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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end. –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
31st day of the year
Spring begins in 48 days
Justin Timberlake (singer) was born on this day in 1981.
Horace Hagedorn (founder of Miracle-Gro plant food) died on this day in 2005.
Question of the Day
A math book I was reading said that the Fibonacci sequence is applicable to certain things in nature. There was a picture of a pinecone in the book. Do pinecones have anything to do with Fibonacci numbers? Answer
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