<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Vanilla Custard Day'. Made with milk or cream, egg yolks, and
sugar.
- From Wikipedia (Custard):
'Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of
milk and/or cream and egg yolk. Depending on how much egg or thickener is
used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème
anglaise) to a thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs.
Most common custards are used as desserts or dessert sauces and typically
include sugar and vanilla. Custard bases may also be used for quiches and
other savory foods. Sometimes flour, corn starch, or gelatin is added as in
pastry cream or crème pâtissière.
Custard is usually cooked in a double boiler (bain-marie), or heated very
gently in a saucepan on a stove, though custard can also be steamed, baked
in the oven with or without a water bath, or even cooked in a pressure
cooker. Custard preparation is a delicate operation, because a temperature
increase of 3–6 °C (5–10 °F) leads to overcooking and curdling. Generally,
a fully cooked custard should not exceed 80 °C (176 °F) it begins setting
at 70 °C (158 °F). A water bath slows heat transfer and makes it easier to
remove the custard from the oven before it curdles'.
[The Hankster says] My grandmother made the best custards. I prefer the ones made with cheese. You, know the ones 'real' men are not suppose to eat.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Thrift Shop Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Charity shop):
'A charity shop, thrift shop, thrift store (U.S. and Canada), hospice shop,
resale shop (unless meaning consignment shop ), drift store, opportunity
shop or op shop (Australia and New Zealand) is a retail establishment run
by a charitable organization to raise money.
Charity shops are a type of social enterprise. They sell mainly used goods
donated by members of the public, and are often staffed by volunteers.
Because the items for sale were obtained for free, and business costs are
low, the items can be sold at competitive prices. After costs are paid, all
remaining income from the sales is used in accord with the organization's
stated charitable purpose. Costs include purchase and/or depreciation of
fixtures (clothing racks, bookshelves, counters, etc.), operating costs
(maintenance, municipal service fees, electricity, telephone, limited
advertising) and the building lease or mortgage.
One of the earliest charity shops was set up by the Wolverhampton Society
for the Blind (now called the Beacon Centre for the Blind) in 1899 to sell
goods made by blind people to raise money for the Society. During World War
I, various fund-raising activities occurred, such as a bazaar in Shepherd
Market, London, which made £50,000 for the Red Cross.
However, it was during the Second World War that the charity shop became
widespread. Edinburgh University Settlement opened their 'Thrift Shop for
Everyone' on Nicholson Place, Edinburgh in 1937, the Red Cross opened up
its first charity shop at 17 Old Bond Street, London in 1941. For the
duration of the war, over two hundred “permanent” Red Cross gift shops and
about 150 temporary Red Cross shops were opened. A condition of the shop
licence issued by the Board of Trade was that all goods offered for sale
were gifts. Purchase for re-sale was forbidden. The entire proceeds from
sales had to be passed to the Duke of Gloucester’s Red Cross or the St John
Fund. Most premises were lent free of rent and in some cases owners also
met the costs of heating and lighting.
The first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom was established by Cecil
Jackson-Cole in Broad Street, Oxford, and began trading in December 1947
(although the shop itself did not open until February 1948).
In the United States, major national charity thrift shop operators include
Goodwill Industries, Value Village/Savers, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de
Paul Thrift Store, and ReStore (operated by Habitat for Humanity). Regional
operators include Deseret Industries in the Western United States, and
those run by Bethesda Lutheran Communities in the Upper Midwest. Many local
charitable organizations, both religious and secular, operate thrift
stores. Common among these are missions, children's homes, homeless
shelters, and animal shelters. In addition, some charity shops are operated
by churches as fundraising venues that support activities and missionary
work'.
[The Hankster says] Sort of a reusable recycle place.
* 'National I LOVE My Feet Day!'.
Show them with a foot massage or pedicure.
- From Wikipedia (Pedicure):
'A pedicure is a superficial cosmetic treatment of the feet and toenails.
It provides a similar service to a manicure. Pedicures are done for
cosmetic, therapeutic and medical purposes, and can help prevent nail
diseases and nail disorders. They are extremely popular throughout the
world, primarily among women.
Pedicures are not just limited to nails usually dead skin cells on the
bottom of feet are rubbed off using a rough stone called a pumice stone.
