The Writer's Almanac from Monday, December 25, 2006 "Rejoicing with Henry" by Maxine Kumin, from Selected Poems: 1960-1990. © W.W. Norton. ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2006 ORIGINAL TEXT - 2006 It's the birthday of scientist and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England (1642). As a professor of mathematics, Newton made discoveries about the nature of light and color, and he developed a more advanced telescope. But then he began to think about why planets travel in orbits around the sun, and why they never stopped. Those questions resulted in his laws of motion: that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
I fear your information on Christmas and the Bible was not always strictly correct. Still Merry Christmas and may God bless you with all his grace.
I fear your information on Christmas and the Bible was not always strictly correct. Still Merry Christmas and may God bless you with all his grace.