Sunday, January 31, 2021

Mary 1 vs Mary Queen of Scotts

The Tudor dynasty is one of the more famous, if not infamous, periods of British royalty.  You can see the movie Elizabeth, its sequel Elizabeth The Golden Age, or the entertaining Tudors TV series about King Henry VIII.

This https://www.triviagenius.com/answer/who-was-the-first-reigning-queen-of-england/YBBlFhi0UIl_BpZe   Trivia Genius post confuses Mary 1, sometimes called "Bloody Mary", with Mary Queen of Scotts as if they are the same person, going as far as making the outrageous statement, "who followed Mary's example by having Mary herself executed". 

So I wrote them to explain the error. 




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Friday, January 29, 2021

Fwd: Systems

As I posted this to Facebook I touched up the working a little and added a sentence to the end.

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From: John Coffey <
Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:54 PM
Subject: Systems
To:

The "Solar System" is a "system" consisting of at least eight planets, many dwarf planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids and comets, all bound together by the gravity of a large central star.

The Milky Way Galaxy is a system of up to 400 billion stars, stellar nurseries, rotating arms, and a large black hole in the middle that helps hold everything together, again with gravity. Our galaxy is so large with such a large gravitational attraction that it has 1 or 2 other smaller galaxies that orbit around it, and these together also form a system. Groups of galaxies form Galactic Clusters where their mutual gravitational attraction binds them together. The entire universe consists of spiderweb-like strings of galaxies formed theoretically by Dark Matter.

A single atom is also a system, consisting of a large electron cloud bound to a small central nucleus by the electromagnetic force. The nucleus is also a system consisting of protons and neutrons held together by the strong nuclear force, but each of these is a system consisting of three quarks held together also by the strong nuclear force. Groups of atoms form molecules, held together by the electromagnetic force. Large groups of like molecules and atoms form chemicals, coalescing into substances, and these can be combined in different ways to make the materials that everything is made out of.

Your body consists of many different systems working in tandem, but each cell is a very complex system by itself, like a microscopic chemical factory.

The planet Earth also consists of many different systems keeping the whole thing going.

With so many systems from the supergalactic to the subatomic, it gives the impression that there is some sort of design behind it all. It could be that it is just the emergent property of matter and energy along with the laws of physics to form more complex systems.

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Systems

The "Solar System" is a "system" consisting of at least eight planets, many dwarf planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids and comets, all bound together by the gravity of a large central star.

The Milky Way Galaxy is a system of up to 400 billion stars, stellar nurseries, rotating arms, and a large black hole in the middle that helps hold everything together, again with gravity.  Our galaxy is so large with such a large gravitational attraction that it has 1 or 2 other smaller galaxies that orbit around it, and these together also form a system.  Groups of galaxies form Galactic Clusters where their mutual gravitational attraction binds them together.  The entire universe consists of spiderweb-like strings of galaxies joined theoretically by Dark Matter.

A single atom is also a system, consisting of a large electron cloud bound to a small central nucleus by the electromagnetic force.  The nucleus is also a system consisting of protons and neutrons held together by the strong nuclear force, but each of these is a system consisting of three quarks held together also by the strong nuclear force.  Groups of atoms form molecules, held together by the electromagnetic force.  Large groups of like molecules and atoms form chemicals, coalescing into substances, and these can be combined in different ways to make the materials that everything is made out of.

Your body consists of many different systems working in tandem, but each cell is a very complex system by itself, like a microscopic chemical factory.

The planet Earth also consists of many different systems keeping the whole thing going.

With so many systems from the supergalactic to the subatomic, it gives the impression that there is some sort of design behind it all.

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Sunday, January 24, 2021

10 Story Fantasy v01n01 (1951 Spring) (Tawrast EXciter)

This 1948 story, published in 1951, by Author C Clarke was the inspiration for 2001 A Spacey Oddysey.  It does not seem like a particularly good story, but it is a start.

https://archive.org/stream/10_Story_Fantasy_v01n01_1951-Spring_Tawrast-EXciter#page/n39/mode/2up

Sunday, January 17, 2021

What Are Irregular Verbs? | Word Genius

It has been a long time since school.  Nice to have the refresher.  This gets more complicated in Spanish and many other languages that have much more verb conjugations than English. 

https://www.wordgenius.com/what-are-irregular-verbs/Xr0yWBPAJQAG8w_e