Today is November 08 2015

National Cappuccino Day: More
From Wikipedia: 'A cappuccino is an Italian coffee drink which is traditionally prepared with espresso, hot milk and steamed milk foam'.

- Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day: More
Promotes the use of herbs and spices.

• National Parents as Teachers Day : More
  
• National STEM/STEAM Day: More
  Promotes Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math education for career considerations by kids.
• Dunce Day: More
  On the death of medieval scholar John Duns in 1308, from which the word dunce (medieval pronunciation of Duns) and dunce cap derive. He considered the cap as a way of focusing knowledge to the brain. Sixteenth century scholars accused him of sophistry (use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving), thus the term Dunce.
• International Tongue Twister Day: More
  Second Sunday in November. The Guinness Book of World records says that the following is the hardest twister: 'The Sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick '.
• Abet and Aid Punsters Day: More
• X-Ray Day: More
  Celebrates Wilhelm Röntgen's accidental discovery of x-rays, November 8th, 1895.

• Health
  • World Radiography Day: More
    Since 2012. Celebrates the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. It promotes radiography as a career.
  • Psychology Week: More
    November 8-14 in Australia. Promotes psychological care.
  • Australian Food Safety Week: More
    November 8-15 in Australia.
  • Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week: More
    November 8-15 in Australia.
• Other
  • National Adoption Awareness Week: More
    November 8-14 in Australia.
  • World Urbanism Day: More
    Focuses on creating livable communities.
  • Father's Day: More
    On the second Sunday in November in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland.
  • Remembrance Sunday in the UK: More
    On the Sunday in November which is the Sunday nearest Armistice Day. It celebrates the servicemen and women of the UK..

• In 1793, The Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) is the world's largest museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). The Louvre is the world's second most visited museum after the Palace Museum in China, receiving more than 9.26 million visitors in 2014.
  
  The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. Due to the urban expansion of the city, the fortress eventually lost its defensive function and, in 1546, was converted by Francis I of France into the main residence of the French Kings. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the nation's masterpieces.
  
  The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum renamed the Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and bequests since the Third Republic. The collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings'.
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• In 1889, Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
  From Wikipedia: 'Montana is a state in the Western region of the United States. The state's name is derived from the Spanish word montaña (mountain). Montana has several nicknames, although none official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place". Montana has a 545-mile (877 km) border with three Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, the only state to do so. It also borders North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and Idaho to the west and southwest. Montana is ranked 4th in size, but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands.
  
  The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic activities include oil, gas, coal and hard rock mining, lumber, and the fastest-growing sector, tourism. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy. Millions of tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, and Yellowstone National Park'.
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• In 1895, While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-ray.
  From Wikipedia: 'X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×1016 Hz to 3×1019 Hz) and energies in the range 100 eV to 100 keV. X-ray wavelengths are shorter than those of UV rays and typically longer than those of gamma rays. In many languages, X-radiation is referred to with terms meaning Röntgen radiation, after Wilhelm Röntgen, who is usually credited as its discoverer, and who had named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation. Spelling of X-ray(s) in the English language includes the variants x-ray(s), xray(s), and X ray(s).
  
  X-rays with high photon energies (above 5–10 keV, below 0.2–0.1 nm wavelength) are called hard X-rays, while those with lower energy are called soft X-rays. Due to their penetrating ability, hard X-rays are widely used to image the inside of objects, e.g., in medical radiography and airport security. The term X-ray is metonymically used to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself. Since the wavelengths of hard X-rays are similar to the size of atoms they are also useful for determining crystal structures by X-ray crystallography. By contrast, soft X-rays are easily absorbed in air; the attenuation length of 600 eV (~2 nm) X-rays in water is less than 1 micrometer.
  
  There is no consensus for a definition distinguishing between X-rays and gamma rays. One common practice is to distinguish between the two types of radiation based on their source: X-rays are emitted by electrons, while gamma rays are emitted by the atomic nucleus. This definition has several problems: other processes also can generate these high-energy photons, or sometimes the method of generation is not known. One common alternative is to distinguish X- and gamma radiation on the basis of wavelength (or, equivalently, frequency or photon energy), with radiation shorter than some arbitrary wavelength, such as 10-11 m (0.1 Å), defined as gamma radiation. This criterion assigns a photon to an unambiguous category, but is only possible if wavelength is known. (Some measurement techniques do not distinguish between detected wavelengths.) However, these two definitions often coincide since the electromagnetic radiation emitted by X-ray tubes generally has a longer wavelength and lower photon energy than the radiation emitted by radioactive nuclei. Occasionally, one term or the other is used in specific contexts due to historical precedent, based on measurement (detection) technique, or based on their intended use rather than their wavelength or source. Thus, gamma-rays generated for medical and industrial uses, for example radiotherapy, in the ranges of 6–20 MeV, can in this context also be referred to as X-rays.
  
