<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Doughnut Appreciation Day'. . National Doughnut Day was on June 3.
- From Wikipedia (Doughnut):
'A doughnut or donut (/'do?n?t/ or /'do?n?t/ see spelling differences) is a
type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular
in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can
be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and
franchised specialty outlets. Doughnuts are usually deep-fried from a flour
dough, and typically either ring-shaped or without a hole, and often
filled. Other types of batters can also be used, and various toppings and
flavorings are used for different types, such as sugar, chocolate, or maple
glazing. In addition to flour, doughnuts may also include such ingredients
as water, leavening, eggs, milk, sugar, oil/shortening, natural flavors
and/or artificial flavors.
The two most common types are the ring doughnut and the filled
doughnut—which is injected with fruit preserves, cream, custard, or other
sweet fillings. A small spherical piece of dough may be cooked as a
doughnut hole. Once doughnuts have been fried, they may be glazed with a
sugar icing, spread with icing or chocolate, or topped with powdered sugar
or sprinkles or fruit. Other shapes include rings, balls, and flattened
spheres, as well as ear shapes, twists and other forms. Doughnut varieties
are also divided into cake and yeast-risen type doughnuts. Donuts are often
accompanied by coffee when they are purchased at doughnut shops or fast
food restaurants.
Doughnuts have a disputed history. One theory suggests they were invented
in North America by Dutch settlers, and in the 19th century, doughnuts were
sometimes referred to as one kind of oliekoek (a Dutch word literally
meaning oil cake), a sweetened cake fried in fat.
Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped
doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old.
Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into
various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to
have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box,
and to have later taught the technique to his mother. Smithsonian Magazine
states that his mother, Elizabeth Gregory, made a wicked deep-fried dough
that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with
lemon rind, and put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough
might not cook through, and called the food 'doughnuts'.
According to anthropologist Paul R. Mullins, the first cookbook mentioning
doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an
appendix of American recipes. By the mid-19th century, the doughnut looked
and tasted like today's doughnut, and was viewed as a thoroughly American
food.
Another theory on their origin came to light in 2013, appearing to predate
all previous claims, when a recipe for dow nuts was found in a book of
recipes and domestic tips written in 1800 by the wife of Baron Thomas
Dimsdale, the recipe being given to the dowager Baroness by an acquaintance
who transcribed for her the cooking instructions of a local delicacy, the
Hertfordshire nut'.
[The Hankster says] I like the glazed yeast ones best. I don't ave them very often due to the vast amounts of sugar, but I can't think of anything that tastes better than a fresh sinker and a cup of java. I'm just glad that there is that hole in the middle to let out all the calories.
* 'Sausage and Kraut Day:'. . First Saturday in November.
- From Wikipedia (Sausage):
'A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef or
veal, along with salt, spices and breadcrumbs, with a skin around it.
Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from
intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Sausages that are sold uncooked are
cooked in many ways, including pan-frying, broiling and barbecuing. Some
sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may then be removed.
Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may
be preserved by curing, drying (often in association with fermentation or
culturing, which can contribute to preservation), smoking or freezing.
There is a huge range of national and regional varieties of sausages, which
differ by their flavouring or spicing ingredients, the meat(s) used in them
and their manner of preparation.
Sausage making is an outcome of efficient butchery. Traditionally, sausage
makers would salt various tissues and organs such as scraps, organ meats,
blood, and fat to help preserve them. They would then stuff them into
tubular casings made from the cleaned intestines of the animal, producing
the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings, and salami
are among the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten
immediately or dried to varying degrees.
- From Wikipedia (Sauerkraut):
'Sauerkraut is finely cut
cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria, including
Leuconostoc, Lactobacillus, and Pediococcus. It has a long shelf life and a
distinctive sour flavor, both of which result from the lactic acid that
forms when the bacteria ferment the sugars in the cabbage.
Fermented foods have a long history in many cultures, with sauerkraut being
one of the most well-known instances of traditional fermented moist cabbage
side dishes. The Roman writers Cato (in his De Agri Cultura) and Columella
(in his De re Rustica) mentioned preserving cabbages and turnips with salt.
