<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Macadamia Nut Day'. . Your last ones may have come from Hawaii,
but they are originally from Australia. The are high in dietary fiber and
mono-unsaturated, gluten-free, ad good source of minerals and several
B-complex vitamins.
- From Wikipedia (Macadamia):
'Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia and
constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. They are native to north
eastern New South Wales and central and south eastern Queensland. The tree
is commercially important for its fruit, the macadamia nut (or simply
macadamia). Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut,
bauple nut, and Hawaii nut. In Australian Aboriginal languages, the fruit
is known by names such as bauple, gyndl, jindilli, and boombera.
Previously, more species, with disjunct distributions, were named as
members of this genus Macadamia. Genetics and morphological studies more
recently published in 2008 show they have separated from this genus
Macadamia, correlating less closely than thought from earlier morphological
studies. The species previously named in this Macadamia genus may still be
referred to overall by the descriptive, non-scientific name of macadamia
...
The German–Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller gave the genus the
name Macadamia in 1857 in honor of the Scottish-Australian chemist, medical
teacher and politician John Macadam.
In a 100 gram amount, macadamia nuts provide 740 Calories and are a rich
source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of numerous essential
nutrients, including thiamin (104% DV), vitamin B6 (21% DV), manganese
(195% DV), iron (28% DV), magnesium (37% DV) and phosphorus (27% DV).
Macadamia nuts are 76% fat, 14% carbohydrates, including 9% dietary fiber,
and 8% protein.
Compared with other common edible nuts, such as almonds and cashews,
macadamias are high in total fat and relatively low in protein. They have a
high amount of monounsaturated fats (59% of total content) and contain, as
17% of total fat, the monounsaturated fat, omega-7 palmitoleic acid'.
[The Hankster says] Sometimes you feel like a Macadamia, sometimes you don't
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Newspaper Carrier Day'.
Honors all carriers and especially Barney Flaherty who was the first
newspaper carrier, hired in 1833 by Benjamin Day, publisher of the New York
Sun.
- From Wikipedia (Paperboy):
'Newspaper industry lore suggests that the first paperboy, hired in 1833,
was 10-year-old Barney Flaherty who answered an advertisement in the New
York Sun, which read To the Unemployed a number of steady men can find
employment by vending this paper'.
[The Hankster says] Never was a paperboy as a kid. I mowed lawns instead.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Migraine Awareness Week'. September 4-10 in Great Britain by Migraine
Action.
- From Wikipedia (Migraine):
'Migraine is a primary headache disorder characterized by recurrent
headaches that are moderate to severe. Typically, the headaches affect one
half of the head, are pulsating in nature, and last from two to 72 hours.
Associated symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light,
sound, or smell. The pain is generally made worse by physical activity. Up
to one-third of people have an aura: typically a short period of visual
disturbance which signals that the headache will soon occur. Occasionally,
an aura can occur with little or no headache following it.
Migraines are believed to be due to a mixture of environmental and genetic
factors. About two-thirds of cases run in families. Changing hormone levels
may also play a role, as migraines affect slightly more boys than girls
before puberty and two to three times more women than men. The risk of
migraines usually decreases during pregnancy. The underlying mechanisms are
not fully known. It is, however, believed to involve the nerves and blood
vessels of the brain.
Initial recommended treatment is with simple pain medication such as
ibuprofen and paracetamol (acetaminophen) for the headache, medication for
the nausea, and the avoidance of triggers. Specific medications such as
triptans or ergotamines may be used in those for whom simple pain
medications are not effective. Caffeine may be added to the above. A number
of medications are useful to prevent attacks including metoprolol,
valproate, and topiramate.
Globally, approximately 15% of people are affected by migraines. It most
often starts at puberty and is worst during middle age. In some women they
become less common following menopause. An early description consistent
with migraines is contained in the Ebers papyrus, written around 1500 BCE
in ancient Egypt. The word migraine is from the Greek (hemikrania), pain on
one side of the head, skull'.
