<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* ''National Eat a Peach Day'. . Their harvest season is from June to
August. They contain vitamins A, B, C, E, K, potassium, phosphorus,
calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, sugars and dietary fiber.
- From Wikipedia (Peach):
'The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of
Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun
Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears an
edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine.
The specific epithet persica refers to its widespread cultivation in
Persia, whence it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus
Prunus which includes the cherry, apricot, almond and plum, in the rose
family. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus,
distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.
Peach and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded
commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits
present the characteristic fuzz on the skin, nectarines are characterized
by the absence of fruit-skin trichomes (fuzz-less fruit) genetic studies
suggest nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, whereas peaches
are produced from a dominant allele for fuzzy skin.
The People's Republic of China is the world's largest producer of peaches.
A medium peach, weighing 100 g (3.5 oz), contains small amounts of
essential nutrients, but none is a significant proportion of the Daily
Value. Nectarines have similar low content of nutrients.
Some 110 chemical compounds contribute to peach aroma, including alcohols,
ketones, aldehydes, esters, polyphenols and terpenoids'.
[The Hankster says] Put 'um in a cobbler, please. That would be a deep dish cobbler with ice cream on top.
* 'National Pecan Torte Day'. . The Pecan tree is the only native tree
bearing the fruit we call nuts, in North America and of course the State
Tree of Texas. From Wikipedia: A Torte is 'is a rich, usually multilayered,
cake that is filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or
fruits.
- From Wikipedia (Torte):
'A torte (from Italian torta) is a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is
filled with whipped cream, buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruits.
Ordinarily, the cooled torte is glazed and garnished.
Tortes are commonly baked in a springform pan. A torte may be made with
bizcochuelo base or with little to no flour, but instead with ground nuts
or breadcrumbs, as well as sugar, eggs, and flavorings. It can be covered
with meringue and almonds.
The most well-known of the typical tortes include the Austrian Sachertorte
and Linzertorte, the German Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, and the many-layered
Hungarian Dobos torte. But other well-known European confections are also
tortes, such as the French Gâteau St. Honoré'.
[The Hankster says] OK, I am not hard to work with. Put those peaches on top of my pecan torte.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Tooth Fairy Day'.
Also on February 28th
- From Wikipedia (Tooth fairy):
'The tooth fairy is a fantasy figure of early childhood. The folklore
states that when children lose one of their baby teeth, they should place
it underneath their pillow and the tooth fairy will visit while they sleep,
replacing the lost tooth with a small payment.
The tradition of leaving a tooth under a pillow for the tooth fairy to
collect is practiced in various countries in the Anglosphere.
In early Europe, it was a tradition to bury baby teeth that fell out. When
a child's sixth tooth falls out, it is a custom for parents to slip a gift
or money from the tooth fairy under the child's pillow, but to take the
tooth as a reward.
In northern Europe, there was also a tradition of tand-fé or tooth fee,
which was paid when a child lost its first tooth. This tradition is
recorded in writings as early as the Eddas, which are the earliest written
record of Norse and Northern European traditions.
The reward left varies by country, the family's economic status, amounts
the child's peers report receiving and other factors. A 2013 survey by Visa
Inc. found that American children receive $3.70 per tooth on average.
During the Middle Ages, other superstitions arose surrounding children's
teeth. In England, for example, children were instructed to burn their baby
teeth in order to save the child from hardship in the afterlife. Children
who didn't consign their baby teeth to the fire would spend eternity
searching for them in the afterlife. The Vikings, it is said, paid children
for their teeth. In the Norse culture, children's teeth and other articles
belonging to children were said to bring good luck in battle, and
Scandinavian warriors hung children's teeth on a string around their necks.
Fear of witches was another reason to bury or burn teeth. In medieval
Europe, it was thought that if a witch were to get hold of one's teeth, it
could lead to them having total power over him or her.
The modern incarnation of these traditions into an actual tooth fairy has
been dated to 1977, 1962, or 1927. However, there is an earlier reference
to the tooth fairy in a 1908 Household Hints item in the Chicago Daily
Tribune'.
[The Hankster says] I only got a dime, then later a quarter. according to an Internet Calculator, a 1950 quarter had the buying power of $2.50 in 1950. Of course, I always calculated in 'pieces of candy', so I calculate that to be 5 vs. today's 2 or 2 and 1/2 candy bars.
* 'Be An Angel Day'.
Perform a random act of kindness.
[The Hankster says] Random or not, give it a try for the other person and you.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day'. By the American Veterinary
Medical Association .
