<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Espresso Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Espresso):
'Espresso is coffee brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling
water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans. Espresso is
generally thicker than coffee brewed by other methods, has a higher
concentration of suspended and dissolved solids, and has crema on top (a
foam with a creamy consistency). As a result of the pressurized brewing
process, the flavors and chemicals in a typical cup of espresso are very
concentrated. Espresso is also the base for other drinks such as a caffè
latte, cappuccino, caffè macchiato, caffè mocha, flat white, or caffè
Americano. Espresso has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee
beverages, but because the usual serving size is much smaller, the total
caffeine content is less than a mug of standard brewed coffee, contrary to
a common belief. Although the actual caffeine content of any coffee drink
varies by size, bean origin, roast method and other factors, the caffeine
content of typical servings of espresso vs. drip brew are 120 to 170 mg vs.
150 to 200 mg.
There is a debate over whether the spelling expresso is incorrect or
whether it is an acceptable variant. Oxford Dictionaries online states The
spelling expresso is not used in the original Italian and is strictly
incorrect, although it is common. The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage
and Style (2000) describes the spelling expresso as wrong, and specifies
espresso as the only correct form. The third edition of Fowler's Modern
English Usage (1996) states that espresso has entirely driven out the
variant expresso The Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster and the
Online Etymology Dictionary call expresso a variant spelling.
Angelo Moriondo’s Italian patent for a steam-driven instantaneous coffee
beverage making device, which was registered in Turin in 1884 (No. 33/256),
is notable. Author Ian Bersten, whose history of coffee brewers is cited
below, claims to have been the first to discover Moriondo’s patent. Bersten
describes the device as “… almost certainly the first Italian bar machine
that controlled the supply of steam and water separately through the
coffee” and Moriondo as “... certainly one of the earliest discoverers of
the expresso machine, if not the earliest.” Unlike true espresso machines,
it was a bulk brewer, and did not brew coffee “expressly” for the
individual customer. Seventeen years later, in 1901, Luigi Bezzera, from
Milan, came up with a number of improvements to the espresso machine. He
patented a number of these, the first of which was applied for on the 19th
of December 1901. It was titled “Innovations in the machinery to prepare
and immediately serve coffee beverage” (Patent No. 153/94, 61707, granted
on the 5th of June 1902). In 1905, the patent was bought by Desiderio
Pavoni, who founded the “La Pavoni” company and began to produce the
machine industrially (one a day) in a small workshop in Via Parini in
Milan.
The popularity of espresso developed in various ways a detailed discussion
of the spread of espresso is given in (Morris 2007), which is a source of
various statements below. In Italy, the rise of espresso consumption was
associated with urbanization, espresso bars providing a place for
socializing. Further, coffee prices were controlled by local authorities,
provided the coffee was consumed standing up, encouraging the stand at a
bar culture.
In the English-speaking world, espresso became popular, particularly in the
form of cappuccino, due to the tradition of drinking coffee with milk and
the exotic appeal of the foam in the United States, this was more often in
the form of lattes, with or without flavored syrups added. The latte is
claimed to have been invented in the 1950s by Italian American Lino Meiorin
of Caffe Mediterraneum in Berkeley, California, as a long cappuccino, and
was then popularized in Seattle, and then nationally and internationally by
Seattle-based Starbucks in the late 1980s and 1990s.
In the United Kingdom, espresso grew in popularity among youth in the
1950s, who felt more welcome in the coffee shops than in public houses
(pubs). Espresso was initially popular, particularly within the Italian
diaspora, growing in popularity with tourism to Italy exposing others to
espresso, as developed by Eiscafès established by Italians in Germany.
Initially, expatriate Italian espresso bars were downmarket venues, serving
the working class Italian diaspora – and thus providing appeal to the
alternative subculture / counterculture this can still be seen in the
United States in Italian American neighborhoods, such as Boston's North
End, New York's Little Italy, and San Francisco's North Beach. As specialty
coffee developed in the 1980s (following earlier developments in the 1970s
and even 1960s), an indigenous artisanal coffee culture developed, with
espresso instead positioned as an upmarket drink.
In the 2010s, coffee culture commentators distinguish large chain,
mid-market coffee as Second Wave Coffee, and upmarket, artisanal coffee as
Third Wave Coffee In the Middle East, espresso is growing in popularity,
with the opening of Western coffee shop chains'.
