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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 Friday, the 12th day of June and the 162nd 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 27th day of Sivan in the year 5786.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 27 days, 9 hours, and 1 minute. We will be under a new moon again on Sunday, June 14th at 7:43 PM. 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 sign of Gemini.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:13 AM
and
8:24 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside Nicole's home. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but was later held liable in civil suit. He is currently serving a sentence at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada on unrelated charges. He's prisoner number 1027820.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Cosimo I de Medici (1519), Samuel Cooper (1798), John Cook (1825), Alexandre Tansman (1897), Eddie Williams (1912), David Rockefeller (1915), Ivan Tors (1916), Marta Pan (1923), George Herbert Walker Bush (1924), Vic Damone (1928), Anne Frank (1929), Jim Nabors (1932), Marv Albert (1941), Chick Corea (1941), Pete Farndon (1952), and Ally Sheedy (1962).
Today in History: Protecting the Lungs
It was on this day in 1845 that Lewis P. Haslett of Louisville, Kentucky was granted the first patent for a face mask. It was Patent Number 6529, "a new and useful Machine for Protecting the Lungs from Injurious Substances." 
Unlike masks of today, the breathing piece was fitted over the mouth or nose, but not both. It was held into place by an elastic band drawn to the back of the head. A flexible air tube with a diameter of perhaps a couple of inches was fitted to the breathing piece. At the opposite end of the tube was the actual filtering apparatus, which is described as a woolen fabric or other porous material held in a bulbous shape over the opening of the tube by a light wire grid.
Haslett's invention was truly a "machine" in that it had two clapper valves situated so that all inhaled air passed through the filtering material, but exhaled air went directly out of the closed system into the atmosphere. Haslett's mask also provided for a means of adding an extension to the tube in cases where volatile substances were present. In such cases, "Respiration is then carried on through the tube which conducts the lower strata of the atmosphere to be inhaled."
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
From The Diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born on this day 97 years ago in Frankfurt, Germany.
She died February, 1945 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany.
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed and imported data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. Raw data used in the financial and weather sections is imported at page generation time. All the other data, particularly the celestial stuff, is derived and rendered by several hundred lines of code at the time the page is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
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