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Post by Catoptric » Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:49 am

Burger Chef restaurant to be razed 45 years after unsolved murders. What it will become next
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/loc ... 051020007/

(Possibly just skip this as it's really not well presented.)


More podcasts
https://murdersheetpodcast.com/


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5 megabyte hard drive cost over $35,000 per year just to operate.



https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-evolutio ... rage-media

I was just imagining how large a stack of 1 gig of floppies would be.


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The Philippines has mostly African origins, mixed with Polynesians, though they seem mostly "Asian/oriental."

https://qr.ae/pKJwrz

I'm wondering in addition to the Spanish raping them, what damage the Japanese did (though their features seem to have gravitated over time from basic interactions with the Asian continent.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippin ... 80%931942)

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Is DARPA Lifelog basically what Facebook became (whether knowingly or secretly?)


If Facebook users knew that Facebook is a DARPA mass surveillance program called LifeLog, would they stop using it?
https://www.quora.com/If-Facebook-users ... p-using-it

The argument is made that Google is actually CIA: How the CIA made Google
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence ... 36451a959e


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The Well of Santa Cristina circa 1000 BC, island of Sardinia
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient ... na-0014779





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Post by Catoptric » Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:15 pm

The meme about Hedy Lamarr "inventing Wifi" is bullshit, and when arguing about her missile frequency hopping idea being something entirely unique to her own invention, is to ignore that it was also an idea that existed since WW1, but lacked the technology at the time to implement. It wasn't until decades had passed and it was feasible to implement it that any such idea was actually utilized.

Though it "could have been" used in WW2 and existed as an idea, it doesn't mean it was feasible to implement it, no different then Napoleon or the British could have utilized the rifle cartridges decades prior to it being adopted.

All the while "femenists" like to say how many women were overlooked throughout history, likewise ignore the men that were victims or contributed to society, without being recognized in the least. If you were also to research many of these "overlooked" women, it's pretty evident that they were anything but overlooked.


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She mostly got the idea from realizing how missiles work, and realized you could avert jamming them by altering the frequency like a player piano note, which was a collaboration of the patent idea with someone who was a musician (if I recall correctly, who also relied on other people to carry out the patent.)

She was smart but people are drastically overestimating the contribution of an idea.

And Steve Jobs was brilliant in his own way, but he also exploited other people's talents. Facebook likewise was a platform that someone utilized, and for all anyone actually knows, could just be a DARPA project called LifeLog, rebranded. (Darpa Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog or likewise look into this https://qr.ae/pKV6Bh )


She was well connected with the munitions industry, since she married an industrialist that sold them. Upon her divorce she adapted the knowledge she obtained from a music composer. This is similar to if Marilyn Monroe then marries Arthur Miller who then writes a screenplay in collaboration (did Marilyn then write the screenplay; likewise did Hedy merely apply her experience when collaborating?) A better argument could be, was Einsteins wife a bigger contribution to his theories, but similar arguments have been made from other Scientists that simultaneously had similar ideas. Also, the ideas she made were in large part theory, since the application of the technology was not implemented in test to demonstrate it.


Did Hedy Lamarr really invent frequency-hopping, or spread spectrum switching?
https://discover.hubpages.com/business/ ... -switching


Her idea was actually theorized in WWI, they just lacked the tech at the time to implement it, and this was an idea, much like how rifle cartridges could have been used by Napoleon in war since 1812, but never caught on until many decades later because it wasn't "tried and true" technology.

No, Hedy Lamarr did not ‘make’ Wi-Fi
https://kimberlymoravec.medium.com/no-h ... 2ac4956b9e


Maybe the woman author of that last article was just dismissing a woman's achievement?


Women that tend to get overlooked in history (though this is pretty typical. . . Good luck finding anyone in your family that has an invested interest in studying their genealogy beyond what serves their ego stroking.)

