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January 15, 1759: The British museum officially opened to the public from its location in Montague House.

The 1753 Act purchased this for the public which, along with the Cotton, Harley and Royal Libraries, became a new kind of public institution, called the British Museum. Sloane had used developing global networks created by European imperial expansion to collect these materials and financed the purchases with income partly derived from enslaved labour on Jamaican sugar plantations.

Sir Hans Sloane, physician, scientist, and President of the Royal Society, amassed a huge collection of more than 80,000 'natural and artificial rarities' with a vast library of over 40,000 books and manuscripts, and 32,000 coins and medals. Over the next 260 years, the museum's wide-ranging collections have grown to about eight million objects covering two million years of human history. In 2023, the museum received 5,820,860 visitors and was the most visited attraction in the United Kingdom.




This shows you how much was stolen, looted, tribute, and donated found in British occupied areas.




Jan 15, 1889: The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.

Pharmacist John Pemberton and Confederate States Army veteran the inventor of Coca-Cola, places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal. John carried a jug of his syrup down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy where it was mixed with carbonated water, deemed tasty, and sold from a soda fountain for five cents a glass.


Pemberton suffered for years from a sabre wound sustained in April 1865, during the Battle of Columbus. His efforts to control his chronic pain led to morphine addiction. In an attempt to curb his addiction he began to experiment with various painkillers and toxins. The development of an earlier beverage blending alcohol and cocaine led to the recipe that later was adapted to make Coca-Cola. He sold its rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.

The story of the Coca-Cola logo


Jan 15, 1943: The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia. Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project.
"This ain't a building-this is a city with a roof over it, that's what I calls it." At the time it was the largest office building in the world.




Jan 15, 1954: Atomic warfare threat as a deterrent to end all wars...(And check out the Swiss WWII preparations at the end of the article)




Cold War document from 1956 shows the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for the U.S. to purchase Greenland for its strategic military value. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, the chairman at the time, stated in a memorandum to Defense Secretary Charles W. Wilson that in 1955 the military chiefs voiced their view “emphasizing the strategic importance of Greenland and the military advantage to the United States of acquiring title to the area.”

"The U.S. military requirements in Greenland can be expected to increase in the future".

"Further, Greenland will probably assume even greater strategic significance with the advent of operational intercontinental ballistic missiles, not only as a likely area for basing elements of a system to defend against such weapons, but as a potential area for installing offensive missile units."




January 15, 1983: Notorious gangster Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky in Russian Empire, dies at age 80. Known as the "Mob's Accountant" was an American organized crime figure of Polish birth who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano was keystone character in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. Operators such as Meyer Lansky managed money for the National Syndicate & adjacent organizations. Methods of tax evasion established by law firms such as Sullivan & Cromwell (Dulles brothers/CIA/Nazis) were later exploited by essential contacts in offshore money laundering.

10 Intriguing Facts About Gambling Legend Meyer Lansky



Lansky sent his boys out to bust up Nazi rallies in NYC and NJ. Acting under protection of a NYC judge, as long as they didn’t kill anyone. Meyer also set up the watch on the Brooklyn waterfront through Joe 'socks' Lanza to hunt Nazi saboteurs for the US Navy. The result of his work enabled Lucky Luciano to get an early release from upstate New York prison.

Defying boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield dressed Dwight Eisenhower, Meyer Lansky, Leonardo DiCaprio and LeBron James. Men skilled in the arts of power projection — along with writers and designers — called him the nation’s greatest tailor...Martin Greenfield, Tailor to Sinatra, Obama, Trump and Shaq, Dies at 95 in 2024. He also made the 1920s-style outfits for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.


Jan 15, 1993: Penn and Teller magicians made their Las Vegas debut in the Bally's Celebrity Room. Since 2001 the duo have performed at the Rio Hotel & Casino Las Vegas.


On Bullshit!, the duo described their social and political views as libertarian. In addition to disbelief in the paranormal and pseudoscience, Penn & Teller also take a view of doubtfulness to government authority. In various episodes of their show, they have heavily criticized both the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as taken stances against circumcision and gun control, and in support of ideas such as freedom to eat fast food, private property, and lower taxes. Penn & Teller were both H. L. Mencken research fellows with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank and research organization. Penn disavowed libertarianism in 2020, though is still affiliated with the Cato Institute.


Map of every battle since 2500 BC according to Wikipedia (10,624 battles). Europe is just insane, an existential threat to humanity, lol, but why is Australia so peaceful? See next map beneath...



Here’s the full Aboriginal Database. You could spend hours reading through the sources. It was assembled by French Social anthropologist historian Christophe Darmangeat. Purported to be one of the best resources on Australian cultures.


Are Crossbows and window louvres new additions while "edged weapons" are very traditional? I've read that hardwood boomerangs and swords were so sharp they could decapitate an opponent with a single blow. I'd prefer a gun battle over these weapons but that's just me.


Man shot with crossbow as hundreds fight in remote aboriginal community