The Blue Marble Album

May 1, 2026

The City of Many Firsts

Preliminary Note: Before all else, know that the infamous Pittsburgh accent is
actually the Clairton accent and it's rarely heard around the Pittsburgh area any-
more. However, when that accent was more frequently heard, it did make you
cringe.

Proof that the accent is almost extinct is simple. First, call to mind Jeff Goldblum,
Michael Keaton, Denis Miller, the late Gene Kelly, Barbara Feldman (the original
Agent 99), the late Andy Warhol, Academy Award winter Shirley Jones, singing
sensation Jackie Evancho, Super Bowl champion Joe Montana, Heisman Trophy
winner Tony Dorsett, NY Jet sensation Curtis Martin, Jack Dodson (the actor who
played Howard Sprague on Andy of Mayberry), record-breaking quarterback Dan
Marimo, best selling author Rachel Carson, Mr Rogers of Public TV fame, Julier
Benz of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, Frank Gorshin (the Riddler on the Bat-
man TV series, and other celebrities.

Now, do or did any of the aforementioned celebrities ever speak in the infamous
Pittsburgh accent which is actually the Clairton PA accent? ANS: No. Of course
not. Then, case closed. The infamous Pittsburgh accent is almost an extinct accent.
Let us continue:

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the region where three major rivers converge, is the site of:

-the world's first wire cable suspension bridge. -the world's first continuous roll
printing press. -the world's first Ferris Wheel's design (the original was put
on display in Chicago, for the first time.) -mankind's first long distance use of
alternating current electricity. -mankind's first motion picture theater, located
on Smithfield Street. -mankind's first commercial radio station, namely KDKA
Radio. -America's first drive-thru gasoline station (petrol station), located on the
corner of Baum Boulevard and St Clair Street. -the first utilization of air brakes.
-America's first major league base ball stadium made entirely of concrete & steel ... in 1909 ... in the form of Forbes Field. -the
first road map ever distributed by an oil company; namely Gulf Oil.
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-the Western Hemisphere's first successful oil refinery, located on Seventh Avenue,
-the first indoor zoo, in the form of the Pittsburgh National Aviary. -the first build-
ing constructed with liquid-fireproofed columns, namely the U.S. Steel Tower.
-the invention of the game of Bingo, originally called Beano. -the world's first pro-
duction of commercial aluminum. -the first all-aluminum shelled skyscraper, in the
form of the Alcoa Building. -the first atomic submarine engine (constructed for the
U.S.S. Nautilus), -the first use of Daylight Savings Time, -the first Zippo Lighters.
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-the world's first nuclear reactor, in the form of the Shippingport Plant. - the first
public TV station, in the form of WQED TV. -the polio vaccine. -the world's first
retractable arena roof, namely the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. -the first university sky-
scraper, namely the Univ of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning which continues to
be the tallest academic building in the Western Hemisphere. -the first combination
liver, heart, and kidney transplant. -the world's first robotics institute, as well as the
home of:
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---Five Pulitzer Prize winners, ---movie icon Gene Kelly, ---baseball icon Stan Musial,
---baseball icon Honus Wagner, ---music icon Henry Mancini, ---environmentalist and
    author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, ---Gertrude Stein, ---Billy Eckstein, ---Andy
    Warhol, ---Mr. Rogers, --- academy award winner Shirley Jones, ---Michael Keaton,

---Jeff Goldblum, ---comedian Dennis Miller, ---comedian Marty Allen, ---the original
    Candid Camera traffic cop, Vic Cianca, whom I once met, ---recording artist Perry
    Como, ---recording artist Bobby Vinton, ---recording artist George Benson, ---TV
    game show host Bill Cullen, ---the original Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), ---Andy of
    Mayberry's Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson,) ---the original Riddler (Frank Gorshin,
    of the televised Batman series), ---World Series champion manager, Terry Francona,

--- numerous NFL standouts such as -Dan Marino, -Joe Montana, -Heisman Trophy
     winner Tony Dorsett, -Oakland Raider legend George Blanda, -Jet running back
     Curtis Martin, -Jet super bowl quarterback Joe Namath, -all-pro lineman Jimbo
     Covert, -all-pro lineman Bill Fralic, -Super Bowl coach, Bill Cowher, -Super
     Bowl coach, Mike Ditka, --- and others.

    Plus, there's an underground aquifer called the Wisconsin Glacial Flow, located
    54 feet below. It extends throughout various Southwestern Pennsylvanian areas.

The historic and renovated Smithfield Street Bridge

           Pittsburgh had the largest airport on earth in 1962, and even in the 1970s, the
           Conway Yards (located 21 miles northwest of downtown Pittsburgh) was the
           largest push button railroad in the world.

A surrealistic city preserved in plate glass.
If you don't realize to what this refers,
look at the reflection in the plate glass.

