On This Day in History II

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:i find it incredible that here after 60 years of lagtime, no one comes even remotely close to real slapstick comedy.

There was lots of good physical comedy up until about 75 or 80 when insurance companies refused to cover it.

Folks forget , insurance companies were the original ponzi schemes. Long before Social Security!

And guess what? They are government regulated! Mostly by state government.

What does this mean, you ask.

Lol. It doesn't mean you pay less, but more!

In a nutshell,  it means they can not , nor will ever lose money in a payoff situation like a Hurricane or ice storm . Investors never lose. Just like utilities. Prolly the worst of them all!

they prolly lost their asses when String Bean and Estella were murdered in their own home. prolly denied Granpa Jones an increase in his policies.

I really don't know what  the F@ck that has to do with anything ? Jebe, maybe you could enlighten me. I would appreciate it.
I loved all those guys! I heard grandpa loved his cocaine .

But , it's all speculation . I heard most of cast liked it!

Who didn't! Back in those days.

you didnt know Granpa Jones and String Bean were comedians? vaudville was full of comedians. the timeline when the ins companies became theives was when David Akemans policies were due. no longer could ins companies assume you could live in safety due to your location. at that time your occupation was tabulated as well. it showed the companies were a huge rip off.

I don't
Ok. Thanks for the non explanation . Both string  bean and grandpa were also  master musicians who could play damn near every instrument out there with ease! And Ramona too.

Wanna keep going?

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

There was lots of good physical comedy up until about 75 or 80 when insurance companies refused to cover it.

Folks forget , insurance companies were the original ponzi schemes. Long before Social Security!

And guess what? They are government regulated! Mostly by state government.

What does this mean, you ask.

Lol. It doesn't mean you pay less, but more!

In a nutshell,  it means they can not , nor will ever lose money in a payoff situation like a Hurricane or ice storm . Investors never lose. Just like utilities. Prolly the worst of them all!

they prolly lost their asses when String Bean and Estella were murdered in their own home. prolly denied Granpa Jones an increase in his policies.

I really don't know what  the F@ck that has to do with anything ? Jebe, maybe you could enlighten me. I would appreciate it.
I loved all those guys! I heard grandpa loved his cocaine .

But , it's all speculation . I heard most of cast liked it!

Who didn't! Back in those days.

you didnt know Granpa Jones and String Bean were comedians? vaudville was full of comedians. the timeline when the ins companies became theives was when David Akemans policies were due. no longer could ins companies assume you could live in safety due to your location. at that time your occupation was tabulated as well. it showed the companies were a huge rip off.

I don't
Ok. Thanks for the non explanation . Both string  bean and grandpa were also  master musicians who could play damn near every instrument out there with ease! And Ramona too.

Wanna keep going?

yes. besides gifted musicians, Louis Jones also did stand up. as did David Akeman, his neighbor. as was Lou Costello, Stan Hardy, and the list goes on. to come up with a comedy script was diabolical. for you couldnt easily rip off the original talent who creatd it. The Lum & Abner show was just one tie from radio comedy to teevee comedy.

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

There was lots of good physical comedy up until about 75 or 80 when insurance companies refused to cover it.

Folks forget , insurance companies were the original ponzi schemes. Long before Social Security!

And guess what? They are government regulated! Mostly by state government.

What does this mean, you ask.

Lol. It doesn't mean you pay less, but more!

In a nutshell,  it means they can not , nor will ever lose money in a payoff situation like a Hurricane or ice storm . Investors never lose. Just like utilities. Prolly the worst of them all!

they prolly lost their asses when String Bean and Estella were murdered in their own home. prolly denied Granpa Jones an increase in his policies.

I really don't know what  the F@ck that has to do with anything ? Jebe, maybe you could enlighten me. I would appreciate it.
I loved all those guys! I heard grandpa loved his cocaine .

But , it's all speculation . I heard most of cast liked it!

Who didn't! Back in those days.

you didnt know Granpa Jones and String Bean were comedians? vaudville was full of comedians. the timeline when the ins companies became theives was when David Akemans policies were due. no longer could ins companies assume you could live in safety due to your location. at that time your occupation was tabulated as well. it showed the companies were a huge rip off.

