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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'Bittersweet Chocolate Day'.
[The Hankster says] It is a dark chocolate made of 35 percent cocoa liquor (the non-alcoholic liquid from the beans), sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla, but no milk solids. Bittersweet is my favorite kind of chocolate, although I don't think it is recorded anywhere, that I turned down any of chocolate's incarnations.
Tomorrow is 'National Cut Your Energy Costs Day'.
[The Hankster says] It can be done. Just takes a little effort.
We have an awareness day tomorrow. It will be 'National Save The Eagles Day'.
Tomorrow is also 'Peculiar People Day'.
[The Hankster says] Knowing what aspersions would be cast my way, I looked up the definition of peculiar and found these synonyms: strange, unusual, odd, funny, curious, bizarre, weird I of course, first choose funny and then maybe curious to describe my posts.
An appreciation day tomorrow. It will be 'Houseplant Appreciation Day'.
[The Hankster says] I know some of you did not heed my caution about taking down the Christmas tree. Let me state here and now, that you may not consider that brown bottle brush, standing in the corner, as a house plant. You may keep the Poinsettia, if and only it has a least one leaf on it and that leaf must be at least pinkish in color.
John F. Kennedy once said 'We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.'
[The Hankster says] But, I am sure he meant the here and now, not the past. To prove the point, I have made room for you on my couch of time and have queued up, and will unfold some of January 10 for your edification.
In 1863, The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
In 1901, The Oil company Texaco forms after oil is discovered in Spindletop, TX.
In 1920, The League of Nations is instituted.
[The Hankster says] Although it was a pet of U.S. President Wilson, the U.S. did not join. It proved powerless to have any major effect. Later, it was replace by the United Nations.
In 1920, The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
In 1946, The U.S. Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
[The Hankster says] This was the beginning of what would become radio astronomy.
In 1951, The U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY.
In 1962, During the Apollo program, NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
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January origin (from Wikipedia):
'January is named after Janus, the God of beginnings and transitions;
the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin
word for door since January is the door to the year.'
'January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.
The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average,
the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere
(where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year
within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the
Northern hemisphere and vice versa.'
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