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Ov ... 0No%20More

Does any person, when allowed to be in position of power, exploit their position? Likewise, how many men/women in position of power were complete liars or opportunists that destroyed companies if they weren't a sham from the beginning, and then go onto brag about how they ran a company (into the ground) like in the Compaq and HP merger?

Women have been overlooked (but many of them hadn't been, just as it's argued that Nikola Tesla was a product of his time at a time when other people likewise had understanding of alternating current, or how photographic technology and likewise motion picture was not an isolated invention, or how combustion engines or similar technologies involving converting power, have often been a continuation of attempts at mastering and tackling ideas.

So feminists will argue that the real victims of the Salem's Witch trial were women, when victims weren't all women (and you could also argue they were the instigators? ? ?)

Women Weren’t the Only Victims of the Salem Witch Trials
https://www.history.com/news/women-were ... tch-trials

While it's also argued that people telling others not to "body shame" are likewise encouraging people to not have a competive procreative advantage.



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This same crap show exists in the argument about Rosalind Franklin (who actually headed the group project on the DNA structure, culminating in the shared efforts of Watson and Crick along with the 4th person, Raymon Gosling, whereas the prizes only went to those who were still alive to receive them.) The group would have also attended the lectures she presented, and somehow theirs a bullshit story about how "they stole" the information that was all provided within the shared group effort, and funded with the intent to research the information they gathered together. . . And no, she did not photograph the crystalline structure, it was Gosling.


https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Rosalin ... elix-model


What I really hate about this is that you could even explain the very thing in a comment and some dipshit will respond accusing you of bias; and the irony of that all. . . The fuckers won't usually even acknowledge when you are actually correct, and will glibly dismiss you as somehow challenging them in their comprehension level. I actually sent a message to an employer of some old fart who started his job before I was born, who demonstrably was abusive and then blocked me for pointing out the obvious; just to let them know what a terrorist he must be if he has subordinates who have to incur his stupidity.



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William Blake art

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The Sun King’s (Louis XIV) anal fistula
https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula



A R.C. institution obsessed with stamping out masturbation?

Evy Mages, at Innsbrook, Austria was a 'patient.'

The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/09/th ... -children/



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Genesis 1-2 Parallels #3: Ninti, “Lady of the Rib”
https://biblebrisket.com/2014/03/17/gen ... rallels-3/





The Knights Templar and the Tetragrammaton
https://pilarrivett.wordpress.com/2010/ ... turns-out/


King Richard the Lionheart's effigy had a bunch of tetragrammatons at the bottom, very prominently, and I was wondering about a Templar connection to the symbolism (since he was also in that area of the Levant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England

Image of effigy
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/1626 ... f-england/
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Post by Catoptric » Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:54 am

Worth reading!


Basically, Louis Armstrong had Richard Nixon unknowingly assist him with getting his luggage through airport security, which contained 3 lbs of marijuana.
https://qr.ae/pKEQKR

True or not, it is repeated in various places.

https://niagarafallsreporter.com/Storie ... nixon.html

https://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/armstrong.htm

He carried his bag(s), alright.


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I was familiar with Pinkerton being the detective agency that helped Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, but never heard of this woman specifically in detail, other than being the "first female detective."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Warne

