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
The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury on September 15, 2022. The tobacco farm where Martin Luther King worked—Meadowood—is located west of the Farmington River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. via NASA https://ift.tt/LP0iGIj
Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, this simple snapshot found the waning Moon’s sunlit crescent just before […]
Sunny today! With a high of 1C and a low of 1C. 89 Humidity. -6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 12, 2024: Ana Rosa metro station, green line, São Paulo, Brazil More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: SMS Prinz Adalbert was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine, and was named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, the former commander-in-chief of the Prussian Navy. Her class included a second ship, Friedrich Carl. Prinz […]