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Nov 6, 1914: character actor Jonathan Harris (Dr. Zachary Smith) was born in the Bronx, New York, Earth. He left the planet on November 3, 2002.




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Why top-secret unit's three witches emblem meant toil and trouble for the Nazis


The Soviet Night Witches of WWII

What was one the most horrifying sounds a German soldier on the Russian front could hear in the dead of night – a sound that would turn his heart to jelly? The soft “whooshing” of the wind off the struts of a “Night Witch” jerry-rigged biplane bomber; described as the eerie sound of a witch’s broom as it quietly glided in to drop its payload of bombs.

Who were these Night Witches? They were the all-women pilots of Russia’s 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. In World War II, American women such as the WASPs supported the war by ferrying and testing planes.  But the Night Witches were the first women military pilots in the 20th century to directly engage an enemy in combat. The pilots weren’t the only women in the 588th. All the members of the 588th were women, including the navigators, ground crews, and support staff.

The Night Witches were organized by Major Marina Raskova, who was essentially Russia’s equivalent to our Amelia Earhart. Women pilots, though, weren’t unusual in the Soviet Union. Flying was popular in the 1930s and thousands of women belonged to flying clubs. But when Germany invaded Russia in 1941, Russian women weren’t allowed in the Soviet Air Force even though they were allowed on the front lines in the army. Raskova received a slew of letters from women protesting the prohibition. After all, if women were allowed to fight alongside men on the ground, why not in the air too?

Joseph Stalin was one of Raskova’s admirers. She showed him the letters and convinced him to have the Soviet Air Force accept women as combat pilots. Women rushed to enlist. Some were integrated into regiments to fight alongside male pilots.

Stalin also authorized the creation of three all-women fighting groups:

    586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
    587th Bomber Aviation Regiment
    588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment

Thousands of women enlisted. Around 400 were accepted for each regiment. Most were university students in their late teens to mid-twenties. They spent an intensive year training, learning not just how to fly, but to navigate and maintain the aircraft too – training that normally took several years to complete.

The Soviet Night Witches


November 6, 1965: "...marked changes in climate, not controllable through local or even national efforts, could occur."


- “Restoring the Quality of Our Environment,” President’s Science Advisory Committee.


"You'll need this." Jeffrey DeMunn (as "Harpoon") hands over the Football to the new POTUS under the watchful eye of Rip Torn (as Col. Fargo).
"...cut off the head of the Soviet chicken." - Col. Fargo (Rip Torn) to the new POTUS in BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT (HBO, 1990).




The Veiled Prophet: White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis by Devin Thomas O'Shea.  Haymarket Books




They kick, holler & scream over literally anything these days...


The Trump administration and Norman Rockwell’s family are battling over his legacy


Nov 6, 2025: Paul Ignatius passed away today at the age of 104. Ignatius served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. During his time as Navy Secretary, Ignatius was the highest-ranking Armenian American in the United States government. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117) is named in his honor.


In 1961, Ignatius began working at the Pentagon under U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. When he started his government career working with the John F. Kennedy administration, The New York Times noted in a 1967 article that both Ignatius and McNamara "demonstrate a certain coolness under fire, a grasp of small details in large, complicated problem areas, and an ability to organize and manage a staff effectively". Since he lived to a ripe old age of 104 I'll assume he ate stress for breakfast.

After government service, Ignatius served as president of The Washington Post newspaper and served as executive vice president of The Washington Post Company from 1969 until 1971. During his time with WaPo, Ignatius reluctantly oversaw the release of the Pentagon Papers.



A man faints while standing behind the resolute desk during President Trump’s Ozempic drug pricing announcement. The man who collapsed was Novo Nordisk (Danish pharma) executive Gordon Findlay. When he realized his profit margin was about to tank.


Semaglutide is sold by Novo Nordisk under the brand names Ozempic and Rybelsus for diabetes, and under the brand name Wegovy for weight management, weight loss, and the treatment of metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis).


It appears the FBI is going after Archive.Today:

The site, which is known by both archive.today, archive.is, or any number of other mirrors, started in the early 2010s but rose to prominence during the GamerGate movement.

Very little is known about the person or people who work on archive.today, though there have been numerous attempts to identify the webmasters. The most interesting is this article on a site called Gyrovague, whose crawling through various archive.today blogs and web presences suggests “it’s a one-person labor of love, operated by a Russian of considerable talent and access to Europe.”

A FAQ page, which has not been updated since 2013, states the site “is privately funded; there are no complex finances behind it.” A post on the site’s blog from 2021 says “it is doomed to die at any moment.” A post on the site’s blog from 2021 says “it is doomed to die at any moment.”

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

For what it's worth, Archive.Today is often used to track edit histories to government sites and online articles published by mainstream news orgs. I use it all the time. Even Elon was/is using/promoting it.