<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Raspberry Cake Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Raspberry):
'The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the
genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus
Idaeobatus the name also applies to these plants themselves.
Raspberries are perennial with woody stems.
The aggregate fruit structure contributes to raspberry's nutritional value,
as it increases the proportion of dietary fiber, which is among the highest
known in whole foods, up to 6% fiber per total weight. Raspberries are a
rich source of vitamin C, with 26 mg per 100 g serving (32% Daily Value),
manganese (32% Daily Value) and dietary fiber (26% Daily Value).
Raspberries are a low-glycemic index food, with total sugar content of only
4% and no starch.
Raspberries contain anthocyanin pigments, ellagic acid (from ellagotannins,
see for instance the polyphenol ellagitannin), quercetin, gallic acid,
cyanidins, pelargonidins, catechins, kaempferol and salicylic acid. Yellow
raspberries and others with pale-colored fruits are lower in anthocyanins.
Both yellow and red raspberries contain carotenoids, mostly lutein esters,
but these are masked by anthocyanins in red raspberries'.
[The Hankster says] Can't get any better, except if it was sitting on top a raspberry pie.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Flitch Day'.
There is some controversy on the date, origin and there is both a
National Flitch Day and a Flitch Day. It seems to be on June 19, July 19 or
even every four years. Today a flitch ob bacon, is called a or slab or side
of bacon. Regardless of the date, the theme is the same.
- From Wikipedia (Flitch of bacon custom):
'The awarding of a flitch of bacon to married couples who can swear to not
having regretted their marriage for a year and a day is an old tradition,
the remnants of which still survive in some pockets in England. The
tradition was maintained at Wychnoure until at least the eighteenth century
but now remains only as a carving over the fireplace. At Little Dunmow in
Essex a similar ceremony also survived into the eighteenth century. The
tradition can be traced back to at least the fourteenth century at both
sites and the Dunmow flitch is referred to in Chaucer. The awarding of a
flitch at both sites seems to have been an exceedingly rare event.
The Dunmow tradition was revived in Victorian times, largely inspired by a
book (The Flitch of Bacon) by William Harrison Ainsworth. Flitch trials are
still held in modern times at Great Dunmow. A counsel is employed to
cross-examine the nominated couples and attempt to show they are
undeserving of the award.
There is evidence that the flitch of bacon tradition existed outside
Britain in mainland Europe and some would push its origins back as far as
Saxon times. Historian Hélène Adeline Guerber associates the origins of the
flitch of bacon ceremony with the Yule feast of Norse tradition in which
boar meat is eaten in honour of the god Freyr'.
[The Hankster says] It was kinda like our modern day newly wed type TV game shows. Probably caused more breakups than couples it rewarded.
<> Awareness / Observances:
<> Historical events on July 19
* 'In 1843, Brunel's steamship, the SS Great Britain is launched. It became
the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also
becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. .
- From Wikipedia: 'SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger
steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger
ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom
Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service
between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or
equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine
these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer
to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the time of 14 days.
The ship is 322 ft (98 m) in length and has a 3,400-ton displacement. She
was powered by two inclined 2 cylinder engines of the direct-acting type,
with twin 88 in (220 cm) bore, 6-foot (1.8 m) stroke cylinders. She was
also provided with secondary sail power. The four decks provided
accommodation for a crew of 120, plus 360 passengers who were provided with
cabins and dining and promenade saloons.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat.
However, her protracted construction and high cost had left her owners in a
difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846
having spent all their funds re-floating the ship after she was run aground
at Dundrum Bay after a navigational error. In 1852 she was sold for salvage
and repaired. Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia
from 1852 until converted to sail in 1881. Three years later, she was
retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse,
quarantine ship and coal hulk until scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, following a cash donation by Sir Jack Hayward that paid for the
vessel to be towed back to the UK, Great Britain was returned to the
Bristol dry dock where she was built. Now listed as part of the National
Historic Fleet, she is an award-winning visitor attraction and museum ship
in Bristol Harbour, with between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors annually'.
