What Happened on November 19th
November 19, 1992
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Released
Sega releases the second game for its top franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, for the Sega Genesis platform. Genesis was running second to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System with its franchise creations such as Mario and Starfox.
Given the title referencing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the festive Piazza seems to stand in for the Capulet's ball. The young John Ruskin (1819β1900), later a prominent art critic, defended Turner's artistic choices and any perceived inaccuracies in the portrayal of Venice. Ultimately, the painting speaks for itself, showcasing Turner's mastery of atmospheric effects and dynamic perspective in one of the most evocative works of his later career.
To the right is the upper level of the Doge's Palace, slightly compressed in Turner's depiction. Further right, the building with the slender cupola is the Zecca, or Mint, and just above it, two vertical brushstrokes suggest the iconic columns of the Lion of San Marco and San Theodore, situated in the Piazzetta. The Riva degli Schiavoni, teeming with boats, extends into the distance, while fireworks illuminate the sky above larger vessels near Palladio's San Giorgio Maggiore.
In Juliet and her Nurse, Joseph Mallord William Turner offers a sweeping view of Veniceβs main Piazza and its eastern landmarks, as seen from above the western end of the Procuratie Nuove, near the rooftops of the Hotel Europa where he stayed. At the center of the composition is the Campanile and the Basilica of San Marco, with the red bricks of the tower contrasting against the unnaturally whitened, almost ethereal domes.
Undulatus, a type of Asperitas cloud, form at the peaks where the air is cool enough to cause the condensation of opaque water droplets. The wide-angle nature of the panorama creates the illusion that the clouds converge over the hill. In terms of land, there really is a world-famous observatory at the top of that peak: the Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The two telescope domes visible are the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes.
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What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in Earth's lower atmosphere.