<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Fast Food Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Fast food):
'Fast food, a type of mass-produced food that is prepared and served very
quickly. It began with the first fish and chip shops in Britain in the
1860s. Drive-through restaurants were first popularized in the 1950s in the
United States. The food typically less nutritionally valuable compared to
other foods and dishes. While any meal with low preparation time can be
considered fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a
restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to
the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. Fast food
restaurants are traditionally distinguished by their ability to serve food
via a drive-through. The term fast food was recognized in a dictionary by
Merriam–Webster in 1951.
Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating,
or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants).
Franchise operations that are part of restaurant chains have standardized
foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), fast foods are quick
alternatives to home-cooked meals. They are also high in saturated fat,
sugar, salt and calories.
Eating too much fast food has been linked to, among other things,
colorectal cancer, obesity and high cholesterol.
The traditional family dinner is increasingly being replaced by the
consumption of takeaway, or eating on the run As a result, the time
invested on food preparation is getting lower and lower, with an average
couple in the United States spending 47 minutes and 19 minutes per day,
carrying out food preparation.
In the cities of Roman antiquity, much of the urban population living in
insulae, multi-story apartment blocks, depended on food vendors for much of
their meals. In the mornings, bread soaked in wine was eaten as a quick
snack and cooked vegetables and stews later in popina, a simple type of
eating establishment. In the Middle Ages, large towns and major urban areas
such as London and Paris supported numerous vendors that sold dishes such
as pies, pasties, flans, waffles, wafers, pancakes and cooked meats. As in
Roman cities during antiquity, many of these establishments catered to
those who did not have means to cook their own food, particularly single
households. Unlike richer town dwellers, many often could not afford
housing with kitchen facilities and thus relied on fast food. Travellers,
as well, such as pilgrims en route to a holy site, were among the
customers.
As automobiles became popular and more affordable following World War I,
drive-in restaurants were introduced. The American company White Castle,
founded by Billy Ingram and Walter Anderson in Wichita, Kansas in 1921, is
generally credited with opening the second fast food outlet and first
hamburger chain, selling hamburgers for five cents each. Walter Anderson
had built the first White Castle restaurant in Wichita in 1916, introducing
the limited menu, high-volume, low-cost, high-speed hamburger restaurant.
Among its innovations, the company allowed customers to see the food being
prepared. White Castle was successful from its inception and spawned
numerous competitors.
Franchising was introduced in 1921 by A and W Root Beer, which franchised
its distinctive syrup. Howard Johnson's first franchised the restaurant
concept in the mid-1930s, formally standardizing menus, signage and
advertising.
Curb service was introduced in the late 1920s and was mobilized in the
1940s when carhops strapped on roller skates.
The United States has the largest fast food industry in the world, and
American fast food restaurants are located in over 100 countries.
Approximately 4.7 million U.S. workers are employed in the areas of food
preparation and food servicing, including fast food in the USA. Worries of
an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses have inspired many local
government officials in the United States to propose to limit or regulate
fast-food restaurants. Yet, US adults are unwilling to change their fast
food consumption even in the face of rising costs and unemployment
characterized by the great recession, suggesting an inelastic demand.
However, some areas are more affected than others. In Los Angeles County,
for example, about 45% of the restaurants in South Central Los Angeles are
fast-food chains or restaurants with minimal seating. By comparison, only
16% of those on the Westside are such restaurants'.
[The Hankster says] Of course there are two sides to the fast food question. The first is preparation and the other (my favorite) eating.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Button Day'.
Since 1938 by the National Button Society.
- From Wikipedia (Button collecting):
'Button collecting varies widely. In its most informal manifestation, a
button collection may simply be the household button container, where
buttons are stored for future use on clothing or for crafts. At the other
end of the spectrum is the competitive collector, mainly found in the
United States. The National Button Society serves as a forum for
collectors to build information about the history of buttons and for annual
collector competitions. Regional, State and local button clubs meet
regularly as well. In between these two extremes exist casual button
collectors, who accumulate buttons for sheer enjoyment and relaxation, as
well as for their functional value.
Some museums and art galleries hold culturally, historically, politically,
and/or artistically significant buttons in their collections. The Victoria
and Albert Museum has many buttons, particularly in its jewellery
collection, as does the Smithsonian Institution'.
[The Hankster says] At last the age old question is answered. Button, button, who's got the button? It appears that the collectors do.
* 'Have a Party With Your Bear Day'.
[The Hankster says] This is not Teddy Bear Picnic Day, so you will have to set the table. Remember, the honey pot goes on the left.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day'. By the Global
Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). During COPD
Awareness Week.
