<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Orange Blossom Day'. . Add a citrus flavor to various dishes.
- From Wikipedia (Orange blossom):
'The Orange blossom is the fragrant flower of the Citrus sinensis (orange
tree). It is used in perfume making, has been written about as an
aphrodisiac and is the state flower of Florida. It is traditionally
associated with good fortune and has been popular in bridal bouquets and
head wreaths for weddings. Orange blossom essence is an important component
in the making of perfume. The petals of orange blossom can also be made
into the delicately scented orange flower water (as an alternative to
rosewater), a common part of both French cuisine and Middle Eastern cuisine
(most often as an ingredient in desserts and baked goods).
In the United States, orange flower water is used to make orange blossom
scones and marshmallows.
Orange blossom honey (citrus honey) is produced by putting beehives in the
citrus groves during blooming period. This also pollinates seeded citrus
varieties. Orange blossom honey is highly prized and tastes much like the
fruit.
The orange blossom gives its touristic nickname to the Costa del Azahar
("Orange-blossom coast"), the Castellon seaboard.
In Spain, fallen blossoms are dried and then used to make tea.
[The Hankster says] I know we are talking about a food garnish, but guys let this be a caution to you. It is June and Orange Blossoms go with weddings. Just saying.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Sunglasses Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Sunglasses):
'Sunglasses or sun glasses are a form of protective eyewear designed
primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy visible light from
damaging or discomforting the eyes. They can sometimes also function as a
visual aid, as variously termed spectacles or glasses exist, featuring
lenses that are colored, polarized or darkened. In the early 20th century
they were also known as sun cheaters (cheaters being an American slang term
for glasses).
The American Optometric Association recommends sunglasses whenever a person
is in the sun. to protect the eyes from ultraviolet radiation (UV) and blue
light, which can cause several serious eye problems. Its usage is mandatory
immediately after some surgical procedures such as LASIK and recommended
for a certain time period in dusty areas, when leaving the house and in
front of a TV screen or computer monitor after LASEK. Sunglasses have long
been associated with celebrities and film actors primarily from a desire to
mask their identity. Since the 1940s sunglasses have been popular as a
fashion accessory, especially on the beach.
In prehistoric and historic time, Inuit peoples wore flattened walrus ivory
"glasses", looking through narrow slits to block harmful reflected
rays of the sun.
It is said that the Roman emperor Nero liked to watch gladiator fights with
emeralds. These, however, appear to have worked rather like mirrors.
Sunglasses made from flat panes of smoky quartz, which offered no
corrective powers but did protect the eyes from glare were used in China in
the 12th century or possibly earlier. Ancient documents describe the use of
such crystal sunglasses by judges in ancient Chinese courts to conceal
their facial expressions while questioning witnesses.
James Ayscough began experimenting with tinted lenses in spectacles in the
mid-18th century, around 1752. These were not "sunglasses" as that
term is now used Ayscough believed blue- or green-tinted glass could
correct for specific vision impairments. Protection from the Sun's rays was
not a concern for him.
Yellow/amber and brown-tinted spectacles were also a commonly prescribed
item for people with syphilis in the 19th and early 20th centuries because
sensitivity to light was one of the symptoms of the disease. In the early
1920s, the use of sunglasses started to become more widespread, especially
among stars of movies. It is commonly believed that this was to avoid
recognition by fans, but an alternative reason sometimes given is that they
often had red eyes from the powerful arc lamps that were needed due to the
extremely slow speed film stocks used. The stereotype persisted long after
improvements in film quality and the introduction of ultraviolet filters
had eliminated this problem.
Inexpensive mass-produced sunglasses made from celluloid were first
produced by Sam Foster in 1929. Foster found a ready market on the beaches
of Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he began selling sunglasses under the
name Foster Grant from a Woolworth on the Boardwalk. By 1938 Life magazine
wrote of how sunglasses were a "new fad for wear on city streets ... a
favorite affectation of thousands of women all over the U.S." It stated
that 20 million sunglasses were sold in the United States in 1937, but
estimated that only about 25% of American wearers needed them to protect
their eyes.
Polarized sunglasses first became available in 1936, when Edwin H. Land
began experimenting with making lenses with his patented Polaroid filter.
[The Hankster says] No humor here. They are good for your eyes in this bright summer time light.
* 'Helen Keller Day in the USA'.
On her birthday June 27 1990.
- From Wikipedia (Helen Keller):
'Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author,
political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to
earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne
Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of
language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has
become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film
The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a
museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her birthday on
June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential
proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the 100th anniversary of
her birth.
