On This Day
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.[2]
An apsis (from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís) ‘arch, vault’; pl. apsides /ˈæpsɪˌdiːz/ AP-sih-deez)[1][2] is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body. The line of apsides (also called apse line, or major axis of the orbit) is the line connecting the two extreme values.
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Born On This Day
1334 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (died 1398)
Emperor Sukō (崇光天皇, Sukō Tennō) (25 May 1334 – 31 January 1398) was the third of the Emperors of Northern Court during the Period of the Northern and Southern Courts in Japan. According to pre-Meiji scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1348 through 1351.[1]
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Wise Trivia
By Erne Smih, Tedium: Explaining The Vibes
AI gets a lot of hate these days, and it often frustrates me too, but let’s be clear about what it can realistically do. Here’s my attempt to explain by example.
By Ernie Smith, Tedium: Build Your Own Gumball
The Marginalian by Maria Popova: Carl Jung on the relationship between suffering and creativity; is peace possible; what it’s like to be an owl
Katey Schultz, Author & Teacher: That time the black bear climbed into my car
By MessyNessy: Parisian Flemme and more ->
By Open Culture: 60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull Financed the Making Monty Python and the Holy Grail
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: How the First Rock Concert Ended in Mayhem (Cleveland, 1952)
By Open Culture: 1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults
Craig Medred: Big problems
Craig Medred: What’s killing us
Kid Rock: Rock The Country Documentary
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Raising Men Raising Women Lawn Care Service
Giving Back to the community.
Cleared Hot Podcast: Flying the ONLY Privately Owned MiG-29 on Earth | Supersonic Soviet Power
Mike Force Podcast: Embrace the Suck and move forward
Jocko Podcast 491: SLEDGEHAMMER. Eugene Sledge’s son Henry Shares Lost Stories of The Old Breed 1MD.
Ideas
By Rustickraft: Creating Beautiful Rice Flower Decorations for Your Home
By POIREINGANBA LOKTONGBAM: Project: Wind Wall
Recipes
My Recipe Treasures: Mountain Man Crock Pot Breakfast
My Recipe Treasures: Copycat Crumbl Cookie Dough Cookies
By Yumchief: Choux Au Craquelin (Homemade Cream Puffs)
By In The Kitchen With Matt: Healthy Cottage Cheese Ice Cream
Just the Recipe: Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
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- Spinach French Onion Cob Dip – Australia’s favourite dip! June 19, 2026Meet Australia’s favourite dip!!! This Spinach French Onion Cob Dip is made using a French Onion Soup mix and is served in a cob bread loaf. It is unapologetically retro, gloriously unfashionable, breaks every real-food rule I preach, and is completely addictive!! Spinach French Onion Cob Dip This dip has been a fixture at Australian... […]Nagi
- Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef June 16, 2026Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef is what you make when you want a big batch of crowd-pleasing food with relatively little effort. The succulent pulled beef is smothered in an incredible homemade barbecue sauce, and there’s so many ways to serve it – pile into sliders, heap onto plates or stuff into baked potatoes! Easy... […]Nagi
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 19 June 19, 2026Picture of the day Alley on Escheckstraße (and part of the cuckoo clock trail), Schönwald im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 18 June 18, 2026Picture of the day Red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps leuconotus) male building nest in the Soysambu Conservancy, Kenya.
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Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
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