Another summary:
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In 1856, twenty-three-year-old widow Kate Warne walked into the office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago, announcing that she had seen the company’s ad and wanted to apply for the job. “Sorry,” Alan Pinkerton told her, “but we don’t have any clerical staff openings. We’re looking to hire a new detective.” Pinkerton would later describe Warne as having a “commanding” presence that morning. “I’m here to apply for the detective position,” she replied. Taken aback, Pinkerton explained to Kate that women aren’t suited to be detectives, and then Kate forcefully and eloquently made her case. Women have access to places male detectives can’t go, she noted, and women can befriend the wives and girlfriends of suspects and gain information from them. Finally, she observed, men tend to become braggards around women who encourage boasting, and women have keen eyes for detail. Pinkerton was convinced. He hired her.
Shortly after Warne was hired, she proved her value as a detective by befriending the wife of a suspect in a major embezzlement case. Warne not only gained the information necessary to arrest and convict the thief, but she discovered where the embezzled funds were hidden and was able to recover nearly all of them. On another case she extracted a confession from a suspect while posing as a fortune teller. Pinkerton was so impressed that he created a Women’s Detective Bureau within his agency and made Kate Warne the leader of it.
In her most famous case, Kate Warne may have changed the history of the world. In February 1861 the president of the Wilmington and Baltimore railroad hired Pinkerton to investigate rumors of threats against the railroad. Looking into it, Pinkerton soon found evidence of something much more dangerous—a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln before his inauguration. Pinkerton assigned Kate Warne to the case. Taking the persona of “Mrs. Cherry,” a Southern woman visiting Baltimore, she managed to infiltrate the secessionist movement there and learn the specific details of the scheme—a plan to kill the president-elect as he passed through Baltimore on the way to Washington.
Pinkerton relayed the threat to Lincoln and urged him to travel to Washington from a different direction. But Lincoln was unwilling to cancel the speaking engagements he had agreed to along the way, so Pinkerton resorted to a Plan B. For the trip through Baltimore Lincoln was secretly transferred to a different train and disguised as an invalid. Posing as his caregiver was Kate Warne. When she afterwards described her sleepless night with the President, Pinkerton was inspired to adopt the motto that became famously associated with his agency: “We never sleep.” The details Kate Warne had uncovered had enabled the “Baltimore Plot” to be thwarted.
During the Civil War, Warne and the female detectives under her supervision conducted numerous risky espionage 8missions, with Warne’s charm and her skill at impersonating a Confederate sympathizer giving her access to valuable intelligence. After the war she continued to handle dangerous undercover assignments on high-profile cases, while at the same time overseeing the agency’s growing staff of female detectives.
Kate Warne, America’s first female detective, died of pneumonia at age 34, on January 28, 1868, one hundred fifty-six years ago today. “She never let me down,” Pinkerton said of one of his most trusted and valuable agents. She was buried in the Pinkerton family plot in Chicago.

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Automobile is really Otto-mobile



Nicolaus Otto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Otto


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This Guy Has Dug Up 1,300 Old Toilet Pits In Pursuit of Trashy Historic Treasures
https://racketmn.com/this-guy-has-dug-u ... -treasures



He's managed to find a lot of Civil War era hats and clothing (so he moved onto locations connected to the war.) His (Tom Askjem) Facebook page has more interesting stuff than just bottles.


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Some unopened film rolls of this stuff can be found still. Apparently, it's the same stuff the earliest "Brownie" cameras used?



The first time I've seen how they develop images using glass plate negatives.



It's easily forgotten that 8mm film was only 2 minutes long, and required developing just the same as photos. That's basically what the Zapruder film was, and during the developing, two copies were made (hence why the film was eventually released to the public, whereas it would have been forgotten in an archive.)





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I was looking over a very misleading (and highly inaccurate) list of 'Black Inventors' which mentioned someone invented THE guitar (a guitar-like instrument called the Euphonica that was basically a louder version,) and omitted that actual guitars had been around for some time (and if discussing terminology, you could perhaps consider any stringed instrument that produces an acoustic sound to go back some time well before history has been written.) (the list https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=775 ... 6303051039 )
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Just a few things to look at:
Refrigeration by rail car was developed for the meat industry in the 1870s and was the precursor to 'Air Conditioning' (though perhaps the application of technology is what they are referring to?)

Poor Richards Almanac: Originally published December 28, 1732

Biscuit cutter --> Cookie Cutter goes back to ancient Egypt and was common in Europe in the 1400s.

1802, Humphry Davy invented the arc lamp (light bulb.)

Guitar? ? ? Really? ? ?
Here is a Stradivarius (last playable one)


Earliest Martin guitar which was learned from European Luthiers.


