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Got 'some more' goodies for you tomorrow. It will be 'National S'mores Day'. Get out in the backyard if necessary, bet that campfire going and get started, I'm sure we all know the ingredients.
I would make a bunch S'mores ahead of time. Find the hammock and relax. Tomorrow
will also be 'National Lazy Day'.
If camping is not for you, and you are close to a museum, it will be 'Smithsonian Day'. There will be 24 hrs free admission.
On the way to the museum, you can put in an 8-track, oops dated myself, didn't I. Anyway crank up your favorite Duran Duran mp3 and celebrate 'National Duran Duran Appreciation Day'.
If you traveled all the way to New York for the museum, make sure you have your camera and nose bleed medicine. It will also be 'Skyscraper Appreciation Day'.
Hey, and lets use some Eco-friendly fuel, in thet gas guzzler . Ti will be 'International Biodiesel Day'.
Way, way back it look like this on August 10:
In 1776, Word of the U.S. Declaration of Independence reaches London
In 1821, Missouri is accepted as the 24th state of the U.S.
In 1846, Smithsonian Institution is chartered.
In 1937, The first-ever electric guitar patent awarded.
In 1948, Candid Camera makes television debut from the radio, where it was Candid Microphone..
In 2003, Yuri Malenchenko become the first person married in space. Don't know where the reception was held, since the bride was on the ground in Texas.
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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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