<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Butterscotch Pudding Day'. . Basically equal parts of butter
and brow sugar. Older recipes called for one pound of butter, one pound of
sugar and a quarter pound of treacle (molasses).
- From Wikipedia ():
'Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are
brown sugar and butter, although other ingredients are part of some
recipes, such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known
recipes in the middle 19th century used treacle in place of or in addition
to sugar.
Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but for butterscotch the sugar is boiled
to the soft crack stage, and not hard crack as with toffee. Butterscotch
sauce, made of butterscotch and cream, is used as a topping for ice cream
(particularly sundaes).
The term butterscotch is also often used more specifically of the flavour
of brown sugar and butter together, even where the actual confection
butterscotch is not involved, such as in butterscotch pudding.
Food historians have several theories regarding the name and origin of this
confectionery, but none is conclusive. One explanation is the meaning to
cut or score for the word scotch, as the confection must be cut into
pieces, or scotched, before hardening. It is also possible that the scotch
part of its name was derived from the word scorch
Early mentions of butterscotch associate the confection with Doncaster in
Yorkshire. An 1848 issue of the Liverpool Mercury gave a recipe for
Doncaster butterscotch as one pound of butter, one pound of sugar and a
quarter of a pound of treacle, boiled together.
By 1851, Doncaster butterscotch was sold commercially by rival
confectioners S. Parkinson and Sons (still trading as Parkinson's), Henry
Hall, and Booth's, all of Doncaster, via agents elsewhere in Yorkshire.
Internationally, Parkinson's was recognised as the inventor but others
tried to claim the product for themselves, Parkinson's started to use and
advertise the Doncaster Church as their trademark.
It was advertised as Royal Doncaster Butterscotch, or The Queen's
Sweetmeat, and said to be the best emollient for the chest in the winter
season Parkinson's Butterscotch was by appointment to the royal household
and was presented to the Princess Elizabeth, then the Duchess of Edinburgh,
in 1948 and to Anne, Princess Royal in 2007.
In 1855, F. K. Robinson's Glossary of Yorkshire Words explained
Butterscotch as a treacle ball with an amalgamation of butter in it'.
[The Hankster says] Love it. Glad you don't have to make it over the stove anymore, although I bet my mom's version cooked in a pot over the stove was better tasting.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'.
Created by John Baur and Mark Summers (aka Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy)
in 1995.
[Th' Hankster Be A Hollerin' ] Maty, there be many a English to Pirate translators on the Internet.
* 'National Women Road Warrior Day'.
On the third Monday in September. Honors Americas traveling businesswomen.
[The Hankster says] Did you hear the one about the traveling saleswoman ...
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'National Eye Health Week'. September 19-25 in Great Britain.
* 'World Reflexology Week'. September 19-25
- From Wikipedia (Reflexology):
'Reflexology is an alternative medicine involving application of pressure
to the feet and hands with specific thumb, finger, and hand techniques
without the use of oil or lotion. It is based on a system of zones and
reflex areas that purportedly reflect an image of the body on the feet and
hands, with the premise that such work effects a physical change to the
body.
There is no convincing evidence that reflexology is effective for any
medical condition'.
<> Historical events on September 19
* 'In 1876, Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper,. with a
central brush, rubber wheels, and other improvements. .
- From Wikipedia: ' Melville Reuben Bissell (September 25, 1843 – March 15,
1889) was an American entrepreneur who invented the modern carpet sweeper.
The Bissell corporation is named after him.
Following the Panic of 1873, Bissell began working on a carpet sweeper. In
1876 Bissell patented a sweeper with a central brush, rubber wheels, and
other improvements on vacuum technology. A fire in 1884 destroyed his first
factory, but he was able to overcome the loss and expand his business.
Following his death from pneumonia in 1889 (at the tragically young age of
only 45) in Grand Rapids, his wife, Anna Bissell, took control of the
company, becoming America's first female corporate Chief Executive
Officer'.
