<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Corned Beef Hash Day'. . It appears to have become popular
during and after WW II due to the rationing of fresh meat.
- From Wikipedia (Hash (food)):
'Hash is a dish consisting of diced or chopped meat, potatoes, and spices
that are mixed together and then cooked either alone or with other
ingredients such as onions. The name is derived from the French verb hacher
(to chop).
Corned beef hash became especially popular in some countries including in
Britain and France during and after World War II as rationing limited the
availability of fresh meat.
In many locations, hash is served primarily as a breakfast food on
restaurant menus and as home cuisine, often served with eggs and toast (or
biscuits(US) or Bun/Bap/Barmcake/Roll/Teacake/Muffin/Barm (UK)), and
occasionally fried potatoes (hash browns, home fries, etc.). The dish may
also use corned beef or roast beef.
Hash has recently made a comeback as more than just a dish for leftovers or
breakfasts of last resort. High-end restaurants now offer sophisticated
hashes and the first cookbook dedicated exclusively to a wide variety of
hashes was self-published in 2012.
The meat packing company Hormel claims that it introduced corned beef hash
and roast beef hash to the U.S. as early as 1950, but hash of many forms
was part of the American diet since at least the 18th century, as is
attested by the availability of numerous recipes and the existence of many
hash houses named after the dish. In the United States, September 27 is
National Corned Beef Hash Day.'
- From Wikipedia (Corned beef):
'Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. The term comes from the
treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called corns of
salt. It features as an ingredient in many cuisines. Most recipes include
nitrates or nitrites, which convert the natural hemoglobin in beef to
methaemoglobin, giving a pink color. It has been argued that nitrates
reduce the risk of dangerous botulism during curing. Beef cured with salt
only has a gray color, and is sometimes called New England corned beef.
Often sugar and spices are also added to recipes for corned beef. Canned
corned beef
It was popular during both World Wars, when fresh meat was rationed. Corned
beef remains popular in the United Kingdom and countries with British
culinary traditions and is commonly used in sandwiches, corned beef hash or
eaten with chips and pickles. It also remains especially popular in Canada
in a variety of dishes, perhaps most prominently Montreal smoked meat'.
[The Hankster says] Love it. It was one of my father's favorites, so we had it often when I was a kid. With a nice helping of ketchup on top, of course.
* 'National Chocolate Milk Day'. . Invented by Hans Sloane in the late
1680's after a visit to Jamaica where coco was drunk in water.
- From Wikipedia (Chocolate milk):
'Chocolate milk is sweetened cocoa-flavored milk. It can be created by
mixing chocolate syrup (or chocolate powder) with milk (from cows, goats,
soy, rice, etc.). It can be purchased pre-mixed with milk or made at home
by blending milk with cocoa powder and a sweetener (such as sugar or a
sugar substitute), melted chocolate, chocolate syrup, or a powdered
chocolate milk mix. Other ingredients, such as starch, salt, carrageenan,
vanilla, or artificial flavoring are sometimes added. The carrageenan is
used at very low concentrations to form an imperceptible weak gel that
prevents the large, dense particles of chocolate from sedimentation.
Chocolate milk should be refrigerated like unflavored milk, with the
exception some Ultra High Temperature (UHT) pasteurized drinks, which can
be stored at room temperature. Chocolate milk was first created by Hans
Sloane in Jamaica during the late 1700s, and is generally served cold. The
nutritional qualities of chocolate milk are the subject of debate: while
some studies criticize the high sugar content of chocolate milk, other
studies suggest that chocolate milk is nutritionally superior to white
milk.
There are 5 milligrams of caffeine in each mini carton of chocolate milk.
Chocolate has oxalic acid, which reacts with the calcium in the milk
producing calcium oxalate, thus preventing the calcium from being absorbed
in the intestine. However, it is present in small enough amounts that the
effect on calcium absorption is negligible. As chocolate contains
relatively small amounts of oxalate, it is unclear to what extent chocolate
consumption affects healthy people with calcium-rich diets. Chocolate milk
contains 9 essential nutrients, B vitamins for energy to get you going, and
the combination of five bone building nutrients-calcium, Vitamin D,
phosphorus, protein and potassium. Without these nutrients your body cannot
replace necessary electrolytes, which are commonly lost during exercise,
repair muscles, refuel the body, nor rehydrate the body'.
[The Hankster says] Not a favorite.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Crush a Can Day'.
Recycling effort.
[The Hankster says] I'm all for recycling. Every time I get off my bike, I'm ready to go again...hang on a minute .... Oh, never mind.
* 'Ancestor Appreciation Day'.
Take time to learn about your family history.
[The Hankster says] Times change, and although slightly altered, the same challenges occur over generations. Why not learn, or at least consider ideas, from those who have gone before.
* 'National Voter Registration Day'.
