Lunar Eclispe

Some interesting information I found out about the Lunar Eclispe that happened last night:
 
The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC was foretold by soothsayers when the Moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
 
Stranded on the coast of Jamaica, the explorers were running out of food and faced with increasingly hostile local inhabitants who were refusing to provide them with any more supplies.  Columbus, looking at an astronomical almanac compiled by a German mathematician, realized that a total eclipse of the Moon would occur on February 29, 1504.  He called the native leaders and warned them if they did not cooperate, he would make the Moon disappear from the sky the following night.  The warning, of course, came true, prompting the terrified people to beg Columbus to restore the Moon -- which he did, in return for as much food as his men needed. He and the crew were rescued on June 29, 1504.
 

ICKY LIVES

ICKY IS ALIVE!!

 

I already has him in his burial box. I thought it would have been appropriate to bury him in an old tea box named the Black Pearl, since we did host a pirate party for his first molting back in October of 06. So late at night I hear scratching coming from the box and almost shit in my pants. It was ICKY! I pick him up and his outer shell fell off and inside was a freshly molted, naked hermit crab!

 

I felt really guilty and am a little traumatized by the nature of events. I got him some new sand and a heating pad for his cage. What an emotional roller coaster.