ALL THE REST –    January 22
  

 

Today's Quotations — CHANGE
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

- Lyman Lloyd Brysoni

  
 

Things do not change, we do.

- Henry David Thoreau

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

-  Robert F. Kennedy 

  
 

 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoi

 

word puzzleToday's Word – PELAGIC

 

pe·lag·ic adjective Of, relating to, or living in open oceans or seas rather than waters adjacent to land or inland waters: pelagic birds.

The species teuthus is not a numerous one; the teuthus differs from the teuthis in shape; that is, the sharp extremity of the teuthus is broader than that of the other, and, further, the encircling fin goes all round the trunk, whereas it is in part lacking in the teuthis; both animals are pelagic.

HISTORY OF ANIMALS
Aristotle

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 

The Moon part  5
With my hands I stretched out the heavens. All the millions of stars are at my command.

Isaiah 45:12

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LUNA- Leftovers & corrections

Earlier I stated that there were 15 moons that orbited the planet Uranus. The January 1998 issue of 'Sky and Telescope" reports that a quartet of scientists have discovered moons number 16 and 17. Brett J. Gladman and his team aimed the 5-meter Hale telescope, toward the planet Uranus on the nights of September 6 and 7 of 1997. Review of the exposures over the next several days revealed the presence of two more moons for the planet Uranus.

The two moons are the dimmest yet seen by a ground based telescope at 20th and 22nd magnitude. The dimmest moon is estimated to be 80 kilometers in diameter and was designated S/1997 U 1. The other moon was estimated to be twice that size and was designated S/1997 U 2. The two satellites appear to have inclined, highly eccentric orbits. The irregular orbits are possibly retrograde orbits that take the moons 6 and 8 million kilometers from the planet Uranus.

Several Though our moon is the closest heavenly body from earth. There is still a great deal about this satellite that is unknown. The moon was trod upon by only 12 men over six short trips to its surface. The surface area of the moon is about equal to the area of the Asian continent. The lunar hemisphere that faces earth is about the size of South America. That's a lot of area to cover.

The phases of the moon are in constant change. The sun's position above a given part of the moon's landscape varies tremendously. If you watch the moon through a telescope you will see the shadows cast by the features around a crater are constantly shifting. Due to the regression of the moon's orbital nodes, the exact light conditions repeat only once every 18 years.

There is also a lunar event known as TLP - Transient Lunar Phenomena - that may occur on the moon. Lunar features are said to suddenly become lighter or darker, or even change color for unknown reasons.

Sources | Sky and Telescope, January 1998,
"On Becoming a Lunatic" - Jock Elliott (lightkeeper@sprintmail.com ) |  Two New Moons for Uranus |Encyclopaedia Britannica | The Handy Science Answer Book 

 

 

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night ...

Genesis 1:14-16a

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

  
   

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What did the doctor say about your insomnia?

He said I should drink a glass of warm milk after a hot bath.

Does it work?

I don't know, I can  never finish drinking the bath.

David A. Rinke II drinkeii@moose.erie.net

Two robins were lying on their backs, soaking up some sun. A Mama cat and her kitten were walking by. The kitten complained, "Mama, I'm sooo hungry, what can we eat?" To which the Mama cat, spying the 2 robins, replied, "How about some Baskin Robbins?"

David A. Rinke II <drinkeii@moose.erie.net>

Little Johnny was rough housing with his dog.  His mother said to him, "Now, Johnny, I know you love Wilbur, but  you're loving him too much.  How would you feel if someone huge picked you up and squeezed you so hard you couldn't   breathe?" 

Little Johnny thought a moment and then said, "I  guess I'd feel like it was my birthday and Aunt Agnes was  here!"

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Someone mistakenly leaves the cages open in the reptile house at the Bronx Zoo and there are snakes slithering all over the place. Frantically, the keeper tries everything, but he can't get them back in their cages. Finally he says, "Quick, call a lawyer!" "A lawyer? Why??"  "We need someone who speaks their language!"

GROAN

I was complaining the other day to a friend about the knot in my tie. He asked, "Do you know how to do a Windsor knot?"

I replied, "It doesn't matter if you Windsor knot, it's how you play the game!"


A businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, "Bill, I want you to promise me that when I die you will have my remains cremated."

"And what," his friend asked, "do you want me to do with your ashes?"

The businessman said, "Just put them in an envelope and mail them to the Internal Revenue Service and write on the envelope, "Now you have everything."

Three preachers were out on a fishing trip, and in the boat began a heated discussion as to which of their churches had the earliest founder.
 
The Disciples of Christ pastor bragged that his church was founded by Jesus Christ.   The Baptist pastor replied that John the Baptist's ministry began six months before Jesus', and he saw John as his founder.


The Assembly of God pastor listened and then pointed out that, since the theory of evolution was not Biblical nor true, Adam did not evolve.  So with the dust of the ground God made Adam as the first "assembly of God." 

TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 

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