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"The Moon is by no means clothed in a smooth and polished surface, but in one rough and uneven; and, just like the face of the Earth itself, it exists crowded with vast swellings, deep hollows, and windings everywhere." Galileo (1610)
Surely the assumptions of what count as "exotic" food are very North American? Potatoes and pumpkins but no nutmeg.
It specifically exempts Welsh, because this would probably go against a bunch of Acts of Parliament
Can't you just imagine an inquisitive lord interrupting his bard on the lyre and going "Wait so how did she know that was Hermes?" The bard stops playing "they're both gods, my lord" "But they are clearly different kinds, in different places!" So the bard sighs and improvises these last two lines
Someone should write a silly farce, in the classic sitcom style of someone having to be on two dates at the same time, of shapeshifting Athena getting into hilarious scrapes when she bumps into the real people.
It's so weird that people like to repeat this. It's not true. Brits love authority.
Anglo-Saxon England really went "whaaaaat north Germanic forces from the continent invading ME now?"
Getting head might be one of the easiest things in the world
There's an actual news item on the Government website reporting the "appointment". www.gov.uk/government/n...
LOL it's real. It's like first they have to sign a velum contract saying you're "it", then you can go.
It's almost impossible to show the Earth-Sun distance to scale. Here you can see the Sun and the distance, but Earth is invisible in this scale. The red line shows the closest we get to the Sun, and the yellow the furthest. 400 Earths would fit in the difference.
Northern summer coincides with the furthest distance from the Sun: but it doesn't make much difference. The N hemisphere has a lot of land & thus absorbs heat well. When it's summer in the South and we're closest to the Sun, the vast oceans of the S hemisphere reflects a lot of the extra heat.
The Earth spins, and on the solstice, the sun will be directly overhead at local noon along the Tropic of Cancer. And it's called "tropic" because the sun "turns" (after the solstice it will appear lower in the sky day after day at noon) ("tropos", see "trope", a "turn" of phrase)
We are actually very close to point C in the diagram above. From our perspective, the Sun is "in" Cancer, hence people being born now are Cancers and during the June solstice the sun is straight overhead for people who live along the Tropic of Cancer, in the Northern Hemisphere, because of the tilt.
LOL at this digitised version of a 17th-century book about astronomy using emojis to render the astrological symbols the original used to represent the zodiac constellations
The first time the transit of Venus was observed was in 1639. There have only been 6 other ones since then.
Awww look there were adorable drawings in magazines of children watching it!
The 1882 Venus transit appears to have been watched with excitement by common people who knew it would never been seen in a lifetime. I lost the 2012 chance so that was it for me.
Explaining to a 17th century Englishman that the Earth spins: imagine a cannon
I keep forgetting to show off my embroidery whenever I see the Tumblr mushroom post
So then Alex Ross publishes a response which is basically a *profoundly stupid* book, whose main thrust is "a planet is a star and the earth isn't a star 😝 GET A BRIAN MORONS" which Wilkins quotes extensively in later editions and does ha ha he