           The most notable aspect about Pittsburgh is that it was the king of steel, even
           when it came to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washing-
           ton Bridge, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and the Golden
           Gate Bridge, as well as its own buildings. Of course, Bethlehem Steel, in the
           eastern sector of Pennsylvania, also supplied steel to the aforesaid architectural
            icons.

River boats docked at the Monongahela at night.

            Pittsburgh was declared the most livable city in America as far back as 1979,
the year when Pittsburgh won the World Series and the Super Bowl. Ironical-
            ly, in 1985, when the Pittsburgh steel industry was being destroyed, and when
            the United States became the top debtor nation on earth, Pittsburgh was once
            again declared the most livable city in the United States.

            A couple decades later, in 2007, Rand-McNally again declared Pittsburgh the
            most livable city in America, as did the Economist Magazine in 2009 and 2010.
            Forbes Magazine would then declare Pittsburgh the most livable American city
            in 2011. Below is a pictorial of Pittsburgh.

The Three Rivers Confluence at Night.

Four Gateway Center

Two PNC Plaza

The view from the Monongahela side of the city.

The view of Heinz Field and the Three Rivers Confluence from Mount Washington

Historic St. Boniface, on East Street, near route 279.

In Pittsburgh, the bridges are as close as next-door neighbors.

One of the few remaining inclines of Pittsburgh

One Oxford Center

University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning.

Entering the downtown from Oakland, where Pitt's campus is located.

Should you be slightly interested in seeing more recent photographs of the former steel capitol of the world ... the city of bridges ... the land which carries the imprint of the Great Ice Age so much so that it conceals the Wisconsin Glacial Flow 54 feet below it ... the multiple Super Bowl trophy depository ... the home of a few Stanley Cups ... and the metropolis of many technological firsts, the following might quench your curiosity a bit more.

http://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2013/03/more-of-pittsburgh-in-pictures.html

https://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2013/09/pgh-three-rivers-confluence.html

An about-the-author page would dispel any prejudice, disrespect, or distrust

The reason for the creation of the Blue Marble Album was this: Americans were being hideously deceived by power grabbers who obviously thought that Americans were the most stupid and gullible people on Earth. A prime example was seen in the majority of Americans believing in the non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. And of course, this was not the only con game orchestrated by Americans in political and/or financial and/or societal power.

The con games done by unconscionable career politicians, activists, and arrogant journalists were such an insult to the intelligence of one Pennsylvania native that the deceptiveness called for a response. Eventually, he would include numerous pieces of photocopied evidence, to support his assertions and declaratory statements in over three hundred writings. Doing such a thing is equivalent to warning the People of the wolves in their midst.

A lot of such work is found at this site: https://www.bluemarblealbum.com

Now, the author of this site was a whistle blower more than once, and he paid heavily for it. This includes him enduring the trashing of his reputation and in him being completely shut-off by those influential powers that be. This included threats of physical violence, as well as one actual attempt at very physical violence, done in front of the property owner where the failed attempt was made. This whistle blower retaliation even included threats to his car.

An instance of the Blue Marble Album author being a whistle blower who was abandoned & isolated after retaliation is here:

https://www.donaldwuerl.com/2013/06/torquato.html

For the record, Donald Wuerl is now a retired corrupt & unrepentant bishop who became a very corrupt & unrepentant cardinal, during the reign of Nazi Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict's papacy was the epitome of corruption, as was proven to have been the case, by his butler handing over evidence to certain journalists.

The media originally made Donald Wuerl out to be the most holy cleric in America, in a long-term propaganda ploy. However, a 2018 Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report revealed how corrupt this Donald Wuerl actually was. The Grand Jury Inquest occurred under the supervision of former AG and present governor Josh Shapiro. For now, let's continue with the original purpose of this particular post ...

... and, let's use photocopies to introduce or reintroduce the author of the Blue Marble Album.

Below: an Honors Society yearbook photocopy of a Catholic college, in 1983. After his attendance at the Univ of Tampa ... where Patrick Anthony Pontillo ended-up being published in anthology form ... at the age of 20 ... along side national book award winners, a Walt Whitman Award winner, and other laureates ... he enrolled at a Pennsylvania college where he was taught by one of JFK's former economic advisors.

Concerning the 1983 photo below, the Blue Marble Album author, Patrick Anthony Pontillo, is the one in the checkered flannel shirt, standing in the second row, next to the Clark Kent look-alike.

Above: As far as goes Patrick's status at the time of the photo, he was a first semester senior during finals week. So, you cannot deny that he was at the top ... at the very top five or so ... of his class. All the people in that photo had at least a 3.5 gpa.

One more pertinent note: In 1983 Patrick was also inducted into the Phi Sigma Iota Language Honors Fraternity, for exceptional achievement in languages ... well you know the rest. Incidentally, the chapter which inducted him was the Iota Iota chapter.