Oldest 'guitars'
https://www.oldest.org/music/guitars/#: ... 0centuries.

2500 BC, this gourd instrument called the ravanastron looks fairly similar (though fairly primitive still)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravanahatha

They might as well have said a Black inventor introduced the flute to society, but no one seemed to notice. . . (even though it's been around since at least 43,000 BC.


https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-st ... facts.html
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Post by Catoptric » Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:00 pm

A meme with Decartes surprised that people don't think, conjured this up:

The irony is that Descartes was also wrong (that to presuppose the "I" in "I think therefore I am," suggests a thinking being has prescience in his autonomy of a God concept, which by default does not render itself exclusive, simply on the foundation of thought being an ontological necessity in its conclusion.)

Too often people mistake the illusion of "thinking" as actually knowing when it's based on a false dichotomy of sentience.

In the same vein people assume all conflicts in the world are based on "shared difference" and not a survival mechanism bourne out of tribalistic identity. A behavior that occurs by people before a learned understanding of expected outcomes, renders a fear-based response about outliers infringing on a perceived threat to survival (hence most people behave based on pathos and clinging more to pupulist ideologies.) People would rather follow a Jim Jones if they thought he would solve all their problems, not knowing they were deceived or that they even deceived themselves by trusting them. What motivates one person's conscience may not lead to the same outcome when people trust their instincts over what can be attainable and understood about situations beyond our control and ability to rationalize.

Is Descartes Wrong? The Key Problem with Cogito Ergo Sum
https://www.inerize.com/is-descartes-wrong/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_e ... than%20the



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Why is no one noticing the obvious parallels of the rise of cryptocurrency and debasement of currency (which is a trend readily apparent with our currency being cheapened to crap,) as well as the rise in digitalization of currency, not requiring an ounce of effort to produce (just artificially produce a trade of dollar value, all the while the poor people who lack the wherewithal of collecting interest on money they can easily just "hold onto" without being able to do anything else with it, will just continue to hold sway on a society trending heavily towards an event horizon.

Short article pdf

Debasement and the decline of Rome by Kevin Butcher
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics ... ecline.pdf





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Vintage photos: Peek into what Texas' grocery stores, diners used to look like
https://www.chron.com/food/article/Vint ... 517770.php


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Usually subscription access to video games are considered more of a new thing (it used to be getting access to videogames through the internet was more of an anti-piracy measure, with something like Steam, but now you can just "rent" access bi-monthly and move onto another game with the service fee,) though pre-internet they had access to games in 1980 using the cable wires.

5 Game Streaming Services You Never Knew Existed
https://www.fanbyte.com/legacy/5-game-s ... ew-existed

Intellivision (1980)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable

Simultaneously as I was thinking Nintendo's Broadcast System was ahead of it's time, the Sega Channel was really not too different, and had it's precursor on the Master System in the late 1980s, and always had "superior" hardware if considering specs (though never fully utilized, and the best performance came from chips internal to the game cartridge, hence why Nintendo often kept using cartridge instead of cd-rom, though this probably had more to do with the target audience that would be using the systems, hence the idea of Nintendo selling the concept of a subscription service might have been better suited for older gamers which wasn't as likely occur in USA, and Segal Channel was a bit of a flop.)

It's kind of weird for me to consider how technology seemed so different from the perspective of a 5 year old around 1990, but it seems apparent that even watching footage of the Apollo 11 launch, much of the technology and clothing from that time could fairly easily have fit into the 1990s, and if people step back into the Roman era, the main differences of today are the widespread accessibility of industrialization, and perhaps combustion engines and electricity which enabled for further development, but otherwise you can find much of the same technology being the same for roughly 2000 years. Seeing things from a 5 year old perspective in the early 1990s, you would swear the world was astonishingly different even in a 5 year period, when it sometimes seems easier to look back on earlier games, and the main distinction is the storage capacity of the median to be able to take advantage of the world constructed for a game. Ultimately more accessibility to things can give a different perspective on the world, because it was far easier to be more exclusive to what you had access to and yet more than ever people who "would have" access to the information of the era of the the time period of Apollo 11 are still more likely to deny we ever landed on the moon, whereas more evidence can be gathered to the contrary, when even during that time period it might have been more restricted due to printed median being the predominant frame of reference outside of a few media recordings that many people probably missed out on if they weren't specifically watching TV at the time (and likewise movies couldn't be shared prior to VHS which was still very cost prohibitive.)

