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The Strawberry Moon 2023

Around the world, people can catch a sweet treat in the night sky this weekend — the   strawberry moon .  The strawberry moon is June's full moon — and depending on where you live on the planet, it will appear on Saturday or Sunday, according to  NASA .  Why is it called the strawberry moon?  According to  The Old Farmer's Almanac , the name was used by Native American Algonquin tribes that live in the northeastern U.S. and Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples. It was used to mark the ripening of strawberries ready to be gathered in June.  Traditionally, the strawberry moon is the full moon in June, which is typically the last of spring or the first of summer. According to NASA, this full moon also has other names such as flower moon, hot moon, honeymoon, rose moon, Vat Purnima, and Poson Poya. What will the strawberry moon look like? Since the strawberry moon will be positioned lower in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon will appear to give a ...

CHAPTER III: A HARDCORE BEGINNING? OR: DEV, ARE YOU NUTS?

  CHAPTER III: A HARDCORE BEGINNING? OR: DEV, ARE YOU NUTS?   With the help of my map, I managed to reach the store in just three minutes and got stuck in the queue for almost half an hour. While waiting to get into the store, I had some time to look around. That’s true, I would not mind overhearing some interesting conversations, but there were only noobs around me. Unfortunately, I did not get anything useful from their chat. The outpost consisted of only five buildings: a fifty-story replication centre, the same in-size residential complex, a thirty-story building of the scientific centre, a five-story administrative building and a store.   All the buildings were arranged in a ring around a certain area like a square, and along the perimeter, the outpost was fenced with an eight-meter modular fence, evidently for further expansion. Well, behind the fence the most interesting things began: huge buildings of different degrees of destruction and multi-level roads....

Places of Interest. Part 4. Berlin. Reichstag.

  When the decision was made to move the Federal Government to Berlin, it was time to reawaken the  Reichstag  building from its long years of slumber on the Mauerstreifen, the military zone between the two sides of the Wall. The building has since been completely modernised, and today's visitors to the Reichstag can look out from the building's glass dome to get a bird's eye view of the hustle and bustle in the city. There are also a number of government buildings in the vicinity of the Reichstag, for example, the  Bundeskanzleramt  ( Federal Chancellery ) and the  Brandenburg Gate . Without a doubt, the  Brandenburg Gate  is Berlin's signature attraction. Being built in 1791, it was just one of many old city gates around the city of Berlin which, at that time, was still a manageable size. The decorative Pariser Platz was laid at the foot of the gate and is now home to many of the city's important buildings, for example, the Hotel Adlon with its ...

Places of Interest. Part 3. London. The Tower of London

  The   Tower of London , officially   Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London  is a historic   castle   on the north bank of the   River Thames   in   central London . It lies within the   London Borough of Tower Hamlets , which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the   City of London   by the open space known as   Tower Hill . It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the   Norman Conquest . The   White Tower , which gives the entire castle its name, was built by   William the Conqueror   in 1078 and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was also used as a prison from 1100 ( Ranulf Flambard ) until 1952 ( Kray twins ),   although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set...

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