Hi All,
This story is going to be succinct and precise. Through this story I would like to point out a peculiar series of events that transpired in this month of July 2009. Call it a mere coincidence or something else. This month of July 2009 can be easily be called one of the most eventful of all Julies (read as the plural form of July) we have ever had since the birth of Julius Caesar, after whom of course the month was named July.
It all began on with a just week before July. The date was 25th June when the most famous “moonwalker” who has ever walked on earth left the world. The man who immortalized the “moonwalk” was aptly given the honor of a crater on moon named after him. I am sure I need not mention his name here because even in the smallest village in our country where electricity has not penetrated this man did. I still can recall people telling a dancing child “Are! Jyada Michael Jackson banane ki jaroorat nahi hai “
The second series of events concerning the iridescent moon was that this 20th July marked the 40th years since the statement “a small step by a man, a giant leap by mankind” was mouthed by Neil Armstrong when he along with Buzz Aldrin put their feet on moon surface, a first by any human. Since then there has been a few more visits to the moon but we are still in awe with the heavenly body, whose origin is still debated. Theologically may be it was a way God wished to lure humans towards space exploration.
Third and the last event was another epochal event for the human kind because on 22nd July 2009 we witnessed a special Solar Eclipse. The fact that the moon was at its perigee caused the eclipse to be more than a 6 minute long episode. This will again happen more than a century hence from now. Pessimistically speaking I am not sure what the world will hold in those days. May be we might be living on the moon so some of us might not see a solar eclipse but rather an Earth Eclipse.
So here we are an exciting July has nearly passed by us. There are still a few days left and I hope no other excitement is left for us to witness. All said and done this really seems to be a correlation between this July and our moon. Anyways I am leaving up to the readers to decide on their own. By the way this July also marked the 25th (a quarter century) Birth Anniversary of yours truly, may be a small coincidence against the once mentioned before.
Thanks and take care!!!
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