Category: Omnibit

MI6 is famed as the place where James Bond and George Smiley worked, and most have heard of Britain’s MI5 which is the agency responsible for counter-intelligence. So what was MI2? That was the department tasked with spying on the United States.

MI stands for military intelligence and came about during World War I as to describe the departments of the Directorate of Military Intelligence which was part of the British War Office. There were a total of 21 of them. MI4 handled maps, for instance.

There was a reorganization in 1965 and only MI5 and MI6 remain as terms in use and only because of popular culture.

MI2 William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-8-17

The classic American travel song “I’ve Been Everywhere” was originally written Down Under using Australian locales. The first North American who had a hit with it was Canadian Hank Snow.

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-17

Karl Marx once worked for Horace Greeley.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-6-17

Poison hemlock is native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa. It was brought to the United States from Europe in the 19th century as a pretty ornamental garden plant. Indeed, it has pretty white flowers, similar to Queen Anne’s lace.

Poison hemlock William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-4-17

Ever hear of Nazi beans? That’s what a Hitler Youth manual from the 1930s called soybeans to promote them as an alternative to meat.

Nazi beans William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-3-17

American singer John Denver was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1943.  Four years later an alien space craft allegedly crashed there.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-2-17

 

 

The most destructive terrorist group in history was the Thuggee cult. Between 500,000 and 2 million persons in India were killed by the before being eradicated by the British starting in 1836.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-1-17

Beware the Blob, Miranda. Chester Springs, Pa. was a place it terrorized  in the 1958 movie.

–William Lawrence Sr.

Beware Count Dracula, giant centipedes eat bats. Really.

giant centipedes eat bats William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-30-17

 

Pocahontas is buried in Gravesend, England. There is a life-size statue of her there.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-27-17