[The Hankster says] O', I'll express my opinion that I like it.
* 'Eat a Cranberry Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Cranberry):
'Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the
subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. In Britain, cranberry may refer
to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, while in North America,
cranberry may refer to Vaccinium macrocarpon. Vaccinium oxycoccos is
cultivated in central and northern Europe, while Vaccinium macrocarpon is
cultivated throughout the northern United States, Canada and Chile. In some
methods of classification, Oxycoccus is regarded as a genus in its own
right. They can be found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler regions of
the northern hemisphere.
Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to 2 metres (7 ft) long
and 5 to 20 centimetres (2 to 8 in) in height they have slender, wiry stems
that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves. The flowers are
dark pink, with very distinct reflexed petals, leaving the style and
stamens fully exposed and pointing forward. They are pollinated by bees.
The fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant it is
initially light green, turning red when ripe. It is edible, with an acidic
taste that can overwhelm its sweetness.
Cranberries are a major commercial crop in certain American states and
Canadian provinces. Most cranberries are processed into products such as
juice, sauce, jam, and sweetened dried cranberries, with the remainder sold
fresh to consumers. Cranberry sauce is a traditional accompaniment to
turkey at Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom and Thanksgiving dinners
in the United States and Canada.
The name cranberry derives from craneberry, first named by early European
settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals
resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane. Another name used in
northeastern Canada is mossberry. The traditional English name for
Vaccinium oxycoccos, fenberry, originated from plants found growing in fen
(marsh) lands. In 17th-century New England cranberries were sometimes
called bearberries as bears were often seen feeding on them.
In North America, Native Americans were the first to use cranberries as
food. Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, especially
for pemmican, wound medicine, and dye. Calling the red berries Sassamanash,
Algonquian peoples may have introduced cranberries to starving English
settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional
Thanksgiving feasts. American Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall is
credited as first to farm cranberries in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around
1816. In the 1820s cranberries were shipped to Europe. Cranberries became
popular for wild harvesting in the Nordic countries and Russia. In Scotland
the berries were originally wild-harvested but, with the loss of suitable
habitat, the plants have become so scarce that this is no longer done.
Raw cranberries have moderate levels of vitamin C, dietary fiber and the
essential dietary mineral, manganese (each nutrient having more than 10% of
the Daily Value per 100 g serving), as well as other
essential micronutrients in minor amounts.
As fresh cranberries are hard and bitter, about 95% of cranberries are
processed and used to make cranberry juice and sauce. They are also sold
dried and sweetened'.
[The Hankster says] A berry necessary side dish to any Thanksgiving meal.
* 'National Cashew Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Cashew):
'The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that
produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.
It can grow as high as 14 m (46 ft), but the dwarf cashew, growing up to 6
metres (20 ft), has proved more profitable, with earlier maturity and
higher yields.
The cashew seed, often simply called a cashew, is widely consumed. It is
eaten on its own, used in recipes, or processed into cashew cheese or
cashew butter. The cashew apple is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose
pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled
into liquor.
The shell of the cashew seed yields derivatives that can be used in many
applications from lubricants to paints.
The species is originally native to northeastern Brazil. Today, major
production of cashews occurs in Vietnam, Nigeria, India and Ivory Coast.
In a 100 gram serving, raw cashews provide 553 calories, 67% of the Daily
Value (DV) in total fats, 36% DV of protein, 13% DV of dietary fiber and
11% DV of carbohydrates. Cashews are rich sources (> 19% DV) of dietary
minerals, including particularly copper, manganese, phosphorus and
magnesium (79-110% DV), and of thiamin, vitamin B6 and vitamin K (32-37%
DV). Iron, potassium, zinc and selenium are present in significant content
(14-61% DV). Cashews (100 grams, raw) contain 113 mg of beta-sitosterol.
For some 5% of people, cashews, like tree nuts, can lead to complications
or allergic reactions. Cashews contain gastric and intestinal c and
intestinal soluble oxalates, albeit less than tree nuts people with a
tendency to form kidney stones may need moderation and medical guidance.
