<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Gumbo Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Gumbo):
'Gumbo is a stew that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th
century. It consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or
shellfish, a thickener, and the Cajun holy trinity of vegetables, namely
celery, bell peppers, and onions. Gumbo is often categorized by the type of
thickener used, the vegetable okra, the Choctaw spice filé powder (dried
and ground sassafras leaves), or roux, the French base made of flour and
fat. The dish likely derived its name from either a word from a Bantu
language for okra (ki ngombo) or the Choctaw word for filé (kombo).
Several different varieties exist. Creole gumbo generally contains
shellfish, tomatoes, and a thickener. Cajun gumbo is generally based on a
dark roux and is spicier, with either shellfish or fowl. Sausage or ham is
often added to gumbos of either variety. After the base is prepared,
vegetables are cooked down, and then meat is added. The dish simmers for a
minimum of three hours, with shellfish and some spices added near the end.
If desired, filé powder is added after the pot is removed from heat. Gumbo
is traditionally served over rice. A third, lesser-known variety, the
meatless gumbo z'herbes, is essentially a gumbo of slow-cooked greens
sometimes thickened with roux, with rice served on the side.
The dish combines ingredients and culinary practices of several cultures,
including French, Spanish, German, West African, and Choctaw. Gumbo may
have been based on traditional West African or native dishes, or may be a
derivation of the French dish bouillabaisse. It was first described in
1802, and was listed in various cookbooks in the latter half of the 19th
century. The dish gained more widespread popularity in the 1970s, after the
United States Senate cafeteria added it to the menu in honor of Louisiana
Senator Allen Ellender. The popularity of chef Paul Prudhomme in the 1980s
spurred further interest in gumbo. The dish is the official cuisine of the
state of Louisiana'.
[The Hankster says] Tasty, but not one of my favorites.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Fossil Day'.
Since 2010, on the Wednesday of Second Full Week in October. Parks and
museums may host special events.
- From Wikipedia (National Fossil Day):
'National Fossil Day was established in the United States to promote the
scientific and educational values of fossils. This nationwide celebration
was first held on October 13, 2010, during Earth Science Week. The National
Park Service and over 270 partners, including museums, institutions,
organizations and other groups, joined together to celebrate fossils.
Hundreds of activities were hosted across the United States allowing the
public to better understand the world's fossil heritage.
National Fossil Day 2011 was observed on October 12, 2011 with events at
museums, parks, universities, and non-profit organizations.
National Fossil Day 2012 was celebrated on October 17, 2012. The National
Fossil Day Celebration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was the
kick-off event.
The 2013 National Fossil Day occurred on October 16, 2013.
The 2015 National Fossil Day occurred on October 14, 2015 according to the
National Park Service.
Each year a new National Fossil Day logo is created depicting a prehistoric
organism. The logos help to promote National Fossil Day and provide
educational opportunities to share more information about fossils. The
original National Fossil Day logo was created in 2010 and featured a fossil
mammal known as the titanothere. In 2011, the marine reptile known as the
mosasaur was used in the National Fossil Day logo. During 2012, the mammoth
was used for the annual logo. For 2013, a Paleozoic invertebrate known as
the eurypterid is featured in the annual logo.
Each year a new National Fossil Day logo is created and is unveiled in
mid-January on the event website: The new logo will highlight another
interesting story related to the fossil record of life'.
[The Hankster says] Let us get the straight, right off the bat. This does not refer to my last birthday.
* 'National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day'.
Parents have lunch with their kids at school.
[The Hankster says] Cool idea.
* 'National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day'.
Second Wednesday in October.
[The Hankster says] An even cooler idea. Leave the bear in the classroom during lunch. Fuzz in the mashed potatoes, isn't cool.
* 'Freethought Day'.
The day was chosen as it commemorates the anniversary of the effective end
of the Salem witch trials in 1692.
- From Wikipedia (Freethought Day):
'Freethought Day is October 12, the annual observance by freethinkers and
secularists of the anniversary of the effective end of the Salem Witch
Trials.
