<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Yorkshire Pudding Day'.
- From Wikipedia (V):
'Yorkshire pudding is an English food made from batter consisting of eggs,
flour, and milk or water. It is often served with beef and gravy and is
part of the traditional British Sunday roast.
When wheat flour began to come into common use for making cakes and
puddings, cooks in the north of England devised a means of making use of
the fat that dropped into the dripping pan to cook a batter pudding while
the meat roasted. During 1737, a recipe for a dripping pudding (later named
The Yorkshire Pudding) was published in the book The Whole Duty of a Woman:
Make a good batter as for pancakes put in a hot toss-pan over the fire with
a bit of butter to fry the bottom a little then put the pan and butter
under a shoulder of mutton, instead of a dripping pan, keeping frequently
shaking it by the handle and it will be light and savoury, and fit to take
up when your mutton is enough then turn it in a dish and serve it hot.
Similar instructions were published during 1747 in the book The Art of
Cookery made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse, with the name 'Yorkshire
pudding'. It was she who renamed the original version, known as Dripping
Pudding, which had been cooked in England for centuries, although these
puddings were much flatter than the puffy versions made today.
Originally the Yorkshire pudding was served as a first course with thick
gravy to dull the appetite with the low-cost ingredients so that the diners
would not eat so much of the more expensive meat in the next course. An
early recipe appeared in Alexander Cassey's The Whole Duty of a Woman
during 1737. Because the rich gravy from the roast meat drippings was used
up with the first course, the main meat and vegetable course was often
served with a parsley or white sauce.
In poorer households, the pudding was often served as the only course.
Using dripping and blood, a simple meal was made with flour, eggs and milk.
This was traditionally eaten with a gravy or sauce, to moisten the pudding.
The Yorkshire pudding is meant to rise. The Royal Society of Chemistry
suggested during 2008 that A Yorkshire pudding isn't a Yorkshire pudding if
it is less than four inches tall'. .
[The Hankster says] Never had the real thing. Seems like a small piece might be good. A big piece seems like an artery clogger.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Train Your Brain Day'.
[The Hankster says] Can't find the origin of this day, but the concept shouldn't be hard to conceive. After all your brain is trained, right.
* 'Navy Birthday'.
Founding of the Continental Navy on this date on October 13 1775. See more
in the history section for 1775.
* 'English Language Day'.
This is not the UN day for the English Language. It promotes the history
and proper use of the language. October focuses on punctuation and
particularly the apostrophe.
[The Hankster says] We should all try to use more better English.
* 'International Day for Failure'.
The Hankster says [] Don't perform the final failure and give up.
* 'Silly Sayings Day'.
A focus on all those silly phrases we use that seem to be intuitive, but we
have no idea why, like 'It's raining cats and dogs'.
[The Hankster says] BTW, the source of that one (one of several) is that in London after a very heavy rain, the streets would be scattered with all the dead cats, dogs and rats that had died in the city since the last heavy rain.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Sight Day'. On the second Thursday in October by International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
- From Wikipedia (World Sight Day):
'World Sight Day, observed annually on the second Thursday of October, is a
global event meant to draw attention on blindness and vision impairment. It
was originally initiated by the SightFirstCampaign of Lions Club
International Foundation in 2000.
It has since been integrated into VISION 2020 and is coordinated by IAPB in
cooperation with the World Health Organization.
The theme for World Sight Day 2014 - to be held on October 9, 2014 - is No
more Avoidable Blindness
It takes place on the second Thursday in October'.
* 'Intentional Day for Disaster Reduction'. Since 1989.
- From Wikipedia (International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction):
'The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) encourages every
citizen and government to take part in building more disaster resilient
communities and nations.
The United Nations General Assembly designated October 13th as the
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction as part of its
proclamation of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
In 2002, by a further resolution, the General Assembly decided to maintain
the annual observance as a vehicle to promote a global culture of natural
disaster reduction, including prevention, mitigation and preparedness.
In 2009, the UN General Assembly decided to designate October 13 as the
official date and also changed the name to International Day for Disaster
Reduction'.
