<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Quiche Lorraine Day'.
- From Wikipedia: Quiche is a savoury, open-faced pastry crust with a filling of savoury
custard with cheese, meat, seafood, and/or vegetables. Quiche can be
served hot or cold. It is part of French cuisine but is also popular in
other countries, particularly as party food.'
'Quiche lorraine (named after the Lorraine region of France) is a popular
variant that was originally an open pie with a filling of custard with
lardons. Modern preparations of the dish usually include mature cheese
(Cheddar cheese often being used in British varieties) and freshly-cooked
bacon as ingredients.
[The Hankster says] Bacon eggs and cheese. How can you miss.
* 'Pick Strawberries Day'.
Tis the season, April to June depending on the area.
- From Wikipedia:
The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry Fragaria × ananassa) is
a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria (collectively known
as the strawberries). It is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The fruit
(which is not a botanical berry, but an aggregate accessory fruit) is
widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy
texture, and sweetness. It is consumed in large quantities, either fresh
or in such prepared foods as preserves, fruit juice, pies, ice creams,
milkshakes, and chocolates. Artificial strawberry flavorings and aromas
are also widely used in many products like lip gloss, candy, hand sanitizers,
perfume, and many others.
The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s
via a cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America and
Fragaria chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François
Frézier in 1714. Cultivars of Fragaria × ananassa have replaced, in
commercial production, the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca), which
was the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17th century.'
One serving (100 g of strawberries contains approximately 33 kilocalories,
is an excellent source of vitamin C, a good source of manganese, and
provides several other vitamins and dietary minerals in lesser amounts.
Strawberries contain a modest amount of essential unsaturated fatty
acids in the achene (seed) oil.'
The harvesting and cleaning process has not changed substantially over
time. The delicate strawberries are still harvested by hand.] Grading
and packing often occurs in the field, rather than in a processing facility.
In large operations, strawberries are cleaned by means of water streams
and shaking conveyor belts.
[The Hankster says] And some strawberry shortcake after that Quiche. And wash it all down with a tall glass of cold milk.
* 'Pasadena Strawberry Festival'.
May 20-22 in Passadena Texas.
- From Wikipedia: Clara Barton of the American Red Cross purchased 1.5 million strawberry
plants and sent them to Pasadena to help victims of the flood get back on
their feet. By the 1930s those crops had flourished so much that Pasadena
was claiming the title of Strawberry Capital of the World. At its height,
the city's strawberry growers shipped as many as 28 train carloads of
strawberries each
day. To honor that history, the city still holds an annual Pasadena
Strawberry Festival. Strawberry Road stretches through much of the
city near where the old strawberry crops grew. Attendance at the
annual Strawberry Festival was 56,000 in 2008'. .
[The Hankster says] Sounds like a fun day. Let the berry make you merry. Yes, I know, but we have talked about that what you get for free thing before.
* 'National Pizza Party Day .
Third Friday in May:
- From Wikipedia:
'Pizza is a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and
baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats,
vegetables and condiments. The term was first recorded in the 10th
century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy. The
modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its
variants have since become popular in many areas of the world.'
'The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese.
Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy
in the 18th or early 19th century. Prior to that time, flatbread
was often topped with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard, cheese,
and basil. It is uncertain when tomatoes were first added and there
are many conflicting claims. Until about 1830, pizza was sold from
open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries, and pizzerias keep this old
tradition alive today. Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba in Naples is widely
regarded as the first pizzeria.
A popular contemporary legend holds that the archetypal pizza, pizza
Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte
commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo (pizza maker) Raffaele Esposito
to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three
different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pizza
swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil),
and white (mozzarella). Supposedly, this kind of pizza was then named
after the Queen as "Pizza Margherita", although recent research casts
doubt on this legend.
Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the
late nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where Italian
immigrants concentrated. The country's first pizzeria, Lombardi's,
opened in 1905. Following World War II, veterans returning from
the Italian Campaign after being introduced to Italy's native cuisine
proved a ready market for pizza in particular. Since then pizza
consumption has
exploded in the U.S. pizza chains such as Domino's, Pizza Hut,
and Papa John's, pizzas from take and bake pizzerias and chilled and
frozen from supermarkets, make pizza readily available nationwide. It
is so ubiquitous, thirteen percent of the U.S. population consumes pizza
on any given day.
[The Hankster says] Rumor is that some pizza shops will have specials tomorrow.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Be a Millionaire Day'.
This is more or less a 'if you want to get there, start now'.
[The Hankster says] Ya, right.
* 'Eliza Doolittle Day'.
Liza, in 'My Fair Lady', dreams of a time when
she will be so far superior to Professor Higgins, that the King will
proclaim May 20th as Lisa Doolittle Day.
- From Wikipedia: Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character who appears in the play Pygmalion
(George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play, My
Fair Lady.
