<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Blueberry Cheesecake Day'.
- From Wikipedia: Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest layer, consists of a mixture of soft, fresh cheese
(typically cream cheese or ricotta), eggs, and sugar if there is a bottom layer it often consists of a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits), graham crackers, pastry, or sponge cake. It may be baked or unbaked (usually refrigerated). Cheesecake is usually sweetened with sugar and may be flavored or topped with fruit, whipped cream, nuts, cookies, fruit sauce, and/or chocolate syrup.
Cheesecake can be prepared in many flavors, such as strawberry, pumpkin, key lime, chocolate, Oreo, chestnut, or toffee.
An ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dish in ancient
Greece even prior to Romans' adoption of it with the conquest of Greece.
The earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physicianAegimus, who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes 4...'.
[The Hankster says] One of my favorite desserts. The definition above is just for plain cheese cake (if there is such a thing). I bet you can figure out the Blueberry part.
* 'National Cherry Dessert Day'.
- From Wikipedia:
' cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from a limited number of species such as cultivars of the sweet cherry, Prunus avium. The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as in "ornamental cherry", "cherry blossom", etc. Wild Cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside of cultivation,
althoug h Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name "wild cherry"...'
'The indigenous range of the sweet cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times. A cultivated cherry, as well as the apricot, is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.
'As raw fruit, sweet cherries provide little nutrient content per 100 g
serving. Dietary fiber and vitamin C are present in
moderate content while other vitamins and dietary minerals each supply
less than 10% of the Daily Value (DV) per serving, respectively.
[The Hankster says] Decisions, decisions. OK, I will have both Blueberry and Cherry cheese cake. It is a hard job, but some epicure must do it. He isn't around, so I will stand in.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Sally Ride Day'. Birthday (1951) of the the first American woman in space.
- From Wikipedia:
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American
physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978
and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the
youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at
the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she
left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford
University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at
the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics,
primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She
served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia
space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both. Ride
died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012'.
* 'World Lindy Hop Day'.
- From Wikipedia: The Lindy hop is an American dance that evolved in Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s and originally evolved with the jazz music
of that time. It was very popular during the Swing era of the late 1930s
and early 1940s. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or
were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap,
breakaway and Charleston. It is frequently described as a jazz dance and
is a member of the swing dance family.
In its development, the Lindy hop combined elements of both partnered
and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of black
dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner
dances. This is most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's basic step, the
swingout. In this step's open position, each dancer is generally
connected hand-to-hand in its closed position, men and women are
connected as though in an embrace.
* 'National Paper Airplane Day in the USA'.
- From Wikipedia: National Paper Airplane Day is an unofficial observance, celebrated on
May 26 each year in the United States to commemorate the simple aeronautical toy.
Paper airplane day celebrations typically include social gatherings at
which participants create and fly paper airplanes. These events often
feature contests in two basic flight categories: "distance" and "time in
air". As of 2012, Takuo Toda holds the world record for the longest time
in air (27.9 seconds). The distance record (226 feet, 10 inches) was
set by Joe Ayoob, with a plane constructed by John Collins, in February
2012'.
[The Hankster says] See, I told my boss that I was not just playing around. I was being artistic.
* 'Red Nose Day'. Have a fun day raising money for various charity's.
It began in the UK as 'Comic Relief'. It's prime fund raiser, Red Nose Day, came to the US in 2015. In the U.S.A in 2016 it will be on May 26th. The purchase of a
comic Red Nose, goes to charity.
- From Wikipedia: Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response
to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red
Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief. Comic Relief is one of the two high profile telethon events held in the United Kingdom, the other being Children in Need, held annually in November.