* 'In 1941, The first US Army flying school for black cadets was dedicated
at Moton Field in Tuskegee Ala. Their fame mostly resides as American
bomber escort fighter in there P-51 Mustangs. The tail of the plane had a
red stripe on the tail. The German fighter pilots branded them 'The Red
Tailed Devils', due to their tenacity in dog fights. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field
in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African American
airmen in World War II. Moton Field was the site of primary flight training
for the pioneering pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and is now operated
by the National Park Service to interpret their history and achievements.
It was constructed in 1941 as a new training base. The field was named
after former Tuskegee Institute principal Robert Russa Moton, who died the
previous year.
Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the U.S.
military. Civil rights organizations and the black press exerted pressure
that resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron
based in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. They became known as the Tuskegee
Airmen.
Tuskegee Airmen refers to all who were involved in the so-called Tuskegee
Experiment, the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly
and maintain combat aircraft. The Tuskegee Airmen included pilots,
navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors, and
all the personnel who kept the planes in the air.
The military selected Tuskegee Institute to train pilots because of its
commitment to aeronautical training. Tuskegee had the facilities, and
engineering and technical instructors, as well as a climate for year-round
flying. The first Civilian Pilot Training Program students completed their
instruction in May 1940. The Tuskegee program was then expanded and became
the center for African-American aviation during World War II.
The Tuskegee Airmen overcame segregation and prejudice to become one of the
most highly respected fighter groups of World War II. They proved
conclusively that African Americans could fly and maintain sophisticated
combat aircraft. The Tuskegee Airmen's achievements, together with the men
and women who supported them, paved the way for full integration of the
U.S. military'.
* 'In 1954, Elvis Presley's first single was released by Sun Records. It
was 'That's All Right' (recorded July 5) b/w 'Blue Moon of Kentucky'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'That's All Right is a song written and originally
performed by blues singer Arthur Crudup. It is best known as the first
single recorded and released by Elvis Presley. Presley's version was
recorded on July 5, 1954, and released on July 19, 1954 with Blue Moon of
Kentucky as the B-side. It is #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone magazine list
of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
In July 2004, exactly 50 years after its first issuing, the song was
released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it debuted and peaked at
Number 3.
The song was written by Arthur Big Boy Crudup, and originally recorded by
him in Chicago on September 6, 1946, as That's All Right Some of the lyrics
are traditional blues verses first recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in
1926. Crudup's recording was released as a single on RCA Victor 20-2205,
but was less successful than some of his previous recordings. At the same
session, he recorded a virtually identical tune with different lyrics, I
Don't Know It, which was also released as a single (RCA Victor 20-2307). In
early March 1949, the song was rereleased under the title, That's All
Right, Mama (RCA Victor 50-0000), which was issued as RCA's first rhythm
and blues record on their new 45 rpm single format, on bright orange vinyl.
Elvis Presley's version was recorded in July 1954. Its catalogue number was
Sun 209. The label reads That's All Right (omitting Mama from the original
title), and names the performers as Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill. Arthur
Crudup was credited as the composer on the label of Presley's single, but
Crudup had to wait until the 1960s when he received an estimated $60,000 in
back royalties. Crudup used lines in his song that had been present in
earlier blues recordings, including Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1926 song That
Black Snake Moan
A country music version by Marty Robbins peaked at number seven on the
Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1955'.
* 'In 1963, Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of
106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of
100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international
convention. Yuri Gagarin (Russian) was in April 12 1961. American, Alan
Shepard was May 5 1961. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Joseph Albert Joe Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8,
1966) flew the world's first two spaceplane flights in 1963, thereby
becoming the United States' seventh astronaut. Walker was a Captain in the
United States Air Force, an American World War II pilot, an experimental
physicist, a NASA test pilot, and a member of the U.S. Air Force Man In
Space Soonest spaceflight program. His two X-15 experimental rocket
aircraft flights in 1963 that exceeded the Kármán line – the altitude of
100 kilometres (62 miles), generally considered to mark the threshold of
outer space – qualified him as an astronaut under the rules of the U.S. Air
Force and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
In 1958, Walker was one of the pilots selected for the U.S. Air Force's Man
In Space Soonest (MISS) project, but that project never came to fruition.
