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God bless you. I have no
language to express the emotions of my heart. The shock is so sudden
and unexpected; I am overwhelmed. Stationary waves in the
earth mean something more than mere telegraphy without wires to any
distance. They will enable us to attain many important specific
results impossible otherwise. For instance, by their use we may
produce at will, from a sending-station, an electrical effect in any
particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position
or course of a moving object such as a vessel at sea, the distance
traversed by the same, or its speed; or we may send over the earth a
wave of electricity traveling at any rate we desire, from the pace of
a turtle up to lightning speed. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power
obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel. We
find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the
earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your
splendid mathematicians. Throughout space there is energy. Is this
energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic
- and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of
time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very
wheelwork of nature. |
Nikola Tesla reads a book in his Colorado Springs,
Colorado laboratory on December
31, 1899, while several million volts light up the lab. The image was in fact created using trick photography, with Tesla's image superimposed. |
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though
the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ...
Nikola Tesla; 'The
Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means Of Furthering
World Peace', Electrical
World And Engineer, January
7, 1905
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with
the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the
object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing
that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent
of his labor.
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not
produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead
of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply
and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla; 'Radio Power Will
Revolutionize the World', Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
Common people must have
rest like machinery but the great old Nick – the Busy One – see
him go 150 hours without food or drink. Why, he can invent with his
hands tied behind his back!
Robert Underwood Johnson, a friend of Nikola Tesla
Today's
scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander
off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure
which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla
Our
virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they
separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
I
do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like
that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding
to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love,
everything.
Nikola Tesla
Tesla
has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.
William
Thomson, Lord
Kelvin
[Tesla
is] an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents ... I
congratulate [him] on the great successes of [his] life's work.
Albert Einstein
The
world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in
achievement and imagination.
Edwin Armstrong
...
all scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest
congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great
contributions to science.
Lord Ernest Rutherford
Tesla
is entitled to the enduring gratitude of mankind.
Arthur Compton
I
am sending [Dr Tesla]... my gratitude and my respect in overflowing
measure.
Robert Millikan,
American physicist
The
evolution of electric power from the discovery of Faraday to the initial
great installation of the Tesla polyphase system in 1896 is undoubtedly
the most tremendous event in all engineering history.
Charles F Scott
[Dr
Tesla's] lectures opened a new physical world to me ... [He was] one of
the kindest men I've ever encountered. The hours which I was permitted
to spend together with [him] will always be among the fondest memories of
my life.
Jonathan Zenneck
We
think of his contribution much oftener than that of Ampere and Ohm ... the induction motor and our power system are enduring monuments to Nikola
Tesla.
Dr EFW Alexanderson
The last 29 days of
the month are the hardest.
Nikola Tesla (attrib.)
[Saddam
Hussein] has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons ... including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas ... [he] has at this moment stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
Donald Rumsfeld, USA Defense Secretary, born on July 9, 1932; to the House Armed Services
Committee, September
18, 2002
The US should
assert its military dominance over the world to shape "the international
security order in line with American principles and interests," push for "regime change" in Iraq and China, among other countries, and
"fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars …
While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the
Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
'Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a
New Century,' The Project for the New American Century [members include Dick
Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld], September,
2000
No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Donald Rumsfeld; testimony to US Congress, September
19, 2002
We know where they [Iraq's WMDs] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld; ABC interview, March
30, 2003
I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
Donald Rumsfeld, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing,
May 14, 2003. However,
note that Dick
Cheney, on NBC's Meet the Press, March
16, 2003, had clearly stated: "We believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
How many times must
a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Bob Dylan;
second verse of 'Blowin' in the Wind', recorded on July 9,
1962 Source
When you're a kid and you get this drug that makes
you feel that feeling, where else are you going to turn when you're
an adult? It was euphoric when you were a child – isn't that going
to stick with you?
Courtney Love, born on July 9,
1965; on Ritalin and
progression to heroin
July 9
is
the 190th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (191st
in leap years), with 175
days remaining.
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Feast day of Our Lady of Chiquinquira
"In the mid-16th century the Spanish painter Alonso de Narvaez created a portrait of the Virgin of the Rosary. He painted in pigments from the soil, herbs and flowers of the region of modern Colombia, and his canvas was a rough 44" * 49" cloth woven by Indians. The image of Mary is about a meter high, and stands about a half moon. She has
a small, sweet smile, both her face and the Child's are light colored, and she looks like she's about to take a step. She wears a white toque, a rose-coloured robe, and a sky blue cape. A rosary hangs from the little finger of her left hand, and she holds a sceptre in her right. She holds the Christ Child cradled in her left arm, and looks toward him. Christ has a little bird tied to his thumb, and a small rosary hangs from his left hand. To the sides of Mary stand Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Andrew the Apostle, the personal patrons of the colonist and monk who commissioned the work Don Antonio de Santana and Andrés Jadraque.
"In 1562 the portrait was placed in a rustic chapel. It was exposed to the air, the roof leaked, and soon the damage caused by the humidity and sun completely obscured the image. In 1577 the damaged painting was moved to Chiquinquirá and stored in an unused room. In 1585 Maria Ramos, a pious woman from Seville, cleaned up the little chapel, and hung the faded canvas in it. Though the image was in terrible shape, she loved to sit and contemplate it.
"On Friday 26 December 1586 the faded, damaged image was suddenly restored. It's colors were bright, the canvas cleaner, the image clear and seemingly brand new. The healing of the image continued as small holes and tears in the canvas self-sealed. It still has traces of its former damage, the figures seem brighter and clearer from a distance than up close. For 300 years the painting hung unprotected. Thousands of objects were touched against the frail cotton cloth by pilgrims. This rought treatment should have destroyed it, but it healed and survives. Pope Pius VII declared Our Lady of Chiquinquirá patroness of Colombia in 1829, and granted a special liturgy. In 1897 a thick glass plate was placed over it to stop the weather and the excesses of the faithful. The image was canonically crowned in 1919, and in 1927 her sanctuary declared a Basilica." Source
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