Rewinding to Wednesday, January 28, 1976…
Wednesday · Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States
Rick, you arrived on January 28, 1976 in Clarksdale.
Outside
Looking it up…
Moon
waning crescent
#1 song
Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Clarksdale…
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
5% lit · 27.4 days into its cycle
Looking up from Clarksdale that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 240,134 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)”
by Diana Ross — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “I Write The Songs”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CLARKSDALE · 1976-01-28
BREAD COSTS 6.1× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
2,649 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Wood Rabbit
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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