Rudy Carrera » Science http://rudycarrera.com Politics, Religion, Art, Culture and More. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:41:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Senator – R.I.P. http://rudycarrera.com/2012/01/21/the-senator-r-i-p/ http://rudycarrera.com/2012/01/21/the-senator-r-i-p/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:38:17 +0000 admin http://rudycarrera.com/?p=2181

Cultural Offering Blog posts that ‘The Senator’, a 3,500-year-old, 118 foot tall cyprus in Florida, burned down after being struck by lightning. Think of the implications, as this is something older than most of the great civilizations of this Earth. A profound loss. RIP.

]]> http://rudycarrera.com/2012/01/21/the-senator-r-i-p/feed/ 0 Samoa skips Friday in leap across international date line http://rudycarrera.com/2011/12/30/samoa-skips-friday-in-leap-across-international-date-line/ http://rudycarrera.com/2011/12/30/samoa-skips-friday-in-leap-across-international-date-line/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:04:48 +0000 admin http://rudycarrera.com/?p=2000 The island nation of Samoa just entered the history books by throwing our December 30, 2011. It never happened there. They’re now preparing for New Year’s Eve, thanks to their jumping over the International Date Line. Happy New Year to our Samoan friends!

MSNBC has more on the date jump here.

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