
The Honorable Paul Hellyer
Canada’s 16th Minister of National Defence 1963-1967
Born August 6, 1923 — Died August 8, 2021Click for report.

The Honorable Paul Hellyer
Canada’s 16th Minister of National Defence 1963-1967
Born August 6, 1923 — Died August 8, 2021Click for report.
“It’s been a severe and dangerous summer, some of the heatwaves have been devastatingly hot. … I don’t think anyone anticipated temperatures would be so hot right now. I don’t think we could have expected so many heatwaves in the same general region in one summer. These sort of events are completely unprecedented. You expect records to be beaten by tenths of a degree, not 5F or more.”
— Michael Wehner, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l. LabClick for report.
The Earthfiles YouTube Channel has broken through 177,000 subscribers by this 2021 Summer Solstice! Tune In LIVE tomorrow night, Wednesday, June 23rd, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern — and all other time zones around the world — to celebrate with Emmy Award-winning TV producer, author and Earthfiles Reporter and Editor Linda Moulton Howe in a 90-minute special of YOUR pre-recorded questions and Linda’s live answers. Thank you, everyone!
“The Chinese told me over and over again of the amount of evidence they have from which they conclude that the E.T. phenomenon is real, in the sense that there are real tangible craft penetrating their airspace.”
– C. B. Scott Jones, Former U.S. Naval Intelligence

The word ‘solstice’ comes from the Latin words for sun (sol) and to stand (sistere). Summer solstice occurs on the longest day of the year, usually June 20 or 21, although the sun’s position remains in pretty much the same place for a few days either side. During the summer solstice, the Earth’s axis is tilted at its closest point from the sun. This means that in the northern hemisphere, the sun is at its highest point in the sky. It’s also the longest day of the year – and the shortest night.
“NASA and several organizations are now beginning to plan manned missions to Mars. … However, interplanetary deep space is populated not only by microgravity, but also by strong radiation such as galactic cosmic rays, which originate outside the solar system, plus solar particles, which include high-charge, high-energy particles that are difficult to shield from a spacecraft.”
— Science Advances, June 11, 2021