Fascinating stuff, even though if it had succeeded, it would have served the forces of evil to prolong (or even turn around, which I doubt) the war ...
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/horten-ho-229-v3/nasm_A19600324000
Anyway, folks, we're only ten days away from our 300th...
Today marks the 20th anniversary of - Wikipedia:
https://www.wikipedia.org/
Yes, 2001-01-15 was the day the site went online. It's come a long, long way - while basically maintaining all principles it's based upon. Pretty darn impressive.
M.
The Cameraderie 43th Challenge theme is: Layers
One of the things I'm working on right now is trying to incorporate layers into my street photography, so I thought that would be a good challenge theme as well.
Layering isn't just for street photography, it can be applied to virtually all...
I'm settling on something simple today (very tired, trying day): 228 in binary reads 11 10 01 00 - which, read in groups of two, is a binary countdown ...
Well, neat. :biggrin:
M.
In 1898, on this date, Émile Zola published "J'accuse" - exposing and condemning the Dreyfus affair.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jaccuse
Sorry to revisit this subject so soon after day 219 - but I think it's an extraordinary event insofar as art stood up against establishment and had a...
11 years ago, Haiti was devastated - and it's still going on ...
A really sombre reminder. Still, maybe it's necessary. It certainly puts things into perspective.
M.
Since it's actually directly tied to this day of the month:
Surprisingly thought-provoking (provocative language notwithstanding). It also saved you from some history lesson or other ;)
M.
A little math trivia for starters: 223 is prime, but lives in a so-called "sea" of composite numbers: The next smaller prime is 211 (an impressive twelve units smaller), the next bigger prime is 227. 223 is special in that it is the smallest prime that lives within such a vast sea of non-primes...
Take it as it was conceived (with lots of tongue in at least four cheeks):
And here's a more palatable version of the general idea:
Most people are more familiar with version "4" ... but "1" appeared alongside "9" on the iconic White Album (I own the original vinyl ...).
M.
Anyone still remembering this?
It always strikes me the so-called Deadly Sins are so very human in nature ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins
N.B. I report on this strictly from a historical standpoint, not a moral or theological one.
M.
410 years ago, Galilei first observed Jupiter's four biggest moons (which are since called the "Galilean" ones).
And because Phil Plait does a great job at explaining things further, here's his take on Jupiter's moons.
M.
Dexter Gordon doing "Four" - something not even Wikipedia knew about ;)
(Sorry, after finding this, I just wanted to put it somewhere - I hope you excuse my laziness ... Other than Sputnik I entering Earth's atmosphere on this date in 1958, I didn't find anythnig I wanted to report, and the...
On this date, in 1977, Apple Computer was officially incorporated (it was founded less than a year earlier, on April 1 1976). The rest is history - if you like it or not ...
He's going of on a tangent after some eight minutes or so - he routinely does that; I don't want to endorse him or...
At, Bi, Po, Pa, Ra, Rd, Th, U - all of these elements sport a radioactive isotope with 217 protons and neutrons in their respective nuclei ...
Following that lead, I also found this:
Could be worse ...
M.
Researching "second" (instead of the more obvious "2") was rather interesting ... Trivia time, but not maths for a change ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_dealing
M.
A little bit of math trivia once again: 3^3+4^3+5^3=6^3=216
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plato_number.svg
Since Plato was the first to (officially, so to speak) notice this, it's called Plato's Number.
You know me: Neat! :)
M.
Alright, as the Commissioner has ruled this acceptable, here is a bonus round, or a side quest, involving Single in January. Each weekend, shoot and develop some film. My rules are: I have to either shoot or finish off a roll over the weekend and post a scanned photo from the weekend (no photos...
From Stevie Ray Vaughan's first appearance, published on the seminal album "In the Beginning": Live Another Day ... good motto!
(I remembered that album when I was thinking about "beginnings" ...)
M.
I never researched "January" before ... and wasn't aware of Janus' significance (even though I knew the "figure").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
Britannica is more succinct:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Janus-Roman-god#ref246449
M.
For those who have been with us from the start: We've reached 275 days of continues shooting - which means that even in a leap year, we've done three quarters of a whole year!
A suitable milestone to end this crazy year with!
On the tune of three fourths ... well, of course ...
Oh, and ...
A complete outlier, but I found this interesting - because alternative technologies had existed for quite some time by 1986 ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/30/newsid_2547000/2547587.stm
That's the thing with traditions, really ... They develop a live of their own...
In 1911, the man who would level the playing fields on nuclear weapons was born:
Klaus Fuchs gave Stalin's U.S.S.R. the knowledge how to build an atom bomb.
He paved the way for MAD - we'll never know if that was a good thing ...
There's a new book on him, too; I found the Wikipedia entry...
Completely OT - but I stumbled upon another video on Aspirin and then went to research willow bark; alas, lots of enthusiastic esotericisms about - but also some interesting insights.
M.
Starting Dec. 28th 2020 and ending Jan. 10th 2021
The Cameraderie 42th Challenge theme is: Masked
Since ten months now, almost everyone we meet is wearing a mask for self and others health protection purpose, and I am a bit tired of it... Let's do something more fun or artistic with this. So...
As promised a long time ago, we'll do it:
The Single in January 2021 (SiJ 21) challenge!
The core rules:
Take at least one image per day during one month - and post (only) one image to each day's thread. The image doesn't have to be posted on the same day it was taken, but regular...
I really never thought of researching the 12 days of Christmas thing before ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas
... and then I remembered:
M.
Please take this with the same tongue-in-cheek attitude that permeates the original:
(Listening is of course not compulsory in order to participate in this thread ;))
Anyhow, Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it. And to stay strictly British (as if I was), here's another source of...
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