13 august 2022

Our ©timeanddate A Friday-Night Show The Perseids peak on the night of Friday, August 12, and into the early hours of Saturday, August 13. However, the brightness from the 60-100 Meteors per Hour The Perseids are one of the brighter meteor showers of the year. During the yearly peak, you can see 60 to 100 meteors per hour. From around mid-July, you can start seeing some sporadic shooting stars, which can last toward the end of August. The Perseids are named after the Perseus constellation because the meteors seem to radiate from that area in the sky. However, during a meteor shower, you can see shooting stars in all parts of the night sky. The Perseids Meteor Shower as seen from Ontario, Canada. The Perseids produce up to 100 shooting stars per hour. ©iStockphoto.com/Jorge Figueiredo Lie Down and Look Up Any stargazer would tell you that darkness and patience are the keys to seeing shooting stars. Find a place with little light pollution, and get comfortable. Dress for the eyes need to adjust to the darkness—it takes up to 20 minutes—so put away your phone. Jupiter Rising in the Night Sky While you’re waiting to see the meteors, you can have a look at other things happening in the sky. The Full Moon is a spectacular sight in itself—especially at moonrise. At moonrise, it’s close to the horizon, and because of the Next Full Moon 3 Jul 2023, 12:38 Previous Full Moon 4 Jun 2023, 04:41 Times for the Full Moon vary by time zone. Times and dates are based on the local time in Ma...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is admitting it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it conducted a certain type of analysis over one year before it actually did. Despite the fact that no one asked, the World Economic Forum is now advocating for the merger of human and artificial intelligence systems to censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is even allowed to be posted. With the recent FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home, the Democrats and the Biden administration have raised the political stakes to a level from which this country as we have known it may never return. All one can say to those that are demanding a criminal prosecution of the former president is: Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. If the political classes have not yet turned the USA into a Third World country, they are well on their way to finishing the job. the raid has fueled anger from Trump’s supporters, dozens of whom gathered outside the Mar-a-Lago home that night. Several Republicans have condemned the investigation body, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who said in a statement: “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.” The Minnesota congressman appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to discuss the recent FBI raid of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, saying “everyone should be conc...

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• Aug 3 Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee certified as the world's tallest timber building at 25 stories, 86.6 metres (284 feet) • Aug 3 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death • Aug 5 Fire breaks out at Matanzas fuel depot, Chile, after lightning hits fuel tanks, going on to kill 16 firefighters in possibly the country's worst ever fire • Aug 5 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tiger" • • Aug 7 Ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza after 43 people killed in three days of violence between Israeli military and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants • Aug 7 US Senate passes sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, an economic package designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and tax large corporations • Aug 12 Drought officially declared in eight regions of the UK amid the country's driest period since 1976 • • Aug 14 Unsealed court papers of FBI search of Trump residence Mar-a-Lago show 11 sets of classified documents recovered, some labelled top secret • • Aug 15 Scotland becomes the first country in the world to make period products free for all • Aug 15 Solange Knowles becomes the first black woman to compose for the New York City Ballet • Aug 16 Philadelphia Phillies 11-4 win over visiting Cincinnati Reds makes them 9th MLB...

It was the 2nd Saturday of 2022. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 13, and 2022 reveal that your life path number is 9. Your zodiac sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 10 months old, and were born in the 2020s, in the middle of Generation Alpha. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means. → August 13, 2022 was a Saturday → Zodiac sign for this date is Leo → This date was 307 days ago → 2022 was the Year of the Tiger → In 2023, August 13 is on Tuesday → You are 2 years old in Korean Age People born on this day will turn 1 in exactly . If you were born on this date: You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Tiger. Your birth sign is Leo, with a ruling planet Sun. On your birthday, the moon was in Full 🌕 phase, and there were precisely 10 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on April 21, 2054. → You’ve slept 102 days or 0.28 years. → Your next birthday is away → You’ve been alive → You were born in the Year of the Tiger → You have been alive 7,389 hours → You are 443,355 minutes old → Age on next birthday: 1 years old You were born on a Saturday August 13, 2022, was the 2nd Saturday of that year. It was also the 225th day and 8th month of 2022 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 2022 calendar will be in 2033. Both c...

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• Aug 3 Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee certified as the world's tallest timber building at 25 stories, 86.6 metres (284 feet) • Aug 3 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death • Aug 5 Fire breaks out at Matanzas fuel depot, Chile, after lightning hits fuel tanks, going on to kill 16 firefighters in possibly the country's worst ever fire • Aug 5 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tiger" • • Aug 7 Ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza after 43 people killed in three days of violence between Israeli military and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants • Aug 7 US Senate passes sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, an economic package designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and tax large corporations • Aug 12 Drought officially declared in eight regions of the UK amid the country's driest period since 1976 • • Aug 14 Unsealed court papers of FBI search of Trump residence Mar-a-Lago show 11 sets of classified documents recovered, some labelled top secret • • Aug 15 Scotland becomes the first country in the world to make period products free for all • Aug 15 Solange Knowles becomes the first black woman to compose for the New York City Ballet • Aug 16 Philadelphia Phillies 11-4 win over visiting Cincinnati Reds makes them 9th MLB...

It was the 2nd Saturday of 2022. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 13, and 2022 reveal that your life path number is 9. Your zodiac sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 10 months old, and were born in the 2020s, in the middle of Generation Alpha. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means. → August 13, 2022 was a Saturday → Zodiac sign for this date is Leo → This date was 308 days ago → 2022 was the Year of the Tiger → In 2023, August 13 is on Tuesday → You are 2 years old in Korean Age People born on this day will turn 1 in exactly . If you were born on this date: You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Tiger. Your birth sign is Leo, with a ruling planet Sun. On your birthday, the moon was in Full 🌕 phase, and there were precisely 10 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on April 21, 2054. → You’ve slept 103 days or 0.28 years. → Your next birthday is away → You’ve been alive → You were born in the Year of the Tiger → You have been alive 7,393 hours → You are 443,615 minutes old → Age on next birthday: 1 years old You were born on a Saturday August 13, 2022, was the 2nd Saturday of that year. It was also the 225th day and 8th month of 2022 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 2022 calendar will be in 2033. Both c...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is admitting it gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine surveillance, including inaccurately saying it conducted a certain type of analysis over one year before it actually did. Despite the fact that no one asked, the World Economic Forum is now advocating for the merger of human and artificial intelligence systems to censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is even allowed to be posted. With the recent FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home, the Democrats and the Biden administration have raised the political stakes to a level from which this country as we have known it may never return. All one can say to those that are demanding a criminal prosecution of the former president is: Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. If the political classes have not yet turned the USA into a Third World country, they are well on their way to finishing the job. the raid has fueled anger from Trump’s supporters, dozens of whom gathered outside the Mar-a-Lago home that night. Several Republicans have condemned the investigation body, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who said in a statement: “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.” The Minnesota congressman appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to discuss the recent FBI raid of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, saying “everyone should be conc...