Spongiforma squarepantsii is a species of fungus. It is in the Boletaceae family and the Spongiforma genus. It was first seen in Malaysia in 2011. It makes orange fruit bodies that have the odor of a fruit. The fruit bodies can grow to 10 cm wide and 7 cm tall. If water is taken out, it will go back to its first shape. Its spores are in the shape of an almond. The spores can be 10 to 12.5 μm in width and 6 to 7 µm in depth. The name of the fungus came from the fictional character SpongeBob SquarePants. "S. squarepantsii" is one of the two species in "Spongiforma". The other is "S. thailandica".
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which made much of the funding.
2001 QR322
2001 QR is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile. It orbits ahead of Neptune at its L Lagrangian point.
Other Neptune trojans have been discovered since. A study by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo from the Carnegie Institution suggests that Neptune could possibly have twenty times more trojans than Jupiter.
May 2021 lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse took place on 26 May 2021. It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse. It was visible in areas of southeast Asia, all of Australia, all of Oceania, most of Alaska and Canada, all of the lower 48 states, all of Hawaii, and most of South America. Totality lasted for 14 minutes making it one of the shortest eclipses of the 21st century.
Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021
An annular solar eclipse occured on June 10, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, covering the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like a ring. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
This eclipse is notable for the fact that the path of annularity passed over the North Pole, the only such eclipse in the 21st century.
While the eclipse is visible primarily in northern Canada, in Greenland and in north of Russian Far East, in the northeastern United States and Canada, the sun was partially eclipsed at sunrise, which will be between 5 and 6 A.M. (EDT)
2020 United States Senate election in Oklahoma
An election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The three people in the election were Jim Inhofe (Republican Party), Abby Broyles (Democratic Party), and Robert Murphy (Libertarian Party). Jim Inhofe won the election and went back to the Senate for the fourth time.
There were two primary elections. They election was on June 30, 2020. One was for the Republican Party and one for the Democratic Party. Four people were in the Republican primary election and the Democrat primary election. Jim Inhofe won the Republican Party primary and Abby Broyles won the Democratic Party primary.
Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and lawyer. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show "Today". She began this position in July 2012.
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent. Between 2008–2011, she was the White House correspondent. In 2010 and 2011, as co-anchor of the MSNBC program "The Daily Rundown", Guthrie became the co-host of Today's third hour with Natalie Morales and Al Roker. She stopped being the third-hour and chief legal analyst in 2012. Also in 2012 she replaced Ann Curry as the co-anchor of "Today".
Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was raised in the United States.
The Ape (1940 movie)
The Ape is a 1940 American horror movie directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Gertrude W. Hoffmann. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures. It was based on the 1924 play by Adam Hull Shirk.
Today (1930 movie)
Today is a 1930 American drama movie directed by William Nigh and is the second version of the 1913 play of the same name by George Broadhurst. It stars Conrad Nagel, Catherine Dale Owen, Sarah Padden, John M. Sullivan, Judith Vosselli and was distributed by Majestic Pictures.
Faxian
Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk. He is also translator. He traveled by foot from China to India, visiting sacred Buddhist sites in Central , South and Southeast Asia between 399–412 to acquire Buddhist texts. He described his journey his travelogue, "A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" ("Foguo Ji" 佛國記).
Other transliterations of his name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien.
In 399, Faxian set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts. He visited India in the early fifth century. He is said to have walked all the way from China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes. He entered India from the northwest and reached Pataliputra. He took back with him Buddhist texts and images sacred to Buddhism. He saw the ruins of the city when he reached Pataliputra.
Faxian's visit to India occurred during the reign of Chandragupta II. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal). However, he mentioned nothing about Guptas. Faxian claimed that demons and dragons were the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.
After two years stay on Ceylon, Faxian was coming back to China. Suddenly a violent storm drove his ship onto an island, probably Java. After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China. But, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landing at Mount Lao in what is now Shandong in northern China, east of the city of Qingdao.
28th century
The 28th century will begin on January 1, 2701 and will end on December 31, 2800.
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, translator, critic and editor. Her poetry had formal innovation, irony and wit.
Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in "The Egoist", a periodical, and "Poetry", a magazine in spring 1915.
Moore's first book, "Poems", was published without her permission in 1921 by British novelist Bryher.
Moore's second book, "Observations", was given the Dial Award in 1924. During these years, she worked as a librarian part-time. Then from 1925–1929 she edited "The Dial" magazine, a literary journal.
Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by the "Poetry" magazine in 1933.
Moore's "Collected Poems" won the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and Pulizer Prize in 1951.
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. She had a number of strokes in her last years. She died at age 84 in New York City.
TPV Technology
TPV Technology Limited is a Chinese electronics company. It is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda. It designs and produces CRT and TFT LCD monitors and LCD TVs. TPV owns brands like AOC, Envision, and Philips for some products. It is also an original design manufacturer for other companies.
It is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer monitors with a 33% market share.
Jack Miller
Jack Miller (June 6, 1916 – August 29, 1994) was a Republican United States Senator from Iowa. He went through two terms, 1961–73. Next, he was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Miller was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1955. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1957. He was first elected to the United States Senate in 1960.