The seminal event connected to Freethought Day is a letter written by then
Massachusetts Governor William Phips in which he wrote to the Privy Council
of the British monarchs, William and Mary, on this day in 1692. In this
correspondence he outlined the quagmire that the trials had degenerated
into, in part by a reliance on evidence of a non-objective nature and
especially spectral evidence in which the accusers claimed to see devils
and other phantasms consorting with the accused. Note that, contrary to
what has been claimed by some, there was no specific order or edict by
Phips to ban spectral evidence from all legal proceedings. Rather, this was
one concern that brought about Phips' stopping the proceedings. When the
trials ultimately resumed, spectral evidence was allowed but was largely
discounted and those convicted were swiftly pardoned by Phips. In the time
leading up to the trials being stopped, it was actually clerics including
the famous Cotton Mather, often portrayed as the chief villain in the
hysteria, who took the lead in advising cautions against the use of
spectral evidence. The Rev. Increase Mather, Cotton's father, specifically
condemned spectral evidence in his book 'Cases of Conscience', in which he
stated that, It were better that ten suspected witches should escape, than
that one Innocent Person should be Condemned. It was this shift in
sentiment, no doubt aided by the escalating hysteria and the fact that
accusations were beginning to reach higher into the Massachusetts Bay
Colony hierarchy, that led to Phips' action'.
* 'National Farmer’s Day / Old Farmer’s Day'.
Since the 1800's as Old Farmers Day.
* 'International Top Spinning Day'.
Second Wednesday in October.
* 'Cookbook Launch Day'.
A day for organizations to put together a cookbook of their members
recipes.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Bone and Joint Action Week'. October 12-20 in the U.S..
* 'World Arthritis Day'. In the European Union and others.
- From Wikipedia (Arthritis):
'Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.
Symptoms generally include joint pain and stiffness. Other symptoms may
include redness, warmth, swelling, and decreased range of motion of the
affected joints. In some types other organs are also affected. Onset can be
gradual or sudden.
There are over 100 types of arthritis. The most common forms are
osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease) and rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoarthritis usually occurs with age and affects the fingers, knees, and
hips. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that often affects the
hands and feet. Other types include gout, lupus, fibrillation, and septic
arthritis. They are all types of rheumatic disease.
Treatment may include resting the joint and alternating between applying
ice and heat. Weight loss and exercise may also be useful. Pain medications
such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) may be used. In some a
joint replacement may be useful.
Osteoarthritis affects more than 3.8% of people while rheumatoid arthritis
affects about 0.24% of people. Gout affects about 1 to 2% of the Western
population at some point in their lives. In Australia and the United States
more than 20% of people have a type of arthritis. Overall the disease
becomes more common with age. Arthritis is a common reason that people miss
work and can result in a decreased quality of life. The term is from Greek
arthro- meaning joint and -itis meaning inflammation'.
* 'Emergency Nurses Day:'. During Emergency Nurses Day.
- From Wikipedia (Emergency nursing):
'Emergency nursing is a nursing specialty concerned with the care of
patients who are experiencing emergencies or who are critically ill or
injured.
Emergency nurses frequently contact patients in the emergency department
before the patients see physicians. In this situation, the nurse must be
skilled at rapid, accurate physical examination, early recognition of
life-threatening illness or injury, the use of advanced monitoring and
treatment equipment, and in some cases, the ordering of testing and
medication according to advance treatment guidelines or standing orders set
out by the hospital's emergency physician staff. Emergency nurses most
frequently are employed in hospital emergency departments, though they may
also work in free-standing emergency centers or urgent care clinics.
Behavioral health patients have become an increasing concern for emergency
nurses. Emergency nurses are required to be mentally and physically fit
because they have to treat patients that under their worst condition'.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'National Pet Obesity Awareness Day'. By The Association for Pet Obesity
Prevention.
o Other:
* 'UN Spanish Language Day'. Since 2010. One of the official languages of
the U.N.: Arabic (Literary Arabic), Chinese (Standard Chinese, Simplified
Chinese characters), English (British spelling), French, Russian, Spanish..
- From Wikipedia (UN Spanish Language Days):
'UN Spanish Language Day is observed annually on October 12. The event was
established by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization) in 2010 to seeking to celebrate multilingualism and
cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its
official working languages throughout the organization October 12 is a date
observed in many Spanish-speaking territories as Día de la Raza or Día de
la Hispanidad'.
<> Historical events on October 12
* 'In 1492, Columbus reaches the New World. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Christopher Columbus, between 31 October 1450 and 30
October 1451 in Genoa – died on 20 May 1506 in Valladolid) was an Italian
explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under
the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages
across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages and his efforts to establish
permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola initiated the European
colonization of the New World.
