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 Tuesday, the 30th day of June and the 180th 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 15th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a full moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 15 days, 16 hours, and 46 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. The next full moon will occur on Wednesday, July 29th at 2:49 AM. 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
6:17 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 10 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1953, the first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Joseph D Hooker (1817), Lena Horne (1917), Susan Hayward (1919), Dorothy Malone (1925), Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934), Leonard Whiting (1950), Ken Olin (1954), Vincent D'onofrio (1959), Mike Tyson (1966), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Fantasia Barrino (1984), and Michael Phelps (1985).
Today in History: Yul Brynner's Abdication
On this day in 1985 The King and I closed after 191 performances at Broadway Theater. Yul Brynner played the part of Mongkut, the King of Siam, and Mary Beth Peil played Anna Leonowens.
The closing show was Brynner's last performance of the signature role he played 4,633 times. At the closing of the Broadway run, Brynner knew he was dying of lung cancer. A few months earlier he had appeared on Good Morning America and discussed his disease and the role his heavy cigarette smoking had played. He made a passionate appeal to the TV audience to avoid the risks caused by smoking. A clip from that interview was made into a public service announcement by the American Cancer Society and released after his death. It includes the warning "Now that I'm gone, I tell you don't smoke. Whatever you do, just don't smoke. If I could take back that smoking, we wouldn't be talking about any cancer. I'm convinced of that." Brynner died on October 10, 1985 in New York City, the same day as his Battle of Neretva co-star Orson Welles.
Brynner played many key roles on stage and appeared in numerous films, including the film version of The King and I and The Ten Commandments. In addition to acting, he was a talented guitarist and released an album with Aliosha Dimitrievitch. Brynner also had a passion for photography and writing. He published three books, two of which contained his photography.
Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries.
Jarod Kintz
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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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