Showing posts with label navy with color flecks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label navy with color flecks. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2021

31 January 21

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Repetition is a hallmark of Philip Glass' music, so I'm repeating my text for this date from 2019: Celebrating the birthday of compo...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

10 September 19

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If you can't find something today, you can Blame It On The Large Hadron Collider . The LHC , which is the largest machine in the whole w...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

12 September 17

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Today's tie choice was triggered by this curious description of an event on 12 September 1758: "French astronomer Charles Messier m...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

22 February 17

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Some of today's famous names in television, born on 22 February: Gale Gordon (1906), Robert Young (1906), Sheldon Leonard (1907), Don Pa...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

31 January 16

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Today marks 79 years for Philip Glass, master American composer. He is known as part of the "minimalist" movement, though he prefe...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

3 September 15

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Clyde David Burberry said that I should pick a tie to honor his birthday today. When pressed, he suggested something blue. So I found this n...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

30 March 14

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Our environmental-activist daughter Amanda Wheeler celebrated her birthday on Friday, a non-tie day for me. She suggested honoring Earth Hou...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

17 November 13

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A little "twisted" humor today, to honor the birthday of August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868). He is most famous for exploring the ...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

4 November 12

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According to NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams, we were to experience an "extra hour of darkness" very early this morning....
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

25 July 12

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X-ray crystallography detects the positions of atoms within crystalline solids. My tie with tiny flecks of cherry-red and silver against a n...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

31 January 12

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

06 May 09

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The word for Wednesday in German is Mittwoch, meaning middle-of-the-week. Today is the middle of two celebration weeks, National Pet Week an...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

3 June 08

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Today marks our friend Joice Burberry's birthday. Several years ago, she and her husband Keith gave me this tie. You may not be able to ...