Legends of Earth & Sky

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  • Mon – 21 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 111
    Sunrise 6:38 – Sunset 20:14
    LOD 13:34 – LON 10:25
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:36

    Lunar Cycle Day 23
    Moonrise 3:32 – Moonset 13:04
    Moonrise tomorrow 4:03

    Sechseläuten
    Easter Monday

    Eat few Suppers, and you’ll need few Medicines.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Sun – 20 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 110
    Sunrise 6:39 – Sunset 20:13
    LOD 13:31 – LON 10:27
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:38

    Lunar Cycle Day 22
    Moonrise 2:56 – Moonset 11:53
    Moonrise tomorrow 3:32
    Fourth Quarter 19:36

    Mars in Eastern quadrature

    Easter
    Passover ends

    On this date
    Activist Dorothy Height died, 2010

    He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

    The Golden Rule (It’s true in all faiths)
    Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
    Analects 15:23 (Confucianism)

  • Sat – 19 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 109
    Sunrise 6:41 – Sunset 20:12
    LOD 13:29 – LON 10:30
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:39

    Lunar Cycle Day 21
    Moonrise 2:12 – Moonset 10:47
    Moonrise tomorrow 2:56

    Primrose Day

    On this date
    American Revolution began, 1775

    Certainly these things agree, the priest, the lawyer and death, all three;
    Death takes both the weak and the strong,
    The lawyer takes from both right and wrong,
    And the priest from the living and dead has his fee.

    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Fri – 18 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 108
    Sunrise 6:42 – Sunset 20:11
    LOD 13:26 – LON 10:32
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:41

    Lunar Cycle Day 20
    Moonrise 1:20 – Moonset 9:48
    Moonrise tomorrow 2:12

    Good Friday

    On this date
    Paul Revere’s ride began, 1775

    A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Thu – 17 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 107
    Sunrise 6:44 – Sunset 20:10
    LOD 13:24 – LON 10:35
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:42

    Lunar Cycle Day 19
    Moonset 8:58
    Moonrise tomorrow 1:20 – Moonset tomorrow 9:48

    Holy Thursday / Maundy Thursday
    Yayoi Matsuri

    On this date
    Canada’s Constitution Act took effect, 1982

    At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Wed – 16 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 106
    Sunrise 6:45 – Sunset 20:09
    LOD 13:21 – LON 10:37
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:44

    Lunar Cycle Day 18
    Moonset 8:17 – Moonrise tomorrow 0:22
    Moonset tomorrow 8:58

    Conjuction Mercury Neptune ☌☿♆

    On this date
    Wilbur Wright born, 1867

    World Voice Day

    April weather,
    Rain and sunshine, both together.
    2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac

    There are no ugly loves, nor handsome prisons.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Tue – 15 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 105
    Sunrise 6:47 – Sunset 20:08
    LOD 13:19 – LON 10:40
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:45

    Lunar Cycle Day 17
    Moonset 7:44 – Moonrise 23:20
    Moonset tomorrow 8:17

    On this date
    U.S. president Abraham Lincoln died, 1865
    Tax Day, since 1955

    Fordicidia

    A traveller should have a hog’s nose, a deer’s legs, and an ass’s back.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Mon – 14 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 104
    Sunrise 6:48 – Sunset 20:07
    LOD 13:15 – LON 10:43
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:47

    Lunar Cycle Day 16
    Moonset 7:18 – Moonrise 22:16
    Moonset tomorrow 7:44

    On this date
    “Black Sunday” dust storm hit Great Plains, 1935

    Pan-American Day
    Black Day 블랙데이

    There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Sun – 13 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 103
    Sunrise 6:50 – Sunset 20:05
    LOD 13:12 – LON 10:46
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:48

    Lunar Cycle Day 15
    Moon starts in Libra ☾♎︎
    Enters Scorpio ☾♏︎ at 7:54
    Moonset 6:55 – Moonrise 21:12
    Moon at apogee 16:31
    Moonset tomorrow 7:18

    On this date
    U.S. President Thomas Jefferson born, 1743

    Palm Sunday

    Golden Rule (it’s true in all faiths)
    That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.
    Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5 (Zoroastrianism)

  • Sat – 12 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 102
    Sunrise 6:52 – Sunset 20:04
    LOD 13:10 – LON 10:49
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:50

    Lunar Cycle Day 14
    Moon in Libra ☾♎︎
    Full Moon at 18:22 (Pink Moon)
    Moonset 6:35 – Moonrise 20:10
    Moonset tomorrow 6:55

    Passover begins at sundown

    On this date
    231 MPH wind-gust recorded at Mount Washington NH, 1934

    No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Fri – 11 Apr 2025

    2025 Day 101
    Sunrise 6:53 – Sunset 20:03
    Sunrise tomorrow 6:52
    LOD 13:07 – LON 10:51

    Lunar Cycle Day 13
    Moonset today 6:16 – Moonrise today 19:09
    Moonset tomorrow 6:35
    Moon in Libra ☾♎︎

    On this date
    Astronomer Samuel Schwabe died, 1875
    Jane Bolin born, 1908

    Juan Santamaria Day

    The family of Fools is ancient.
    Poor Richard’s Almanack

  • Chess Puzzle

    According to lichess.org the solution to this puzzle is not Qc5+ leading to Qxf5. The”correct” solution is Qe3+ then Qxb3. In both cases the white King retreats to h1, but one wins the white Queen, the other a white Bishop. I must be missing something.

    UPDATE: Duh. The White Queen kills the black Queen in the first solution. This is why I suck at chess.