<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Corn Fritter Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Corn fritter):
'Corn fritters are a traditional savory snack in the Southern United
States. Traditional corn fritters are a mixture of corn kernels, egg,
flour, milk, and melted butter. They can be deep fried, shallow fried,
baked, and may be served with jam, fruit, honey, or cream. They may also be
made with creamed corn, baked, and served with maple syrup. Corn Fritters
may have a similar appearance to, and may be mistaken for Johnnycakes'.
[The Hankster says] My mother made them in a cast iron skillet.
* 'Fresh Spinach Day'. . National Spinach Day is March 26.
- From Wikipedia (Spinach):
'Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family
Amaranthaceae native to central and western Asia.
It is an annual plant (rarely biennial), which grows up to 30 cm tall.
Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are
alternate, simple, ovate to triangular, and very variable in size from
about 2–30 cm long and 1–15 cm broad, with larger leaves at the base of the
plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem. The flowers are
inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3–4 mm in diameter, maturing into a small,
hard, dry, lumpy fruit cluster 5–10 mm across containing several seeds.
Common spinach, S. oleracea, was long considered to be in the family
Chenopodiaceae, but in 2003, that family was merged into the family
Amaranthaceae in the order Caryophyllales. Within the family Amaranthaceae
sensu lato, Spinach belongs to subfamily Chenopodioideae.
In a 100-g serving providing only 23 calories, spinach has a high
nutritional value, especially when fresh, frozen, steamed, or quickly
boiled. It is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of vitamin
A, vitamin C, vitamin K, magnesium, manganese, iron and folate. Spinach is
a good source (10-19% of DV) of the B vitamins riboflavin and vitamin B6,
vitamin E, calcium, potassium, and dietary fiber.
The comics and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man has been portrayed
since 1931 as having a strong affinity for spinach, becoming physically
stronger after consuming it. The commonly accepted version of events states
this portrayal was based on faulty calculations of the iron content. In
this version, German scientist Emil von Wolff misplaced a decimal point in
an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron value ten
times higher than it should have been, and this faulty measurement was not
noticed until the 1930s. This caused the popular misconception that spinach
is exceedingly high in iron that makes the body stronger.
Criminologist Mike Sutton wrote an article in the Internet Journal of
Criminology, claiming the Popeye and iron link is just another
long-standing myth, and spinach was chosen and promoted in Popeye for its
vitamin A content alone. In the cited article, he also disputes the above —
what he calls the 'Spinach Popeye Iron Decimal Error Story (SPIDES)' — due
to lack of verifiable sources, although he found a different reference from
1934 reporting 20 times the actual iron content. In another article, Sutton
distinguishes between the myth of spinach's iron content, which he blames
on bad science, and the myth that the error was caused by a misplaced
decimal point'.
[The Hankster says] A great side with Corn Fritters.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Personal Chef’s Day'.
Don't go to the chef, have them come to you. Created by the United States
Personal Chef Association (USPCA).
- From Wikipedia (Personal chef):
'A personal chef is a chef who is hired by different clients and prepares
meals in the clients' home kitchens, based on their needs and preferences.
The personal chef will create a customized meal plan, shop for all
groceries, prepare the meal, and clean up the kitchen. The chef typically
leaves prepared meals packaged in containers for the client to store in the
refrigerator or freezer to enjoy later. Some personal chefs also focus on
preparing dinner parties and other special events, which means they are
responsible for shopping, preparing the meal, serving the guests and
cleaning up afterward. The menu is preplanned and discussed with the
client, then prepared in their home. According to health-department
guidelines, all food must either be prepared in the home of the client or
in a kitchen that has passed an official health inspection'.
[The Hankster says] I have my own. It is called a microwave.
* 'Talk to a Telemarketer Day'.
The idea is to keep them talking and waste their time.
[The Hankster says] A little give-back is always fun.
* 'Toss Away the “Could Haves” and “Should Haves” Day'.
Third Saturday in July. Created by motivational author and speaker Martha
J. Ross-Rodgers.
[The Hankster says] Starting new is good, but don't loose sight of what got you there in the first place.
* 'National Woodie Wagon Day'.
Third Saturday in July.
- From Wikipedia (Woodie (car body style)):
'A woodie is a car body style with rear bodywork constructed of wood
framework with infill wood panels. Originally, wood framework augmented the
car's structure, where later models featured applied wood and wood-like
elements.