Sauerkraut took root mostly in Eastern European and Germanic cuisines, but
also in other countries including the Netherlands, where it is known as
zuurkool, and France, where the name became choucroute. The English name is
borrowed from German where it means literally sour herb or sour cabbage The
names in Slavic and other East European languages are not cognate with
German sauerkraut, but have similar meanings: fermented cabbage
(Belarusian: ???????? ???????, Czech: kysané zelí, Polish: kiszona kapusta
or kwaszona kapusta, Lithuanian: rauginti kopustai, Russian: ????????
???????, tr. kvashenaya kapusta, Ukrainian: ??????? ???????) or sour
cabbage (Bulgarian: ?????? ????, Czech: kyselé zelí, Hungarian:
savanyúkáposzta, Latvian: skabeti kaposti, Romanian: varza murata, Russian:
?????? ???????, tr. kislaya kapusta, Serbian: kiseli kupus, Slovak: kyslá
kapusta, Ukrainian: ????? ???????, Estonian: hapukapsas).
Before frozen foods, refrigeration, and cheap transport from warmer areas
became readily available in northern, central and eastern Europe,
sauerkraut, like other preserved foods, provided a source of nutrients
during the winter. James Cook always took a store of sauerkraut on his sea
voyages, since experience had taught him it prevented scurvy.
During World War I, due to concerns the American public would reject a
product with a German name, American sauerkraut makers relabeled their
product as Liberty cabbage for the duration of the war.
During World War I, British and Commonwealth forces used the word Kraut,
derived from the dish, as a derogatory term for the German people. During
World War II, the term was picked up by American forces'.
[The Hankster says] Another one of those culinary marriages for the ages. I'll have some German fried potatoes with them, please.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Love Your Red Hair Day'.
By 'How to be a Redhead'.
- From Wikipedia (Red hair):
'Red hair occurs naturally in 1–2% of the human population. It occurs more
frequently (2–6%) in people of northern or western European ancestry, and
less frequently in other populations. Red hair appears most commonly in
people with two copies of a recessive allele on chromosome 16 which
produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
Red hair varies from a deep burgundy through burnt orange to bright copper.
It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and
relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. It is associated with
fair skin color, lighter eye colors (gray, blue, green, and hazel),
freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light.
Cultural reactions have varied from ridicule to admiration many common
stereotypes exist regarding redheads and they are often portrayed as
fiery-tempered.
The term redhead has been in use since at least 1510'.
* 'Book Lovers Day'.
First Saturday in November and/or August 9th.
[The Hankster says] That should be every day.
* 'Sadie Hawkins Day:'.
First Saturday in November. Also Fev. 29, a day on which women can propose
marriage.
- From Wikipedia (Sadie Hawkins Day):
'Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated
by Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1978). This
inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events, the premise of which is that
females ask males for a date or dancing.
In Li'l Abner, Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch's earliest
settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. The homeliest gal in all them hills, she grew
frantic waiting for suitors. When she reached the age of 35, still a
spinster, her father was worried about Sadie living at home for the rest of
her life. In desperation, he called together all the unmarried men of
Dogpatch and declared it Sadie Hawkins Day A foot race was decreed, with
Sadie pursuing the town's eligible bachelors. She was specifically
interested in a handsome boy named Adam Olis who was already in a courtship
with a cute girl, Theresa, whose father was the area's largest potato
farmer, Bill Richmand, and, unlike Sadie, had a number of courtship offers.
Adam was invited to the race because Miss Theresa and Adam weren't actually
engaged. With matrimony as the (absurd) consequence of losing the foot
race, the bachelors of the town were running for their freedom. Adam Olis
scored fourth place out of 10, leaving John Jonston as Sadie's prize. It is
possible that the concept's origins are in an inversion of the myth of
Atalanta, who, reluctant to marry, agreed to wed whoever could outrun her
in a footrace.
