<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Cherries Jubilee Day'. . Another of chef Auguste Escoffie's
creations.
- From Wikipedia (Cherries jubilee):
'Cherries jubilee is a dessert dish made with cherries and liqueur
(typically Kirschwasser), which is subsequently flambéed, and commonly
served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream.
The recipe is generally credited to Auguste Escoffier, who prepared the
dish for one of Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations, widely thought to be
the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Other flambéed fruit dishes include bananas Foster, mangos diablo (mangos
flambéed in tequila) and pêches Louis (peaches flamed in whiskey)'.
[The Hankster says] Never had it. The fast food restaurants I visit don't have it on the menu.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Punctuation Day in the USA'.
Promotes it's correct usage. Created by Jeff Rubin in 2004.
[The Hankster says] This is social media. We don't need no stinking punctuation
* 'International Lace Day'.
On the fourth Saturday of September. Since 1980 by North Downs Lacemakers.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'National Family Health and Fitness Day USA'. Last Saturday in September.
Since 1996 by the Health Information Resource Center.
* 'National Familial Hypercholesterolemia Day'. By the FH Foundation .
- From Wikipedia (Familial hypercholesterolemia):
'Familial hypercholesterolemia (abbreviated FH, also spelled familial
hypercholesterolaemia) is a genetic disorder characterized by high
cholesterol levels, specifically very high levels of low-density
lipoprotein (LDL, bad cholesterol), in the blood and early cardiovascular
disease. Since individuals with FH underlying body biochemistry is slightly
different, their high cholesterol levels are less responsive to the kinds
of cholesterol control methods which are usually more effective in people
without FH (such as dietary modification and statin tablets). Nevertheless,
treatment (including higher statin doses) is usually effective.
Many people have mutations in the LDLR gene that encodes the LDL receptor
protein, which normally removes LDL from the circulation, or apolipoprotein
B (ApoB), which is the part of LDL that binds with the receptor mutations
in other genes are rare. People who have one abnormal copy (are
heterozygous) of the LDLR gene may develop cardiovascular disease
prematurely at the age of 30 to 40. Having two abnormal copies (being
homozygous) may cause severe cardiovascular disease in childhood.
Heterozygous FH is a common genetic disorder, inherited in an autosomal
dominant pattern, occurring in 1:500 people in most countries homozygous FH
is much rarer, occurring in 1 in a million births.
Heterozygous FH is normally treated with statins, bile acid sequestrants,
or other lipid lowering agents that lower cholesterol levels. New cases are
generally offered genetic counseling. Homozygous FH often does not respond
to medical therapy and may require other treatments, including LDL
apheresis (removal of LDL in a method similar to dialysis) and occasionally
liver transplantation'.
* 'National Seat Check Saturday'. During Child Safety Week 18-24.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'International Rabbit Day'. A protection and awareness day.
o Other:
* 'National Public Lands Day'. Last Saturday of September.
- From Wikipedia (National Public Lands Day):
'National Public Lands Day is celebrated annually at public lands in the
United States on a Saturday in late September. A signature event of the
National Environmental Education Foundation, it promotes both popular
enjoyment and volunteer conservation of public lands.
Three federal agencies and 700 volunteers launched the first National
Public Lands Day in 1994. By 2010, participation grew to 170,000 volunteers
at over 2,000 sites across the country, the District of Columbia and U.S.
territories. In addition to National Public Lands Day being a fee-free day
(free entry day) at many federally managed lands, volunteers who
participate at federal land sites are rewarded with coupons for free entry
into their favorite federal public land areas that have entrance fees.
The 2008 event featured an initiative to plant one million trees in honor
of the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. This goal was
exceeded, with more than 1.6 million trees planted. The 2009 event featured
a preview of The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which began airing
the next night on PBS stations nationwide. The preview was sent to each
national park on DVD and aired in their visitor center auditoriums. Other
National Public Lands Day events occurred on September 24, 2011 and
September 29, 2012'.
* 'National Hunting and Fishing Day'. Since 1972 by presidential
proclamation. On the fourth Saturday in September.
<> Historical events on September 24
* 'In 1789, The US Federal Judiciary Act is passed. Creates a six-person
Supreme Court. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73 ) was a
United States federal statute adopted on September 24, 1789, in the first
session of the First United States Congress. It established the federal
judiciary of the United States. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution
prescribed that the judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in
one supreme Court, and such inferior Courts as Congress saw fit to
establish. It made no provision for the composition or procedures of any of
the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide.
The existence of a separate federal judiciary had been controversial during
the debates over the ratification of the Constitution. Anti-Federalists had
denounced the judicial power as a potential instrument of national tyranny.
Indeed, of the ten amendments that eventually became the Bill of Rights,
five (the fourth through the eighth) dealt primarily with judicial
proceedings. Even after ratification, some opponents of a strong judiciary
urged that the federal court system be limited to a Supreme Court and
perhaps local admiralty judges. The Congress, however, decided to establish
a system of federal trial courts with broader jurisdiction, thereby
creating an arm for enforcement of national laws within each state'.
* 'In 1852, The first steam powered airship (dirigible ) takes flight. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship
built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, the first powered and steerable
(French: dirigeable - directable) airship to fly. The craft featured an
elongated hydrogen-filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end.
From this was suspended a long beam with a triangular, sail-like rudder at
its aft end, and beneath the beam a platform for the pilot and steam
engine. Due to the highly flammable nature of the lift gas, special
precautions were taken to minimise the potential for the envelope to be
ignited by the engine beneath it. The engine's exhaust was diverted
downwards to a long pipe projecting below the platform, and the area
surrounding the boiler's stoke hole was surrounded by wire gauze. On 24
September 1852, Giffard flew the airship from the hippodrome at Place de
l'Etoile to Élancourt, covering the 27 km (17 mi) in around 3 hours,
demonstrating maneuvering along the way. The engine, however, was not
sufficiently powerful to allow Giffard to fly against the wind to make a
return journey'.
* 'In 1906, Devil's Tower, Wyoming was declared the nation's first national
monument. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Devils Tower which means Bear Lodge and Brown Buffalo
Horn, respectively) is an laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the
Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in
Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises
dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867
feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above
sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument,
established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The
Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed
Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
The landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed mostly of sedimentary
rocks. The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid
down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years
ago. This dark red sandstone and maroon siltstone, interbedded with shale,
can be seen along the Belle Fourche River. Oxidation of iron minerals
causes the redness of the rocks. This rock layer is known as the Spearfish
Formation.
The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Col.
Richard Irving Dodge when his interpreter misinterpreted the name to mean
Bad God's Tower, which then became Devil's Tower. All informati signs in
that area use the name Devils Tower, following a geographic naming standard
whereby the apostrophe is eliminated.
In 2005, a proposal to recognize several American Indian ties through the
additional designation of the monolith as Bear Lodge National Historic
Landmark met with opposition from United States Representative Barbara
Cubin, arguing that a name change will harm the tourist trade and bring
economic hardship to area communities
The landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed mostly of sedimentary
rocks. The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid
down in a shallow sea during the Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years
ago. This dark red sandstone and maroon siltstone, interbedded with shale,
can be seen along the Belle Fourche River. Oxidation of iron minerals
causes the redness of the rocks. This rock layer is known as the Spearfish
Formation.
Above the Spearfish formation is a thin band of white gypsum, called the
Gypsum Springs Formation. This layer of gypsum was deposited during the
Jurassic period, 195 to 136 million years ago.
