Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Happy 249th Independence Day!

July 4th is also marked by the deaths of three founding fathers and early U.S. presidents: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe.
When Adams died on July 4, 1826, his last words were reported to be, “Thomas Jefferson survives.” Ironically, though Adams didn’t know it, Jefferson had died just hours earlier that same day, the 50th anniversary of American independence.



John Adams, this day: “The hour has come. My whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it: Live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.”


The Declaration of Independence, as read by Orson Welles...




Newspapers July 4th 1925, 1946, 1947 & Flying Saucers, "Army Finds Insufficient Facts To Continue 'Flying Disc' Probe."






July 4, 1970: Casey Kasem debuts his “American Top 40” radio show. The countdown was from the chart that was published in Billboard for the week ending July 11.




July 4, 1975:




July 4, 1975: Australian socialite, heiress to the Mark Foys retail fortune, newspaper publisher and activist against urban development, Juanita Nielsen disappears in Sydney. Her body has never been found. It is generally believed that she was killed because of her conservationism, and there have been strong suspicions of involvement of organised crime and corrupt police. In 2021, the reward for information about her disappearance was doubled to $1 million.


The Sydney Morning Herald

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Forsythe Associates manager Paul E. "Fritz" Bugas, age 96, has left the bunker. R.I.P. [May 5, 1929 - July 3, 2025] Mr. Bugas was the covert manager of the Greenbrier Bunker under the front company "Forsythe Associates" - which he managed from 1971 through the facility's decommissioning in July 1995. He then developed the tour program after the bunker closed in 1995 and directed that program for ten years. He appeared in multiple media reports about the facility. He was a much beloved member of the local community. He was also known to participate frequently in that crazy activity, golf!




I'd like to believe this would be good, but not holding my breath...


‘Crimson Tide’ Sequel In The Works Says, Jerry Bruckheimer

It would have to be a really good script as the Navy rejected Crimson Tide. Prolly have to be approved by DoD Hegseth.


R.I.P. Mark Snow, you wrote the best TV theme song of all-time.




Variety


To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
— Robert Bly