* 'National No Bra Day'. This day promotes breast cancer awareness.
<> Historical events on October 13
* 'In 1775, Founding of the Continental Navy. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Continental Navy was the navy of the United States
during the American Revolutionary War, and was formed in 1775. The fleet
cumulatively became relatively substantial through the efforts of the
Continental Navy's patron John Adams and vigorous Congressional support in
the face of stiff opposition, when considering the limitations imposed upon
the Patriot supply pool.
The main goal of the navy was to intercept shipments of British matériel
and generally disrupt British maritime commercial operations. The initial
fleet consisted of converted merchantmen because of the lack of funding,
manpower, and resources, with exclusively designed warships being built
later in the conflict. The vessels that successfully made it to sea met
with success only rarely, and the effort contributed little to the overall
outcome of the war.
The fleet did serve to highlight a few examples of Continental resolve,
notably launching Captain John Barry into the limelight. It provided needed
experience for a generation of officers who went on to command conflicts
which involved the early American navy.
With the war over and the Federal government in need of all available
capital, the final vessel of the Continental Navy was auctioned off in 1785
to a private bidder.
The Continental Navy is the first establishment of what is now the United
States Navy'.
* 'In 1792, The 'Old Farmer's Almanac' is first published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The original Farmer's Almanac founded in 1792, Old
Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather forecasts, tide
tables, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles on a
number of topics, including gardening, sports, astronomy, and farming. The
Almanac also features anecdotes and a section that predicts trends in
fashion, food, home décor, technology, and living for the coming year.
Released the second Tuesday in the September that precedes the year printed
on its cover, The Old Farmer's Almanac has been published continuously
since 1792, making it the oldest continuously published periodical in North
America'.
* 'In 1884, Greenwich, England is made the universal time meridian of
longitude. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, in London, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851. By 1884,
over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian
on their charts and maps. In October of that year, at the behest of U.S.
President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in
Washington, D.C., United States, for the International Meridian Conference.
This conference selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the
official prime meridian due to its popularity. However, France abstained
from the vote and French maps continued to use the Paris meridian for
several decades. In the 18th century, London lexicographer, Malachy
Postlethwayt published his African maps showing the 'Meridian of London'
intersecting the Equator a few degrees west of the later meridian and
Accra, Ghana.
The prime meridian passes through the Airy transit circle (51°28'40.1N
0°0'5.3W) of the Greenwich observatory. It was long marked by a brass
strip in the courtyard, now replaced by stainless steel, and, since 16
December 1999, has been marked by a powerful green laser shining north
across the London night sky.
Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers show that the marking strip for
the prime meridian at Greenwich is not exactly at zero degrees, zero
minutes and zero seconds but at approximately 5.3 seconds of arc to the
west of the meridian (meaning that the meridian appears to be 102 metres
east of this line). In the past, this offset has been attributed to the
establishment of reference meridians for space-based location systems such
as WGS 84 (which GPS relies on) or that errors gradually crept into the
International Time Bureau timekeeping process. The actual reason for the
discrepancy is that the marking strip is indeed at astronomical longitude
zero degrees, zero minutes and zero seconds -- but GPS receivers show
geodetic longitude'.
* 'In 1914, Garrett Morgan invents and patents a protective respiratory
hood for fire fighters. It used a wet sponge and air tubes that brought in
more breathable air from below the smoke layer. With inovations, this
became the gas mask. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27,
1963) was an African- American inventor and community leader. He was the
subject of a newspaper feature in Cleveland, Ohio, for a heroic rescue in
1916 of workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, 50 ft (15 m) beneath
Lake Erie. He performed his rescue using a hood fashioned to protect his
eyes from smoke and featuring a series of air tubes that hung near the
ground to draw clean air beneath the rising smoke. This enabled Morgan to
lengthen his ability to endure the inhospitable conditions of a
smoke-filled room. Morgan is also credited as the first African American in
Cleveland to own an automobile, and as the inventor of the electric traffic
signal feature red yellow and green indicators. His other inventions
include the development of a chemical for hair-straightening'.
