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UNLV Digital Collections has a hand drawn map of what would be Henderson, NV with a date of July 18, 1942. Features on the map appear to be labeled, at least some, in German.



The War Department identified the area as being ideal for military industrial manufacturing...processing vast amounts of magnesium ore. At its peak in 1943, it would produce 25% of the nation's magnesium.

Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI) formed in June 1941 as a joint venture between Basic Refractories, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio and Magnesium Elektron, Limited of England. Basic Refractories, Inc. owned mining claims in Gabbs Valley, Nye County, Nevada, which produced the magnesite and brucite needed to produce magnesium metal. Magnesium Elektron, Limited owned the patent for the electrolytic process of extracting metallic magnesium from these minerals. The United States Federal Government required magnesium, a lightweight metal, for the creation of an aluminum alloy used in the production of incendiary bombs, munitions casings, and airplane parts during World War II. In August 1941 the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s Defense Plant Corporation (DPC) granted BMI a contract to build a magnesium manufacturing complex codenamed Plancor 201. The contract also allowed BMI to extend mining operations in the Gabbs Valley.

Battle-born Henderson now ‘A Place to Call Home’

The city of Henderson was born during War World II to produce adequate amounts of magnesium for military supplies, such as airplane parts. The Basic Magnesium Plant was built in 1943 in Southern Nevada, creating Henderson. The city was comprised of workers and engineers from the plant as well as their families.

But in 1947, less than two years after War World II, there was no need for the production of magnesium and a majority of the plant workers moved away, leaving the town nearly vacant.

Seeing a purpose for Henderson, the U.S. War Asset Administration offered it for sale as a war surplus property.

With strong efforts to save Henderson, the Nevada Legislature took a weekend to assess the potential of the city. The Legislature passed a bill, signed March 27, 1947 by Gov. Vail Pittman, giving the Colorado River Commission of Nevada approval to purchase the industrial plants, saving Henderson.

On April 16, 1953, Henderson was officially a city, electing its first mayor, Dr. Jim French, on May 23. The city was only 13 square miles and had a population of 7,410 people. The city slogan soon became "A Place to Call Home."

The city began to develop into what President John F. Kennedy called a "city of destiny" on his visit to Henderson. But on May 4, 1988, the peaceful city was shaken by the explosion of the Pacific Engineering and Production Co. of Nevada, PEPCON.

The rocket fuel factory caught on fire and caused several explosions. The explosions, comparable to 250 sticks of TNT, measured as a three on the Richter scale. People from miles away were able to feel and hear the explosion. The explosions killed two, injured 300 people and left the surrounding schools and businesses closed and the people of Henderson trembling.

TItanium METals Corporation (TIMET), is one of the largest manufacturers of titanium in the world, operates a facility in Henderson that produces titanium sponge and titanium tetrachloride.

Population in 1950 was around 3600. Today it looks like an extension of Vegas and 2024 estimates put the pop at 350,000 with about 25% of the population being retirees from all over the country.


July 18, 1943: K-74 "gas bag" became the only U.S. blimp lost to enemy action when it was shot down by the German submarine U-134 in the Straits of Florida. The crew was rescued except for one sailor who died after being attacked by a shark. U-134 was sunk a month later by River-class frigate HMS Rother (K224).




Sunny Mood at Midsummer
Americans take a brighter view of Reagan, the economy and the country
The bottom line: while half the men surveyed hope that Reagan will run for re-election, only 35% of the women do. (TIME, Jul 18, 1983)




July 18, 1960: JFK in L.A. "What's that guy doing here?" / Search for Survivors of Collapsed Navy Blimp ZPG-3W




Lyndon Johnson knew his way around a cover-up...



J. Edgar Hoover never wrote that book, but David Lynch, who attended JFK's inauguration, did eventually write a memoir (ROOM TO DREAM) that addressed Lyndon Johnson's fears. What did the director of Twin Peaks and creator of FBI special agent Dale Cooper think of the Kennedy assassination?