Additionally, leg care below the knee became a common and now expected
service included in pedicures. granular exfoliation, application of
moisturizing creams, and a brief leg massage'.
[The Hankster says] I guess the only caution is to not ware your old sneakers to the pedicure. I don't believe gas masks are provided.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* ':National Medical Dosimetrist Day . Annually on the third Wed. of August.
- From Wikipedia (Dosimetry):
'Whilst Dosimetry in its original sense is the measurement of the absorbed
dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a
scientific sub-specialty in the fields of health physics and medical
physics, where it is the calculation and assessment of the radiation dose
received by the human body.
Internal dosimetry due to the ingestion or inhalation of radioactive
materials relies on a variety of physiological or imaging techniques.
External dosimetry, due to irradiation from an external source is based on
measurements with a dosimeter, or inferred from other radiological
protection instruments.
Dosimetry is used extensively for radiation protection and is routinely
applied to occupational radiation workers, where irradiation is expected,
but regulatory levels must not be exceeded. It is also used where radiation
is unexpected, such as in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl
or Fukushima radiological release incidents, where the public irradiation
is measured and calculated from a variety of indicators such as ambient
measurements of radiation and radioactive contamination.
Other significant areas are medical dosimetry, where the required treatment
absorbed dose and any collateral absorbed dose is monitored, and in
environmental dosimetry, such as radon monitoring in buildings.
Medical dosimetry is the calculation of absorbed dose and optimization of
dose delivery in radiation therapy. It is often performed by a professional
medical dosimetrist with specialized training in the field. In order to
plan the delivery of radiation therapy, the radiation produced by the
sources is usually characterized with percentage depth dose curves and dose
profiles measured by medical physicists.
In radiation therapy, three-dimensional dose distributions are often
evaluated using the dosimetry technique known as gel dosimetry'.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Black Cat Appreciation Day'. By the A.S.P.C.A.
<> Historical events on August 17
* 'In 1585, A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the
charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on
Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was
established on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North
Carolina, United States. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen
Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. The colony was
founded by Sir Walter Raleigh.
The colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, three years after
the last shipment of supplies from England. Their disappearance gave rise
to the nickname The Lost Colony. There has been no conclusive evidence as
to what happened to the colonists'.
* 'In 1807, The first commercial steamboat service begins with Fulton's
North River Steamboat.
- From Wikipedia: 'The North River Steamboat or North River (often
erroneously referred to as Clermont) is widely regarded as the world's
first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for
commercial water transportation. Built in 1807, the North River Steamboat
operated on the Hudson River (at that time often known as the North River)
between New York and Albany. She was built by the wealthy investor and
politician Robert Livingston and inventor and entrepreneur Robert Fulton
(1765–1815).
Livingston had obtained from the New York legislature the exclusive right
to steam navigation on the Hudson River. In 1803, while Livingston was
Minister to France, Fulton built a small steamboat and tested it on the
Seine. With this success, Livingston then contracted with Fulton to take
advantage of his Hudson River monopoly and build a larger version for
commercial service.
Their larger steamer was built at the Charles Browne shipyard in New York
and was fitted with Fulton's innovative steam engine design, manufactured
for Livingston and Fulton by Boulton and Watt in Birmingham, England.
Before she was later widened, the vessel's original dimensions were 150
feet (46 m) long × 12 feet (3.7 m) wide × 7 feet (2.1 m) deep she drew a
little more than 2 feet (60 cm) of water when launched. The steamer was
equipped with two paddle wheels, one each to a side, each paddle wheel
assembly was equipped with two sets of eight spokes. She also carried two
masts with spars, rigging, and sails, likely a foremast with square sail
and a mizzen mast with fore-and-aft sail (spanker), with the steam engine
placed amidships, directly behind the paddle wheel's drive gear machinery'.
* 'In, 1896, Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of
The Crystal Palace, London, the UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality.
