5 Oct 1969: The incredibly hilarious Monty Python's Flying #Circus begins on #BBC One in the United Kingdom. It would run until 1974, totaling 45 episodes. #MontyPython #TV #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/34nl5f4

10/3/1983 ABC Monday Night Football intro after they found out the Jets would be leaving Shea Stadium and headed to the Meadowlands in 1984. #Jets #Jetshistory #MNF

They're alive. Sort of. Theo Jansen builds these giant kinetic sculptures that walk on wind alone. Just air and physics. He calls them Strandbeests, beach animals. I absolutely love this.

Fidelis ad mortem.

She didn’t hold back 😭

🇺🇸 An American hero The Army had pulled him out of the infantry. Two years later, on a Pacific island, thousands of Japanese soldiers broke through the American line and closed on his aid tent. Inside were more than 30 wounded men. He ordered them to leave. Then he stayed behind. What American troops later discovered at his position would take the United States 58 years to recognize. His name was Ben Salomon. Before the war, he had been a young dentist in California. Drafted as an infantry private in 1940, he qualified as an expert with both rifle and pistol, rose to sergeant, and took command of a machine-gun section. His commander called him "the best all-around soldier" in the regiment. But when the Army learned he was a dentist, it transferred him to the Dental Corps. Salomon tried to remain in the infantry. His request was denied. On July 7, 1944, between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese troops struck the American lines on Saipan. Within minutes, Salomon’s small aid tent was filled with wounded men. Then he saw a Japanese soldier bayoneting one of his patients. Salomon shot him. Two more burst through the entrance. Four others crawled beneath the canvas. Salomon fought them with a rifle, a bayonet, and his bare hands. Then he ordered everyone who could still move to leave. He picked up a rifle and stepped outside. That was the last time anyone saw him alive. When American troops recovered the position, they found Salomon collapsed over a heavy machine gun whose four-man crew had been killed. Ninety-eight Japanese soldiers lay dead in front of him. His body bore 76 bullet wounds. Blood on the ground showed that, even after being hit, he had dragged the gun repeatedly to regain a clear field of fire. He had stayed behind to buy his patients time. His Medal of Honor was initially rejected because he was a medical officer wearing a Red Cross armband. It was finally awarded in 2002. The Army had made him a dentist. Saipan revealed the infantryman he had never stopped being.

I love the Montreal Expos and can't wait until they return. Then I will be avid. It's tough when you don't have a team.

If you own a copy of We Were Soldiers Once... And Young, you are already holding a picture of him. The soldier on the cover, bayonet fixed, coming out of the elephant grass, is Rick Rescorla. Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. He was born in Hayle, Cornwall, in 1939, a boy who watched American GIs stage through his town before Normandy and decided that was the life. British Parachute Regiment first, then Cyprus, then a uniform from a country he was not yet a citizen of. He joined the US Army in 1963 and by November 1965 he was a lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang Valley, the first major battle between American troops and the North Vietnamese Army. His men called him Hard Core. He came home with a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, and a Purple Heart. Then he became a corporate security director, which is where the story actually starts. In 1990 Rescorla and an old Vietnam friend named Dan Hill walked the World Trade Center looking at it the way two infantrymen look at terrain. They found the weak point fast. The basement parking garage was wide open. They wrote it up and told the Port Authority that a truck full of explosives could be driven in and parked under the tower. The fix cost money, and it was declined. On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb went off in that garage roughly thirty feet from the spot the two of them had circled. Most people would have taken the vindication. Rescorla took the next step. He told Morgan Stanley the building was still a target and that they should get out of it entirely. The lease ran to 2006, so the answer was no. So he did the only thing left to him, which was to assume the attack was coming and train for it. Every three months, no warning, he ran a full evacuation of every Morgan Stanley floor in the South Tower. Everyone went, down the stairwells, two abreast, at a pace he set. Senior executives went too, and he did not care that they hated it, and they did hate it. Traders being pulled off desks by a 60-year-old Cornishman with a stopwatch. He timed them. He made them do it again. 8:46 on the morning of September 11, 2001. The North Tower is hit. Over the public address system, the South Tower is told to stay put and return to desks. Rescorla got on his bullhorn and told everyone to get out. He was 62 years old. He was near the end of his career and he had every reason to be somewhere else that morning. Instead he stood in the stairwells and moved roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees, plus hundreds of other people, down out of the building. To keep them steady he sang into the bullhorn. Men of Harlech. God Bless America. The Cornish songs he grew up on. Grown adults later remembered the strangest thing about the worst day of their lives was the sound of a man singing in a stairwell. At 9:03 the second plane hit their tower, above them. Most of his people were already low or already out. He called his wife Susan. She was watching it on television and she was falling apart. What he said to her was this. Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. Then he went back up. He was last seen on the 10th floor, climbing, still going against the flow of people coming down. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59. His body was never recovered. Morgan Stanley had about 2,700 people in that building. Six of them died. Rescorla and members of his own security staff, who stayed with him. He spent eleven years telling people that an attack was coming and being told it was too expensive to prepare for. Then he spent the last hour of his life proving he had been right, and making sure it did not matter.

In 24 years of watching 9/11 memorials and the reading of the names of the dead, I have never heard applause. This morning the crowd did — because one brave widow, @TerrySStrada, looked at the leaders in front of her and refused to let the day pass in silence. She called out Saudi Arabia’s role, the broken promises, and a string of administrations that protected the Kingdom instead of helping to deliver justice for the families. A stunning, must-watch minute. Stand with the families.

Powerful

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9/11 Victim’s Son: "I don’t want to live in a country where my children are taught their grandfather deserved to get murdered because he was part of an evil Capitalist system." Amazing speech @VaughnMColeman

Keith Richards and Willie Nelson outliving Dolly Parton and Richard Simmons really has me questioning everything D.A.R.E. taught me.

The camera zoomed in on the survivors. Image hanging out a window, 100 stories off the ground w/a fire behind u. I yelled 2 my husband “Can’t a helicopter w/ a basket get them!!” He said a helicopter couldn’t get close enough. “What then, there’s got to be another way!” Al Qaeda didn’t just murder these people, Americans trying to do their jobs, terrorists tortured them to death. In the survivors’ last 30 mins on earth they had to CHOOSE whether to die by fire, or jump 100 stories to their death. Which is the quickest death? When @ZohranKMamdani says “3,000, died & I mourn all the people who died in wars afterward,” I’m infuriated. These Americans didn’t just “die,” they were tortured to death. & there would have been “no wars after” if not 4 Al Qaeda’s actions. I’m still mad Zohran choose #RamziKassem (lawyer of the WTC plotter!) as city’s top legal advisor. So disrespectful. @NYCCouncil @NYDSA @MicahLasher @RitchieTorres @DarializaforNY @claireforny @RepJeffries @RepTenney @lawler4ny @Grace4NY

Listen to long-lost Phil Lynott song recorded just weeks before his death loudersound.com/bands-artist…

Sunday morning stretch.

America the beautiful

‘Yerrow’ by Corrdpray. Is wide is mesmerised…❤️

Hey @BernieSanders It's translated now.

BUMBACLARTATION for the NATION