Technology goes through numerous iterations and it's often the case where people will praise individuals like Hedy Lemarr who basically just copied ideas down from having access to ideas through her marriage(s) and social connections, which were ideas that predated hers by decades, and would not be feasible for more decades upon which transistors made it feasible to use alternating pattern radio frequencies to scatter missile communication (which perhaps still would not prevent an enemy from altering it's course if they could easily figure out that one of many potential radio signals could intercept and alter the direction of a missile at least on one particular frequency?) Whereas things that seem to represent the modern interpretation of technology were feasible decades prior of their adaptations, much like cartridges used for bullets.

And yet if you recognize something groundbreaking, the majority will only cling to the idea because other idiots eventually catch onto what it is, whereas they would have ignored it for decades prior.


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The most interesting "open old shit up and eat/use it" videos.



The guy behind the channel was supposed to be a VP of a physical museum but the museum seems to only exhibit things in a digital archive:

The Military Ration Museum Archives
https://collection.rationmuseum.com/browse.html



Fortunately, he didn't get ahold of this:

World's Only Known Surviving D-Day Ration Pack Discovered at Museum (Keep Military Museum, in Dorchester, Dorset, England)
https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-only-kn ... um-1714460


I still like to look back over the rations and things from that time period because it evokes memories of how things used to be packaged, which is practically non-existent now. It's sort of like seeing old Christmas decorations and printed materials (the kind that usually get's discarded or which you only find in old boxes where dishes were wrapped in paper; and unless you were prone to read everything, would usually get tossed aside by less curious types who simply don't "connect" to how such objects convey a different time and place (a different "existence" as it were, which becomes a new experience, that is lost to time.)
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Post by Catoptric » Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:24 am

Sir Henry Pellatt - Early Electric pioneer in Canada and the Casa Lomo castle he built in Toronto
https://qr.ae/pshoLx

https://www.torontojourney416.com/casa-loma/

When the government becomes totalitarian and robs people of their property; but it was also the end of the Gilded Age, when such properties were rather common if you got into the energy sector. Canada just embraced much of the communist and socialism movements that were trendy, and as far as they were concerned, the wealth owned by such people were beyond necessary (if only this were still perceived that way today?)

When are dick-wagging contests not just that? Also, would the kind of spending that Henry Pellatt was known for, not lead to his inevitable demise? When contrasting the spending to that of actual Kings (such as Henry VIII) throughout history, that kind of spending was usually what proceeded the plunder of the Catholic church, or taking advantage of being hosted by someone who just happened to need to show off for their visitor.





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Historic languages and the disappearing legacy


Voynich Manuscript (for real)
https://library.lol/main/B01C73059E3B2A ... 0BB88D3E93


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300 year war over a bucket.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/war-of-the-bucket


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B-2 Spirit bomber windows used for a tree house, were the only windows in existence (requiring them to be rebought since they were needed back.)

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/aircra ... 3oHW4QuZx8














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Movies vs history
https://www.cracked.com/image-pictofact ... mr9RpHC8kY




Vietnam POW video auto-plays (article about one of the more famous cases of someone who memorized and recited the names of prisoners. The video shows some accounts that would be considered murder.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... names.html


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End of the World, October 22, 1844
https://goldsborohistory.com/the-end-of ... ll-island/



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16th century pirate Henry Every (when Pirateers were less of a stereotype)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every

Some allege he was never caught after having disappeared, and others claim he was taken advantage of by merchants until he was impoverished and living the streets of England.
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She is Zinaida Portnova, known for having taken the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food at just 16 years of age.

