{"id":9,"date":"2019-01-23T06:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnusalmanac.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:10:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gnusalmanac.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9\" class=\"elementor elementor-9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7ae8eb8 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"7ae8eb8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e734523\" data-id=\"e734523\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-291db26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"291db26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">   Gnus Almanac<br>\n\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb0d4ec elementor-widget__width-inherit animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fb0d4ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;lightSpeedIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">2,000 Years of Daily Events\n         <\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3d36450 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3d36450\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3999eb5\" data-id=\"3999eb5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-Three-Arms-Other-Stories\/dp\/1735313564\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=the+man+with+three+arms+and+other+stories&#038;qid=1634570559&#038;sr=8-1\">                                                                                                                                    The Man With Three Arms .....And Other Stories<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">\n\n\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ddcf3c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ddcf3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><h2>A collection of essays about life, the Pocono Mountains, DIY Failures, Travel, Science, Music, Food, History, Childhood and Assorted Subjects of Interest.<\/h2><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cab348 elementor-button-warning elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"9cab348\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/syyentz.blogspot.com\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-hand-point-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Our Current Blog Entry - Dog Walking for Non Dog Owners.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-496ef5b animated-slow elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"496ef5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Praise for The Man With Three Arms&#8230;..<\/h1><p><strong>Homer<\/strong> &#8211; Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this <em>Man With Three Arms<\/em>.<\/p><p><strong>Virgil<\/strong> &#8211; Fortune sides with him who dares to read this book.<\/p><p><strong>Dante Alighieri<\/strong> &#8211; All hope abandon, ye who enter here! \u2026\u2026\u2026..But then the <em>Man With Three Arms, <\/em>along with Virgil,\u00a0will lead you from the Inferno.\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Jane Austen<\/strong> &#8211; Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort\u2026\u2026especially with this book to enjoy<\/p><p><strong>Geoffrey Chaucer<\/strong> &#8211; Time and tide wait for no man\u2026\u2026But the <em>Man With Three Arms<\/em> will.<\/p><p><strong>Miguel de Cervante<\/strong>s &#8211; Can we ever have too much of a good thing?<\/p><p><strong>Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/strong> \u00a0&#8211; What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.<\/p><p><strong>Emily Dickenson<\/strong> &#8211; Forever is composed of nows. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.So you should read this book now.<\/p><p><strong>Charles Dickens<\/strong> &#8211; There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.<\/p><p><strong>Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong> &#8211; There are no second acts in American lives\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. But there is a second essay in this book.<\/p><p><strong>James Joyce<\/strong> &#8211; I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.And you won\u2019t find any in this book.<\/p><p><strong>Herman Melville<\/strong> &#8211; To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell&#8217;s heart, I stab at thee; For hate&#8217;s sake, I spit my last breath at thee. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026But I was determined to finish this book.<\/p><p><strong>Leo Tolstoy<\/strong> &#8211; One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Unless you live in the Poconos and read this book.<\/p><p><strong>Lewis Carroll<\/strong> &#8211; &#8216;T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p><p><strong>William Blake<\/strong> &#8211; You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough\u2026\u2026\u2026. And that\u2019s how I felt after his essay about the toilet.<\/p><p><strong>Voltaire<\/strong> (Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet) &#8211; Common sense is not so common\u2026\u2026.especially in <em>The Man With Three Arms<\/em><\/p><p><strong>Alexander Pope<\/strong> &#8211; A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.<\/p><p><strong>Robert Burns<\/strong> &#8211; Wee, sleekit, cow\u2019rin, tim\u2019rous beastie, O, what a panic\u2019s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi\u2019 bickering brattle!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.but read this book before you go.