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Sea Lion, the ship from which 23 seamen disappeared on May 18, 1941. (Wikipedia)
Eighty years ago, on May 15, 1941, the Hagana, the largest Jewish underground military organization in pre-Israel Palestine, announced the formation of the
Plugot Mahatz loosely translated, “strike companies” that would comprise full time recruits under arms at all times, to be known by the acronym “Palmach.”
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Asher Itzkowitz was murdered, beaten to death by enraged Muslim thugs after he mistakenly made a wrong turn in the warrens of Jerusalem’s Old City streets. He was making his unfamiliar way to the Wall to pray. It was the last day of Pesach, April 11, 1947.
His crime, being Jewish and getting too near the gate to the Temple Mount.
Mysterious News Briefly March 9, 2021
Tectonic activity, the sliding of planetary plates that results in earthquakes and volcanoes, has been detected for the first time on a planet outside of our Solar System – exoplanet LHS 3844b, whose lava activity unexpectedly flows in both directions from its hot to cold side and vice versa. Let’s welcome them to the tectonic club by showering them with the radio signals of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.”
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is studying the technical feasibility of a “Portable Personal Air Mobility System,” a military jetpack potentially for use by US special forces. Are the soldiers being trained by Drill Sergeant ‘Hisboy’ Elroy Jetson?