Ultimately, manufacturers supplanted wood construction with a variety of
materials and methods to recall wood construction — including infill metal
panels, metal framework, or simulated wood-grain sheet vinyl (DI-NOC),
sometimes augmented with three-dimensional, simulated framework. In 2008,
wood construction was evoked abstractly on the Ford Flex with a series of
side and rear horizontal grooves.
As a variant of body-on-frame construction, the woodie originated from the
early (pre mid-1930s) practice of manufacturing the passenger compartment
portion of a vehicle in hardwood. Woodies were popular in the United States
and were produced as variants of sedans and convertibles as well as station
wagons, from basic to luxury. They were typically manufactured as
third-party conversions of regular vehicles—some by large, reputable
coachbuilding firms and others by local carpenters and craftsmen for
individual customers. They could be austere vehicles, with side curtains in
lieu of roll-up windows (e.g., the 1932 Ford)—and sold in limited numbers
(e.g., Ford sold 1654 woodie wagons). Eventually, bodies constructed
entirely in steel supplanted wood construction—for reasons of strength,
cost, and durability.
In 1950, Plymouth discontinued their woodie station wagon. Buick's 1953
Super Estate Wagon and 1953 Roadmaster Estate Wagon were the last
production American station wagons to retain real wood construction. Other
marques by then were touting the advantages of * *all-steel construction to
the buying public. By 1955, only Ford, Mercury, joined in 1965 by Chrysler
offered a woodie appearance, evoking real wood with other materials
including steel, plastics and DI-NOC (a vinyl product). As the appearance
became popular, Ford, GM, and Chrysler offered multiple models with the
woodgrain appearance until the early 1990s.
The British Motor Corporation (BMC) offered the Morris Minor Traveller
(1953–71) with wood structural components and painted aluminum infill
panels—the last true mass-produced woodie. Morris' subsequent Mini
Traveller (1961–9) employed steel infill panels and faux wood structural
members'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'World Snake Day'.
Replace some of the fears with facts.
o Other:
* 'Two Left Feet Week'. July 16-23 in Great Britain. The focus is on
dancing and encouraging those who do not dance, to learn..
<> Historical events on July 16
* 'In 1790, The US Congress establishes District of Columbia. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and
commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the
capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,
1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac
River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a
federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the
District is therefore not a part of any U.S. state.
The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal
district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and
Alexandria. Named in honor of George Washington, one of the United States'
founding fathers and the leader of the American Continental Army who won
the Revolutionary War, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve
as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally
ceded by Virginia in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the
remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 672,228 as of July 2015.
Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the
city's population to more than one million during the workweek. The
Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a
population of over 6 million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical
area in the country.
The centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United
States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme
Court. Washington is home to many national monuments and museums, which are
primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176
foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international
organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups, and
professional associations.
A locally elected mayor and a 13-member council have governed the District
since 1973. However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city
and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large
congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, but the
District has no representation in the U.S. Senate. The District receives
three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the
Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in
1961'.
* 'In 1867, D R Averill of Ohio, patents ready-mixed paint. .
* 'In 1867, Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Joseph Monier (8 November 1823,
Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France – 13 March 1906, Paris) was a French
gardener and one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete.
As a gardener, Monier was not satisfied with the materials available for
making flowerpots. Clay was easily broken and wood weathered badly and
could be broken by the plant roots. Monier began making cement pots and
tubs, but these were not stable enough. In order to strengthen the cement
containers, he experimented with embedded iron mesh. He was not the first
to experiment with reinforced concrete, but he saw some of the
possibilities in the technique, and promoted it extensively.
Monier exhibited his invention at the Paris Exposition of 1867. He obtained
his first patent on 16 July 1867, on iron-reinforced troughs for
horticulture. He continued to find new uses for the material, and obtained
more patents — iron-reinforced cement pipes and basins (1868)
iron-reinforced cement panels for building façades (1869) bridges made of
iron-reinforced cement (1873) reinforced concrete beams (1878). In 1875 the
first iron-reinforced cement bridge ever built was constructed at the
Castle of Chazelet. Monier was the designer.
The important point of Monier's idea was that it combined steel and
concrete in such a way that the best qualities of each material were
brought into play. Concrete is easily procured and shaped. It has
considerable compressive or crushing strength, but is somewhat deficient in
shearing strength, and distinctly weak in tensile or pulling strength.
Steel, on the other hand, is easily procurable in simple forms such as long
bars, and is extremely strong. But it is difficult and expensive to work up
into customized forms. Concrete had been avoided for making beams, slabs
and thin walls because its lack of tensile strength doomed it to fail in
such circumstances. But if a concrete slab is reinforced with a network of
small steel rods on its undersurface where the tensile stresses occur, its
strength will be enormously increased.
François Hennébique saw Monier's reinforced concrete tubs and tanks at the
Paris Exposition and began experimenting with ways to apply this new
material to building construction. He set up his own firm the same year and
in 1892 he patented a complete building system using the material.
In 1886 German engineer Gustav Adolf Wayss (1851–1917) bought Monier's
patent and developed it further. He conducted further research in the use
of reinforced concrete as a building material, and established the firm of
Wayss and Freytag'.
* 'In 1935, The world's first parking meter (Park-O-Meter) is installed in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The original thought was not so much as the
revenue from the meter, but to keep a fresh new flow of customers into the
stores, by limiting access to a parking spot via a time limit. .
- From Wikipedia: 'An early patent for a parking meter, US patent, was
filed by Roger W. Babson, on August 30, 1928. The meter was intended to
operate on power from the battery of the parking vehicle and required a
connection from the vehicle to the meter. Holger George Thuesen and Gerald
A. Hale designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935.
The History Channel's... History's Lost and Found documents their success
in developing the first working parking meter. Thuesen and Hale were
engineering professors at Oklahoma State University and began working on
the parking meter in 1933 at the request of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma lawyer
and newspaper publisher Carl C. Magee. The world's first installed parking
meter was in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935. Magee received a patent for
the apparatus on 24 May 1938'.
* 'In 1945, As part of the Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when
the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear
weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Manhattan Project was a research and development
project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was
led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General
Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers physicist J. Robert
Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory that
designed the actual bombs. The Army component of the project was designated
the Manhattan District Manhattan gradually superseded the official
codename, Development of Substitute Materials, for the entire project.
Along the way, the project absorbed its earlier British counterpart, Tube
Alloys. The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ
more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (about $26 billion in
2016 dollars). Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and
producing the fissile materials, with less than 10% for development and
production of the weapons. Research and production took place at more than
30 sites across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Two types of atomic bomb were developed during the war a relatively simple
gun-type fission weapon was made using uranium while a more complex
plutonium implosion-type weapon was designed concurrently. For the Gun-Type
weapon development uranium-235 (an isotope that makes up only 0.7 percent
of natural uranium) was required. Chemically identical to the most common
isotope, uranium-238, and with almost the same mass, it proved difficult to
separate the two. Three methods were employed for uranium enrichment:
electromagnetic, gaseous and thermal. Most of this work was performed at
Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In parallel with the work on uranium was an effort to
produce plutonium. Reactors were constructed at Oak Ridge and Hanford,
Washington, in which uranium was irradiated and transmuted into plutonium.
The plutonium was then chemically separated from the uranium. The gun-type
design proved impractical to use with plutonium so the implosion-type
weapon was developed in a concerted design and construction effort at the
project's principal research and design laboratory in Los Alamos, New
Mexico.
The project was also charged with gathering intelligence on the German
nuclear weapon project. Through Operation Alsos, Manhattan Project
personnel served in Europe, sometimes behind enemy lines, where they
gathered nuclear materials and documents, and rounded up German scientists.
Despite the Manhattan Project's tight security, Soviet atomic spies still
penetrated the program.
The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb at the
Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery
Range on 16 July 1945. Little Boy, a gun-type weapon, and Fat Man, an
implosion-type weapon, were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, respectively. In the immediate postwar years, the Manhattan
Project conducted weapons testing at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation
Crossroads, developed new weapons, promoted the development of the network
of national laboratories, supported medical research into radiology and
laid the foundations for the nuclear navy. It maintained control over
American atomic weapons research and production until the formation of the
United States Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947'.
* 'In 1950, Largest crowd in sports history: 199,854 people at World Cup
soccer finals Brazil. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from 24 June to
16 July 1950, was the fourth FIFA World Cup. It was the first World Cup
since 1938, the planned 1942 and 1946 competitions having been cancelled
owing to World War II. It was won by Uruguay, who had won the inaugural
competition in 1930, clinching the cup by beating the hosts Brazil 2–1 in
the deciding match of the four-team final group (this was the only
tournament not decided by a one-match final). It was also the first
tournament where the trophy was referred to as the Jules Rimet Cup, to mark
the 25th anniversary of Jules Rimet's presidency of FIFA'.