I don't
Ok. Thanks for the non explanation . Both string  bean and grandpa were also  master musicians who could play damn near every instrument out there with ease! And Ramona too.

Wanna keep going?

yes. besides gifted musicians, Louis Jones also did stand up. as did David Akeman, his neighbor. as was Lou Costello, Stan Hardy, and the list goes on. to come up with a comedy script was diabolical. for you couldnt easily rip off the original talent who creatd it. The Lum & Abner show was just one tie from radio comedy to teevee comedy.

So, how do you explain the immediate success of a show that lasted almost as long as Bonanza? Or longer?

Where you at Jebe.?

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
I really don't know what  the F@ck that has to do with anything ? Jebe, maybe you could enlighten me. I would appreciate it.
I loved all those guys! I heard grandpa loved his cocaine .

But , it's all speculation . I heard most of cast liked it!

Who didn't! Back in those days.

you didnt know Granpa Jones and String Bean were comedians? vaudville was full of comedians. the timeline when the ins companies became theives was when David Akemans policies were due. no longer could ins companies assume you could live in safety due to your location. at that time your occupation was tabulated as well. it showed the companies were a huge rip off.

I don't
Ok. Thanks for the non explanation . Both string  bean and grandpa were also  master musicians who could play damn near every instrument out there with ease! And Ramona too.

Wanna keep going?

yes. besides gifted musicians, Louis Jones also did stand up. as did David Akeman, his neighbor. as was Lou Costello, Stan Hardy, and the list goes on. to come up with a comedy script was diabolical. for you couldnt easily rip off the original talent who creatd it. The Lum & Abner show was just one tie from radio comedy to teevee comedy.

So, how do you explain the immediate success of a show that lasted almost as long as Bonanza?  Or longer?

original script combined with caractures easily identifiable with life foibles.

March 7

0321
Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.

1644
Massachusetts establishes the first two-chamber legislature in the colonies.

1774
King George III charges colonists in Boston with attempting to injure British commerce, paving the way for the closing of the port to punish colonists of the Boston Tea Party.

1778
Captain James Cook first sights the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay.

1801
Massachusetts enacts the first state voter registration law.

1814
Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne against combined Russian and Prussian forces in northern France.

1843
The first Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office.

1847
US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.

1850
Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850.

1857
Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs.

1876
Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US.

1911
US sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border.

1917
The first jazz record is released on a 78 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

1918
President Woodrow Wilson authorizes the US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.

1918
Finland forms an alliance with Germany.

1926
The first transatlantic telephone call (London-NY).

1930
NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1932
Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, 4 are killed.

1936
Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.

1941
50,000 British soldiers land in Greece during WWII.

1943
US General George S. Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif, Tunisia.

1944
Japan begins an offensive in Burma.

1945
US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany and crosses the Rhine.

1946
Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.

1962
Ground-breaking report "Smoking and Health" is published by the British Royal College of Physicians, the first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking.

1965
Alabama state troopers and 600 black protesters clash in Selma during "Bloody Sunday."   Protesters, including future congressman John Lewis, are beaten and hospitalized.

1966
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1968
The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.

1969
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.

1971
Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire.

1974
USS Monitor, a Union Ship sunk in 1862 during the US Civil War, is restored at Cape Hatteras.

1975
US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate.

1975
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1989
Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"

1993
Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges (Willis) is arrested for stabbing a tenant.

1994
US Navy issues the first permanent order assigning women on combat ships.

1994
ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects a demand by white right-wingers for a separate homeland in South Africa.

1994
The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

1995
New York becomes the 38th state to have the death penalty.

2011
Charlie Sheen is fired from the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men"

2019
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei sues the US government over a federal ban on its products.

2021
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says "no way I will resign' amid accusations of sexual assault and concealing nursing home deaths.

1946
Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.

The nuclear legacy of the Bikinians began in March of 1946 when they were first removed from their islands in preparation for Operation Crossroads. The history of the Bikinian people from that day has been a story of their struggle to understand scientific concepts as they relate to their islands, as well as the day-to-day problems of finding food, raising families and maintaining their culture amidst the progression of events set in motion by the Cold War that have been for the most part out of their control.

