Bill Wall's Personal Blog

  In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents (2 nd generation): William Raymond Wall (1920-1980) and Bobbie Lueginia Wall (1931-2001) 4 grandparents (3 rd generation):   Connie Cullen Wall (1887-1972), Zella Verne Metcalf (1886-1954), James Parker Brown Jr (1888-1974), and Bessie Katherine Davis (1893-1936).   That’s 6 ancestors I needed. 8 great-grandparents (4 th generation): William Jesse Wall (1854-1910), Sallie Dixon McCurley (1859-1933), Henry Kanaga Metcalf (1852-1900), Ella Lunette Robinson (1855-1892), James Parker Brown Sr (1850-1890), Nancy Lillian Wright (1865-1906), Hiram Davis (1860-1940), Kathryn Elizabeth Truelove (1869-1967).   That’s 14 ancestors I needed. 16 2nd great-grandparents or 30 direct ancestors (5 th generation).   The 2 nd great-grandparents would include William Bryson Wall (1821-1904), Louisa C. Hudson (1825-1900), John D. McCurley (1822-1878), Sara Jane Neilson (1829-1904), Frances Metcalf Jr (1818-1863), Ophelia Mati...

  William Dale Wall 1787   William Wall born in North Carolina.   (one source, a Methodist Church record, says he was William Bryson Wall, Sr).  He may have had no middle name.  The Wall clan may have come from Scotland.  Perhaps his parents were Zachariah Wall and Annie Everett. 1792   Nancy Wallace born in North Carolina.   Wife of William Wall. 1810   William Wall moved to Shelby, Rutherford County (now Cleveland County, NC as of 1841) 1812.04.26   William Wall married Nancy Wallace in Shelby, NC. 1821.04.26   William Bryson Wall born in Shelby, NC to William and Nancy Wall.   1824   Oliver Perry Wall born in Shelby, NC to William and Nancy Wall. 1825.10.25   Louisa C. Hudson born in Parrottsville, Cocke County, TN.   Wife of William Bryson Wall.   She is an ancestor of Henry Hudson the explorer. 1831.09.03   Jesse J. Wall born in Shelby, NC to William and Nancy Wall. 1833   Wi...

                                                                  Bobbie Lueginia Brown 1803   Charles Brown born in Sweden.   Married Susan Alston.   Father of James Parker Brown and John W.Brown. 1808   Susan Alston born.   Wife of Charles Brown 1833.07.04   Charles Brown married Susan Alston in Stewart County, Georgia.   (source: Stewart County, Georgia Genealogy and History - Presented by Genealogy Trails History Group ) 1840   James Parker Brown, Sr. born in Pachuta, Clarke County,MS. 1842 John W. Brown born in Alabama.   Father was Charles Brown.  Jan 9, 1855   Nancy Lillian Wright was born.   She married James Parker Brown, Sr. in 1885.   James Brown died in 1890.   Nancy Lillian (Wright) Brown later married Albert L. Creel.  1860.0...

    Venus spins on its axis clockwise, making it the only planet in the Solar System that spins in retrograde, or opposite spin of Earth and all the other planets.   There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet.   Astronomers have discovered over 1,600 volcanoes on Venus so far.   Scientists think that most of these volcanoes are dormant. A day on Venus lasts 343 Earth days, while a year on Venus is shorter, at just 224.7 Earth days.   Venus takes longer to rotate about its axis than any other planet.   The days of Venus are longer than the years.   The temperature on Venus can reach 870 degrees Fahrenheit due to an extreme greenhouse effect and the atmosphere being made up of 96.5% carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid.   Venus has the hottest surface of any planet, about 867 degrees Fahrenheit.   The air pressure on Venus is 90 times higher that the pressure at sea level on Earth, That’s equivalent to about half a mile un...

  Mercury is the smallest (3,032 miles in diameter) and most innermost planet.   It is the least understood of all planets.   It has the largest eccentricity of any planet.   Two moons of Saturn are larger than Mercury.   Its temperature on the surface can be as cold as 290 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, or as hot as 800 degrees Fahrenheit (Venus is hotter at 863 degrees Fahrenheit).   The names for the features of Mercury are odd.   Craters are named for dead artists, musicians, painters, and authors.   Ridges are named for scientists who have contributed to the study of Mercury.   Depressions are named for works of architectures.   Escarpments (steep slope or long cliff) are named for ships or scientific expeditions.   Valleys are named for abandoned cities, town, or settlements of antiquity.   On average, Mercury is closer to Earth than Venus or Mars.   Because Mercury is so close to the Sun (36 million miles), the Hu...

    In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB), also known as a Lorimer Burst, is a transient radio pulse that lasts about a fraction of a millisecond.   It is one of the oddest puzzles of modern astronomy.   FRBs are rare, extremely bright flashed of light with radio wavelengths.   They put out more energy in one millisecond than the Sun puts out in 3 days.   FRBs are named by the date that the signal was recorded as “FRB YYMMDD”.   In most cases, the high frequency signal shows up first, followed by the low frequency signal.   This is known as dispersion.   It was estimated that 10,000 bursts a day was occurring and that 1,000 FRBs arrive at Earth each day. Astronomers were unsure how FRBs were generated.   Theories included supernova activity, colliding neutron stars, or neutron stars falling into black holes, or comets and asteroids slamming into neutron stars, or primordial black holes exploding.   There was even a theory...

      An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.   As of April 1, 2021, there have been 4,1704 confirmed exoplanets in 3,478 star systems, with 770 systems having more than one planet.   The methods used to detect an exoplanet include transit photometry, radio velocity method, Doppler spectroscopy, and gravitational microlensing.   The least massive planet, named Draugr, is about twice the mass of the moon.   The most massive planet, named HR 2562, is about 30 times the mass of Jupiter.     The nearest exoplanets are located 4.2 light-years away and orbit Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun.   In 1988, the first suspected scientific detection of an exoplanet occurred, but not confirmed.   In 1990, observations were published that a planet orbited Gamma Cephei.  In 2003, improved techniques allowed the planet’s existence to be confirmed.  On January 9, 1992, the first c...