Picture of the day for January 15, 2024
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 15, 2024: Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 15, 2024: Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is WWJ-TV. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks […]
Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don’t exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun’s corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth’s […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of -1C and a low of -1C. 88 Humidity. -4 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 14, 2024: A panorama showing the Uluguru Mountain Ranges, in Tanzania More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Fleetwood Park Racetrack. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century American harness racing track in the Bronx, New York City. The races were a popular form of entertainment, drawing crowds as large as 10,000. The one-mile (1.6 km) course described an unusual shape, with four turns in […]
Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it’s an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year, perihelion was on January 2 at 01:00 UTC, with the Earth about 3 million miles closer to the Sun than it was at […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of -2C and a low of -2C. 93 Humidity. -4 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Carucage. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Carucage was a medieval English land tax based on the size of the taxpayer’s estate. It was levied six times: by Richard I in 1194 and 1198, John in 1200, and Henry III in 1217, 1220, and 1224. The taxable value of an estate was […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 13, 2024: Building in downtown Caracas, Venezuela More Info