* 'National Child Protection Week'. September 4-10 in Australia. Begins on
father's day (in AU).
o Animal and Pet:
* 'National Wildlife Day'. By Colleen Paige, Pet Lifestyle Expert.
o Other:
* 'Father's Day'. First Sunday of September in Australia, New Zealand,
Papua New Guinea, Fiji.
<> Historical events on September 4
* 'In 1807, Robert Fulton begins scheduled steamboat passenger service on
the Hudson River between New York and Albany. .
- From Wikipedia: 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.
'The steamer's inaugural run was helmed by Captain Andrew Brink, and left
New York on August 17, 1807, with a complement of invited guests aboard.
They arrived in Albany two days later, after 32 hours of travel time and a
20-hour stop at Livingston's estate, Clermont Manor. The return trip was
completed in 30 hours with only a one-hour stop at Clermont the average
speed of the steamer was 5 mph (8 km/h).
Scheduled passenger service began on September 4, 1807. Steamboat left New
York on Saturdays at 6:00 pm, and returned from Albany on Wednesdays at
8:00 am, taking about 36 hours for each journey. Stops were made at West
Point, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Esopus, and Hudson other stops were
sometimes made, such as Red Hook and Catskill. In the company's publicity
the ship was called North River Steamboat or just Steamboat (there being no
other in operation at the time)'.
* 'In 1882, Thomas Edison begins the first commercial electrical power
plant in history. The Pearl Street Station, was a DC generating plant,
lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as
the day that the electrical age began.
- From Wikipedia: 'Pearl Street Station was the first central power plant
in the United States. It was located at 255-257 Pearl Street in Manhattan
on a site measuring 50 by 100 feet (15 by 30 m), just south of Fulton
Street and fired by coal. It began with one direct current generator, and
it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial
load of 400 lamps at 82 customers. By 1884, Pearl Street Station was
serving 508 customers with 10,164 lamps. The station was built by the
Edison Illuminating Company, which was headed by Thomas Edison. The station
was originally powered by custom-made Porter-Allen high-speed steam engines
designed to provide 175 horsepower at 700 rpm, but these proved to be
unreliable with their sensitive governors. They were removed and replaced
with new engines from Armington and Sims that proved to be much more
suitable for Edison's dynamos.
Pearl Street Station not only holds the distinction of being the world's
first central power plant, but it was also the world's first cogeneration
plant. While the steam engines provided grid electricity, Edison made use
of the thermal byproduct by distributing steam to local manufacturers, and
warming nearby buildings on the same Manhattan block.
The station burned down in 1890, destroying all but one dynamo that is now
kept in the Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
In 1929 the Edison Company constructed three scale working models of the
station. When a button was pushed, a motor turned the engines, generators,
and other equipment in the model. A set of lamps connected to labelled
buttons identified the various areas of the building. Cut-outs in the side
of the model building allowed examination of the boilers on the first
level, reciprocating steam engines and dynamos on the reinforced second
level, and the control and test gear on the third and fourth levels. The
models were constructed to a scale of one-half inch to the foot and were 62
inches long, 34 inches high and 13 inches wide. The models still exist and
are on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American
History in Washington, at the Consolidated Edison Learning Center in Long
Island City, New York and at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Up to 31 people worked on constructing the models which took about 6 months
to complete'.
* 'In 1885, The Exchange Buffet in NY, is the first cafeteria. The
cafeteria (Spanish for Coffee Shop) was for men only and the customers had
to stand while eating. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Perhaps the first self-service restaurant (not
necessarily considered a cafeteria) in the United States was the Exchange
Buffet in New York City, opened September 4, 1885, which catered to an
exclusively male clientele. Food was purchased at a counter, and patrons
ate standing up. This represents the predecessor of two formats: the
cafeteria, described below, and the automat.