<\/p><p><strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong> &#8211; There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..and some are in his story about the bear.<\/p><p><strong>Franz Kafka<\/strong> &#8211; As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-519458c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"519458c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-80dab09\" data-id=\"80dab09\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-726ea18 animated-slow elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"726ea18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Excerpt from I Used to Be an Adult but Now I&#8217;m a senior&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h2><p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;On this visit we wanted to see some sites. First up was the Carillon Park Museum. Admission was $ 7 for Adults and $5 for Seniors. I said to the cashier, \u201cI used to be an adult but now I\u2019m a senior\u201d. I was immediately struck by the profundity of my statement. Senior is a floating concept. Sometimes you need to be 55, sometimes 60, sometimes 62, sometimes 65. Last spring I claimed Senior for a discount to visit Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. I asked the young cashier if he wanted to see proof of age. He replied, in a thick Scottish brogue, \u201cwhy wid ye want tae prove yer auld?\u201d It\u2019s interesting. When I was 18-30 and looked young, I wanted to prove I was old so I could\u2026..well , you remember\u2026. Some Senior things you\u2019re aware of, sore muscles and hurts take longer heal. You are barraged with AARP, Medicare mailings, Senior moments, and &#8212; I\u2019m cranky a lot too. I watch TV programs sponsored by medicine with unpronounceable names \u2013 was there a shortage of vowels? (Vowel movements can be a problem for everyone). \u00a0Usually, young looking seniors are happily bouncing around in slow motion &#8230;&#8230;..we note that Pickle Ball has become dereguer in these commercials&#8230;&#8230;..while the voice over tells you the medication may \u201ccause death in some instances\u201d &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94f8033 elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--no-spacing elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"94f8033\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg 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elucidation, both factual and fictual that have occurred over the last 2000 years or so.......................................\n\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9460091 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"9460091\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-056d698 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"056d698\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Try to learn something about everything and everything about something &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Thomas 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?fit=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-2042\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?w=2333&amp;ssl=1 2333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1 294w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=1003%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1003w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C784&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=1504%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1504w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=2005%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2005w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cropped-Gnus-Library-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C613&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-508ee2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"508ee2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=john+cafarella+gnus+almanac&#038;crid=15ZF7FIC4KPGE&#038;sprefix=john+cafarella+gnus+almanac%2Caps%2C116&#038;ref=nb_sb_noss\">Excerpts from the gnus almanac<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ee4c95 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ee4c95\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>January 7, 1355 \u2013Tuesday-<\/strong> \u00a0<em>By the time we got to Woodstock, <br \/>We were half a million strong <br \/>And everywhere was a song and a celebration. <br \/>And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes <br \/>Riding shotgun in the sky, <br \/>Turning into butterflies <br \/>Above our nation<\/em><em>\u2026<\/em>\u2026.Joni Mitchell\u2026\u2026\u2026 Happy Birthday, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, yet another son (the youngest) of Edward III of England. Thomas bit the dust in 1397 on orders of his nephew, Richard II (who in turn would be slewn in 1399).<\/p><p><strong>January 7<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit; color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">1598-Wednesday- <\/strong><em style=\"color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">Take me for a ride in your Tsar Tsar<\/em><\/p><p><em style=\"color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">Take me for a ride in your Tsar Tsar<\/em><\/p><p><em>Take me for a ride.\u00a0 Take me for a ride.