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Happy Birthday!
Carl David Anderson (1905–1991) was an esteemed American physicist.
He studied physics and engineering at the California Institute of Technology, earning
his Ph.D. in 1930.
Anderson won the Nobel Prize in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, a subatomic particle
that’s also called a positive electron.
Other honors he received for his work include the Gold Medal of the American Institute of the City of New York and the Presidential Certificate of Merit.
Quote of the Day
“The atom can’t be seen, yet its existence can be proven. And it is simple
to prove that it can’t ever be seen.”
~ Carl David Anderson
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
On This Date
1752 – September 3 did not happen in Britain, nor did the next 10 dates.
The Roman-era Julian calendar had become 11 days out of step from the solar cycle. In response, Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar, which moved September 3 up to September 14. People rioted in the streets, thinking the government had stolen 11 days of their lives.
1935 – For the first time, a vehicle reached a land speed exceeding 300 miles per hour. The driver was Malcolm Campbell, and the record was set at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1976 – The unmanned U.S.
spacecraft Mars Viking 2 landed on Mars after nearly a year en route.
Daily Trivia
Ben and Jerry learned how to make ice cream by taking a
$5 correspondence course offered by Penn State. The
friends decided to split one course.
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Eye in the Sky
Earth is sometimes called terra firma, which means “solid earth,”
but half the planets in our solar system are not solid at all. They are instead made of gas. The four “gas giants” are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. These planets have small solid cores of rock and ice, but the giant bulk of them are made of the gases helium, hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. Jupiter, too, is likely to have a massive ocean composed of liquid metallic hydrogen, which makes landing on its surface out of the question.
Fashion of Yesteryear
In the 12th century, men and women alike wore the popular bliaut. These long dress-like garments had tight waists and wide-cuffed sleeves that drooped all the way down to the floor. We often see this
garment depicted on medieval damsels in distress in fairy tales.
The men’s version was slightly less tight-fitting
with a flared and pleated skirt. The bliaut became most popular in France but found wearers as far as Rome and Germany.
Who Said So?
This poet, the only one to win four Pulitzer Prizes, wrote, “A person will sometimes devote all his life to
the development of one part of his body—the wishbone.”
Today is
World Beard Day. The average beard grows more than five inches per year. By the time Hans Langseth died in 1927, his beard had grown to a length of 17 feet, six inches, making him the record holder for the world’s longest beard.S
ATURDAY, S
EPTEMBER3, 2022
Word Wise
Which word is not like the others?
breach casement
occlusion aperture
ANSW ER: A
n occl usion i s a bar rie r; t
he ngs. peni e o rs ar othe
ANSW ER: R
obert Fro st