  German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays in 1895, because he was the first to systematically study them, though he is not the first to have observed their effects. He is also the one who gave them the name "X-rays" (signifying an unknown quantity) though many others referred to these as "Röntgen rays" (and the associated X-ray radiograms as, "Röntgenograms") for several decades after their discovery and even to this day in some languages, including Röntgen's native German.
  
  X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays, that is energetic electron beams, that were first created in the tubes. Crookes tubes created free electrons by ionization of the residual air in the tube by a high DC voltage of anywhere between a few kilovolts and 100 kV. This voltage accelerated the electrons coming from the cathode to a high enough velocity that they created X-rays when they struck the anode or the glass wall of the tube. Many of the early Crookes tubes undoubtedly radiated X-rays, because early researchers noticed effects that were attributable to them, ... Wilhelm Röntgen was the first to systematically study them, in 1895.
  
  The discovery of X-rays stimulated a veritable sensation. Röntgen's biographer Otto Glasser estimated that, in 1896 alone, as many as 49 essays and 1044 articles about the new rays were published. This was probably a conservative estimate, if one considers that nearly every paper around the world extensively reported about the new discovery, with a magazine such as Science dedicating as many as 23 articles to it in that year alone. Sensationalist reactions to the new discovery included publications linking the new kind of rays to occult and paranormal theories, such as telepathy'.
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• In 1904, Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
  From Wikipedia: 'Harvey Hubbell II (1857 – December 17, 1927), was an American inventor, entrepreneur and industrialist. His best-known inventions are the U.S. electrical plug and the pull-chain light socket.
  
  In 1888, at the age of thirty-one, Hubbell quit his job as a manager of a manufacturing company and founded Hubbell Incorporated in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a company which is still in business today, still headquartered near Bridgeport. Hubbell began manufacturing consumer products and, by necessity, inventing manufacturing equipment for his factory. Some of the equipment he designed included automatic tapping machines and progressive dies for blanking and stamping. One of his most important industrial inventions, still in use today, is the thread rolling machine. He quickly began selling his newly devised manufacturing equipment alongside his commercial products.
  
  Hubbell received at least 45 patents; most were for electric products. The pull-chain electrical light socket was patented in 1896, and his most famous invention, the U.S. electrical power plug, in 1904, this brought the convenience of portable electrical devices, already enjoyed in Great Britain since the early 1880s, to the U.S'.
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• In 1935, The movie, Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York. It won Best Production/Picture in 1936.
  From Wikipedia: 'Mutiny on the Bounty is an American 1935 drama starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
  
  The film was one of the biggest hits of its time. Although its historical accuracy has been questioned (inevitably, as it is based on a novel), film critics consider this adaptation to be the best cinematic work inspired by the mutiny'.
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• In 1965, The daytime TV soap opera, Days of Our Lives, premieres. It is still running after 12,713 ep. (as of November 6, 2015).
  From Wikipedia: 'Days of Our Lives (also stylized as Days of our Lives; often abbreviated to DOOL or Days) is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world. It rebroadcast same-day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p.m. (ET/PT) until the network's closure in 2013.The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was a story editor for Days of Our Lives and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by William J. Bell. In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC.
  
  Due to the series' success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21, 1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series' Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on February 3, 2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on Days of Our Lives this year, appearing on the show more or less since her first appearance in 1973. Susan Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on Days of Our Lives in all five decades it has been on air.
  
  Days of Our Lives aired its 10,000th episode on February 21, 2005, and its 12,000th episode aired on January 11, 2013. The soap was given the title of most daring drama in the seventies due to covering topics other soaps would not dare to do. The show's executive producer is Ken Corday, and co-executive producers are Greg Meng and Albert Alarr. Days of Our Lives is the most widely distributed soap opera in the United States.
  
  The show has been parodied by SCTV (as "The Days of the Week") and the television sitcom Friends, with some cast members making crossover appearances on the show, including Kristian Alfonso, Roark Critchlow, Matthew Ashford, Kyle Lowder, and Alison Sweeney. The show has had high-profile fans such as actress Julia Roberts, and the Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall'.
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• In 2005, The original 'Guitar Hero' game was released in North America.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Guitar Hero series (sometimes referred to as the Hero series) is a series of music rhythm games first published in 2005 by RedOctane and Harmonix, and distributed by Activision, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing lead, bass guitar, and rhythm guitar across numerous rock music songs. Players match notes that scroll on-screen to colored fret buttons on the controller, strumming the controller in time to the music in order to score points, and keep the virtual audience excited. The games attempt to mimic many features of playing a real guitar, including the use of fast-fingering hammer-ons and pull-offs and the use of the whammy bar to alter the pitch of notes. Most games support single player modes, typically a Career mode to play through all the songs in the game, and both competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes. With the introduction of Guitar Hero World Tour in 2008, the game includes support for a four-player band including vocals and drums. The series initially used mostly cover versions of songs created by WaveGroup Sound, but most recent titles feature soundtracks that are fully master recordings, and in some cases, special re-recordings, of the songs. Later titles in the series feature support for downloadable content in the form of new songs'.
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Two food related holidays for tomorrow:
- 'National Cappuccino Day'. From Wikipedia: 'A cappuccino is an Italian coffee drink which is traditionally prepared with espresso, hot milk and steamed milk foam'.
[The Hankster says] I drink my every day coffee black, no sweetener, but I do like a flavored or specialty coffee often.

