These are complicated days, and it's unclear what or who's in control...
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From the Apollo Operations Handbook Block II Spacecraft (October 15, 1969). This is a truly complicated user interface. P/C NASA |
Between the drama of the US election, the issues with COVID-19, various economic issues, wildfires in California, and yet-another hurricane about to land in Louisiana, the next couple of weeks are going to be busy.
So I'm declaring a two-week mini-holiday from SRS Challenges.
But don't look away.
Over the next two weeks we won't have our usual Challenge + Answer, but I'll be writing up a couple of posts and making a couple of videos that don't quite fit into the normal SRS narrative. In most cases, these are things I've wanted to write about, but didn't quite have the time. I think you'll enjoy these posts--I hope they appeal to your SRS curiosity.
And, of course, if you have something that you'd like me to write about, please leave me a note in the blog comments below or email me directly.
See you online in some new posts!
Search on.
Hello Dr. Russell!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure those will be great posts and videos. In the complicated days we need to add the upcoming Thanksgiving Day. That made me wander what happened in 1918, 1919 and specially pandemic times. Doing quick SRS, found interesting things like: Why Thanksgiving is always on Thursday? How often does birthday fall on Thanksgiving? For those born between November 22th and 28th... Answer is 4 times in 28 years. What happened or how was celebration those days. Apparently, churches were closed and family gatherings allowed
I saw this advertisement and shows Mexico's Día de Muertos with additional message that this is, they say, for all of those who left us without being able to say goodbye.
DeleteDay of the Dead. Dia de Muertos 2020: Icnocuícatl
wasn't that just two weeks ago…
ReplyDelete…when I zoomed… at least it was an honest interfac - OCB Button
Hi! I have a stumper of a question that maybe you and the crowd could help me with? A professor wants to know the origin/first use of the phrase "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" or similar wording. I've hunted around unsuccessfully and did use our access to early english books online which makes me think it was post 1700 but I could easily be wrong. Also thought it might have been in a primer or chapbook but not sure where one could find full text searching capabilities for those. Did try Hathi, and no luck. Thanks for considering my conundrum! Julia
ReplyDeletemay be what you are looking for??
DeleteJean Marzollo - 1492
complete poem
SERP
while biding time
ReplyDeletemore biding
oarweed kelp?
Alas, oarweed kelp is only in the Atlantic. (So far as I know...)
Deleteyes sir - was looking at that speck south of the Shetlands… you know your kelp… or did you do image search?
Deleteoarweed kelp?
The earliest quote I could find was this: The Young People's History of Maine From Its Earliest Discovery to the Final Settlement of Its Boundaries in 1842
ReplyDeleteBy George Jones Varney · 1874. Note that the quote is “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus crossed the ocean blue.” Young People a History of Maine (1874)
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ReplyDeleteTry me at drussell+SRS@ the obvious domain.
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DeleteThe plus sign is significant! drussell+srs@google.com
Deletethanks and the email went though
Deletethanks I think it went through let me know what you think
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