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Take me for a ride in your Tsar Tsar<\/em>\u2026\u2026.Apologies to Woody Guthrie\u2026\u2026..Boris Godunov became Czar of Russia. Boris was the brother-in-law of Fyodor, the son of Ivan \u201cThe Terrible\u201d (Ivan was terrible but Boris was good enough). \u00a0Fyodor had become Tsar when Ivan went kaputsky in 1584. Unfortunately, Fyodor was, to be kind, not the sharpest knife in the monarchial drawer. \u00a0Ivan, knew this and appointed a council to assist (smirk smirk) Fyodor in his rule.\u00a0 Within a few years Boris Gudunov was the sole&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p><p><strong>March 2<\/strong> -Read Across America Day. It\u2019s always observed the week of Dr. Seuss&#8217;s birthday.<\/p><p><strong>986\u00a0 -Thursday- <\/strong>\u00a0<em>Dare to be stupid <\/em><\/p><p><em>Come on and dare to be stupid <\/em><\/p><p><em>It&#8217;s so easy to do <\/em><\/p><p><em>Dare to be <\/em>stupid\u2026\u2026Weird Al Yankovic\u2026\u2026Ah, the shrinking gene pool. The Carolingian dynasty that began with Charles Martel and his son Pepin III (the Short) and then his son Charlemagne (the Great), (aka Carolus Magnus\u2014the source of the dynasty&#8217;s name), sputtered to an end with <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Louis V, also called Louis the Indolent or Louis the Sluggard. Louis was crowned the King of France on this date. \u00a0This exemplar of royal denseness ruled less than a year as he went kaput in May 987. There were nasty rumors that his mother Emma poisoned him. His heir by blood was Charles, duke of Lower Lorraine, son of Louis IV, but Lorraine (see <em>Darling Lorraine<\/em> a record by the Knockouts 1959) could not secure the support of the bishops and was undermined by \u00a0Adalberon (Ascelinus), bishop of Laon. So all this manuvering assured the successful accession of Hugh Capet. The Sluggard, also designated by the words &#8220;qui nihil fecit&#8221;, i.e. &#8220;le Fain\u00e9ant&#8221; or &#8220;do-nothing \u00a0by medieval chroniclers was the last Carolingian monarch.\u00a0\u00a0The next dynasty was the Capetians who ruled from 987 to 1328, named after the dynasty\u2019s founder, Hugh Capet.<\/p><p><strong>March 2, 1867 -Saturday-<\/strong><em>Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man,<\/em><em><br \/>He robbed the Danville train.<br \/>But that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard<br \/><\/em><em>Has laid poor Jesse in his grave<\/em><strong><em>\u2026<\/em><\/strong>\u2026\u2026.Bascom Lamar Lunsford\u2026\u2026\u2026Nineteen year old Jesse James and four others of the James gang \u00a0&#8211; but no Youngers- attempted to rob the Judge John McClain Banking House of Savannah, Missouri. They got no money but did manage to escape with a free toaster for opening an account. In case you\u2019ve been counting, forty-five Jesse James movies have been made. Among our favorites have been <em>Jesse James Meets Frankenstein\u2019s Daughter<\/em> (television\u2019s John Lupton \u2013 <em>Broken Arrow<\/em>&#8211; as Jesse), 1966 and Bulgarian Jesse James movie, <em>Jesse James Meets Lokum Shekarov<\/em>, also 1966.\u00a0 Actors who have played Jesse James include: Jesse James Jr., Tyrone Power, Roy Rogers, Rod Cameron, George Reeves (television\u2019s <em>Superman<\/em>), Clayton Moore, yes, the <em>Lone Ranger<\/em> himself, Dale Robertson, Audie Murphy, John Ireland, MacDonald Carey, Robert Wagner, Wendell Corey, Robert Duval, Christopher Lloyd, yes, that Christopher Lloyd of <em>Back to the Future<\/em> and <em>Taxi<\/em>, Rob Lowe, Colin Farrell and Brad Pitt.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d552c9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d552c9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>You can order one or more volumes but alas, not the gnu. (Although you may be able to find a gnu on Amazon.)<\/h3><h2><span style=\"color: var(--ast-global-color-2); font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400;\">Be the first on your block to get the entire set!<\/span><\/h2><h6>Almanacs are available in paperback or eBook.<\/h6><h6>You \u00a0can visit our store, which has still more interesting information&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;which will also take you to amazon&#8230;&#8230;<\/h6><h6>Use the &#8220;back&#8221; arrow on Amazon to return to the Gnus<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2387b37 elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"2387b37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;black&#039; stroke=&#039;none&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M12.7,2.3c-0.4-0.4-1.1-0.4-1.5,0l-8,9.1c-0.3,0.4-0.3,0.9,0,1.2l8,9.1c0.4,0.4,1.1,0.4,1.5,0l8-9.1c0.3-0.4,0.3-0.9,0-1.2L12.7,2.3z&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56c58bf elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"56c58bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;black&#039; stroke=&#039;none&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M12.7,2.3c-0.4-0.4-1.1-0.4-1.5,0l-8,9.1c-0.3,0.4-0.3,0.9,0,1.2l8,9.1c0.4,0.4,1.1,0.4,1.5,0l8-9.1c0.3-0.4,0.3-0.9,0-1.2L12.7,2.3z&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1e310e elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"a1e310e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;none&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 24 24&#039; fill=&#039;black&#039; stroke=&#039;none&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M12.7,2.3c-0.4-0.4-1.1-0.4-1.5,0l-8,9.1c-0.3,0.4-0.3,0.9,0,1.2l8,9.1c0.4,0.4,1.1,0.4,1.5,0l8-9.1c0.3-0.4,0.3-0.9,0-1.2L12.7,2.3z&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb59912 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"cb59912\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Gnus-5.jpeg?fit=326%2C154&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2850\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Gnus-5.jpeg?