A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her
convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial
Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights,
socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes. She was inducted into
the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971 and was one of twelve inaugural
inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'National HIV Testing Day in the USA'. In the U.S.A by the Department of
Health and Human Service's..
- From Wikipedia ():
'The National HIV Testing Day on June 27 is organized annually by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Service's AIDS.GOV program. Walgreens is one
corporate sponsor, and offers free HIV testing on that day at a number of
its drugstore locations, in fact in 140 cities in 2014.
The day has been an event since 1995, when it was organized by the National
Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA).
* 'National PTSD Awareness Day'. In the U.S.A. Concerns posttraumatic
stress disorder.
- From Wikipedia:
'National PTSD Awareness Day is a day dedicated to creating awareness
regarding PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). It is acknowledged
annually on the 27th of June. It started in 2010. The PTSD Awareness Camp
runs for the whole month of June, also known as PTSD Awareness Month.
There are organizations that helps patients with PTSD and to diagnose PTSD
as soon as possible. War veterans or soldiers are at higher risk of PTSD.
PTSD Awareness Day Started in 2010'.
* 'Metabolic Disease Awareness Week'. June 27 - July 3 in Great Britain by
'Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases'.
- From Wikipedia (Metabolic disorder):
'A metabolic disorder can happen when abnormal chemical reactions in the
body alter the normal metabolic process. It can also be defined as
inherited single gene anomaly, most of which are autosomal recessive.
Some of the possible symptoms that can occur with metabolic disorders are:
lethargy, weight loss, jaundice, seizures, to name a few. This would be
indicative that the disorder was not detected upon initial screening,
further the symptoms expressed would vary with the type of metabolic
disorder. There are four categories of symptoms-acute symptoms, late-onset
acute symptoms, progressive general symptoms and permanent symptoms.
Inherited metabolic disorders are one cause of metabolic disorders, and
occur when a defective gene causes an enzyme deficiency. These diseases, of
which there are many subtypes, are known as inborn errors of metabolism.
Metabolic diseases can also occur when the liver or pancreas do not
function properly.
Metabolic disorders can be treatable by nutrition management, especially if
detected early. It is important for dieticians to have knowledge of the
genotype to therefore create a treatment that will be more effective for
the individual.
o Other:
* 'Canadian Multiculturalism Day'. The day honors racial, religious and
cultural backgrounds in Canada.
- From Wikipedia (Multiculturalism in Canada):
'Multiculturalism in Canada is the sense of an equal celebration of racial,
religious and cultural backgrounds. Multiculturalism policy was officially
adopted by Pierre Trudeau's government during the 1970s and 1980s. The
Canadian federal government has been described as the instigator of
multiculturalism as an ideology because of its public emphasis on the
social importance of immigration. The 1960s Royal Commission on
Bilingualism and Biculturalism is often referred to as the origin of modern
political awareness of multiculturalism.
<> Historical events on June 27
* 'In 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by
Joshua Slocum. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after
November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the
world. He was a Nova Scotian born, naturalised American seaman and
adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey
Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller.
He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.
In Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he rebuilt the 36' 9? (11.2 m) gaff rigged
sloop oyster boat named Spray.
On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. In his famous
book, Sailing Alone Around the World,[15] now considered a classic of
travel literature, he described his departure in the following manner:
I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning
of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled
away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The
twelve o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under
full sail. A short board was made up the harbor on the port tack, then
coming about she stood to seaward, with her boom well off to port, and
swung past the ferries with lively heels. A photographer on the o pier of
East Boston got a picture of her as she swept by, her flag at the peak
throwing her folds clear. A thrilling pulse beat high in me. My step was
light on deck in the crisp air. I felt there could be no turning back, and
that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly
understood.
After an extended visit to his boyhood home at Brier Island and visiting
old haunts on the coast of Nova Scotia, Slocum took his departure from
North America at Sambro Island Lighthouse near Halifax, Nova Scotia on July
3, 1895.
Slocum navigated without a chronometer, instead relying on the traditional
method of dead reckoning for longitude, which required only a cheap tin
clock for approximate time, and noon-sun sights for latitude. On one long
passage in the Pacific, Slocum also famously shot a lunar distance
observation, decades after these observations had ceased to be commonly
employed, which allowed him to check his longitude independently. However,
Slocum's primary method for finding longitude was still dead reckoning he
re corded only one lunar observation during the entire circumnavigation.