- From Wikipedia (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease):
'Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung
disease characterized by long-term poor airflow. The main symptoms include
shortness of breath and cough with sputum production. COPD typically
worsens over time. Eventually walking up stairs or carrying things will be
difficult. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are older terms used for
different types of COPD. The term chronic bronchitis is still used to
define a productive cough that is present for at least three months each
year for two years.
Tobacco smoking is the most common cause of COPD, with a number of other
factors such as air pollution and genetics playing a smaller role. In the
developing world, one of the common sources of air pollution is poorly
vented heating and cooking fires. Long-term exposure to these irritants
causes an inflammatory response in the lungs resulting in narrowing of the
small airways and breakdown of lung tissue. The diagnosis is based on poor
airflow as measured by lung function tests. In contrast to asthma, the
airflow reduction does not improve much with the use of a bronchodilator.
Most cases of COPD can be prevented by reducing exposure to risk factors.
This includes decreasing rates of smoking and improving indoor and outdoor
air quality. While treatment can slow worsening, there is no cure. COPD
treatments include stopping smoking, vaccinations, respiratory
rehabilitation, and often inhaled bronchodilators and steroids. Some people
may benefit from long-term oxygen therapy or lung transplantation. In those
who have periods of acute worsening, increased use of medications and
hospitalization may be needed.
As of 2013 COPD affects 329 million people or nearly 5 percent of the
global population. It typically occurs in people over the age of 40. Males
and females are affected equally commonly. In 2013 it resulted in 2.9
million deaths, up from 2.4 million deaths in 1990. More than 90% of these
deaths occur in the developing world. The number of deaths is projected to
increase further because of higher smoking rates in the developing world,
and an aging population in many countries. It resulted in an estimated
economic cost of $2.1 trillion in 2010'.
o Other:
* 'International Day for Tolerance'. U.N. awareness day.
- From Wikipedia (International Day for Tolerance):
'The International Day for Tolerance is an annual observance declared by
UNESCO in 1995 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance.
It is obs
Every year various conferences and festivals are organized in the occasion
of International Day for Tolerance. Among them, Universal Tolerance Cartoon
Festival in Drammen, Norway which organized an International Cartoon
Festival in 2013'.
* 'GIS (Geographic information systems) Day'. . Since 1999.
- From Wikipedia (Geographic information system):
'A geographic information system (or GIS) is a system designed to capture,
store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical
data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographic information science
(GIScience) to refer to the academic discipline that studies geographic
information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic
discipline of geoinformatics. What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data
infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries.
In general, the term describes any information system that integrates,
stores, edits, analyzes, shares, and displays geographic information. GIS
applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries
(user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps,
and present the results of all these operations. Geographic information
science is the science underlying geographic concepts, applications, and
systems.
GIS is a broad term that can refer to a number of different technologies,
processes, and methods. It is attached to many operations and has many
applications related to engineering, planning, management,
transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business. For that
reason, GIS and location intelligence applications can be the foundation
for many location-enabled services that rely on analysis and visualization.
GIS can relate unrelated information by using location as the key index
variable. Locations or extents in the Earth space–time may be recorded as
dates/times of occurrence, and x, y, and z coordinates representing,
longitude, latitude, and elevation, respectively. All Earth-based
spatial–temporal location and extent references should, be relatable to one
another and ultimately to a real physical location or extent. This key
characteristic of GIS has begun to open new avenues of scientific inquiry'.
* 'National Educational Support Professionals Day'. Wednesday of American
Education Week.
- From Wikipedia (National Education Association):
'The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the
United States. It represents public school teachers and other support
personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired
educators, and college students preparing to become teachers. The NEA has
just under 3 million members and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The
NEA had a budget of more than $341 million for the 2012–2013 fiscal year.
Lily Eskelsen García is the NEA's current president.
The stated mission of the NEA is to advocate for education professionals
and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public
education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and
interdependent world.'.
<> Historical events on November 16
* 'In 1841, The cork life preserver is patented by Napoleon Guerin. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Napoleon Guerin of New York City, United States is an
inventor who obtained a U.S. patent for the first life preserver made of
cork on November 16, 1841. It was constructed in jacket form, with two
layers of material between which the cork could be inserted. Guerin
suggested using between 18 and 20 quarts of rasped or grated cork,
depending on the weight of the person, but he was not specific about the
type of fabric to be used in the jacket, saying only that it could be made
of cotton or any other material.'.
