We have two food holidays tomorrow.
First is 'National Chocolate Fondue Day'.
[The Hankster says] It is time for my annual alert and I can only hope that one days heads up, is sufficient. I know you have an old fondue pot from the 70's. Start now to look for it. If you are like me, you put it in a place where you would be sure to find it, when needed. It may be at the back of the tallest shelf in the kitchen, in the garage (look again on the top shelf) or maybe you need to get it back from a relative who is mostly using it as a flower pot.
Second is 'World Nutella Day'. It is a delicious chocolate and hazelnut spread.
[The Hankster says] Last year was a bad year for hazelnut production. Rumors are that the availability may go down and the price up. So, stock up now. Oh, and if you can't find the fondue pot, just spread some Nutella on that chunk of bread.
Tomorrow we celebrate all persons who try and make sense of the weather. Tomorrow is 'National Weatherperson’s Day'.
[The Hankster says] I think the spelling is wrong. Isn't that Whether Person?
Tomorrow is 'National Shower with a Friend Day'.
[The Hankster says] I'm leaving this one to your interpretation.
An awareness day tomorrow. It will be 'Western Monarch Day'.
[The Hankster says] This specifically relates the the California Monarch Butterfly, but I'm sure to all Monarchs in general.
In Great Britain it will be 'Primrose Day' tomorrow. It is the anniversary of the death of British statesman and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. The Primrose was his favorite flower.
David Allan Coe once said 'It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.'
[The Hankster says] What is now or what will be should not be solely judged by what was. But, decisions made without at least an evaluation of the past, is frivolous. Let us see on February 5 in the past, if our ancestors future was built on sound foundations or unwisely set on sand.
In 1817, The first U.S. gas company 'Chartered Gas Company', is incorporated. The company supplied gas derived from the refining of coal, 'Coal Gas', for Baltimore street lights.
In 1861, The 'Kinematoscope' was patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila. A series of still stereographic images with chronologically successive stages of action were mounted on blades of a spinning paddle and viewed through slits. The slits passed under a stereoscopic viewer. The pictures were visible within a cabinet, and were not projected onto a screen.'
In 1917, The Mexican constitution proclaimed.
In 1919, The film studio 'United Artists Corporation' is formed by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.
In 1922, The first Reader's Digest magazine was published in the UK.
In 1924, The Royal Greenwich Observatory broadcasts the first hourly 'Greenwich Mean Time' ('BBC Pips') signals (five 'pips' in the last five seconds preceding every hour).
GTM, in many cases has been replaced by 'Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)', which is based on an atomic clock.
In1937 - The movie 'Modern Times', is Charlie Chaplin's first 'talkie.'
In 1940, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record 'Tuxedo Junction'.
In 1957, The American Invasion begins, as Bill Haley and the Comets storm Britain.
In 1958, The undetonated 'Tybee Hydrogen Bomb' is lost off the coast of Georgia. A B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter jet collided over Georgia. The bomb was ejected in the Atlantic near Tybee Georgia, to reduce weight so the bomber could land safely.
[The Hankster says] We had 3 Atom Bomb mishaps in the month of January (over various years). This one goes one better, or worse, and the bomb has still not been located.
In 1967, The TV show 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' premieres.
In 1971, Astronauts land on the moon in the 'Apollo 14' mission, the third of the manned landings.
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February is:
February origin (from Wikipedia):
'The Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term
februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual
Februa held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman
calendar. January and February were the last two months to
be added to the Roman calendar, since the Romans originally
considered winter a monthless period. They were added by
Numa Pompilius about 713 BC. February remained the last month
of the calendar year until the time of the decemvirs (c. 450 BC),
when it became the second month. At certain intervals February
was truncated to 23 or 24 days, and a 27-day intercalary month,
Intercalaris, was inserted immediately after February to realign
the year with the seasons.
Under the reforms that instituted the Julian calendar, Intercalaris
was abolished, leap years occurred regularly every fourth year,
and in leap years February gained a 29th day. Thereafter, it
remained the second month of the calendar year, meaning the
order that months are displayed (January, February, March,
..., December) within a year-at-a-glance calendar. Even during
the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began
on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February
whenever all twelve months were displayed in order. The
Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system
for determining which years were leap years and thus contained
a 29-day February.'
February is the second month of the year in the Julian and
Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month
with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years
or 29 days in leap years.
February is the third month of meteorological winter in the
Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, February
is the third month of summer (the seasonal equivalent of August
in the Northern Hemisphere, in meteorological reckoning).
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