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Rejoice, tomorrow is portable ice cream day. Well it is really 'National Ice Cream Sandwich Day', but you get the idea. So, you get out the old crank ice cream freezer and I'll bake some sourdough and we will .... Sorry, we will just by some at the store..
Tomorrow being the first Saturday in August, it will be 'National Mustard Day'. Just think of a big steaming bowl of mustard for ..... Sorry again. I will take mine with horseradish added. That is two mistakes. One more and this post will self destruct.
Help some one and maybe help yourself. Tomorrow is 'Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day', Please note that it is not Spend A Penny Day, even though the two days are not mutually exclusive. And as Martha might say 'That's a good thing'. So, if you purchase something tomorrow and have a few pennies in change, throw them in the change jar at the counter. And, please grab a few, before you give the clerk two dollar bills for a $1.03 purchase.
Well the old boys finally got around to signing the document they drew up back on July 4th. On August 1 1776 the US Declaration of Independence was signed. I believe this was our first glimpse that Congress does not move very fast.
Well, Congress having both The House and Senate for the first time in 1789, it was time to tangle about money. The first step was to see how many taxpayers there were. In 1790 the first US Census is conducted. And the answer is, or was, 3,929,214.
In England on August 2 1870, the world's first underground subway/tube railway opened (Tower Subway), in London. The first US subway was in Boston in 1895.
Out in San Francisco on August 2 1873, they decided to stay above ground. The first cable car was put in service.
Remember the only reason you went to the department store with your mom and dad , when you were a kid. You bet, on August 2 1892 an escalator prototype was patented. Well, riding the escalator and some popcorn or candy.
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August origin (from Wikipedia): Originally named Sextili (Latin), because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar: under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.
"About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus
According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
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