[The Hankster says] Love them Just remember a Cashew is nothing to sneeze at. Get it? cashew/Achoo. Hey, they don't get any better from here on.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Fibonacci Day'.
Leonardo Bonacci, aka: Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician who
developed the mathematical sequence with his name. the sequence of numbers
in which each pair is the sum of the number to the right. ie:
0,1,1,2,3,5,8, 13 and so on.
[The Hankster says] This math thing doesn't phase me. I can cipher well, having studied and graduated from the Jethro Bodine correspondence school.
* 'National Jukebox Day'.
TouchTunes. On the Day Before Thanksgiving. On the 1989 introductin of the
nickel coin operated jukebox. See more in the history section for 1889.
[The Hankster says] Nickel! I always had to pay 25 cents for three songs.
* 'Tie One On Day'.
By the author of 'The Apron Book', Ellyn Anne Geisel. On the Day Before
Thanksgiving.
[The Hankster says] I had to stop Waring them. I was always getting food on them.
* 'International Image Consultant Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Image consulting):
'Image Consulting is a professional field wherein clients hire an Image
Consultant to evaluate, improve, enhance, update, or upgrade their
appearance to ensure that their Image is consistent or congruent with their
personal, social, and/or professional roles and goals—with what they want
to accomplish in life'.
[The Hankster says] My personal consultant will finish the job on me, when he gets out of the asylum. Strange he would have a nervous breakdown before he finished. He will certainly need to improve his image before I take him back. Consultant, heal thyself.
<> Awareness / Observances:
<> Historical events on November 23
* 'In 1835, Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an
engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York
called the Burden Iron Works. Burden's horseshoe machine, invented in 1835,
was capable of making 60 horseshoes a minute. His rotary concentric
squeezer, a machine for working wrought iron, was adopted by iron
industries worldwide. His hook-headed spike machine helped fuel the rapid
expansion of railroads in the U.S. The Burden Iron Works is now an
historical site and museum'.
* 'In 1889, The first 'Nickel in the Slot Phonograph', was invented by
Louis Glass (it was later called the jukebox in the 1940's ) goes into
operation in San Francisco. It played a single song from a wax cylinder. .
'A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a
coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from
self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and
numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a
specific selection.
Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos were the first forms of
automated coin-operated musical devices. These instruments used paper
rolls, metal disks, or metal cylinders to play a musical selection on the
instrument, or instruments, enclosed within the device. In the 1890s these
devices were joined by machines which used actual recordings instead of
physical instruments. In 1890, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented
the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, the first of which was an Edison Class M
Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of
Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph. The music was heard via one of
four listening tubes.
Early designs, upon receiving a coin, unlocked the mechanism, allowing the
listener to turn a crank that simultaneously wound the spring motor and
placed the reproducer's stylus in the starting groove. Frequently,
exhibitors would equip many of these machines with listening tubes
(acoustic headphones) and array them in phonograph parlors, allowing the
patron to select between multiple records, each played on its own machine.
Some machines even contained carousels and other mechanisms for playing
multiple records. Most machines were capable of holding only one musical
selection, the automation coming from the ability to play that one
selection at will. In 1918 Hobart C. Niblack patented an apparatus that
automatically changed records, leading to one of the first selective
jukeboxes being introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument
Company, later known as AMI.
In 1928, Justus P. Seeburg, who was manufacturing player pianos, combined
an electrostatic loudspeaker with a record player that was coin-operated,
and gave the listener a choice of eight records. This Audiophone machine
was wide and bulky, and had eight separate turntables mounted on a rotating
Ferris wheel-like device, allowing patrons to select from eight different
records. Later versions of the jukebox included Seeburg's Selectophone,
with 10 turntables mounted vertically on a spindle. By maneuvering the tone
arm up and down, the customer could select from 10 different records.
Greater levels of automation were gradually introduced. As electrical
recording and amplification improved there was increased demand for
coin-operated phonographs.
The term jukebox came into use in the United States beginning in 1940,
apparently derived from the familiar usage juke joint, derived from the
Gullah word juke or joog meaning disorderly, rowdy, or wicked. As it
applies to the 'use of a jukebox', the terms juking (v.) and juker (n.) are
the correct expressions.
Song-popularity counters told the owner of the machine the number of times
each record was played (A and B side were generally not distinguished),
with the result that popular records remained, while lesser-played songs
could be replaced.