During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, an entrepreneur
named John Kruger built an American version of the smörgåsbords he had seen
while traveling in Sweden. Emphasizing the simplicity and light fare, he
called it the Cafeteria - Spanish for coffee shop The exposition attracted
over 27 million visitors (half the US population at the time) in six
months, and it was initially through Kruger's operation that America first
heard the term and experienced the self-service dining format. Food court
style cafeteria in a Port Charlotte, Florida high school
Meanwhile, in everyday, hometown America, the chain of Childs Restaurants
was quickly growing from about 10 locations in New York City in 1890 to
hundreds across the United States and Canada by 1920. Childs is credited
with the critical innovation of adding trays and a tray line to the
self-service format, which they introduced in 1898 at their 130 Broadway
location. Childs did not change its format of sit-down dining, however.
This was soon the standard design for most Childs Restaurants - and many
imitators - from coast-to-coast, and ultimately the dominant design for
cafeterias.
It has also been said that the cafeteria craze started in May 1905, when a
woman named Helen Mosher opened a humble downtown L.A. restaurant where
people chose their food at a long counter and carried their own trays to
their tables. California does have a long and rich history in the cafeteria
format - most notably the many Boos Brothers Cafeterias, and also
Clifton's, and Schaber's. However, the facts do not warrant the wellspring
characterization that some have ascribed to the region. The earliest
cafeterias in California were opened at least 12 years after Kruger's
Cafeteria, and Childs already had several dozen locations scattered around
the country. Finally, Horn and Hardart, an automat format chain (slightly
different from the cafeteria), was also well established in the
mid-Atlantic region before 1900.
Between 1960 and 1981, the popularity of cafeteria format restaurants was
gradually overcome by the emergence of the fast food restaurant and fast
casual restaurant formats'.
* 'In 1888, George Eastman patented his camera and the brand name 'Kodak'
is registered as a trademark. The name Kodak has no special meaning. It was
the first camera to use celluloid roll film, which he invented. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Eastman Kodak Company, commonly known as Kodak, is
an American technology company that concentrates on imaging products, with
its historic basis on photography. The company is headquartered in
Rochester, New York, United States and incorporated in New Jersey. It was
founded by George Eastman in 1888.
Kodak provides packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and
professional services for businesses around the world. Its main business
segments are Digital Printing and Enterprise and Graphics, Entertainment
and Commercial Films. It is best known for photographic film products.
During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in
photographic film. The company's ubiquity was such that its tagline Kodak
moment entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that
demanded to be recorded for posterity.
Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of the
decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to
digital photography. As part of a turnaround strategy, Kodak focused on
digital photography and digital printing and attempted to generate revenues
through aggressive patent litigation. In January 2012, Kodak filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for
the Southern District of New York. In February 2012, Kodak announced that
it would cease making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital
picture frames and focus on the corporate digital imaging market. In August
2012, Kodak announced the intention to sell its photographic film
(excluding motion picture film), commercial scanners and kiosk operations
as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy.
The letter k was a favorite of Eastman's he is quoted as saying, it seems a
strong, incisive sort of letter.
He and his mother devised the name Kodak with an anagrams set. Eastman said
that there were three principal concepts he used in creating the name: it
should be short, easy to pronounce, and not resemble any other name or be
associated with anything else.
From the company's founding by George Eastman in 1888, Kodak followed the
razor and blades strategy of selling inexpensive cameras and making large
margins from consumables – film, chemicals and paper. As late as 1976,
Kodak commanded 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the U.S'.
* 'In 1923, The maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS
Shenandoah. It was a dirigible not a blimp (rigid frame, lighter-than-air
airship. It crashed during a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, 3 September 1925.
- From Wikipedia: 'USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy
rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–23 at Lakehurst Naval Air
Station, and first flew in September 1923. It developed the U.S. Navy's
experience with rigid airships, and made the first crossing of North
America by airship. On the 57th flight, Shenandoah was torn apart in a
squall line over Ohio in September of 1925.
'Shenandoah was originally designated FA-1, for Fleet Airship Number One
but this was changed to ZR-1. The airship was 680 ft (207.26 m) long and
weighed 36 tons (32658 kg). It had a range of 5,000 mi (4,300 nmi 8,000
km), and could reach speeds of 70 mph (61 kn 110 km/h). Shenandoah was
assembled at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1922–1923, in
Hangar No. 1, the only hangar large enough to accommodate the ship its
parts were fabricated at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia. NAS
Lakehurst had served as a base for Navy blimps for some time, but
Shenandoah was the first rigid airship to join the fleet.