When ah fires , all o' yo' kin start a-runnin! When ah fires agin—- after
givin' yo' a fair start—- Sadie starts a runnin'. Th' one she ketches'll be
her husbin.
The town spinsters decided that this was a good idea, so they made Sadie
Hawkins Day a mandatory yearly event, much to the chagrin of Dogpatch's
bachelors. If a woman caught a bachelor and dragged him, kicking and
screaming, across the finish line before sundown, by law he had to marry
her.
Sadie Hawkins Day was first mentioned in the November 15, 1937 Li'l Abner
daily comic strip, with the race actually being depicted between November
19 and November 30. It would prove to be an annual feature of Li'l Abner.
(see Schreiner, Dave Sadie's First Run, Li'l Abner Dailies Volume 3: 1937,
Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton, WI, p. 8.)'
[The Hankster says] There are times when this heads-up really is useful. Guys this is one of them.
* 'Bank Transfer Day'.
Started in 2011 to encourage moving from a bank to a credit union.
- From Wikipedia (Bank Transfer Days):
'Bank Transfer Day was a consumer activism initiative calling for a
voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions by
November 5, 2011. As of October 15, 2011, a Facebook page devoted to the
effort had drawn more than 54,900 likes Debit card fees of $5 a month from
the Bank of America are among steps leading to the Bank Transfer Day
protest with a November 5 deadline. Occupy Wall Street participants support
the effort even though the events are not related. Among the detractors was
Occupy Los Angeles, and Kristen Christian, creator of the event, stated
that she was accosted by Occupy Los Angeles organizers and has even
received threatening phone calls because of her pro-credit union rather
than anti-bank approach.
Christian, an art gallery owner in Los Angeles, California, said she was
dissatisfied with Bank of America's ridiculous fees and poor customer
service. She created an event on Facebook called “Bank Transfer Day” and
invited her friends to close their accounts at big for-profit banks and
move their money to credit unions by November 5, 2011. Christian chose
November 5 because of its association with Guy Fawkes, who tried to blow up
the British House of Lords and bring Catholic rule back to the United
Kingdom, but was captured on that date in 1605'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'International Volunteer Managers Day'. Since 1999.
* 'Guy Fawkes Night'. In the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa,
Australia, Canada, British Virgin Island. See more in the history section
for 1605.
* 'World Tsunami Awareness Day'. By United Nations Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
<> Historical events on November 5
* 'In 1605, During the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to blow up the House of
Lords and King James I as he opens Parliament is uncovered. Guy Fawkes is
arrested as he guards the explosives. He and seven others are executed. .
'Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework
Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in
Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when
Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding
explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating
the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit
bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance
of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the
plot's failure.
Within a few decades Gunpowder Treason Day, as it was known, became the
predominant English state commemoration, but as it carried strong
Protestant religious overtones it also became a focus for anti-Catholic
sentiment. Puritans delivered sermons regarding the perceived dangers of
popery, while during increasingly raucous celebrations common folk burnt
effigies of popular hate-figures, such as the pope. Towards the end of the
18th century reports appear of children begging for money with effigies of
Guy Fawkes and 5 November gradually became known as Guy Fawkes Day. Towns
such as Lewes and Guildford were in the 19th century scenes of increasingly
violent class-based confrontations, fostering traditions those towns
celebrate still, albeit peaceably. In the 1850s changing attitudes resulted
in the toning down of much of the day's anti-Catholic rhetoric, and the
Observance of 5th November Act was repealed in 1859. Eventually the
violence was dealt with, and by the 20th century Guy Fawkes Day had become
an enjoyable social commemoration, although lacking much of its original
focus. The present-day Guy Fawkes Night is usually celebrated at large
organised events, centred on a bonfire and extravagant firework displays.
Settlers exported Guy Fawkes Night to overseas colonies, including some in
North America, where it was known as Pope Day. Those festivities died out
with the onset of the American Revolution. Claims that Guy Fawkes Night was
a Protestant replacement for older customs like Samhain are disputed,
although another old celebration, Halloween, has lately increased in
popularity, and according to some writers, may threaten the continued
observance of 5 November'.
