Fiammetta Wilson
Fiammetta Wilson was born in 1864 in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Between 1910 and 1920, Wilson observed roughly 10,000 meteors and accurately calculated the paths of 650 of them. In 1916, she became one of the first four women admitted to the Royal Astronomical Society.
Fiammetta Wilson died in 1920.
Image source: Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, vol. 12 (1915)
Paulette Bourgeois
Children's author Paulette Bourgeois was born in 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bourgeois is best known as the creator of the picture book character Franklin the Turtle. The Franklin book series has been translated into 38 languages, and there are now over 20 million copies of the books in print worldwide. The books have also been adapted into an animated television series. In addition to creating this beloved children's character, Bourgeois has also written more over two dozen nonfiction science books.
View of Taos Plaza, New Mexico
Date: 1880
Negative Number: 014820
HiPOD 18 Jul 2023: Scarps and Pits
Some areas of Mars show a kind of selective erosion. In this image, an overlapping pit formed between one level of the surface and another. One idea is that the ground once contained significant amounts of ice in layers a few meters thick that have evaporated. Without the ice, the ground surface subsides and collapses down to a new and somewhat level surface.
Alternatively, the terrain may have been ice rich. The loss of this cement-like ice then left the surface unable to resist erosion from the wind, and allowed the surface to gradually deflate down to a new more resistant level. Either way, the current curved scarps, a few meters high between these layers may, suggest that the process is ongoing.
ID: ESP_078316_2260 date: 11 April 2023 altitude: 301 km
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
Source: uahirise.org
Thomas Jefferson Souder and his wife Mary Ellen buried together in a custom double casket. They were married 60 years, and died a couple of days apart in July, 1921 – Mary on the 13th, Jeff on the 15th. Read more of the story here...
Source: vintag.es
Growing grass turned roof into a lawn, 1933.
Covering a roof with growing grass might seem fantastic to most persons, but Louis Koefoed, an architect of East Rockaway, N.Y., has found it practical as well as decorative. Since he applied a roofing of sod over tar paper to his dwelling last fall he has experienced a welcome decline in his coal consumption. Moreover, he expected the heat-insulating covering to keep his home twenty degrees cooler next summer. Pipes along the peak of the roof spray the growing grass with water and keep the “lawn” roof green.
Old photo of a tribal Vanuatu chief staring with veneration at the over modelled skull of an ancestor.
One of two full-size ancient Greek bronzes discovered in 1972 off the western coast of Calabria in southern Italy. The statue, cast circa 460-450 BC, stands 198 cm (78 in) tall. The lips and nipples are made of copper, the teeth are silver and the eyes formed from calcite. At one time this bronze warrior held a spear and shield, but they were never found. The figure may also have worn a wreath around his head. ( Photography by Luigi Spina. )
