The aurora and the moon setting, 22:37 PDT.

It was really flashing for a while, like a spotlight being thrashed around on the sky. Quite impressive to just watch it dancing around.

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The sun setting, October 10, 2024. I didn't even notice when I took it that the contrails crossed right where the sun was.

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Another @ 19:55 PDT.

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Just some red showing. This was the brightest area and looking north @ 19:49 PDT / 02:49 UTC.

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October 10

This day in history:

• 1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.
• 1997 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
• 1954 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War.
• 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.

Births:

• 1983 – Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer
• 1885 – Walter Anderson, Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic (d. 1962)

Deaths:

• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (b. 1613)
• 1974 – Joseph Wulf, German-Polish historian (b. 1912)
• 1976 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)

Holidays:

• World Porridge Day
• Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
• Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912

Random Article of the day:

Alur, Bellary

#wikipedia #October10 #Alur,Bellary

Happy Double Ten Day Taiwan!

I was honored to participate in a parade many years ago with Taiwan in the celebration of this day. Since then, this day has meant many different things for me; one of deep meaning and significant importance in my life. Thank you Taiwan. My heart will never forget.

#Taiwan #doubleten #October10 #freedom #parade

Song of the Day October 10 2024

In honor of the birth of Ben Vereen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Vereen

Ben Vereen & the cast of “Pippin” - "Glory" (From the 1981 Home Video presentation of "Pippin")

https://youtu.be/9XDqHRoMwcg?si=kaUugaRL3xLum7rT

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #October10 #BenVereen #Glory #Pippin #Broadway #Showtunes #LivePerfomance #StagePerformance #Soul #RNB #Jazz #Music #MusicVideo #StephenSchwartz #1980s #1970s