* 'In 1872, In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for
the first time, and is later fined $100. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13,
1906) was an American social reformer and feminist activist who played a
pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family
committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the
age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American
Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and
co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's
rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society
after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference
because she was a woman. In 1863, they founded the Women's Loyal National
League, which conducted the largest petition drive in the nation's history
up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the
abolition of slavery. In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights
Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African
Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a women's rights newspaper called
The Revolution. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage
Association as part of a split in the women's movement. In 1890, the split
was formally healed when their organization merged with the rival American
Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, with Anthony as its key force. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton
began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the
six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. The interests of Anthony and Stanton
diverged somewhat in later years, but the two remained close friends.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New
York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial. Although she refused to
pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. In 1878,
Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment
giving women the right to vote. Popularly known as the Anthony Amendment
and introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent (R-CA), it became the Nineteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Anthony traveled extensively in support of women's suffrage, giving as many
as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns. She
worked internationally for women's rights, playing a key role in creating
the International Council of Women, which is still active. She also helped
to bring about the World's Congress of Representative Women at the World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
When she first began campaigning for women's rights, Anthony was harshly
ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage.
Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime, however.
Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of
President William McKinley. She became the first nonfictitious woman to be
depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar
coin'.
* 'In 1895, George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an
automobile. Henry Ford invented his engine later, which was significantly
different and did not violate Selden's patent. .
- From Wikipedia: 'George Baldwin Selden (September 14, 1846 in Clarkson,
New York – January 17, 1922 in Rochester, New York) was a patent lawyer and
inventor who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.
Inspired by the mammoth internal combustion engine invented by George
Brayton displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876,
Selden began working on a smaller lighter version, succeeding by 1878, some
eight years before the public introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in
Europe, in producing a one-cylinder, 400-pound version which featured an
enclosed crankshaft with the help of Rochester machinist Frank H. Clement
and his assistant William Gomm. He filed for a patent on May 8, 1879 (in a
historical cross of people, the witness Selden chose was a local
bank-teller, George Eastman, later to become famous for the Kodak camera).
His application included not only the engine but its use in a 4-wheeled
car. He then filed a series of amendments to his application which
stretched out the legal process resulting in a delay of 16 years before the
patent was granted on November 5, 1895.
Shortly thereafter the fledgling American auto industry began its first
efforts and George Selden, despite never having gone into production with a
working model of an automobile, had a credible claim to have patented an
automobile in 1895. In 1899 he sold his patent rights to William C.
Whitney, who proposed manufacturing electric-powered taxicabs as the
Electric Vehicle Company, EVC, for a royalty of US$15 per car with a
minimum annual payment of US$5,000. Whitney and Selden then worked together
to collect royalties from other budding automobile manufacturers. He was
initially successful, negotiating a 0.75% royalty on all cars sold by the
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. He began his own car
company in Rochester under the name Selden Motor Vehicle Company.
However, Henry Ford, owner of the Ford Motor Company, founded in Detroit,
Michigan in 1903, and four other car makers resolved to contest the patent
infringement suit filed by Selden and EVC. The legal fight lasted eight
years, generating a case record of 14,000 pages. Ford's testimony included
the comment, It is perfectly safe to say that George Selden has never
advanced the automobile industry in a single particular...and it would
perhaps be further advanced than it is now if he had never been born. The
case was heavily publicized in the newspapers of the day, and ended in a
victory for Selden. In his decision, the judge wrote that the patent
covered any automobile propelled by an engine powered by gasoline vapor.
Posting a bond of US$350,000, Ford appealed, and on January 10, 1911 won
his case based on an argument that the engine used in automobiles was not
based on George Brayton's engine, the Brayton engine which Selden had
improved, but on the Otto engine.
This stunning defeat, with only one year left to run on the patent,
destroyed Selden's income stream. He focused production of his car company
on trucks, renaming his company the Selden Truck Sales Corporation. It
survived in that form until 1930 when it was purchased by the Bethlehem
Motor Truck Corporation. Selden suffered a stroke in late 1921 and died
aged 75 on January 17, 1922. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in
Rochester. It is estimated he received several hundred thousand dollars in
royalties'.