As an added note, while at the Catholic college there, during the year prior, Patrick scored a 100% on a national, standardized accounting exam authored by Harvard University.

In fact, the first anthology in which Patrick was ever published sits on a Harvard University library shelf today, as well as on a Northwestern Univ book shelf, and at other college libraries. So, he has proven himself to have been able to keep pace with the Ivy League. And you wonder if you should spend time reading his writings?

His writings contain a lot of charts, graphs, newspaper photocopies, and similar pieces of evidence, to prove the validity of his assertions and declaratory statements. If you don't want to read his writings, then at least look at all the illustrations. If you do not want to read the historic newspaper photocopies he posted, then at least read their headlines and sub-headlines.

In addition, Patrick later became a member of the International High IQ Society which is a good additive. But on its own, it's not worth anything. With a National Honors Society membership and a Phi Sigma Iota membership, an IHIQS membership becomes a confirmation that you're not dealing with sophomoric chump change, in terms of apprehending subject matter, comprehending the meaning of the subject matter, and then applying a rhythm to cognizance, while developing thought processes in sequences, and conveying the subject matter as if to be showing a movie ... or as if to be taking you through a proverbial Time Machine.

Lineage

It's acknowledged that many an American has a distrust of Hispanics. This is understood, even as to why this is so, as in violent gangs and the drug trade. Well, Patrick's last name almost matches a former president of Mexico. So, he sounds very Latin American. While in Florida, he was often assumed to be from Central America, until he was heard speaking in his northeastern American accent.

The truth is that Patrick's paternal grandparents came from the Mount Vesuvius part of Italy --- Benevento & Avellino --- near Naples. In fact, Patrick is part Northern Italian, also.

In addition, Pat's maternal grandparents came from Southwestern Ireland --- Tipperary & Muintervara (in Kilcrohane ... Munster Province ... on the peninsula between Bantry Bay & Dunmanus Bay.)

Moreover, the give-away which showed Patrick to not have been a Central American ... or NOT to have been the "Spic" people assumed he was ... was whenever you got close to him and saw green-hazel eyes. You would instantly realize that he was deliberately named after the patron saint of Ireland. None the less, Pat was called a "Spic," before.

Pat's father was no Central American, as well. He was a native of Central Pennsylvania. He was a mechanical engineer for the Armco Steel Corporation who earned the GI Bill & Distinguished Flying Cross, by traveling over the more hostile parts of Nazi German airspace 35 times, in a heavily armed B-24 Bomber.

Pat also has a sibling who was a metallurgical engineer and a military officer. In fact, Pat's extended family members are mostly teachers/professors and lawyers, in addition to one electrical engineer.

He's from a very white collar upper-middle class, country club family. All members of that family were sent to private academies, for a portion of their school years. In fact, when you're a member of that family, you are expected to make the national honors society. Don't judge a last name by its cover.

Back to the Honors Society Photo

Now, when you are looking at an Honors Society photo, you are looking at those at the top of their classes. You see ten students in the photo above, in a school of approximately 1,750 or so undergrads. Today, that same school has an undergrad enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. A few years prior, the enrollment was approximately 2,000 undergrads and 400 graduate students of varying sort.

Below is a letter of recommendation from his philosophy professor. It and the photo above should help you figure out if this Patrick Anthony Pontillo guy is worth reading. At the least, his numerous photo-copies of evidence are very much worth viewing.

BELOW: Patrick's contribution to an anthology published in 2024.

In re: The Character Assassination Maneuver

Perhaps you know how it goes: If "they" can't beat you on the issues, they resort to attacking you with character assassinations. So, if a predictable ad hominine character assassin declares the Blue Marble Album author to be a cold & repressed oppressor who doesn't know what he's talking about ... who doesn't understand humanity ... who can't relate to people ... and who must be avoided or silenced ... your response is ====>

Above: The main subjects in those two photos look like the same one blonde. They are actually two different women from different parts of America.

And this is yet an entirely different blonde.

Even though the subjects in each of these two photos can look like the same brunette, they are two entirely different women, from different counties and different backgrounds.

Below: Ye olde college days.

For familiarization purposes, how about including work experience in picture form?

For the record, Patrick has done concrete work, carpentry, heavy equipment operating, "heavy landscaping," siding & window work, and he laid a lot of pipe ... as in underground pipelines. This included relatively large concrete pipes. In as much, if you walk around Downtown Pittsburgh long enough, you will literally walk on his work.

Concerning other Pittsburgh work he has done, in order to get anywhere near that work, you need to be a bird or at least someone with a long ladder. He did a lot of government contract work, even for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Pittsburgh City Engineers, HUD, the URA, the U.S. Dept of Energy, the Pennsylvania Dept of Education, and various "Councils of Governments". Residential work too.

