The first letter carried by an air vehicle sort of involved Ben Franklin. It was a letter from his son — William the Loyalist — to his grandson William Temple Franklin delivered by hot air ballon over the English Channel on Jan. 7, 1785.
Loyalist William was in England as you would expect. Temple was in Paris assisting Ben in a diplomatic role. T
The first “air mail” in the United States occurred eight years and two days later — Jan. 9, 1793 — when Jean-Pierre Blanchard ballooned from Philadelphia with a personal letter from George Washington to the owner of whatever property he happened to land on which ended up being in Deptford, N. J.
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Donny Deutsch Epstein Were Partners — The insightful and always entertaining Jamie Dlux found on one of his digs that leftist mouthpiece Donny Deutsch has been a partner with Jeffrey Epstein.
The New York Daily News reported on Feb. 6, 2004:
A group of high-profile New Yorkers that failed int its recent attempt to buy New York magazine is said to be pursing other projects including a possible bankrolling of edtior and publisher Maer Roshan’s Radar. The group includews Daily News chairman and co-publisher Mortimer B. Zuckeran, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, Triacarc Cos CEO Nelson Peltz, advertising exec Donny Deutsch and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Amazing the connections Epstein had. He certainly would have had a lot to reveal if he hadn’t killed himself in that high-security federal prison while he was on suicide watch.
He did kill himself right?
Sorry, just being silly. Everyone knows the answer to that question.
Check out Jamie’s YouTube channel here. If you are new to it, the archives will keep you occupied for days. Be warned, he smokes and says the F word a lot.
Delta blues legend Robert Johnson actually made his living playing polkas, waltzes and standards like Danny Boy. He even once played for an Italian wedding in New Jersey.
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Giant cabbage? Yes Miranda, cabbage can get bigger than you might think. Scott A. Robb presented one weighing 138.25 pounds at the Alaska State Fair in 2012.
Iranian Bribe Threat Don’t Forget –Here are some under-reported stories to keep in mind when considering the news of the day, namely the untragic death of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, yesterday, Jan. 2, by American missiles.
Soleimani was considered the second most powerful man in Iran.
Soleimani was the guy who planned the Iranian militia attack on the Baghdad Embassy on New Year’s Eve.
The Obama Administration was using Benghazi to send weapons to rebels in Syria including al-Qaeda and what become ISIS. The policy was championed by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
About the time Iran was making this threat, John Kerry — Obama’s other secretary of state — was meeting with them arguably in violation of the Logan Act.
Badr Corps chief Hadi Ameri, who was also involved in this week’s Baghdad Embassy assault had been a guest of Obama at the White House. Ameri was among those arrested by U.S. forces yesterday.
Just some things to file in the back of your head as events unfold.
Note: The links in this article are to mainstream media sites.
The Hindenburg carried mail. When it burned in 1937 it was delivering 17,609 letters and such. Zeppelins were a major form of mail delivery for Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Aspirin is capitalized in Mexico, Canada, Germany and a lot of other places because it is a protected trademark of Bayer AG. Aspirin is lower case in the USA because it is sold generically here as the German pharmaceutical giant lost its trademark here in 1921.
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No Anthony, the greatest POW escape was not The Great Escape orchestrated by the Brits at Stalag Luft III in Germany during World War II which was made into a wildly inaccurate yet entertaining movie. Only 76 were involved in that breakout. The greatest POW escape was the Cowra Breakout on Aug. 5, 1944 by Japanese prisoners being held in the remote Australian town of Cowra. That involved 1,104 POWs. All were recaptured except for the 231 killed.
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Princess Leia Twitter Ban — Powerful Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY10) has been making divisive comments whose dishonesty we feel literally — yeah, Rachel Maddow we know what the word means — crosses the line to sedition.
Why would anyone think this man should be strangled by Princess Leia?
Saying you can’t trust an election on false claims that the President is a traitor can’t be anything but a call to resist lawful authority.
Anyway, it was being discussed on Twitter as to what should happen to Congressman Nadler and we innocently suggest he “should be strangled to death by Princess Leia.”
Quick Quiz for Ms. Maddow: Should a comment about being strangled to death by Princess Leia be taken “literally”.
But dang if that didn’t get us suspended. We haven’t fixed that account yet. Don’t know if we will.