* 'In 1957, The United States has their first underground nuclear bomb
testing as part of Operation Plumbbob. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests
conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site,
following Project 57, and preceding Project 58/58A. It was the biggest,
longest, and most controversial test series in the continental United
States.
The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which only two did not produce
any nuclear yield. Twenty-one laboratories and government agencies were
involved. While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the
development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range
missiles, they also tested air defense and anti-submarine warheads with
smaller yields. They included forty-three military effects tests on civil
and military structures, radiation and bio-medical studies, and aircraft
structural tests. Operation Plumbbob had the tallest tower tests to date in
the U.S. nuclear testing program as well as high-altitude balloon tests.
One nuclear test involved the largest troop maneuver ever associated with
U.S. nuclear testing.
Approximately 18,000 members of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines
participated in exercises Desert Rock VII and VIII during Operation
Plumbbob. The military was interested in knowing how the average
foot-soldier would stand up, physically and psychologically, to the rigors
of the tactical nuclear battlefield.
Almost 1,200 pigs were subjected to bio-medical experiments and
blast-effects studies during Operation Plumbbob. On shot Priscilla (37 kt),
719 pigs were used in various experiments on Frenchman Flat. Some pigs were
placed in elevated cages and provided with suits made of different
materials, to test which materials provided best protection from the
thermal radiation. As shown and reported in the PBS documentary Dark
Circle, the pigs survived, but with third-degree burns to 80% of their
bodies. Other pigs were placed in pens behind large sheets of glass at
measured distances from the hypocenter to test the effects of flying debris
on living targets. Studies were conducted of radioactive contamination and
fallout from a simulated accidental detonation of a weapon and projects
concerning earth motion, blast loading and neutron output were carried out.
Nuclear weapons safety experiments were conducted to study the possibility
of a nuclear weapon detonation during an accident. On July 26, 1957, a
safety experiment, Pascal-A, was detonated in an unstemmed hole at NTS,
becoming the first underground shaft nuclear test. The knowledge gained
here would provide data to prevent nuclear yields in case of accidental
detonations–for example, in a plane crash.
The John shot on July 19, 1957 was the only test of the Air Force's AIR-2
Genie missile with a nuclear warhead. It was fired from an F-89 Scorpion
fighter over Yucca Flats at the NNSS. On the ground, the Air Force carried
out a public relations event by having five Air Force officers and a
photographer stand under ground zero of the blast, which took place at
between 18,500 and 20,000 feet altitude, with the idea of demonstrating the
possibility of the use of the weapon over civilian populations without ill
effects. In 2012 the photographer and the last survivor of the five met in
a restaurant in Dallas to reminisce. The photographer, Akira George
Yoshitake, died in October 2013, and the last of the six, Donald A.
Luttrell, died December 2014.
The Rainier shot, conducted September 19, 1957, was the first fully
contained underground nuclear test, meaning that no fission products were
vented into the atmosphere. This test of 1.7 kt could be detected around
the world by seismologists using ordinary seismic instruments. The Rainier
test became the prototype for larger and more powerful underground tests.
Some images from Upshot-Knothole Grable were accidentally relabeled as
belonging to the Priscilla shot from Operation Plumbbob in 1957. As a
consequence many publications including official government documents have
the photo mislabeled'.
* 'In 1940, Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in
order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. He did so and
escaped in 1943. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948 Polish
pronunciation: codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafinski, Druh, Witold)
was a Polish soldier, a rittmeister of the Polish Cavalry during the Second
Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska)
resistance group in German-occupied Poland in November 1939, and a member
of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa), which was formed in February
1942. He was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied
intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust. He
was Roman Catholic.
During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to
get imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp in order to gather intelligence
and escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and
as early as 1941, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz
atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly two and a half
years of imprisonment. Pilecki took part in the Warsaw Uprising in August
1944. He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile
after the Soviet-backed communist takeover of Poland and was arrested in
1947 by the Stalinist secret police (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa) on charges of
working for foreign imperialism, thought to be a euphemism for MI6. He was
executed after a show trial in 1948. Until 1989, information about his
exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime.
As a result of his deeds, he is considered as one of the greatest wartime
heroes In the foreword to the book The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, wrote as follows: When God
created the human being, God had in mind that we should all be like Captain
Witold Pilecki, of blessed memory. In the introduction to that book Norman
Davies, a British historian, wrote: If there was an Allied hero who
deserved to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few peers.
At the commemoration event of International Holocaust Remembrance Day held
in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on 27 January 2013 Ryszard Schnepf, the
Polish Ambassador to the US, described Pilecki as a diamond among Poland's
heroes and the highest example of Polish patriotism'.
* 'In 1960, Chubby Checker's 'The Twist' reaches #1 (Billboard Hot 100). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Twist is an American pop song written and originally
released in early 1959 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to
Teardrops on Your Letter Ballard's version was a moderate 1960 hit, peaking
at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song gave birth to the Twist
dance craze. His single became a hit, reaching number 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a
record as the only song to reach number 1 in two different chart runs when
it resurfaced and topped the chart again for two weeks starting on January
13, 1962.
In 1988, The Twist again became popular due to a new recording of the song
by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in
the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, Billboard magazine
declared the song the biggest hit of the 1960s'.
* 'In 1970, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, an American sitcom, premiered on
CBS. There were 168 ep. over 7 seasons, September 19, 1970 - March 19,
1977.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show, originally known simply by
the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore, is an American television
sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from
1970 to 1977. The program was a television breakthrough, with the first
never-married, independent career woman as the central character.
It is one of the most acclaimed television programs in US television
history. It received high praise from critics, including Emmy Awards for
Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row (1975–77), and continued to
be honored long after the final episode aired. In 2013, the Writers Guild
of America ranked The Mary Tyler Moore Show No. 6 in its list of the 101
Best Written TV Series of All Time'.
* 'In 1980, 'Ordinary People' directed by Robert Redford and starring
Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch is released (Best
Picture 1981). .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that
marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. It stars Donald
Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton.
The story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in
Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of one of their sons in a
boating accident. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976
novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest.
The film received six Academy Award nominations and won four: the Academy
Award for Best Picture, Best Director for Redford, Adapted Screenplay for
Sargent, and Supporting Actor for Hutton. In addition, it won five Golden
Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director (Redford), Best Actress
in a Drama (Tyler Moore), Best Supporting Actor (Hutton), and Best
Screenplay (Sargent)'.
* 'In 1982, Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-(
on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. .
- From Wikipedia: 'An emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial
expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters, usually written to
express a person's feelings or mood.
In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the
direction of the text. Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon
called kaomoji often confused with emoji in the West) that can be
understood without tilting one's head to the left. This style arose on
ASCII NET of Japan in 1986.
As social media has become widespread, emoticons have played a significant
role in communication through technology, and some devices have provided
stylized pictures that do not use punctuation. They offer another range of
tone and feeling through texting that portrays specific emotions through
facial gestures while in the midst of text-based cyber communication.
The word is a portmanteau word of the English words emotion and icon In web
forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often
automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be
called emoticons as well. Emoticons for a smiley face :-) and sad face :-(
appear in the first documented use in digital form. Certain complex
character combinations can only be accomplished in a double-byte languages,
giving rise to especially complex forms, sometimes known by their romanized
Japanese name of kaomoji.
The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were
commonly used in casual and humorous writing. Digital forms of emoticons on
the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a message on 19 September
1982.
Scott Fahlman was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and
:-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion. The
text of his original proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University
computer science general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44), was thought to
have been lost, but was recovered 20 years later by Jeff Baird from old
backup tapes/.
* 'In 1989, 'Doogie Howser, M.D.', starring Neil Patrick Harris as a
teenage physician, debuts on ABC. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American comedy-drama
television series that ran for four seasons on ABC from September 19, 1989,
to March 24, 1993, totaling 97 episodes. Created by Steven Bochco and David
E. Kelley, it stars Neil Patrick Harris in the title role as a teenage
physician who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager'.