Fourth Tuesday in September.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day'.
o Other:
* 'World Tourism Day'. Created by the General Assembly of the United
Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in 1979.
- From Wikipedia (World Tourism Day):
'Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated
World Tourism Day on September 27. This date was chosen as on that day in
1970, the Statutes of the UNWTO were adopted. The adoption of these
Statutes is considered a milestone in global tourism. The purpose of this
day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism within the international
community and to demonstrate how it affects social, cultural, political and
economic values worldwide.
At its Twelfth Session in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 1997, the UNWTO
General Assembly decided to designate a host country each year to act as
the Organization's partner in the celebration of World Tourism Day. At its
Fifteenth Session in Beijing, China, in October 2003, the Assembly decided
the following geographic order to be followed for World Tourism Day
celebrations: 2006 in Europe 2007 in South Asia 2008 in the Americas 2009
in Africa and 2011 in the Middle East.
The late Ignatius Amaduwa Atigbi, a Nigerian national, was the one who
proposed the idea of marking September 27 of every year as World Tourism
Day. He was finally recognized for his contribution in 2009'.
* 'End of the Mexican War of Independence'. The effort for independence
from Spain began on September 16 1810. Independence was secured on
September 27 1827.
<> Historical events on September 27
* 'In 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States,
for one day. The revolutionary government was on the run as Philadelphia
was captured by the British. The government then moved to York,
Pennsylvania.
- From Wikipedia: 'Originally called Hickory Town, the city was renamed
after the English city of Lancaster by native John Wright. Its symbol, the
red rose, is from the House of Lancaster. Lancaster was part of the 1681
Penn's Woods Charter of William Penn, and was laid out by James Hamilton in
1734. It was incorporated as a borough in 1742 and incorporated as a city
in 1818.
During the American Revolution, Lancaster was the capital of the United
States for one day, on September 27, 1777, after the Continental Congress
fled Philadelphia, which had been captured by the British. The
revolutionary government then moved still farther away to York,
Pennsylvania.
Lancaster was capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812, after which the
capital was moved to Harrisburg'.
* 'In 1822, Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the
Rosetta stone. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Rosetta Stone is a rock stele, found in 1799,
inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of
King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion is Demotic script, and the
lowest is Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in
all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), the stone
provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The stone, carved in black granodiorite, is believed to have originally
been displayed within a temple, possibly at nearby Sais. It was probably
moved during the early Christian or medieval period, and was eventually
used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town
of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was rediscovered there in July
1799 by a soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard of the Napoleonic
expedition to Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text
recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with
its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic
language. Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among
European museums and scholars. Meanwhile, British troops defeated the
French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British
possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria and was transported to
London. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost
continuously since 1802. It is the most-visited object in the British
Museum.
Study of the decree was already under way when the first full translation
of the Greek text appeared in 1803. It was 20 years, however, before the
transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was announced by Jean-François
Champollion in Paris in 1822 it took longer still before scholars were able
to read Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently. Major
advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three
versions of the same text (1799) that the demotic text used phonetic
characters to spell foreign names (1802) that the hieroglyphic text did so
as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic (Thomas Young, 1814)
and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters
were also used to spell native Egyptian words (Champollion, 1822–1824).
Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist
rivalries, including its transfer from French to British possession during
the Napoleonic Wars, a long-running dispute over the relative value of
Young and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment, and, since 2003,
demands for the stone's return to Egypt.
Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and
several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now
known, including two slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees (the Decree of
Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, ca. 218 BC). The
Rosetta Stone is, therefore, no longer unique, but it was the essential key
to modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation.
The term Rosetta Stone is now used in other contexts as the name for the
essential clue to a new field of knowledge'.
* 'In 1825, The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the
Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened in England. Prior
to this, the tracks were used to pull coaches by horse power. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S and DR) was a
railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The
world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, its first line
connected collieries near Shildon with Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington, and
was officially opened on 27 September 1825. The movement of coal to ships
rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a
new port and town at Middlesbrough. While coal waggons were hauled by steam
locomotives from the start, passengers were carried in coaches drawn by
horses until carriages hauled by steam locomotives were introduced in 1833.
The S and DR was involved in the building of the East Coast Main Line
between York and Darlington, but its main expansion was at Middlesbrough
Docks and west into Weardale and east to Redcar. It suffered severe
financial difficulties at the end of the 1840s and was nearly taken over by
the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, before the discovery of iron ore
in Cleveland and the subsequent increase in revenue meant it could pay its
debts. At the beginning of the 1860 it took over railways that had crossed
the Pennines to join the West Coast Main Line at Tebay and Clifton, near
Penrith.
The company was taken over by the North Eastern Railway in 1863,
transferring 200 route miles (320 route kilometres) of line and about 160
locomotives, but continued to operate independently as the Darlington
Section until 1876. The opening of the S and DR was seen as proof of the
effectiveness of steam railways and its anniversary was celebrated in 1875,
1925 and 1975. Much of the original route is now served by the Tees Valley
Line, operated by Northern'.