* 'In 1956, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus closes its very
last 'Big Tent' show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics
all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus is a United
States traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. The
circus, known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, was
started in 1919 when the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, a circus
created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey was merged with the
Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers had purchased
Barnum and Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the
circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
On July 16, 1956, at the Heidelberg Race Track in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania,
the circus ended its season early, with President John Ringling North
announcing that it would no longer exhibit under their own portable tents
and starting in 1957 would exhibit in permanent venues, such as sports
stadiums and arenas that had the seating already in place. In 1967, Irvin
Feld and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge Roy Hofheinz bought
the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and Hofheinz sold
the circus to Mattel, buying it back from the toy company in 1982. After
the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus has been a part of Feld
Entertainment, an international entertainment firm headed by Kenneth Feld,
with its headquarters in Ellenton, Florida'.
* 'In 1959, The Coasters recorded 'Poison Ivy'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Poison Ivy is a popular song by American songwriting duo
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by The Coasters
in 1959. It went to #1 on the R and B chart, #7 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, and #15 in the UK. This was their third top-ten hit of that year
following Charlie Brown and Along Came Jones
The song discusses a girl known as Poison Ivy She is compared to measles,
mumps, chickenpox, the common cold, and whooping cough, but is deemed
worse, because Poison Ivy, Lord, will make you itch According to lyricist
Jerry Leiber, Pure and simple, 'Poison Ivy' is a metaphor for a sexually
transmitted disease
The song also makes references to other flowers such as a rose and a
daisy'.
* 'In. 1969, Apollo 11 (with the first humans to land on the moon) was
launched from Cape Canaveral.
- From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans
on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20,
1969, at 20:18 UTC (46 years ago). Armstrong became the first to step onto
the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC Aldrin joined him
about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together
outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar
material for return to Earth. The third member of the mission, Michael
Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit, until
Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it just under a day later for the trip
back to Earth.
Launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island,
Florida, on July 16, Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA's
Apollo program. The Apollo spacecraft had three parts: a Command Module
(CM) with a cabin for the three astronauts, and the only part that landed
back on Earth a Service Module (SM), which supported the Command Module
with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water and a Lunar Module
(LM) for landing on the Moon (which itself was composed of two parts).
After being sent toward the Moon by the Saturn V's upper stage, the
astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and traveled for three days
until they entered into lunar orbit. Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into
the Lunar Module and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. They stayed a total
of about 21½ hours on the lunar surface. After lifting off in the upper
part of the Lunar Module and rejoining Collins in the Command Module, they
returned to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
Broadcast on live TV to a world-wide audience, Armstrong stepped onto the
lunar surface and described the event as one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind. Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled
a national goal proposed in 1961 by the U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a
speech before the U.S. Congress: before this decade is out, of landing a
man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth'.
* 'In 1994, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue
until July 22. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2)
was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July
1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial
collision of Solar System objects. This generated a large amount of
coverage in the popular media, and the comet was closely observed by
astronomers worldwide. The collision provided new information about Jupiter
and highlighted its role in reducing space debris in the inner Solar
System.
The comet was discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and
David Levy. Shoemaker–Levy 9 had been captured by Jupiter and was orbiting
the planet at the time. It was located on the night of March 24, 1993 in a
photograph taken with the 40 cm (16 in) Schmidt telescope at the Palomar
Observatory in California. It was the first comet observed to be orbiting a
planet, and had probably been captured by Jupiter around 20–30 years
earlier.
Calculations showed that its unusual fragmented form was due to a previous
closer approach to Jupiter in July 1992. At that time, the orbit of
Shoemaker–Levy 9 passed within Jupiter's Roche limit, and Jupiter's tidal
forces had acted to pull apart the comet. The comet was later observed as a
series of fragments ranging up to 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter. These
fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and
July 22, 1994 at a speed of approximately 60 km/s (37 mi/s) or 216,000 km/h
(134,000 mph). The prominent scars from the impacts were more easily
visible than the Great Red Spot and persisted for many months'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in July
Food
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Honey Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
Wheat Month
Health
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month
National Black Family Month
National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
National Cord Blood Awareness Month
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Social Wellness Month
Animal / Pets
National 'Doghouse Repairs' Month
Other
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Golf Month
Independent Retailer Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Parks and Recreation Month
National Vacation Rental Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Tour de France Month
Women's Motorcycle Month
July is:
July origin (from Wikipedia): Named by the Roman Senate in honor of Julius Caesar.
"is the seventh month of the year (between June
and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months
with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of
the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior
to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in
most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer)
and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it
is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in
July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of
January in the Northern hemisphere."
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