- From Wikipedia: 'Bridget Driscoll (1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first
pedestrian victim of an automobile collision in Great Britain. As she and
her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy crossed Dolphin
Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London, Driscoll was struck
by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that
was being used to give demonstration rides. One witness described the car
as travelling at a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine
Although the car's maximum speed was 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) it had been
limited deliberately to 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h), the speed at which the
driver, Arthur James Edsall of Upper Norwood, claimed to have been
travelling. His passenger, Alice Standing of Forest Hill, alleged he
modified the engine to allow the car to go faster, but another taxicab
driver examined the car and said it was incapable of exceeding 4.5 miles
per hour (7.2 km/h) because of a low-speed engine belt. The accident
happened just a few weeks after a new Act of Parliament had increased the
speed limit for cars to 14 miles per hour (23 km/h), from 2 miles per hour
in towns and 4 miles per hour in the countryside.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death after an inquest enduring
some six hours, and no prosecution was made. The coroner, Percy Morrison,
(Croydon division of Surrey) said he hoped such a thing would never happen
again. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents estimate 550,000
people had been killed on UK roads by 2010'.
* 'In 1908 First animated cartoon, 'Fantasmagorie' is shown in France.
- From Wikipedia: 'Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile
Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn)
animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated
cartoon.
The film largely consists of a stick man moving about and encountering all
manner of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms into a
flower. There were also sections of live action where the animator’s hands
would enter the scene. The main character is drawn by the artist's hand on
camera, and the main characters are a clown and a gentleman.
The film, in all of its wild transformations, is a direct tribute to the
by-then forgotten Incoherent movement. The title is a reference to the
fantasmograph, a mid-Nineteenth Century variant of the magic lantern that
projected ghostly images that floated across the walls.
Cohl worked on Fantasmagorie from February to either May or June 1908.
Despite the short running time, the piece was packed with material devised
in a stream of consciousness style. The film was released on August 17,
1908.
The film was created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each
frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. It was
made up of 700 drawings, each of which was exposed twice (animated on
twos), leading to a running time of almost two minutes. It borrowed from J.
Stuart Blackton, the chalk-line effect filming black lines on white paper,
then reversing the negative to make it look like white chalk on a black
chalkboard. Blackton and Cohl also borrowed some techniques from Georges
Méliès, such as the stop trick'.
* 'In 1915, Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135
MPH.
- From Wikipedia: 'The 1915 Galveston hurricane was a deadly hurricane that
struck Leeward Islands, Hispaniola, Cuba and Texas, in mid August of the
1915 Atlantic hurricane season. Striking Galveston, Texas, 15 years after
the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, its 21-ft (6.4-m) waves were slowed by the
new Galveston Seawall but changed the beach structure: on August 17, the
entire 300-ft (91.5–m) beach was eroded to become an offshore sandbar,
later returning partially, but never the same. The 1915 storm caused a
great deal of destruction in its path, leaving 275-400 people dead and $50
million (1915 USD, $921 million 2005 USD) in damage'.
* 'In 1958, Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched
using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first
attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pioneer 0 (also known as Thor-Able 1) was a failed
United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the
Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a
magnetometer, as part of the first International Geophysical Year (IGY)
science payload. It was designed by the United States Air Force (USAF) as
the first satellite in the Pioneer program and was one of the first
attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country, but the rocket failed
shortly after launch. The probe was intended to be called Pioneer (or
Pioneer 1), but the launch failure precluded that name.
Pioneer 0 was launched on Thor missile number 127 at 12:18:00 UTC on August
17, 1958 by the United States Air Force, only 4 minutes after the scheduled
launch time. It was destroyed by an explosion of the first stage of the
Thor booster, 73.6 seconds after lift-off at 16 kilometres (9.9 mi)
altitude, 16 km downrange over the Atlantic Ocean. The failure was
suspected to be due to a turbopump bearing that came loose, causing the
liquid oxygen pump to stop. The abrupt loss of thrust caused the Thor to
lose attitude control and pitch downward, which caused the LOX tank to
rupture from aerodynamic loads and resulting in complete destruction of the
launch vehicle. Erratic telemetry signals were received from the payload
and upper stages for 123 seconds after the explosion, and the upper stages
were tracked to impact in the ocean. The original plan was for the
spacecraft to travel for 2.6 days to the Moon at which time a TX-8-6 solid
propellant motor would fire to put it into a 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi)
lunar orbit which was to nominally last for about two weeks. Air Force
officials stated that they were not surprised at the failure, adding that
it would have been more of a shock had the mission succeeded
It was the only mission in the Pioneer program carried out by the United
States Air Force, as subsequent missions were conducted by NASA'.
