Sep 9, 2014

On This Day - Sept. 9

9 CE - Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions under the command of Publius Quinctlius Varus during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.




Photo of the Day
A voltaic pile, the first chemical battery. 




In the News




Quote of the Day
"It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. -- so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him -- it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left". --Arshile Gorky




Song of the Day
Artist - The Spinners




Film of the Day
Director - Harold Ramis




Wiki of the Day
Milky seas, or mareel, is a condition on the open ocean where large areas of seawater (up to 6,000 square miles) are filled with bioluminescent bacteria, causing the ocean to uniformly glow an eerie blue at night. The condition has been present in mariner's tales for centuries – notably appearing in chapter 24 of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – but until recently it has not been rigorously documented. There have been 235 documented sightings of milky seas since 1915 - mostly concentrated in the north-western Indian Ocean and near Indonesia.
In 1985 a research vessel in the Arabian Sea took water samples during milky seas. Their conclusions were that the effect was caused by the bacteria Vibrio harveyi.
In 2005, Steven Miller of the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California, was able to match 1995 satellite images with a first-hand account of a merchant ship. U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program showed the milky area to be approximately 15,400-km² (roughly the size of Connecticut). The luminescent field was observed to glow over three consecutive nights.


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