<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Frozen Custard Day'. . Essentially ice cream but with egg yokes
added for taste and creaminess. Created by Elton and Archie Kohr from
Coney Island, New-York in 1919 and became a hit in the early 1930's.
- From Wikipedia (Frozen custard):
'Frozen custard is a cold dessert similar to ice cream, but made with eggs
in addition to cream and sugar.
Egg yolks have been integrated into ice creams since at least the 1690s,
though there are several notable invention stories that are associated with
modern commercializations of this practice.
One early commercialization of frozen custard was in Coney Island, New York
in 1919, when ice cream vendors Archie and Elton Kohr found that adding egg
yolks to ice cream created a smoother texture and helped the ice cream stay
cold longer. In their first weekend on the boardwalk, they sold 18,460
cones.
A frozen custard stand at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago introduced the
dessert to a wider audience. Following the fair, the dessert's popularity
spread throughout the Midwest Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in particular, became
known as the unofficial frozen custard capital of the world
Per capita, Milwaukee has the highest concentration of frozen custard shops
in the world and the city supports a long-standing three-way competition
between Kopp's Frozen Custard, Gilles Frozen Custard and Leon's Frozen
Custard.
Frozen custard chains in the United States include Culver's, headquartered
in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, with outlets in 20 states Freddy's Frozen
Custard andeakburgers, based in Wichita, Kansas, with more than 100
locations nationwide Andy's Frozen Custard, based in Springfield, Missouri,
with over 30 locations Ted Drewes Frozen Custard in St. Louis and Abbott's
Frozen Custard in Rochester, New York'.
[The Hankster says] I wonder if a frozen custard pie, thrown by one of the Three Stooges, would be considered a lethal weapon?
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Happiness Happens Day'.
Founded in 1999 by the 'Secret Society of Happy People'. Originally named
'Admit You’re Happy Day' Their mottos are 'Happiness Happens' and 'Don’t
Even Think of Raining on My Parade'.
[The Hankster says] Ware that smile and pass it on to someone else.
* 'Bonza Bottler Day'.
Celebrated every month when the month and day are the same, such as this
month's 8/8. Created by Elaine Fremont in 2015.
* 'Odie Day'.
Garfield 's pet dog.
- From Wikipedia (Odie):
'Odie is a fictional character, who appears in the Jim Davis comic strip
Garfield. He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show,
as well as two live-action/computer-animated feature films, and three fully
CGI films.
Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which
featured Odie the Village Idiot. Davis liked the name Odie and decided to
use it again. When Garfield was first submitted, Davis called Odie Spot He
then visited cartoonist Mort Walker to show him his strips, and Walker told
Davis I had a dog named Spot When Davis asked Really?, Walker replied Yes,
in Boner's Ark, one of my comic strips Davis said Oops! and changed Odie's
name. Odie first appeared in the strip on August 8, 1978 the date is
considered his birthday. There has been only one comic strip that
celebrates Odie's birthday, in 1995. He was originally a pet to Jon
Arbuckle's roommate Lyman, but Lyman disappeared from the series after
about five years (with the exception of a one-panel cameo appearance in the
strip for Garfield's 10th birthday). The book and television special,
Garfield: His 9 Lives, retcons Odie's origins, saying that Jon bought him
at a pet store. However this was later retconned itself as in The Garfield
Show Lyman returned in the special 4-part episode Long Lost Lyman where he
was clearly established as Odie's original owner and his long absence was
also explained.
In the motion picture, Odie was adopted by Jon at a veterinarian center'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Haemochromatosis Awareness Week'. August 8-14 in Australia. By the
Haemochromatosis Australia. Concerns inherited iron overload.
- From Wikipedia (Iron overload):
'Iron overload, also known as hemochromatosis or haemochromatosis,
indicates accumulation of iron in the body from any cause. The most
important causes are hereditary haemochromatosis (HHC), a genetic disorder,
and transfusional iron overload, which can result from repeated blood
transfusions.
Organs commonly affected by haemochromatosis are the liver, heart, and
endocrine glands.
Routine treatment in an otherwise-healthy person consists of regularly
scheduled phlebotomies (bloodletting or erythrocytapheresis). When first
diagnosed, the phlebotomies may be fairly frequent, until iron levels can
be brought to within normal range. Once iron and other markers are within
the normal range, treatments may be scheduled every other month or every
three months depending upon the underlying cause of the iron overload and
the person's iron load. A phlebotomy session typically draws between 450 to
500 cc whole blood.
For those unable to tolerate routine blood draws, there is a chelating
agent available for use. The drug deferoxamine binds with iron in the
bloodstream and enhances its elimination in urine and faeces. Typical
treatment for chronic iron overload requires subcutaneous injection over a
period of 8–12 hours daily. Two newer iron chelating drugs that are
licensed for use in patients receiving regular blood transfusions to treat
thalassaemia (and, thus, who develop iron overload as a result) are
deferasirox and deferiprone'.
o Other:
* 'Earth Over Shoot Day'. Forner or Ecological Debt Day. Recent
benchmarks: 2013 August 20, 2014 August 19, 2015 August 13, 2016
August 8'.
- From Wikipedia (Ecological Debt Day):
'Earth Overshoot Day , previously known as Ecological Debt Day, is the date
on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s
capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Earth Overshoot Day is
calculated by dividing the world biocapacity (the amount of natural
resources generated by Earth that year), by the world ecological footprint
(humanity’s consumption of Earth’s natural resources for that year), and
multiplying by 365, the number of days in one Gregorian common calendar
year:
( World Biocapacity / World Ecological Footprint ) × 365 = Ecological Debt
Day {\displaystyle ({\text{World Biocapacity}}/{\text{World Ecological
Footprint}})\times 365={\text{Ecological Debt Day}}} {\displaystyle
({\text{World Biocapacity}}/{\text{World Ecological Footprint}})\times
365={\text{Ecological Debt Day}}}
When viewed through an economic perspective, EDD represents the day in
which humanity enters an ecological deficit spending. In ecology term Earth
Overshoot Day illustrates the level by which human population overshoots
its environment.
Earth Overshoot Day is calculated by Global Footprint Network and is a
campaign supported by dozens of other nonprofit organizations. Information
about Global Footprint Network's calculations and national Ecological
Footprints can be found at www.footprintnetwork.org/public '.
<> Historical events on August 8
* 'In 1876, Thomas Edison patents (1 of 1093 in the US) the mimeograph. The
machine is still used today. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine (often
abbreviated to mimeo) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by
forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The mimeograph process should not
be confused with the spirit duplicator process.
Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were a common
technology in printing small quantities, as in office work, classroom
materials, and church bulletins. Early fanzines were printed with this
technology, because it was widespread and cheap. In the late 1960s,
mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs began to be gradually
displaced by photocopying.
Thomas Edison received US patent 180,857 for Autographic Printing on August
8, 1876. The patent covered the electric pen, used for making the stencil,
and the flatbed duplicating press. In 1880 Edison obtained a further
patent, US 224,665: Method of Preparing Autographic Stencils for Printing,
which covered the making of stencils using a file plate, a grooved metal
plate on which the stencil was placed which perforated the stencil when
written on with a blunt metal stylus.
The word mimeograph was first used by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed
Edison's patents in 1887.
Dick received Trademark Registration no. 0356815 for the term Mimeograph in
the US Patent Office. It is currently listed as a dead entry, but shows the
A.B. Dick Company of Chicago as the owner of the name.
Over time, the term became generic and is now an example of a genericized
trademark. (Roneograph, also Roneo machine, was another trademark used for
mimeograph machines, the name being a contraction of Rotary Neostyle)'.
* 'In 1929, A round-the-world flight is begun by the German airship Graf
Zeppelin, which was designed (and named after) Count Ferdinand von
Zeppelin. The trip took 12 days 11 hours and covering 21,500 miles in five
legs. .
- From Wikipedia: 'LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127
Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated,
passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated
commercially from 1928 to 1937. When it entered commercial service in 1928,
it became the first commercial passenger transatlantic flight service in
the world. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von
Zeppelin, who was a count (Graf) in the German nobility. During its
operating life, the airship made 590 flights covering more than 1.7 million
kilometers (over 1 million miles). It was designed to be operated by a crew
of 36 officers and men. The LZ 127 was the longest rigid airship at the
time of its completion and was only surpassed by the USS Akron in 1931. It
was scrapped for fighter plane parts in 1940.
At the behest of American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst,
whose media empire was the major commercial backer of the project with four
staffers among the flight's nine passengers, the Graf's Round-the-World
(Weltrundfahrt 1929) flight in August 1929 officially began and ended at
Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. As with many of the airship's
other flights, however, its expenses were also heavily offset by the
carriage of souvenir mail to and/or from Lakehurst, Friedrichshafen, Tokyo,
and Los Angeles. A U.S. franked letter flown on the whole trip from
Lakehurst to Lakehurst, for instance, required US$3.55 in postage or the
equivalent of roughly $45 in current dollars if based on the CPI. The
$200,000 Hearst paid for exclusive media rights would currently be the
equivalent of $2.5 million if figured on the same basis. Route of Graf
Zeppelin's round-the-world flight Built in Friedrichshafen, Germany
(47.654°N 9.479°E ) Started at Lakehurst NAS, USA (40.033°N 74.3536°W )
Eastward to Germany (47.654°N 9.479°E ) Eastward to Kasumigaura Naval Air
Base, Japan (36.05°N 140.217°E ) Eastward to Los Angeles (33.9425°N
118.408°W ), then back to Lakehurst (40.033°N 74.3536°W ). Returned to
Germany (47.654°N 9.479°E )
As with the October 1928 flight to New York, Hearst correspondent Lady
Grace Drummond-Hay was on board making her the first woman to
circumnavigate the globe by air. Also representing Hearst among the
passenger complement were correspondents Karl von Wiegand and Australian
Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, and photographer/newsreel cameraman
Robert Hartmann. The US Government was represented by Naval airshipmen LCDR
Charles Rosendahl and LT Jack C. Richardson who flew as official observers.