* 'In 1904, The first electron tube (vacuum tube) is invented by John
Ambrose Fleming.
- From Wikipedia: 'In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just
a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions), is a
device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated
container. Vacuum tubes mostly rely on thermionic emission of electrons
from a hot filament or a cathode heated by the filament. This type is
called a thermionic tube or thermionic valve. A phototube, however,
achieves electron emission through the photoelectric effect. Not all
electronic circuit valves/electron tubes are vacuum tubes (evacuated)
gas-filled tubes are similar devices containing a gas, typically at low
pressure, which exploit phenomena related to electric discharge in gases,
usually without a heater.
The simplest vacuum tube, the diode, contains only a heater, a heated
electron-emitting cathode (the filament itself acts as the cathode in some
diodes), and a plate (anode). Current can only flow in one direction
through the device between the two electrodes, as electrons emitted by the
cathode travel through the tube and are collected by the anode. Adding one
or more control grids within the tube allows the current between the
cathode and anode to be controlled by the voltage on the grid or grids.
Tubes with grids can be used for many purposes, including amplification,
rectification, switching, oscillation, and display.
Invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming, vacuum tubes were a basic
component for electronics throughout the first half of the twentieth
century, which saw the diffusion of radio, television, radar, sound
reinforcement, sound recording and reproduction, large telephone networks,
analog and digital computers, and industrial process control. Although some
applications had counterparts using earlier technologies such as the spark
gap transmitter or mechanical computers, it was the invention of the vacuum
tube that made these technologies widespread and practical. In the 1940s
the invention of semiconductor devices made it possible to produce
solid-state devices, which are smaller, more efficient, more reliable, more
durable, and cheaper than tubes. Hence, from the mid-1950s solid-state
devices such as transistors gradually replaced tubes. The cathode-ray tube
(CRT) remained the basis for televisions and video monitors until
superseded in the 21st century. However, there are still a few applications
for which tubes are preferred to semiconductors for example, the magnetron
used in microwave ovens, and certain high-frequency amplifiers.
The 19th century saw increasing research with evacuated tubes, such as the
Geissler and Crookes tubes. The many scientists and inventors who
experimented with such tubes include Thomas Edison, Eugen Goldstein, Nikola
Tesla, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. With the exception of early light bulbs,
such tubes were only used in scientific research or as novelties. The
groundwork laid by these scientists and inventors, however, was critical to
the development of subsequent vacuum tube technology.
Although thermionic emission was originally reported in 1873 by Frederick
Guthrie, it was Thomas Edison's apparently independent discovery of the
phenomenon in 1883 that became well known. Although Edison was aware of the
unidirectional property of current flow between the filament and the anode,
his interest (and patent) concentrated on the sensitivity of the anode
current to the current through the filament (and thus filament
temperature). Little practical use was ever made of this property (however
early radios often implemented volume controls through varying the filament
current of amplifying tubes). It was only years later that John Ambrose
Fleming utilized the rectifying property of the diode tube to detect
(demodulate) radio signals, a substantial improvement on the early
cat's-whisker detector already used for rectification.
However actual amplification by a vacuum tube only became practical with
Lee De Forest's 1907 invention of the three-terminal audion tube, a crude
form of what was to become the triode. Being essentially the first
electronic amplifier, such tubes were instrumental in long-distance
telephony (such as the first coast-to-coast telephone line in the US) and
public address systems, and introduced a far superior and versatile
technology for use in radio transmitters and receivers. The electronics
revolution of the 20th century arguably began with the invention of the
triode vacuum tube. Diodes Fleming's first diodes Main article: Diode
The English physicist John Ambrose Fleming worked as an engineering
consultant for firms including Edison Telephone and the Marconi Company. In
1904, as a result of experiments conducted on Edison effect bulbs imported
from the USA, he developed a device he called an oscillation valve (because
it passes current in only one direction). The heated filament, or cathode,
was capable of thermionic emission of electrons that would flow to the
plate (or anode) when it was at a higher voltage. Electrons, however, could
not pass in the reverse direction because the plate was not heated and thus
not capable of thermionic emission of electrons.
Later known as the Fleming valve, it could be used as a rectifier of
alternating current and as a radio wave detector. This greatly improved the
crystal set which rectified the radio signal using an early solid-state
diode based on a crystal and a so-called cat's whisker. Unlike modern
semiconductors, such a diode required painstaking adjustment of the contact
to the crystal in order for it to rectify. The tube was relatively immune
to vibration, and thus vastly superior on shipboard duty, particularly for
navy ships with the shock of weapon fire commonly knocking the sensitive
but delicate galena off its sensitive point (the tube was in general no
more sensitive as a radio detector, but was adjustment free). The diode
tube was a reliable alternative for detecting radio signals. Higher power
diode tubes or power rectifiers found their way into power supply
applications until they were eventually replaced by silicon rectifiers in
the 1960s'.