In preparation for Operation Crossroads, the Bikinians were sent 125 miles eastward across the ocean on a U.S. Navy LST landing craft to Rongerik Atoll. The islands of Rongerik Atoll were uninhabited because, traditionally, the Marshallese people considered them to be unlivable due to their size (Rongerik is 1/6 the size of Bikini Atoll) and because they had an inadequate water and food supply. There was also a deep-rooted traditional belief that the atoll was inhabited by evil spirits. The Administration left the Bikinians food stores sufficient only for several weeks. The islanders soon discovered that the coconut trees and other local food crops produced very few fruits when compared to the yield of the trees on Bikini. As the food supply on Rongerik quickly ran out, the Bikinians began to suffer from starvation and fish poisoning due to the lack of edible fish in the lagoon. Within two months after their arrival they began to beg U.S. officials to move them back to Bikini.

The two atomic bomb blasts of Operation Crossroads were both about the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Eighteen tons of cinematography equipment and more than half of the world's supply of motion picture film were on hand to record the Able and Baker detonations, and also the movement of the Bikinians from their atoll.

From December of 1946 through January of 1947, the food shortages worsened on Rongerik; the small population of Bikinians was confronted with near starvation. During the same period of time, the area of Micronesia was designated as a United Nations Strategic Trust Territory (TT) to be administered by the United States. Indeed, it was the only strategic trust ever created by the United Nations. In this agreement, the U.S. committed itself to the United Nations directive to "promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants, and to this end shall...protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources..." The people of Bikini have long seen the irony in the conduct of the TT agreement that allowed the bombing of their homeland and that forced them into starvation on Rongerik Atoll.

In May of 1947, to make the Bikinians situation on Rongerik even more serious, a huge fire damaged many of the coconut trees. By July, when a medical officer from the U.S. visited the island, the Bikinian people were found to be suffering severely from malnutrition. A team of U.S. investigators determined in the fall, after a visit to Rongerik, that the island had inadequate supplies of food and water and that the Bikini people should be moved from Rongerik without delay. The U.S. Navy was harshly criticized in the world press for neglecting the Bikini people on Rongerik. Harold Ickes, a reporter, stated in his 1947 syndicated column "Man to Man" that, "The natives are actually and literally starving to death."

Immediate preparations began for the transfer of the Bikinians to Ujelang Atoll in the western Marshalls. In November a handful of young Bikinian men traveled to Ujelang, and with the help of Navy Seabees, they began to arrange a community area and to construct housing. At the end of the year, however, the U.S. selected Enewetak Atoll as a second nuclear weapons test site. The Navy then decided that it would be easier to move the Enewetak people to Ujelang despite the fact that the Bikinians had built all the housing and held high hopes that they would be relocated there.

In January of 1948, University of Hawaii anthropologist, Dr. Leonard Mason, traveled to Rongerik at the request of the Trust Territory High Commissioner to report on the status of the Bikinians living there. Horrified at the sight of the withering islanders, Mason immediately requested a medical officer along with food supplies to be flown in to Rongerik.

In March of 1948, after two unpleasant years on Rongerik, the Bikinians were transported to Kwajalein Atoll where they were housed in tents on a strip of grass beside the massive cement airstrip used by the U.S. military. The Bikinians fell into yet another debate among themselves about alternative locations soon after they settled on Kwajalein.

It was in June of 1948 that the Bikinians chose Kili Island in the southern Marshalls because the island was not ruled by a paramount king, or iroij, and was uninhabited. This choice ultimately doomed their traditional diet and lifestyle, which were both based on lagoon fishing.

Full, and long, story here for anyone interested   ...

https://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html

Terrible thing!    

Red Lily wrote:1946
Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.

The nuclear legacy of the Bikinians began in March of 1946 when they were first removed from their islands in preparation for Operation Crossroads. The history of the Bikinian people from that day has been a story of their struggle to understand scientific concepts as they relate to their islands, as well as the day-to-day problems of finding food, raising families and maintaining their culture amidst the progression of events set in motion by the Cold War that have been for the most part out of their control.

