Good morning and TGIF Phoenix! Anyone got good plans for the weekend?
Pop Culture Trivia for May 16, 2014
1975: Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.
1991: Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997: President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.
1975: Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.
1991: Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997: President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.
Joke of the Day:
What do you call a mushroom that goes into a bar and buys drinks for everyone all night long?
Fungi to be around!
What do you call a mushroom that goes into a bar and buys drinks for everyone all night long?
Fungi to be around!
Quote of the Day:
Always try to do things in chronological order – it's less confusing that way.
Always try to do things in chronological order – it's less confusing that way.
Random Daily Factoid:
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Beautiful Place to Visit:
Vatnajokull Glacier Cave, Iceland, sometimes called Crystal Caves. It is part of the Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland. It is not recommended to tour without an experienced guide. It is dangerous and unstable. Use a guide that is a local expert that knows the nature of the ice in the area.
Why is the ice so blue? The color and transparency of the ice caves has everything to do with time, pressure, and secrecy. The weather and sun with its damaging UV rays transforms the outer surface of glacial ice into whitish ice.
As the glacier travels and winds its way down the slopes of mountain ridges, the air bubbles trapped in the ice are squeezed out, and the size of the ice crystals increases, making it clear. The real beauty of the centuries old compressed ice of a glacier lies underneath the damaged outer surface.
This intense blue color can be seen in ice caves and on floating icebergs that reveal their lower side when they have recently rolled over or split in two.
In the ice caves, the ice absorbs the trapped light in the cave, except for the color blue.
Vatnajokull Glacier Cave, Iceland, sometimes called Crystal Caves. It is part of the Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland. It is not recommended to tour without an experienced guide. It is dangerous and unstable. Use a guide that is a local expert that knows the nature of the ice in the area.
Why is the ice so blue? The color and transparency of the ice caves has everything to do with time, pressure, and secrecy. The weather and sun with its damaging UV rays transforms the outer surface of glacial ice into whitish ice.
As the glacier travels and winds its way down the slopes of mountain ridges, the air bubbles trapped in the ice are squeezed out, and the size of the ice crystals increases, making it clear. The real beauty of the centuries old compressed ice of a glacier lies underneath the damaged outer surface.
This intense blue color can be seen in ice caves and on floating icebergs that reveal their lower side when they have recently rolled over or split in two.
In the ice caves, the ice absorbs the trapped light in the cave, except for the color blue.
Have a fangtastic Friday! Brock
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