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 5th day of July and the 185th 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 20th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a last quarter moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 20 days, 16 hours, and 15 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
6:19 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 8 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1937, Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Thomas Hooker (1586), Mary Walcott (1675), Sylvester Graham (1794), P.T. Barnum (1810), William H Singer (1868), Jean Cocteau (1889), Henry Cabot Lodge (1902), Milburn Stone (1904), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Georges Pompidou (1911), Katherine Helmond (1928), Warren Oates (1928), Judge Joe Brown (1947), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1948), Huey Lewis (1951), Chris Cline (1958), Kathryn Erbe (1966), Susan Wojcicki (1968), Gilles Lellouche (1972), Shane Filan (1979), and Dolly the sheep (1996).
Today in History: Auto Engineer Louis Réard's Innovation
On this date in 1946, the bikini was introduced in Paris. That summer, designer Jacques Heim came up with a revealing two-piece outfit, which he called the Atom: "the world's smallest bathing suit." But credit goes to his competitor, French mechanical engineer-turned-swimsuit designer Louis Réard, who unveiled his design on July 5. He predicted that the skimpy swimwear would cause a cultural explosion to rival the recent nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and that's where he got the name that stuck. Réard couldn't find a model who was willing to wear such a revealing outfit, so he had to hire an exotic dancer from the Casino de Paris. He got 50,000 fan letters, and famously stated in his ads that a swimsuit wasn't really a bikini unless you could pass it through a wedding ring.
The brief two-piece swimsuit dates back much further than this name, however. Roman mosaics and paintings depict women swimming in outfits that resemble the modern bikini, and historians have found evidence that a form of our modern bikini may have been popular in ancient Minoan civilizations about 3,600 years ago.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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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