<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National French Toast Day'.
- From Wikipedia (French toast):
'French toast, also known as eggy bread, Bombay toast, German toast, gypsy
toast, poor knights (of Windsor), or Spanish toast, is a dish made of bread
soaked in milk, then in beaten eggs and then fried, a variation from the
traditional spanish dessert called Torrija.
The earliest known reference to French toast is in the Apicius, a
collection of Latin recipes dating to the 4th or 5th century the recipe
mentions soaking in milk, but not egg, and gives it no special name, just
aliter dulcia another sweet dish
Under the names suppe dorate, soupys yn dorye, tostées dorées, and payn
purdyeu, the dish was widely known in medieval Europe. For example, Martino
da Como offers a recipe. French toast was often served with game birds and
meats. The word soup in these names refers to bread soaked in a liquid, a
sop.
The usual French name is pain perdu lost bread, as it is a way to reclaim
stale or otherwise lost bread. It may also be called pain doré golden bread
The term pain perdu was formerly used metaphorically to mean sunk costs.
A fourteenth-century German recipe uses the name Arme Ritter (poor
knights), a name also used in English and the Nordic languages. Also in the
fourteenth century, Taillevent presented a recipe for tostées dorées
There are fifteenth-century English recipes for pain perdu.
An Austrian and Bavarian term is pafese or pofese, from zuppa pavese,
referring to Pavia, Italy'.
[The Hankster says] My mom made it quite often when I was a kid. It was one of her favorites.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Cyber Monday'.
On the Monday after Thanksgiving.
- From Wikipedia (Cyber Monday):
'Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving
holiday in the United States. The term Cyber Monday was created by
marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. The term was coined
by Ellen Davis and made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press
release entitled 'Cyber Monday Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online
Shopping Days of the Year
According to the Shop.org/Bizrate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, 77
percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially
on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online
discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)
In 2015, Cyber Monday online sales grew to a record $2.98 billion, compared
with $2.65 billion in 2014. However, the average order value was $128, down
slightly from 2014's $160.
The deals on Cyber Monday are online-only and generally offered by smaller
retailers that cannot compete with the big retailers. Black Friday
generally offers better deals on technology, with nearly 85% more data
storage deals than Cyber Monday. The past Black Fridays saw far more deals
for small appliances, cutlery, and kitchen gadgets on average than Cyber
Monday. Cyber Monday is larger for fashion retail. On the past two Cyber
Mondays, there were an average of 45% more clothing deals than on Black
Friday. There were also 50% more shoe deals on Cyber Monday than on Black
Friday.
Cyber Monday has become an international marketing term used by online
retailers across the world'.
[The Hankster says] Cyber has to do with computer culture, information technology and virtual reality. I wonder If it is a virtual Monday, is it real. I guess when the cyber end of the month goes and you have to pay the non virtual bills, it is.
* 'Make Your Own Head Day'.
Arts and crafts day. Use some artistic medium to immortalize your noggin.
[The Hankster says] I thought about making my own head, but you know it's 'not nice to fool Mother Nature'. Well, i think her exact term was 'dirty trick'.
* 'Red Planet Day'.
On the 1964 launch date of Mariner 4, the firs spacecraft to orbit and sent
back images of Mars. See more in the history section for 1964.
<> Awareness / Observances:None.
<> Historical events on November 28
* 'In 1520, After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South
America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who
organised the Castilian ('Spanish') expedition to the East Indies from 1519
to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by
Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Born into a Portuguese noble family in around 1480, Magellan became a
skilled sailor and naval officer and was eventually selected by King
Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands
(the Spice Islands). Commanding a fleet of five vessels, he headed south
through the Atlantic Ocean to Patagonia, passing through the Strait of
Magellan into a body of water he named the peaceful sea (the modern Pacific
Ocean). Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition reached the
Spice Islands in 1521 and returned home via the Indian Ocean to complete
the first circuit of the globe. Magellan did not complete the entire
voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in
1521.
Ferdinand Magellan, traveling west from Europe, in 1521, reached a region
of Southeast Asia (the Malay Archipelago), which he had reached on previous
voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511-1512). Magellan thereby achieved
a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time
in history.
The Magellanic penguin is named after him, as he was the first European to
note it. Magellan's navigational skills have also been acknowledged in the
naming of objects associated with the stars, including the Magellanic
Clouds, now known to be two nearby dwarf galaxies the twin lunar craters of
Magelhaens and Magelhaens A and the Martian crater of Magelhaens'.
* 'In 1660, At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren,
Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is
later known as the Royal Society.
