Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Welcome to July! What surprise events are in store for us this month is anybody's guess.

Top gardening tip: keep "ypericon" (St John's Wort) in your garden for optimal demon repelling. From Tractatus de Herbis, a northern Italian manuscript made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients.
Tractatus de Herbis (ca.1440)




July 1, 1931: American pilot Wiley Post and his Australian navigator Harold Gatty became the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined  Lockheed 5B Vega named the Winnie Mae after travelling 15,747 miles in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes. Charles Lindbergh called Gatty the "Prince of Navigators."

Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, he and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when his aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, Alaska.




Editorial cartoon that appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on July 1, 1946. Cartoon by Carey Cassius Orr (1890-1967). "A cartoonist is often a crusader but he must believe in what he's crusading for to be effective."




Joint Task Force One Dollar bills, front and back; Bikini & Kwajalein:


A "Short Snorter" issued by USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7), the control ship for Army/Navy Joint Task Force one (JTF-1), Operation Crossroads in 1946. There were 90 ships which participated in the atom bomb tests. The Operation Crossroads Short Snorters were part of JTF-1 in which 37,000 sailors and 5,000 airmen participated in "watching" the world's 4th and 5th nuclear explosions at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946 and July 25, 1946.
The Short Snorter Project: Still Keeping the Memories Alive



THE HUGH DOWNS COLUMN: How to speed up time
"The Zen Buddhist experience of satori or enlightment is often said to convey a time passage rate so slow that the eternity inherent in a single moment can be sensed." (Science Digest, July 1966)




1966 Parker Brothers Coup d'Etat Game




July 1, 1975: Former U.S. President Richard Nixon said, in an affidavit to federal court, that he had secretly begun taping Oval Office conversations at the suggestion of his predecessor, President Lyndon Johnson, who had said that the tapes “had proved to be exceedingly valuable in preparing his memoirs, and he urged that I re-install the recording devices”. The affidavit was filed as part of Nixon’s suit seeking custody of his records, including the tape recordings, some of which had proved he had ordered a coverup of the Watergate investigation.

And in Bikini news: "Will the American male take to nádega gazing? "No question, says Paterno. American girls should also enjoy the minibikini's cheeky look. A 28-year-old Canadian woman teaching English in Rio says, "The Tanga reminds us of a G string and what woman hasn't at some time wished she could wear a G string?" Says a strung-up Ipanema lovely: "It's bacana [right-on]. It's more bacana than a traditional bikini if you have the right body." Most of the girls from Ipanema have the right bodies.




Mind-Reading Computer: Dazzling breakthroughs in cybernetics. "Brainchild of SRI Researcher Lawrence Pinneo, a 46-year-old neurophysiologist & electronics engineer, the computer mind-reading technique is far more than a lab stunt."




July 1, 1975: The Government of New York City announces that it will fire 37,000 city employees in order to save $1.2 billion from the city budget. The laid-off employees include 5,000 police officers, 2,100 firefighters, 3,000 garbagemen, 10,000 health workers, and 17,000 teachers.




July 1, 1989: Cher began shooting the video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" on board USS Missouri (BB-63). The Navy's hopes of using it as a recruiting tool were sqashed when Cher changed into a revealing leather strap outfit that caused the video to be banned by several TV networks and the Navy admirals decided no more thinly dressed celebrities onboard warships. Damn it!




July 1, 2025: President Trump at Florida's new "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility:

"Biden wanted me in here, that son of a bitch." LOL.