She was captured by the Gestapo, and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed two more Nazis. She was executed at the age of 17.

https://blackhistoryinamerica.quora.com ... _type=post



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Boot Hill Cemetery in Tilden, TX is famous for people who often died suddenly still wearing their boots.
401 River St, Tilden, TX 78072

Info at the location


Suicides or murders (claimed to be an accident due to a prank. . . such as someone purporting to try and shoot someone's tophat off their head; so clearly not.)

Capture of Clabe Young, who is a cattle rustler and is acquainted with murderers, is likewise wanted in the county for the "accidental" death of the unknown person who was visiting the town.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia ... labe-young

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The French


Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180967265/


An automaton of a monkey pastry-chef serving the severed head of a cat in a pastry pie, made by the French toy-makers Roullet & Decamps around 1880 CE
https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/202 ... -cat-head/

A pretty good Youtube account about automatas.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChlcuG ... gFqV8dwveg

Aside from the handwriting and music-playing automata from the 18th century ( https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=492039241585420 ), this is one of the most impressive ones from 17th century Japan.



The ancient Greeks also had variations of these used at temples when people donated money, involving a musical bird, not to different from 18th-century variations of the Singing Bird Box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_bird_box




More modern variations of the bird box: https://www.youtube.com/@troyduncan1969



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A fruit called medlar (amongst an open arse euphemism) eaten rotten during medieval Europe.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2021 ... rld-forgot
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Post by Catoptric » Tue May 14, 2024 8:59 pm

Inventor of TV

Philo Taylor Farnsworth
https://www.thehistoryoftv.com/the-farn ... gkV9mKR_jM

Alternatively, John Logie Baird is considered the first to broadcast a televised video but his system was never truly practical.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/M45tfC ... tid=oFDknk


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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL BUMPING STONE (used for hundreds of years when choir boys are initiated, where their head is laid against the stone 7 times, with some insisting it wasn't always so gentle.)
https://www.tiktok.com/@history_alice/v ... _device=pc

That explains everything! (Concussions. . .)

Also, I'm wondering if acidity from sweat could gradually cause the stone to erode over time. Obviously, something similar is noticed with bronze statues where a wear pattern is created, as a tradition of rubbing the statue (usually the nose, but other "objects" are also rubbed for "good luck.") Evidently the stone hasn't been cleaned in some time.

it also gives new meaning to "giving head," to the Parishioner.


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Clifford's Tower
12th-century tower had a wooden structure built prior where 300 Jews committed suicide upon threat of death to convert to Christianity.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/vis ... -the-jews/


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I was reading up on

Harvey Roberts "Bum" Bright (October 6, 1920 – December 11, 2004)
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbrightH.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_Bright

He built his wealth by investing in oil leases (land speculation for oil to be extracted) which is pretty much the only thing Texas and Oklahoma were known for other than the cattle industry (since it is mostly open prairie it meant it was easier to farm cattle and not have to rely too much on barbed wire which would make the leather less valuable.)

As a member of the John Birch Society he would fund ads criticizing John F Kennedy, and the ad that was used with its dark line border was reminiscent of death notices, which ironically was on the same day JFK would be assassinated in Dallas. Though it was all just a sign of poor taste, there would have been reasons for the political views, since JFK opposed the tax write off by oilmen for "oil depletion" which impacted how they could compete on the open market and drive down profitability.


Here is an original ad that was auctioned off.
https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetai ... NATION-DAY

An easy to read text typed out of the ad
https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mrkennedy.htm


It seems he was always friends with Clint Murchison Jr. and the first link mentions Madeliene Brown attending a party they were hosting who I'm pretty sure was a compulsive lying narcissist (who along with her son would later make BS claims and try to sue people for money on lies that were easily proven false.)

