Put the kettle on... it's National Tea Day in...
Americans: fire up that microwave! LOL.
Tea was broadly introduced to England in 1662 when King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza from Portugal. A large stock of tea was included in her dowery and afternoon tea soon became popular with the British people.
In 1707, tea appeared for the first time in a department store in London, England at Fortnum & Mason, an upscale retail location in operation to this today.
One of the greatest (and oldest) special effects in History can be witnessed today in Rome. Every 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome) at noon the sun perfectly shines on entrance of Pantheon. The Emperor would be bathed in the sun's rays as he entered the building.
April 21, 1926: Queen Elizabeth II was born. When she passed away in 2022, she was the last head of state to have been a veteran of WWII, having served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver/mechanic. She also became Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom in 1964. She was also the longest-serving female head of state in world history.
April 21, 1952: "Pre-Atomic Blast Show From Last Vegas Tonight..." Published in the Los Angeles Times.
The Marines have a manual for literally every situation...
Lost a good shipmate buddy to a Filipina exotic dancer.
Mr. billionaire Elon Musk is obsessed with the planet Mars. His space exploration company SpaceX was actually born from Musk’s dream of the future colonization of Mars. Musk shocked many people in 2015 when he suggested we drop thermo-nukes on Mars. "It is a fixer-upper of a planet".
3 min clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hP9wpMW8
April 21, 1986: Happy 38th anniversary to Geraldo Rivera's historic live syndicated special, "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults."
Nov. 5, 1987: Larry 'Bud' Melman parody of the Geraldo "Al Capone vault" debacle, starting at the 29 min. mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzGQXVjYks
Having the Civil War movie in mind, this concept set in the Gulf War would be fascinating...
Fake News Exposed: Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter made (in)famous for covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War. You can watch the takes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7SJsZNCnws
A handful of high-profile Maltese musicians were asked by the Libyan Government to compose and record funk & disco music for Gaddafi and his theories in the late 70s & through the 80s, to be broadcast on the Libyan Maltese-based Radio "Voice Of Friendship And Solidarity".
During the 1980s, the Overseas Broadcasting Department of the Socialist Jamahiriya, based in Malta, produced two complete funk/disco albums with the aim of popularizing Gaddafi's Third International Theory.
First song is the intro track, "Sail Along Jamahiriya" from the first album, Jamahiriya released in 1980:
As protests intensify on campuses around the country, it's probably good to remember that the Columbia protests of '68 led to university administrators collaborating with the FBI on its New Left COINTELPRO. One example from Temple University. The sad thing about the '68 expansion beyond the obvious gentrification issue is that it led directly to the FBI monitoring activists in Philadelphia. A Temple administrator saw the Bureau as an ally in opposing student protests:
Source with more COINTELPRO files at Archive.org
Game Boy! It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. I got mine in early summer of 1989 and was addicted to it for awhile.
Downloading Napster...
Lars Ulrich watching you right now. LOL
Book link
Gary Lachman, an author on mysticism & occultism, lecturer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition, and founding member of the rock band Blondie, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He lives in London.
"If people start thinking that Alexa, or something like that, deserves any kind of respect, that works to Amazon’s advantage – that’s something that Amazon would try and amplify. Any corporation, they’re going to try and make you think that a product is a person, because you are going to interact with a person in a certain way, and they benefit from that. So, this is a vulnerability in human psychology which corporations are really trying to exploit."
Ted Chiang, on AI hype
Americans: fire up that microwave! LOL.
Tea was broadly introduced to England in 1662 when King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza from Portugal. A large stock of tea was included in her dowery and afternoon tea soon became popular with the British people.
In 1707, tea appeared for the first time in a department store in London, England at Fortnum & Mason, an upscale retail location in operation to this today.
One of the greatest (and oldest) special effects in History can be witnessed today in Rome. Every 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome) at noon the sun perfectly shines on entrance of Pantheon. The Emperor would be bathed in the sun's rays as he entered the building.
April 21, 1926: Queen Elizabeth II was born. When she passed away in 2022, she was the last head of state to have been a veteran of WWII, having served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver/mechanic. She also became Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom in 1964. She was also the longest-serving female head of state in world history.
April 21, 1952: "Pre-Atomic Blast Show From Last Vegas Tonight..." Published in the Los Angeles Times.
The Marines have a manual for literally every situation...
Lost a good shipmate buddy to a Filipina exotic dancer.
Mr. billionaire Elon Musk is obsessed with the planet Mars. His space exploration company SpaceX was actually born from Musk’s dream of the future colonization of Mars. Musk shocked many people in 2015 when he suggested we drop thermo-nukes on Mars. "It is a fixer-upper of a planet".
3 min clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hP9wpMW8
April 21, 1986: Happy 38th anniversary to Geraldo Rivera's historic live syndicated special, "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults."
Nov. 5, 1987: Larry 'Bud' Melman parody of the Geraldo "Al Capone vault" debacle, starting at the 29 min. mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzGQXVjYks
Having the Civil War movie in mind, this concept set in the Gulf War would be fascinating...
Fake News Exposed: Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter made (in)famous for covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War. You can watch the takes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7SJsZNCnws
A handful of high-profile Maltese musicians were asked by the Libyan Government to compose and record funk & disco music for Gaddafi and his theories in the late 70s & through the 80s, to be broadcast on the Libyan Maltese-based Radio "Voice Of Friendship And Solidarity".
During the 1980s, the Overseas Broadcasting Department of the Socialist Jamahiriya, based in Malta, produced two complete funk/disco albums with the aim of popularizing Gaddafi's Third International Theory.
First song is the intro track, "Sail Along Jamahiriya" from the first album, Jamahiriya released in 1980:
As protests intensify on campuses around the country, it's probably good to remember that the Columbia protests of '68 led to university administrators collaborating with the FBI on its New Left COINTELPRO. One example from Temple University. The sad thing about the '68 expansion beyond the obvious gentrification issue is that it led directly to the FBI monitoring activists in Philadelphia. A Temple administrator saw the Bureau as an ally in opposing student protests:
Source with more COINTELPRO files at Archive.org
Game Boy! It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. I got mine in early summer of 1989 and was addicted to it for awhile.
Downloading Napster...
Lars Ulrich watching you right now. LOL
Book link
Gary Lachman, an author on mysticism & occultism, lecturer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition, and founding member of the rock band Blondie, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He lives in London.
"If people start thinking that Alexa, or something like that, deserves any kind of respect, that works to Amazon’s advantage – that’s something that Amazon would try and amplify. Any corporation, they’re going to try and make you think that a product is a person, because you are going to interact with a person in a certain way, and they benefit from that. So, this is a vulnerability in human psychology which corporations are really trying to exploit."
Ted Chiang, on AI hype
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, from Culture Is Our Business, 1970