Western imperialism and economic competition were emerging among European
kingdoms through the establishment of trade routes and colonies. Columbus
proposed to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, and this eventually
received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw a chance to enter the
spice trade with Asia through a new westward route. During his first voyage
in 1492, he reached the New World instead of arriving at Japan as he had
intended, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named San
Salvador Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Greater and
Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central
America, claiming all of it for the Crown of Castile.
Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas, having
been preceded by the Vikinger expedition led by Leif Erikson in the 11th
century, but his voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the
Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and
colonization that lasted for several centuries. These voyages had,
therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern
Western world. He spearheaded the transatlantic slave trade and has been
accused by several historians of initiating the genocide of the Hispaniola
natives. Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of
spreading the Christian religion.
Columbus never admitted that he had reached a continent previously unknown
to Europeans, rather than the East Indies for which he had set course. He
called the inhabitants of the lands that he visited indios (Spanish for
Indians). His strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its
appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and
dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in
1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits that he and his
heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown'.
* 'In 1609, What became the Children's rhyme, 'Three Blind Mice', is
published in London. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Three Blind Mice is an English-language nursery rhyme
and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.
Published by Frederick Warne and Co., an illustrated children's book by
John W. Ivimey entitled The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice,
fleshes the mice out into mischievous characters who seek adventure,
eventually being taken in by a farmer whose wife chases them from the house
and into a bramble bush, which blinds them. Soon after, their tails are
removed by the butcher's wife when the complete version incorporates the
original verse. The story ends with them using a tonic to grow new tails
and recover their eyesight, learning a trade (making wood chips, according
to the accompanying illustration), buying a house and living happily ever
after. Published perhaps in 1900, the book is now in the public domain.
A version of this rhyme, together with music, was published in Deuteromelia
or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609). The editor of the book, and
possible author of the rhyme, was Thomas Ravenscroft, who in 1609 was still
a teenager.
Attempts to read historical significance into the words have led to the
speculation that this musical round was written earlier and refers to Queen
Mary I of England blinding and executing three Protestant bishops, but
problematically the Oxford Martyrs, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer, were
burned at the stake, not blinded although if the rhyme was made by
crypto-Catholics, the mice's blindness could refer to their Protestantism.
The rhyme only entered children's literature in 1842 when it was published
in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell'.
* 'In 1692, The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts
Governor William Phips.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and
prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions
of 20 people, most of them women'. There were a previous 12 in Mass and
Conn. in the 1700's.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and
prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions
of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five
others (including two infant children) died in prison.
Twelve other women had previously been executed in Massachusetts and
Connecticut during the 17th century. Despite being generally known as the
Salem Witch Trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in
several towns: Salem Village (now Danvers), Salem Town, Ipswich, and
Andover. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.
The episode is one of the Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass
hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as
a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious
extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process. It was not unique,
but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch
trials in the early modern period, which took place also in England and
France. Many historians consider the lasting effects of the trials to have
been highly influential in subsequent United States history. According to
historian George Lincoln Burr, the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which
the theocracy shattered.
At the 300th anniversary events in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the
trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers. In
November 2001, the Massachusetts legislature passed an act exonerating all
of those convicted and listing them by name, including some persons left
out of earlier actions. In January 2016, the University of Virginia
announced its Gallows Hill Project team had determined the execution site
in Salem, where the nineteen witches had been hanged. The city owns the
site and is planning a memorial to the victims'.
* 'In 1773, Eastern State Hospital, in Williamsburg, Virginia was the
first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States. It was
America's first 'insane asylum' for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered
Minds'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in colonial
Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public facility in the present-day
United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally
ill. The hospital's patients were moved in the 20th century to a new
facility outside Williamsburg. The original building had burned but was
reconstructed in 1985. Today it operates as a museum about the treatment of
mental illness'.
* 'In 1810, At the first Oktoberfest, Bavarian royalty invite citizens of
Munich to celebrate the royal wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Louis to
Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: ) is the world's
largest Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair). Held annually in
Munich, Bavaria, Germany, it is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from
mid or late September to the first weekend in October, with more than 6
million people from around the world attending the event every year.
Locally, it is often called the Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the
fairgrounds (Theresienwiese). The Oktoberfest is an important part of
Bavarian culture, having been held since 1810. Other cities across the
world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modelled after the
original Munich event.
During the event, large quantities of Oktoberfest Beer are consumed: during
the 16-day festival in 2013, for example, 7.7 million litres were served.
Visitors also enjoy numerous attractions, such as amusement rides,
sidestalls and games. There is also a wide variety of traditional foods
including Hendl (roast chicken), Schweinebraten (roast pork), Schweinshaxe
(grilled ham hock), Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick), Würstl
(sausages) along with Brezen (pretzels), Knödel (potato or bread
dumplings), Käsespätzle (cheese noodles), Reiberdatschi (potato pancakes),
Sauerkraut or Rotkohl/Blaukraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian
delicacies as Obatzda (a spicy cheese-butter spread) and Weißwurst (a white
sausage).
The Munich Oktoberfest originally took place in the 16-day period leading
up to the first Sunday in October. In 1994, this longstanding schedule was
modified in response to German reunification. As such, if the first Sunday
in October falls on the 1st or the 2nd, then the festival would run until
October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival now runs for 17 days when
the first Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. In 2010,
the festival lasted until the first Monday in October (October 4), to mark
the event's bicentennial.
Kronprinz Ludwig (1786-1868), later King Ludwig I (reign: 1825-1848),
married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on October 12, 1810. The
citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the
fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the royal event. The fields
were named Theresienwiese (Theresa's Meadow) in honour of the Crown
Princess, and have kept that name ever since, although the locals have
since abbreviated the name simply to the Wiesn Horse races, in the
tradition of the 15th-century Scharlachrennen (Scarlet Race at Karlstor),
were held on October 17 to honor the newlyweds. It is widely understood
that Andreas Michael Dall'Armi, a Major in the National Guard, proposed the
idea. However, the origins of the horse races, and Oktoberfest itself, may
have stemmed from proposals offered by Franz Baumgartner, a coachman and
Sergeant in the National Guard. The precise origins of the festival and
horse races remain a matter of controversy, however, the decision to repeat
the horse races, spectacle, and celebrations in 1811 launched what is now
the annual Oktoberfest tradition'.
* 'In 1823, Charles Macintosh Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof
fabrics (based on naphtha,) sells his first raincoat. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Charles Macintosh FRS (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843)
was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Mackintosh
raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named for him.
Macintosh was born in Glasgow, the son of George Macintosh and Mary Moore,
and was first employed as a clerk. He devoted all his spare time to
science, particularly chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his
clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. In this he was highly
successful, inventing various new processes. His experiments with one of
the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof
fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses
of cloth together with natural (India) rubber, the rubber being made
soluble by the action of the naphtha. For his various chemical discoveries
he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1828, he became
a partner with James Beaumont Neilson in a firm to exploit the latter's
patent for the hot blast blowing of blast furnaces, which saved
considerably on their fuel consumption. Macintosh married, in 1790, Mary
Fisher, daughter of Alexander Fisher a merchant of Glasgow. They had one
son, George Macintosh (1791-1848) Charles Macintosh died in 1843 at
Dunchattan, Scotland, and was buried in the churchyard of Glasgow
Cathedral. He is buried with his parents in the ground of his great
grandfather, John Anderson of Douhill, Lord Provost of Glasgow. His name is
added to the impressive 17th century monument which stands against the
eastern boundary wall. A secondary memorial also exists (in polished red
granite, dating from the late 19th century) slightly to the north, where
Charles is again mentioned on the grave of his son George'.
* 'In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the 'Executive
Mansion' to the White Hous. .
- From Wikipedia: The White House is the official residence and principal
workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of
every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. The term White House is
often used to refer to actions of the president and his advisers, as in The
White House announced that...
'The building was originally referred to variously as the President's
Palace, Presidential Mansion, or President's House The earliest evidence of
the public calling it the White House was recorded in 1811. A myth emerged
that during the rebuilding of the structure after the Burning of
Washington, white paint was applied to mask the burn damage it had
suffered, giving the building its namesake hue. The name Executive Mansion
was used in official contexts until President Theodore Roosevelt
established the formal name by having White House–Washington engraved on
the stationery in 1901. The current letterhead wording and arrangement The
White House with the word Washington centered beneath goes back to the
administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Although it was not completed until some years after the presidency of
George Washington, it is also speculated that the name of the traditional
residence of the President of the United States may have derived from
Martha Washington's home, White House Plantation in Virginia, where the
nation's first President had courted the First Lady in the mid-18th
century'.