A semi-documentary film entitled Farewell was released in 2009 which
featured much of the newsreel footage of Lady Drummond-Hay shot by Hartmann
during the flight. The film was later aired on the BBC under the title
Around The World by Zeppelin'.
* 'In 1946, First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first
mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced
piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military
aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was a strategic bomber built
by Convair and operated solely by the United States Air Force (USAF) from
1949 to 1959. The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston engine aircraft
ever made. It had the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built,
at 230 ft (70.1 m). The B-36 was the first bomber capable of delivering any
of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal from inside its four bomb bays
without aircraft modifications. With a range of 10,000 mi (16,000 km) and a
maximum payload of 87,200 lb (39,600 kg), the B-36 was the world's first
manned bomber capable of intercontinental flight without refuelling.
Entering service in 1948, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery
vehicle of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was replaced by the
jet-powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress from 1955. All but five examples
were scrapped in the 1950s.
The B-36 set the standard for range and payload for subsequent U.S.
intercontinental bombers'.
* 'In 1960, Brian Hyland's 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot
Bikini' hits number one. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini is a
novelty song telling the story of a shy girl wearing a revealing polkadot
bikini at the beach. It was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss and
first released in June 1960 by Brian Hyland with orchestra conducted by
John Dixon.
Hyland's version hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 8, 1960 and also
made the top 10 in other countries, including #8 on the UK Singles Chart.
It also reached #1 in New Zealand.
The story told through the three verses of the song is as follows: (1) the
young lady is too afraid to leave the locker where she has changed into her
bikini (2) she has made it to the beach but sits on the sand wrapped in a
blanket and (3) she has finally gone into the ocean, but is too afraid to
come out, and stays immersed in the water – despite the fact that she's
turning blue – to hide herself from view.
Trudy Packer recited the phrases ..two, three, four / Tell the people what
she wore, heard at the end of each verse before the chorus and Stick
around, we'll tell you more, heard after the first chorus and before the
start of the second verse.
At a time when bikini bathing suits were still seen as too risqué to be
mainstream, the song prompted a sudden take off in bikini sales and is
credited as being one of the earliest contributors to the acceptance of the
bikini in society. The early 1960s saw a slew of surf movies and other film
and television productions that rapidly built on the song's momentum'.
* 'In 1974, President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address,
announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United
States effective noon the next day. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when
he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had
previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and
as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his
undergraduate studies at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke
University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice
law. He and his wife, Pat Nixon, moved to Washington in 1942 to work for
the federal government. He subsequently served on active duty in the U.S.
Navy Reserve during World War II. Nixon was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the Hiss
Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist, and elevated
him to national prominence. He was the running mate of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election.
Nixon served for eight years as vice president. He waged an unsuccessful
presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and lost
a race for Governor of California to Pat Brown in 1962. In 1968 he ran
again for the presidency and was elected when he defeated Hubert Humphrey.
Nixon ended American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and brought
the American POWs home. At the same time, he ended military draft. Nixon's
visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations
between the two nations, and he initiated détente and the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union the same year. His administration
generally transferred power from Washington to the states. He imposed wage
and price controls for a period of ninety days, enforced desegregation of
Southern schools and established the Environmental Protection Agency. Nixon
also presided over the Apollo 11 moon landing, which signaled the end of
the moon race. He was reelected by one of the largest landslides in U.S.
history in 1972, when he defeated George McGovern.
The year 1973 saw an Arab oil embargo, gasoline rationing, and a continuing
series of revelations about the Watergate scandal. The scandal escalated,
costing Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he
resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.
After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald
Ford. In retirement, Nixon's work writing several books and undertaking of
many foreign trips helped to rehabilitate his image. He suffered a
debilitating stroke on April 18, 1994, and died four days later at the age
of 81'.
* 'In 1990, Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This
would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. .
- From Wikipedia: Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed
Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – 17 January 1991), for operations
leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation
Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) in its combat phase, was
a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States
against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
'Within 12 hours, most resistance had ended within Kuwait and the royal
family had fled, leaving Iraq in control of most of Kuwait. After two days
of intense combat, most of the Kuwaiti military were either overrun by the
Iraqi Republican Guard, or had escaped to Saudi Arabia. The Emir and key
ministers were able to get out and head south along the highway for refuge
in Saudi Arabia. Iraqi ground forces consolidated their control of Kuwait
City, then headed south and redeployed along the Saudi border. After the
decisive Iraqi victory, Saddam initially installed a puppet regime known as
the Provisional Government of Free Kuwait before installing his cousin Ali
Hassan al-Majid as Kuwait's governor on 8 August'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in August
Food
National Catfish Month
National Goat Cheese Month
Rye Month
Health
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Children's Vision and Learning Month
National Breastfeeding Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Animal / Pets
Other
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month
American Indian Heritage Month
American History Essay Contest
Black Business Month
Boomers Making A Difference Month
Bystander Awareness Month
Child Support Awareness Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
Shop Online For Groceries Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
XXXI Summer Olympics: 5-21
August is:
August origin (from Wikipedia): Originally named Sextili (Latin), because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar: under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.
"About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus
According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
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