<> Historical events on August 22
* 'In 1849, The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless
balloons against the city of Venice. The first airplane bombing (air
strike) was on November 1, 1911, when four bombs were dropped on two
Turkish-held oases in Libya from an Italian airplane, during the
Italo-Turkish War.
- From Wikipedia: 'An aerial bomb is a type of explosive weapon intended to
travel through the air with predictable trajectories, usually designed to
be dropped from an aircraft. Aerial bombs include a vast range and
complexity of designs, from unguided gravity bombs to guided bombs, hand
tossed from a vehicle, to needing a large specially built delivery vehicle
or perhaps be the vehicle itself such as a glide bomb, instant detonation
or delay-action bomb. The act is termed aerial bombing. As with other types
of explosive weapons, aerial bombs are designed to kill and injure people
and destroy materiel through the projection of blast and fragmentation
outwards from the point of detonation.
The first bombs delivered to their targets by air were launched on unmanned
balloons, carrying a single bomb, by the Austrians against Venice in 1849.
The first bombs dropped from a heavier-than-air aircraft were grenades or
grenade-like devices. Historically, the first use was by Giulio Gavotti on
1 November 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War.
In 1912, during the First Balkan War, Bulgarian Air Force pilot Christo
Toprakchiev suggested the use of aircraft to drop bombs (called grenades in
the Bulgarian army at this time) on Turkish positions. Captain Simeon
Petrov developed the idea and created several prototypes by adapting
different types of grenades and increasing their payload.
On 16 October 1912, observer Prodan Tarakchiev dropped two of those bombs
on the Turkish railway station of Karagaç (near the besieged Edirne) from
an Albatros F.2 aircraft piloted by Radul Milkov, for the first time in
this campaign.
After a number of tests, Petrov created the final design, with improved
aerodynamics, an X-shaped tail, and an impact detonator. This version was
widely used by the Bulgarian Air Force during the siege of Edirne. A copy
of the plans was later sold to Germany and the bomb, codenamed Chataldzha
remained in mass production until the end of World War I. The weight of one
of these bombs was 6 kilograms. On impact it created a crater 4-5 meters
wide and about 1 meter deep'.
* 'In 1864, The first Geneva Convention was adopted in Geneva 'for the
Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the
Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held in 1864, is the first
of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It defines the basis on which
rest the rules of international law for the protection of the victims of
armed conflicts. After the first treaty was adopted in 1864, it was
significantly revised and replaced by the Second Geneva Convention in 1906,
followed by the Third Geneva Convention in 1929, and finally the Fourth
Geneva Convention in 1949. It is inextricably linked to the International
Committee of the Red Cross, which is both the instigator for the inception
and enforcer of the articles in these conventions'.
* 'In 1895, Thomas Edison is responsible for a breakthrough when he creates
the first sound movies - the movies however are unsynchronized. His sound
device was called the Kinetophone. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition
device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one
individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the
device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic
approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before
the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a
strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with
a high-speed shutter. A process using roll film first described in a patent
application submitted in France and the U.S. by French inventor Louis Le
Prince, the concept was copied by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1889, and
subsequently developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
between 1889 and 1892. Dickson and his team at the Edison lab also devised
the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid
intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for
in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations.
A prototype for the Kinetoscope was shown to a convention of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs on May 20, 1891. The first public demonstration
of the Kinetoscope was held at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
on May 9, 1893. Instrumental to the birth of American movie culture, the
Kinetoscope also had a major impact in Europe its influence abroad was
magnified by Edison's decision not to seek international patents on the
device, facilitating numerous imitations of and improvements on the
technology. In 1895, Edison introduced the Kinetophone, which joined the
Kinetoscope with a cylinder phonograph. Film projection, which Edison
initially disdained as financially nonviable, soon superseded the
Kinetoscope's individual exhibition model. Many of the projection systems
developed by Edison's firm in later years would use the Kinetoscope name'.
* 'In 1902, The automobile brand, Cadillac Motor Company is founded. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a
division of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles
worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, Canada, and China,
but Cadillac-branded vehicles are distributed in 34 additional markets
worldwide. Historically, Cadillac automobiles have always held a place at
the top of the luxury field within the United States. In 2014, Cadillac's
U.S. sales were 170,750 vehicles.
Cadillac is among the oldest automobile brands in the world, second in
America only to fellow GM marque Buick. The firm was founded from the
remnants of the Henry Ford Company in 1902, almost nine years before
Chevrolet. It was named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded
Detroit, Michigan. The Cadillac crest is based on his coat of arms.
By the time General Motors purchased the company in 1909, Cadillac had
already established itself as one of America's premier luxury carmakers.
The complete interchangeability of its precision parts had allowed it to
lay the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles. It was at
the forefront of technological advances, introducing full electrical
systems, the clashless manual transmission and the steel roof. The brand
developed three engines, with its V8 setting the standard for the American
automotive industry.
Cadillac was the first American car to win the Royal Automobile Club of
England's Dewar Trophy by successfully demonstrating the interchangeability
of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908 this spawned the
firm's slogan Standard of the World It won the trophy again in 1912 for
incorporating electric starting and lighting in a production automobile.
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After a
dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along
with several of his key partners in March 1902. Ford's financial backers
William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of
Leland and Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and
equipment in preparation for liquidating the company's assets. Instead,
Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles using
Leland's proven single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac
Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902. It was named after
French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who was from
the region of Occitanie of France, and he had also founded Detroit in 1701.
Cadillac's first automobiles, the Runabout and Tonneau, were completed in
October 1902. They were two-seat horseless carriages powered by a 10 hp (7
kW) single-cylinder engine. They were practically identical to the 1903
Ford Model A. Many sources state that the first car rolled out of the
factory on 17 October in the book Henry Leland – Master of Precision, the
date is 20 October another reliable source shows car number three to have
been built on 16 October. Cadillac displayed the new vehicles at the New
York Auto Show in January 1903, where the vehicles impressed the crowds
enough to gather over 2,000 firm orders. Cadillac's biggest selling point
was precision manufacturing, and therefore, reliability a Cadillac was
simply a better-made vehicle than its competitors'.
* 'In 1902, The first U.S president to ride in an automobile is Theodore
Roosevelt. His car was an electric automobile, the Columbia Electric
Victoria Phaeton. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Columbia was an American brand of automobiles produced
by a group of companies in the United States. They included the Pope
Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, the Electric Vehicle
Company, and an entity of brief existence in 1899, the Columbia Automobile
Company.
At the turn of the Twentieth century they were producing and selling
hundreds of vehicles a year under Pope's Columbia brand name, while most
gasoline engine automobile manufacturers had made only a few dozen.
In 1908, the company was renamed the Columbia Motor Car Company and in 1910
was acquired by United States Motor Company. A different Columbia Motors
existed from 1917 to 1924.
The 1904 'Columbia Brougham' was equipped with a tonneau. It could seat 4
passengers and sold for US$3,500. Twin electric motors were situated at the
rear of the car. Similar 'Columbia' coupes, 'Columbia Hansom' cabs, or
hansoms, were also produced for the same price. They could achieve 13 mph
(21 km/h). A 'Columbia Victoria Phaeton' was priced at US$3,000, but was
based on the same design.
The 'Columbia Surrey' and 'Columbia Victoria' were more traditional
horseless carriages. Both used the same power system as the larger cars,
with twin electric motors, but cost much less at US$1,500 and US$1,600,
respectively.
At the bottom end of the range was the 'Columbia Runabout' car. Priced at
just US$750, it used a single electric motor, with an Exide battery and
Concord springs'.
* 'In 1906, the first Victor Victrola (phonograph) was manufactured. This
was the cabinetmodel with horn (moved inside) and hand crank. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American
flagship record company headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.
The company was founded by Eldridge R. Johnson, who had previously made
gramophones to play Emile Berliner's disc records. After a series of legal
wranglings between Berliner, Johnson and their former business partners,
the two joined to form the Consolidated Talking Machine Co. in order to
combine the patents for the record with Johnson's patents improving its
fidelity. Victor Talking Machine Co. was incorporated officially in 1901
shortly before agreeing to allow Columbia Records use of its disc record
patent.
Before 1925, recording was done by the same purely mechanical,
non-electronic acoustical method used since the invention of the phonograph
nearly fifty years earlier. No microphone was involved and there was no
means of amplification. The recording machine was essentially an
exposed-horn acoustical record player functioning in reverse. One or more
funnel-like metal horns was used to concentrate the energy of the airborne
sound waves onto a recording diaphragm, which was a thin glass disc about
two inches in diameter held in place by rubber gaskets at its perimeter.
The sound-vibrated center of the diaphragm was linked to a cutting stylus
that was guided across the surface of a very thick wax disc, engraving a
sound-modulated groove into its surface. The wax was too soft to be played
back even once without seriously damaging it, although test recordings were
sometimes made and sacrificed by playing them back immediately. The wax
master disc was sent to a processing plant where it was electroplated to
create a negative metal stamper used to mold or press durable replicas of
the recording from heated biscuits of a shellac-based compound. Although
sound quality was gradually improved by a series of small refinements, the
process was inherently insensitive. It could only record sources of sound
that were very close to the recording horn or very loud—preferably both—and
even then the high-frequency overtones and sibilants necessary for clear,
detailed sound reproduction were too feeble to register above the
background noise. Resonances in the recording horns and associated
components resulted in a characteristic horn sound that immediately
identifies an acoustical recording to an experienced modern listener and
seemed inseparable from phonograph music to contemporary listeners.