- 'Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day'. Promotes the use of herbs and spices.
[The Hankster says] Can' imagine a life without spicy food. Great way to cut back on salt also.


Tomorrow is 'National Parents as Teachers Day '.
[The Hankster says] Sounds like a no brainer, doesn't it. It was started in the hope of preparing pre kindergarten kids,, to put all on an equal footing.

Following right along Tomorrow is 'National STEM/STEAM Day'. Promotes Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math education for career considerations by kids.
[The Hankster says] Never too young to start.

It's 'Dunce Day' tomorrow. On the death of medieval scholar John Duns in 1308, from which the word dunce (medieval pronunciation of Duns) and dunce cap derive. He considered the cap as a way of focusing knowledge to the brain. Sixteenth century scholars accused him of sophistry (use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving), thus the term Dunce.
[The Hankster says] I had to stop waring my Dunce Cap, It conducted so well that the aliens kept breaking in on my channel. That is why my grades were not better in school. that is my story, and I am sticking to it.

So you can't say what you really want to say. No, worry. no one will ever known tomorrow 'International Tongue Twister Day'. Second Sunday in November. The Guinness Book of World records says that the following is the hardest twister: 'The Sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick '.
[The Hankster says] I can't even say that once. My favorite is to try to repeat the following 10 times quickly "Rubber baby buggy bumper'.

I guess I will share this day with you. Tomorrow is 'Abet and Aid Punsters Day'.
[The Hankster says] Remember a pun in time, saves nine. And believe me, you don't want to let me loose with that many puns. After all, he who laughs last, didn't understand my joke or is that, a laugh on the tongue is worth two in the book.


Awareness / Observance Days on: November 08
o Health
- 'World Radiography Day'. Since 2012. Celebrates the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. It promotes radiography as a career.

- 'Psychology Week' November 8-14 in Australia. Promotes psychological care.

- 'Australian Food Safety Week' November 8-15 in Australia.

- 'Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week'. November 8-15 in Australia.

o Other
- 'National Adoption Awareness Week'. November 8-14 in Australia.

- 'World Urbanism DaY'. Focuses on creating livable communities.

- 'Father's Day'. On the second Sunday in November in Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland.

- 'Remembrance Sunday in the UK'. On the Sunday in November which is the Sunday nearest Armistice Day. It celebrates the servicemen and women of the UK.


Historical events in the past on: November 08

In 1793, The Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris. From Wikipedia: '... is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument in Paris, France'. 'Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). The Louvre is the world's most visited museum, receiving more than 9.7 million visitors in 2012'.

In 1889, Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

In 1895, While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-ray. From Wikipedia: 'German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays in 1895, because he was the first to systematically study them, though he is not the first to have observed their effects. He is also the one who gave them the name 'X-rays' (signifying an unknown quantity) though many others referred to these as Röntgen rays'.

In 1904, Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug.

In 1935, The movie, Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York. It won Best Production/Picture in 1936.

In 1965, The daytime TV soap opera, Days of Our Lives, premieres. It is still running after 12,713 ep. (as of November 6, 2015).

In 2005, The original 'Guitar Hero' game was released in North America.

No. 1 song

• Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones: More
  'Yesterday' has been displaced by 'Get Off of My Cloud', which will hold the no. 1 spot until November 20 1965, when 'I Hear a Symphony - The Supremes', takes over.

Top movie

• The Cincinnati Kid More
  Having displaced 'King Rat', it will be there until the weekend box office of November 28 1965 when, 'Harum Scarum', takes over.

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• History.com: Historical Events on 08th November More
• HistoryOrb.com: Famous Deaths on 08th November More
• On-This-day.com history 08th November More
• On-This-day.com music history 08th November More
• Wikipedia.com: History November 08 More

Monthly holiday / awareness days in November

Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month
Teff and Millet Month
Vegan Month

Animal / Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Adoption Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month

Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Movember (Mens Health)
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care and Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness and Appreciation Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month

Other
American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
Picture Book Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
World Sponge Month

November is:

November origin (from Wikipedia): 'November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning 'nine') when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. '

'November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.'

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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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Best selling books of 1965 More

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: More
• NOAA: - National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook: More
• Listen to Old Radio Shows: (streaming mp3 with schedule) More
• NASA TV: (video feed) More
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• Public Domain eBook Links

  Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More

• Podcast: A Moment of Science. Approximately 1 minute general science facts.
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• Podcast: The Naked Scientists. Current science, medicine, space and other science
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• Podcast: Quirks & Quarks. Current science news.
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• Articles and videos: Universe Today. Current space and astronomy news.
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• Old Picture of the Day - "Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph."
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Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.

US Government Holidays

• 2015 Postal Holidays More
• 2015 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

• List of holidays by country More
• Holidays and Observances around the World More