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Keeping the passing weather company
2006-Apr-26, Wednesday 02:46 amBeware, for I am: 
Awake
So here we are. It’s almost 3 a.m. (or will be my the time I finish this post), and I cannot sleep. We prayed and wished and wanted for rain...and now it’s rubbing our faces in it. The weather started about half an hour ago. It’s ranged from booming thunder to lingering rumbles, from steady drizzles to furious attacks made on the sky to whip the dry earth into shape, and an almost eerie calm to the type of wind that could make one renew their faith in God. It’s so cool. I’ve missed it. You either sleep right through weather like this, or you stay up to keep it company while it’s passing through.
Of course, allowing oneself to wake up make one realize that they haven’t gone to the bathroom, eaten or drank anything within about 5 hours. So I figured, in for a quarter.
I signed up for this thing on Reference.com where they send you “Reference on This Day” that tells you everything about said day. And, I figure Knowledge is power, but what good is knowledge if no one knows you’ve received it? So, I thought I’d share.
On This Day: Wednesday April 26, 2006
This is the 116th day of the year, with 249 days remaining in 2006.
Fact of the Day: Audubon
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a youngster growing up in France when he developed an interest in drawing birds. At 18, he was sent to the United States to avoid having to serve in the army and he became fascinated with North American birds - which he studied from Florida to Labrador in Canada. In 1824, he started to consider publishing the exquisite drawings but was advised to seek a European publisher because the methods for printing the drawings was more advanced there. The engraver Robert Havell of London undertook the project and published the four-volume The Birds of America with its 435 hand-colored plates between 1827-1838. The Audubon Society was founded in 1905. Although Audubon had no role in the organization that bears his name, there is a connection: George Bird Grinnell, one of the founders of the early Audubon Society in the late 1800s, was tutored by Lucy Audubon, John James's widow.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Cletus, St. Riquier, St. Stephen of Perm, St. Peter of Braga, St. Franca of Piacenza, and St. Paschasius Radbertus.
Tanzania: Union Day.
United States: Confederate Memorial Day in southern U.S. (esp. Florida, Georgia).
Events
1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.
1607 - A group of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio, WEW in St. Louis, Missouri.
1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, German planes attacked the sleeping town of Guernica in Northern Spain. This intervention by Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War has been described as practice for World War II.
1941 - The first organ was played at a baseball stadium, in Chicago.
1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania. Pemba also became part of Tanzania.
1968 - The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the U.S. was exploded in Nevada.
1986 - The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred when an explosion and fire at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union killed 32 people and sent radioactivity into the atmosphere.
1992 - Worshippers celebrated Russian Orthodox Easter for the first time in 74 years in Moscow.
1994 - More than 22 million South Africans turned out to cast ballots in the country's first multiracial parliamentary elections, choosing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela to head a new coalition government.
2000 - Vermont governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
Births
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
1785 - John Audubon, American ornithologist, naturalist, artist.
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect, designer of Central Park in New York City, Yosemite National Park, and others.
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher.
1900 - Charles Richter, American seismologist who helped develop the Richter scale.
1936 - Carol Burnett, American Emmy Award-winning entertainer, comedienne.
Deaths
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia.
1989 - Lucille Ball, American comedienne and actress.
Wow. Out of all that, the only thing that made this one stand out was the whole John Smith thing ^_^ I’m such a Disney fanatic.
Ok, well, I’ll eat and see how long this temporary awakeness lasts. Later.
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