Continuing
From 12/25/1971 ( ) To 1/1/2025 ( ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 5/7/1992 ( ) is 9683 days
From 2/26/1993 ( ) To 1/1/2025 ( ) is 11632 days
11632 = 5816 + 5816
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 10/5/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Remarks Following a Meeting With Former National Security Officials on the Sale of AWACS Planes and Other Air Defense Equipment to Saudi Arabia ) is 5816 days
IMDb
Falling Down (1993)
Quotes
Bill Foster: [after fighting off two gang members] I'm going home! CLEAR A PATH, YOU MOTHERFUCKER! CLEAR A PATH! I'M GOING HOME!
From 3/8/1990 ( ) To 7/2/2027 ( ) is 13630 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 2/26/2003 ( ) is 13630 days
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/26/nation/na-pioneer26
Los Angeles Times
Pioneer 10 Space Probe Fires Off Its Last Message
February 26, 2003 From Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO - Earth has bid its final farewell to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, 31 years after the probe set off for the outer regions of the solar system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday it had received Pioneer's final signal last month and would no longer seek to track the now-remote object.
"After it passed Mars on its long journey into deep space, it was venturing into places where nothing built by humanity had ever gone before," said Colleen Hartman, director of NASA's Solar System Exploration Division. "It ranks among the most historic as well as the most scientifically rich exploration missions ever undertaken."
Pioneer 10, one of a series of unmanned space probes, was launched in 1972 to study the outer reaches of the solar system. It was the first to go through the Asteroid Belt, the first to send back pictures of Saturn and Jupiter and the first to go beyond Pluto.
NASA last received a signal back from Pioneer 10 on Jan. 22 from a distance of 7.6 billion miles -- 82 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. It took the faint radio signal 11 hours and 20 minutes to get home, traveling at the speed of light.
"Originally designed for a 21-month mission, Pioneer 10 exceeded all expectations and lasted more than 30 years," said project manager Larry Lasher at the Ames Research Center in California.
"It was a workhorse that far exceeded its warranty, and I guess you could say we got our money's worth."
From 2/10/1990 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"A Matter of Perspective" ) To 7/2/2027 ( ) is 13656 days
13656 = 6828 + 6828
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/1984 ( premiere USA film "The Last Starfighter" ) is 6828 days
From 1/18/1991 ( premiere USA film "Flight of the Intruder" ) To 7/2/2027 ( ) is 13314 days
13314 = 6657 + 6657
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/24/1984 ( debut of the Apple Corporation personal-computer Macintosh ) is 6657 days
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/29/video-bill-gates-steve-jobs-in-1983-internal-apple-promo-video.html
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
(from internet transcript)
:26:47
Whole town is dedicated.
:26:49
Know what I mean?
:26:53
You coming, Jake?
:26:56
Cold beer, hot women...
:26:59
Put the war in perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Hotel_Las_Vegas_Tesla_Cybertruck_explosion
He was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as Matthew Alan Livelsberger (July 22, 1987 – January 1, 2025)
From 7/22/1987 ( ) To 12/17/2020 ( ) is 12202 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1999 ( premiere USA film "The Matrix" ) is 12202 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9721666/
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The Stand
S1.E1
The End
Episode aired Dec 17, 2020
A deadly man-made virus, "Captain Trips", ravages the world's population. A number of survivors, immune to the virus, gather in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
From 4/2/1917 ( ) To 7/2/2027 ( ) is 40268 days
40268 = 20134 + 20134
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/2020 ( premiere CBS adaption of Stephen King's "The Stand" ) is 20134 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-joint-session-congress-requesting-declaration-war-against-germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
In 1921, the total reparation sum was placed at 132 billion gold marks. However, "Allied experts knew that Germany could not pay" this sum.
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 62
During the afternoons, she was on a streetlamp maintenance crew. What the job amounted to was testing the bulbs with a simple gadget and replacing them if they had burned out, or if they had been broken by vandals when Las Vegas had been in the grip of the superflu. There were four of them on the job, and they had a cherry-picker truck that trundled around from post to post and street to street.
Late that afternoon, Dayna was up in the cherry-picker, removing the Plexiglas hood from one of the streetlamps and musing on how much she liked the people she was working with, particularly Jenny Engstrom, a tough and beautiful ex-nightclub dancer who was now running the cherry-picker’s controls. She was the type of girl Dayna would have wanted for her best friend, and it confused her that Jenny was over here, on the dark man’s side. It confused her so much that she didn’t dare ask Jenny for an explanation.
The others were also okay. She thought that Vegas had a rather larger proportion of stupids than the Zone, but none of them wore fangs, and they didn’t turn into bats at moonrise. They were also people who worked much harder than she remembered the people in the Zone working. In the Free Zone you saw people idling in the parks at all hours of the day, and there were people who decided to break for lunch from noon until two. That sort of thing didn’t happen over here. From 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., everybody was working, either at Indian Springs or on the maintenance crews here in town. And school had started again. There were about twenty kids in Vegas, ages ranging from four (that was Daniel McCarthy, the pet of everyone in town, known as Dinny) up to fifteen. They had found two people with teaching certificates, and classes went on five days a week. Lloyd, who had quit school after repeating his junior year for the third time, was very proud of the educational opportunities that were being provided. The pharmacies were open and unguarded. People came and went all the time… but they took away nothing heavier than a bottle of aspirin or Gelusil. There was no drug problem in the West. Anyone who had seen what had happened to Hector Drogan knew what the penalty for a habit was. There were no Rich Moffats, either. Everyone was friendly and straight. And it was wise to drink nothing stronger than bottled beer.
