Gustave Flaubert wrote that "an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute." So, if you have boundless passion for contemplating the immeasurable, a full day should offer plenty of time. August 8 (8/8) is Infinity Day since the numeral 8 looks like a tilted ∞, the common symbol for infinity first popularized in 17th-century math books. But the concept of infinity itself represents an idea much older, inherent in the countless spiritual traditions that revere eternal gods or outline endless life cycles.
It s ∞ Day!
Today in History
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Art abounds at the Palais Garnier
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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Happy Pi Day!
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World Space Week begins
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White Sands National Park turns 90
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Travel Sunday: Sintra, Portugal
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A Bengal tiger in Ranthambore National Park, India
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It’s Art Deco Weekend in Miami
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Father s Day
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Honoring the first American woman in space
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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Singing praises of the oceans
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Baltic Sea, Estonia
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Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
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Tough turf
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New Orleans for Mardi Gras
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Computer Science EDU Week
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It s a good day to be green
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Chapel of St. Michel on Lake Serre-Ponçon, Hautes-Alpes, France
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National Napping Day
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Día de los Muertos celebrations in Mexico
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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World Wildlife Day
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Terraced rice fields, Yuanyang County, China
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The confluence of the Arve and Rhône Rivers
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Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
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World Rainforest Day
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Bear watching in the Finnish forest
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Denali National Park