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Looking for some Halloween costume inspiration? Some first-rate ideas in this 18th-century demonology book: Compendium Of Demonology and Magic (ca. 1775)




Oct 28, 1947: "What I'd like to do is to have about half hour to explain how motion pictures are made. Nobody has gone into that yet at this hearing-the steps involved & how difficult it is to get propaganda onto the screen."




Oct 28, 1948: Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT while working for J. R. Geigy AG (Novartis AG today).


The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring


Oct 27-31, 1948: The 1948 Donora smog, also called the Donora death fog, was an air pollution disaster that occurred in Donora, Pennsylvania, beginning on October 27, 1948 and lasting several days. It was caused by hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant during an atmospheric temperature inversion. It killed 27 people and caused respiratory problems for 5900 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, a mill town on the Monongahela River 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The event is commemorated by the Donora Smog Museum.


The Donora event led to the first large-scale epidemiological investigation of an environmental health disaster in the United States and triggered the first clean-air movement which led to the Clean Air Act of 1963.

Lawsuits were filed against U.S. Steel, which never acknowledged responsibility for the incident, calling it "an act of God". While the steel company did not accept blame, it reached a settlement in 1951 in which it paid about $235,000, which was stretched over the 80 victims who had participated in the lawsuit, leaving them little after legal expenses were factored in. Representatives of American Steel and Wire settled the more than $4.6 million claimed in 130 damage suits at about 5% of what had been sought, noting that the company was prepared to show at trial that the smog had been caused by a "freak weather condition" that trapped over Donora "all of the smog coming from the homes, railroads, the steamboats, and the exhaust from automobiles, as well as the effluents from its plants." U.S. Steel closed both plants by 1966.



The Donora Death Smog | A Short Documentary



A similar but much worse incident of killer smog came to London in 1952...due to weird weather that killed an estimated 4,000 and afterwards from the smog’s long-term effects, bringing the estimated death toll to as high as 12,000. The exact number remains unknown and the estimate is all over the place, but a lot of people died.



October 28, 1978: The movie "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" aired on the "NBC Movie of the Week."




Inside the eye of Melissa...Ten miles diameter.



Entering the northwest side of the eye and exiting southeast for the 1547Z fix on Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, 27 Oct. Flight by TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron:



Here's an awesome thread of his Hurricane Melissa videos.


A foursome Tuesday...


https://x.com/SecWar/status/1983164355999883548

I would think the cartel is getting low on fast boats by now.



https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/198...2255963363


Ceasefire holds as Israel launches forceful strikes, experts say...


Israel Launches Strikes on Gaza