In preparation for Operation Crossroads, the Bikinians were sent 125 miles eastward across the ocean on a U.S. Navy LST landing craft to Rongerik Atoll. The islands of Rongerik Atoll were uninhabited because, traditionally, the Marshallese people considered them to be unlivable due to their size (Rongerik is 1/6 the size of Bikini Atoll) and because they had an inadequate water and food supply. There was also a deep-rooted traditional belief that the atoll was inhabited by evil spirits. The Administration left the Bikinians food stores sufficient only for several weeks. The islanders soon discovered that the coconut trees and other local food crops produced very few fruits when compared to the yield of the trees on Bikini. As the food supply on Rongerik quickly ran out, the Bikinians began to suffer from starvation and fish poisoning due to the lack of edible fish in the lagoon. Within two months after their arrival they began to beg U.S. officials to move them back to Bikini.

The two atomic bomb blasts of Operation Crossroads were both about the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Eighteen tons of cinematography equipment and more than half of the world's supply of motion picture film were on hand to record the Able and Baker detonations, and also the movement of the Bikinians from their atoll.

From December of 1946 through January of 1947, the food shortages worsened on Rongerik; the small population of Bikinians was confronted with near starvation. During the same period of time, the area of Micronesia was designated as a United Nations Strategic Trust Territory (TT) to be administered by the United States. Indeed, it was the only strategic trust ever created by the United Nations. In this agreement, the U.S. committed itself to the United Nations directive to "promote the economic advancement and self-sufficiency of the inhabitants, and to this end shall...protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources..." The people of Bikini have long seen the irony in the conduct of the TT agreement that allowed the bombing of their homeland and that forced them into starvation on Rongerik Atoll.

In May of 1947, to make the Bikinians situation on Rongerik even more serious, a huge fire damaged many of the coconut trees. By July, when a medical officer from the U.S. visited the island, the Bikinian people were found to be suffering severely from malnutrition. A team of U.S. investigators determined in the fall, after a visit to Rongerik, that the island had inadequate supplies of food and water and that the Bikini people should be moved from Rongerik without delay. The U.S. Navy was harshly criticized in the world press for neglecting the Bikini people on Rongerik. Harold Ickes, a reporter, stated in his 1947 syndicated column "Man to Man" that, "The natives are actually and literally starving to death."

Immediate preparations began for the transfer of the Bikinians to Ujelang Atoll in the western Marshalls. In November a handful of young Bikinian men traveled to Ujelang, and with the help of Navy Seabees, they began to arrange a community area and to construct housing. At the end of the year, however, the U.S. selected Enewetak Atoll as a second nuclear weapons test site. The Navy then decided that it would be easier to move the Enewetak people to Ujelang despite the fact that the Bikinians had built all the housing and held high hopes that they would be relocated there.

In January of 1948, University of Hawaii anthropologist, Dr. Leonard Mason, traveled to Rongerik at the request of the Trust Territory High Commissioner to report on the status of the Bikinians living there. Horrified at the sight of the withering islanders, Mason immediately requested a medical officer along with food supplies to be flown in to Rongerik.

In March of 1948, after two unpleasant years on Rongerik, the Bikinians were transported to Kwajalein Atoll where they were housed in tents on a strip of grass beside the massive cement airstrip used by the U.S. military. The Bikinians fell into yet another debate among themselves about alternative locations soon after they settled on Kwajalein.

It was in June of 1948 that the Bikinians chose Kili Island in the southern Marshalls because the island was not ruled by a paramount king, or iroij, and was uninhabited. This choice ultimately doomed their traditional diet and lifestyle, which were both based on lagoon fishing.

Full, and long, story here for anyone interested   ...

https://www.bikiniatoll.com/history.html

Terrible thing!    

Quite horrible and sad.
Government at its finest.

Amy ~ daddy, nookleer bombs is just awwfull!!! 

Jimmy ~ I will surrender to the Soviets then my angel.

1697 - Anne Bonny - birthday