* 'In 1907, Oklahoma is accepted as the 46th State of the U.S. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central United
States. Oklahoma is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of
the 50 United States. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words
okla and humma, meaning red people It is also known informally by its
nickname, The Sooner State, in reference to the non-Native settlers who
staked their claims on the choicest pieces of land before the official
opening date, and the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which opened the
door for white settlement in America's Indian Territory. The name was
settled upon statehood, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged
and Indian was dropped from the name. On November 16, 1907, Oklahoma became
the 46th state to enter the union. Its residents are known as Oklahomans,
or informally Okies, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
A major producer of natural gas, oil, and agricultural products, Oklahoma
relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and
biotechnology. In 2007, it had one of the fastest-growing economies in the
United States, ranking among the top states in per capita income growth and
gross domestic product growth. Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's
primary economic anchors, with nearly two-thirds of Oklahomans living
within their metropolitan statistical areas.
With small mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of
Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains, Cross Timbers and the U.S. Interior
Highlands—a region especially prone to severe weather. In addition to
having a prevalence of English, German, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, and Native
American ancestry, more than 25 Native American languages are spoken in
Oklahoma, second only to California.
Oklahoma is located on a confluence of three major American cultural
regions and historically served as a route for cattle drives, a destination
for southern settlers, and a government-sanctioned territory for Native
Americans'.
* 'In 1920, Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland
and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier airline of
Australia and its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and
international destinations. It is the third oldest airline in the world,
after KLM and Avianca having been founded in November 1920 it began
international passenger flights in May 1935. The Qantas name comes from
QANTAS, an acronym for its original name, Queensland and Northern Territory
Aerial Services, and it is nicknamed The Flying Kangaroo Qantas is a
founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.
The airline is based in the Sydney suburb of Mascot with its main hub at
Sydney Airport. As of March 2014 Qantas had a 65% share of the Australian
domestic market and carried 14.9% of all passengers travelling in and out
of Australia. Various subsidiary airlines operate to regional centres and
on some trunk routes within Australia under the QantasLink banner. Its
subsidiary Jetconnect provides services between Australia and New Zealand,
flying under the Qantas brand. Qantas also owns Jetstar Airways, a low-cost
airline that operates both international services from Australia and
domestic services within Australia and New Zealand and holds stakes in a
number of other Jetstar-branded airlines'.
* 'In 1945, UNESCO is founded.
- From Wikipedia: 'The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) (In French: Organisation des Nations unies pour
l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the
United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute
to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through
educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase
universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with
fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. It is the
heir of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual
Cooperation.
UNESCO has 195 member states and nine associate members. Most of its field
offices are cluster offices covering three or more countries national and
regional offices also exist.
UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education,
natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and
communication/information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy,
technical, and teacher-training programmes, international science
programmes, the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press,
regional and cultural history projects, the promotion of cultural
diversity, translations of world literature, international cooperation
agreements to secure the world cultural and natural heritage (World
Heritage Sites) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the
worldwide digital divide. It is also a member of the United Nations
Development Group.
UNESCO's aim is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of
poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through
education, the sciences, culture, communication and information Other
priorities of the organization include attaining quality Education For All
and lifelong learning, addressing emerging social and ethical challenges,
fostering cultural diversity, a culture of peace and building inclusive
knowledge societies through information and communication.
The broad goals and concrete objectives of the international community – as
set out in the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – underpin all UNESCO's strategies and
activities'.
* 'In 1945, German scientists were brought to the US to work on rocket
technology. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Operation Paperclip was the United States Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) program in which more than 1,500 Germans,
primarily scientists but also engineers and technicians, were brought to
the United States from post-Nazi Germany for government employment starting
in 1945 and increasing in the aftermath of World War II. It was conducted
by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) and in the context of
the burgeoning Cold War. One purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny
German scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union and the
United Kingdom, as well as to inhibit post-war Germany from redeveloping
its military research capabilities. By comparison, the Soviet Union were
even more aggressive in recruiting Germans: during Operation Osoaviakhim,
Soviet military units forcibly (at gunpoint) recruited 2,000+ German
specialists to the Soviet Union during one night.
