<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Mincemeat Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Mincemeat):
'Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and
spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat
always contained meat. Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though
vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place. Variants of mincemeat
are found in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, northern Europe, Ireland,
South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In other contexts
mincemeat refers to minced or ground meat.
English recipes from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries describe a mixture
of meat and fruit used as a pie filling. These early recipes included
vinegars and wines, but by the 18th century, distilled spirits, frequently
brandy, were being used instead. The use of spices like clove, nutmeg, mace
and cinnamon was common in late medieval and renaissance meat dishes. The
increase of sweetness from added sugars, and those produced from
fermentation, made mincemeat less a savoury dinner course and helped to
direct its use toward desserts'.
[The Hankster says] Good, but a very small piece goes a long way.
* 'National Pumpkin Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Pumpkin):
'A pumpkin is a cultivar of a squash plant, most commonly of Cucurbita
pepo, that is round, with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and deep yellow to
orange coloration. The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp. Some
exceptionally large cultivars of squash with similar appearance have also
been derived from Cucurbita maxima. Specific cultivars of winter squash
derived from other species, including C. argyrosperma, and C. moschata, are
also sometimes called pumpkin In New Zealand and Australian English, the
term pumpkin generally refers to the broader category called winter squash
elsewhere.
Native to North America, pumpkins are widely grown for commercial use and
are used both in food and recreation. Pumpkin pie, for instance, is a
traditional part of Thanksgiving meals in Canada and the United States,
although commercially canned pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie fillings are
usually made from different kinds of winter squash than the pumpkins
frequently carved as jack-o'-lanterns for decoration around Halloween.
Pumpkins, like other squash, are thought to have originated in North
America. The oldest evidence, pumpkin-related seeds dating between 7000 and
5500 BC, was found in Mexico.
Since some squash share the same botanical classifications as pumpkins, the
names are frequently used interchangeably. One often-used botanical
classification relies on the characteristics of the stems: pumpkin stems
are more rigid, prickly, and angular (with an approximate five-degree
angle) than squash stems, which are generally softer, more rounded, and
more flared where joined to the fruit. Male (top) and female (bottom)
pumpkin flowers
Traditional C. pepo pumpkins generally weigh between 6 and 18 pounds (2.7
and 8.2 kg), though the largest cultivars (of the species C. maxima)
regularly reach weights of over 75 pounds (34 kg).
The color of pumpkins derives from orange carotenoid pigments, including
beta-cryptoxanthin, alpha and beta carotene, all of which are provitamin A
compounds converted to vitamin A in the body'.
[The Hankster says] You can carve 'um. But, I'll eat 'um in a pie.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* '(National) Day of the Deployed'.
Honors the deployed US servicemen and servicewomen and their families. It
orginaled as a holiday in North Dakita in 2006.
[The Hankster says] Thank you for the dedication and patriotism.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Mule Day'. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female
horse (mare). Honors the Spanish Jacks sent to the US which were a gift
from King Charles III of Spain delivered October 26, 1785 in Boston, at the
request of George Washington. .
- From Wikipedia (Mule Day):
'Mule Day, an annual celebration of all things related to mules, is held in
Columbia, Tennessee, the self-proclaimed Mule Capital of the world. Begun
in 1840 as Breeder's Day, a meeting for mule breeders, it now attracts over
200,000 people and takes place over four days. In addition to mules,
traditional Appalachian food, music, dancing, and crafts are featured.
Mule Day has been a popular Columbia tradition for nearly 170 years, since
the 1840s. It began as Breeder's Day, a single day livestock show and mule
market event held on the first Monday in May. Over time, Mule Day evolved
from a single day event into a multi-day festival, attracting thousands of
attendees, lasting almost a week. According to its official website, the
heavy involvement of Maury County in the mule industry caused the event to
grow for a time into one of the largest livestock markets in the world.
In 1933, Thomas Marion Brown had the idea for a Mule Day Parade and
Celebration as a way to bring in money to the community. He approached W.D.
Hastings of the Daily Herald and J.J. Johnson to bring this event to life.
They went to the Chamber of Commerce and in 1934 the First Mule Day Parade
was a reality. Tom designed the Mule Day Crown which is on display in the
Maury County Public Library. He was the first Grand Marshal and led the
parade for about 7 years.
Mule Day suddenly gained wider notice in 2006 when the Mule Day Parade
listing in the National Asset Database, a Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) list of potential terrorism targets, was featured in a New York Times
article'.
