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Tomorrow is 'Eat Outside Day'. Just a warning. News has come to me that pic-a-nic baskets are missing in J.S Park. Beware of two bears, one tall. and one short. They are not, your average bares. Do not try to apprehend them by yourself, a sequel may arise. If sighted, please report them to Mr. Ranger.
If the cat has made a home in your picnic basket and your red and white checkered table cloth is not back from the cleaners yet, don't worry. Tomorrow is also 'National Trail Mix Day'. Just remember, the mix goes in you and the bag goes in the trash can.
On a serious note. Tomorrow is 'International Overdose Awareness Day'.
Time went that-a-way, and reined-up at August 31:
In 1870,- The telephone was invented independently by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was able to patent his invention before Gray.
In 1886, The first major earthquake recorded in eastern US, takes place in Charleston SC. 110 are killed.
In 1920, The first ever radio news program was broadcast in Detroit, Michigan. It delivered election returns to the very few people who had radios.
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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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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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