The cruise continues with two days at-sea, getting into St. John's, Newfoundland on Thursday, August 20. I'll be including activities on board, but this period allows me to provide further episodes for a couple of series I earlier began. Today, Part 3g of My Life. The story of My Life began as a post on 31May2026, after I realized that, from the age of 5, my life could be represented by three periods of 27 years: education, work and retirement. To summarize: The average person spends the first 20 to 25 years growing up and going to school, the next 40 years working, and the final phase in retirement, generally only around 10 years. My life: I was born in 1940, and my life expectancy was supposed to only be 45. This comes from Google AI citing Our World Data. I was born in Hawaii, not then yet part of the USA, but if I asked Google AI, what would my life expectancy be if I were born in the U.S. in 1940, the answer was 61.4. Were I to ask, since...
We are on a tour of Nuuk today, and will report tomorrow with photos. For now: Nuuk is the Greenlandic word for cape. Known as Godthab in Denmark, a name used until 1879, when home rule was established. Capital and most populous city with 20,298 people, or 36% of Greenland. The population has doubled since 1977. First occupied by pre-Inuit Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC. Norse settlers came around 1000, but disappeared for uncertain reasons during the 15th centtury. City established in 1728 by Danish-Norwegian royal governor Claus Paarss and missionary/merchant Hans Egede. Moravian missionaries came in 1733. Paarass's colonists were mutinous soldiers, convicts and prostitutes, and most died of scurvy and other ailments in the first year. In 1733 and 1734, a smallpox epidemic killed most of the native population, as well as Egede's wife. Hans left Greenland to return to Denmark in 1736, leaving son Poul Egede ( right) to continue his work. Godt...