* 'Howl At The Moon Day'. Wolf conservation effort by 'Wolf Conservation'
and other organizations.
o Other:
* 'Universal Children's Day in Australia'. Fourth Wednesday in October. A
focus on children's rights.
- From Wikipedia (Children's Day) A Australis:
'Children's Week is an annual event celebrated in Australia during the
fourth week in October, from the Saturday before Universal Children's Day
to the following Sunday. Until 1977 Child Care Week was held in various
Australian states and territories focusing on children in care or those in
institutions. It was held at different times. In 1985 it was decided to
coordinate a national week to include all children'.
<> Historical events on October 26
* 'In 1825, The Erie Canal opens.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of
the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (After
a later conversion, became known as the New York State Barge Canal).
Originally, it ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson
River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water
route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
First proposed in the 1780s, re-proposed in 1807, a survey was authorized,
funded, and executed in 1808. Proponents of the project gradually wore down
opponents its construction began in 1817. The canal has 36 locks and an
elevation differential of about 565 feet (172 m). It opened on October 26,
1825.
In a time when bulk goods were limited to pack animals (an eighth-ton
maximum), and there were no railways, water was the most cost-effective way
to ship bulk goods.
The canal, denigrated by its political opponents as Clinton's Folly or
Clinton's Big Ditch, was the first transportation system between the
eastern seaboard (New York City) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of
the United States that did not require portage.
It was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs
by about 95%. The canal fostered a population surge in western New York and
opened regions farther west to settlement. It was enlarged between 1834 and
1862. The canal's peak year was 1855, when 33,000 commercial shipments took
place. In 1918, the western part of the canal was enlarged to become part
of the New York State Barge Canal, which ran parallel to the eastern half
and extended to the Hudson River.
In 2000, the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National
Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal
system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one
of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North
America. Mainly used by recreational watercraft since the retirement of the
last large commercial ship (rather than boat), the Day Peckinpaugh in 1994,
the canal saw a recovery in commercial traffic in 2008'.
* 'In 1858, Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
- From Wikipedia: 'Clothes washer technology developed as a way to reduce
the manual labor spent, providing an open basin or sealed container with
paddles or fingers to automatically agitate the clothing. The earliest
machines were hand-operated and constructed from wood, while later machines
made of metal permitted a fire to burn below the washtub, keeping the water
warm throughout the day's washing.
The earliest special-purpose mechanical washing device was the washboard,
invented in 1797 by Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.
By the mid-1850s steam-driven commercial laundry machinery were on sale in
the UK and US. Technological advances in machinery for commercial and
institutional washers proceeded faster than domestic washer design for
several decades, especially in the UK. In the United States there was more
emphasis on developing machines for washing at home, though machines for
commercial laundry services were widely used in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. The rotary washing machine was patented by Hamilton Smith
in 1858. As electricity was not commonly available until at least 1930,
some early washing machines were operated by a low-speed, single-cylinder
hit-and-miss gasoline engine'.
* 'In 1861, The Pony Express, begun on April 3, 1861, ceases operations.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages,
newspapers, mail, and small packages from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the
Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento,
California, by horseback, using a series of relay stations.
Officially operating as the Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company of
1859, in 1860 it became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak
Express Company this firm was founded by William H. Russell, Alexander
Majors, and William B. Waddell, all of whom were notable in the freighting
business.
During its 19 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to
travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days. From April
3, 1860 to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of
east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital
for tying the new state of California with the rest of the United States'.
* 'In 1881, The (30 second) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at
Tombstone, Arizona.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout
between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called
the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26,
1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is generally regarded as the most
famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West. The gunfight was
the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and
Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal
Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp
and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side. All three Earp
brothers had been the target of repeated death threats made by the Cowboys,
who were upset by the Earps' interference in their illegal activities.
Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. Ike Clanton claimed he
was unarmed and ran from the fight, along with Billy Claiborne. Virgil,
Morgan, and Doc Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt Earp was unharmed. The
shootout has come to represent a period of the American Old West when the
frontier was virtually an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law
enforcement officers, who were spread thin over vast territories.
The gunfight was not well-known to the American public until 1931, when
Stuart Lake published an initially well-received biography, Wyatt Earp:
Frontier Marshal, two years after Earp's death. The book was the basis for
the 1946 film My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, and the 1957
film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, after which the shootout became known by
that name. Since then, the conflict has been portrayed with varying degrees
of accuracy in numerous Western films and books, and has become an
archetype for much of the popular imagery associated with the Old West.
