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11:05 PM

@Mitch I wish too. My post was following the mention of a butter/oil cooking divide in France. I looked for maps about it, found one showing neighboring countries so thought it would be a good idea and less francocentric to post it but you are right that one is still eurocentric. Here is a World map about oil consuption per country but I have to admit it is quite difficult to read and the data is questionable or maybe just biased by industrial use.

@tchrist Yes, 100% or it's worthless, no significant clouds or it's almost worthless.

I won't forget that one:

Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999

A total solar eclipse occurred on 11 August 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.0286. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of the Moon's shadow began in the Atlantic Ocean and, before...

tchrist

@jlliagre Yeah, 99% is still 4,000 times brighter than the full moon.

It's so bright you won't even know it's being eclipsed.

No corona. No diamond ring. No shadow bands. No Baily's beads. No temperature and wind changes. No dramatic brightness changes. No 360-degree sunset colors around the horizon. No bright stars and planets. No freaked out wildlife.

Nothing worth mentioning.

You will have no black sun. You will have no nighttime.

This is likely my last eclipse. I doubt I shall live long enough to see another.

Robusto

11:23 PM

@Mitch Not for me, but plenty of people are really into it. Tom says it is amazing in Sevilla.

tchrist

Just read Michener's chapter on Seville in Iberia. You'll see.

We get Friday afternoon off.

Robusto

11:43 PM

@tchrist Yes. My wife read the whole damn book, and that's what made her decide she didn't want to be that busy on vacation. So that's why were going to spend our whole trip in Mallorca.

CowperKettle

In the city of Volgograd, a show on a local TV channel showed the results of a "journalistic investigation", during which the "investigators" read the names and showed the photos of people who came to the local political repressions monument to lay down flowers after the murder of Alexey Navalny v1.ru/text/gorod/2024/03/27/73388588