Bill Wall's Personal Blog

  In early December 2019, the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China.   The virus is thought to be natural and of animal in origin.   The disease may have come from wild bates and then spread to humans.   The first known human infections were in Wuhan, China.   The cases were mostly linked to the Wuhan seafood wholesale market.   On Dec 18, 2019, traces of the virus was found in Milan and Turin, Italy.  By Dec 20, 2019, there were 60 coronavirus cases in the province of Hubei, China.   By the end of the month, at least 266 people were infected. During the early stages of the outbreak, the number of cases doubled every 7 and a half days.   On Jan 9, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a mysterious Coronavirus-related pneumonia in Wuhan, China.   There were 59 cases of it so far.  On Jan 20, 2020, China reported nearly 140 new cases in one day.   By then, 6,174...

  Uranus (pronounced YOOR un nus), the “icy giant,” is an odd planet.   It is the seventh planet from the Sun and the only one in our Solar System that is tilted on its side for reasons scientists have not figured out.   Its north and south poles lie where most planets have their equators.   Its rotation axis tilt is oriented 97.77 degrees relative to its orbit, whirling around in a clockwise direction.   Was it hit by another planet that caused a titanic collision?   A new hypothesis was that Uranus had a ring system large enough to cause it to wobble on its axis like a spinning top.   The rings are only about 600 million years old.   Its name, Uranus, is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos.   Astronomer Johann Bode suggested that it be name after the Greek god of the sky, Uranus.     All the other planets are named after Roman gods except Uranus.     Uranus is the third largest planet, behind Jupiter and...

Name Birth Date Birth Location Death Date William Raymond Wall 1/4/1920 Winlock, WA 5/12/1980 Bobbie Lueginia Brown 3/5/1931 Quitman, MS 1/31/2001 Connie Cullen Wall 1887-08-07 Winlock, WA 5/16/1972 Zella Verne Metcalf 1886-01-21 Hamilton, IL 10/1/1954 James Parker Brown Jr. 1887-02-11 Pachuta, Clarke, MS 9/29/1974 Bessie Katherine Davis 1893-05-16 Quitman, MS 10/4/1936 William Jesse Wall 1854-07-14 Parrottsville, TN 6/4/1910 Sallie Dixon McCurley 1859-05-02 Parrottsville, TN 7/2/1933 Henry Kanaga Metcalf 1852-06-05 Kenosha, WI 9/12/1900 Ella Lunette Robinson 1855-03-25 ...