April 20, 2022 – Thoughts Caught

Presenting – the album covers for ASTRONOMY

April 20, 2022 anvituteja

They’re finally here – please welcome the album covers for ASTRONOMY Part I:

January 6th, 1912

On January 6, 1912, the German Meteorologist Alfred Wegener presented to the public, in a lecture entitled, “Die Heraushebung der Großformen der Erdrinde (Kontinente und Ozeane) auf geophysikalischer Grundlage“, his hypothesis on continental drift in relation to the former super continent Pangaea. Wegener didn’t propose something completely new; as he based his idea on earlier […]

October 1st, 1976

The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name “CN” originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. The construction of the tower had […]

January 5th, 1933

On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages. Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would increase in value in direct proportion to its accessibility to […]

January 4th, 1965

On January 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest […]

January 3rd, 1521

On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, was a professor of biblical interpretation at the University of Wittenberg in Germany when he drew up his 95 theses condemning the Catholic Church for its corrupt practice […]

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