Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us of some dates where the local, state, national, and global perspectives entwine.
What Time is It? It is flow of a sandstorm that will on each day compress somewhere into a structure – sandstone, selected and only remembered in the longue durée.
On Monday, 28 September 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt.
On Monday, 28 September 2015, NASA announces that liquid water has been found on Mars.
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