* 'In 1925, Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first 'super-spy' of the 20th
century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. He
is considered the pattern for the fictional James Bond 007 character.
- From Wikipedia: 'Sidney George Reilly, commonly known as the so-called
'Ace of Spies', was a secret agent of the British Secret Service Bureau,
the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).
He is alleged to have spied for at least four different powers'.
Reilly's fame was created during the 1920s, in part by his friend, the
British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who publicized
their thwarted operation to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in 1918. The
London Evening Standard published in May 1931 a serial, headlined Master
Spy, imparting his exploits. Later Ian Fleming used Reilly as a model for
James Bond. Today many historians consider Reilly to have been the first
20th-century super-spy Much of what is thought to be known about him could
be false, however, as Reilly was a master of deception and most of his life
is shrouded in legend'.
* 'In 1930, At the 3rd Academy Awards for (films completed and screened
released between August 1, 1929, and July 31, 1930). Outstanding
Production: ' All Quiet on the Western Front'. Best Actor: George Arliss
for 'Disraeli'. Best Actress: Norma Shearer for 'The Divorcee'.
* 'In 1935, The board-game, Monopoly, by Parker Brothers begins sales. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Monopoly is a board game that originated in the United
States in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth
creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints
and to promote the economic theories of Henry George and in particular his
ideas about taxation. The current version was first published by Parker
Brothers in 1935. Subtitled The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game, the
game is named after the economic concept of monopoly—the domination of a
market by a single entity. It is now owned and produced by the American
game and toy company Hasbro. Players move around the game-board buying or
trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and
collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them all
into bankruptcy leaving one monopolist in control of the entire economy.
Since the board game was first commercially sold in the 1930s, it has
become a part of popular world culture, having been locally licensed in
more than 103 countries and printed in more than thirty-seven languages.
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American
anti-monopolist Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips, created a game
through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of
Henry George. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the
negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. Magie took
out a patent in 1904. Her game, The Landlord's Game, was self-published,
beginning in 1906. A series of variant board games based on her concept was
developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling
of land and the development of that land. Cardboard houses were added and
rents were increased as they were added. Magie again patented the game in
1923.
According to an advertisement placed in The Christian Science Monitor,
Charles Todd of Philadelphia recalled the day in 1932 when his childhood
friend, Esther Jones, now married to Charles Darrow, came to their house
with her husband for dinner. After the meal, the Darrows played The
Landlord's Game several times with them, a game that was entirely new to
the Darrows, and before he left, Darrow asked for a written set of the
rules. After Darrow brought his own Monopoly game out, the Todds never
spoke to the Darrows again.
By 1933, a variation on The Landlord's Game called Monopoly was the basis
of the board game sold by Parker Brothers, beginning on February 6, 1935.
Several people, mostly in the midwestern United States and near the East
Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution, and this is when the
game's design took on the 4×10 space-to-a-side layout and familiar cards
were produced. The original version of the game in this format was based on
streets in Atlantic City, New Jersey. By the 1970s, the false notion that
the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular
folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions.
In 1936, Parker Brothers began licensing the game for sale outside the
United States. In 1941, the British Secret Intelligence Service had John
Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game in the United
Kingdom, create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by
the Nazis. Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money, and
other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by
British secret service-created fake charity groups'.
* 'In 1956, The TV show, 'The Nat King Cole Show' premiers. .
- From Wikipedia: 'On November 5, 1956, The Nat 'King' Cole Show debuted on
NBC. The variety program was the first of its kind hosted by an African
American, which created controversy at the time. Beginning as a 15-minute
pops show on Monday night, the program was expanded to a half-hour in July
1957. Despite the efforts of NBC, as well as many of Cole's industry
colleagues—many of whom, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Frankie
Laine, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Tony Bennett and the backing
vocal group the Cheerleaders, worked for industry scale (or even for no
pay) in order to help the show save money—The Nat 'King' Cole Show was
ultimately done in by lack of a national sponsorship. Companies such as
Rheingold Beer assumed regional sponsorship of the show, but a national
sponsor never appeared. The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show aired
December 17, 1957. Cole had survived for over a year, and it was he, not
NBC, who ultimately decided to end the program. Commenting on the lack of
sponsorship his show received, Cole quipped shortly after its demise,
Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark'.
