Rowing The Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage.  Day 39, Wednesday 22nd June.Bright moon all night, clean sunrise again and 2 hrs later still cloudless. But it did not take long yesterday to change...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

A Subtle Reminder That May Be Rehabilitated Away

Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging Brookfield Properties to preserve a battered relic of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: the stippling indentations visible on the uptown side of the Liberty Street pedestrian bridge, which were created by an avalanche of falling debris, when the towers of the World Trade Center fell. The bridge...

June 22

1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in...
The Cuyahoga River, located in Ohio feeds into Lake Erie. The river is famous for having been so polluted that it "caught fire" in 1969.

Rowing The Atlantic

Bright moon all night, clean sunrise again and 2 hrs later still cloudless. But it did not take long yesterday to change that, we’ll see. Also less wind, a gentle 10-15 k fromSSW, sea also calmer than for a long time, only occasional white “curlers”. Maybe 1 k or so current with me more like...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.