<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Trail Mix Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Trail mix):
'Trail mix is a type of snack mix, specifically a combination of dried
fruit, nuts, and sometimes chocolate, developed as a food to be taken along
on hikes. Trail mix is considered an ideal snack food for hikes, because it
is lightweight, easy to store, and nutritious, providing a quick energy
boost from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit or granola, and sustained
energy from fats in nuts.
The combination of nuts, raisins and chocolate as a trail snack dates at
least to the 1910s, when outdoorsman Horace Kephart recommended it in his
popular camping guide.
In Denmark the mix is known as Studenterhavre (student oats)
In New Zealand, trail mix is known as scroggin or schmogle
The word gorp, a term for trail mix often used by hikers, is typically said
to be an acronym for good old raisins and peanuts or its common ingredients
granola, oats, raisins, peanuts.'
[The Hankster says] Hum, I had better quit getting my trail mix from the vending machine. I've never seen any granola or oats in mine.
* 'Eat Outside Day'. .
[The Hankster says] And where else would you eat trail mix. OK, discounting at my desk.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'We Love Memoirs Day'.
Inaugurated in 2013 and is predominate on social media. A memoir is 'a
historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special
sources.'.
[The Hankster says] Well, my posts are sometimes historical, but I can't claim that they are a personal account. I just grab things from the web. No, the Hankster says, note is anything but from reality.
* 'Blog Day'.
Since 2005. Supposedly '3108' can be seen as 'blog', well if you put a
vertical line on the '3' and cut the bottom left of the '8' off. the
concept is to recommend, over social media, five blogs to your friends, and
that those blogs should be different in concept than yours and your
friends..
[The Hankster says] I wonder if this is also for posts.
* 'Love Litigating Lawyers Day'.
Lawyer appreciation day.
[The Hankster says] I guess this depends if he/she is your lawyer and if he/she wins.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'International Overdose Awareness Day'. An annual initiative of
Penington Institute. .
o Other:
* 'Diatomaceous Earth Day '. New in 2016 by EP Minerals.
- From Wikipedia (Diatomaceous earth):
'Diatomaceous earth, also known as D.E., diatomite, or
kieselgur/kieselguhr, is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary
rock that is easily crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder. It has
a particle size ranging from less than 3 micrometres to more than 1
millimetre, but typically 10 to 200 micrometres. Depending on the
granularity, this powder can have an abrasive feel, similar to pumice
powder, and has a low density as a result of its high porosity. The typical
chemical composition of oven-dried diatomaceous earth is 80 to 90% silica,
with 2 to 4% alumina (attributed mostly to clay minerals) and 0.5 to 2%
iron oxide.
Diatomaceous earth consists of fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of
hard-shelled algae. It is used as a filtration aid, mild abrasive in
products including metal polishes and toothpaste, mechanical insecticide,
absorbent for liquids, matting agent for coatings, reinforcing filler in
plastics and rubber, anti-block in plastic films, porous support for
chemical catalysts, cat litter, activator in blood clotting studies, a
stabilizing component of dynamite, and a thermal insulator'.
<> Historical events on August 31
* 'In 1803, Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning. The Core of Discovery
Expedition, as it was called departing in May 1804, from near St. Louis to
fulfill Jefferson's desired to map the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase
and establish an American presence in the far West before other countries .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps
of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is
now the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made
its way westward, and passed through the continental divide to reach the
Pacific coast.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the
Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It comprised a selected group of U.S. Army
volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close
friend, Second Lieutenant William Clark. Their perilous journey lasted from
May 1804 to September 1806. The primary objective was to explore and to map
the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western
half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this
territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it.
The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study
the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with
local Native American tribes. With maps, sketches, and journals in hand,
the expedition returned to St. Louis to report its findings to Jefferson'.
* 'In 1870, The telephone is invented independently by Elisha Gray and
Alexander Graham Bell. Bell is able to patent his invention before Gray. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Before the development of the electric telephone, the
term telephone was applied to other inventions, and not all early
researchers of the electrical device called it telephone A communication
device for sailing vessels The Telephone was the invention of a captain
John Taylor in 1844. This instrument used four air horns to communicate
with vessels in foggy weather. Later, c. 1860, Johann Philipp Reis used the
term in reference to his Reis telephone, his device appears to be the first
such device based on conversion of sound into electrical impulses, the term
telephone was adopted into the vocabulary of many languages. It is derived
from the Greek: tele, far and phone, voice, together meaning distant voice
Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed.
As with other influential inventions such as radio, television, the light
bulb, and the computer, several inventors pioneered experimental work on
voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas. New
controversies over the issue still arise from time to time. Charles
Bourseul, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Alexander Graham Bell, and
Elisha Gray, amongst others, have all been credited with the invention of
the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric
telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March
1876. The Bell patents were forensically victorious and commercially
decisive. That first patent by Bell was the master patent of the telephone,
from which other patents for electric telephone devices and features
flowed.
In 1876, shortly after the telephone was invented, Hungarian engineer
Tivadar Puskás invented the telephone switch, which allowed for the
formation of telephone exchanges, and eventually networks'.
* 'In 1895, German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable
Balloon. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A Zeppelin was a type of rigid airship named after the
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development
at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first
formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in
Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. After the outstanding
success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used
to refer to all rigid airships. Zeppelins were first flown commercially in
1910 by Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG), the world's first airline in
revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying
passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War I the German military
made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and scouts, killing over 500
people in bombing raids in Britain.
The defeat of Germany in 1918 temporarily slowed down the airship business.
Although DELAG established a scheduled daily service between Berlin,
Munich, and Friedrichshafen in 1919, the airships built for this service
eventually had to be surrendered under the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles, which also prohibited Germany from building large airships. An
exception was made allowing the construction of one airship for the US
Navy, which saved the company from extinction. In 1926 the restrictions on
airship construction were lifted and with the aid of donations from the
public work was started on the construction of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This
revived the company's fortunes, and during the 1930s the airships Graf
Zeppelin and the larger LZ 129 Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic
flights from Germany to North America and Brazil. The Art Deco spire of the
Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast
for Zeppelins and other airships, although it was found that high winds
made this impossible and the plan was abandoned. The Hindenburg disaster in
1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the
Zeppelins'.
* 'In 1920, John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for 'Toy-Cabin
Construction', which are now known as 'Lincoln Logs'. (U.S. patent 1,351,08
.
- From Wikipedia: 'Lincoln Logs is a US children's toy consisting of
notched miniature logs, used to build small forts and buildings. They were
invented by John Lloyd Wright, second son of the architect Frank Lloyd
Wright. Lincoln Logs were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in
1999. As of 2014 Lincoln Logs are manufactured by K'NEX Industries Inc.
The logs measure three quarters of an inch (roughly two centimetres) in
diameter. Analogous to real logs used in a log cabin, Lincoln Logs are
notched so that logs may be laid at right angles to each other to form
rectangles resembling buildings. Additional parts of the toy set include
roofs, chimneys, windows and doors, which bring a realistic appearance to
the final creation. Later sets included animals and human figures the same
scale as the buildings.
The toy sets were originally made of redwood, with varying colors of roof
pieces. In the 1970s the company unsuccessfully introduced sets made
entirely of plastic, but soon reverted to real wood. The mold for the toy
was based on the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, designed by
the inventor's father. The foundation of the hotel was designed with
interlocking log beams, which made the structure earthquake-proof
When he returned to the US, John organized The Red Square Toy Company
(named after his father's famous symbol), and marketed the toy in 1918.
Wright was issued U.S. patent 1,351,086 on August 31, 1920, for a Toy-Cabin
Construction Soon after, he changed the name to J. L. Wright Manufacturing.
The original Lincoln Log set came with instructions on how to build Uncle
Tom's Cabin as well as Abraham Lincoln's cabin. Subsequent sets were larger
and more elaborate. The toy was a hit, following as it did Meccano, Tinker
Toys and Erector Set introduced a few years before. K'Nex, the toy's
current distributor, states the product was named after Abraham Lincoln,
16th President of the United States, who was famously born in a log cabin,
due to patriotism during World War I. Others attribute the name to Frank
Lloyd Wright's original name, Frank Lincoln Wright, or the alteration of
the name, 'linkin' logs.
In 1999 Lincoln Logs and John Lloyd Wright were entered into the National
Toy Hall of Fame. In December 2014 the manufacturer announced the return of
production from China to the US'.
* 'In 1920, The first known radio news program was broadcast. It was on
station 8Mk in Detroit, Michigan. They broadcast the primary election
results of the day. .
- From Wikipedia: 'On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a
synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast,
from Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast
that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a
passage from the Bible. This was, for all intents and purposes, the first
transmission of what is now known as amplitude modulation or AM radio.
In June 1912 Marconi opened the world's first purpose-built radio factory
at New Street Works in Chelmsford, England.
The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK
in Detroit, Michigan, which survives today as all-news format station WWJ
under ownership of the CBS network. The first college radio station began
broadcasting on October 14, 1920 from Union College, Schenectady, New York
under the personal call letters of Wendell King, an African-American
student at the school.
That month 2ADD (renamed WRUC in 1947), aired what is believed to be the
first public entertainment broadcast in the United States, a series of
Thursday night concerts initially heard within a 100-mile (160 km) radius
and later for a 1,000-mile (1,600 km) radius. In November 1920, it aired
the first broadcast of a sporting event. At 9 pm on August 27, 1920,
Sociedad Radio Argentina aired a live performance of Richard Wagner's opera
Parsifal from the Coliseo Theater in downtown Buenos Aires. Only about
twenty homes in the city had receivers to tune in this radio program.
Meanwhile, regular entertainment broadcasts commenced in 1922 from the
Marconi Research Centre at Writtle, England.
Sports broadcasting began at this time as well, including the college
football on radio broadcast of a 1921 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh football
game.
