On This Day: J. Robert Oppenheimer dies

On Feb. 18, 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 62.

On February 18, 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 62. File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)” “When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes (Author of The Open Mind)

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In 1954, the Church of Scientology was established in Los Angeles.

The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron ...

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Jan 2, 2015 - Born 100 years ago, Jack Parsons seemed devoted to reconciling ... The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron Hubbard ...

In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016.

AND A THIRD

Snow in the Sahara Desert - CNN.com

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Jan 9, 2018 - It's quite a time for weird weather, and it doesn't get much weirder than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world. On Sunday, Ain Sefra, a desert town in Algeria known as the "Gateway to the Sahara," experienced a substantial amount of snow for reportedly the third ...

BUT 1979 WAS NOT THE FIRST RECORDING OF SNOW IN THE SAHARA ALEISTER CROWLEY REPORTED ON IT IN THE BYSTANDER MAGAZINE 1911  

Aleister Crowley in the Desert An excerpt from The Place of Enchantment British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen