<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Hot Fudge Sundae Day'. . We are still observing National Ice
Cream Month in July. Today's choice is a classic.
[The Hankster says] With whipped cream, nuts and a cherry on top.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Merry-Go-Round Day'.
The US patent by William Schneider in 1871.
[the Hankster says] I always tried to get the horse that was dressed as a Knights charger.
* 'Threading the Needle Day'.
[The Hankster says] Might be a day to promote sewing or a day to Get 'er Done (no matter how hard the task). or the 'Thread the Needle' dance step or there is even reference to a 'Church Game' of that name..
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Red Shoe Day: A Day of Remembrance'. Concerns Lyme disease and other
'invisible' diseases.
- From Wikipedia (Lyme disease):
'Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease
caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type. The most common sign of infection
is an expanding area of redness, known as erythema migrans, that begins at
the site of a tick bite about a week after it has occurred. The rash is
typically neither itchy nor painful. Approximately 25–50% of infected
people do not develop a rash. Other early symptoms may include fever,
headache and feeling tired. If untreated, symptoms may include loss of the
ability to move one or both sides of the face, joint pains, severe
headaches with neck stiffness, or heart palpitations, among others. Months
to years later, repeated episodes of joint pain and swelling may occur.
Occasionally, people develop shooting pains or tingling in their arms and
legs. Despite appropriate treatment, about 10 to 20% of people develop
joint pains, memory problems, and feel tired for at least six months.
Lyme disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks of the
Ixodes genus. Usually, the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours before
the bacteria can spread. In North America, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu
stricto and Borrelia mayonii are the cause. In Europe and Asia, the
bacteria Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii are also causes of the
disease. The disease does not appear to be transmissible between people, by
other animals, or through food. Diagnosis is based upon a combination of
symptoms, history of tick exposure, and possibly testing for specific
antibodies in the blood. Blood tests are often negative in the early stages
of the disease. Testing of individual ticks is not typically useful.
Prevention includes efforts to prevent tick bites such as by wearing long
pants and using DEET. Using pesticides to reduce tick numbers may also be
effective. Ticks can be removed using tweezers. If the removed tick was
full of blood, a single dose of doxycycline may be used to prevent
development of infection, but is not generally recommended since
development of infection is rare. If an infection develops, a number of
antibiotics are effective, including doxycycline, amoxicillin, and
cefuroxime. Treatment is usually for two or three weeks. Some people
develop a fever and muscle and joint pains from treatment which may last
for one or two days. In those who develop persistent symptoms, long-term
antibiotic therapy has not been found to be useful.
Lyme disease is the most common disease spread by ticks in the Northern
Hemisphere. It is estimated to affect 300,000 people a year in the United
States and 65,000 people a year in Europe. Infections are most common in
the spring and early summer. Lyme disease was diagnosed as a separate
condition for the first time in 1975 in Old Lyme, Connecticut. It was
originally mistaken for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The bacterium
involved was first described in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer. Chronic symptoms
are well described and are known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,
although it is often called chronic Lyme disease. Some healthcare providers
claim that it is due to ongoing infection however, this is not believed to
be true. A previous vaccine is no longer available. Research is ongoing to
develop new vaccines'.
<> Historical events on July 25
* 'In 1909, Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel
in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United
Kingdom) in 37 minutes. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 – 1 August
1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first
practical headlamp for trucks and established a profitable business
manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts
to build a successful aircraft. In 1909 he became world famous for making
the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft,
winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. Blériot
was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. and the
founder of a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
The Daily Mail prize was first announced in October 1908, with a prize of
£500 being offered for a flight made before the end of the year. When 1908
passed with no serious attempt being made, the prize money was doubled to
£1,000 and the offer extended to the end of 1909. Like some of the other
prizes offered by the paper, it was widely seen as nothing more than a way
to gain cheap publicity: the Paris newspaper Le Matin commenting that there
was no chance of the prize being won.
The English Channel had been crossed by an unmanned hydrogen balloon in
1784 and a manned crossing by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
followed in 1785.
At 4:15 am on the 25 July 1909, watched by an excited crowd, Blériot made a
short trial flight in his Type XI, and then, on a signal that the sun had
risen (the competition rules required a flight between sunrise and sunset),
he took off at 4:41 for the attempted crossing. Flying at approximately 45
mph (72 km/h) and an altitude of about 250 ft (76 m), he set off across the
Channel. Not having a compass, Blériot took his course from the Escopette,
which was heading for Dover, but he soon overtook the ship. The visibility
had deteriorated and he later said, “for more than 10 minutes I was alone,
isolated, lost in the midst of the immense sea, and I did not see anything
on the horizon or a single ship”.