- From Wikipedia: 'The society today acts as a scientific advisor to the
British government, receiving a parliamentary grant-in-aid. The society
acts as the UK's Academy of Sciences and funds research fellowships and
scientific start-up companies.'. .
* 'In 1895, The first American automobile race takes place over the 54
miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins
in approximately 10 hours. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Chicago Times-Herald race was the first automobile
race held in the United States. Sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald, the
race was held in Chicago in 1895 between six cars and won by Charles
Duryea's Motorized Wagon. The race created considerable publicity for the
motocycle, which had been introduced in the United States only two years
earlier.
On July 10, 1895 the Chicago Times-Herald announced a race to be held in
the city, with a winning prize of $5,000 ($142,460.00 in today's money).
The promotion was an attempt to foster growth of the young auto industry in
the United States and to boost newspaper sales. The first automobiles in
the nation were produced only two years earlier, and they were so new at
the time that the paper's editors could not easily agree upon a name for
them. After considerable wrangling, the editors decided to call it a
Moto-Cycle race, and first used the term in a July 15 article.
The original course of the race was to run from Chicago north to Milwaukee,
but the roads were found to be too poor for early cars to easily traverse.
The route was changed to be only 54 miles (87 km) from Chicago to Evanston
and back. The finish line was near what is now the Chicago Museum of
Science and Industry (what had been the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893
Columbian Exposition). The race was intended to be held on November 2, but
few cars had shown up, and the race was rescheduled. Eighty-three cars were
initially entered into the race, but only six arrived for the actual
competition. Many of the entrants did not have their cars completed on
time, and several were unable to make the journey. Elwood Haynes' car,
which was a favorite to win the race, was damaged en route and unable to
compete.
Both Haynes and the driver of a Benz car, were stopped by police while
driving their cars into the city. They were forced to requisition horses to
pull the cars... as the police informed them, they had no right to drive
their vehicles on the city streets. The situation caused the race to again
be postponed while the Times-Herald editors convinced the city leaders to
pass an ordinance to confirm the right of these vehicles to travel on city
streets. Once the ordinance passed, the race was held on November 28,
Thanksgiving Day. The day was snowy and 38 °F (4 °C), the roads muddy, with
snow drifts in places.
The first car to arrive was a German made car by inventor Karl Benz. In
total, three Benz cars ran in the race. The only other four-wheeled car to
run in the race was Charles Duryea's motorized wagon. The two other
vehicles that took part were two-wheeled automobiles. The motorcycles
lacked the power to climb one of the course's grades. Another entrant was
electric-powered, and its battery died because of the cold weather before
getting very far. Just after starting, one Benz struck a horse, and was
forced to leave the race. On the return trip the Duryea began to take the
lead. The Duryea car took first place and the grand prize, completing the
race after seven hours and fifty-three minutes, having traveled an average
of 7 mph (11 km/h). A German Benz crossed the finish line an hour and a
half later, and won second place, driven by Oscar B. Mueller. The last leg
(from point 31 to finish), however, of the Mueller-Benz car was driven by
Charles Brady King because Mueller went unconscious from exposure. King was
originally an umpire to the race and of this motocycle. None of the other
vehicles finished.
The race was the first known automobile race in the United States.
Newspapers across the country carried stories about the race and many
predicted the coming demise of horse-borne transportation, citing the cars'
ability to travel even in poor weather. The success of the race sped up the
rate of automobile development by at least 5 years in the United States due
to the publicity of the event. The commercial production of American
automobiles began only a year later'.
* 'In 1922, The first use of skywriting for advertising purposes was on
November 28, 1922 over New York City. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The beginnings of skywriting are disputed. In a 1926
letter to The New York Times, Albert T. Reid wrote:
A newspaper paragraph says skywriting was perfected in England in 1919 and
used in the United States the next year. But Art Smith, who succeeded
Beachey in flying exhibitions at the Panama–Pacific International
Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, after the latter had been killed, did
skywriting, always ending his breathtaking stunts by writing Good night.
This was not a trial exhibition, but a part of every flight, and was always
witnessed by thousands.
Major Jack Savage, former British Royal Air Force pilot and a writer for
Flight magazine, had a successful skywriting fleet of Royal Aircraft
Factory S.E.5 aircraft in England. He flew throughout the 1920s and 1930s,
bringing the practice to America as well. The first recorded use of
skywriting for advertising purposes was at the Derby at Epsom Downs, in the
U.K., in May 1922, when Captain Cyril Turner wrote Daily Mail above the
track. In the U.S.A. this was on November 28, 1922 over New York City
during a visit of Savage and Cyril Turner.