Eliza is a Cockney flower girl, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins
asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: That he can turn her into the toast of elite London society.
Doolittle receives voice coaching and learns the rules of etiquette.
The outcome of these attentions varies between the original play and the
various adaptations.
[The Hankster says] I've been looking for someone to do a makeover on me. No one has yet to pass the requirements that the insurance company has laid down.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health:
* 'Put on Purple'.
In the U.S.A, a day to focus on Lupus, by the Lupus Foundation
of America.
- From Wikipedia: Systemic lupus erythematosus, often abbreviated as SLE or lupus, is a
systemic autoimmune disease (or autoimmune connective tissue disease)
in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
There are many kinds of lupus. The most common and severe type is
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which affects many internal organs
in the body. SLE most
often harms the heart, joints, skin, lungs, blood vessels, liver, kidneys,
and nervous system. The course of the disease is unpredictable, with
periods of illness (called flare-ups) alternating with remissions.
* 'National Bike to Work Day '.
In 2016, the last day of Bike to Work Week May 16-20
(may vary in some cities).
- From Wikipedia: Bike to Work Day is an annual event held on various days in the Spring
across the United States and Canada that promotes the bicycle as an
option for commuting to work.
Bike Month is May each year, and Bike to Work Week is the week of Bike
to Work Day, which varies from city to city.'
'Bike to Work Day was originated by the League of American Bicyclists
in 1956 and is a part of Bike-to-Work Week, which is in turn part of
National Bike Month.'
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Endangered Species Day'.
Sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is a
conservation effort to protect the nation's endangered species and
their habitats.
o Other .
* 'World Metrology Day'.
Anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention on May 20,
1875.
- From Wikipedia: Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the
Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed
in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations. The treaty
set up an institute for the purpose of coordinating international
metrology and for coordinating
the development of the metric system. The treaty also set up associated
organizations to oversee the running of the institute. Initially it was
only concerned with the units of mass and length but, in 1921, at the
6th meeting of the General Conference on Weights and
Measures (CGPM), it was revised and its mandate extended to cover all
physical measurements. In 1960, at the 11th meetings of the CGPM, the
system of units it had established was overhauled and relaunched as the
"International System of Units" (SI).
* 'National Defense Transportation Day in the USA'.
- From Wikipedia: National Defense Transportation Day is a United States Federal
Observance Day observed on the third Friday in May.'
According to 36 U.S.C. § 120, on National Defense Transportation Day,
the president urges "the people of the United States, including labor,
management, users, and investors, in all communities served by the
various forms of transportation to observe National Defense Transportation
Day by appropriate ceremonies that will give complete recognition to
the importance to each community and its people of the transportation
system of the United States and the maintenance of the facilities of
the system in the most modern state of adequacy to serve the needs of
the United States in times of peace and in national defense"'.
* 'Josephine Baker Day '.
Established in 1951 by the NAACP in recognition the
dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist.
- From Wikipedia: Josephine Baker (3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born
French dancer, jazz and pop music singer, and actress, who came to be
known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" "Jazz
Cleopatra", and even the "Creole Goddess". Born Freda Josephine McDonald
in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker became a citizen of France in
1937. She was fluent in both English and French.
Baker was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou
(1934), or to become a world-famous entertainer. Baker refused to perform
for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her
contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1968 she was offered
unofficial leadership in the movement in the United
Jr.'s assassination. Baker turned down the offer. She was also known
for assisting the French Resistance during World War II, and received
the French military honor, the Croix de guerre and was made a Chevalier
of the Légion d'honneur by General Charles de Gaulle.
<> Historical events on May 20
* In 1570, Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius
publishes the first modern atlas.
- From Wikipedia:
'Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 –
28 June 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, conventionally
recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.'
On 20 May 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius’
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps'." .
* In 1873, Levi Strauss patents blue jeans.
- From Wikipedia:
'Jeans are trousers, a type of garment, typically made from denim or
dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of
pants, called "blue jeans," which were invented by Jacob W. Davis in
partnership with Levi Strauss and Co. in 1871 and patented by Jacob
W. Davis and Levi Strauss on May 20, 1873. Prior to the Levi Strauss
patented trousers, the term "blue jeans" had been long in use for various garments (including trousers, overalls, and coats), constructed from blue colored denim.'
'Levi Strauss, as a young man in 1851, went from Germany to New York
to join his older brothers who ran a goods store. In 1853, he moved to San Francisco to open his own dry goods business. Jacob Davis was a tailor who often bought bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss and Co. wholesale house. In 1872, Davis wrote to Strauss asking to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets.
The copper rivets were to reinforce the points of stress, such as pocket corners and at the bottom of the button fly. Levi accepted Davis's offer, and the two men received US patent No. 139,121 for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings" on May 20, 1873." .
