by Grania
Good morning, welcome to Sunday!
Today in 1776 John Nixon delivered the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. In 1874 the Mounties begin their March West. In 1994 Kim Jong-il assumed supreme leadership of North Korea on the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, and in 2011 Atlantis launched on the last US Space Shuttle mission. The most important one, today in 1947 broadcasts reported that a UFO had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico spawning movies, TV series, novels and countless conspiracy theorists including one taxi driver in Cork, Ireland who tried to convince me of its truth just last week.
Today is the birthday of Kevin Bacon (1958), Winnie Fung (1962), Beck (1970)
Re-live your youth
From Poland Hili is trying out her best etiquette, and then retiring it in short order.
Hili: Do you mind my bringing dead mice onto the verandah?A: I do.Hili: Too bad. You’ll have to get used to it.
Ja: Przeszkadza.
Hili: No trudno, musisz się z tym pogodzić.
Finally onto interesting tweets from the Twittersphere.
Tweet from a reader whose name Jerry mislaid: The answer is below the fold:
https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1002372871220539392
Baby flamingo
Actually, flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that they obtain from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. This is a baby flamingo https://t.co/rBiF7pK0qY pic.twitter.com/h3SPj3p47E
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 7, 2018
Reciprocity
He will try to brush you back in some kind of grooming 69 pic.twitter.com/OmS1kImtIu
— Katie (@ZiziFothSi) July 7, 2018
Baby coral
Meandrina meandrites juvenile coral aglow in the dark (from the #miamicoralrescuemission) #coralmorphologic pic.twitter.com/53P8OQSFBb
— Coral Morphologic (@CoralMorph) July 7, 2018
Priceless Amber
A praying mantis trapped in amber. Approximately 12 million years old. pic.twitter.com/7ECv5jaoaS
— Sofía Martínez-Villalpando (@sofiabiologista) July 7, 2018
Part MCMXXVIIII of “Isn’t Nature Wonderful”
My first encounter with Leucochloridium, a nasty worm that encourages birds to peck off snails eyes! pic.twitter.com/Zssc82wtLG
— Barry Stewart (@Gowermoss) July 5, 2018
A Twitter book-club you can join.
On Monday 9 July at 9am, a global Twitter reading group of WG Sebald's great & haunting book, The Rings of Saturn, begins here – running until 2 August. Join us!
Hashtags will be #TheReadingsofSaturn & #TRoS.
A brief thread follows about how the reading group will work. pic.twitter.com/J9W2vnbaG5— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) July 6, 2018
Breakfast Cat
Put a mandarin on my Cat so she looks like an Egg 🍳 Yeah, my Saturday night is lit 🔥 pic.twitter.com/JTRmJRss4Q
— MrSamMac (@MrSamMac) July 7, 2018
Woe to those ill-mannered enough to get married during football season.
https://twitter.com/bbcpaddy/status/1015590863886569472
It’s coming home! Shabbat shalom! Come on England 🏴 #ItsComingHome #ENG pic.twitter.com/fHpH1TENXG
— Karen Pollock (@KarenPollock100) July 6, 2018
Hat-tip to Matthew, mystery Tweet person, Barry & Gethyn
The answer to the dice puzzle:
Woohoo! Prize when? pic.twitter.com/hgusTgWSE7
— Liz Finnegan (@TheGingerarchy) June 2, 2018
The praying mantis is still praying! 12 million years!
Which just proves God has been around for at least 12 million years…
Cower, brief mortals!
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I think the worm getting into snails’ eyes is a better proof.
You just let your mind wander for a moment and the next thing you know, bang! you end up in resin and amber and then you go on display! Stay focused!
There is an ‘improved’ [years later] version of the original pictureless 1947 Roswell Daily Record front page report of the “flying saucer” that includes the top pic, but without the body & now it has added corpse!
The pic below of a police sergeant plus saucer is a still from a Pathe News report re a ’67 English hoax – 6 saucers supposedly found scattered across the south of England. Here:
That mistake was SUPER easy to find!
BTW, I am one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon, because we share a birthday!
Happy Birthday to you!
Thanks!
Habby Pirthday Andrea!
Thanks!
Hippo Bird day to you and approximately (7,632,819,325 / 365 = 20,911,833.767) twenty-one million other people who share your birthday with you.
Special? Yes, yes we are all special, although UNICEF estimates that currently 353,000 babies are born each day in the world.
With me AND Kevin Bacon!
There is another mistake that maybe not all of us spotted: ‘tariffs on our allies’, now that is a real mistake!
Not a subtle one though.
Trade wars are not subtle, but generally a mistake.
On the more relaxed scale (where you count all film crew, not just actors) I do have a Bacon Number, it’s 3.
Since there have been no World Cup posts for a couple of days, I’ll take it on myself to point out that Martin C’s prediction of Belgium beating England in the final is still on. Hooray! Although, ultimately I hope he fails at the last hurdle.
Having said that, I watched Belgium beat Brazil and I think they are looking really strong.
I really did think that cat with a mandarin orange was an egg on a car seat.