* 'In 1988, Kylie Minogue's 'The Loco-Motion' (3rd artist doing this song)
hits #1 in the US. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Loco-Motion is a 1962 pop song written by American
songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The Loco-Motion was originally
written for Dee Dee Sharp but Sharp turned the song down. The song is
notable for appearing in the American Top 5 three times – each time in a
different decade, performed by artists from three different cultures:
originally African American pop singer Little Eva in 1962 (U.S. No. 1) then
American band Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 (U.S. No. 1) and finally
Australian singer Kylie Minogue in 1988 (U.S. No. 3).
The song is a popular and enduring example of the dance-song genre: much of
the lyrics are devoted to a description of the dance itself, usually done
as a type of line dance. However, the song came before the dance.
The Loco-Motion was also the second song to reach No. 1 by two different
musical acts. The earlier song to do this was Go Away Little Girl, also
written by Goffin and King. It is one of only nine songs to achieve this
feat'.
* 'In 2007, The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Android is a mobile operating system developed by
Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen
mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is
mainly based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely
correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to
manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input.
In addition to touchscreen devices, Google has further developed Android TV
for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches,
each with a specialized user interface. Variants of Android are also used
on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, and other electronics.
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy
Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire
Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White
(headed design and interface development at WebTV) to develop, in Rubin's
words, smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location
and preferences The early intentions of the company were to develop an
advanced operating system for digital cameras. Though, when it was realized
that the market for the devices was not large enough, the company diverted
its efforts toward producing a smartphone operating system that would rival
Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. Despite the past accomplishments of
the founders and early employees, Android Inc. operated secretly, revealing
only that it was working on software for mobile phones. That same year,
Rubin ran out of money. Steve Perlman, a close friend of Rubin, brought him
$10,000 in cash in an envelope and refused a stake in the company.
In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million, whose
key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, stayed at the company
after the acquisition. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time,
but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market
with this move. At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device
platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to
handset makers and carriers on the promise of providing a flexible,
upgradeable system. Google had lined up a series of hardware component and
software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various
degrees of cooperation on their part.
On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology
companies including Google, device manufacturers such as HTC, Sony and
Samsung, wireless carriers such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile, and chipset
makers such as Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, unveiled itself, with a goal
to develop open standards for mobile devices. That day, Android was
unveiled as its first product, a mobile device platform built on the Linux
kernel. The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the
HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008'.
* 'In 2007, China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around
the Moon. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Chang'e 1 (pronunciation: /t?æ?'?/ simplified Chinese:
???? traditional Chinese: ???? pinyin: Cháng'é yi hào) was an unmanned
Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese
Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon
goddess, Chang'e.
Chang'e 1 was launched on 24 October 2007 at 10:05:04 UTC from Xichang
Satellite Launch Center. It left lunar transfer orbit on 31 October and
entered lunar orbit on 5 November. The first picture of the Moon was
relayed on 26 November 2007. On 12 November 2008, a map of the entire lunar
surface was released, produced from data collected by Chang'e 1 between
November 2007 and July 2008.
The mission was scheduled to continue for a year, but was later extended
and the spacecraft operated until 1 March 2009, when it was taken out of
orbit. It impacted the surface of the Moon at 08:13 UTC. Data gathered by
Chang'e 1 was able to create the most accurate and highest resolution 3-D
map ever created of the lunar surface. Chang'e 1 is the first lunar probe
to conduct passive, multi-channel, microwave remote sensing of the Moon by
using a microwave radiator.
Its sister orbital probe Chang'e 2 was launched on 1 October 2010'.
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to the Roman calendar.
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the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere
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