Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 11, 1855: six of London's first pillar boxes were installed. They were originally painted green, but people kept walking into them, which led to the standard color being changed to red in 1874. It took 10-years to repaint all UK pillar boxes that were in place by then.


The earliest surviving British designs are four Butt boxes made in Gloucester for the Western Area. These are at Barnes Cross, near Sherborne, Dorset, inside the former Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, in the Haverfordwest town museum (formerly at Merlin's Bridge) and in the British Postal Museum & Archive store at Debden (formerly at Ventnor railway station, Isle of Wight).
Pillar box


Happy Louie Louie Day. Richard Berry Jr. (April 11, 1935 – January 23, 1997) American singer/songwriter of the Los Angeles 1950s doo-wop scene. The song tells a first-person story of a "lovesick sailor's lament to a bartender about wanting to get back home to his girl".




April 11, 1909: The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 66 Jewish families gathered on a desolate sand dune to parcel out the land by lottery using seashells. This gathering is considered the official date of the establishment of Tel Aviv.


Sarona: From Templers, to Nazis, government, terror and, hopefully, to tranquility


POWER OF DECISION - SECRET NUCLEAR WAR PLANS, 1958 docu (55 min Restored Version)
The film, which was not intended for public viewing at the time of its creation, depicts the procedures and command structure involved in launching "war plan 'Quick Strike'" from various military control centers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wgqK7Fa2o


April 11, 1963: "The AEC is investigating whether security regulations have been violated in the disclosure that the US has developed a nuclear weapon with 'enhanced radiation' which may approach the potency of the so-called neutron bomb."







MAD Magazine's "Modern Chess." Artist: Bob Clarke [1926-2013] / Writer: Al Jaffee [1921-2023]. From issue number 78, Apr. 1963.




Puissance – Hail The Mushroom Cloud (1999)




April 11, 2006: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. As the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013 he's considered ideologically a principlist and nationalist. Ahmadinejad was known for his vulgarism, undiplomatic language and usage of slang terms. He was active on Twitter, where he engaged his followers primarily in English and tweets about sports, the United States, and current events. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons in 2005 has not been reinstated by the current new Supreme Leader.




"Exclusive: US intelligence indicates China is preparing weapons shipment to Iran amid fragile ceasefire, sources say." 39 years later, same as it ever was.



"All of this happened because we initiated, we acted, we attacked."

— Benjamin Netanyahu on pulling the USA into another war. (Actually, probably the other way around)


https://x.com/clashreport/status/2043032874476024258


Since when does Arleigh Burke-class destroyers do mine clearance? Especially, prized Tomahawk launcher ships & guardians of carriers. Sounds more like a ruse to see if Iran attacks. Then again just earlier this year we did have four MCM ships stationed in Bahrain. But, they were removed before the war started, brought back to the US and decommissioned. Seems like that was a bad oversight.



She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy (1976–2005). Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005. He was the first sailor awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Although apparently on a freedom of navigation demonstration, the motto of the USS Michael Murphy is...