My Mother is a Fish

"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear, so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up?"

-William Faulkner, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 10, 1950.

You can hear and audio excerpt of Faulkner's speech on the Nobel Prize website. For a text transcript, see here.

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January 1, 1644 fell on a Friday, according to the Gregorian Calendar. The moon was in waning gibbous. WolframAlpha, the computational/algorithmic search engine figured it out. (More information about WolframAlpha here.) According to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, weather in the state from January 1-10 1644 was "cloudy and rainy weather, with occasional sunshine and somewhat warm."

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The five deadliest US Hurricanes, according to a NOAA report (table 2):

1. Galveston, TX, 1900, 8000 deaths
2. SE/Lake Okeechobee, FL, 1928, 2500 deaths
3. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, 2005, 1200 deaths
4. Cheniere Caminanda, LA, 1893, 1100-1400 deaths
5. Sea Islands, SC/GA, 1893, 1000-2000 deaths

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Fallingwater Site's series of architectural drawings.

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He's number 359666.

He has a widow's peak.

He is wearing a suit and tie.

It is a United States passport.

The red official stamp is off center.