Created as sea levels and climates repeatedly changed, gray-green shales
(deposited in low-oxygen environments such as marshes) were interbedded
with fine-grained sandstones, limestones, and sometimes thin beds of red
mudstone. This composition, called the Stockade Beaver member, is part of
the Sundance Formation. The Hulett Sandstone member, also part of the
Sundance formation, is composed of yellow fine-grained sandstone. Resistant
to weathering, it forms the nearly vertical cliffs which encircle the Tower
itself.
During the Paleocene Epoch, 56 to 66 million years ago, the Rocky Mountains
and the Black Hills were uplifted. Magma rose through the crust, intruding
into the existing sedimentary rock layers'.
* 'In 1915, The silent film 'The Lamb,' Douglas Fairbanks first film, was
shown at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York City, NY. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Lamb is a 1915 American silent adventure
comedy/Western film featuring Douglas Fairbanks in his first starring role.
Directed by W. Christy Cabanne, the film is based on the popular 1913
Broadway play The New Henrietta, in which Fairbanks co-starred with William
H. Crane, Amelia Bingham and a very young Patricia Collinge. D. W.
Griffith, writing under the pseudonym Granville Barker, along with director
Christy Cabanne, essentially expanded the play beyond the plush nouveau
riche apartment setting of the play, and provided a western element to the
story. This would give Fairbanks a chance to show his physical prowess
cinematically and loosen the play from what would be stage bound
constraints. Griffith also altered characters Fairbanks' character's name
is changed to Gerald, with his parent being his mother (Kate Toncray),
whereas in the play his character was named Nick with his parent being his
father played by Crane.
A copy of The Lamb is preserved at the George Eastman House'.
* 'In 1958, The TV show 'The Donna Reed Show' premiers. It starred Donna
Reed, Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares, Paul Petersen and Patty Petersen'. It ran
for 8 seasons, 276 ep. from September 24, 1958 – March 19, 1966 .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy
starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz
co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares
and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. The show
originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966. When
Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersen's little sister, Patty Petersen,
joined the cast as adopted daughter Trisha. Patty Petersen had first
appeared in the episode, A Way of Her Own, on January 31, 1963. Actress
Janet Landgard was a series regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby.
Bob Crane and Ann McCrea appeared in the last seasons as Dr. Dave Kelsey
and his wife, Midge, friends of the Stones, and Darryl Richard became a
near regular in thirty-two episodes as Smitty, Jeff's best buddy. The show
featured a variety of celebrity guests including Esther Williams as a
famous dress designer, baseball superstars Don Drysdale and Willie Mays as
themselves, teen heartthrob James Darren as a pop singer with the measles,
canine superstar Lassie as herself, and young Jay North of CBS's Dennis the
Menace.
The series was created by William S. Roberts and developed by Reed and her
then husband, producer Tony Owen. Episodes revolved around typical family
problems of the period such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a
retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the
children. Then-daring themes such as women's rights and freedom of the
press were occasionally explored.
The show had an uncertain start in the ratings and was almost cancelled,
but fared better when it was moved from Wednesday to Thursday nights. In
the show's middle seasons, Fabares sang what became a #1 teen pop hit
Johnny Angel, and Petersen had above average success with the song My Dad,
also introduced during the course of the series.
The Donna Reed Show was one of television's top 25 shows in 1963-1964. Reed
was repeatedly nominated for Emmy Awards between 1959 and 1962, and won a
Golden Globe as Best Female TV Star in 1963. She eventually grew tired of
the work-a-day grind involved in the program, and it was cancelled in 1966
after 275 episodes'.
* 'In 1960, The USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft
carrier, is launched. .
- From Wikipedia: 'USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is an
inactive United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the world's first
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel
to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is
nicknamed Big E At 1,123 ft (342 m), she is the longest naval vessel ever
built. Her 93,284-long-ton (94,781 tonnes) displacement ranked her as the
12th-heaviest supercarrier, after the 10 carriers of the Nimitz class and
the USS Gerald R. Ford. Enterprise had a crew of some 4,600 service
members.
The only ship of her class, Enterprise was, at the time of inactivation,
the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the United States Navy after the
wooden-hulled USS Constitution and USS Pueblo. She was originally scheduled
for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors
and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford, but the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement
for 2013, when she would have served for 51 consecutive years, longer than
any other U.S. aircraft carrier.
Enterprise's home port was Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia as of September
2012. Her original home port was Naval Air Station Alameda until its
closure in 1997. When in port at NAS Alameda, she was visible to those
crossing the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. She was the flagship of
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz while he lived in Berkeley, California until
his death in 1966. Her final deployment, the last before her inactivation,
began on 10 March 2012 and ended 4 November 2012. She was inactivated on 1
December 2012, with her official decommissioning taking place sometime in
2016 after the completion of an extensive terminal offload program
currently underway. The name has been adopted by the future Gerald R.
Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-80).
As of 2016, Enterprise is still a commissioned United States Navy ship, but
is inactive. She has undergone enough of the 48 month inactivation process
to render her unfit for further military service. Inactivation removes
fuel, fluids, furnishings, tools, fittings and de-energizes the ship's
electrical system. Enterprise has already been cut open to allow the
removal of usable systems'.
* 'In 1964, The TV show 'The Munsters' premieres. It starred Fred Gwynne,
Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Beverley Owen (1964) Pat Priest (1964–1966) and
Butch Patrick. It ran for 2 seasons and 70 ep. from September 24, 1964 –
May 12, 1966.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Munsters is an American television sitcom depicting
the home life of a family of benign monsters. It stars Fred Gwynne as
Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series
was a satire of both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family
fare of the era, and was produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver. It
ran concurrently with the similarly macabre themed The Addams Family and
achieved higher figures in the Nielsen ratings.
The series originally aired on Thursday at 7:30 pm on CBS from September
24, 1964, to May 12, 1966 70 episodes were produced. It was cancelled after
ratings dropped to a low due to the premiere of ABC's Batman, which was in
color. Though ratings were low during its initial two-year run, The
Munsters found a large audience in syndication. This popularity warranted a
spin-off series, as well as several films, including one with a theatrical
release.
On October 26, 2012, NBC aired a modern reimagining of The Munsters called
Mockingbird Lane as a pilot. The series failed to be picked up by NBC due
to disagreements on the dark nature and inconsistent tone'.
* 'In 1968, The investigative news program '60 Minutes' debuts on CBS. .
- From Wikipedia: '60 Minutes is an American newsmagazine television
program broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the
program was created by Don Hewitt, who chose to set it apart from other
news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation.
In 2002, 60 Minutes was ranked #6 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All
Time and in 2013, it was ranked #24 on TV Guide's 60 Best Series of All
Time. The New York Times has called it one of the most esteemed news
magazines on American television'.
* 'In 1968, The TV show 'The Mod Squad' premiered on ABC-TV. It starred
Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton and Tige Andrews. It
ran for 5 seasons for 123 ep. from September 24, 1968 – August 23, 1973.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran
on ABC from 1968 to 1973. It stars Michael Cole as Peter Pete Cochran,
Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln Linc Hayes,
and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the
series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.
The iconic counterculture police series earned six Emmy Award nominations,
four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors
Guild of America Award, and four Logies. In 1997, a 1970 episode Mother of
Sorrow was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time'.
* 'In 1970, The first automated return of a lunar sample is made by the
Soviet Luna 16. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Luna 16 was an unmanned space mission, part of the
Soviet Luna program.
Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample
of lunar soil to Earth after five unsuccessful similar attempts. The sample
was returned from Mare Fecunditatis. It represented the first lunar sample
return mission by the Soviet Union and was the third lunar sample return
mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.
The spacecraft consisted of two attached stages, an ascent stage mounted on
top of a descent stage. The descent stage was a cylindrical body with four
protruding landing legs, fuel tanks, a landing radar, and a dual descent
engine complex.
A main descent engine was used to slow the craft until it reached a cutoff
point which was determined by the on-board computer based on altitude and
velocity. After cutoff a bank of lower thrust jets was used for the final
landing. The descent stage also acted as a launch pad for the ascent stage.
The ascent stage was a smaller cylinder with a rounded top. It carried a
cylindrical hermetically sealed soil sample container inside a re-entry
capsule.
The spacecraft descent stage was equipped with a television camera,
radiation and temperature monitors, telecommunications equipment, and an
extendable arm with a drilling rig for the collection of a lunar soil
sample.
Finally, after 26 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar surface at 07:43 UT on
21 September, the spacecraft's upper stage lifted off from the Moon. The
lower stage of Luna 16 remained on the lunar surface and continued
transmission of lunar temperature and radiation data. Three days later on
24 September, after a direct ascent traverse with no mid-course
corrections, the capsule, with its 101 grams of lunar soil, reentered
Earth's atmosphere at a velocity of 11 kilometers per second. The capsule
parachuted down 80 kilometers southeast of the town of Jezkazgan in
Kazakhstan at 05:25 UT on 24 September 1970. Analysis of the dark basalt
material indicated a close resemblance to soil recovered by the American
Apollo 12 mission. ,br /> According to the Bochum Observatory in Germany
strong and good quality television pictures were returned by the
spacecraft. Luna 16 was a landmark success for the Soviets in their deep
space exploration program the mission accomplished the first fully
automatic recovery of soil samples from the surface of an extraterrestrial
body'.
* 'In 1977, The TV show 'The Love Boat' premieres. It starred Gavin
MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan
and Ted McGinley. It ran for 9 seasons for 249 ep. from September 24, 1977
– February 27, 1987. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Love Boat is an American television series set on a
cruise ship which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5, 1977,
until May 24, 1986 three-hour specials aired in 1986-87 and 1990. The show
revolves around the ship's captain (played by Gavin MacLeod) and a handful
of its crew, with several passengers – played by different guest actors for
each episode – having romantic and humorous adventures. It was part of
ABC's popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that
show ended in 1984.
The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based (also
titled The Love Boat) was itself based on the nonfiction book Love Boats by
Jeraldine Saunders, a real-life cruise director. Two more TV movies (titled
The Love Boat II and The New Love Boat) would follow before the series
began its first season in September 1977.
The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced
several successful series for ABC from the 1960s into the 1980s.
In 1997, the episode with segment titles Hidden Treasure, Picture from the
Past, and Ace's Salary (season 9, episode 3) was ranked No. 82 on TV
Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. The Love Boat ran for nine
seasons plus four specials. A made-for-TV movie, titled The Love Boat: A
Valentine Voyage, starring four of the original cast members, aired on
February 12, 1990'.
* 'In 1979, CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which
features the first public electronic mail service. .
- From Wikipedia: 'CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known
by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial online service in the
United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major
player through the mid-1990s. At its peak in the early 1990s, CIS was known
for its online chat system, message forums covering a variety of topics,
extensive software libraries for most computer platforms, and a series of
popular online games, notably MegaWars III and Island of Kesmai. They are
also known for their introduction of the GIF format for pictures, and CIS
was a very popular GIF exchange mechanism.
AOL's launch into the PC market in 1991 marked the beginning of the end for
CIS. AOL used a monthly subscription instead of hourly rates, so for active
users it was much less expensive. AOL also used a GUI-based client, and
while such systems existed for CIS, they only supported a subset of the
system's functionality and were purchased separately. In response, CIS
lowered their hourly rates on several occasions. The number of users grew,
peaking at 3 million in April 1995. By this point AOL had over 20 million
users in the US alone, but this was off their peak of 27 million due to
customers leaving for lower-cost offerings. CIS finally introduced monthly
pricing in late 1997, but by that time the number of users leaving all
online services for dialup internet service providers was reaching a
crescendo.
In 1997, CIS's parent company, H and R Block, announced its desire to sell
the company. A complex deal was worked out with WorldCom acting as a
broker, resulting in CIS being sold to AOL. While continuing the original
service, renamed CompuServe Classic, AOL also used the CompuServe brand for
several low-cost offerings CompuServe 2000 was a rebranded AOL client with
separate services, while CompuServe Dialler was a low-cost dialup ISP.
CompuServe Classic shut down in 2009, Compuserve 2000 followed suit in
2011. CompuServe Dialer continues to operate as an internet portal'.
* 'In 2005, Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating
Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic
hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed
in the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane
season, which included three of the six most intense Atlantic hurricanes
ever recorded (along with #1 Wilma and #6 Katrina), Rita was the eighteenth
named storm, tenth hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season.
Rita formed near The Bahamas from a tropical wave on September 18 that
originally developed off the coast of West Africa. It moved westward, and
after passing through the Florida Straits, Rita entered an environment of
abnormally warm waters. It rapidly intensified to reach peak winds of 180
mph (285 km/h) on September 21. After steadily weakening and beginning to
curve to the northwest, Rita gradually weakened and made landfall between
Sabine Pass, Texas and Holly Beach, Louisiana with winds of 120 mph (195
km/h) on September 24. It weakened over land and degenerated into a large
low-pressure area over the lower Mississippi Valley on September 26.
In Louisiana, the storm surge from Rita inundated low-lying communities
near the coast, worsening effects caused by Hurricane Katrina less than a
month prior. The surge topped levees, allowing water to surge further
inland. Lake Charles suffered from severe flooding. Areas in Texas suffered
from extensive wind damage. According to an October 25, 2005 Disaster
Center report, 4,526 single-family dwellings were destroyed in Orange and
Jefferson counties located in Southeast Texas. Major damage was sustained
by 14,256 an additional single-family dwellings and another 26,211
single-family dwellings received some damage. Mobile homes and apartments
also sustained significant damage or total destruction. In all, nine
counties in the state were declared disaster areas after the storm.
Electric service was disrupted in some areas of both Texas and Louisiana
for several weeks. Texas reported the most deaths from the hurricane, where
113 deaths were reported, 107 of which were associated with the evacuation
of the Houston metropolitan area.
Moderate to severe damage was reported across the lower Mississippi Valley.
Rainfall from the storm and its associated remnants extended from Louisiana
to Michigan. Rainfall peaked at 16.00 in (406 mm) in Central Louisiana.
Several tornadoes were also associated with the hurricane and its
subsequent remnants. Throughout the path of Rita, damage totaled about $12
billion (2005 USD, $15.4 billion 2016 USD). As many as 120 deaths in four
U.S. states were directly related to the hurricane'.
* 'In 2014, The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into
Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully
inserted into orbit of Mars. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan
(Mars-craft, from Sanskrit: mangala, Mars and ??? yana, craft, vehicle),
is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on
5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is
India's first interplanetary mission and ISRO has become the fourth space
agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the
European Space Agency. It is the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit,
and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at
Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota Range SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, using
a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC on 5
November 2013. The launch window was approximately 20 days long and started
on 28 October 2013. The MOM probe spent about a month in Earth orbit, where
it made a series of seven apogee-raising orbital manoeuvres before
trans-Mars injection on 30 November 2013 (UTC). After a 298-day transit to
Mars, it was successfully inserted into Mars orbit on 24 September 2014.
The mission is a technology demonstrator project to develop the
technologies for designing, planning, management, and operations of an
interplanetary mission. It carries five instruments that will help advance
knowledge about Mars to achieve its secondary, scientific objective. The
spacecraft is currently being monitored from the Spacecraft Control Centre
at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore with
support from Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) antennae at Byalalu'. s
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September is:
September origin (from Wikipedia): Originally September (Latin septem, "seven") was the seventh of ten months on the oldest known Roman calendar.
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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