The design was based on Zeppelin bomber L-49 (LZ-96), built in 1917. L-49
was a lightened height climber, designed for altitude at the expense of
other qualities. The design was found insufficient and a number of the
features of newer Zeppelins were used, as well as some structural
improvements. The structure was built from a new alloy of aluminum and
copper known as duralumin. Girders were fabricated at the Naval Aircraft
Factory. Whether the changes introduced into the original design of L-49
played a part in Shenandoah's later breakup is a matter of debate. An outer
cover of high-quality cotton cloth was sewn, laced or taped to the
duralumin frame and painted with aluminum dope.
As the first rigid airship to use helium rather than hydrogen, Shenandoah
had a significant edge in safety over previous airships. Helium was
relatively scarce at the time, and the Shenandoah used much of the world's
reserves just to fill its 2,100,000 cubic feet (59,000 m3) volume. Los
Angeles — the next rigid airship to enter Navy service, originally built by
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Germany as LZ 126 — was at first filled with the
helium from Shenandoah until more could be procured.
Shenandoah was powered by 300 hp (220 kW), eight-cylinder Packard gasoline
engines. Six engines were originally installed, but in 1924 one engine (aft
of the control car) was removed. The first frame of Shenandoah was erected
by 24 June 1922 on 20 August 1923, the completed airship was floated free
of the ground. Helium cost $55 per thousand cubic feet at the time, and was
considered too expensive to simply vent to the atmosphere to compensate for
the weight of fuel consumed by the gasoline engines. Neutral buoyancy was
preserved by installing condensers to capture the water vapor in the engine
exhaust'.
* 'In 1950, Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500,
the first 500-mile NASCAR race. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Bojangles' Southern 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series stock car race at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina,
United States. The race distance is 501 miles (806 km) long, and consists
of 367 laps. From 1950 to 2003, and again since 2015, the race has been
held on Labor Day weekend. The Southern 500 was largely considered one of
the Crown Jewels of the NASCAR calendar, and has been nicknamed NASCAR's
oldest superspeedway race. For decades, the race has been considered by
competitors and media as one of the more difficult and challenging races on
the NASCAR schedule, owing much to the track's unusual egg-shape, rough
pavement, and overall unforgiving nature. Darlington Raceway, where the
race is held, has a long and storied reputation as the Track Too Tough to
Tame.
Through 2003, Darlington held two Cup series races annually, the Southern
500 in the fall, and a 400-mile event in the spring. In 2004, the Southern
500 was moved to November and was run as the second-to-last race in the
inaugural Chase for the Cup. The following year, as the result of a
settlement in the Ferko lawsuit, Darlington lost one of its two dates. The
500-mile race was moved to the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend in May, and
renamed for the sponsorship of Dodge. The race was held as a night race
under-the-lights during this period.
The event re-assumed the Southern 500 name in 2009. In 2014, the race moved
to April after swapping dates with Kansas. NASCAR announced that the
Southern 500 would be returning to its traditional Labor Day weekend date
for 2015, replacing Atlanta as the host of the Labor Day weekend event
(Atlanta's race, meanwhile, was moved into the early portion of the
season).
Carl Edwards is the defending winner of the race, after winning it in
2015'.
* 'In 1956, The IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting System) is
the first magnetic disk storage commercial computer. It had a storage
capacity of only 5 million characters. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The IBM 305 RAMAC was the first commercial computer that
used a moving-head hard disk drive (magnetic disk storage) for secondary
storage. The system was publicly announced on September 14, 1956, with test
units already installed at the U.S. Navy and at private corporations. RAMAC
stood for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, as its design was
motivated by the need for real-time accounting in business.
