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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Almond Day'. Native to the Middle East, about 80 percent of the world's crop is now from California.
[The Hankster says] Yes I will again mention that Almonds are only considered nuts from a culinary point. From a botany standpoint It is a 'stone fruit', a drupe. For that reason I will spare you from a repeat of the ditty that starts Sometimes you feel like .....'. No one wants to feel like a drupe, chocolate covered or not.
Tomorrow is 'President's Day'. Third Monday in February.
Feeling magnanimous. You can exercise your fervor tomorrow on 'National do a Grouch a Favor Day'.
[The Hankster says] If you were just too tired and grumpy yourself, to help someone back on the recent Curmudgeon's Day, you have another chance.
Think big. Tomorrow is 'Innovation Day'. A school day on which the students get to choose a project to work on, as long as they deliver.
tomorrow's 'Kyoto Protocol Day' is an awareness day for the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
'Westminster Kennel Club 139th Annual All Breed Dog Show'. Feb 16-17. CNBC and USA Network will be broadcasting some of the show.
A health related awareness day tomorrow is 'Australia’s Healthy Weight Week (AU)'. First day, 16-22, by the Dietitians Association of Australia.
Ray Kroc once said 'The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.'
[The Hankster says] History records mismatches of time, place and effort. It also records those situations when they all came together. I am sure some of both can be observed on February 16 in the past.
In 1804, U.S. Lieutenant Stephen Decatur leads a military mission that famed British Admiral Horatio Nelson calls the 'most daring act of the age.' He entered Tripoli harbor
to destroy an American ship that had run aground and thus keep it from the hands of pirates.
In 1883, The 'Ladies Home Journal' begins publishing.
In 1923, Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
In 1937, Wallace H. Carothers patents nylon.
In 1960, The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
In 1968, In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. this first call was only a test of the system.
In 1968, Elvis Presley receives a gold record for 'How Great Thou Art'.
In 1978, The first computer bulletin board system was created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois), a dial-up BBS.
In 2006, The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. It is replaced by the 'Combat Support Hospital.'.
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National Snack Food Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Sweet Potato Month
Other:
American Heart Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Black History Month
Creative Romance Month
National Children’s Dental Health Month
National Heart Healthy Month
National Weddings Month
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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