Despite its name, the historic gunfight did not take place within or next
to the O.K. Corral, which fronted on Allen Street and had a rear entrance
lined with stalls on Fremont Street. The shootout actually took place in a
narrow lot on the side of C. S. Fly's Photographic Studio on Fremont
Street, six doors west of the O.K. Corral's rear entrance. Some members of
the two opposing parties were initially only about 6 feet (1.8 m) apart.
About 30 shots were fired in 30 seconds. Ike Clanton, whose brother Billy
had been killed, filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday.
The lawmen were eventually exonerated by a local justice of the peace after
a 30-day preliminary hearing and then by a local grand jury.
The gunfight was not the end of the conflict. On December 28, 1881, Virgil
Earp was ambushed and maimed in a murder attempt by the Cowboys. On March
18, 1882, Cowboys fired from a dark alley through the glass door of a
saloon, killing Morgan Earp. The suspects in both incidents furnished
alibis supplied by other Cowboys and were not indicted. Wyatt Earp, newly
appointed as Deputy U.S. Marshal in Cochise County, then took matters into
his own hands in a personal vendetta. He was pursued by county sheriff
Johnny Behan, who had received a warrant from Tucson for Wyatt's shooting
of Frank Stilwell'.
* 'In 1940, The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight. It provided long
distance fighter coverage for the US daylight bombing missions of WWII.
- From Wikipedia: 'The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American
long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War
II, the Korean War and other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in 1940 by
North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British
Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American
Aviation to build under license Curtiss P-40 fighters. Rather than build an
old design from another company, North American Aviation designed a new
plane. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940,
102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October.
The Mustang was originally designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine,
which, in its earlier variants, had limited high-altitude performance. It
was first flown operationally by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a
tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). The
addition of the Rolls-Royce Merlin to the P-51B/C model transformed the
Mustang's performance at altitudes above 15,000 ft, allowing the aircraft
to compete with Luftwaffe's fighters. The definitive version, the P-51D,
was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the
Rolls-Royce Merlin 66 two-stage two-speed supercharged engine, and was
armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2/AN Browning machine guns.
From late 1943, P-51Bs (supplemented by P-51Ds from mid-1944) were used by
the USAAF's Eighth Air Force to escort bombers in raids over Germany, while
the RAF's 2 TAF and the USAAF's Ninth Air Force used the Merlin-powered
Mustangs as fighter-bombers, roles in which the Mustang helped ensure
Allied air superiority in 1944. The P-51 was also used by Allied air forces
in the North African, Mediterranean, Italian and Pacific theaters. During
World War II, Mustang pilots claimed to have destroyed 4,950 enemy
aircraft.
At the start of the Korean War, the Mustang was the main fighter of the
United Nations until jet fighters, including the F-86, took over this role
the Mustang then became a specialized fighter-bomber. Despite the advent of
jet fighters, the Mustang remained in service with some air forces until
the early 1980s. After the Korean War, Mustangs became popular civilian
warbird and air racing aircraft'.
* 'In 1954, Walt Disney's first television program, 'Disneyland',
premieres.
- From Wikipedia: Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company)
has produced an anthology television series under several different titles
since 1954:
'Although Walt Disney was the first major film producer to venture into
television, there were two established independent film producers that
successfully ventured into television production before Disney, Hal Roach
and Jerry Fairbanks. Disney wanted to produce a television program in order
to finance the development of the Disneyland amusement park. After being
turned down by both CBS and NBC, Disney eventually signed a deal with ABC
(which had merged with United Paramount Theaters in 1953) on March 29,
1954. The show contained teasers for Walt's park, as well as episodes
representing life in one of the park's main sections: Adventureland,
Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontierland, with the opening titles used
from its inception until the show's move to NBC in 1961, showing the
entrance to Disneyland itself, as well as the four aforementioned lands,
which were then identified as the main feature of that evening's program.
