Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Tobacco Club, a painting by Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century.
Singerie — from the French for “Monkey Trick” — is a genre of art in which monkeys are depicted mimicking human behaviour. Reminds me of present day politicians.


The Singerie: Monkeys acting as Humans in Art


July 2, 1881: Garfield Assassinated! Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded the newly inaugurated U.S. President James A. Garfield in the lobby of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot in Washington, D.C., as he yelled, “I am a stalwart and Arthur is now President of the United States!” Guiteau blamed the president for not selecting him for a job at the U.S. Consulate in Paris.


"In the President’s madness he has wrecked the grand old Republican party, and for this he dies."

Comment of Charles Guiteau, eighteen days before shooting President Garfield, quoted from evidence given at Guiteau’s trial, in John K. Porter’s closing speech to the jury, January 23, 1882.

Charles Guiteau likely suffered from mental illness, as many reports of his behavior would attest. Born in Illinois, he lived an erratic life, attempting several unsuccessful careers before turning to the practice of law in Chicago. His wife, to whom he was reportedly abusive, divorced him in 1874 after five years of marriage. In the early 1860s, Guiteau was affiliated with the utopian Oneida Community in upstate New York. He returned to religion with renewed fervor in the late 1870s, styling himself a preacher and theologian, and publishing several sermons as well as The Truth: A Companion to the Bible, which was largely plagiarized from the writings of Oneida founder John Humphrey Noyes.
More at Today in History - July 2


July 2, 1971: Rear Admiral George Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31). His son, rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors, died in Paris the next day.




USA #1 on this day in 1974: Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown





July 2, 1980: AIRPLANE! was released. "Don't Call Me Shirley!" To get the movie greenlit by Paramount Pictures, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker pitched it as "National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) on a plane" which of course, was far from the truth, but was the only way they could get the studio executives to understand it was a zany comedy.





The screens and computers in the control tower are components of an IBM AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, built in 1954 to protect the United States from Soviet bomber attack. It was used by the United States Air Force for ground-controlled interception as part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) network during the Cold War.

Components of decommissioned systems were sold for scrap and bought by film and television production companies who wanted futuristic looking computers, despite the fact they were built in the 1950s. The components used in this movie were previously used in The Time Tunnel (1966) and The Towering Inferno (1974) among many others. The AN/FSQ-7 was the largest discrete computer system ever built. Each of the 24 installed machines weighed 250 tons. It used a total of 60,000 vacuum tubes (49,000 in the computers) and up to 3 megawatts of electricity, performing about 75,000 instructions per second for networking regional radars.


July 2, 1996: Aliens positioned their ships at major cities around the world.
July 2nd is World UFO day! "It's not just drones and balloons."




Move over Spencer's and Hot Topic, there's a new player at the mall. Electric Boat Groton has purchased the old Macy's at Crystal Mall just up the road in Waterford, moving 700 engineering, training, & lab employees to make room at the waterfront.





The Truth Is Out There at the Dreamland Resort


Today's story: Roswell UFO Crash: A Hoax?

Roswelllll, maybe not. Bernie O. stirs the pot to mark World UFO Day. Stand by for tar and feathers.



Think we all have experienced "feelings of presence" more than once...


New psychology study sheds light on mysterious “feelings of presence” during isolation


More Experimental "Gene Therapy"...

Deaf Teenager and 24-Year-Old Gain Ability to Hear After Experimental Gene Therapy


Most people will never be in touch of Trump's reality...

Hiroshima mayor says Trump remarks out of touch with A-bomb reality

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams