<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Cherry Turnovers Day'. . Cherry filling placed on pastry dough.
The dough is folded (turned over) and baked or fried.
- From Wikipedia (Turnover (food)):
'A turnover is a type of pastry made by placing a filling on a piece of
dough, folding the dough over, sealing, and baking it. Turnovers can be
sweet or savory and are often made as a sort of portable meal or dessert,
similar to a sandwich.
It is common for sweet turnovers to have a fruit filling and be made with a
puff pastry or shortcrust pastry dough savory turnovers generally contain
meat and/or vegetables and can be made with any sort of dough, though a
kneaded yeast dough seems to be the most common in Western cuisines. They
are usually baked, but may be fried.
Savory turnovers are often sold as convenience foods in supermarkets.
Savory turnovers with meat or poultry and identified as a turnover in the
United States (for example, Beef Turnover or Cheesy Chicken Turnover) have
to meet a standard of identity or composition and should contain a certain
amount of meat or poultry meat.
In Ireland, a turnover is a particular type of white bread, commonly found
in Dublin'.
[The Hankster says] Give me a bunch and you will see how fast I can establish a new record turnover rate.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Bow Tie Day'.
Created in the 17th century to keep shirt collars together.
- From Wikipedia (Bow tie):
'The bow tie is a type of necktie. It consists of a ribbon of fabric
tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that the two
opposite ends form loops. There are generally three types of bow ties: the
pre-tied, the clip on, and the self tie. Pre-tied bow ties are ties in
which the distinctive bow is sewn onto a band that goes around the neck and
clips to secure. Some clip-ons dispense with the band altogether, instead
clipping straight to the collar. The traditional bow tie, consisting of a
strip of cloth which the wearer has to tie by hand, is also known as a
self-tie, tie-it-yourself, or freestyle bow tie.
Bow ties may be made of any fabric material, but most are made from silk,
polyester, cotton, or a mixture of fabrics. Some fabrics (e.g., wool or
velvet) are much less common for bow ties than for ordinary four-in-hand
neckties.
A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called
the bow knot for that reason.
The bow tie originated among Croatian mercenaries during the Prussian war
of the 17th century: the Croat mercenaries used a scarf around the neck to
hold together the opening of their shirts. This was soon adopted (under the
name cravat, derived from the French for Croat) by the upper classes in
France, then a leader in fashion, and flourished in the 18th and 19th
centuries. It is uncertain whether the cravat then evolved into the bow tie
and four-in-hand necktie, or whether the cravat gave rise to the bow tie,
which in turn led to the four-in-hand necktie.
The most traditional bow ties are usually of a fixed length and are made
for a specific size neck. Sizes can vary between approximately 14 and 19
inches as with a comparable shirt collar. Fixed-length bow ties are
preferred when worn with the most formal wing-collar shirts, so as not to
expose the buckle or clasp of an adjustable bow tie. Adjustable bow ties
are the standard when the tie is to be worn with a less formal, lie-down
collar shirts which obscure the neckband of the tie. One-size-fits-all
adjustable bow ties are a later invention that help to moderate production
costs'.
[The Hankster says] Wore one as a kid. I would ware one today, but I don't want to create a fashion fau pas, since my pocket protector is at the cleaners.
* 'Crackers Over the Keyboard Day'.
[The Hankster says ] Not a food holiday, unless you have accumulated enough for a meal.
* 'Radio Commercials Day'.
Celebrates the first radio commercial on August 28th 1922 on station WEAF
in New York. It was for Queensboro Realty. See more in the history section
for 1922.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'Go Topless Day'. Woman's equality day.
- From Wikipedia (Go Topless Day):
'Go Topless Day (variously known as National Go Topless Day, International
Go Topless Day) is an annual event held to support the right of women to go
topless in public on gender-equality grounds. On this day is celebrated
topless freedom laws or are held protests in states where it is prohibited
that women could walk, run or be topless like men can do'.
* 'World Water Week'. August 28 - Sep 2. The theme is Water for
Sustainable Growth.
- From Wikipedia (World Water Week in Stockholm):
'The World Water Week in Stockholm is a week-long global water conference
held each year in August or September. The World Water Week in Stockholm is
arranged and led by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and
addresses a wide range of the world's water, development and sustainability
issues and related concerns of international development.
Over 2,500 participants attend the conference each year, featuring experts
and members from business, governments, water management and science
sectors, intergovernmental and non governmental organisations, research and
training organisations, and United Nations agencies. The conference
features plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, poster
exhibitions, side events and seminars. More than 200 organisations from
around 130 countries all over the world collaborate in the organisation of
events.
Functioning as an open and dynamic platform, the World Water Week aims to
help link practice, science, policy and decision making, and enables
participants to exchange views and experiences, form partnerships and shape
joint solutions to global water challenges. During the week, the Stockholm
Water Prize, the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, and the Stockholm Industry
Water Award are given out at their respective award ceremonies'.
<> Historical events on August 28
* 'In 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine,
Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established
city in the continental United States. .
- From Wikipedia: 'St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in
northeastern Florida. It is the oldest continuously occupied
European-established settlement within the borders of the contiguous United
States.
The county seat of St. Johns County, it is part of Florida's First Coast
region and the Jacksonville metropolitan area. According to the 2010
census, the city population was 12,975. The United States Census Bureau's
2013 estimate of the city's population was 13,679, while the urban area had
a population of 69,173 in 2012.
Saint Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral and
Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. He named the settlement
"San Agustín", as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies
from Spain had first sighted land in Florida on August 28, 1565, the feast
day of St. Augustine. The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for
over 200 years, and became the capital of British East Florida when the
territory briefly changed hands between Spain and Britain. Spain ceded
Florida to the United States in 1819, and when the treaty was ratified in
1821, St. Augustine was designated the capital of the Florida Territory
until Tallahassee was made the capital in 1824. Since the late 19th
century, St. Augustine's distinct historical character has made the city a
major tourist attraction. It is also the headquarters for the Florida
National Guard'.
* 'In 1830, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam
locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads.
.
- From Wikipedia: 'Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive
to operate on a common-carrier railroad. Designed and constructed by Peter
Cooper in 1830, it was built to convince owners of the newly formed
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B and O) to use steam engines and not intended
to enter revenue service. It is especially remembered as a participant in
an impromptu race with a horse-drawn car, which the horse won after Tom
Thumb suffered a mechanical failure. However, the demonstration was
successful and in the following year, the railroad committed to the use of
steam locomotion and held trials for a working engine.:11
Testing was performed on the company's track between Baltimore and Ellicott
Mills (now Ellicott City, Maryland). Two tracks had been constructed, which
led the owners of Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company to challenge the
locomotive to a race, and on August 28, 1830, the race was held (but
sources differ slightly on the date with variations including August 25 and
September 28). The challenge accepted, Tom Thumb was easily able to pull
away from the horse until the belt slipped off the blower pulley. Without
the blower, the boiler did not draw adequately and the locomotive lost
power, allowing the horse to pass and win the race. Nonetheless, it was
realized that the locomotive offered superior performance'.
* 'In 1837, Lea & William Perrins, Worcestershire Sauce patented. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of
Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire,
as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in his Historia
Naturalis and the fourth/fifth-century Roman culinary text Apicius includes
garum in its recipes. The use of similar fermented anchovy sauces in Europe
can be traced back to the 17th century. The Lea and Perrins brand was
commercialised in 1837 and has continued to be the leading global brand of
Worcestershire sauce.
The origin of the Lea and Perrins recipe is unclear. The packaging
originally stated that the sauce came from the recipe of a nobleman in the
county The company has also claimed that Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of
Bengal encountered it while in India with the East India Company in the
1830s, and commissioned the local apothecaries to recreate it. However,
author Brian Keogh concluded in his privately published history of the Lea
and Perrins firm on the 100th anniversary of the Midland Road plant, that
No Lord Sandys was ever a governor of Bengal, or as far as any records
show, ever in India.
Lord Marcus Sandys may refer to Arthur Moyses William Sandys, 2nd Baron
Sandys (1792–1860) of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, who was a
Lieutenant-General and a member of the House of Commons at the time of the
legend. The first name may be a confusion of his brother and heir, Arthur
Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798–1863), although he did not
succeed to the title until 1860, when the sauce was already established on
the British market. The barony in the Sandys family /'sændz/ (sands) had
been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at
the date of the legend, in the 1830s, Lord Sandys was actually a Lady. No
identifiable reference to her could possibly appear on a commercially
bottled sauce without a serious breach of decorum. A version of the story
was published by Thomas Smith in 1885:
According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, the
introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis
Edwardes (1788–1866). Edwardes, originally of Rhyd-y-gors, Carmarthenshire,
was a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and held the position of
Deputy-Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. He is believed to have brought the
recipe home after travels in India. The article does not say how the recipe
found its way to Messrs Lea and Perrins.
When the recipe was first mixed at the pharmacy of John Wheeley Lea and
William Henry Perrins, the resulting product was so strong that it was
considered inedible and the barrel was abandoned in the basement. Looking
to make space in the storage area a few years later, the chemists decided
to try it again, and discovered that the sauce had fermented and mellowed
and was now palatable. In 1838 the first bottles of Lea and Perrins
Worcestershire sauce were released to the general public. On 16 October
1897, Lea and Perrins relocated manufacturing of the sauce from their
pharmacy to a factory in the city of Worcester on Midland Road, where it is
still manufactured. The factory produces ready-mixed bottles for domestic
distribution and a concentrate for bottling abroad'.
* 'In 1845, The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an
American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert
Einstein, have contributed articles in the past 170 years. It is the oldest
continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.
Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus M. Porter
in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. Throughout its early years, much
emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent
Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual
motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and
the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile
manufactured. Current issues include a this date in history section,
featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150
years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories,
and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology.
Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn I a
mere ten months after founding it. Until 1948, it remained owned by Munn
and Company. Under Orson Desaix Munn III, grandson of Orson I, it had
evolved into something of a workbench publication, similar to the
twentieth-century incarnation of Popular Science
In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948,
three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science
magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old
Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had
created for their new magazine. Thus the partners—publisher Gerard Piel,
editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller,
Jr.—essentially created a new magazine. Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan
and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and
editor circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold
to the Holtzbrinck group of Germany, which has owned it since.
In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of
Nature Publishing Group, a division of Holtzbrinck.
Donald Miller died in December 1998, Gerard Piel in September 2004 and
Dennis Flanagan in January 2005. Mariette DiChristina is the current
editor-in-chief, after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009'.
* 'In 1898, A carbonated soft drink is invented by Caleb Bradham - it is
later named Pepsi-Cola. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pepsi (stylized in lowercase as pepsi, formerly stylized
in uppercase as PEPSI) is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and
manufactured by PepsiCo. Created and developed in 1893 and introduced as
Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, then to
Pepsi in 1961, and in select areas of North America, Pepsi-Cola Made with
Real Sugar as of 2014.
The drink Pepsi was first introduced as Brad's Drink in New Bern, North
Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his
drugstore where the drink was sold. It was renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898,
named after the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe.
The original recipe also included sugar and vanilla. Bradham sought to
create a fountain drink that was appealing and would aid in digestion and
boost energy.
In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore to a
rented warehouse. That year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next
year, Pepsi was sold in six-ounce bottles, and sales increased to 19,848
gallons. In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first
celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as A bully
drink...refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race. The
advertising theme Delicious and Healthful was then used over the next two
decades. In 1926, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the original
design of 1905. In 1929, the logo was changed again.
In 1931, at the depth of the Great Depression, the Pepsi-Cola Company
entered bankruptcy—in large part due to financial losses incurred by
speculating on the wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War
I. Assets were sold and Roy C. Megargel bought the Pepsi trademark.
Megargel was unsuccessful, and soon Pepsi's assets were purchased by
Charles Guth, the President of Loft, Inc. Loft was a candy manufacturer
with retail stores that contained soda fountains. He sought to replace
Coca-Cola at his stores' fountains after Coke refused to give him a
discount on syrup. Guth then had Loft's chemists reformulate the Pepsi-Cola
syrup formula.