Slocum normally sailed the Spray without touching the helm. Due to the
length of the sail plan relative to the hull, and the long keel, the Spray
was capable of self-steering (unlike faster modern craft), and he balanced
it stably on any course relative to the wind by adjusting or reefing the
sails and by lashing the helm fast. He sailed 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west
across the Pacific without once touching the helm.[15]
More than three years later, on June 27, 1898, he returned to Newport,
Rhode Island, having circumnavigated the world, a distance of more than
46,000 miles (74,000 km). Slocum's return went almost unnoticed. The
Spanish–American War, which had begun two months earlier, dominated the
headlines. After the end of major hostilities, many American newspapers
published articles describing Slocum's amazing adventure.
* 'In 1942, FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
(Germany's Operation Pastorius). .
- From Wikipedia: 'Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence
plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The
operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic
American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm
Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the
leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, followed by
Nazi Germany's declaration of war on the United States four days later (and
the United States' declaration of war on Germany in response), Hitler
authorized a mission to sabotage the American war effort as well as to make
terrorist attacks on civilian targets to demoralize the American civilian
population inside the United States. The mission was headed by Admiral
Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr. Canaris recalled that during
World War I, he organized the sabotage of French installations in Morocco,
and entered the United States with other German agents to plant bombs in
New York arms factories, including the destruction of munitions supplies at
Black Tom Island, in 1916. He hoped that Operation Pastorius would have the
same kind of success they had in 1916.
Their mission was to stage sabotage attacks on American economic targets:
hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls the Aluminum Company of America's
plants in Illinois, Tennessee, and New York locks on the Ohio River near
Louisville, Kentucky the Horseshoe Curve, a crucial railroad pass near
Altoona, Pennsylvania, as well as the Pennsylvania Railroad's repair shops
at Altoona a cryolite plant in Philadelphia Hell Gate Bridge in New York
and Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey. The agents were also
instructed to spread a wave of terror by planting explosives on bridges,
railroad stations, water facilities, Jewish-owned businesses, and public
places. They were given counterfeit birth certificates, Social Security
Cards, draft deferment cards, nearly $175,000 in American money, and
driver's licenses, and put aboard two U-boats to land on the east coast of
the U.S.
Before the mission began, it was in danger of being compromised, as George
Dasch, head of the team, left sensitive documents behind on a train, and
one of the agents when drunk announced to patrons at a bar in Paris that he
was a secret agent.
On the night of 12 June 1942, the first submarine to arrive in the U.S.,
U-202, landed at Amagansett, New York, which is about 115 miles east of New
York City, on Long Island, at what today is Atlantic Avenue beach. It was
carrying Dasch and three other saboteurs (Burger, Quirin, and Henck). The
team came ashore wearing German Navy uniforms so that if they were
captured, they would be classified as prisoners of war rather than spies.
They also brought their explosives, primers and incendiaries, and buried
them along with their uniforms, and put on civilian clothes to begin an
expected two-year campaign in the sabotage of American defense-related
production.
When Dasch was discovered amidst the dunes by unarmed Coast Guardsman John
C. Cullen, Dasch seized Cullen by the collar, threatened him, and stuffed
$260 into Cullen's hand. Cullen reported the encounter to his superiors
after returning to his station. By the time an armed Coast Guard patrol
returned to the site, the Germans, weary from their trans-Atlantic trip,
were gone and had taken the Long Island Rail Road train from the Amagansett
station into Manhattan, New York City, where they checked in and stayed at
a hotel. The Coast Guard then discovered German equipment buried in the
beach and reported it to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the FBI. A
massive manhunt for the German agents was conducted however, they did not
know where exactly the Germans were going.
The other four-member German team headed by Kerling landed without incident
at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, south of Jacksonville on 16 June 1942. They
came on U-584, another submarine. This group came ashore wearing bathing
suits but wore German Navy hats. After landing ashore, they threw away
their hats, put on civilian clothes, and started their mission by boarding
trains to Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio.
The two teams were to meet on 4 July in a hotel in Cincinnati to coordinate
their sabotage operatio
Realizing that the mission was going to be doomed after the encounter with
the Coast Guard, Dasch decided he had a secret of his own. The day after
the landing at Amagansett, he called Burger, the most guarded and
disciplined member of the team, into the upper-story hotel room the two men
shared. He walked over to the window and opened it wide. You and I are
going to have a talk, Dasch said, And if we disagree, only one of us will
walk out that door—the other will fly out this window. He then revealed the
truth to Burger: he had no intention of going through with the mission. He
hated the Nazis and wanted Burger on his side when he turned the entire
plot over to the FBI. Burger smiled. Having spent seventeen months in a
Nazi concentration camp, his own feelings for the party were less than
warm. He too had been planning to betray the mission. They agreed to defect
to the United States immediately.