"At the time I didn't question who killed Kennedy, but you start looking into things. They say look who's got the motive. LBJ lived in Texas and got him down there, and LBJ wanted to be president since he was three feet tall. LBJ was the most powerful senator they say there ever was, and he gave that up to be vice president? He was one twenty-five cent bullet away from the presidency, and I think he hated Kennedy and he organized it so he could be president. That's my theory."


The Cult 'She Sells Sanctuary' TOTP (July 18, 1985)




Les Horribles Cernettes ("The Horrible CERN Girls") all-female parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy band" was the first photographic image of a band published on the World Wide Web in 1992.

LHC: The First Band on the Web

Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of "the CERN girls" to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the "World Wide Web". I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim's now famous "info.cern.ch". How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!"

Silvano de Gennaro

Mrs Marx-Nielsen, now a 50 year-old voice teacher based in Nice, in the south of France, said that despite the photo’s history, some friends have failed to realise its significance.

“I kinda put it out sometimes and say, ‘well, I’m in the first photograph on the World Wide Web’ (but) people don’t really care,” the former Colette Reilly, who worked in finance at Cern, told Motherboard, a New York-based online magazine website.

“I suppose it had to be somebody and it just happened to be us.”

Neither Mrs Veronneau, who now lives in Washington and is believed to work in banking, nor Mrs Higney, in her 50s who worked for the Red Cross in Geneva, were available for comment.

Mr de Gennaro, now the head of multimedia productions at CERN, said that he had been waiting backstage with the “Cernettes”, whom he managed and whose songs he wrote.

Wanting a picture for a CD cover, he asked the four ladies to “lean in and smile” and took the picture on his Canon EOS 650.

“When history happens, you don’t know that you’re in it,” said Mr de Gennaro, who is due to take early retirement shortly and move to Mauritius.

Sir Tim, said to have been a "pantomime cross-dresser", became friends with Mr de Gennaro after discovering they who shared a love of drama.

He approached his colleague for a “guinea-pig image” which he could use to test his recent upgrades to the web.

Mr de Gennaro, 59, said he had been experimenting with a “scanned .gif version” of the photo using version one of Photoshop on his colour Apple Mac.

The format was half a decade old but he said its “efficient compression” was the best way to edit colour images without affecting his computer.

He added: “The web, back in ’92 and ’93, was exclusively used by physicists.

“I was like, ‘why do you want to put the Cernettes on that? It’s only text!’ And he (Sir Tim) said, ‘no, it’s gonna be fun’.”

Sir Tim, who would become a “big fan” of the group, passed the file to Jean-François Groff, a programmer on the web project.

It was slightly altered, with a pale blue background superimposed, and was later uploaded without any problems before being posted on a page about the musical acts at CERN.

How the first photo was posted on the Web

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July 18, 2000: The cover of Security Magazine features the lobby of the World Trade Center with the caption "Never Again!" Given that it has been a target for terrorism in the past, the World Trade Center has installed one of the world’s most-advanced security systems.


Despite the new precautions, figures such as real estate tycoon Donald Trump believe that another attack on the World Trade Center is inevitable:

Real estate mogul and 2000 Presidential candidate Donald Trump releases a book, The America We Deserve (Jan 2000) to promote his campaign. In the book, Trump outlines his economic vision, his stance on abortion and immigration, and his views on national security:

"I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center [in 1993] look like kids playing with firecrackers. No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering, but when it will happen."


Dirty laundry that's been known for past 7, 8, 9, 10 years is suddenly bubbling back to the surface. Six years ago when I dove into the Epstein Mariana Trench the number of connections to prominent people including congressmen, senators, US & foreign presidents, big banksters, etc. AND eXtremely wealthy people I never heard of were mind boggling. I had to make my way back to the surface as my oxygen was running low. Except for very, very few, everyone in Washington is in on it, directly & indirectly.




Double trouble...

The Royal Navy's UK Carrier Strike Group with HMS Prince of Wales at its heart has been operating alongside the USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group in the Timor Sea as the largest ever military exercise in Australia continues...