- From Wikipedia: Red Nose Day is the main way in which Comic Relief raises money. The first Red Nose Day (RND) was held on 5 February 1988, when it was
launched as a National Day of Comedy. It was held again the following
year and thereafter every other year since then. They have been held on
the second or third Friday in March. The concept was created by Wendy
Crossman (née Robinson), the fundraising director of Comic Relief. Many schools have red-themed non-uniform days (i.e. the pupils have to wear something red as part of their non-uniform attire). The day culminates in a live telethon event on BBC One, starting in the evening and going through into the early hours of the morning, but other money-raising events take place. As the name suggests, the day involves the wearing of plastic/foam red noses which are available, in exchange for a donation, from Sainsbur
y's and Oxfam shops.'
In 2015, Red Nose Day was formally brought to the United States under
the auspices of Comic Relief, Inc., an organization unrelated to the
defunct Comic Relief USA. The 2015 Red Nose Day Special aired on NBC on
May 21, 2015 and was hosted by David Duchovny, Seth Meyers and Jane
Krakowski, raising $23 million. The 2016 NBC special airs May 26
with Craig Ferguson as host'.
[The Hankster says] Many place sell the Red Noses. Walgreens seems to be a major promoter.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea'. In Australia, a cancer fund raiser.
o Other:
* 'National Sorry Day in Australia'. Annually on May 25 in Australia.
- From Wikipedia: National Sorry Day is an annual event that has been held in Australia on 26 May, since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country's indigenous population. During the 20th century, Australian
governments' policies resulted in a "Stolen Generation"—i.e., "Aboriginal
children separated, often forcibly, from their families in the interest
of turning them into white Australians".'
The date 26 May carries great significance for the Stolen Generations,
as well as for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and
non-indigenous Australians. On 26 May 1997, the Bringing Them Home report
was tabled in Parliament.
The annual National Sorry Day commemorations remind and raise awareness
among politicians, policy makers, and the wider public about the
significance of the forcible removal policies and their impact on the
children that were taken, but also on their families and communities',
<> Historical events on May 26
* In 1897, Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
- From Wikipedia:
'Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker,
famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula.
The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania
to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse,
and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women
led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
'Stoker did not invent the vampire but he defined its modern form, ...'
'Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the
world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his
income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most
famous being the vampire tale Dracula published on 26 May 1897. Parts
of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer holidays.
Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard
Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells
wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British
Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula was
very familiar by 1897 to readers of fantastic adventure stories, of
an invasion of England by continental European influences. Victorian
readers enjoyed Dracula as a good adventure story like many others,
but it did not reach its iconic legendary status until later in the
20th century when film versions began to appear'." .
* In 1896, The first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is published by Charles Dow.
- From Wikipedia:
'The Dow Jones Industrial Average /?da? 'd?o?nz/, also called DJIA,
the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow Jones Industrial, ^DJI,
the Dow 30 or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of
several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones and
Company co-founder Charles Dow. The industrial
Jones and Company co-founder Charles Dow. The industrial average was
first calculated on May 26, 1896. Currently owned by S&P Dow Jones
Indices, which is majority owned by McGraw Hill Financial, it is the
most notable of the Dow Averages, of which the first (non-industrial)
was first published on February 16, 1885. The averages are
named after Dow and one of his business associates, statistician Edward
Jones. It is an index that shows how 30 large publicly owned companies
based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session
in the stock market. It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the
Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow.
The Industrial portion of the name is largely historical, as many of the
modern 30 components have little or nothing to do with traditional heavy
industry. The average is price-weighted, and to compensate for the
effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scale
average. The value of the Dow is not the actual average of the prices of
its component stocks, but rather the sum of the component prices divided
by a divisor, which changes whenever one of the component stocks has a
stock split or stock dividend, so as to generate a consistent value for
the index. Since the divisor is currently less than one, the value of the
index is larger than the sum of the component prices. Although the
Dow is compiled to gauge the performance of the industrial sector
within the American economy, the index's performance continues to be
influenced by not only corporate and economic reports, but also by
domestic and foreign political events such as war and terrorism, as
well as by natural disasters that could potentially lead to economic
harm." .
