As the world turns . . .

Friday, September 18, 2026. It's Freya's day … two and a half more hot days for GreenCountry and TulseyTown. At this eight-o’clock hour, forecasts call for a cooling beginning Sunday late afternoon.

Inquiring minds want to know: Trump's worst fear. – Robert Reich, Substack, posted yesterday

Canada is showing the world how to defy Donald Trump. – Miles Tayor, Defiance,

Today is the birthdate of Samuel Johnson, born in 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, was regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters.

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born on this date in 1819 Paris. The French physicist is best known for the invention of the Foucault Pendulum which demonstrates the earth's rotation.

In 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published. Recognized as the world's “journal of record,” it still publishes with the masthead declaration “All the news that's fit to print.”

Greta Garbo was born on this day in 1905 Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish American actress was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s.

And the innovative choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille was also born on this same day, but in 1905 New York.