The grey line of the English coast, however, came into sight on his left
the wind had increased, and had blown him to the east of his intended
course. Altering course, he followed the line of the coast about a mile
offshore until he spotted Charles Fontaine, the correspondent from Le Matin
waving a large Tricolour as a signal. Unlike Latham, Blériot had not
visited Dover to find a suitable spot to land, and the choice had been made
by Fontaine, who had selected a patch of gently sloping land called
Northfall Meadow, close to Dover Castle, where there was a low point in the
cliffs. Once over land, he circled twice to lose height, and cut his engine
at an altitude of about 20 m (66 ft), making a heavy pancake landing due to
the gusty wind conditions the undercarriage was damaged and one blade of
the propeller was shattered, but Blériot was unhurt. The flight had taken
36 minutes and 30 seconds.
News of his departure had been sent by radio to Dover, but it was generally
expected that he would attempt to land on the beach to the west of the
town. The Daily Mail correspondent, realising that Blériot had landed near
the castle, set off at speed in a motor-car, and brought Blériot back to
the harbour, where he was reunited with his wife. The couple, surrounded by
cheering people and photographers, was then taken to the Lord Warden Hotel
at the foot of the Admiralty Pier. Blériot had become a celebrity.
The Blériot Memorial, the outline of the aircraft laid out in granite setts
in the turf (funded by oil manufacturer Alexander Duckham), marks his
landing spot above the cliffs near Dover Castle. 51.1312°N 1.326°E.
The aircraft which was used in the crossing is now preserved in the Musée
des Arts et Métiers in Paris'.
* 'In 1962, The Elvis Presley film 'Kid Galahad' premiered. The plot was
also done in 1937 and 1941. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Kid Galahad is a 1962 American musical film starring
Elvis Presley as a boxer. It was released by United Artists. The film
opened at #9 at the box office when released in the United States in August
1962. Variety ranked it #37 on the list of the top-grossing films of 1962.
Kid Galahad was shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Its supporting
cast included Gig Young, Lola Albright and Charles Bronson. Some critics
rate it as one of Elvis Presley's best performances.
The film is a remake of the 1937 original version starring Edward G.
Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart and directed by Michael Curtiz,
who also directed the Presley 1958 film King Creole'.
* 'In 1966, The Supremes' You Can't Hurry Love was released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'You Can't Hurry Love is a 1966 song originally recorded
by The Supremes on the Motown label.
Written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the
song topped the United States Billboard pop singles chart, in the UK in the
top 5, and in the Australian Singles Chart in the top 10, released and
peaking late summer/early autumn in 1966. Sixteen years later, it would
again become a number-one hit when Phil Collins re-recorded the song. It
reached number-one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks beginning in
January 1983, and reached No. 10 on the US Singles Chart that same month'.
* 'In 1966, The Monkees recorded their first single. The song was 'The Last
Train to Clarksville'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Last Train to Clarksville was the debut single by The
Monkees. It was released August 16, 1966 and later included on the group's
1966 self-titled album, which was released on October 10, 1966. The song,
written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B
in Hollywood on July 25, 1966 and was already on the Boss Hit Bounds on 17
August 1966. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 on November 5, 1966.
Lead vocals were performed by The Monkees' drummer Micky Dolenz.
Clarksville was featured in seven episodes of the Monkees TV show the most
for any Monkees song.
The song, written by the songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, has
been compared to The Beatles' Paperback Writer, particularly the jangly
guitar sound, the chord structure, and the vocal harmonies. The Beatles
song had been number one in the US charts three months earlier.
The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman he loves, urging her to meet him
at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever.
The Vietnam War was then going on, and what was not made explicit was that
the song was about a soldier leaving for the war zone.
It is often said that the song refers to Clarksville, Tennessee, which is
near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the home of the 101st Airborne Division,
which was then serving in Vietnam. However, according to songwriter Bobby
Hart, it was not specifically written with that town in mind.
Hart said: We were just looking for a name that sounded good. There's a
little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the
way to Oak Creek Canyon called Clarksdale. We were throwing out names, and
when we got to Clarksdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We
didn't know it at the time, there is an Army base near the town of
Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the story
line. We couldn't be too direct with The Monkees. We couldn't really make a
protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in'.
* 'In 1975, Longest running Broadway show (then), 'A Chorus Line,' opens at
Shubert Theatre (6,137 perfs.). .
- From Wikipedia: 'A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin
Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and
Nicholas Dante. Centred on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots
on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway
theatre during an audition for a musical. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse
into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they
describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to
become dancers.
Following several workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line
opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed and
choreographed by Michael Bennett. An unprecedented box office and critical
hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in
addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the
longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in
1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the
US, until surpassed in 2011 by Chicago. It remains the sixth
longest-running Broadway show ever. A Chorus Line's success has spawned
many successful productions worldwide. It began a lengthy run in the West
End in 1976 and was revived on Broadway in 2006, and in the West End in
2013'.