Shaken but not discouraged, Dasch ordered Burger to stay put and keep an
eye on the other men. On 15 June, Dasch phoned the New York office of the
FBI from a pay-telephone on Manhattan's Upper West Side explaining who he
was and asked to convey the information to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
When the FBI agent was trying to figure out if he was talking to a
crackpot, Dasch hung up. Four days later, he took a train to Washington,
D.C. and checked in at the Mayflower Hotel. Dasch then walked into the
FBI’s headquarters carrying a briefcase, asking to speak with Director
Hoover. Dasch bounced from office to office until finally Assistant
Director D.M. Ladd, the agent in charge of the manhunt, agreed to humor him
with five minutes of his time. Dasch angrily repeated his story after he
was dismissed as a crackpot by numerous agents. He finally convinced the
FBI by dumping his mission's entire budget of $84,000 on the desk of
Assistant Director D. M. Ladd. At this point, he was taken seriously and
interrogated for hours. Besides Burger, none of the other German agents
knew they were betrayed. Over the next two weeks, Burger and the other six
were arrested.
* 'In 1949, 'Captain Video and His Video Rangers' debut on DUMONT-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American
science fiction television series, which was aired on the DuMont Television
Network, and was the first series of its kind on American television.
The series aired between June 27, 1949 and April 1, 1955, originally Monday
through Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, and then Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET.
A separate 30-minute spinoff series, The Secret Files of Captain Video,
aired Saturday mornings, alternating with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, from
September 5, 1953 to May 29, 1954 for a total of 20 episodes.
Set in the distant future, the series followed the adventures of a group of
fighters for truth and justice, the Video Rangers, led by Captain Video.
The Rangers operated from a secret base on a mountain top. Their uniforms
resembled United States Army surplus with lightning bolts sewn on.
The Captain had a teen-age companion who was known only as the Video
Ranger. Captain Video received his orders from the Commissioner of Public
Safety, whose responsibilities took in the entire solar system as well as
human colonies on planets around other stars. Captain Video was the first
adventure hero explicitly designed (by DuMont's idea-man Larry Menkin) for
early live television. I TOBOR the robot was an important, semi-regular
character on the program, and represents the first appearance of a robot in
live televised science fiction the character's name was actually supposed
to be ROBOT I, but the stencil with its name was applied to its costume
backwards.
The show was broadcast live five to six days a week and was popular with
both children and adults. Because of the large adult audience, the usual
network broadcast time of the daily series was 7 to 7:30 p.m. EST, leading
off the prime evening time-block. For the last two seasons the show still
aired at 7 p.m. ET, but was 15 minutes long. The production was hampered by
a very low budget, and the Captain did not originally have a space ship of
his own.
Until 1953, Captain Video's live adventures occupied 20 minutes of each
day's 30-minute program time. About 10 minutes into each episode, a Video
Ranger communications officer showed about 7 minutes of old cowboy movies.
These were described by the communications officer, Ranger Rogers, as the
adventures of Captain Video's "undercover agents" on Earth.
* 'In 1954, The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near
Moscow. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, was built in the Science
City of Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, about 110 km southwest of Moscow. It was
the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world, i.e. the first
nuclear reactor that produced commercial electricity, albeit at small
scale. It was located at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering.
The plant is also known as APS-1 Obninsk (Atomic Power Station 1 Obninsk).
It remained in operation between 1954 and 2002, although its production of
electricity for the grid ceased in 1959 thereafter it functioned as a
research and isotope production plant only.
* 'In 1955, The first 'Wide Wide World' 90-minute documentary series() was
broadcast on NBC-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Wide Wide World was a 90-minute documentary series
telecast live on NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4pm Eastern. Conceived by
network head Pat Weaver and hosted by Dave Garroway, Wide Wide World was
introduced on the Producers' Showcase series on June 27, 1955. The premiere
episode, featuring entertainment from the US, Canada and Mexico, was the
first international North American telecast in the history of the medium.
It returned in the fall as a regular Sunday series, telecast from October
16, 1955 to June 8, 1958. The program was sponsored by General Motors and
Barry Wood was the executive producer. Nelson Case was the announcer. In
March 1956, Time magazine reported that it was the highest-rated daytime
show on television.
