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Month: June 2023

Trivia 072: Alphabet Soup Part 2

Posted on2023-06-29Leave a comment

One of my favorite pastimes is writing letters to people. Personally, I really enjoy it when I get something in the mail that isn’t just a bill or an ad. So I try to give that happiness to other people by sending letters and cards. In particular, I pride myself on sending out birthday cards Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsgeography, mail, newsletter, trivia

Trivia 071: Alphabet Soup Part 1

Posted on2023-06-222023-06-22Leave a comment

Earlier this week, while I was eating at Buffalo Wild Wings, I caught a soccer (football to non-Americans) match on TV. The match was between SKN and GUF. As the sound for this particular TV was not on, I had a hard time identifying just which countries those were (try to guess – I’ll give Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagscountries, geography, newsletter, sports, trivia

Trivia 070: Scarred for life

Posted on2023-06-15Leave a comment

When I was a kid, my family went to stay at our friends’ cabin, up in the mountains of New Mexico. It was a nice place, deep in the woods. We spent lots of time running around the area, climbing over the streams, splashing in the water, and crashing through the undergrowth. Now, we spent Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsnature, newsletter, outdoors, plants, trivia

Trivia 069: Stellar fireworks

Posted on2023-06-01Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, on May 19th, Koichi Itagaki, an amateur astronomer in Japan, was taking a picture of the galaxy M101. This galaxy, known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a very popular object for astronomers to capture, and it would not be the first time Itagaki took a picture of it. As a Read More …

CategoriesTriviaTagsastronomy, camera, newsletter, photography, science, space, trivia

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