* In 1875, International Bureau of Weights and Measures formed.
- From Wikipedia:
'The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (French: Bureau
international des poids et mesures), is an international standards
organisation, one of three such organisations established to maintain
the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Metre
Convention (Convention du Mètre). The organisation is usually referred
to by its French initialism, BIPM'." .
* In 1883, Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three
months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
- From Wikipedia:
'The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)
began in the afternoon of August 26, 1883 (with origins as early as May
of that year), and culminated with several destructive eruptions of the
remaining caldera. On August 27, two-thirds of Krakatoa collapsed in a
chain of titanic explosions, destroying most of the island and its
surrounding archipelago. Additional alleged seismic activity continued
to be reported until February 1884, though reports of those after
October 1883 were later dismissed by Rogier Verbeek's investigation.
It was one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history, with at least 36,000 deaths being attributed to the eruption itself and the tsunamis it
created. Significant additional effects were also felt around the
world'." .
* In 1891, Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope first displayed.
- From Wikipedia:
'The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The
Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at
a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The
Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach
that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the
advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a
strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source
with a high-speed shutter. A process using roll film first described
in a patent application submitted in France and the U.S. by French
inventor Louis Le Prince, the concept was copied by U.S. inventor
Thomas Edison in 1889, and subsequently developed by his employee
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. Dickson and
his team at the Edison lab also devised the Kinetograph, innovative
motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film
movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually,
commercial Kinetoscope presentations.
A prototype for the Kinetoscope was shown to a convention of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs on May 20, 1891. The first public
demonstration of the Kinetoscope was held at the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences on May 9, 1893. Instrumental to the birth of
American movie culture, the Kinetoscope also had a major impact in
Europe; its influence abroad was magnified by Edison's decision
not to seek international patents on the device, facilitating numerous
imitations of and improvements on the technology. In 1895, Edison
introduced the Kinetophone, which joined the Kinetoscope with a cylinder
phonograph. Film projection, which Edison initially disdained as
financially nonviable, soon superseded the Kinetoscope's individual
exhibition model. Many of the projection systems developed by
Edison's firm in later years would use the Kinetoscope name." .
* In 1899, The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi
driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per
hour on Lexington Street.
- From Wikipedia:
'There are many competing claims as to the first speeding ticket ever
issued depending whether the claim goes by the first traffic violation
or the first paper ticket ever issued. Great Britain may have the
earliest claim with the first person to be convicted of speeding, Walter
Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, who on 28 January 1896 was fined for
speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h) in a 2 mph (3.2 km/h) zone. He was fined 1
shilling plus costs. A New York City cab driver named Jacob
German was arrested for speeding on May 20, 1899 for driving 12 miles
per hour on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. In Dayton, Ohio, police
issued a paper ticket to Harry Myers for going twelve miles per hour
on West Third Street in 1904.
Another early speeding ticket was issued in 1910 to Lady Laurier, the
wife of Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, in Ottawa, Canada,
for exceeding the 10 miles per hour speed limit.'" .
* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York aboard 'Spirit
of St. Louis'.
- From Wikipedia:
'Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974),
nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American
aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social
activist.
In 1927, at the age of 25, Lindbergh emerged from the virtual obscurity
of a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame as the result of
his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field
on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. He flew
the distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km) in a single-seat,
single-engine, purpose-built Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis.
Lindbergh was the 19th person to make a Transatlantic flight, the first
being the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland in
1919. But Lindbergh's flight was almost twice the distance. The
record-setting flight took 33 1/2 hours. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air
Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military
decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit." .
* In 1932, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the
world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female
pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
- From Wikipedia:
'At the age of 34, on the morning of May 20, 1932, Earhart set off from
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland with a copy of the Telegraph-Journal, given
to her by journalist Stuart Trueman, intended to confirm the date of
the flight. She intended to fly to Paris in her single engine
Lockheed Vega 5B to emulate
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight. Her technical advisor for the
flight was famed Norwegian American aviator Bernt Balchen who helped
prepare her aircraft. He also played the role of "decoy" for the press
as he was ostensibly preparing Earhart's Vega for his own Arctic flight.
After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended
with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems,
Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern
Ireland. The landing was witnessed by Cecil King and T. Sawyer. When
a farm hand asked, "Have you flown far?" Earhart replied, "From America." The site now is the home of a small museum, the Amelia Earhart
Centre'." .
* In 1939, The song 'Three Little Fishies' by Kay Kyser becomes #1.
- From Wikipedia:
'"Three Little Fishies" is a song, recorded by Kay Kyser and His Band,
with words by Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins and music by Saxie
Dowell. The song tells the story of three fishes, who defy their mother's
command of swimming only in a meadow, by swimming over a dam and on out
to sea, where they encounter a shark, which the fish describe as a whale.