However, commercial skywriting in the United States was developed in the
early 1930s by Sid Pike, founder of the Skywriting Corporation of America
in 1932. One of the first major clients was Pepsi-Cola, which used
skywriting to reach a mass market. A tremendous number of flights were
contracted by Pepsi-Cola, with 2,225 flown in 1940. Skywriting has also
been used at times by artists. Skywriter Wayne Mansfield flew for John
Lennon and Yoko Ono, and he appeared as a sky artist over the Biennale in
Venice, Italy. Artist Vik Muniz used skywriting for his cloud cloud
project.
In 1946 the Skywriting Corporation found themselves with a fleet of surplus
World War II planes and developed dot matrix skywriting, or skytyping.
Skytyping is the process of using five planes in formation to choreograph
puffs of smoke being released from each plane. The messages, written at
10,000 foot altitude, can be up to 1250 feet tall and over five miles long.
Traditional skywriting letters are 3,000 feet high and take longer to
write'.
* 'In 1925, The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee,
as the WSM Barn Dance. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Grand Ole Opry started as the WSM Barn Dance in the
new fifth-floor radio studio of the National Life and Accident Insurance
Company in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925,
management began a program featuring Dr. Humphrey Bate and his string
quartet of old-time musicians. On November 2, WSM hired long-time announcer
and program director George D. Judge Hay, an enterprising pioneer from the
National Barn Dance program at WLS in Chicago, who was also named the most
popular radio announcer in America as a result of his radio work with both
WLS and WMC in Memphis, Tennessee. Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with
77-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28, 1925, which is
celebrated as the birth date of the Grand Ole Opry.
Some of the bands regularly on the show during its early days included Bill
Monroe, the Possum Hunters (with Dr. Humphrey Bate), the Fruit Jar Drinkers
with Uncle Dave Macon, the Crook Brothers, the Binkley Brothers' Dixie
Clodhoppers, Sid Harkreader, Deford Bailey, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, and the
Gully Jumpers.
Judge Hay, however, liked the Fruit Jar Drinkers and asked them to appear
last on each show because he wanted to always close each segment with red
hot fiddle playing They were the second band accepted on Barn Dance, with
the Crook Brothers being the first. When the Opry began having square
dancers on the show, the Fruit Jar Drinkers always played for them. In
1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several
songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became its first real star'.
* 'In 1929, Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears. This
is still the NFL record. It was 6 TD's and 4 extra points. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1903 – May 3, 1976) was
an American professional athlete who played American football as a fullback
for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football
League (NFL), as well as baseball as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns.
Nevers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
To this day, Nevers is the only player in the history of the NFL to have
scored 40 points in a single game. On November 28, 1929, Nevers scored 6
touchdowns and kicked four extra points for the Chicago Cardinals in a 40–6
rout of the crosstown-rival Chicago Bears'.
* 'In 1948, 'Hopalong Cassidy' premieres on TV, from the movies. In the
first film, Hopalong Cassidy (then spelled 'Hop-along') got his name after
being shot in the leg. Hopalong's 'drink of choice' was the nonalcoholic
sarsaparilla'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hopalong Cassidy or Hop-along Cassidy is a fictional
cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a
series of popular short stories and many novels based on the character.
In his early writings, Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous,
and rough-talking. From 1935, the character—as played by movie actor
William Boyd in films adapted from Mulford's books—was transformed into a
clean-cut, sarsparilla-drinking hero. Sixty-six popular films appeared,
only a few of which were loosely based on Mulford's stories'.
Boyd resumed production in 1946, on lower budgets, and continued through
1948, when B westerns were being phased out. Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy
might have a future in television, spent $350,000 to obtain the rights to
his old films, and approached the fledgling NBC network. The initial
broadcasts were so successful that NBC could not wait for a television
series to be produced and edited the feature films to broadcast length. On
June 24, 1949, Hopalong Cassidy became the first network Western television
series'.
* 'In 1964, NASA launches the 'Mariner 4' probe for Mars. The fly-by
returns the first close pictures. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars
1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary
exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific
observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Launched
on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the
planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. It
captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space
their depiction of a cratered, seemingly dead world largely changed the
view of the scientific community on life on Mars. Other mission objectives
were to perform field and particle measurements in interplanetary space in
the vicinity of Mars and to provide experience in and knowledge of the
engineering capabilities for interplanetary flights of long duration. On
December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated'.
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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
Other
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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