Friday, May 10, 2024
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The Morse Code on This Day in History
On this day in 1794 Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code was born. Morse Code is now often called the Victorian Internet.
Did you know that Morse Code has also been used as an alternative form of communication for people with disabilities or whom have their abilities to communicate impaired by stroke, heart attack, or paralysis. There have been several cases where individuals have been able to use their eyelids to communicate in Morse Code by using a series of long and quick blinks to represent the dots and dashes.
The most famous signal in Morse Code is the SOS distress signal. "The inception of this signal emerged in the early 20th century, during a period when burgeoning global communication necessitated a standardized, unmistakable cry for aid.
Contrary to popular belief and the annals of maritime folklore, the abbreviation 'SOS' was never intended as an acronym for phrases such as 'Save Our Souls' or 'Save Our Ship.' Instead, its selection was far more pragmatic.
The chief merit of the SOS sequence lies in its distinctiveness—the simplicity and rhythm of its three short signals, followed by three long and then three short again, rendered it unmistakably clear in even the most adverse conditions.
At the 1906 Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference, the SOS signal was formally introduced as an international distress call, superseding previous, more convoluted signals. It was hoped that such a distinct pattern would minimize any risk of misinterpretation across the vast expanses of the world's oceans and tumultuous airwaves." Source
Also, there is a Morse Code translator online. https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The Briley Brothers Rampage of Violence on This Day in History
This day in history: On this day (March 12) in 1979, three brothers — Linwood, James and Anthony Briley — began a series of random home invasions and murders that terrorized the city of Richmond, Virginia and its suburbs over a period of more than seven months, starting with their attempt to burn a married couple to death. On March 21, they would kill the first of 11 victims, a vending machine salesman.
The following is a description from _The Briley Brothers: The True Story of The Slaying Brothers: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers_:
"As reported in this book, the Briley gang were responsible for the killing of 11 people (among these, a 5-year-old boy and his pregnant mother), but possibly as many as 20. Unlike most criminals, however, the Briley gang's break-ins and robberies were purely incidental—mere excuses for rape and vicious thrill-kills. When authorities (aided by plea-bargaining Duncan Meekins) discovered the whole truth, even their tough skins crawled. Nothing in Virginian history approached the depravities, many of which were committed within miles of the Briley home, where single father James Sr. padlocked himself into his bedroom every night. But this true crime story did not end with the arrests and murder convictions of the Briley gang. Linwood, younger brother James, and 6 other Mecklenburg death-row inmates, hatched an incredible plan of trickery and manipulation—and escaped from the “state-of-the-art” facility on May 31, 1984. The biggest death-row break-out in American history."
Saturday, March 9, 2024
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Walter Cronkite on This Day in History
This day in history: After 19 years as the anchorman of the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time on this day in 1981. Cronkite had anchored the show since April 16, 1962.
Cronkite was considered “the most trusted man in America” but don't be deceived, he was a pro-Communist Leftist who wanted a democratic federal world government and was willing to sit on the "right hand of Satan" to get it.
The difference with Walter Cronkite and the MSM today was that he hid it better. From Cronkite and the Fourth Estate:
"With the death of their paragon Walter Cronkite, the true collective face of the Establishment media is exposed once and for all. It is not the noble visage of an intrepid crusader for truth, but a sagging countenance, oily and obsequent by decades of lying and servility to their masters. But of course this is not how the press perceive themselves. They are not like you or me. They are a special class of beings. They are the Fourth Estate, an imaginary extension of the rigid class structure of pre-Revolutionary France from the Estates General. In the Ancien Regime there was the clergy, the nobility, and lastly, the bourgeoisie and commoners. The Fourth Estate see themselves on an equal par with the first two elevated classes, and above the third. It is the aristocratic notion that gentlemen and ladies of the press serve a vaunted 'public interest,' and do not soil themselves with activities of a rank and sordid commercialism. Such endeavors would be a violation of their hoary journalistic ethics. They have a public trust to enlighten the masses in their duties to their betters, those who compose the state and their adjunct servitors in the kept press. With the passing of Cronkite the stark reality is all too apparent, even to these lumbering dinosaurs."
"However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the founding ethos of the United States allowed him to warp the minds of millions of Americans with the historicism that characterizes liberal-progressivism." -- Thomas E. Brewton
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Monday, March 4, 2024
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
Christopher Marlowe on This Day in History
This day in history: Christopher Marlowe was born on this day in 1564.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Some scholars believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright.
Did you know: Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh among others were in a group called The School of Night. The School of Night was a group of atheists. Anyone who was an atheist at that time were considered enemies of God and the state, by association.
One wonders if the Elizabethan occultist John Dee and Christopher Marlowe knew each other. Shakespeare, who knew Dee, hints in Love's labours Lost of a "School of Night". Shakespeare learned of Giordano Bruno from Dee, and made him the model for magus in the Tempest.
Marlowe died violently in 1593 at the young age of 29.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
Pluto on This Day in History
This day in history: On this day in 1930, Pluto was discovered by Arizona Observatory astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
The name 'Pluto' was mythologically appropriate: the god Pluto was one of six surviving children of Saturn, and the others had already all been chosen as names of major or minor planets (his brothers Jupiter and Neptune, and his sisters Ceres, Juno and Vesta). Both the god and the planet inhabited "gloomy" regions, and the god was able to make himself invisible, as the planet had been for so long.
The name 'Pluto' was soon embraced by wider culture. In 1930, Walt Disney was apparently inspired by it when he introduced for Mickey Mouse a canine companion named Pluto, although Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen could not confirm why the name was given. In 1941, Glenn T. Seaborg named the newly created element plutonium after Pluto, in keeping with the tradition of naming elements after newly discovered planets, following uranium, which was named after Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after Neptune.