Mr. Guterres' predecessors as Secretary-General were: Ban Ki-moon (Korea) who served from January 2007 to December 2016; Kofi Annan (Ghana) who held office from January 1997 to December 2006; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), who held office from January 1992 to December 1996; Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar (Peru), who served from January 1982 to December 1991; Kurt Waldheim (Austria), who held office from January 1972 to December 1981; U Thant (Burma, now Myanmar), who served from November 1961, when he was appointed acting Secretary-General (he was formally appointed Secretary-General in November 1962) to December 1971; Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), who served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Africa in September 1961; and Trygve Lie (Norway), who held office from February 1946 to his resignation in November 1952.
Humanity may never get to witness that from Earth, but perhaps our relocated descendents will someday gaze up at the tidally locked Moon of another planet. So tonight, when you see the Man in the Moon gazing down at you fondly, remember the processes that keep him there, and think about the other planets in our solar system and beyond where different moon faces beam endlessly down on strange terrains.
The blue supermoon may have affected the storm surge from Hurricane Idalia as it made landfall in the southeastern U.S. on Wednesday, as the event creates a gravitational pull that would increase tides more than their normal range.
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