Ah, the calendar again, let's see what I wrote down. It says here there was $160 in the office lotto pool. It was a New Moon. JP says we will begin to paint the garage on the weekend. In 1969, the Beatles "Get Back" topped the chart. That was the end of an era. Maybe there are bands that outsell the Beatles every month, but none of them ever took the world by storm like the Fab Four. Nobody, but nobody, has ever come close. Not even what's-his-face Jackson. The "whisper singer".
To make sure I was reading the charts right, I glanced at music before 1960. Except for a few extremely popular early rock tunes, I don't recognize anything. And for any readers who still don't have a problem with the government keeping files on everything, today in 1943 the Gestapo used "harmless" census records to identify, locate, and condemn twelve Dutch citizens to the gallows. Many more were to follow. Can you imagine if the Dutch had kept voter registrations?
Trivia. One this day in 1178, five monks in Canterbury, England, reported seeing an explosion on the surface of the moon. The event, which ran contrary to dogma which held the heavens are unchanging, was covered up. Even today, such sightings are labeled "transient lunar phenomena". The Canterbury incident has an interesting twist. Recent evidence shows that on that same date, when New Zealand was unknown to anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, a massive explosion occurred at a place called Tapanu. I would not have looked twice, but [in 2014] I was studying celestial navigation and noticed the two events happened on nearly opposite points on the globe at the same instant.
Canterbury Lat 51.28 Lon 1.09
Tapanu (Tapanui) Lat -45.94 Lon 169.26
Why, if I was a suspicious sort of person, I'd be right incensified.
Silver was $5.91 per ounce. And here is a photo of the transit (crossing of the sun) of Venus in 2004. By 2014, we are easily able to view such events safely because of sun filters used for navigation studies.
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