Just for the heck of it, I asked Google what the farthest place on earth was from where I live. The answer is Perth Australia, approx. 17,199 miles away.
In 1962, Perth received global media attention when city residents lit their house lights, business lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the Earth on Friendship 7. That's when Perth became known as The City of Light.
Perth was originally called Boorloo by the indigenous Noongar people living in the area. The Noongar are Aboriginal Australians who live in the southwest corner of Western Australia.
It's interesting that after Dutch navigators charted the northern, Western and southern coasts of Australia during the 1600s, this newly found continent became known as New Holland. Here's the interesting part. The name Australia derives from Latin "australis" meaning "southern." What we know today as Antarctica was known as Terra Australis "South Land." In 1824, today's Australia took the name. The term Antarctic refers to the opposite of the Arctic Circle. The name Arctic comes from the Greek word arktos, meaning "bear." Anta is synonymous with anti, translating Antarctica as "Opposite Bear."
This raises my interest in the Antarctic. We'll save that for another day.
...........The boyfriend is out shopping at WM. We're having supper guests on Thursday. In planning our menu, we realized we needed groceries. Both of us enjoy choosing what foods to make for our guests. Entertaining is something we have always really enjoyed. This afternoon we're taking a trolley to tend to business out of town. My left knee has decided to make itself known by constant aching. Double drat. Guess we'll suck it up and call it the pain of the day.
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