* 'In 1903, Wreck of the Old 97 (Fast Mail), a train crash made famous by
the song of the same name, occurs. The train was going too fast in order to
make up time, as the hauling company was penalized for each minute the mail
was late. Eleven of the 18 railroad personnel died. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster
involving the Southern Railway mail train officially known as the Fast Mail
on September 27, 1903 while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer,
North Carolina. Due to excessive speed in an attempt to maintain schedule,
the train derailed at the Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia where
the train careened off the side of the bridge, killing eleven on board
personnel and injuring seven others. The wreck inspired a famous railroad
ballad, which was the focus of a convoluted copyright lawsuit but became
seminal in the genre of country music'.
* 'In 1908, The first production of the Ford Model T automobile left the
Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. It's construction had begun on August
12. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie,
T-Model Ford, Model T, T, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile that
was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.
It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that
opened travel to the common middle-class American some of this was because
of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead
of individual hand crafting.
The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th century in
the 1999 Car of the Century competition, ahead of the BMC Mini, Citroën DS,
and Volkswagen Type 1. With 16.5 million sold it stands eighth on the top
ten list of most sold cars of all time as of 2012.
Although automobiles had already existed for decades, they were still
mostly scarce and expensive at the Model T's introduction in 1908.
Positioned as reliable, easily maintained mass market transportation, it
was a runaway success. In a matter of days after the release, 15,000 orders
were placed. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908
and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Ford Piquette Avenue
Plant in Detroit, Michigan. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15
millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in
Highland Park, Michigan.
There were several cars produced or prototyped by Henry Ford from the
founding of the company in 1903 until the Model T was introduced. Although
he started with the Model A, there were not 19 production models (A through
T) some were only prototypes. The production model immediately before the
Model T was the Model S, an upgraded version of the company's largest
success to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A
(rather than any Model U). The company publicity said this was because the
new car was such a departure from the old that Henry wanted to start all
over again with the letter A.
Although credit for the development of the assembly line belongs to Ransom
E. Olds with the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved
Dash, beginning in 1901, the tremendous advancements in the efficiency of
the system over the life of the Model T can be credited almost entirely to
the vision of Ford and his engineers'.
* 'In 1905, The physics journal Annalen der Physik receives Albert
Einstein's paper and the equation E=mc^2. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Annalen der Physik (English: Annals of Physics) is one
of the oldest scientific journals on physics and has been published since
1799. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers in the areas of
experimental, theoretical, applied, and mathematical physics and related
areas. The current editor-in-chief is Guido W. Fuchs.
The journal is the successor to Journal der Physik published from 1790
until 1794, and Neues Journal der Physik published from 1795 until 1797.
The journal has been published under a variety of names (Annalen der
Physik, Annalen der Physik und der physikalischen Chemie, Annalen der
Physik und Chemie, Wiedemann's Annalen der Physik und Chemie) during its
history.
Originally, Annalen der Physik was published in German. From the 1950s to
the 1980s, the journal published in both German and English. Initially,
only foreign authors contributed articles in English but from the 1970s
German-speaking authors increasingly wrote in English in order to reach an
international audience. After the German reunification in 1990, English
became the only language of the journal.
The importance of Annalen der Physik unquestionably peaked in 1905 with
Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers. In the 1920s, the journal lost
ground to the concurrent Zeitschrift für Physik. With the 1933 emigration
wave, German-language journals lost many of their best authors. From
1944–1946 publication was interrupted because of World War II, but resumed
in 1947 under Soviet occupation rule. While Zeitschrift für Physik moved to
Western Germany, Annalen der Physik served physicists in East Germany.
After the German reunification, the journal was acquired by Wiley-VCH.
A relaunch of the journal with new editor and new contents was announced
for 2012. As a result of the 2012 relaunch, Annalen der Physik now features
a refocused scope, an updated editorial board, and new, more modern cover
designs'.
* 'In 1954, The Tonight Show is debuted nationwide on NBC hosted by Steve
Allen. Timeline: Steve Allen (1954–57), Jack Paar (1957–62), Johnny Carson
(1962–92) Jay Leno (1992–2009, 2010–14), Conan O'Brien (2009–10), Jimmy
Fallon (2014–present).
- From Wikipedia: 'The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show
broadcast from the Rockefeller Center in New York City and airing on NBC
since 1954. It is the world's longest-running talk show, and the longest
running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States. It
is the third-longest-running show on NBC, after the news-and-talk shows
Today and Meet the Press.