Consequently, Davy Crockett and other pioneers of the Old West, and
American history in general appeared in Frontier Land Similarly, 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea might be the focus of an evening spent in Adventure
Land, although a documentary on the film could also be possibly presented
as a topic for such episodes, including clips from the actual film. Topics
for Fantasy Land would include either actual cartoons, and animated films,
as well as documentaries on The Making of ... (such as behind-the-scenes
presentation of Peggy Lee singing the duet of the wicked Siamese cats in
Lady and the Tramp, or the barbershop quartet of lost dogs in the municipal
Dog Pound) excerpts from a True-Life Adventure documentary may also be
included (for example, one on the life and works of beavers and their
dam-building) or those using stroboscopic stop-action photography (such as
investigating what really happened when a rain-drop fell in a puddle, as
part of a Fantasy Land episode), explaining the techniques of cartoon
animation. The multi-plane camera used to create the three-dimensional
effects of Bambi was also as a topic for a Fantasy Land-set telecast. In
one episode, four different artists were given the task of drawing the same
tree, with each artist using his own preferred ways of drawing and
imagining a tree this led to cartoon examples of differently animated
trees, as in some of the early Silly Symphonies shorts, and later
full-length animated films. Tomorrow Land was an opportunity for the Disney
studio staff to present cutting-edge science and technology, and to predict
possible futures, such as futuristic automobiles, and highways. This format
remained basically unchanged through the 1980s, though new material was
scarce in later years. Other episodes were segments from Disney films such
as (Seal Island and Alice in Wonderland), or cartoons of Donald Duck and
other Disney standbys.
The program spawned the Davy Crockett craze of 1955 with the airing of a
three-episode series (not shown over the course of consecutive weeks) about
the historical American frontiersman, starring Fess Parker in the title
role. Millions of dollars of merchandise relating to the title character
were sold, and the theme song, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, became a hit
record that year. Three historically based hour-long programs aired during
late 1954/early 1955, and were followed up by two dramatized installments
the following year. The TV episodes were later edited into two theatrical
films. On July 17, 1955, the opening of Disneyland was covered on a live
television special, Dateline: Disneyland, which is not technically
considered to be part of the series. It was hosted by Walt along with Bob
Cummings, Art Linkletter and Ronald Reagan, and featured various other
guests'.
* 'In 1970, The comic strip, Doonesbury, by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28
newspapers across the U.S.
- From Wikipedia: 'Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry
Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters
of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the
United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has
progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen over the
decades.
Created in the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture, and frequently
political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of
affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name
Doonesbury is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for
someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of
Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.
Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and
lettered by an assistant: Don Carlton then Todd Pound. Sunday strips are
colored in by George Corsillo. A daily strip through most of its existence,
since February 2014, Doonesbury has run repeat strips Monday through
Saturday, and new strips on Sunday'.
* 'In 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, develops the last case of natural smallpox, in
Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the
eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
- From Wikipedia: Smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine to be
developed, was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. He followed up his
observation that milkmaids who had previously caught cowpox did not later
catch smallpox by showing that inoculated cowpox protected against
inoculated smallpox. The word vaccine is derived from Variolae vaccinae
(i.e. smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox and
used in the long title of his An enquiry into the causes and effects of
Variolae vaccinae, known by the name of cow pox. Vaccination, the term
which soon replaced cowpox inoculation and vaccine inoculation, was first
used in print by Jenner's friend, Richard Dunning in 1800. Initially, the
terms vaccine/vaccination referred only to smallpox, but in 1881 Louis
Pasteur proposed that to honour Jenner the terms be widened to cover the
new protective inoculations being introduced.
'Smallpox was eradicated by a massive international search for outbreaks,
backed up with a vaccination program, starting in 1967. It was organised
and co-ordinated by a World Health Organization (WHO) unit, set up and
headed by Donald Henderson. The last case in the Americas occurred in 1971
(Brazil), south-east Asia (Indonesia) in 1972, and on the Indian
subcontinent in 1975 (Bangladesh). After two years of intensive searches,
what proved to be the last endemic case anywhere in the world occurred in
Somalia, in October 1977. A Global Commission for the Certification of
Smallpox Eradication chaired by Frank Fenner examined the evidence from,
and visited where necessary, all countries where smallpox had been endemic.
In December 1979 they concluded that smallpox had been eradicated a
conclusion endorsed by the WHO General Assembly in May 1980. However, even
as the disease was being eradicated there still remained stocks of smallpox
virus in many laboratories. Accelerated by two cases of smallpox in 1978,
one fatal (Janet Parker), caused by an accidental and unexplained
containment breach at a laboratory at the University of Birmingham Medical
School, the WHO ensured that known stocks of smallpox virus were either
destroyed or moved to safer laboratories. By 1979 only four laboratories
were known to have smallpox virus. All English stocks held at St Mary's
Hospital, London were transferred to more secure facilities at Porton Down
and then to the US at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
in Atlanta, Georgia in 1982, and all South African stocks were destroyed in
1983. By 1984 the only known stocks were kept at the CDC in the US and the
State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) in Koltsovo,
Russia. These states report that their repositories are for possible
antibioweaponry research and insurance if some obscure reservoir of natural
smallpox is discovered in the future'.
