2025 Day 127
Sunrise 6:17 – Sunset 20:31
LOD 14:12 – LON 09:47
Sunrise tomorrow 6:15
Lunar Cycle Day 10
Moonset 4:04 – Moonrise 16:01
Moonset tomorrow 4:23
Pilgrimage of Saint Nicholas
On this date
Johannes Brahms born, 1833
Hope and a Red-Rag, are Baits for Men and mackerel.
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2025 Day 121
Sunrise 6:24 – Sunset 20:25
LOD 13:59 – LON 10:00
Sunrise tomorrow 6:23
Lunar Cycle Day 4
Moonrise 9:17 – Moonset tomorrow 1:38
Moonrise tomorrow 10:27
Beltane
May Day
On this date
Empire State Building opened, 1931
Gwendolyn Brooks won Pulitzer Prize, 1950
Industry pays Debts. Despair encreases them.
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2025 Day 120
Sunrise 6:25 – Sunset 20:24
LOD 13:56 – LON 10:02
Sunrise tomorrow 6:24
Lunar Cycle Day 3
Moonrise 8:15 – Moonset tomorrow 0:42
Moonrise tomorrow 9:17
Walpurgis Night
May Eve
On this date
Discovery of mendelevium (Md – element 101) announced, 1955
Here comes the Glib-Tongue: who can outflatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs.
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2025 Day 119
Sunrise 6:27 – Sunset 20:23
LOD 13:54 – LON 10:05
Sunrise tomorrow 6:25
Lunar Cycle Day 2
Moonrise 7:23 – Moonset 23:31
Moonrise tomorrow 8:15
Showa Day
On this date
Willie Nelson born, 1933
Lightning bolt stretched 477.2 miles through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 2020
Bright as the day and as the morning fair,
Such Cloe is, and common as the air.
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2025 Day 116
Sunrise 6:31 – Sunset 20:19
LOD 13:46 – LON 10:13
Sunrise tomorrow 6:29
Lunar Cycle Day 28
Moonrise 5:41 – Moonset 19:24
Moonrise tomorrow 6:09
Chernobyl Remembrance Day
On this date
Chernobyl Disaster, 1986
Likely first photo taken of a tornado by A.A. Adams in Garnett KS, 1884
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
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2025 Day 115
Sunrise 6:32 – Sunset 20:18
LOD 13:44 – LON 10:15
Sunrise tomorrow 6:31
Lunar Cycle Day 27
Moonrise 5:17 – Moonset 18:04
Moonrise tomorrow 5:41
Moon on Equator
Conjunctions of Mercury and Moon, Saturn and Moon, Neptune and Moon
Moon in Aries means today is a good day to wash windows, destroy pests and weeds, and cut hay. It may also be a good day to do demolition work and wash wooden floors.
Arbor Day
Money & Man a mutual Friendship show:
Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
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2025 Day 114
Sunrise 6:33 – Sunset 20:17
LOD 13:41 – LON 10:17
Sunrise tomorrow 6:32
Lunar Cycle Day 26
Moonrise 4:53 – Moonset 16:47
Moonrise tomorrow 5:17
Today
Conjunction Venus and Moon
Tomorrow
Conjunctions Mercury and Moon, Saturn and Moon, Neptune and Moon
Tomorrow morning pre-dawn
Watch for a smiley face formed in the east by the Crescent Moon, Venus, and Saturn. I am not sure how visible this will be in Utah as the moon does not rise until 5:17. By the time it clears the mountains it may be too light to see the planets above it.
St. Mark’s Eve
On this date
Old Farmer’s Almanac founder Robert B. Thomas born, 1766
Library of Congress established, 1800
After Fish, Milk do not wish.
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2025 Day 113
Sunrise 6:35 – Sunset 20:16
LOD 13:39 – LON 10:20
Sunrise tomorrow 6:33
Lunar Cycle Day 25
Moonrise 4:29 – Moonset 15:32
Moonrise tomorrow 4:53
St. George’s Day
Cottonwood trees leaf out about now
On this date
Poet William Wordsworth died, 1850
US Army Reserve created, 1908
You will be careful, if you are wise, how you touch men’s Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.
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2025 Day 112
Sunrise 6:36 – Sunset 20:15
LOD 13:36 – LON 10:22
Sunrise tomorrow 6:35
Lunar Cycle Day 24
Moonrise 4:03 – Moonset 14:17
Moonrise tomorrow 4:29
Earth Day
What much is worth
comes from the earth.
2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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