Over the course of more than 60 years, The Tonight Show has undergone only
minor title changes. It aired under the name Tonight for several of its
early years, eventually settling on The Tonight Show after the seating of
long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962. In later decades, network
programmers, advertisers, and the show's announcers would refer to the show
by including the name of the host for example, it is currently announced as
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 1957, the show briefly tried a
more news-style format. It has otherwise remained a talk show throughout
its run.
The Tonight Show began broadcasting in 1954. It has had six official hosts,
beginning with Steve Allen (1954–57), followed by Jack Paar (1957–62),
Johnny Carson (1962–92), Jay Leno (1992–2009, 2010–14), Conan O'Brien
(2009–10), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present). It has had several recurring
guest hosts, a practice especially common during the Paar and Carson eras.
Carson is the longest-serving host to date. The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno,
however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total
televised episodes. Leno's record accounts for the fact that unlike Carson
(who only produced new shows three days a week), Leno never used guest
hosts (except Katie Couric, once) and produced new shows five days a week
Leno himself was also Carson's primary guest host for the last five years
of Carson's tenure, giving him even more episodes to his credit.
Outside of its brief run as a news show in 1957, O'Brien is the
shortest-serving host. O'Brien hosted 146 episodes over the course of less
than eight months. Current host Fallon took the helm on February 17, 2014.
Fallon had previously hosted Late Night, and before Late Night he was a
popular member of the cast on Saturday Night Live'.
* 'In 1970, 'The Original Amateur Hour' aired for the last time on CBS. It
had been on television for 22 years. It was a continuation of the Major
Bowes Amateur Hour on radio from 1938 to 1945. Ted Mack ran the show from
1945 - 1948 when it went to TV. for quit a long time the order of the
contestants was chosen by the spinning of a wheel and the words 'Round and
round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows'.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and
television program. The show was a continuation of Major Bowes Amateur Hour
which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. Major Edward Bowes, the
originator of the program and its master of ceremonies, left the show in
1945 and died the following year. He was ultimately succeeded by Ted Mack,
when the show was brought into television in 1948.
The show is a progenitor of later, similar programs such as Star Search,
American Idol and America's Got Talent.
The format was almost always the same. At the beginning of the show, the
talent's order of appearance was determined by spinning a wheel. After it
was announced how many episodes the current one marked ( the final
broadcast on CBS being the 1,651st), the wheel was spun. As the wheel spun,
the words Round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows were
always intoned. (From the late 1950s forward, the wheel was gone: it was
symbolized by flute arpeggios as Ted Mack invoked the traditional phrase.)
Various acts, sometimes singers or other musicians, quite often vaudeville
fare such as jugglers, tap dancers, baton twirlers, and the like, would
perform, with the audience being asked to vote for their favorites by
postcard or telephone. The telephone number JUdson 6-7000 was on a banner
at the bottom of the screen for viewers to call.
As the show gained markets outside New York, Mack would give the address
(Box 191 Radio City Station) where viewers could send their postcards he
did this after every act. The winners were invited to appear on the next
week's show. Three-time winners were eligible for the annual championship,
with the grand-prize winner receiving a $2000 scholarship.
Ted Mack ensured that the show was very fast-paced. Despite the program's
title, it was generally only a half-hour show, the only exception to this
rule being from March 1956 to June 1957 on ABC, when it was expanded to an
hour.
Some contestants became minor celebrities at the time, but few ever became
really big show-business stars. The two greatest successes of the show's
television era were Gladys Knight, then only a child, and Pat Boone.
Boone's appearances on the show probably caused the closest thing that it
ever had to a scandal. After he had appeared, and won, for several weeks,
it was revealed that he had appeared on the rival CBS Television show
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, meaning that he was technically not an
amateur singer. He was removed from the program, but by then his fame was
assured. At twenty-three, Boone was hosting his own variety show on ABC,
The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired from 1957-1960.
Other future celebrities discovered on the show include Ann-Margret (in
1958), Irene Cara (in 1967) and Tanya Tucker (in 1969). Louis Farrakhan
appeared in 1949 playing a violin, under his real name Louis Wolcott.
Future child actor Roger Mobley appeared with an older brother and older
sister in a musical trio. The greatest fame attained by anyone appearing on
the show was that achieved by Frank Sinatra, who appeared on the show
during its radio days with The Hoboken Four
During World War II, some in the American armed forces believed that
someone involved with the program was a Nazi sympathizer because after many
episodes aired, an American naval vessel would supposedly be sunk. The
claim was that coded information was passed out in the course of the
broadcast. Some accused Bowes himself, but none of these accusations could
ever be proved. Bowes was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's closest
friends and was personally responsible for having the swimming pool
constructed at the White House when FDR was in oddice. As the years went
by, the audience for this program aged as well. The Sunday -afternoon
version of the series, which aired on CBS in the 1960s, was invariably
sponsored by Geritol and other patent medicines manufactured by their
long-time sponsor, the J. B. Williams Company'.
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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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