* 'In 1959, 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly
influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician
Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. It was
recorded earlier that year on March 2 and April 22 at Columbia's 30th
Street Studio in New York City. The recording sessions featured Davis's
ensemble sextet, consisting of pianist Bill Evans, drummer Jimmy Cobb,
bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian Cannonball
Adderley, together with pianist Wynton Kelly on one track.
After the entry of Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal
experimentations of Milestones (1958) by basing Kind of Blue entirely on
modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.
Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been described
by many music writers not only as Davis's best-selling album, but as the
best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified
quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA).
Kind of Blue has been regarded by many critics as jazz's greatest record,
Davis's masterpiece, and one of the best albums of all time. Its influence
on music, including jazz, rock, and classical genres, has led writers to
also deem it one of the most influential albums ever recorded. Kind of Blue
was one of fifty recordings chosen in 2002 by the Library of Congress to be
added to the National Recording Registry, and in 2003, it was ranked number
12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all
time'.
* 'In 1969, Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast with 175
MPH and above (wind detector destroyed) killing 256 and causing $1.42
billion in damage. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hurricane Camille was the third and strongest tropical
cyclone and second hurricane during the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. It
was the second of three catastrophic Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall
in the United States during the 20th century (the others being 1935's Labor
Day hurricane and 1992's Hurricane Andrew), which it did near the mouth of
the Mississippi River on the night of August 17. Camille was the second
strongest U.S. landfalling hurricane in recorded history in terms of
atmospheric pressure, second only to the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935.
The storm formed on 14 August and rapidly deepened. It scraped the western
edge of Cuba at Category 2 intensity. Camille rapidly deepened once again
over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall with a pressure of 900 mbar (hPa
26.58 inHg), estimated sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a peak
official storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m). The hurricane flattened nearly
everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused
additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian
Mountains of Virginia. In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.42
billion (1969 USD, $9.16 billion 2016 USD) in damages. To date, a complete
understanding of the reasons for the system's power, extremely rapid
intensification over open water and strength at landfall has not been
achieved'.
* 'In 1970, 'Venera 7' launched. Becomes first spacecraft to successfully
transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
- From Wikipedia: 'The Venera 7 (meaning Venus 7) (manufacturer's
designation: 3V (V-70)) was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series
of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface, it became the
first spacecraft to land on another planet and first to transmit data from
there back to Earth.
The probe was launched from Earth on August 17, 1970, at 05:38 UTC. It
consisted of an interplanetary bus based on the 3MV system and a lander.
During the flight to Venus two in-course corrections were made using the
bus's on-board KDU-414 engine.
It entered the atmosphere of Venus on December 15, 1970. The lander
remained attached to the interplanetary bus during the initial stages of
atmospheric entry to allow the bus to cool the lander to -8 °C for as long
as possible. The lander was ejected once atmospheric buffeting broke the
interplanetary bus's lock-on with Earth. The parachute opened at a height
of 60 km and atmospheric testing began with results showing the atmosphere
to be 97% carbon dioxide. The parachute appeared to fail during the
descent, resulting in a descent more rapid than planned. As a result the
lander struck the surface of Venus at about 16.5 metres per second (54
ft/s) at 05:37:10 UTC. Landing coordinates are 5°S 351°E .
The probe appeared to go silent on impact but recording tapes kept rolling.
A few weeks later, upon a review of the tapes, another 23 minutes of very
weak signals were found on them. The spacecraft had landed on Venus and
probably bounced onto its side, leaving the medium gain antenna not aimed
correctly for strong signal transmission to Earth.
The probe transmitted information to Earth for 53 minutes, which included
20 minutes from the surface. It was found that the temperature at the
surface of Venus was 475 °C (887 °F) ° ± 20 ° C and the pressure was 90 ±
15 atmospheres. The pressure corresponded to approximately 900 m below sea
level. The probe provided information about the surface of Venus, which
could not be seen through a thick veil of atmosphere. The spacecraft
definitively confirmed that on the surface of Venus man is not able to
survive and excluded the possibility that there is any liquid water on
Venus'.
