To remind you what this is about you can read my first entry here.
So, the final period covers 1st June - 13th July.
Day 323: 1-Jun-15 Microsoft's new web browser 'Edge' designed specifically for Windows 10. This will be standalone and not integrated with Windows 10 operating system.
Day 324: 2-Jun-15 Photobucket is an image and video hosting website, web services suite and an online community. It hosts more than 10 billion images from 100 million members.
Day 325: 3-Jun-15 Flipboard is a social network aggregation magazine format app. It collects data from social media and websites, presented in a magazine format.
Day 326: 4-Jun-15 St Andrews university, Scotland, established 1410-1413, the third oldest university in the English speaking world, following Oxford and Cambridge.
Day 327: 5-Jun-15 Snapchat: a video messaging app; take photos, videos, add text and drawings, send to list of controlled recipients, with time limit for how long recipients can view.
Day 328: 6-Jun-15 Cow Parsley: Anthriscus sylvestris
Day 329: 7-Jun-15 Philippi in Northern Greece was the first city where the Christian Church was established in Europe.
Day 330: 8-Jun-15 Sir Bradley Wiggins sets new world record for the 1 hour cycling distance 54.526km (33.88 miles).
Day 331: 9-Jun-15 The Pantheon in Rome was completed in AD126.
Day 332: 10-Jun-15 Sarcoptic mange mentioned on BBC Springwatch in relation to foxes. Information at the web-site linked makes for grim reading!
Day 333: 11-Jun-15 LG have developed an organic light emitting diode panel that can be rolled up like a sheet of paper (with a 3cm radius).
Day 334: 12-Jun-15 Didn't know that it is possible for large aircraft (unladen) to do an almost vertical ascend after leaving the runway.
Day 335: 13-Jun-15 An apple in the centre of a cluster of apples growing on an apple tree is known as the crown fruit; it doesn't store as well as the other surrounding fruit.
Day 336: 14-Jun-15 The Magna Carta was first sealed in 1215 (800 years ago).
Day 337: 15-Jun-15 An international register of Pelargonium cultivars is being developed online:- www.thepelargoniumregister.com
Day 338: 16-Jun-15 PLEONASTIC = the use of more words than are required to express an idea; redundancy; e.g 'tuna fish', 'safe haven'
Day 339: 17-Jun-15 The Bishop's Palace in the City of Wells has been home to the Bishops of Bath and Wells for over 800 years.
Day 340: 18-Jun-15 A new range of cordless garden tools; www.egopowerplus.co.uk the world's first 56 Volt cordless tool system.
Day 341: 19-Jun-15 About 15000 trees have been planted in Derbyshire, focused on sites around Ladybower Reservoir, part of English Woodland
Grant scheme.
Day 342: 20-Jun-15 The RHS have more than 400,000 members.
Day 343: 21-Jun-15 HYPERBOLE = use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. e.g. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Day 344: 22-Jun-15 The 'Black Hole of Calcutta'; was a small room used as a prison in Calcutta, India. In 1756, 146 British prisoners were put in it, most died in one night.
Day 345: 23-Jun-15 The later version of the Magna Carta was written and signed in 1217.
Day 346: 24-Jun-15 On the 1st day of our holiday to Guernsey, we visited Moulin Huet tea room/bay;
Renoir 1841-1919 in the summer of 1883 painted 15 pictures of Moulin Huet bay.
Day 347: 25-Jun-15 Visited the Rousse Kiosk for lunch; I've been following the Kiosk on Twitter . Here is a view to enjoy from the Kiosk.
Day 348: 26-Jun-15 STULTIFY = to have a dulling or inhibiting effect; used on Beechgrove Garden TV programme; if a particular plant was allowed to flower it would inhibit further plant growth.
Day 349: 27-Jun-15 Revisited the Victorian walled garden at Saumarez Park, discovering the new restoration and rebuilding.
Day 350: 28-Jun-15 Discovered Beaucette Marina, N. East Guernsey, a former granite quarry.
Day 351: 29-Jun-15 Discovered, identified Pennisetum glaucum 'Purple Majesty'.
Day 352: 30-Jun-15 NOMOPHOBIA; the fear (anxiety) of being out of mobile phone / smart phone contact (e.g through loss of phone, low battery, out of credit, out of signal range).
Day 353: 1-Jul-15 One hoverfly larvae can consume up to 100 aphids in just one hour.
Day 354: 2-Jul-15 The planet PLUTO was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
Day 355: 3-Jul-15 Britain's longest running flower show at Taunton's Vivary Park, dating from 1831.
Day 356: 4-Jul-15 Plant: Abelia is a genus of about 15-30 species and many hybrids in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae.
Day 357: 5-Jul-15 On the BBC Click programme; discovery that plants can generate electricity, such as moss and algae. Further research under way
to look at future power generation.
Day 358: 6-Jul-15 The on-line trader Amazon has been around for 20 years.
Day 359: 7-Jul-15 GROCKLE - a very old word, origin uncertain - used to describe people from outside an area. Widely used in Devon
to describe tourists or 'incomers'.
Day 360: 8-Jul-15 EMMET - a term used in Cornwall to refer to the non-Cornish; either tourists or 'incomers' who have moved into the county.
Day 361: 9-Jul-15 As this 365 day challenge comes to an end I have learned that it is important to keep listening and looking at the world around us, to be connected, to experience life in all its fullness.
Day 362: 10-Jul-15 We stayed near to and visited Newton Ferrers, Devon. Rather exclusive estuary community with very expensive housing.
Day 363: 11-Jul-15 We visited Dartmoor Zoo. www.dartmoorzoo.org
Day 364: 12-Jul-15 The settlement of MORWELLHAM; by the river Tamar has existed for over 1000 years. It was the greatest copper ore port in
Queen Victoria's Empire. www.morwellham.org
Day 365: 13-Jul-15 The world's first portable transistor radio was invented in 1955 by two Japanese men who went on to form the SONY company to produce and distribute the radio.
End of challenge!
If you have been reading some/all of these entries, perhaps you too have learned something new too!
