National Zucchini Day: More
Squash those ideas of skipping the veggies tomorrow. It will be 'National Zucchini Day'. If your garden is running over with Zucchini, don't worry. It will also be 'Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbors Porch Day' (no I didn't make this up). It appears it is a day to promote ingenious ways to get rid of an over abundant harvest.
All you dog lovers cancelebrate Garfield's buddy. It will be 'Odie Day'.
Tomorrow you can take a break from trying to make yourself happy. It's 'Happiness Happens Day'.
Still too hot for you? Consider that tomorrow will be ''National Frozen Custard Day'.
Looking back on August 9:
In 1929, the lighter-than-air ship, the Graf Zeppelin, begins an round-the-world trip. It concluded 21 days 5 hours and 31 minutes later.
In 1876, Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph.
No. 1 song
Top movie
National Catfish Month, National Goat Cheese Month, National Peach Month, National Brownies at Brunch Month
August is:
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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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago,
or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More