* 'In 1947, The kids puppet TV show 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie'ts premieres. It
starred Fran Allison and Burr Tillstrom. The original run was from October
13, 1947 – May 1, 1957.
- From Wikipedia: 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie is an early American television
show using puppets. It was created for children, but soon watched by more
adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ad-libbed.
It was broadcast from 1947 to 1957.
Burr Tillstrom was the creator and only puppeteer on the show, which
premiered as the hour-long Junior Jamboree locally on WBKB in Chicago,
Illinois, on October 13, 1947. The program was renamed Kukla, Fran and
Ollie (KFO) and transferred to WNBQ (the predecessor of Chicago's WMAQ-TV)
on November 29, 1948. The first NBC network broadcast of the show took
place on January 12, 1949. It aired from 6–6:30 p.m. Central Time, Monday
through Friday from Chicago.
Fran was Fran Allison, a radio comedian and singer who was usually the only
human to appear on screen, filling the role of big sister and cheery voice
of reason as the puppets engaged each other concerning their foibles. The
design style of puppets was in the style of Neapolitan puppet shows, or
Punch and Judy without the slapstick, but their personalities were less
caricatured. The puppet cast included Kukla, the earnest leader of the
troupe Ollie, or Oliver J. Dragon, a roguish one-toothed dragon (who would
slam his flat chin on the stage in frustration or roll on his back to be
endearing) Madame Oglepuss, a retired opera diva Beulah Witch, a liberated
witch Fletcher Rabbit, the troupe's mailman and resident fussbudget Cecil
Bill, the troupe's union stagehand who spoke in tooie talk Colonel Crackie,
a Southern gentleman Dolores Dragon, Ollie's younger cousin, and a number
of others'.
* 'In 1958, Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's
literature, makes his debut.
- From Wikipedia: 'Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's
literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958 and has been featured in
more than twenty books written by Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy
Fortnum and other artists. The friendly bear from deepest, darkest
Peru—with his old hat, battered suitcase (complete with a secret
compartment, enabling it to hold more items than it would at first appear),
duffle coat and love of marmalade—has become a classic character from
English children's literature. Paddington books have been translated into
30 languages across 70 titles and sold more than 30 million copies
worldwide.
Paddington is an anthropomorphised spectacled bear. He is always polite –
addressing people as Mr, Mrs and Miss, rarely by first names – and
kindhearted, though he inflicts hard stares on those who incur his
disapproval. He has an endless capacity for innocently getting into
trouble, but he is known to try so hard to get things right. He was
discovered in Paddington Station, London, by the (human) Brown family who
adopted him, and thus he gives his full name as Paddington Brown As of June
2016, Paddington Bear and its copyright and trademark across the world are
now owned by Vivendi's Studiocanal. Bond, however, still owns the
publishing rights to his series'.
* 'In 1976, The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is
obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the
C.D.C. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD, is internationally known
for his work on rabies, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fevers, with more than
250 articles published on the subject. Murphy is best recognized for
obtaining the first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle while
working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he served
as Chief of Viropathology, near Emory University in Atlanta in 1976. Murphy
then served as Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at University of
California, Davis. He is currently a Professor at University of Texas
Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas'.
* 'In 1983, Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the
first US cellular network in Chicago. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC was the first
company in the United States to provide cellular mobile phone service to
the general public. Cell service became publicly available in Chicago on
October 13, 1983. The company was a division of Ameritech which, as of
January 1, 1984, was the holding company of Illinois Bell, Michigan Bell,
Wisconsin Bell, Ohio Bell, and Indiana Bell, who provides landline service
to the Great Lakes region. From around 1986, Cincinnati Bell held a 45%
stake in the company. Originally named Ameritech Mobile Communications, it
later became known as Ameritech Cellular'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in October
Food
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Corn Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Caramel Month
National Cookbook Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
Pizza Month
Sausage Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Vegetarian Month
Health
AIDS Awareness Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
World Menopause Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Bat Appreciation Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Other
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Class Reunion Month
Country Music Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair
Fair Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
German-American Heritage Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
Learn To Bowl Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Chili Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Work and Family Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Self-Promotion Month
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.
"
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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