Murchison would incorporate his MIT education and be the first to use computers in order to find talent for the Dallas Cowboys football team he owned, and before he died in the 1980s would sell the Dallas Cowboys off to Harvey "Bum" Bright along with other investors, which when it would be sold, in addition to banking failure, he lost $28 million by the end of the 80s. Of course the Cowboys seemed to only benefit from the sale (whether or not the use of data tracking with a computer actually benefited the team, it seems not.) When Bum died, just prior to his death he used his farm land he acquired to convert into residential properties (what is now called Castle Hills,) which is something similar to what Murchison had done with properties intended for training of the Dallas Cowboy recruits, called Valley Ranch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Murchison_Jr.

If people weren't making obscene money in the oil industry they were getting wealthy off real estate.


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Nuremburg Chronicle 1493 - Hartmann Schedel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle

Original German book
https://archive.org/details/drew-univer ... 1/mode/2up

Translated in English
https://archive.org/details/NurembergCh ... 1/mode/2up

It's also been republished as a facsimile of the original, and named 'Chronicle of the World.'

Quite a bit of the images are actually repurposed several times, almost page to page, though for the most part they are unique to the topic (and of course as typical, almost nothing other than the cities even resembles the person it claims to depict.)


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The Triumph of Art Nouveau - Paris Exhibition (Roger Marx) 1900 (1974) Philippe Jullian
https://issuu.com/brunomanuelalbano/doc ... u__paris_e

Exposition Universelle (1900)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expositio ... lle_(1900)

It was a continuation of what the Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893) was introducing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s ... Exposition




A good link on the Paris exhibits
https://www.arthurchandler.com/paris-1900-exposition

The Eiffel Tower was also only intended to remain for 10 years, and is one of few structures that were kept up after it ended (similar to Chicago, the Arts Museum building and another one used for Science remained afterward, but most all things were temporary or already proved to be hazardous during the time of the exhibition itself.

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Post by Catoptric » Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:45 am



Where did the Wallace Sword come from?
https://brokehistory.wordpress.com/2019 ... ord-again/

Update: I came across this as well and I am concluding it must have a similar basis as a bearing sword.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_sword

The thing that's weird is the "bastard sword" is regarded as a legitimate sword that had an established fighting technique. Similar oversized swords have a particular approach to battle that would be used for specific purposes, so it's possible some of them could be used.

https://www.badassoftheweek.com/pier

Some more context of the time-period (circa 1400) are the use of the Zweihander in Kingdom Come Deliverance.

https://forum.kingdomcomerpg.com/t/zwei ... -kcd/60118

Initially when posting I suspected it was an anti-infantry weapon, which is why it was so long.

https://www.swordsviktor.com/blog/The-Zweihander
https://swordis.com/blog/zweihander-vs-longsword/

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World’s Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwreck Discovered a Mile Beneath the Mediterranean Sea

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... ontent=new



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Puebla Tunnels
https://masonrymagazine.com/Default?pageID=1378
(vid) https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/ ... 78920.html
(images) https://www.travelblog.org/photos/10009284

Not sure how I never heard of the discovery.



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Hanns Scharff German (Nazi Luftwaffe/Warmacht) interrogator who went on to train US Intelligence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

The famous fighter ace he mentions is this guy, though many others were also pretty famous (such as the one who had Malstrom Air Force base named in his honor.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Gabreski

I almost wonder if the phrase/euphemism for "gabbing" was based on the fact that one of the most decorated fighter pilots just happened to befriend the "enemy" during war time, and potentially reveal state secrets.

Scharff also has mosaics still on display in Disneyworld and Epcot.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles ... or-disney/

Book
https://www.amazon.com/Interrogator-Joa ... 0764302612


Also,
Bones Of Around 100 Male Infants Found In Roman-Era Sewer Have A Grim Explanation
https://www.iflscience.com/bones-of-aro ... tion-68933



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