* 'In 1979, Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' premieres. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of
Brian, is a 1979 British religious satire comedy film starring and written
by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry
Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was also directed by
Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young
Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ,
and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.
The film contains themes of religious satire that were controversial at the
time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy, and protests from
some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK either
imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X (18 years) certificate,
effectively preventing the film from being shown, since the distributors
said it could not be shown unless it was unedited and carried the original
AA (14) certificate. Some countries, including Ireland and Norway, banned
its showing, with a few of these bans lasting decades. The filmmakers used
such notoriety to benefit their marketing campaign, with posters in Sweden
reading, So funny, it was banned in Norway!
The film was a box-office success, the fourth-highest-grossing film in the
United Kingdom in 1979, and highest grosser of any British film in the
United States that year. It has remained popular, receiving positive
reviews. The film was named greatest comedy film of all time by several
magazines and television networks, and it would later receive a 96% Fresh
rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus, One of the more cutting-edge
films of the 1970s, this religious farce from the classic comedy troupe is
as poignant as it is funny and satirical'.
* 'In 1977, The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to
reach the North Pole. .
- From Wikipedia: 'NS Arktika is a retired nuclear-powered icebreaker of
the Soviet (now Russian) Arktika class. In service from 1975 to 2008, she
was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, on August 17, 1977.
Arktika required refuelling every three and a half years. Do not confuse
this with the eponymous LK-60Ya-class icebreaker.
Construction of the ship began in the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad on July
3, 1971. Sea trials completed successfully on December 17, 1975. For
further information on the ship's design, construction and propulsion
system, see Arktika
After 33 years of reliable icebreaking, having become the first surface
ship to reach the North Pole in 1977, and the first civilian ship to spend
more than a year at sea without making port in 2000, and covering more than
a million nautical miles by 2005, Arktika was retired in October 2008. She
is docked at Atomflot, the nuclear base and dock in Murmansk, 1 ½ km (0.9
miles) away from the main docks, where she will remain until policies can
be drawn up to dismantle her. In the meantime, she is a subject of
important research, focused mainly on how to further extend the service
life of the other Arktika-class icebreakers. There have been calls for the
ship to be converted to a museum, either in Murmansk or St. Petersburg. An
earlier Soviet nuclear icebreaker, Lenin, is already a museum ship in
Murmansk'.
* 'In 1978, The 'Double Eagle II' becomes first balloon to cross the
Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after
leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
- From Wikipedia: 'Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson,
and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when
it landed 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours 6 minutes after
leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
It can be regarded as a successful crossing at the point that the Double
Eagle II crossed the Irish coast, on the evening of 16 August, an event
that Shannon Airport notified the crew about when it happened. Newman
originally intended to hang glide from the balloon to a landing, while
Anderson and Abruzzo continued to fly, but the hang-glider had to be
dropped as ballast earlier on 16 August.
While flying over France, they heard by radio that authorities had closed
Le Bourget Airfield, where Charles Lindbergh had landed, for them. The crew
declined the offer as they were running out of ballast and it would be too
risky (to themselves and anyone below) to pass over the suburbs of Paris.
They landed in a field of barley, owned by Roger and Rachel Coquerel, in
Miserey, 60 mi (97 km) northwest of Paris. Television images showed a
highway nearby, its shoulders and outer lanes crowded with stopped cars,
people sweeping across the farm field to the landing spot. The gondola was
protected, but most of the logs and charts were stolen by souvenir hunters.
The flight, the fourteenth known attempt, was the culmination of more than
a century of previous attempts to cross the Atlantic Ocean by balloon. Some
of the people who had attempted it were never found'.
* 'In 1982, The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in
Germany. .
- From Wikipedia: Compact Disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage
format, co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was originally
developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for
storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from
these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media
(CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo
CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD. Audio CD players have been
commercially available since October 1982, when the first commercially
available CD player was released in Japan.
The first commercial compact disc was produced on 17 August 1982. It was a
recording from 1979 of Claudio Arrau performing Chopin waltzes (Philips 400
025-2). Arrau was invited to the Langenhagen plant to press the start
button.'
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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
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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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