* 'In 1976, Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. . Pareidolia: .
- From Wikipedia: 'Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars that has
attracted both scientific and popular interest. The name originally
referred to the albedo feature (distinctively coloured area) that was
visible from Earthbound telescopes. The area borders plains of Acidalia
Planitia and the Arabia Terra highlands. The area includes the regions:
Cydonia Mensae, an area of flat-topped mesa-like features, Cydonia Colles,
a region of small hills or knobs, and Cydonia Labyrinthus, a complex of
intersecting valleys. As with other albedo features on Mars, the name
Cydonia was drawn from classical antiquity, in this case from Kydonia, a
historic polis (or city-state) on the island of Crete. Cydonia contains the
Face on Mars feature—located about half-way between Arandas Crater and
Bamberg Crater.
In one of the images taken by Viking 1 on July 25, 1976, a 2 km (1.2 miles)
long Cydonian mesa, situated at 40.75° north latitude and 9.46° west
longitude, had the appearance of a humanoid face. When the image was
originally acquired, Viking chief scientist Gerry Soffen dismissed the Face
on Mars in image 035A72 as a trick of light and shadow However, a second
image, 070A13, also shows the face, and was acquired 35 Viking orbits later
at a different sun-angle from the 035A72 image. This latter discovery was
made independently by Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, two computer
engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. DiPietro and Molenaar
discovered the two misfiled images, Viking frames 035A72 and 070A13, while
searching through NASA archives.
More than 20 years after the Viking 1 images were taken, a succession of
spacecraft visited Mars and made new observations of the Cydonia region.
These spacecraft have included NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (1997–2006) and
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006-), and the European Space Agency's Mars
Express probe (2003-). In contrast to the relatively low resolution of the
Viking images of Cydonia, these new platforms afford much improved
resolution. For instance, the Mars Express images are at a resolution of 14
m/pixel (46 ft/pixel) or better. By combining data from the High Resolution
Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the Mars Express probe and the Mars Orbiter Camera
(MOC) on board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor it has been possible to create a
three-dimensional representation of the Face on Mars
Since it was originally first imaged, the face has been near-universally
accepted as an optical illusion, an example of the psychological phenomenon
of pareidolia. After analysis of the higher resolution Mars Global Surveyor
data NASA stated that a detailed analysis of multiple images of this
feature reveals a natural looking Martian hill whose illusory face-like
appearance depends on the viewing angle and angle of illumination Similar
optical illusions can be found in the geology of Earth examples include the
Old Man of the Mountain, the Sphinx, the Pedra da Gávea, the Old Man of
Hoy, Stac Levenish and the Badlands Guardian'.
* 'In 1978, Louise Brown becomes the world's first 'test tube baby'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman
known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in
vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Louise Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, by planned
Caesarean section delivered by registrar John Webster. She weighed 5
pounds, 12 ounces (2.608 kg) at birth. Her parents, Lesley and John Brown,
had been trying to conceive for nine years. Lesley faced complications of
blocked fallopian tubes. On 10 November 1977, Lesley Brown underwent a
procedure, later to become known as IVF (in vitro fertillisation),
developed by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. Edwards was awarded the
2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work. Although the media referred to
Brown as a test tube baby, her conception actually took place in a petri
dish. Her younger sister, Natalie Brown, was also conceived through IVF
four years later, and became the world's fortieth IVF baby. In May 1999,
Natalie was the first IVF baby to give birth herself—naturally—to daughter
Casey. Natalie has subsequently had three additional children sons
Christopher, Daniel, and Aeron, the last of whom was born in August 2013.
Their son Cameron, conceived naturally, was born on 20 December 2006.
Brown's second son, Aiden Patrick Robert, was born in August 2013.
Brown's father died in 2006. Her mother died on 6 June 2012 in Bristol
Royal Infirmary at the age of 64 due to complications from a gallbladder
infection'.
* 'In 1983, E.T. (Embryo Transfer) was the first in-vitro baboon born.
* 'In 1984, Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman
to perform a space walk. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya, born August 8, 1948) is
a retired Soviet aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982,
becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 mission she became the
first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a
spacewalk.
In 1982, Savitskaya flew to space as part of the Soyuz T-7 mission,
alongside Leonid Popov and Aleksandr Serebrov, becoming the second woman to
fly to space, some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. On her second
spaceflight, on July 25, 1984 she also became the first woman to perform a
space walk. She conducted an EVA outside the Salyut 7 space station for 3
hours and 35 minutes during which she cut and welded metals in space along
with her colleague Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Of the 57 Soviet/Russian
spacewalkers through 2010, she is the only female'.
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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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