On three separate occasions between 1922 and 1933, The Coca-Cola Company
was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola company, and it
declined on each occasion'.
* 'In 1907, United Parcel Service Founded as a bicycle delivery service
(American Messenger Company). .
- From Wikipedia: 'United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is the world's largest
package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management
solutions. The global logistics company is headquartered in Sandy Springs,
Georgia, which is part of the Greater Atlanta metropolitan area. UPS
delivers more than 15 million packages per day to more than 7.9 million
customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world.
UPS is known for its brown delivery trucks and uniforms, hence the company
nickname Brown UPS also operates its own airline and air cargo delivery
service (IATA: 5X, ICAO: UPS, Call sign: UPS) based in Louisville,
Kentucky.
On August 28, 1907, James Casey founded the American Messenger Company with
fellow teenager Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100
in debt. UPS logo (1919-1937)
In 1913, the first delivery car appeared, a Model T Ford. Casey and Ryan
merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel
Delivery. Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packages
addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle. UPS logo
(1937-1961)
In 1930, a consolidated service began in New York City, and soon after in
other major cities in the East and the Midwest. In 1937, the logo was
redesigned to reflect the company's new name United Parcel Service. All UPS
vehicles are then painted Pullman brown. In 1937, the UPS logo was revised
for the first time it then included the tagline The Delivery System for
Stores of Quality ,br /> From 1940 to 1959, the company acquired common
carrier rights to deliver packages between all addresses, any customer,
private and commercial.
In 1975, UPS moved its headquarters to Greenwich, Connecticut and began
servicing all of the 48 contiguous states of the USA. UPS also established
Canadian operations in 1975. On Feb. 28, UPS Ltd. (later changed to UPS
Canada Ltd.) began operations in Toronto, Ontario. UPS Canada's head office
is located in Burlington, Ontario. In 1976, UPS established a domestic
operation in West Germany.
In 1982, UPS Next-Day Air Service was offered in the US and Blue Label Air
became UPS 2nd Day Air Service.
In 1988, UPS Airlines was launched. In 1991, UPS moved its headquarters to
Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. In 1992, UPS acquired both
Haulfast and Carryfast and rebranded them UPS Supply Chain Solutions.
Haulfast provided the pallet haulage and trucking network for the CarryFast
group of companies.
In 1995, UPS acquired SonicAir to offer service parts logistics and compete
with Choice Logistics. In 1997, a walkout by the 185,000 members of the
Teamsters shut down UPS for 16 days.
In 1998, UPS Capital was established. UPS acquired Challenge Air in 1999 to
expand its operations in Latin America.
On November 10, 1999, UPS became a public company.
In 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. In 2003, the two companies
introduced The UPS Store brand, and approximately 3,000 Mail Boxes Etc.
locations re-branded'.
* 'In 1922, The first paid radio commercial was aired. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The first radio broadcasts aired in the early 1900s.
However, it wasn't until 1919 that radio stations began to broadcast
continuously, similar to the modern practice. In the United States, on
November 2, 1920, KDKA Pittsburgh became the first radio station to receive
a commercial license from the government. KDKA engineer Frank Conrad may
have been the first to broadcast a radio advertisement on his own
experimental station in 1919 when he thanked a Pittsburgh music store on
the air for supplying him with phonograph records, although that was for
trade, not cash.
Most early radio stations were put on the air by the manufacturers of radio
equipment, such as Westinghouse and General Electric or by department
stores which sold radios, such as Gimbel's, Bamberger's and Wanamaker's.
After all, if they wanted customers to buy radio sets, there had to be
stations for them to listen to. At first, they weren't concerned with the
stations making a profit, if sets were being sold. But as more stations
began operating, station owners were increasingly faced with the issue of
how to maintain their stations financially, because operating a radio
station was a significant expense.