Germany in 1938, she thought. The Nazis? Oh, they’re charming people. Very athletic. They don’t go to the nightclubs, the nightclubs are for the tourists. What do they do? They make clocks.
Was it a fair comparison? Dayna wondered uneasily, thinking of Jenny Engstrom, who she liked so much. She didn’t know… but she thought that maybe it was.
She tested the bulb in the hood of the light standard. It was bad. She removed it, set it carefully between her feet, and got the last fresh one. Good, it was near the end of the day. It was—
She glanced down and froze.
People were coming back from the bus stop, headed home from Indian Springs. All of them were glancing up casually, the way a group of people always glance up at someone high in the air. The circus-for-free syndrome.
That face, looking up at her.
That wide, smiling, wondering face.
Dear sweet Jesus in heaven, is that Tom Cullen?
A dribble of salt-stinging sweat ran into her eye, doubling her vision. When she wiped it away, the face was gone. The people from the bus stop were halfway down the street, swinging their lunch buckets, talking and joking. Dayna gazed at the one she thought might be Tom, but from the rear it was so hard to tell—
Tom? Would they send Tom?
Surely not. That was so crazy it was almost—
Almost sane.
But she just couldn’t believe it.
“Hey, Jurgens!” Jenny called up brassily. “Did you fall asleep up there, or are you just playing with yourself?”
Dayna leaned over the cherry-picker’s low railing and looked down at Jenny’s upturned face. Gave her the finger. Jenny laughed. Dayna went back to her streetlamp bulb, struggling to snap it in, and by the time she had it right, it was time to knock off for the day. On the ride back to the garage, she was quiet and preoccupied… quiet enough for Jenny to comment on it.
“Just got nothing to say, I guess,” Dayna told her with a half-smile.
It couldn’t have been Tom.
Could it?
“Wake up! Wake up! Goddammit, wake up, you bitch!”
She was coming out of murky sleep when a foot caught her in the small of the back, knocking her out of the big round bed and onto the floor. She came awake at once, blinking and confused.
Lloyd was there, looking down at her with cold anger. Whitney Horgan. Ken DeMott. Ace High. Jenny. Only Jenny’s usually open face was also blank and cold.
“Jen—?”
No answer. Dayna got up on her knees, dimly aware of her nakedness, more aware of the cold circle of faces looking down at her. The expression on Lloyd’s face was that of a man who has been betrayed and has discovered the betrayal.
Am I dreaming this?
“Get the fuck dressed, you lying, spying bitch!”
Okay, so it was no dream. She felt a sinking terror in her stomach that seemed almost preordained. They had known about the Judge, and now they knew about her. He had told them. She glanced at the clock on the night table. It was quarter of four in the morning. The Hour of the Secret Police, she thought.
“Where is he?” she asked.
“Around,” Lloyd said grimly. His face was pale and shiny. His amulet lay in the open V of his shirt. “You’ll wish he wasn’t before long.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_(electric)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_machine
by me, Kerry Burgess, August 28, 2018
I wonder if that's the same day I remember graduating from United States Navy basic training in Orlando.
Must have been.
The uncertainty in my mind is because of vague memories I still have about those last days before we left.
I can still visualize that last day, had my seabag and sunglasses on and the company commander sending us off and I can visualize myself walking for the last time out the door of that barracks we had been in for 8 weeks.
I went across base to begin Basic Electricity and Electronics School for the Electronics Technician occupation rating, a rating I chose because it was one of only two ratings in the Advanced Electronics Field, along with Fire Controlman, and the ET rating required several more weeks of electronics training than FC and I found that appealing to me.
I had spent over a year - a total of 419 days to be exact - on a shakedown period for the USS Taylor FFG-50 where I had many responsibilities including being responsible for the boatswain locker, helmsman, lookout, repair locker personnel, damage control, others , including helicopter flight deck crewman
All I know for certain is my official military records tell me I was transferred from basic training by the United States Navy on Monday, July 16, 1984.
The previous Friday was the 13th.
The details I vaguely recall are about how my company, C155, finished the course of instruction several days before the other company's finished. The reason, I vaguely recall, is that several companies began the course of instruction during the same week but on different days of the week. So we started on a day before the others started and we finished a few days before the last company finished. If we started on a Monday then others started on Friday. So we finished on a Monday and they finished on a Friday. But we all graduated on the same day, which I believe was a Friday and I have reason to believe was the 13th. I can't imagine we were goofing off for over a week waiting for the other company to finish the course. K076 was the female company I remember starting with us on the same day and I think they were in the same large classroom with us for classroom instruction. I remember a vast number of sailors being on the field for graduation ceremony and my company was a large group of sailors.
The answer might be out there somewhere on the internet but I can't find it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale
No official records were kept of Hale's final speech. It has traditionally been reported that his last words, either entirely or in part, were: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." The account of the quote originated with British Captain John Montresor, who was present at the hanging. The next day, he spoke with American Captain William Hull under a flag of truce. Hull recorded in his memoirs the following quote by Montresor:
"On the morning of his execution," continued the officer, "my station was near the fatal spot, and I requested the Provost Marshal [William Cunningham] to permit the prisoner to sit in my marquee, while he was making the necessary preparations. Captain Hale entered: he was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, in the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions. He asked for writing materials, which I furnished him: he wrote two letters, one to his mother and one to a brother officer. He was shortly after summoned to the gallows. But a few persons were around him, yet his characteristic dying words were remembered. He said, 'I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country.'"
Nathan Hale - From Wikipedia
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:44 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 01/03/2025
