My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Behind the dyke

Event of the Day:

6th August 1945, 8:15 A.M.

"Little Boy" (Atomic Bomb) was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
 

It caused 80,000 direct deaths and after one year a total of 90,000 - 120,000 total casualties.

Why did it have to come this far?

something much more trivial but interesting happened on 6th August 1991

The idea of the World Wide Web was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.
 

What would we do without it?

Born on this day:

6th August 1809

Lord Alfred Tennyson
 

He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire (between Horncastle and Skegness)

Lord Tennyson was a poet in the Victorian era and many of his phrases are now embedded in the English everyday language, such as: "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" or "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"

Died on this Day:

6th August 2004

Rick James

 

Funky musician, he died at the age of 56 due to heart problems (or was it an aftermath of cocaine and crack addiction some years before?)

If you like funk music you'll love the video that I have linked "Super Freak"

Thoughts:

Today it seems to be deer run in front of a car day or deer suicide day. On the way to work I had to do a sharp break to avoid one and when I arrived in the outskirts of Flensburg there was one lying half on the road; dead. Be careful when driving the country roads it's rutting time. The bucks are following their hormones and are blind to all dangers.
In German that's called "Schwanzgesteuert" (dick-driven)

As you can see in the following photos; the Gunnera_manicata doesn't like the weather either, it needs some rain.
What a pessimist I am! When it rains I want sun and when the sun shines I want rain. I prefer the in-between! Is there a land where it doesn't rain, the sun only shines half power and the temperature is always about twenty degrees? Oh, yes I forgot; in my utopia there is no dust or pollen that can cause hay fever!

Hope you found something interesting today, if not try again tomorrow; I'll be back.
If you did; you'll be back:-)

Bye xxx