The first RAMAC to be used in the U.S. auto industry was installed at
Chrysler's MOPAR Division in 1957. It replaced a huge tub file which was
part of MOPAR's parts inventory control and order processing system. The
305 was one of the last vacuum tube computers that IBM built. It weighed
over a ton. The IBM 350 disk system stored 5 million alphanumeric
characters recorded as 6 data bits, 1 parity bit and one space bit for 8
bits recorded per character. It had fifty 24-inch-diameter (610 mm) disks.
Two independent access arms moved up and down to select a disk, and in and
out to select a recording track, all under servo control. Average time to
locate a single record was 600 milliseconds. Several improved models were
added in the 1950s. The IBM RAMAC 305 system with 350 disk storage leased
for US$3,200 (equivalent to $26,961 in 2015) per month. More than 1,000
systems were built. Production ended in 1961 the RAMAC computer became
obsolete in 1962 when the IBM 1405 Disk Storage Unit for the IBM 1401 was
introduced, and the 305 was withdrawn in 1969.
The original 305 RAMAC computer system could be housed in a room of about 9
m (30 ft) by 15 m (50 ft) the 350 disk storage unit measured around 1.5
square metres (16 sq ft). The first hard disk unit was shipped September
13, 1956. The additional components of the computer were a card punch, a
central processing unit, a power supply unit, an operator's console/card
reader unit, and a printer. There was also a manual inquiry station that
allowed direct access to stored records. IBM touted the system as being
able to store the equivalent of 64,000 punched cards.
Programming the 305 involved not only writing machine language instructions
to be stored on the drum memory, but also almost every unit in the system
(including the computer itself) could be programmed by inserting wire
jumpers into a plugboard control panel.
During the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley (USA), IBM provided
the first electronic data processing systems for the Games. The system
featured an IBM RAMAC 305 computer, punched card data collection, and a
central printing facility'.
* 'In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Google is an American multinational technology company
specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online
advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of
its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that
places advertising near the list of search results.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D.
students at Stanford University, California. Together, they own about 14
percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting
power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately
held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took
place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in
Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.
In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its interests as a
holding company called Alphabet Inc. When this restructuring took place on
October 2, 2015, Google became Alphabet's leading subsidiary, as well as
the parent for Google's Internet interests.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford,
California.
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times
the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better
system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this
new technology PageRank it determined a website's relevance by the number
of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the
original site.
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine BackRub, because
the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.
Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling
of the word googol, the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was
picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large
quantities of information. Originally, Google ran under Stanford
University's website, with the domains google.stanford.edu and
z.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the
company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage
of a friend (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein,
a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.
In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one
billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931
million). In January 2013, Google announced it had earned US$50 billion in
annual revenue for the year of 2012. This marked the first time the company
had reached this feat, topping their 2011 total of $38 billion.
The company has reported fourth quarter (Dec 2014) Earnings Per Share (EPS)
of $6.88 – $0.20 under projections. Revenue came in at $14.5 billion (16.9%
growth year over year), also under expectations by $110 million'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in September
Food
All American Breakfast Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Histiocytosis Awareness Month
Hunger Action Month
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Prime Beef Month
kNational Rice Month
National Shake Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month
Health
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
888222707Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Cholesterol Education Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month
ITP Awareness Month
World Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
Mold Awareness Month
National Campus Safety Awareness Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National DNA, Geonomics and Stem Cell Education Month
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National ITP Awareness Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Pediculosis Prevention Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Pain Awareness Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Self Improvement Month
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
World Alzheimer's Month
Animal / Pets
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
Happy Cat Month
International/National Guide Dogs Month
National Pet Memorial Month
National Save A Tiger Month
National Service Dog Month
Save The Koala Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
Other
Be Kind To Editors and Writers Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
College Savings Month
Fall Hat Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Women's Friendship Month
Library Card Sign-up Month
National Coupon Month
National Home Furnishings Month
National Passport Awareness Month
National Sewing Month
National Translators Month
National Piano Month
National Wilderness Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Update Your Resume Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
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September in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Southern Hemisphere.
After the calendar reform that added January and February to the beginning of the year, September became the ninth month, but retained its name. It had 29 days until the Julian reform, which added a day.
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