The JIOA's recruitment of German scientists began after the Allied victory
in Europe on May 8, 1945, but U.S. President Harry Truman did not formally
order the execution of Operation Paperclip until August 1945. Truman's
order expressly excluded anyone found to have been a member of the Nazi
Party, and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active
supporter of Nazi militarism. However, those restrictions would have
rendered ineligible most of the leading scientists whom the JIOA had
identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientists Wernher von Braun,
Kurt H. Debus, and Arthur Rudolph, as well as physician Hubertus Strughold,
each earlier classified as a menace to the security of the Allied Forces.
The JIOA worked independently to circumvent President Truman's anti-Nazi
order and the Allied Potsdam and Yalta agreements, creating false
employment and political biographies for the scientists. The JIOA also
expunged the scientists' Nazi Party memberships and regime affiliations
from the public record. Once bleached of their Nazism, the scientists were
granted security clearances by the U.S. government to work in the United
States. The project's operational name of Paperclip was derived from the
paperclips used to attach the scientists' new political personae to their
US Government Scientist JIOA personnel files'.
* 'In 1965, The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward
Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another
planet. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Venera series space probes were developed by the
Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus, Venera being
the Russian name for Venus. As with some of the Soviet Union's other
planetary probes, the later versions were launched in pairs with a second
vehicle being launched soon after the first of the pair.
Ten probes from the Venera series successfully landed on Venus and
transmitted data from the surface of Venus, including the two Vega program
and Venera-Halley probes. In addition, thirteen Venera probes successfully
transmitted data from the atmosphere of Venus.
Among the other results, probes of the series became the first human-made
devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet (Venera 4 on October 18,
1967), to make a soft landing on another planet (Venera 7 on December 15,
1970), to return images from the planetary surface (Venera 9 on June 8,
1975), and to perform high-resolution radar mapping studies of Venus
(Venera 15 on June 2, 1983). The later probes in the Venera series
successfully carried out their mission, providing the first direct
observations of the surface of Venus. Since the surface conditions on Venus
are extreme, the probes only survived on the surface for a duration of 23
minutes (initial probes) up to about two hours (final probes)'.
* 'In 1973, NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from
Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third manned
Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first
American space station.
The mission started on November 16, 1973 with the launch of three
astronauts on a Saturn IB rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and
lasted 84 days, one hour and 16 minutes. A total of 6,051
astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 4 astronauts performing
scientific experiments in the areas of medical activities, solar
observations, Earth resources, observation of the Comet Kohoutek and other
experiments.
The manned Skylab missions were officially designated Skylab 2, 3, and 4.
Mis-communication about the numbering resulted in the mission emblems
reading Skylab I, Skylab II, and Skylab 3 respectively'.
* 'In 1992, The 'Hoxne Hoard', a buried chest of Roman gold and silver, is
discovered by Eric Lawes in England. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman
silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold
and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the
Roman Empire. Found by Eric Lawes, a metal detectorist in the village of
Hoxne in Suffolk, England, on 16 November 1992, the hoard consists of
14,865 Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early
fifth centuries, and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold
jewellery. The objects are now in the British Museum in London, where the
most important pieces and a selection of the rest are on permanent display.
In 1993, the Treasure Valuation Committee valued the hoard at £1.75 million
(today £3.21 million).
The hoard was buried as an oak box or small chest filled with items in
precious metal, sorted mostly by type with some in smaller wooden boxes and
others in bags or wrapped in fabric. Remnants of the chest, and of fittings
such as hinges and locks, were recovered in the excavation. The coins of
the hoard date it after AD 407, which coincides with the end of Britain as
a Roman province. The owners and reasons for burial of the hoard are
unknown, but it was carefully packed and the contents appear consistent
with what a single very wealthy family might have owned. Given the lack of
large silver serving vessels and of some of the most common types of
jewellery, it is likely that the hoard represents only a part of the wealth
of its owner.
The Hoxne Hoard contains several rare and important objects, including a
gold body-chain and silver-gilt pepper-pots (piperatoria), including the
Empress pepper pot. The Hoxne Hoard is also of particular archaeological
significance because it was excavated by professional archaeologists with
the items largely undisturbed and intact. The find has helped to improve
the relationship between metal detectorists and archaeologists, and
influenced a change in English law regarding finds of treasure'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in November
Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care and Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
NET Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Vegan Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
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American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
Military Family Appreciation Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
Picture Book Month
November is:
November origin (from Wikipedia): 'November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian
Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was
the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name
(from the Latin novem meaning 'nine') when January and February were added
to the Roman calendar.
'
'November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in
the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere
is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice
versa.'
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