Wallboxes were an important, and profitable, part of any jukebox
installation. Serving as a remote control, they enabled patrons to select
tunes from their table or booth. One example is the Seeburg 3W1, introduced
in 1949 as companion to the 100-selection Model M100A jukebox. Stereo sound
became popular in the early 1960s, and wallboxes of the era were designed
with built-in speakers to provide patrons a sample of this latest
technology.
Initially playing music recorded on wax cylinders, the shellac 78 rpm
record dominated jukeboxes in the early part of the 20th century. The
Seeburg Corporation introduced an all 45 rpm vinyl record jukebox in 1950
since the 45s were smaller and lighter, they soon became the dominant
jukebox media for the last half of the 20th century. 33 1/3-R.P.M., C.D.s,
and videos on DVDs were all introduced and used in the last decades of the
century. MP3 downloads, and Internet-connected media players came in at the
start of the 21st century. The jukebox's history has followed the wave of
technological improvements in music reproduction and distribution. With its
large speaker size, facilitating low-frequency (rhythm) reproduction, and
large amplifier, the jukebox played sound with higher quality and volume
than the listener could in his or her home, sometimes music with a beat
Jukeboxes were most popular from the 1940s through the mid-1960s,
particularly during the 1950s. By the middle of the 1940s, three-quarters
of the records produced in America went into jukeboxes. While often
associated with early rock and roll music, their popularity extends back
much earlier, including classical music, opera and the swing music era. In
1977, The Kinks recorded a song called Jukebox Music for their album
Sleepwalker.
Styling progressed from the plain wooden boxes in the early thirties to
beautiful light shows with marbelized plastic and color animation in the
Wurlitzer 850 Peacock of 1941. But after the United States entered the war,
metal and plastic were needed for the war effort. Jukeboxes were considered
nonessential, and none were produced until 1946. The 1942 Wurlitzer 950
featured wooden coin chutes to save on metal. At the end of the war, in
1946, jukebox production resumed and several new companies joined the fray.
Jukeboxes started to offer visual attractions: bubbles, waves, circles of
changing color which came on when a sound was played.
Models designed and produced in the late 20th century needed more panel
space for the increased number of record titles they needed to present for
selection, reducing the space available for decoration, leading to less
ornate styling in favor of functionality and less maintenance.
Many manufacturers produced jukeboxes, including 1890s Wurlitzer, 1920s
Seeburg, 1930s Rock-Ola whose name is actually based on that of the company
founder, David Cullen Rockola, Sound Leisure and Crosley.
Two companies still remain today in the manufacture of classically styled
jukeboxes. Rockola based in California and Sound Leisure based in Leeds in
the UK. Both companies manufacture jukeboxes based on a CD playing
mechanism however in April 2016 Sound Leisure showed a prototype of the
Vinyl Rocket at the UK Classic Car Show. It stated that it would start
production of the 140 7 vinyl selector (70records) in summer of the same
year'.
* 'In 1924, Edwin Hubble publishes his discovery that Andromeda is not a
nebula within the Milky Way. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In 1917, Heber Curtis observed a nova within Andromeda.
Searching the photographic record, 11 more novae were discovered. Curtis
noticed that these novae were, on average, 10 magnitudes fainter than those
that occurred elsewhere in the sky. As a result, he was able to come up
with a distance estimate of 500,000 light-years (3.2×1010 AU). He became a
proponent of the so-called island universes hypothesis, which held that
spiral nebulae were actually independent galaxies.
In 1920, the Great Debate between Harlow Shapley and Curtis took place,
concerning the nature of the Milky Way, spiral nebulae, and the dimensions
of the universe. To support his claim of the Great Andromeda Nebula being,
in fact, an external galaxy, Curtis also noted the appearance of dark lanes
within Andromeda which resembled the dust clouds in our own galaxy, as well
as historical observations of Andromeda's significant Doppler shift. In
1922 Ernst Öpik presented a method to estimate the distance of Andromeda
using the measured velocities of its stars. His result placed the Andromeda
Nebula far outside our galaxy at a distance of about 450,000 parsecs
(1,500,000 ly). Edwin Hubble settled the debate in 1925 when he identified
extra-galactic Cepheid variable stars for the first time on astronomical
photos of Andromeda. These were made using the 2.5-metre (100-in) Hooker
telescope, and they enabled the distance of Great Andromeda Nebula to be
determined. His measurement demonstrated conclusively that this feature is
not a cluster of stars and gas within our own Galaxy, but an entirely
separate galaxy located a significant distance from the Milky Way.
