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May 30, 2021 Share “COMPUTERS ARE USELESS. They can only give you answers,” said Picasso in 1968, the year in which Intel was founded and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. Picasso didn’t change his mind. Over the last half century computers have become immensely better at providing answers, but not so good at asking questions. A good book asks questions. A better one raises questions you never knew existed. The key to a lockdown can lie in a book. Who knew that Stalin was a fan of Tarzan and cowboy films? Or that Stalin and Roosevelt smoked the same cigaret...

and sunset will be at 8:10 pm. Today we will have 14 hours and 7 minutes of daylight. The solar transit will be at 1:06 pm. The first low tide was at 5:04 am The first high tide will be at 11:30 am The next low tide at 4:40 pm. and the final high tide at Ocean Beach will be at 10:44 pm. The Moon is 1.6%

Today: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 71. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Increasing clouds, with a low around 58. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light in the evening. Highs are expected to gradually remain in the 70s over the course of the week. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1730 Birth of George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies. 1775 American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British. 1838 Birth of John Wilke...

daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride to all the fascinating things that happened today! People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 27th of April”. 1667 Blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sells the copyright of “Paradise Lost” for £10 - Advertisement - On this day in History, poet John Milton sells the copyright to his masterpiece Paradise Lost (1667) for a mere 10 pounds. Milton ...

NUMBER TO KNOW 1: The maximum time a high jumper has remained airborne is 1 second. An average human's hang time is about 0.53 seconds. Michael Jordan's longest hang time record is 0.92 seconds. THIS DAY IN HISTORY April 27, 1773: The British Parliament passes the unpopular Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade. FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS