Wikipedia article of the day is Baljuna Covenant. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Baljuna Covenant was an oath sworn in mid-1203 by Temüjin—the future Genghis Khan (depicted)—and the Baljunatu, a small group of companions. Temüjin, khan of the Mongols, had steadily risen in power through the late 12th century in the service of Toghrul, […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on October 2, 2023: Group of trees in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.” – Augustus Hare

A good place to see a ring-of-fire eclipse, it seemed, would be from a desert. In a desert, there should be relatively few obscuring clouds and trees. Therefore late December of 2019, a group of photographers traveled to the United Arab Emirates and Rub al-Khali, the largest continuous sand desert in world, to capture clear […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Medieval cuisine. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Medieval cuisine includes the foods, diets, and cooking methods of various European cultures from the 5th to the 15th century. Cereals were the most important staple during the Early Middle Ages: barley, oats, and rye were eaten by the poor while wheat […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on October 1, 2023: Building of the State Historical Museum view from the Red Square, Moscow, Russia. The host of the Russian history museum was built based on Sherwood’s neo-Russian design between 1875 and 1881. More Info

“Autumn’s the mellow time.” – William Allingham

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

For northern hemisphere dwellers, September’s Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset, it rises behind cypress trees huddled on a hill top in Tuscany, Italy in this telephoto view from September 28. Famed in festival, story, and song, Harvest Moon is just the traditional name of the full moon nearest the […]