Good Day DU (July 16, 2021)

[EarlG]

Today in History: July 16

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The Friday Question: What's the most interesting thing you've read, seen, or listened to this week?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

Anniversaries
alterfurz (20 years), Owl (20 years), efilon (19 years), Poiuyt (18 years), Ani Yun Wiya (18 years), Justice (18 years), Bernardo de La Paz (17 years), flamingdem (13 years), AZProgressive (13 years), titanicdave (9 years), tonedevil (7 years), J3AC4 (3 years), llashram (2 years), Honest Hypocrisy (2 years), MizLibby (1 year), Kingfisher86 (1 year)

Posting milestones
summer_in_TX (1000 posts)

New members who posted for the first time
helendavis

[hlthe2b]

1. Thumbs up to all!

[secondwind]

2. The rare glass octopus at the bottom of the Pacific.

What a beauty!

[MontanaMama]

3. Cheers friends!

Thank you EarlG.

[Delmette2.0]

4. In the Science group that the moon's orbit wobbles.

The wobble will cause higher high tides along the coasts.

[pandr32]

5. Reports of spreading wildfires and floods have me rather gripped.

Not to mention the rising rates of the Delta variant. All bad news that is hard to keep off the mind.

It is good to be able to congratulate all today's milestones.
Cheers to you all.

[Aristus]

6. I'm currently reading the memoir of a young American woman who lived in Nazi Germany

during the war, and the hardships she faced.

[GopherGal]

8. Title?

That sounds interesting.

[Aristus]

9. I'll get back to you on that when I get home.

n/t

[Aristus]

10. "Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany."

Author: Eleanor Ramrath Garner.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Just finished, "Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn't. Why It Matters" by Rabbi Julia Neuberger

I am almost finished with Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis. Just a couple of short chapters to go.