In February 1922, AT and T announced it would begin selling toll
broadcasting to advertisers, in which businesses would underwrite or
finance a broadcast, in exchange for being mentioned on the radio. WEAF of
New York (now WFAN) is credited with airing the first paid radio
commercial, on August 28, 1922, for the Queensboro Corporation, advertising
a new apartment complex in Jackson Heights, Queens, near the just-completed
#7 subway line. However, it appears other radio stations may actually have
sold advertising before WEAF. As early as May 1920, an amateur radio
broadcaster leased out his station in exchange for $35 per week for
twice-weekly broadcasts. And, in Seattle, Washington, Remick's Music Store
purchased a large ad in the local newspaper advertising radio station KFC,
in exchange for sponsorship of a weekly program, in March 1922.
Additionally, on April 4, 1922, a car dealer, Alvin T. Fuller, purchased
time on WGI of Medford Hillside, Massachusetts, in exchanges for mentions.
During radio's Golden Age, advertisers sponsored entire programs, usually
with some sort of message like We thank our sponsors for making this
program possible, airing at the beginning or end of a program. While radio
had the obvious limitation of being restricted to sound, as the industry
developed, large stations began to experiment with different formats.
Advertising had become a hot commodity and there was money to be made. The
advertising director at Shell Oil Co., urged radio broadcasters to deal
directly with relevant advertisers, and sell tie-in commercial spots for
established radio programs. Like newspaper ads at the time, Sanders figured
that advertisers and radio would both benefit from selling ad spots to get
the attention of listeners. Radio was an already prominent medium, but
Sanders referred to his initiative as radio 'growing up' in terms of its
business aspects and how it dealt with advertising. The visual portion of
the broadcast was supplied by the listener's boundless imagination.
Comedian and voice actor Stan Freberg demonstrated this point on his radio
show in 1957, using sound effects to dramatize the towing of a 10-ton
maraschino cherry by the Royal Canadian Air Force, who dropped it onto a
700-ft. mountain of whipped cream floating in hot-chocolate filled Lake
Michigan, to the cheering of 25,000 extras. The bit was later used by the
USA's Radio Advertising Bureau to promote radio commercials.
The radio industry has changed significantly since that first broadcast in
1920, and radio is big business today. Although other media and new
technologies now place more demands on consumer's time, 95% of people still
listen to the radio every week. Internet radio listening is also growing,
with 13 percent of the U.S. population listening via this method. Although
consumers have more choices today, 92 percent of listeners stay tuned in
when commercials break into their programming'.
* 'In 1931, The song 'You Rascal You' was recorded by Henry 'Red' Allen
with the Luis Russell Band. .
- From Wikipedia: 'You Rascal You is an American song written by Sam Theard
in 1929 and legally titled I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. The lyrics take
the form of threats and complaints leveled against a man who has repaid the
singer's hospitality and kindness by running off with the singer's wife.
It has been covered by Clarence Willams, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller,
Louis Jordan, Jimmie Noone, Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, John Fogerty, Dr.
John, Henry Rufe Johnson, Serge Gainsbourg, Ingrid Michaelson, Eddy
Mitchell, Taj Mahal, and Hanni El Khatib, whose version is being used in a
TV ad for the movie The Imposter
Sam Theard made a follow-up song
in 1930 titled I Done Caught That Rascal Now'.
* 'In 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan
apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the
Miranda Rights (right to remain silent and have an attorney). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Career Girls Murders was the name given by the media
to the killings of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie in their apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States on August 28,
1963. George Whitmore, Jr., was accused of this and other crimes but later
cleared.
The actions of the police department led Whitmore to be improperly accused
of this and other crimes, including the murder of Minnie Edmonds and the
attempted rape and assault of Elba Borrero. Whitmore was wrongfully
incarcerated for 1,216 days—from his arrest on April 24, 1964 until his
release on bond on July 13, 1966, and from the revocation of his bond on
February 28, 1972 until his exoneration on April 10, 1973.
His treatment by the authorities was cited as an example that led the US
Supreme Court to issue the guidelines known as the Miranda rights.
