The rings of Uranus were discovered on March 10, 1977 by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Douglas J. Mink. Two additional rings were discovered in 1986 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, and two outer rings were found in 2003–2005 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Additional faint dust bands and incomplete arcs may exist between the main rings. The rings are extremely dark—the bond albedo of the rings' particles does not exceed 2%. They are likely composed of water ice with the addition of some dark radiation-processed organics. The majority of Uranus's rings are opaque and only a few kilometres wide. The ring system contains little dust overall; it consists mostly of large bodies 0.2–20 m in diameter. The relative lack of dust in the ring system is due to aerodynamic drag from the extended Uranian exosphere—corona. The rings of Uranus are thought to be relatively young, at not more than 600 million years. The mechanism that confines the narrow rings is not well understood. The Uranian ring system probably originated from the collisional fragmentation of a number of moons that once existed around the planet. After colliding, the moons probably broke up into numerous particles, which survived as narrow and optically dense rings only in strictly confined zones of maximum stability.

An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiritimati)

The Treaty of Ghent was signed in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent)

Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan)

Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast, which included his playing a song on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden)

Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin, Australia, eventually destroying more than 70 percent of the city.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Tracy)

workshop (n) 1. A small room where things are manufactured, or light industrial work is done.
2. A brief intensive course of education for a small group.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/workshop)

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.