* 'In 2001, The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. In
2011, three provisions were extended.
- From Wikipedia: 'The PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress that was signed
into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its
ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is Uniting
and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunsets
Extension Act of 2011, a four-year extension of three key provisions in the
USA PATRIOT Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records, and
conducting surveillance of lone wolves—individuals suspected of
terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups.
Following a lack of Congressional approval, parts of the Patriot Act
expired on June 1, 2015. With the passage of the USA Freedom Act on June 2,
2015, the expired parts were restored and renewed through 2019. However,
Section 215 of the law was amended to stop the National Security Agency
from continuing its mass phone data collection program. Instead, phone
companies will retain the data and the NSA can obtain information about
targeted individuals with permission from a federal court.
From broad concern felt among Americans from both the September 11 attacks
and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress rushed to pass legislation to
strengthen security controls. On October 23, 2001, Republican Rep. Jim
Sensenbrenner introduced H.R. 3162 incorporating provisions from a
previously sponsored House bill and a Senate bill also introduced earlier
in the month. The next day, the Act passed the House 357 to 66, with
Democrats comprising the overwhelming portion of dissent. The three
Republicans voting 'no' were Robert Ney of Ohio, Butch Otter of Idaho and
Ron Paul of Texas. On October 25, the Act passed the Senate by 98 to 1.
Opponents of the law have criticized its authorization of indefinite
detentions of immigrants the permission given law enforcement officers to
search a home or business without the owner's or the occupant's consent or
knowledge the expanded use of National Security Letters, which allows the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to search telephone, e-mail, and
financial records without a court order and the expanded access of law
enforcement agencies to business records, including library and financial
records. Since its passage, several legal challenges have been brought
against the act, and federal courts have ruled that a number of provisions
are unconstitutional.
Many provisions of the act were to sunset beginning December 31, 2005,
approximately four years after its passage. In the months preceding the
sunset date, supporters of the act pushed to make its sun-setting
provisions permanent, while critics sought to revise various sections to
enhance civil liberty protections. In July 2005, the U.S. Senate passed a
reauthorization bill with substantial changes to several sections of the
act, while the House reauthorization bill kept most of the act's original
language. The two bills were then reconciled in a conference committee that
was criticized by Senators from both the Republican and Democratic parties
for ignoring civil liberty concerns.
The bill, which removed most of the changes from the Senate version, passed
Congress on March 2, 2006, and was signed into law by President George W.
Bush on March 9 and 10, 2006'.
* 'In 2010, Sony takes the Walkman cassette player off the market. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for
portable audio cassette/tape players in the late 1970s. In the 2010s, it
was used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a
line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The original Walkman actually
introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry
recorded music with them and listen to music through lightweight
headphones. Owners of the Walkman were able to take back their lost time,
commuting for example, and turn it into a pleasurable experience, or add a
soundtrack to their urban surroundings. It was the privatization and
personalization offered by the Walkman that led to its success.
The prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara
for Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka. Ibuka wanted to be able to listen to
operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips, and presented the
idea to Kihara. The original idea for a portable stereo is credited to
Brazilian-German inventor Andreas Pavel. The first Walkman was marketed in
1979 in Japan, using the name Walkman. From 1980, it was known as the
Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden,
and the Stowaway in the UK. Advertising, despite all the foreign languages,
still attracted thousands of buyers in the US specifically. Sony President
and co-founder Akio Morita hated the name Walkman and asked that it be
changed, but relented after being told by junior executives that a
promotion campaign had already begun using the brand name and that it would
be too expensive to change.
The names Walkman, Pressman, Watchman, Scoopman, Discman, and Talkman are
trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable
entertainment devices manufactured by the company. The name Walkman was
based on its precursor, the Pressman tape recorder. An initial prototype of
the Walkman was in fact made by replacing the monophonic recording circuit,
head and speaker from the Pressman with a stereo playback-only head and
amplifier. Sony continues to use the Walkman brand name for most of their
portable audio devices, after the Discman name for CD players was dropped
in the late 1990s'.
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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
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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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