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. His Latest Post: Day 28 continued. As you can see from my position, another no row day. A good day, all the same, as I...
313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia. 1381 – The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace. 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest...
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion female models
The numbers look good and the effect celebratory. The earliest sunrises of the year in our locale, 5:24am EDT (4:24 EST), began on June 11 and continue through the 18th. Summer Solstice, when the northern hemisphere is at full tilt towards the sun, occurs on June 20 at 6:34pm, while the Strawberry Moon reaches full...
Analemma at 7 a.m. in Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan during 2013.
Photographed by Masayuki Shiraishi. Used with permission and thanks. Courtesy EarthSky.org
An unidentified female bicyclist was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at the corner of West and Chambers Streets on Saturday evening, shortly before 8pm. The driver of the vehicle that allegedly hit the woman reportedly continued driving, but stopped two blocks away, where he was arrested. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said...
The scene at Chambers and West Streets on Saturday night_ shortly after a hit-and-run driver allegedly slammed into a female cyclist (who has yet to be identified) and killed her.
Here’s his latest post:. Why am I here? Day 26. Thursday 9th June. I got through the night without any more proper knock-downs. But plenty seas growling down on me as if saying they like to and me thinking they will. Once more, I had decided, and out goes the sea anchor. I had hatch...
671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”. 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created...
Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku.