* 'In 1928, An 'iron lung' respirator (Negative pressure ventilator) is
used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. It was the first
clinical use of the Drinker respirator. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In 1670, English scientist John Mayow came up with the
idea of external negative pressure ventilation. Mayow built a model
consisting of bellows and a bladder to pull in and expel air. The first
negative pressure ventilator was described by Scottish physician John
Dalziel in 1832. Successful use of similar devices was described a few
years later. Early prototypes included a hand-operated bellows-driven
Spirophore designed by Dr. Woillez of Paris (1876), and an airtight wooden
box designed specifically for the treatment of polio by Dr. Stueart of
South Africa (1918). Stueart's box was sealed at the waist and shoulders
with clay and powered by a motor-driven bellows. The first of these devices
to be widely used however was developed by Drinker and Shaw in 1928. The
iron lung, often referred to in the early days as the Drinker respirator,
was invented by Philip Drinker (1894–1972) and Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.,
professors of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The machine was powered by an electric motor with air pumps from two vacuum
cleaners. The air pumps changed the pressure inside a rectangular, airtight
metal box, pulling air in and out of the lungs.
The first clinical use of the Drinker respirator on a human was on October
12, 1928, at the Boston Children's Hospital. The subject was an
eight-year-old girl who was nearly dead as a result of respiratory failure
due to polio. Her dramatic recovery, within less than a minute of being
placed in the chamber, helped popularize the new device'.
* 'In 1931, Five-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller is
chosen as Tarzan in films. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller June 2,
1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Hungarian-born American competition swimmer
and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and
for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th
century. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s,
winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for
water polo. He won fifty-two U.S. National Championships, set more than
fifty world records (spread over both freestyle and backstroke), and was
purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his
competitive career. After retiring from competitions, he became the sixth
actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played
in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan,
but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive
Tarzan yell is still often used in films.
His acting career began when he signed a seven-year contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man
(1932). The movie was a huge success and Weissmuller became an overnight
international sensation. The author of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was
pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a
Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan
series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman
Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character'.
* 'In 1937, The radio show 'Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons' debuted. It
ran October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's
longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955,
continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne
Hummert, who based it upon Robert W. Chambers' 1906 novel The Tracer of
Lost Persons. The sponsors included Whitehall Pharmacal (as in Anacin,
Kolynos Toothpaste, BiSoDol antacid mints, Hill's cold tablets and Heet
liniment), Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor and Chesterfield cigarettes. It
aired on the NBC Blue network until 1947, when it switched to CBS'.
* 'In 1945, Conscientious objector Private First Class Desmond T. Doss,
wins the Medal of Honor. More
- From Wikipedia: 'Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006)
was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one
of only three so honored (the others are Thomas W. Bennett and Joseph G.
LaPointe, Jr.). He was a corporal (private first class at the time of his
Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Medical
Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division.
Citation: He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a
jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy
concentration of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire crashed into them,
inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc.
Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the
many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the
escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face
of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle
and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on
the same escarpment and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down
while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of
grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he
dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to
evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling
and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages,
moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire
and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly
administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded
by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet
from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety
while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on
high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of
his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be
mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until
he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade.
Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries
and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying
him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss,
seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and
directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man.
Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, by a sniper
bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering
a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle
stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over
rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and
unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions
Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol
throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above
and beyond the call of duty'.
* 'In 1979, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books
in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by
Douglas Adams is published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred
to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by
Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978,
it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic
books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and 2005 feature film. The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has become an international multi-media
phenomenon the novels are the most widely distributed, having been
translated into more than 30 languages by 2005.
The broad narrative follows the misadventures of the last surviving man,
Arthur Dent, following the demolition of the planet Earth by a Vogon
constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Dent is rescued from
Earth's destruction by Ford Prefect, a human-like alien writer for the
eccentric, electronic travel guide The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by
hitchhiking onto a passing spacecraft. Following his rescue, Dent explores
the galaxy with Prefect and encounters Trillian, another human that had
been taken from Earth prior to its destruction by the President of the
Galaxy, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the depressed Marvin, the
Paranoid Android. Certain narrative details were changed between the
various adaptations'.
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October is:
October origin (from Wikipedia): October is the tenth month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a
length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October
retained its name (from the Greek meaning 'eight') after January
and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been
created by the Romans.
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October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern
hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal
equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
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