Friday, May 16, 2008

Root Beer Day


Nothin special, in terms of photography anyway, but this is the first bloom on our rhododendrons this year.

In 1808 the sun was observed to turn brick-red near Skerninge in Sweden. On the western horizon, a great number of round dark brown bodies appeared, seemingly the size of a hat crown. They passed overhead and disappeared on the eastern horizon. The procession lasted two hours. Some fell, and a 'soapy and jellied' film, which soon dried and vanished, was found on the ground. This was reported in the Transactions of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (1808-215) by A. Acharius.

And in 1866, Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.

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