbing Advisor. Hoover told the story of the accident in the August 1975 issue of American Cinematographer.

‘Tuesday, August the thirteenth (1974), was cold, clear and beautiful. By 9:30 the chopper had moved all 14 of us up to the West Ridge of the Eiger. Today we would finish one of the most difficult set-ups in the picture. Not bad. By three we had finished on the face and had begun to film up on the flat area above, ascending the ropes back to the top for a sync scene where we establish that the German is a careless fool and that the Frenchman is a damaged careless fool.

Then I remembered that we didn’t get the POV of the falling fake rocks that just miss Eastwood and hit Montaigne. So I had to go back down on the face and Dave Knowles volunteered to go onto the wall with me to help, while everyone else began to fly out in the chopper. So the two of us rappelled down to our position on the wall and clipped into a group of pitons. I think we both were glad to get out onto the peaceful wall and let the others hustle all the junk back down in the chopper.

The shot was rather simple, Martin drops the foam rocks down on us and Dave bats any away that might hit the lens. Perfect, but really scary-looking through the camera as the rocks bomb down, I just can’t keep from flinching. When finished. I suggest to Dave that he go on back up while I coil the ropes, put the camera away and take out the pitons, but he says no and that he’ll stay and help so we joked and began to clean up.

He told me about working with the BBC, I think on the “Old Man of Hoy.” One day he was carrying a very expensive video camera that was turned on and he didn’t know it. So the camera was transmitting back to the control truck while he was stopping on a tiny ledge to pick some exceptionally beautiful wild flowers. The guys back in the control truck were going crazy as he put the camera down on a ledge balanced some three hundred feet above the smashing surf. We were both laughing when we heard the sound of a big rock falling from above. It sounds real close and I instantly cover and crouch into the wall as close as possible. I hide my hands so as not to lose any fingers. Feel pretty good. It smashes into the small of my back and I almost black out as a smaller shower of rocks continues. I feel a weight on top of me. I can’t move my legs, so pinch them, and am so happy to feel the pain.

Dave must be okay - but he’s on top of me—hanging upside-down—dead. He must have looked up right into it. I’m sure he never felt anything and was happy when he passed away—and it was so quick that there was no fear at all. [Producer Robert] Daley and Eastwood talked about stopping production, but what for? We all knew that serious accidents were a real possibility before we started, but on the second day? My pelvis had a small crack and all the surrounding muscles were smashed so I was out of action for about ten days.’

In his book, Richard Schickel Said, A wake was held, and Clint considered canceling the production. The climbers, however, urged him to go on. They knew the risks of their trade, ran them habitually and felt that moviemaking added nothing to them. For his part, Clint came around to the view that aborting the production would render Knowles’s death—not to mention all the hard and dangerous work that had preceded it—meaningless.

The Clint Eastwood Archive

Potato Australia: outstanding in its field...


The range of potato trade magazines available is impressive. And of course there is a National Potato Council on Capitol Hill.

This 1976 Potatoes documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with all the ensuing problems and personal hardship. It is an incisive evaluation of what is happening in North American and worldwide agriculture today.


May 21, 2010: Craig Venter & team announces the first synthetic lifeform. He mentions the role this synthetic DNA will play in the upcoming vaccines, but the real kicker is the capacity for DNA to store data.



He also mentions the role this synthetic DNA will play in the upcoming vaccines, but the real kicker is the capacity for DNA to store data. Killing two birds with one stone, abundant energy and abundant data storage...using DNA of which Bill Gates is heavily invested. They're getting closer to transforming us into the ultra battery.



What a year its been: Six House Democrats have died in office in the past 13 months. Final Destination 6: The House


Helluva title!
Leaving Office Feet First: Death in Congress



Diplomatic Tsunami' Nears as Europe Begins to Act Against Israel's 'Complete Madness' in Gaza

Them were just "warning shots" after diplomats deviated from an approved route. Attention: Do NOT wander off the designated trail or Gideon’s Chariots will eliminate you!!




Bread - This Isn't What the Governmeant