Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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June 1281: It was one of the most massive naval invasions the world had ever seen—a two-pronged assault from the sea with thousands of ships and tens of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Mongol troops, coursing toward the coast of Japan. By 1281, the frustrated Khan was ready to make another attempt to subdue the recalcitrant Japanese—and now he had a significant force multiplier. “A green dragon had raised its head from the waves,” as one samurai put it, and “sulfurous flames filled the firmament.” So great was the destruction of the invasion fleet that contemporary accounts described how “a person could walk across from one point of land to another on a mass of wreckage.”


‘A Green Dragon . . . Raised Its Head from the Waves’


June 14, 1775: the Continental Army (the first army of the United States) formed to fight in the American Revolutionary War.


How “Cancel Culture” Started the American Revolution (Saturday Evening Post)


Happy Flag Day! In 2010, 7400 staff and students from Naval Station Great Lakes recreated the Living Flag that was photographed on the parade ground in 1917. The Stars and Stripes was officially adopted as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.



June 14, 1937:  Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

In 1949, President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14 as Flag Day.

June 14, 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.






UNLV Digital Collections has a water report for Las Vegas, NV from Jun 14, 1935. With a population of 8,000, the report says Las Vegans used 472 gallons per person per day. That seems like a lot of water. The springs dried up by the 1960s.

"Unless something drastic is done in the next few years, Las Vegas' growth will be completely stymied by a lack of water" - Las Vegas Review Journal, Jun 14, 1945.




Atomic Energy Commission official (and future doomsday script drafter) Charter Heslep wrote a letter to producer Albert Zugsmith voicing his displeasure with the promotion of INVASION USA (1952).




In a letter dated August 21, 1951, Col. William C. Lindley Jr., USAF, had the following "objections," err, "comments" re: the story treatment for INVASION USA (1952). Maj. Gen. Lindley retired from the Air Force in 1968.


Hall of Valor


An observation of the "No Kings" rally protests from skimming video coverage today appears to be full of old white people, while the Army 250 Grand Parade crowd is full of young mulit-ethnic families, which tells you which way the arrow is pointing.


Attitude networks as intergroup realities


USA No.1 on this day in 1980: