My 365 day 'observation' challenge finished on the 13th July.
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!
Another month of fffffacts....
Day 292: 1-May-15 US electric car maker unveils batteries that can power homes & businesses.
Day 293: 2-May-15 A Samsung fridge - large & with a fair amount of technology can be bought for US $6000 / £3850 !!
Day 294: 3-May-15 Westonbirt Arboretum is to get a new treetop walkway built, due to be ready later this year.
Day 295: 4-May-15 Dahlias (plants) are native to Mexico - cultivated and eaten! for hundreds of years.
Day 296: 5-May-15 Devon has an estimated 33,000 miles of hedgerows; more than any other county in England.
Day 297: 6-May-15 In the French town of Orchies they have a museum of chicory!
Day 298: 7-May-15 Apparently there are about 700,000 residential properties lying unoccupied in England.
Day 299: 8-May-15 General Election results today; Conservatives have overall majority; general turmoil in other main parties.
Day 300: 9-May-15 Slovenia's geography & underlying rock type & structure means water doesn't stand, but drains to underground caves. There are no areas of standing water.
Day 301: 10-May-15 Cut Laurel (plant) leaves release cyanide chemical.
Day 302: 11-May-15 In Finland, as well as teaching Finnish as a primary language, it is mandatory to teach Swedish.
Day 303: 12-May-15 Cabbage was introduced to and brought from Holland to the UK (Dorset).
Day 304: 13-May-15 Architecture: OGEE Arch
Day 305: 14-May-15 Hexham has a building reportedly the first recorded purpose built prison; built in 1333, with 500 years use as a prison.
Day 306: 15-May-15 Wales first maritime lifeboat station built at Holyhead 1858. Now a maritime museum.
Day 307: 16-May-15 Explosive factory set up in 1915 at Gretna; Scotland. 30,000 people working creating 800 tons of explosives per week.
Day 308: 17-May-15 BBC Click programme: A company in Holland installs computer servers in homes; the heat they generate heats the home instead of the servers being in large, centralised server rooms requiring cooling. The servers are used as distributed computers; running encrypted network comms & are secured against physical tampering.
Day 309: 18-May-15 News item on BBC West about the development of an artificial human eye that can be used by medical students & surgeons to practice eye surgery techniques.
Day 310: 19-May-15 Made aware of Palmyra (Syria) in the news.
Day 311: 20-May-15 YouTube has been online for 10 years.
Day 312: 21-May-15 Liquid Morphium = an amorphous alloy of zirconium, copper, aluminum, nickel & silver.
Day 313: 22-May-15 The Hubble Space Telescope has been in space for 25 years.
Day 314: 23-May-15 A first: Suffering likely Viral Meningitis - spare you the symptoms/details; but really ill.
Day 315: 24-May-15 On BBC Click 'Be my eyes' APP; allows blind people to get assistance from volunteers, by streaming video from a blind persons's smartphone.
Day 316: 25-May-15 Seaton Tramway - Harbour Road, Seaton, Devon looks like a nice place to visit.
Day 317: 26-May-15 New invention: TrackR - a GPS Tracker Tag (www.thetrackr.com)
Day 318: 27-May-15 Earth removed as part of London's Crossrail project is being used to create one of Europe's largest nature reserves on Wallasea Island (East Coast of England).
Day 319: 28-May-15 Revealed on Springwatch; Microplastics found in various products such as face scrubs are finding its way into wildlife from our waste;
getting into smaller & smaller creatures & will kill them.
Day 320: 29-May-15 It is 25 years since the restoration of the 'Lost gardens of Heligan' began.
Day 321: 30-May-15 According to the BBC news; in Iran it can be permitted for married men to have a second partner, but under Islamic law, married women
can face flogging or stoning if caught with another man.
Day 322: 31-May-15 Pomology = a branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruit mainly focused on development, cultivation & physiological studies of
stone fruit trees.
As the daily challenge continues, more fascinating facts to enjoy.
Day 262: 1-Apr-15 Carl Linnaeus - introduced the bi-nominal system of plant names, gave the epithet 'officinalis' to plants of medicinal importance.
Day 263: 2-Apr-15 Aston Martin cars used to be made in Newport Pagnell until July 2007.
Day 264: 3-Apr-15 Plant African marigold; Calendula officinalis soothes insect stings & sunburn.
Day 265: 4-Apr-15 Twitter started in 2007; today it's a $30 billion public company.
Day 266: 5-Apr-15 LOGGIA = (Italian) is an architectural feature which is a covered exterior gallery or corridor usually on an upper level, or sometimes ground level.
Day 267: 6-Apr-15 Allelopathic - where a plant exudes a chemical that is transmitted through the soil (can suppress other plant growth).
Day 268: 7-Apr-15 Spain introduced cattle into Costa Rica.
Day 269: 8-Apr-15 Plant Solomon's Seal - Polygonatum oderatum, an herbaceous perennial with erect or arching stems bearing glossy, elliptic leaves and pendent, tubular or bell shaped flowers.
Day 270: 9-Apr-15 The Panama Canal construction started in the 1880s and was completed in 1940.
Day 271: 10-Apr-15 Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1880.
Day 272: 11-Apr-15 Plant Corylopsis = winter hazel; flowers in March having primrose yellow flowers with cowslip scent.
Day 273: 12-Apr-15 Semi-mature tree suppliers - Majestic Trees: www.majestictrees.co.uk
Day 274: 13-Apr-15 The new potato variety 'Jersey Royal' was discovered in 1878 by Jersey farmer Hugh de la Haye.
Day 275: 14-Apr-15 Avebury stone circle dates from about 2500-2200 BC.
Day 276: 15-Apr-15 Twitch.tv - a live streaming video platform (owned by Amazon), started in June 2011; primarily focus is to enable viewing of people playing video games.
Day 277: 16-Apr-15 Lloyds insurers in London have a genuine Robert Adams dining room in their building, taken from (purchased) Bowood House.
Day 278: 17-Apr-15 On TV programme 'How it is made', on Quest; amazed at the ingenuity of design & production of things like electric cables & railway wheels to name but 2!
Day 279: 18-Apr-15 Plant Houttuynia cordata; very invasive, rampant ground cover, pungent smell, regenerates from very small pieces of root.
Day 280: 19-Apr-15 Europe's first wrought iron suspension bridge, built over the river Tees (UK) in 1741.
Day 281: 20-Apr-15 The Morris Minor first appeared on the UK's roads in 1952.
Day 282: 21-Apr-15 The Menai bridge over the Menai straights in 1826, was the longest suspension bridge in the world, built by Thomas Telford.
Day 283: 22-Apr-15 Edwin Beard Budding 1796 - 1846, invented the world's first lawnmower in 1830.
Day 284: 23-Apr-15 Horace Jones, City of London architect, designer of Tower Bridge; took 8 years to build, with 500 men.
Day 285: 24-Apr-15 The Channel Tunnel opened in 1994, it has 3 tunnels; 2 for trains & a central service tunnel.
Day 286: 25-Apr-15 Henry VIII 1509-1547
Day 287: 26-Apr-15 Joint monarchs William and Mary 1689-1702
Day 288: 27-Apr-15 Queen Anne 1702-1707
Day 289: 28-Apr-15 1 zettabyte = 1 trillion gigabytes.
Day 290: 29-Apr-15 Blackpool tower was built in 1894; immittating the Eiffel Tower, it is 518 feet high with a 30 mile visible horizon from the top.
Day 291: 30-Apr-15 First cuckoo of the season heard first thing this morning.
After a slight detour the 365 day challenge continues with my next selection of fascinating facts.
Day 229: 27-Feb-15 One of the first steam powered road vehicles was designed and constructed by Richard Trevithick in 1803 (3 wheeler)
Day 230: 28-Feb-15 Plant: Coptis; a small evergreen perennial, a good companion plant for ferns, trilliums and other woodland types. Enjoys cool shade, moist, humus rich soil.
Day 231: 1-Mar-15 The first road roller, steam powered was built by Thomas Aveling in 1867.
Day 232: 2-Mar-15 Derivation of Starboard; the side (righthand) of a boat (looking towards the bows) where the 'steering board' was mounted, became known as Starboard. Port being the lefthand side where a boat would be docked in port (on it's Port Side).
Day 233: 3-Mar-15 The first steam powered paddle steamers were made in the early 1800s.
Day 234: 4-Mar-15 Steam museum at Hall Farm, Strumpshaw.
Day 235: 5-Mar-15 A 'Synchroton' is a large accelerator that produces powerful X-rays for research purposes.
Day 236: 6-Mar-15 The Royal Yacht 'Brittania' was launched in 1953.
Day 237: 7-Mar-15 A Leat, is the name, common in the south & west of England for an artificial watercourse supplying water to a watermill or its mill pond.
Day 238: 8-Mar-15 A year ago today the Malaysian flight MH370 disappeared.
Day 239: 9-Mar-15 Trinity House (in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) formerly began in 1505.
Day 240: 10-Mar-15 Phyllis Pearsall created the first A-Z London map in 1936.
Day 241: 11-Mar-15 The BBC are introducing a free, small, programmable computer - the Micro Bit.
Day 242: 12-Mar-15 A new Samsung phone (Galaxy Note Edge) has curved edges to its display.
Day 243: 13-Mar-15 John Tradescant the Elder & his son, were C16 & C17 plant collectors.
Day 244: 14-Mar-15 'Grotto' comes from the word 'crupta' (in Vulgar Latin).
Day 245: 15-Mar-15 I sponsored someone undertaking the 'Rainbow Fun Run' in support of St Richards Hospice Foundation
Day 246: 16-Mar-15 Discovered that YouTube app on my tablet can 'cast' / control my Humax Freesat box YouTube app service.
Day 247: 17-Mar-15 ~ 6000 people commit suicide each year in the UK.
Day 248: 18-Mar-15 EPICORMIC shoot: a shoot growing from an Epicormic bud which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem or branch of a plant. Normally dormant, their growth is suppressed by hormones produced from active shoots higher up the plant.
Day 249: 19-Mar-15 Was made aware of the Shuttleworth collection.
Day 250: 20-Mar-15 An eclipse of the sun today at approx 9.30am, viewable from Cheltenham, not quite total.
Day 251: 21-Mar-15 Plant Sage: Salvia officinalis contains a camphoraceous oil, consisting of about 50% thujone, when taken to excess can be halluncinogenic, addictive and toxic.
Day 252: 22-Mar-15 Aptronyms or Nominative Determinism is a noun for having a name that goes with your job/occupation e.g butcher
Day 253: 23-Mar-15 Dover Castle was built over 800 years ago, ordered by King Henry 2nd, King of England & also parts of France.
Day 254: 24-Mar-15 Plant Magnolia stellata:
Day 255: 25-Mar-15 Vexilology is the study of flags.
Day 256: 26-Mar-15 SCS = Sofa Carpet Specialists.
Day 257: 27-Mar-15 Twitter now has a form of live video streaming capability.
Day 258: 28-Mar-15 The Tower of London was built in the 1080's.
Day 259: 29-Mar-15 Lamingtons - a cake
Day 260: 30-Mar-15 Agapanthus - when grown in pots, restricts root run, needs to be well drained, watered once a week, fed once every three weeks.
Day 261: 31-Mar-15 Outernet - provides free Internet based content via geostationary and low earth orbit satellites.