* 'In 1991, German tourists discovered Otzi the Iceman near the border of
Austria and Italy. He lived about 3,300 BC. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ötzi (German pronunciation: also called the
Iceman, the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, the Tyrolean Iceman,
Homo tyrolensis, and the Hauslabjoch mummy) is a nickname given to the
well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived around 3,300 BCE, more
precisely between 3359 and 3105 BCE, with a 66% chance that he died between
3239 and 3105 BCE. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal
Alps, hence the nickname Ötzi, near the Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch
on the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest known
natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic
Europeans. His body and belongings are displayed in the South Tyrol Museum
of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.
The corpse has been extensively examined, measured, X-rayed, and dated.
Tissues and intestinal contents have been examined microscopically, as have
the items found with the body. In August 2004, frozen bodies of three
Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed during the Battle of San Matteo (1918)
were found on the mountain Punta San Matteo in Trentino. One body was sent
to a museum in the hope that research on how the environment affected its
preservation would help unravel Ötzi's past.
It was initially believed that Ötzi died from exposure during a winter
storm. Later it was speculated that Ötzi may have been a victim of a ritual
sacrifice, perhaps for being a chieftain. This explanation was inspired by
theories previously advanced for the first millennium BCE bodies recovered
from peat bogs such as the Tollund Man and the Lindow Man.
In 2001 X-rays and a CT scan revealed that Ötzi had an arrowhead lodged in
his left shoulder when he died, and a matching small tear on his coat. The
discovery of the arrowhead prompted researchers to theorize Ötzi died of
blood loss from the wound, which would probably have been fatal even if
modern medical techniques had been available. Further research found that
the arrow's shaft had been removed before death, and close examination of
the body found bruises and cuts to the hands, wrists and chest and cerebral
trauma indicative of a blow to the head. One of the cuts was to the base of
his thumb that reached down to the bone but had no time to heal before his
death. Currently, it is believed that the cause of death was a blow to the
head, but researchers are unsure of what inflicted the fatal injury.
Recent DNA analyses claim they revealed traces of blood from at least four
other people on his gear: one from his knife, two from the same arrowhead,
and a fourth from his coat. Interpretations of these findings were that
Ötzi killed two people with the same arrow, and was able to retrieve it on
both occasions, and the blood on his coat was from a wounded comrade he may
have carried over his back. Ötzi's posture in death (frozen body, face
down, left arm bent across the chest) could support a theory that before
death occurred and rigor mortis set in, the Iceman was turned on to his
stomach in the effort to remove the arrow shaft.
In 2010, it was proposed that Ötzi died at a much lower altitude and was
buried higher in the mountains, as posited by archaeologist Alessandro
Vanzetti of the Sapienza University of Rome and his colleagues. According
to their study of the items found near Ötzi and their locations, it is
possible that the iceman may have been placed above what has been
interpreted as a stone burial mound but was subsequently moved with each
thaw cycle that created a flowing watery mix driven by gravity before being
re-frozen. While archaeobotanist Klaus Oeggl of the University of Innsbruck
agrees that the natural process described probably caused the body to move
from the ridge that includes the stone formation, he pointed out that the
paper provided no compelling evidence to demonstrate that the scattered
stones constituted a burial platform. Moreover, biological anthropologist
Albert Zink argues that the iceman's bones display no dislocations that
would have resulted from a downhill slide and that the intact blood clots
in his arrow wound would show damage if the body had been moved up the
mountain. In either case, the burial theory does not contradict the
possibility of a violent cause of death'.
* 'In 1994,'ER' premieres on NBC, created by Michael Crichton and starring
George Clooney and Anthony Edwards. .
- From Wikipedia: 'ER is an American medical drama television series
created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC
from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes
spanning over 15 seasons. It was produced by Constant c Productions and
Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. Television. ER follows
the inner life of the emergency room (ER) of fictional County General
Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and various critical issues faced by the
room's physicians and staff. The show became the longest-running primetime
medical drama in American television history. It won 23 Primetime Emmy
Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124
Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in
history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, while the
cast earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble
Performance in a Drama Series'.
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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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