They flee for their lives and return to the meadow in safety.
The song was a US No. 1 hit in 1939. It was released in the UK as
a 78 by British comedian Frankie Howerd, on the short-lived Harmony label,
in 1949. The recording was re-issued as a single in the 1980s. It was
revived in 2012 by Ray Stevens for inclusion in his 108-song box set,
The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music'.#1." .
* In 1941, Harry James and his orchestra recorded 'You Made Me Love
You'.
- From Wikipedia:
'"You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" is a popular song. The
music was written by James V. Monaco, the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The
song was published in 1913. It was introduced in the Broadway revue TheHoneymoon Express and used in the 1973 revival of the musical Irene.
* In 1942, The song, I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo, was recorded by
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
- From Wikipedia:
'"(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo" is a #1 popular song recorded by
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1942. It was written by Mack Gordon
and Harry Warren and published in 1942. It was featured in the musical
film Orchestra Wives and was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra,
featuring Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and The Modernaires, who released
it as an A side 78 in 1942, 27934-A. The B side was "At Last"'." .
* In 1964, Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation
by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
- From Wikipedia:
'The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the thermal radiation left
over from the time of recombination in Big Bang cosmology. In older
literature, the CMB is also variously known as cosmic microwave
background radiation (CMBR) or "relic radiation". The CMB is a cosmic
background radiation that is fundamental to observational cosmology
because it is the oldest light in the universe, dating to the epoch of recombination.
With a traditional optical telescope, the space between stars and
galaxies (the background) is completely dark. However, a sufficiently
sensitive radio telescope shows a faint background glow, almost
isotropic, that is not associated with any star, galaxy, or other object.
This glow is strongest in the microwave region of the radio spectrum.
The accidental discovery of the CMB in 1964 by American radio astronomers
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work
initiated in the 1940s, and earned the discoverers the 1978 Nobel
Prize.'
'In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at the Crawford
Hill location of Bell Telephone Laboratories in nearby Holmdel Township,
New Jersey had built a Dicke radiometer that they intended to use for
radio astronomy and satellite communication experiments. On 20 May 1964
they made their first measurement clearly showing the presence of the
microwave background, with their instrument having an excess
4.2K antenna temperature which they could not account for. After
receiving a telephone call from Crawford Hill, Dicke famously quipped:
"Boys, we've been scooped." A meeting between the Princeton
and Crawford Hill groups determined that the antenna temperature was
indeed due to the microwave background. Penzias and Wilson received
the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery'." .
* In 1983, First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus
that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
- From Wikipedia:
/AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States. The
initial cases were a cluster of injection drug users and gay men with
no known cause of impaired immunity who showed symptoms of Pneumocystis
carinii pneumonia (PCP), a rare opportunistic infection that was known
to occur in people with very compromised immune systems. Soon
thereafter, additional gay men developed a previously
rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Many more cases
of PCP and KS emerged, alerting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and a CDC task force was formed to monitor the outbreak'.
In the beginning, the CDC did not have an official name for the disease,
often referring to it by way of the diseases that were associated with
it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers
of HIV originally named the virus. They also used Kaposi's
Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, the name by which a task force
had been set up in 1981. In the general
press, the term GRID, which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had
been coined. The CDC, in search of a name, and looking at the
infected communities coined "the 4H disease," as it seemed to single
out homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians. However, after
determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community, it
was realized that the term GRID was misleading and AIDS was introduced
at a meeting in July 1982. By September 1982 the CDC started using
the name AIDS'.
No. 1 song
Top movie
Monthly holiday / awareness days in May
Food
Aramanth Month - Grain of the month
Gifts From The Garden Month
International Mediterranean Diet Month
National Barbeque Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Vinegar Month
Health
ALS Awareness Month - (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease)
APS Awareness Month - Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asthma Awareness Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) Awareness Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Food Allergy Action Month
Global Health and Fitness Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month
National Better Hearing Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National High Blood Pressure Education Month
National Meditation Month
National Mental Health Month
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Toddler Immunization Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Water Safety Month
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Spiritual Literacy Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month
Tourettes Syndrome Awareness Month
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
World Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Animal / Pet
Chip Your Pet Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
National Guide Dog Month
National Pet Month
National Service Dog Eye Examination Month
Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Other
American Wetlands Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Building Safety Month
Clean Air Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Family Reunion Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Global Civility Awareness Month
Golf Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Home Schooling Awareness Month
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
Motorcycle Safety Month
Mystery Month
National Bike Month
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Inventors Month
National Photo Month
National Smile Month
Personal History Month
Social Security Education Awareness Month
Tennis Month
Textile Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month
May is:
May origin (from Wikipedia):
The month May was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified
with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was
held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology,
in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for
'elders,' and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or 'young people'
May
'
is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days.
May is a month of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
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