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Theodor Seuss Geisel March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991 (aged 87) http://www.salttvnetwork.com/sites/d...6434c4882e.jpg Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss! My favorite quote: "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." |
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
This beautiful image shows one of the spiral arms of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M83 or NGC 5236.
This galaxy is located about 15-million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra. M83 is a barred spiral galaxy and is one of the closest such objects to Earth; it is easily visible with binoculars. This particular image, taken in 2009 by the Hubble Space telescope, imaged wavelengths from ultraviolet and near-infrared, revealing the history of star formation in this sector of the galaxy. Here, you can see M83’s galactic core, many bright blue star forming areas containing stars between 1 and 10 million years, and the remnants of about 60 supernovae. https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...55260111_o.jpg |
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March 3, 1931
It was on this day in 1931 that "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the official national anthem of the United States.
The lyrics come from a poem written by Francis Scott Key more than a century before, "Defence of Fort McHenry." He'd spent a night toward the end of the War of 1812 hearing the British navy bombard Baltimore, Maryland. The bombardment lasted 25 hours — and in the dawn's early light, Francis Scott Key emerged to see the U.S. flag still waving over Fort McHenry. He jotted the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" on the back of an envelope. Then he went to his hotel and made another copy, which was printed in the Baltimore American a week later. The tune for the "Star-Spangled Banner" comes from an old British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven," which was very popular at men's social clubs in London during the 1700s. Francis Scott Key himself did the pairing of the tune to his poem. It was a big hit. For the next century, a few different anthems were used at official U.S. ceremonies, including "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "Hail Columbia." The U.S. Navy adopted "The Star-Spangled Banner" for its officialdom in 1889, and the presidency did in 1916. But it wasn't until this day in 1931 — just 82 years ago — that Congress passed a resolution and Hoover signed into law the decree that "The Star-Spangled Banner" was the official national anthem of the United States of America. |
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America, we have a problem!
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Astronomy Photo of the Day
This A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y stunning celestial region is the Lagoon nebula (also known as Messier 8), which is depicted in this newly released image, captured by the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope from Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Lagoon nebula stretches more than 100 light-years across in our night sky, some 4,000 light-years away from our solar system embedded in the disk of the Milky Way. The prominent pink areas are emission of ionized hydrogen atoms, created by ultraviolet radiation streaming from massive blue-white newborn stars at the heart of the cluster. https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...47431282_n.jpg |
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Viktor Aleksandrovich Hartmann (1834-1873)
Paris Catacombs loc: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...21380572_n.jpg |
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Lady, a problem we have had for centuries. Yet, we would like to compete against educational elites. Sad sad sad...
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In 1935, Northern Tissue advertised "splinter-free" toilet paper. Yep, you read that right; early paper production techniques sometimes left splinters embedded in the paper. And you thought you had it tough! http://americandigest.org/sidelines/...freetoilet.jpg |
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