The empire on which the sun never sets at the present time." In 1821, the "Caledonian Mercury" wrote of the British Empire, "On her dominions the sun never sets; before his evening rays leave the spires of Quebec, his morning beams have shone three hours on Port Jackson, and while sinking from the waters of Lake Superior, his eye opens upon the Mouth of the Ganges." Daniel Webster famously expressed a similar idea in 1834: "A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth
Back on the Planet Back on the Planet Back on the Planet is a studio album by American hip hop producer Ras G. It was released on Brainfeeder in 2013. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, "Back on the Planet" received an average score of 70 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Bram E. Gieben of "The Skinny" called the album "a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic jazz excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra." Daryl Keating of "Exclaim!" said: "Paradoxically fusing ancient, grinding rhythms and ultra-modern, plush beats,