Son of Sandor
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Our Dad Alexander, Sandor in Hungarian. A first generation American. #WWII and 20 year veteran of the USAAC, USSAF, USAF Chief Master Sergeant. Our Mom Joyce his Australian war bride. Posts about #History, #Science, #Weather and Global Relations.
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May 29, 1945 #WWII "Bride" Ship Will Take 400 To America. A number will take young children.

Mom gets news that a ship is arriving to reunited her with Dad who returned to the US in June 1944. They were married in Sydney Oct 27, 1942. She has since given birth to a daughter Dad has never met.
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Just fifteen years later they're going 200 mph faster!

I feel the need...the need for speed.
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Oct. 12, 1925: Army aviator Cyrus Bettis wins the Pulitzer Trophy for the fastest time over a 62-mile course around Mitchel Field on Long Island, N.Y. His average speed of 249 mph in a Curtiss RC3-1 monoplane sets a world record.
During the race Bettis is greeted by reporters after his feat
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When Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Mikey Day) said that Democrats are eager to end the government shutdown, Noem (Fey) said, "That makes me laugh more than the end of 'Old Yeller.' "

Fey nailed it!🍻
nytimes.com
On the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” the show celebrated with former cast members Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and a few more surprises. Here’s a recap.
‘S.N.L.’ Trots Out Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for a Senate Judiciary Grilling
Now, it truly has been 50 years since the show’s debut, and that was celebrated with a few more surprises, including cameos by Charli XCX and Seth Meyers.
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In Welberg near Steenbergen there was bitter fighting fr Canadians against the Germans in Oct/Nov 1944. A Freedom bell, poppy field and plaques are reminding us. Not to forget the poppy viaduct. Lest We Forget 🌺
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#WWI The treaty that Hitler hated even more than the Treaty of Versailles and one of the most important treaties you have probably never heard of. The Locarno Pact, or the Treaties of Locarno, were a series of treaties negotiated in October 1925. #WWII www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
The Spirit of Locarno
The treaty that Hitler hated even more than the Treaty of Versailles and one of the most important treaties you have probably never heard of.
www.nationalww2museum.org
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I couldn't wait to post this... an excerpt of one of the #LettersFromGrandpa for the upcoming week...October 14, 1945.
"God! If our country was ever invaded and destroyed like this - I hope someone has brains enough to to keep our country strong enough to prevent anything like that....
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Fey and Poehler are Noem and Bondi in: How Is This Our Country? #SNL
Fey and Poehler as dingbats Noem and Bondi.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler!!! #SNL 🤣
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I want to see Miss Jennie Morton in her celebrated clog jig! This was modern entertainment.
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Manchester's central thesis is that MacArthur was an analogue of Julius Caesar, a proposition he supports by comparing their purported great intellect, brilliant strategic generalship, political ambition, magnanimity as conquerors, and shared tragic flaw of hubris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
American Caesar - Wikipedia
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Oct 11, 1950 #WWII LOOK MacArthur: The Pacific Caesar. President Truman may find General MacArthur's logic difficult to overcome. MacArthur first demonstrated his courage to the Japanese when he landed at Atsugi airfield in an unarmed plane long before the main body of the occupation troops.
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Oct 11, 1950 Announcing that he would meet General MacArthur in the Pacific this weekend, President Truman said yesterday that he would discuss with the General "other matters" as well as Korea. It will be the first meeting between Mr Truman and General MacArthur, who have never even seen each other
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Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.
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Shackleton's doctor was Mom's neighbor when she was a child.
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Among the aliens permitted to land was Arturo Toscanini.

He was the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. He was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. A studio was built for the orchestra at NBC's Rockefeller Center, New York, Studio 8-H.
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Oct 11, 1950 US immigration officials refused to admit about 100 of 348 aliens who arrived in New York in the liner Vulcania. It was the first mass detention of aliens on Ellis Island under the new Anti-subversive Act, which bans former members of the Nazi and Fascist Parties and affiliated bodies.
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Looks like Trump's nightmare.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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I been thinking Elon must hate the Portland Frog.
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How it started How it’s going
Image of far right hate symbol Pepe the Frog Image of protester in frog costume in Portland