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Since another new highly mutated BA.3.2 "Cicada" variant in the US is trending according to the CDC...

One of the many anti-vaccination images produced in response to Edward Jenner's 1798 vaccine for smallpox, the first of its kind.


“The Mark of the Beast” Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement


The 1947 Atomic Ring: This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in 1947, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top.


It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there).

A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206. I was born way too late to enjoy such fine science toys.

Although polonium‑210 emits alpha radiation that can’t pierce skin, it becomes extremely hazardous -inside- the body, as in lethal. So, as long as little boys didn’t swallow it, you’d be fine. It has a half-life of 138 days. One microgram of 210Po is more than enough to kill the average adult, it is 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide by weight.


March 27, 1954: Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the middle of the crater from the Castle Bravo test. It was the first such barge-based test, a necessity that had come about because the powerful thermonuclear devices obliterated the small islands following detonation. Yield Prediction: 4 megatons. Actual Yield: 11 megatons!!!

The Runt TX-15 device was a weaponized dry fusion bomb, using lithium deuteride fuel for the fusion stage of a staged fusion bomb. It weighed 42,000 pounds.

The TX-17 (Mark 17) and Mark 24 were the first mass-produced hydrogen bombs deployed by the United States. The two differed in the lithium enrichment of their secondary stages. They entered service in 1954, and were phased out by 1957.

The Castle Bravo test on Feb 28, 1954 was 15 megatons, the largest thermonuclear test ever conducted by the US and also resulted in the worst radiation disaster in human history. Bikini Atoll still suffering to this day.

Castle Romeo resulted in the most spectacular fireball photo's ever taken of a thermonuclear detonation. Even though Castle Bravo was bigger and far, far more bigger than expected it resulted in most of the film being scorched.



Castle Romeo starting at 10:30 in Operation CASTLE Commander's Report


The 1964 Alaska earthquake, also known as the Great Alaska earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. The most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 lasting 4.5 minutes strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 126 people (115 in Alaska, 16 in Oregon and California) that inflicted massive damage to the city of Anchorage. This subduction zone event contributed greatly to the early theories of plate tectonics.



45 min film: 1964 GREAT ALASKA EARTHQUAKE MOVIE "THOUGH THE EARTH BE MOVED" that primarily chronicles the first 72 hours after the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and the response to the disaster by the United States Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Military, and local, state, and federal officials, both civilian and military. Includes extensive archival footage of the earthquake and aftermath.


March 27, 1967: Howard Hughes buys the operating company lease for the Desert Inn Las Vegas from "Mr. Las Vegas" Moe Dalitz and partners for $13.2 million. Hughes would pay the owners $1.1 million a year in "rent" plus was responsible for all maintenance, taxes, insurance, etc.

Dalitz became associated with mob muscle, a door opened wide and he gravitated toward the lucrative and dangerous Prohibition-era liquor trade. Dalitz eventually would run the leading criminal organization of Jewish American gangsters called the Cleveland Syndicate. They were known for their violence and criminal ways, with partners Louis “Lou Roddy” Rothkopf, Leo “Charles Polizzi” Berkowitz, Morris Kleinman and Sam Tucker, all of whom operated primarily between Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan during the Prohibition era. Additionally he developed a partnership with the Maceo syndicate, which ran Galveston and supplied liquor from Canada and Mexico. Morris Dalitz formed strong ties within Cleveland’s Eastside, Little Italy community. He later merged his group with top underworld leaders from the Murray Hill and Mayfield Road area, such as brothers Fred “Freddy King” and John “Johnny King” Angersola, Alfred “The Owl” Polizzi and brothers Frank and Anthony Milano of the “Mayfield Road Mob” to form the leading underworld organization in Cleveland.

Moe Dalitz’s laundry business resulted in his developing a close relationship with a key figure in his life…Jimmy Hoffa. When the Detroit Teamsters local demanded a five-day workweek for laundry drivers, laundry owners, including Dalitz, strongly opposed the union’s position. Negotiations reached an impasse, with each side unwilling to budge. Dalitz saw a way around the issue. He had the owner representatives bypass the local’s negotiator, Isaac Litwak, and reach out directly to its former business agent and current leader of the Detroit Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa. They asked what it would take for Hoffa to intervene on behalf of the owners. Hoffa’s man said $25,000 would do the trick. The owners agreed though neither side bothered to inform Litwak of the settlement.

During the next bargaining session, Litwak was confident he had the owners on the ropes when the door opened and in walked Jimmy Hoffa. He told the group there would be no strike and he wanted the contract signed on the owners’ terms, with no five-day workweek provision. The stunned Litwak had no choice but to comply. The transaction wasn’t a big deal, however, it did open the door for something much bigger years later…multi-million dollar loans from the Teamster Pension Fund to finance the mob-controlled casinos in Las Vegas.
The Men Who Made Las Vegas

He enlisted in the Army in World War II on June 25, 1942, and rose in rank from private to first lieutenant. He was discharged on May 29, 1945. Businessman, bootlegger, gangster, casino owner, they don't make mobsters like Moe anymore.


Downtown Container Park - a unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses. Located at 707 E Fremont St. Las Vegas.




The strange ocean border between Canada and France in the Atlantic.

A small French territory off Canada’s coast creates one of the most unusual maritime boundaries in the world, shaping control over fishing and ocean resources.


Canada-France Territorial Sea Agreement (signed at Ottawa on March 27, 1972) established a boundary between Canada and the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, restricted French fishing privileges in Canadian waters, and prompted France to renounce its 1904 treaty rights. It aimed to resolve maritime disputes following Canada’s extension of its territorial sea, though it only settled the immediate territorial sea boundaries, leaving broader Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) disputes for later arbitration.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just south of Newfoundland, is a remnant of France’s former North American presence. Under modern maritime law, even small islands generate rights to surrounding waters, which led to overlapping claims with Canada.

After years of dispute, a 1992 arbitration ruling drew the boundary. Canada argued the islands should have only a limited surrounding zone. France argued for a much larger area based on full maritime entitlements.

The final decision was a compromise. France kept a small area around the islands plus a long, narrow corridor stretching about 200 nautical miles into the Atlantic. The corridor is only around 10.5 nautical miles wide, giving France access to international waters without cutting too deeply into Canada’s zone.

This unusual shape reflects legal balancing rather than geography. It preserves France’s maritime rights while ensuring Canada retains control over most nearby fisheries and sea space.

Agreement between Canada and France on Their Mutual Fishing Relations

Oh, (No) Canada!

UN Doc No. 12353



William Girdler's PROJECT: KILL (1976) sounds like a Pete Hegseth war name.

A former US government assassin (Leslie Nielsen) flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.


According to Leslie Nielsen, the original title was Project Kill: F-134.

Referenced in The Bourne Identity (2002). Released 36 years before Bourne Legacy (2012), another film which has a similar plot elements and was also shot in Luzon, Philippines.

William Girdler (1947-1978) of Kentucky died in a helicopter accident (hit electrical power lines and crashed) in the Philippines after completing his final movie The Manitou.

IMDB trivia: "The head of the company originally set to distribute the film was found murdered shortly before it was to go into international release. It received spotty distribution because the rights were tied up in legal wrangling over the victim's estate for several years."

The movie is in public domain. Here's an HD copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW6GaAXZpEU


From the November 7th, 1977 issue of New West magazine an article by Marcia Seligson about the UFO subject, and her interview with Stephen Spielberg about his new film Close Encounters of the Third Kind on page 25.  Also includes a brief article by Johnathan Kirsch on a strange cloud photographed in Los Angeles.







Words...


One could say, Trump's mind is a labyrinthine.