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Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day! Black cats were popular on Royal Navy ships during WWI and WWII because British sailors considered them especially lucky. This black cat on HMS Achilles had his own uniform and hammock.



August 17, 1945: US Navy Fleet Admiral William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. ordered the 20 carriers, 9 battleships, 25 cruisers and 79 destroyers of Task Force 38 and the British Pacific Fleet to perform high-speed maneuvers near the coast of Japan so that the awesome fleet power could be documented with aerial photos in Operation Snapshot...and of course full intimidation. A naval force that large makes you wonder why we had to nuke them, twice. Must have been quite a sight to have witnessed that many warships.




August 17, 1958: the nuclear submarine USS Skate managed to circumnavigate the globe in 50 minutes. Wut?!


To accomplish this remarkable feat, the sub took a shortcut by sailing on a circular course within two miles of the North Pole. The Skate only needed to travel 12 miles to pass through all time zones. After WWII the sub served as a target for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.



Literally, hot off the press...Someone has already published a book on the Maui Fires and climate change. The description says, "The book chronicles the events of August 8-11, 2023" but it was published on the 10th. Apparently it’s a "Best Seller" in natural disasters. smh. AI sorcery at work.


Amazon 'comments' It seems this author, no doubt a pseudonym writes alot of crap.


The dog days of summer...




In 1888, cough syrup produced in Baltimore contained the following ingredients: alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. In less than a decade, Bayer successfully synthesized aspirin and heroin. Heroin, derived from the German word "heroisch" meaning "heroic," was marketed by Bayer as a less addictive cough suppressant than morphine.

If you were to open the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1910 and look up "morphine," you'd find the following passage: "In the cough of phthisis, minute doses of morphine are of service, but in this particular disease, morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin, which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the administration of morphine."

In 1924, the US Congress banned the selling, manufacturing, and importing of heroin due to its high addiction rate. Bayer lost its trademark rights to heroin and aspirin in 1919, following Germany's defeat in World War I.


Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed Volume 18, 1910