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Tomorrow is 'National Cherry Turnover Day'. Give me a tall glass of cold milk and a big stack of them, and I will show you how many I can turn over, quickly
I wore them as a kid and have made fun of them since. Tomorrow is also 'Bow Tie Day'. Now, when you come to think of it, they are quick on and off and they don't choke. Maybe they deserve more respect, for a guy that hates ties of any kind.
Not good at video games. Just keep it simple. Tomorrow is 'Race Your Mouse Around The Icons Day'. You know you have nothing else to do while that old PC takes so long to boot-up.
Tomorrow we celebrate, or at least note depending on what state your patience and gullibility are in , the day in 1922 when the first radio commercial was broadcast. Yep, tomorrow is 'Radio Commercials Day'.
Tomorrow is 'Dream Day'. It commemorates the day in 1963 that Martin Luther King gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
If you have been asleep for the last hundred years or so, here is what you missed on August 28:
In 1830, The 'Tom Thumb' steam locomotive got into an impromptu race with a horse-drawn car, hoping to prove that steam was the way of the future. Tom lost due to
a belt that slipped a pulley, however the B&O Railroad saw the future. Isn't that putting the locomotive before the company? Nope, before locomotives the cars were pulled on rails by horses.
In 1837, Lea and William Perrins, Worcestershire Sauce was patented. Just about the only way I will eat anchovies. Ingredients: " vinegar, molasses, sugar, anchovies, water, onions, salt, garlic, tamarind concentrate, cloves, natural flavorings and chili pepper extract.".
In 1845, The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
In 1864, The first Geneva Convention was held. The rules of warfare, was signed by 26 nations.
In 1898, A carbonated drink was re marketed as Pepsi-Cola. (Coca-Cola Company founded 1892).
In 1907, The United Parcel Service was founded. It started in Seattle as a bicycle telegram delivery service.
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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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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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