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The Giant Concrete Arrows and Early Airmail Delivery
Featured Image: First U.S. Air Mail flight takes off from Washington, D.C. on May 15, 1918, flown by U.S. Army pilot Lt. George Boyle (U.S. Army photo) with “Inaugural Aerial Post” cover with Washington, DC “First Trip” canceled cover carried on that flight. Transferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:SchuminWeb using CommonsHelper. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain)
From Mary Martin (The Hollow Hassle)
9/9/2013
Giant Concrete Arrows…
These Really Exist:
Giant Concrete Arrows That
Point Your Way Across America…
Every so often, usually in the vast deserts of the American Southwest, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling: a large concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, sitting in the middle of scrub-covered nowhere.
What are these giant arrows? Some kind of surveying mark?
Landing beacons for flying saucers? Earth’s turn signals?
No it’s . . .The Transcontinental Air Mail Route.
On August 20, 1920, the United States opened its first coast-to-coast airmail delivery route, just 60 years after the Pony Express closed up shop. There were no good aviation charts in those days, so pilots had to eyeball their way across the country using landmarks. This meant that flying in bad weather was difficult,
and night flying was just about impossible.
The Postal Service solved the problem with the world’s first ground-based
civilian navigation system: a series of lit beacons that would extend from
New York to San Francisco. Every ten miles, pilots would pass a bright yellow concrete arrow. Each arrow would be surmounted by a 51-foot steel tower
and lit by a million-candlepower rotating beacon.
(A generator shed at the tail of each arrow powered the beacon.)
Now mail could get from the Atlantic to the Pacific not in a matter of weeks,
but in just 30 hours or so. Even the dumbest of air mail pilots, it seems, could follow a series of bright yellow arrows straight out of a Tex Avery cartoon. By 1924, just a year after Congress funded it, the line of giant concrete markers stretched from Rock Springs, Wyoming to Cleveland, Ohio. The next summer, it reached all the way to New York, and by 1929 it spanned the continent uninterrupted, the envy of postal systems worldwide.
Radio and radar are, of course, infinitely less cool than a concrete
Yellow Brick Road from sea to shining sea, but I think we all know how
this story ends. New advances in communication and navigation technology made
the big arrows obsolete, and the Commerce Department decommissioned the beacons
in the 1940s. The steel towers were torn down and went to the war effort.
But the hundreds of arrows remain. Their yellow paint is gone,
their concrete cracks a little more with every winter frost,
and no one crosses their path much, except for coyotes and tumbleweeds.
But they’re still out there.
“I fear that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world then will have a generation of idiots.”. . . Albert Einstein
Area 51 Acknowledged By Feds: Early Spy Planes Mistaken For UFOs (With Video)
From Huffington Post by Lee Speigel Posted: 08/20/2013 2:38 pm EDT | Updated: 08/20/2013 3:11 pm EDT
Once upon a time, Area 51 didn’t exist. Now, apparently, it does. And it’s still one of the most secret places in America.
After decades of denial, the government now publicly acknowledges that Area 51 — seen below in a satellite image — is a secret military installation north of Las Vegas. It has been variously referred to as Groom Lake, Dreamland and The Ranch. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube uploaded by kafadokya
CIA: The mysterious Area 51 exists!
Published on Aug 16, 2013
New document shows the CIA is becoming less secretive about Area 51’s existence.
Dig a LITTLE DEEPER~ THEI Archive: “Area 51”
Disturbing News on the Early Opening of NSA’s Utah Datacenter and the FBI
Featured Image: The Utah Data Center located in Bluffdale, Utah. CREDIT: Swilsonmc SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).
From Daily Kos SAT JUL 20, 2013 AT 11:26 AM PDT
It’s amazing what our inverted totalitarian government can accomplish when they focus their collective institutionally paranoid minds upon a project. Take the NSA’s massive surveillance data processing and collections center in Bluffdale, Utah. As James Bamford noted in early 2012, it was scheduled to be up and running by September 2013, two months from now. But, according to NSA whistleblower Russell Tice, it already is.
And, before reading this eye-opening piece, I just want to state the obvious to all those reading these words, because this certainly is worthy of repetition: The simple fact remains that if all this information (and I earn my livelihood, in part, by working with personal-private information on a daily basis) is accessible to domestic law enforcement authorities, IT WILL BE ABUSED, and it most certainly is being abused; and, sooner or later, the odds are that this abuse will egregiously target not just YOU (it already has), but virtually all that struggle via non-violent protest for change in America. . . . Read Complete Report
Image: The National Security Agency of the United States is building a giant data center in Bluffdale Utah. It will cost $2 billion and collect so-called “yottobytes” of information; a yottobyte is a septillion bytes (10^24). According to one report, “It’s a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nation’s cybersecurity.” It will collect a wide range of data about people to prevent terrorism. In addition, it will have powerful computers built to decipher encrypted information. Ref: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 – The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) By James Bamford, Wired, 03.15.12; Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan. CREDIT: Tom W. Sulcer. Source: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).
N.C. Police Lieutenant Warns Of Martial Law In Early 2013 (Video Report)
Category: Eyeballin' the One World Order /
Tags: 2013, early, Lieutenant, martial law, N.C. North Carolina, t Warns
Firsthand Account of Ketchikan Alaska’s Early Days
Photo: Downtown Ketchikan Alaska in May, 2002. CREDIT Robert A. Estremo, copyright 2002. SOURCE Wikipedia (License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
From Sit.News
By DAVE KIFFER
December 12, 2012
Wednesday AM
EXCERPTS
. . . “Most of Ketchikan’s early residents were boomers and builders who left few journals or letters behind. But one family, the Hunt family, left behind a treasure trove of early photographs of the growing community.” . . .
. . . “Forest Hunt, who brought his family to Ketchikan before the town incorporated in 1900, also left a firsthand account of the early days in the form of a radio address that he gave on KGBU, Ketchikan’s first radio station in 1930>” . . . Read Complete Report w/photos
Archaeologists claim objects are earliest ‘matches’
from BBC News
8 August 2012 Last updated at 02:54 ET
By Nick Crumpton BBC News
Researchers from Israel say that mysterious clay and stone artefacts from Neolithic times could be the earliest known “matches”.
Although the cylindrical objects have been known about for some time, they had previously been interpreted as “cultic” phallic symbols.
The researchers’ new interpretation means these could be the earliest evidence of how fires were ignited.
The research was published in the open access journal Plos One.
The journal reports that the artefacts are almost 8,000 years old. . . . Read Complete Report
Category: True Hidden History /
Tags: 000 years, 8, archaeologists, artefacts, clay and stone, early, fires, ignited, matches, objects
Early Human Ancestor, Australopithecus Sediba, Fossils Discovered in Rock
Photo: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China. CREDIT Greg Peterson SOURCE Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
from Science Daily
ScienceDaily (July 12, 2012) — Scientists from the based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have just announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of ‘Karabo’, the type skeleton ofAustralopithecus sediba, discovered at the Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009.
Professor Lee Berger, a Reader in Palaeoanthropology and the Public Understanding of Science at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution, will make the announcement at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China on 13 July 2012. . . . Read Complete Report
Category: True Hidden History /
Tags: Astralopitecus Sediba, discovered, early, fossels, himan ancester