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gnusalmanac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Gnus-5.jpeg?resize=300%2C142&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">About the Gnu<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">The Encyclopedia Britannica informs us that Gnu, (genus Connochaetes), also called wildebeest, either of two species of large African antelopes of the family Bovidae in the tribe Alcelaphini. They are among the most specialized and successful of African herbivores and are dominant in plains ecosystems.\nSo while the Gnus Almanac is about news (rhymes with gnus), of the last 2,000 years or so, it is not an expository work about antelope. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7332d1\" data-id=\"d7332d1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11c1529 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-gallery\" data-id=\"11c1529\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1200\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1200px; 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height: 847px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89925e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"89925e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">Praise for the Gnus Almanac<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23f255f animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23f255f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;slideInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Note that our reviewers favor the gnus volume for the month in which they were born<\/p><p><strong>Albert Einstein<\/strong>: &#8216; Answers the question\u2026..Did I really read The March Gnus or did the book read me?\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Alexander Graham Bell:<\/strong> &#8216; I read The March Gnus while sitting next to the phone.&#8217;<\/p><p><strong>Andre Ampere:<\/strong> &#8216; The January Gnus helps me to keep up with current events.&#8217;<\/p><p><strong>Archimedes:<\/strong> \u2018I had an inclination to read the Gnus in 247 B.C\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Aristotle:\u00a0<\/strong> \u2018It is the nature of man to read these books in 320 B.C\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Christian Doppler:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2018I read The November Gnus for its effect on passersby.\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Dr Jekyll :<\/strong> I read The November Gnus even though I \u00a0hadn&#8217;t been feeling myself lately, or so I told Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p><p><strong>Galileo:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2018Ptolomy shmatolomy&#8230;&#8230;these books, especially February, convinced me that the Earth revolves around the sun while I&#8217;m reading the Gnus. That&#8217;s why I say that &#8220;wine is sunlight held together by water &#8220;&#8216;.<\/p><p><strong>Georg Ohm:<\/strong> &#8216;There was more resistance to my reading The March Gnus aloud.&#8217;<\/p><p><strong>Gustav Hertz:<\/strong> \u2018I\u2019ve been reading The July Gnus with greater frequency.&#8217;<\/p><p><strong>Ivan Pavlov:<\/strong> \u00a0\u2018I was drooling at the thought of reading The September Gnus \u2019.<\/p><p><strong>James Watt:<\/strong> &#8216; I thought reading The January Gnus would be a good way to let off steam.&#8217;<\/p><p><strong>Jean Foucault:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2018The rotation of the earth made me appear to read The September Gnus.\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:<\/strong> &#8220;This is the best of all possible worlds, especially when reading the\u00a0July Gnus.&#8221;<\/p><p><strong>Marie Curie:<\/strong> \u2018 The November Gnus \u00a0had me radiating enthusiasm\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Isaac Newton:<\/strong> \u2018I was enjoying The January Gnus until an apple fell on my head.\u2019<\/p><p><strong>Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger:<\/strong> &#8216;I enjoy reading the August Gnus with my cat sitting in my lap. 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Some are even legal.\u00a0 Ha ha ha Professor Sy Yentz has his electoral sense of humor.\u00a0As for lightening, a \u00a0stroke of lightning discharges from 10-100 million volts of electricity.\u00a0 An average lightning stroke has 30,000 amperes.<\/p><p>\u00a0Sincerely, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><p>Professor Sy Yentz<\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>And&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Professor Sy Yentz,<\/strong>How is the distance of a lightning flash calculated?<\/p><p>Dear Manny, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You&#8217;re pushing it here with your extra credit question, but Professor Sy Yentz is not shocked.\u00a0 Count the number of seconds between seeing a flash of lightning and hearing the sound of the thunder.\u00a0 Divide the number by 5 to determine the number of miles away that the lightning\u00a0 flashed. 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