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Here is a lemon you won't mind getting stuck with. Tomorrow will be 'Lemon Meringue Pie Day'. At least three inches of meringue please. More is better.
Now, if you felt guilty celebrating 'National Lazy Day' a few days ago, perhaps all you need is to apply a little psychology. Lets give it a more respectable name. Got it. Tomorrow is 'National Relaxation Day'.
Since tomorrow is the third Friday of August, I guess I will have to breakdown and
take that bath, comb my hair and put on shoes. Tomorrow will be 'Men's Grooming Day'. Glad this day doesn't come by, but once a year.
If you fail to take note of the above day or actually anything of note, don't worry it will be 'National Failures Day'. Now, lets understand this. It is a day to put those failures in your deep past and look ahead. It is not a day on which to mess up deliberately and expect to get away with it. I will be watching.
Something for the ladies. Tomorrow is 'Chauvin Day'. Yep, although Chauvin was more noted for his blind allegiance for a particular cause (faith in Napoleon), his level of gusto got his name applied as a descriptive noun, as in 'Male Chauvinist'.
On Jun 8 we celebrate 'Best Friends Day' We do it again tomorrow, but for our pets. Tomorrow is 'Best Friends Day'. Let's all come home from work with a little pet snack in our pockets. If your pet is on a diet, a little stroke or a few kind words is mostly likely all it really wants.
That photo album in your mind may reveal the following for August 15 in the past.
In 1914, the Panama Canal open to traffic,
In 1945, WW II gas rationing ends in the US.
In 1945, Japan surrenders. WW II concludes for the US. Due to the International Date Line, it is considered Aug 14 or15. Later Truman designated it as Sept. 2.
In 1971, The US breaks away from the gold standard.
In 1983, Hurricane Alicia forms in Gulf of Mexico. Hits Texas three days later.
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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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