In 1943, Walter Baade was the first person to resolve stars in the central
region of the Andromeda Galaxy. Baade identified two distinct populations
of stars based on their metallicity, naming the young, high velocity stars
in the disk Type I and the older, red stars in the bulge Type II. This
nomenclature was subsequently adopted for stars within the Milky Way, and
elsewhere. (The existence of two distinct populations had been noted
earlier by Jan Oort.) Baade also discovered that there were two types of
Cepheid variables, which resulted in a doubling of the distance estimate to
Andromeda, as well as the remainder of the Universe.
In 1950, radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy was detected by Hanbury
Brown and Cyril Hazard at Jodrell Bank Observatory. The first radio maps of
the galaxy were made in the 1950s by John Baldwin and collaborators at the
Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group. The core of the Andromeda Galaxy is called
2C 56 in the 2C radio astronomy catalogue. In 2009, the first planet may
have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. This was detected using a
technique called microlensing, which is caused by the deflection of light
by a massive object'.
* 'In 1936, The revised 'Life' magazine's first issue.
- From Wikipedia: 'Life was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883
to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time
founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could
acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news
magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. Life was published
weekly until 1972, as an intermittent special until 1978, and as a monthly
from 1978 to 2002.
After the monthly Life folded, Time Inc. continued to use the Life brand
for special and commemorative issues. Life returned to regularly scheduled
issues when it became a weekly newspaper supplement from 2004 to 2007. The
website life.com, originally one of the channels on Time Inc.'s Pathfinder
service, was for a time in the late 2000s managed as a joint venture with
Getty Images under the name See Your World, LLC,. On January 30, 2012 the
LIFE.com URL became a photo channel on Time.com.
When Life was founded in 1883, it was developed as similar to the British
magazine, Punch. It was published for 53 years as a general-interest light
entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes and social
commentary. It featured some of the greatest writers, editors, illustrators
and cartoonists of its era, including Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell
and Jacob Hartman Jr. Gibson became the editor and owner of the magazine
after John Ames Mitchell died in 1918. During its later years, the magazine
offered brief capsule reviews (similar to those in The New Yorker) of plays
and movies currently running in New York City, but with the innovative
touch of a colored typographic bullet resembling a traffic light, appended
to each review: green for a positive review, red for a negative one, and
amber for mixed notices.
The Luce Life was the first all-photographic American news magazine, and it
dominated the market for more than 40 years. The magazine sold more than
13.5 million copies a week at one point it was so popular that President
Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, and General Douglas MacArthur all
had their memoirs serialized in its pages. Luce purchased the rights to the
name from the publishers of the first Life but sold its subscription list
and features to another magazine there was no editorial continuity between
the two publications.
Perhaps one of the best-known pictures printed in the magazine was Alfred
Eisenstaedt’s photograph of a nurse in a sailor’s arms, snapped on August
14, 1945, as they celebrated Victory over Japan Day in New York City. The
magazine's role in the history of photojournalism is considered its most
important contribution to publishing. Life was wildly successful for two
generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing
tastes'.
* 'In 1942, The Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) is authorized.
- From Wikipedia: 'The United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women's Reserve,
better known by the acronym SPARS, was the World War II women's branch of
the USCG Reserve. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into
law by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 23 November 1942. This
authorized the acceptance of women into the reserve as commissioned
officers and at the enlisted level, effective for the duration of the war
plus six months. The purpose of the law was to release officers and men for
sea duty and to replace them with women at shore stations. Dorothy C.
Stratton was appointed director of the Women's Reserve (SPARS), with the
rank of lieutenant commander and was later promoted to captain. She had
been the Dean of Women on leave from Purdue University, and an officer in
The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known under the
acronym WAVES for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Stratton
is credited with creating the nautical name of SPARS.
