Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Thursday, the 25th day of June and the 175th day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 10th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 10 days, 16 hours, and 55 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. The next full moon will occur on Monday, June 29th at 2:05 PM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:15 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 12 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1981, Microsoft was restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Beatrice of England (1242), Wilhelm Fabry (1560), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Adolf Brunner (1901), George Orwell (1903), Sidney Lumet (1924), June Lockhart (1925), Peyo [Pierre Culliford] (1928), Carly Simon (1945), Phyllis George (1949), Jimmie Walker (1949), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Ricky Gervais (1961), George Michael (1963), and Lauren Bush (1984).
Today in History: In Anne Frank's Words
On this day in 1947, Anne Frank's diary was published.
She began keeping the diary in 1942, when she was 13, and she wrote it during the two years that her family was in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam. They were discovered in 1944 and taken to concentration camps, where Anne died of typhus in 1945. After the family was captured, Otto Frank's secretary, Miep Gies, found the diary and gave it to Mr. Frank after the war. He published it, but only after removing things he felt were too personal. It has been translated into 65 languages--the English version first came out in 1952--and a 1995 edition restored the excised material.
"It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I--nor for that matter anyone else--will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." (Source: The Writer's Almanac)
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
Kathryn Stockett, The Help
The Technology
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