One of the first developments in the early 20th century was that aircraft
used commercial AM radio stations for navigation. This continued until the
early 1960s when VOR systems became widespread. In the early 1930s, single
sideband and frequency modulation were invented by amateur radio operators.
By the end of the decade, they were established commercial modes. Radio was
used to transmit pictures visible as television as early as the 1920s.
Commercial television transmissions started in North America and Europe in
the 1940s'.
* 'In 1939, Frank Sinatra recorded 'All or Nothing at All' with the Harry
James Band. .
- From Wikipedia: 'All or Nothing at All is a song composed in 1939 by
Arthur Altman, with lyrics by Jack Lawrence.
Frank Sinatra's 1939 recording of the song became a huge hit in 1943, when
it was reissued by Columbia Records during the 1942-44 musicians' strike.
The record peaked in the Billboard top two.
In a 1944 interview, Sinatra said of the delayed success of the song, That
was the song, a few days after Harry James and myself recorded it, that
gave us our walking papers out of the old Victor Hugo Cafe (a major
entertainment venue of the 1930s) on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. The
manager came up and waved his hands for us to stop. He said Harry's trumpet
playing was too loud for the joint and my singing was just plain lousy and
fired Harry, me and the entire band on the spot. He said the two of u
uldn't draw flies as an attraction, and I guess he was right - the room was
as empty as a barn. It's a funny thing about that song. The recording we
made of it 5 years ago is now one of the top spots among the best sellers.
But it's the same old recording. It's also the song I auditioned with for
Tommy Dorsey, who signed me on the strength of it. And now it's my first
big record'.
* 'In 1941, The Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly
debuts on NBC radio .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Great Gildersleeve was a radio situation comedy
broadcast from August 31, 1941, to March 21, 1957. Initially written by
Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off
programs. The series was built around the character Throckmorton P.
Gildersleeve, a regular element of the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee
and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939 episode
(number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly
named character, Dr. Gildersleeve on earlier episodes. The Great
Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the
character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and
later in four feature films released at the height of the show's pop
ularity.
In Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag
and antagonist of Fibber McGee. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became
a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character went by several aliases on Fibber
McGee and Molly his middle name was revealed to be Philharmonic in
Gildersleeve's Diary episode on October 22, 1940.
Gildy grew so popular that Kraft Foods—promoting its Parkay
margarine—sponsored a new series featuring Peary's somewhat mellowed and
always befuddled Gildersleeve as the head of his own family'.
* 'In 1965, The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft (a large wide-bodied
craft made for transporting cargo) makes its first flight. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied
cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was
the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft
produced by Aero Spacelines, which in turn was named for its resemblance to
a pregnant guppy. Five were built in two variants, both of which were
colloquially referred to as the Super Guppy
The first, the Super Guppy, or SG, was built directly from the fuselage of
a C-97J Turbo Stratocruiser, the military version of the 1950s Boeing 377
Stratocruiser passenger plane. The fuselage was lengthened to 141 feet (43
m), and ballooned out to a maximum inside diameter of 25 ft (7.6 m), the
length of the cargo compartment being 94 ft 6 in (28.8 m). The floor of the
cargo compartment was still only 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m) wide, as necessitated by
the use of the Stratocruiser fuselage.
In addition to the fuselage modifications, the Super Guppy used Pratt and
Whitney T-34-P-7 turboprop engines for increased power and range, and
modified wing and tail surfaces. It could carry a load of 54,000 pounds
(24,494 kg) and cruise at 300 mph (480 km/h).
The second version was officially known as the Super Guppy Turbine (SGT),
although it used turboprop engines like the first Super Guppy. This variant
used Allison 501-D22C turboprops. Unlike the previous Guppy, the main
portion of its fuselage was constructed from scratch. By building from
scratch, Aero Spacelines was able to widen the floor of the cargo
compartment to 13 ft (4.0 m). The overall cargo compartment length was
increased to 111 ft 6 in (34.0 m), and the improved fuselage and engines
allowed for a maximum load of 52,500 lb (23,800 kg). These design
improvements, combined with a pressurized crew cabin that allowed for
higher-altitude cruising, allowed the SGT to transport more cargo than its
predecessors.
The SGT retained only the cockpit, wings, tail, and main landing gear of
the 377. The nose gear was taken from a Boeing 707 and rotated 180 degrees.
This dropped the front of the aircraft slightly, leveling the cargo bay
floor and simplifying loading operations.
In the early 1970s, the two Super Guppies were used by Airbus to transport
aeroplane parts from decentralised production facilities to the final
assembly plant in Toulouse. In 1982 and 1983, two additional Super Guppies
were built by Union de Transports Aériens Industries in France after Airbus
bought the right to produce the aircraft. The four Super Guppies have since
been replaced by the Airbus Beluga, capable of carrying twice as much cargo
by weight'.
* 'In 1974, 'The Partridge Family' television show ended. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Partridge Family is an American musical television
sitcom series starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones
plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children
who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March
23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had
subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the
real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and
early 1970s'.
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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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