Above: Some of Patrick's very recent places of work. You need to be a bird to get near this work.

The achievement in this is that, from 2004 to 2011, he predominately lead the life of an invalid, due to a severe allergic & asthmatic condition which included upper-respiratory reactions such as erythema, splitting headaches, splitting ear-aches, etc. He won his disability case in 2003. His disability was declared "a non-exertional disability." All allergic disabilities are.

It's simply that his old construction company granted him accommodations that no other company would or even could grant. So, he is still made out of glass, and he only works half the hours he

used to work. But, how many people can do this type of work for even 1 hour, and not undergo a painful injury of some degree? How many people can do such work for an hour and not mess things up?

Incidentally, the most common thing said during the viewing of a recently deceased asthmatic, at a funeral home, is: "I was just talking to him last week, and he was fine."

The bottom line is that, while Patrick was in his invalid state, the only way in which he could communicate was through writing. So, write he did. And then, Politics became the dissemination of lies, on the mainstream media circuits. So, in response to the mass dishonesty, Patrick had to continue to write ... hundreds of posts ... with lots of illustrations, especially newspaper articles of old.

One of his accomplishments was that of proving that nothing which happened in the past five years, weather-wise, is new ... and that the charts and graphs of the Biden years had easily provable lies in them, making the Biden-Harris people a clan of intelligence-insulting liars.

Patrick also did historical society work. The oldest house he renovated was built in 1832. The second oldest house he ever worked-on was built in 1847. Being a Pittsburgh-based construction worker means that Patrick regularly worked on houses built in the 1890s, the turn of the 20th Century, and the 1920s.

He also did construction work in Chicago and the Chicago area, as well as in Meadville Pennsylvania, Somerset County, Reading PA, Greene County, and the now-infamous city of Butler, Pennsylvania.

The "heavy equipment photo" above are literally historic. This is because Patrick was the last heavy equipment operator to perform the final demolition on the formerly famous J&L Steel Works of Aliquippa Pennsylvania. He removed the last remaining steel mill slab there.

Above: Patrick at the former construction company headquarters. It was a 10,000 sq ft complex, located eighteen to twenty-two blocks away from the Univ of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning.

As an added note, Patrick once held four insurance licenses simultaneously. It was technically known as one Pennsylvania insurance license with "4 powers of authority," This included: 1] Life & Annuities, 2] Property, 3] Casualty, 4] Accident & Health which is NOT the same as selling medical insurance which is a topic for another time. The area to which Patrick was assigned by his insurance company was Beaver Falls, a place made famous by Super Bowl icon Joe Namath.

Posted as proof. Posted for no other reason.

And then there's the matter of Patrick's sports background, for familiarization purposes. In the photo below, he's the man in the middle.

Moreover, while in college ... in Florida ... he hid the fact that he was the stereotypical joke. This is because, in those days, the cancel culture would cut you off and condemn you, under the phrase, "Oh, he's just a jock."

None the less, he earned five letters in high school sports and also won a summer league baseball championship on a team which mostly consisted of the teammates of the local championship football team. But, Pat didn't attend that particular school. Only he and the shortstop were not members of that championship football team.

And concerning that summer league baseball team, the catcher of the year prior ended up in the Super Bowl and the National Football Hall of Fame. And of course, during the off-season, football players were known to either get into golfing or to play summer league baseball.

The bottom line is that certain Florida college classmates were shocked to find out (years after their college days) that Pat was the stereotypical American jock. He hid that secret very well.

The secret was almost instantly no more, when he transferred to a Pennsylvania college, being that, while he was standing in the exact middle of the campus, a crew of classmates threw him a football and needed someone to throw them passes. And he refused to be rude. He was then asked to go out for the football team there, but he had other time obligations. It was a Franciscan college and not a Division I school. So ...

Patrick again.

Pontillo's numerous hours of research and writing were actually years of research and writing ... and it was an unpaid public service. Lots of work for no pay. He was given a $100 donation once, back in 2014. But he was never given as much as a penny after that time, and never before so, either.

It was a matter of years of work done for free, as a public service.

Even at that, the $100 was given in gratitude for him exposing the corruption of Cardinal Donald Wuerl. That involves an entirely different website.

This translates into a writer who has no conflict of interest, as in paychecks for things written. He NEVER got paid to write what he did. That makes him the opposite of a propaganda puppet.

April 22, 2026

Part 1: Muslim Aggression toward Catholics, since 634 CE

This is Part 1 of a five part series

It's 1683 and it's exactly one-thousand, forty-nine years or so after the Muslim Religion first sent troops to attack and decimate all that is Christian and all who refuse to pay the extortion tax called the Jizya.

The post which used to be here can now be found at:

https://www.theheartofmary.com/2026/03/the-religion-of-war.html