That same year, NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), and in 1960, Walker became the first NASA pilot to
fly the X-15, and the second X-15 pilot, following Scott Crossfield, the
manufacturer's test pilot. On his first X-15 flight, Walker did not realize
how much power its rocket engines had, and he was crushed backward into the
pilot's seat, screaming, Oh, my God! Then, a flight controller jokingly
replied Yes? You called? Walker would go on to fly the X-15 24 times,
including the only two flights that exceeded 100 kilometres (62 miles) in
altitude, Flight 90 (on 19 July 1963: 106 km (66 mi)) and Flight 91 (on 22
August 1963: 108 km (67 mi)). Walker was the first American civilian to
make any spaceflight, and the second civilian overall, preceded only by the
Soviet Union's cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova one month earlier. Flights
90 and 91 made Walker the first human to make multiple spaceflights.
Walker flew at the fastest speed in the X-15A-1: 4,104 mph (6,605 km/h)
(Mach 5.92) during a flight on 27 June 1962 (the fastest flight in any of
the three X-15s was about 4,520 mph (7,274 km/h) (Mach 6.7) flown by
William J. Knight in 1967)'.
* 'In 1969, Apollo 11 (launched July 16) goes into Moon orbit.
- From Wikipedia: 'A Saturn V launched Apollo 11 from Launch Pad 39A, part
of the Launch Complex 39 site at the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969
at 13:32:00 UTC (9:32:00 a.m. EDT local time). It entered Earth orbit, at
an altitude of 100.4 nautical miles (185.9 km) by 98.9 nautical miles
(183.2 km), twelve minutes later. After one and a half orbits, the S-IVB
third-stage engine pushed the spacecraft onto its trajectory toward the
Moon with the trans-lunar injection (TLI) burn at 16:22:13 UTC. About 30
minutes later the command/service module pair separated from this last
remaining Saturn V stage and docked with the Lunar Module still nestled in
the Lunar Module Adaptor. After the Lunar Module was extracted, the
combined spacecraft headed for the Moon, while the third stage booster flew
on a trajectory past the Moon and into orbit around the Sun.
On July 19 at 17:21:50 UTC, Apollo 11 passed behind the Moon and fired its
service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit. In the thirty orbits that
followed, the crew saw passing views of their landing site in the southern
Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) about 12 miles (19 km) southwest
of the crater Sabine D (0.67408N, 23.47297E). The landing site was selected
in part because it had been characterized as relatively flat and smooth by
the automated Ranger 8 and Surveyor 5 landers along with the Lunar Orbiter
mapping spacecraft and unlikely to present major landing or extravehicular
activity (EVA) challenges'.
* 'In 1980, Billy Joel earned his first gold record with It’s Still Rock
and Roll to Me .
- From Wikipedia: 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me is a hit 1980 song
performed by Billy Joel, from the hit album Glass Houses. The song was #1
on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from July 19 through August
1, 1980. The song spent 11 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and
was the 7th biggest hit of 1980 according to American Top 40. The song is
an examination of the themes of a musician's degrading fame and public
tastes that were expressed in his 1975 hit The Entertainer
The single eventually reached Platinum status from the RIAA for sales of
over 2 million copies in the United States'.
* 'In 1983, The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a
CT is published. As computer rendering of such scans was a while off, the
used CAD to render the image. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Michael W. Vannier (born January 12, 1949) is a
radiologist in Chicago.
On July 19, 1983, M. Vannier (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St.
Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh (Cleft Palate and Craniofacial
Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children's Hospital) and J. Warren
(McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional
reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head. This was a quantum
leap for further three-dimensional imaging and surgical planning in Oral
and maxillofacial surgery, Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology'.
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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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