Good morning. 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 Sunday, the 12th day of July and the 192nd 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 Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 27 days, 16 hours, and 10 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
6:23 AM
and
8:25 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 2 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1962, the Rolling Stones performed their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Henry David Thoreau (1817), George Eastman (1854), George Ohr (1857), George Washington Carver (1861), R. Buckminster Fuller (1895), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Pablo Neruda (1904), Milton Berle (1908), Andrew Wyeth (1917), Tom Benson (1927), Van Cliburn (1934), Bill Cosby (1937), Christine McVie (1943), Richard Simmons (1948), Cheryl Ladd (1951), Julio Cesar Chavez (1962), Kristi Yamaguchi (1971), and Brock Lesnar (1977).
Today's failed prediction is by Emmeline Snively of the Blue Book Modeling Agency when Norma Jean Baker--soon-to-become Marilyn Monroe--sought help from the agency.
You'd better get secretarial work or get married.
The context: In 1944, Marilyn Monroe, known then as Norma Jean Baker, was encouraged by a photographer to apply to The Blue Book modeling agency. She was told by Snively, director of the agency, that she should became a secretary; besides, they were looking for models with lighter hair. So Norma Jean changed her brunette hair to a golden blonde. She finally signed a contract with the agency, and of course, became Blue Book's most successful model. After Ms. Monroe had achieved notoriety, Ms. Snively stubbornly defended her initial assessment, saying that "Norma Jean was not like the other girls--too plump; she smiled too high, making her nose look long, and she bounced when she walked." Snively eventually said, "Models ask me how they can be like Marilyn Monroe and I say to them, honey, I say to them, if you can show half the gumption, just half, that little girl showed, you'll be a success too... there'll never be another like her."
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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