* In 1908, At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
- From Wikipedia:
'In 1901 William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire London socialite, negotiated
an oil concession with Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar of Persia. He financed
this with capital he had made from his shares in the highly profitable
Mount Morgan mine in Queensland, Australia. D'Arcy assumed exclusive
rights to prospect for oil for
60 years in a vast tract of territory including most of Iran. In exchange
the Shah received £20,000 (£2 million today), an equal amount in shares
of D'Arcy's company, and a promise of 16% of future profits.
D'Arcy hired geologist George Bernard Reynolds to do the prospecting
in the Iranian desert. Conditions were extremely harsh: "small pox
raged, bandits and warlords ruled, water was all but unavailable, and
temperatures often soared past 50°C". After several years of
prospecting, D'Arcy's fortune dwindled away and he was forced to sell
most of his rights to a Glasgow-based syndicate, the Burmah Oil Company.
By 1908 having sunk more than £500,000 into their Persian venture and
found no oil, D'Arcy and Burmah decided to abandon exploration in Iran.
In early May 1908 they sent Reynolds a telegram telling him that they had
run out of money and ordering him to "cease work, dismiss the staff,
dismantle anything worth the cost of transporting to the coast for
re-shipment, and come home." Reynolds delayed following these ordersand in a stroke of luck, struck oil shortly after on May 26, 1908'.
* In 1928, Andrew Payne wins the first 'Bunion Derby', the great footrace across America.
- From Wikipedia:
'Andy Hartley Payne (November 16, 1907 – December 1977) was the winner
of the Trans-American Footrace staged in 1928. He ran the 3,423.5 mile
(5,509.6 km) route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along
U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds, (23 days) averaging
6 miles per hour over an 84 day staged run'." .
* In 1948, The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
- From Wikipedia:
'The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally
supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian
auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). CAP is a volunteer
organization with an aviation-minded membership that includes people
from all backgrounds, lifestyles, and occupations. It performs three
congressionally assigned key missions: emergency services, which includes search and rescue (by air and ground) and disaster relief operations; aerospace
education for youth and the general public; and cadet programs for
teenage youth. In addition, CAP has recently been tasked with homeland
security and courier service missions. CAP also performs non-auxiliary missions for various governmental and private agencies, such as local law enforcement
and the American Red Cross. The program is established as an organization by Title 10 of the United States Code and its purposes defined by Title 36.'
'Civil Air Patrol was conceived in the late 1930s by aviation advocate
Gill Robb Wilson, who foresaw general aviation's potential to supplement
America's military operations. With the help of New York Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, in his capacity as then-Director of the Office of Civilian
Defense, CAP was created with Administrative Order 9, signed by LaGuardia
on 1 December 1941 and published 8 December 1941.
The Civil Air Patrol had 90 days to prove themselves to Congress. Major
General John F. Curry was appointed as the first national commander.
Texas oilman David Harold Byrd was a co-founder of CAP.
During World War II, CAP was seen as a way to use America's civilian
aviation resources to aid the war effort instead of grounding them.
The organization assumed many missions including anti-submarine patrol
and warfare, border patrols, and courier services. During World War II
CAP's coastal patrol flew 24
million miles, found 173 enemy U-boats, attacked 57, hit 10 and sank two,
dropping a total of 83 bombs and depth charges throughout the conflict.
By the end of the war, 64 CAP members had lost their lives in the line
of duty.
After the end of World War II, CAP became the civilian auxiliary of the
United States Air Force, and its incorporating charter declared that it
would never again be involved in direct combat activities, but would be of
a benevolent nature.
During the 113th United States Congress, both the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives voted to pass S.309
, a bill that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to the World
War II members of the Civil Air Patrol. The medal would be presented
"in recognition of their military service and exemplary record during
World War II"'." .
* In 1973, Deep Purple's single "Smoke On The Water" was released.
- From Wikipedia:
'"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple.
It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head. In 2004, the
song was ranked number 434 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500
greatest songs of all time, ranked number 4 in Total Guitar
magazine's Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever, and in March 2005, Q
magazine placed "Smoke on the Water" at number 12 in its list of the
100 greatest guitar tracks'." .
No. 1 song
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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
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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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