* 'In 1958, NBC's 'Matinee Theater' was seen for the final time. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that
aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The
series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was usually broadcast live and
most of the time in color. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell
Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther.
McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which
introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays
staged with minimal sets.
The series ended in 1958 due to its high budget much higher than any other
daytime program in television. A few of the later episodes were preserved
on color film for later rerun syndication under different titles.
* 'In 1964, Jan and Dean release 'Little Old Lady From Pasadena'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Little Old Lady from Pasadena is a song written by
Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American
pop singers, Jan and Dean. The song reached number three on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number one on Canada's RPM chart.
The session musicians who played on this record (who were collectively
known as The Wrecking Crew) included Leon Russell on piano Tommy Tedesco,
Bill Pitman and Billy Strange on guitar Ray Pohlman and Jimmy Bond on bass
and Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer on drums. Tommy Morgan provided the song's
harmonica solo.
Jan and Dean reworked the lyrics from The Little Old Lady from Pasadena in
1967, renaming the track Tijuana and releasing it as a single that same
year. The lyrics were now drug related. Tijuana was finally released on
their 2010 album Carnival of Sound.
The origins of The Little Old Lady From Pasadena stem from a hugely popular
ad campaign that the Dodge automobile maker debuted in early 1964. Starring
actress Kathryn Minner, the commercials showed the white haired elderly
lady speeding down the street (and sometimes a drag strip) driving a
modified Dodge. She would stop, look out the window and say Put a Dodge in
your garage, Hon-ey! The song soon followed and she enjoyed great
popularity until she died a few years later.
* 'In 1966, The first sci-fi soap opera, 'Dark Shadows', premieres on
ABC-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that
originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27,
1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives and loves, trials and
tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine. The
series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid)
appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured ghosts,
werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and
a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles
indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than
one actor.
* 'In 1967, World's first ATM installed in London. .
- From Wikipedia: 'It is widely accepted that the first cash machine was
put into use by Barclays Bank in its Enfield Town branch in north London,
United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967. This machine was inaugurated by English
comedy actor Reg Varney. This instance of the invention is credited to John
Shepherd-Barron of printing firm De La Rue, who was awarded an OBE in the
2005 New Year Honours. Transactions were initiated by inserting paper
cheques issued by a teller or cashier, marked with carbon-14 for machine
readability and security, which in a latter model were matched with a
personal identification number (PIN). Shepherd-Barron stated It struck me
there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the
UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing
chocolate with cash. In 1969, the first cash machine installed in Australia
was in Sydney. The machine only dispensed $25 at a time and the bank card
itself would be mailed to the user after the bank had processed the
withdrawal.
* 'In 1973, 'Live and Let Die', the 8th James Bond Film, and the first to
star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, was released in the US. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film in the
James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star
Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Produced by Albert R.
Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it was the third of four Bond films to be
directed by Guy Hamilton. Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to
return after his role in the previous Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, he
declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond. Moore was
signed for the lead role.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the
film, a Harlem drug lord known as Mr. Big plans to distribute two tons of
heroin free to put rival drugs barons out of business. Mr. Big is revealed
to be the disguised alter ego of Dr. Kananga, a corrupt Caribbean dictator,
who rules San Monique, the fictional island where the heroin poppies are
secretly farmed. Bond is investigating the deaths of three British agents,
leading him to Kananga, and is soon trapped in a world of gangsters and
voodoo as he fights to put a stop to the drug baron's scheme.
* 'In 1985, U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway. .
- From Wikipedia: 'U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the
Will Rogers Highway and also known as the Main Street of America or the
Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway
System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected
the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads
in America, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa
Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was
recognized in popular culture by both the hit song (Get Your Kicks on)
Route 66 and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.
US 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during
the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the road supported the economies of the
communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route
became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those
same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the
growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, and
it was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27,
1985, after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the
Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through
Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National
Scenic Byway of the name Historic Route 66, which is returning to some
maps. Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the
former US 66 into the state road network as State Route 66.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in June
Food
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Dairy Month
National Candy Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
Health
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Fireworks Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
Mens Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Infertility Month
Animal / Pets
Adopt-A-Cat Month
Adopt A Shelter Cat Month
National Pet Preparedness Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month
Other
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Black Music Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Effective Communications Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Surf Music Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Oceans Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Women's Golf Month
June is:
June origin (from Wikipedia): Perhaps to honor goddess Juno, or from the Latin word iuniores (younger ones).
"is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the
beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June."
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