From the start, Victor pioneered manufacturing processes and soon rose to
preeminence by recording famous performers. In 1901 Victor made a
three-track puzzle record (single-sided A-821) and in 1903, a three-step
mother-stamper process to produce more stampers and records than previously
possible. After increasing the quality of disc records and phonographs,
Johnson began an ambitious project to have the most prestigious singers and
musicians of the day record for Victor, with exclusive agreements where
possible. Often these artists demanded fees which the company could not
hope to make up from sale of their records. Johnson shrewdly knew that he
would get his money's worth in the long run in promotion of the Victor
brand name. These new celebrity recordings bore red labels, and were
marketed as Red Seal records. For many years these recordings were
single-sided only in 1923 did Victor begin making double-sided Red Seal
records. Many advertisements were printed mentioning by name the greatest
names of music in the era, with the statement that they recorded only for
Victor. As Johnson intended, much of the public assumed from this that
Victor Records must be superior to cylinder records.
In the company's early years, Victor issued recordings on the Victor,
Monarch and De Luxe labels, with the Victor label on 7-inch records,
Monarch on 10-inch records and De Luxe on 12-inch records. De Luxe Special
14-inch records were briefly marketed in 1903-1904. In 1905, all labels and
sizes were consolidated into the Victor imprint.
In September 1906, Johnson designed a new line of victrolas with the
turntable and amplifying horn tucked away inside a wooden cabinet. This was
not done for reasons of audio fidelity, but for visual aesthetics. The
intention was to produce a phonograph that looked less like a piece of
machinery and more like a piece of furniture. These internal horn machines,
trademarked with the name Victrola, were first marketed to the public in
August of that year and were an immediate hit. Soon an extensive line of
Victrolas was marketed, ranging from small tabletop models selling for $15,
through many sizes and designs of cabinets intended to go with the decor of
middle-class homes in the $100 to $250 range, up to $600 Chippendale and
Queen Anne-style cabinets of fine wood with gold trim designed to look at
home in elegant mansions. Victrolas became by far the most popular brand of
home phonograph, and sold in great numbers until the end of the 1920s. RCA
Victor continued to market record players under the Victrola name until the
late 1960s'.
* 'In 1964, The Supreme's 'Where Did Our Love Go' reaches #1 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Where Did Our Love Go is a 1964 song recorded by
American music group the Supremes for the Motown label.
Written and produced by Motown's main production team
Holland–Dozier–Holland, Where Did Our Love Go was the first single by the
Supremes to go to the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop
singles chart in the United States, a position it held for two weeks, from
August 16 to August 29, 1964. It was also the first of five Supremes songs
in a row to reach number one (the others being Baby Love, Come See About
Me, Stop! In the Name of Love, and Back in My Arms Again). The song also
reached number one on the Cash Box R and B singles chart.
The Supremes' version is ranked #475 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs
of All Time and was selected for preservation in the National Recording
Registry in 2016 due to its cultural, historic, or artistic significance'.
* 'In 1964, Martha and The Vandellas' 'Dancing In The Streets' was
released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Dancing in the Street is a song written by Marvin Gaye,
William Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter. It first became popular in 1964
when recorded by Martha and the Vandellas whose version reached No. 2 on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. It
is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature
song. A 1966 cover by the Mamas and the Papas was a minor hit on the Hot
100 reaching No. 73. In 1982, the rock group Van Halen took their cover of
Dancing in the Street to No. 38 on the Hot 100 chart and No. 15 in Canada
on the RPM chart. A 1985 duet cover by David Bowie and Mick Jagger charted
at No. 1 in the UK and reached No. 7 in the US. The song was also covered
by The Kinks, Grateful Dead and Black Oak Arkansas'.
* 'In 1987, Madonna's, Who's That Girl, single goes #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Who's That Girl is a song by American singer Madonna
from the soundtrack album to the 1987 film Who's That Girl. It was released
on June 30, 1987, by Sire Records as the first album single. The song was
later included on the two-disc edition of Madonna's 2009 greatest hits
album Celebration. While shooting for the film, then called Slammer,
Madonna had requested Patrick Leonard to develop an uptempo song that
captured the nature of her film persona. She later added the lyrics and
vocals to the demo tape developed by Leonard, and decided to rename the
song as well as the film to Who's That Girl'.
No. 1 song
Top movie
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 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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