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Balfour Stewart, the Scottish meteorologist and geophysicist was born on November 1st 1828 in Edinburgh.

Described as “an intellectually precocious child”, Stewart entered St-Andrews University at age thirteen, subsequently transferring to the University of Edinburgh to study natural philosophy. Bending to parental pressures, upon graduating he embarked on business, which he however abandoned and return to the University of Edinburgh in 1853 as an assistant to the noted physicist and glaciologist Professor James David Forbes.

In 1859 he became Director of Kew Observatory, where he remained until 1870, and finished his career as Porfessor of Physics at Owens College in Manchester. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1862, awarded their Rumford Medal in 1868, and was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867.

In his later years, Stewart became interested in the the compatibility between science and religious, and also launched himself into the scientific study of psychic phenomena. These, in particular, drew very mixed reviews, to the point that his friend and colleague Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901), in the obituary he wrote in memory of Stewart, described him as a "one of the most loveable of men, modest and unassuming, but full of the most weird and grotesque ideas"

Balfour Stewart was severely wounded in 1870 in a train crash from which he never fully recovered, he died on 18 December 1887.

On the night of August 24, 2016, a powerful earthquake of 6.2 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Apennines mountain range in central Italy, leveling whole villages and killing 299 people - and startling geologists. More quakes followed several weeks later, the strongest measuring at 6.6 on October 30. About 25,000 people lost their homes in about 100 towns from the three quakes.

The quakes originated in the Mount Vettore fault system, which geologists belatedly realized was not quite as dormant as they had thought, Paolo Galli, a geophysicist at Italy’s National Civil Protection Department in Rome and others reported in “Tectonics,” the journal of the American Geophysical Union. The geological community had thought these faults hadn’t budged throughout recorded history.

Imagine their surprise when discovering, using new information and data collected over some 20 years, that the Vettore fault system was responsible for an earthquake in the year 443 C.E. that struck central Italy, cracking the Colosseum and other monuments in Rome.

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passed my precal class in the summer,, now i’m taking cal, chem, and polisci. almost took 18 units this semester but i stopped myself since im going out of STATE !! julian and i finally bought our airplane tix to philly to go see MARIETTAAA,, im SUPER excited:3:3:3 i loved them since 4ever,, biggest marietta fan on dis website. im literally facing my biggest fear (getting on a plane) just to go see them. im planning on giving them an art project of them,, it’ll be a lil shit since its last minute buttt GAHh<3

anyways,, my profs this semester r so yucky,, i hope i pass >.< ! i need to take up to cal lll, and perhaps three physics classes gahhhgged !¡! but the more i interact w women in my class, the more motivated i am to stick around. i genuinely love my major and i hope to accomplish what i desire to do.

my plants blossomed beautifully, but this recent heat in la has been torturing my cucumber plant. it gave me its all and now i must let it rest. july has been a v big struggle for me this year. being at peace w reality and accepting the choices ppl make has been hard. however, i am v grateful for the people around me that keep me afloat :3:3:3 every yarn club session is just a reminder of the community around me. my banana chai<3 i hope september is beautiful.

spinning : playboyCARTI, 90sfemale fronted emo bands<3, sun ra, sweet trip, death grips, astrud gilberto always<3

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