The age for officer candidates was between 20 and 50 they had to have a
college degree, or two years of college and two years of professional or
business experience. The enlisted age requirements were between 20 and 36
candidates had to have completed at least two years of high school. For the
most part, SPARS were white, but five African-Americans did eventually
serve. The agreement between the U.S. Navy and the USCG required that
officer candidates receive their indoctrination training at Smith College,
Northampton, Massachusetts. But in June 1943, the USCG withdrew from the
agreement, and the indoctrination of SPAR officer candidates was
transferred to the USCG Academy at New London, Connecticut. Most SPAR
officers were general duty officers, but some officers received specialized
training.
At first, according to agreement, the SPARS enlisted personnel received
their indoctrination training on college campuses operated for such by the
U.S. Navy. In March 1943, the USCG decided to establish its own training
center for the indoctrination of enlisted recruits. The site selected was
the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Beginning in late June,
all enlisted personnel received their indoctrination and specialized
training there. Some 70 percent of the enlisted women who received recruit
training also received some specialized training. Yeoman and storekeepers
represented the largest share, but many SPARS were given the opportunity to
train in other fields. In January 1945, the training of enlisted personnel
was transferred from Palm Beach to Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York.
The SPARS were assigned to every USCG district except Puerto Rico, and
served in Hawaii and Alaska as well. Most officers held general duty
billets, which included administrative and supervisory assignments. Others
served as communication officers, supply officers, barracks, and recruiting
officers. The bulk of the enlisted women performed clerical and
stenographic duties. In smaller numbers, the enlisted personnel were found
in practically every other billet, from baking pies to rigging parachutes
and driving jeeps. A select group of SPAR officers and enlisted personnel
were also assigned to work with the Long Range Aid to Navigation at
monitoring stations in the Continental United States. Better known under
the acronym LORAN, it was a top-secret radio navigation system developed
for ships at sea and long-range aircraft. The first monitoring station
staffed by SPARS was at Chatham, Massachusetts. Chatham is believed to have
been (at the time) the only all female-staffed station of its kind in the
world. The SPARS peak strength was approximately 11,000 officers and
enlisted personnel.Commodore J. A. Hirschfield, USCG, said the SPARS
volunteered for duty when their country needed them, and they did their
jobs with enthusiasm, efficiency, and with a minimum of fanfare. To honor
the SPARS, two USCG cutters were given their name'.
* 'In 1963, The BBC TV show 'Doctor Who' premieres.
- From Wikipedia: 'Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television
programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the
adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord—a spacefaring and time-travelling
humanoid alien. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient
time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police
box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first
aired. Accompanied by companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes,
while working to save civilisations and help people in need.
The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it
has become a cult television favourite. The show has influenced generations
of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the
series. The programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an
unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor
pilot, in the form of a television film. The programme was relaunched in
2005 by Russell T Davies, who was showrunner and head writer for the first
five years of its revival, and produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff.
The first series of the 21st century featured Christopher Eccleston in the
title role and was produced by the BBC. Doctor Who also spawned spin-offs
in multiple media, including Torchwood (2006–2011) and The Sarah Jane
Adventures (2007–2011), both created by Russell T Davies K-9 (2009–2010)
Class (2016) and a single pilot episode of K-9 and Company (1981). There
also have been many spoofs and cultural references to the character in
other media.
Twelve actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The transition from
one actor to another is written into the plot of the show as is the
differing approach to the role that each brings, under the concept of
regeneration into a new incarnation. The show's premise is that this is a
life process of Time Lords through which the character of the Doctor takes
on a new body and, to some extent, new personality, which occurs after
sustaining an injury which would be fatal to most other species. Each
actor's portrayal differs, but they are all intended to be aspects of the
same character and form part of the same storyline. The time-travelling
nature of the plot means that, on occasion, different Doctors have met each
other. Peter Capaldi took on the role after Matt Smith's exit in the 2013
Christmas special The Time of the Doctor'.
* 'In 1992, The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
- From Wikipedia: 'The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM
Simon) was a handheld, touchscreen mobile phone and PDA designed and
engineered by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and assembled
under contract by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. BellSouth Cellular Corp.
distributed the Simon Personal Communicator in the United States between
August 1994 and February 1995, selling 50,000 units. The Simon Personal
Communicator was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA
features in one device'.
No. 1 song
Top movie
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
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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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