In the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice occurs either June 20 or 21 on each year. While in the Southern Hemisphere, it occur either on December 21 or 22. This year, 2012, the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will be June 20, 23:09 UTC and December 21, 11:12 UTC in the Southern Hemisphere. In the US, Summer Solstice marks the first day of Summer.
So how long does Summer Solstice last, you may ask? Well, actually just in an instant.
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Besse Cooper, who now lives in a nursing home in Monroe, was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and was included in the book’s 2011 edition. She was born on August 26, 1896 in Tennessee and moved to Georgia during the World War I to find work as a teacher. She had four children, 12 grandchildren, and many great- and great-great-grandchildren.
The film is about what thousands of years of decay will do to modern architecture in the future compressed into the span of the 240 hours.
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Weta is the name given to about 70 insect species that can only be found in New Zealand. It’s body is similar to a cricket. The specimen that was found by Mr. Moffett had a wingspan of only seven inches but it’s body is huge in insect standard.
The novel has more than four hundred characters and over one hundred settings. It has complex structure and plot making it difficult for the reader to acquire an overall grasp. If you however have time and can understand French, you can read it online at http://www.artamene.org.
Due to it’s size, the revolver needs to be loaded and fired from a bench. In July 15, 2002, it was successfully test fired by Ryszard Tobys.
In humans, the sciatic nerve starts in the lower back and reaches down to the big toe. As all nerves do, it collects information in the form of sensations and movement and sends that information through the spinal column to the brain. It supplies the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of the back of the thigh, and leg and foot. It enables movement and feelings in the thighs, knees, calves, ankles, feet and toes.
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Rhett Lamb, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep
Rhett Lamb, the 3 year-old boy who couldn’t sleep. He is awake almost 24 hours a day which makes him irritable during the day. Rhett is suffering from an extremely rare condition called Chiari Malformation. This condition squeezes the brain into the spinal column which result to strangulating of the brain stem which controls our body’s sleep, speech, cranial nerves, circulatory system, and the breathing system.
Michael Corke, the Man Who Never Slept
Michael Corke, a music teacher from Chicago, has been sleeping fine all his life. One day in 1991, just a few days after his 40th birthday, he began having trouble sleeping. His sleeplessness grew worse in the following weeks and his health deteriorated. Eventually he had by total insomnia – he could not sleep at all. After six months of total sleep deprivation, he died in the hospital.
John Alan Jordan, Another Man Who Never Slept
John Alan Jordan’s sleep disorders began a few months into his new job as a laboratory assistant at a leading dairy company in England, when he abandoned normal safety procedures by not wearing protective globes while working with broponol kathon, ammonia, hydrochloric acid and industrial strength detergent. He continued to work like this for several weeks until it made him gravely ill for two years. When he recovered, John had trouble sleeping and around Easter or 2006, he can’t sleep at all.
Ngoc Thai, the Vietnamese Man Who Could not Sleep
This 67-year-old Vietnamese insomniac, has been around the internet and one of the famous “man who could not sleep”. Thai’s sleep disorder started in 1973 after getting a fever. He claims he hadn’t sleep for more than 35 years. Aside from lack of sleep,Thai said that he still fells healthy and can farm normally like others.
Ines Fernandez, the Spanish Woman Who Never Slept
Ines’ story began in the summer of 1943. While watching a religious procession passing by her cottage in southwest Spain, she suddenly yawned and felt a searing pain went through her head. Ever since that day, she never slept. Her slept disorder lasted for more than 30 years. It caused her her marriage and became increasingly nervous and frustrated. The doctor who examined her described her condition as chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder) and total insomnia. They also discovered that the sleep section of the brain appeared to permanently impaired.
This celebrations – one in many around the world, though, reflected symbolism more than demography. Among the millions of births and deaths around the globe daily, it is impossible to pinpoint the arrival of the world’s 7 billionth baby. So the United Nation chose Monday, October 31, 2011, to mark the day with a string of festivities worldwide, and a series of symbolic 7-billionth babies being born. Danica, doctors say,was close enough to count for a Monday birthday.
With the wold’s population continuing to grow at the rapid pace, pretty soon the world’s most typical face would not belong to a Han-Chinese man anymore.
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