The case of George Whitmore, Jr. and his treatment by the police was one of
many examples used by the US Supreme Court when it issued the guidelines
known as the Miranda rights in June 1966 by which, when a defendant is
taken into custody and accused of a crime, he must be advised of his
constitutional rights. The court acknowledged that coercive interrogations
could produce false confessions, and in a footnote stated: he most
conspicuous example occurred in New York in 1964 when a Negro of limited
intelligence confessed to two brutal murders and a rape which he had not
committed. When this was discovered, the prosecutor was reported as saying:
'Call it what you want — brain-washing, hypnosis, fright. The only thing I
don't believe is that Whitmore was beaten.' Whitmore died on October 8,
2012 at age 68'.
* 'In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his 'I have a dream speech'
addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. .
- From Wikipedia: 'I Have a Dream is a public speech delivered by American
civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to
racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights.
Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of
the American Civil Rights Movement.
Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed
millions of slaves in 1863, King observes that: one hundred years later,
the Negro still is not free Toward the end of the speech, King departed
from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme I
have a dream, prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: Tell them about the dream,
Martin! In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and
has now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and
equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. Jon Meacham writes
that, With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and
Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America The speech was
ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of
scholars of public address'.
* 'In 1973, The song 'Monster Mash' (1962), by Bobby 'Boris' Picket goes
gold. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Monster Mash is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known
song by Bobby Boris Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S.
Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP
called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other
monster-themed tunes. The Monster Mash single was #1 on the Billboard Hot
100 chart on October 20–27 of that year, just before Halloween. It has been
a perennial holiday favorite ever since.
Pickett was an aspiring actor who sang with a band called the Cordials at
night while going to auditions during the day. One night, while performing
with his band, Pickett did a monologue in imitation of horror movie actor
Boris Karloff while performing the Diamonds' Little Darlin' The audience
loved it, and fellow band member Lenny Capizzi encouraged Pickett to do
more with the Karloff imitation.
Pickett and Capizzi composed Monster Mash and recorded it with Gary S.
Paxton, pianist Leon Russell, Johnny MacRae, Rickie Page, and Terry Berg,
credited as The Crypt-Kickers (Mel Taylor, drummer for the Ventures, is
sometimes credited with playing on the record as well, while Russell, who
arrived late for the session, appears on the single's B-side, Monster Mash
Party) The song was partially inspired by Paxton's earlier novelty hit
Alley Oop, as well as by the Mashed Potato dance craze of the era. A
variation on the Mashed Potato was danced to Monster Mash, in which the
footwork was the same but Frankenstein-style monster gestures were made
with the arms and hands.
The song is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening,
rises from a slab to perform a new dance. The dance becomes the hit of the
land when the scientist throws a party for other monsters. The producers
came up with several low-budget but effective sound effects for the
recording. For example, the sound of a coffin opening was imitated by a
rusty nail being pulled out of a board. The sound of a cauldron bubbling
was actually water being bubbled through a straw, and the chains rattling
were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor. Pickett also impersonated
horror film actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula with the lyric Whatever happened
to my Transylvania Twist?'.
* 'In, 1991 The collapse of the Soviet Union begins with the resignation of
the general secretary of Communist Party. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as
a result of the declaration no. 142-? of the Soviet of the Republics of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The declaration acknowledged the
independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much
later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned,
declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control
of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to Russian President Boris
Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag was lowered from the
Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian
flag.
Previously, from August to December, all the individual republics,
including Russia itself, had seceded from the union. The week before the
union's formal dissolution, 11 republics – all except the Baltic states and
Georgia – signed the Alma-Ata Protocol formally establishing the CIS and
declaring that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. The Revolutions of
1989 and the dissolution of the USSR also signaled the end of the Cold War.
Several of the former Soviet republics have retained close links with the
Russian Federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the
Eurasian Economic Community, the Union State, the Eurasian Customs Union,
and the Eurasian Economic Union to enhance economic and security
cooperation. Some have joined NATO and the European Union'.
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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 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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