What Happened On October 15, including Today's Trivia, Birthdays, Events, plus daily puzzles and daily quotes
Months with 31 days: January, March, May, July, August, October, and December. February has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years (every 4 years), to account for the extra quarter-day in the Earth's orbit. Evolution of Day Numbers to Calendar Dates: Early Calendar dates...
“Santa had to leave me here and go on with the other seven reindeer.” “Isn’t it a bit unusual for a reindeer to get air-sick? I mean, isn’t flying what reindeer are famous for?” “Not me, I’m afraid. It makes me scared. I always feel sick when it comes to flying,”...
I read on my phone that the worst parts of the storm are behind us, with some flooding and road closures, and I keep hoping that I’ll make it to Tokyo before the typhoon puts the brakes on the trains. Luckily, I make it to Tokyo right on schedule, where I get on the Yamanote L...
Answering deep questions about quantum gravity has not really happened. They have all these hammers and they go looking for nails. That’s fine. But it isn’t fine if you forget that, ultimately, your goal is describing the real world. ...
Long after the fall of modern Western civilization, the result of increasing totalitarianism and a supernatural illumination event, some children find a hiding place with things from before including a written manuscript recounting what happened. It is also not as long as some of O’Brien’s ...
Or should one state that everything in life is a consequence of what happened before and this would mean that almost every death is unnatural. How far back in time does one go on the chain itself? For example, an elderly person dies of pneumonia (a natural cause of death) after ...
Their progress happened in each episode, and every time you saw them on screen, their chemistry was undeniable and their development was a joy to watch. Uh, it’s just like a… good friend once told me. I had to find another way..” Felicity: You killed again and I am the one who...
And here’s a snippet showing the jump from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar on October 15th, 1582. Be aware that the default NSCalendar uses the Julian calendar before this date. (For “fun”, check out October 1582 in iCal…) ...