<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Lemon Cream Pie Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Cream pie):
'A cream pie is a type of pie or cake filled with a rich custard or pudding
that is made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs. It can come in many forms,
including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, banana, coconut, and
chocolate. A constant feature of all cream pies is the whipped cream
topping. The custard filling is related to the French crème patissière
which is a key component of various French cakes and tarts. It is a
one-crust pie. The crust may be a standard pie crust made with flour and
lard, or one made from crumbled cookies or graham crackers'.
[The Hankster says] This is the second day we have had a cream pie as the food of the day. I am going to issue a Three Stooges alert as a result. It may be a coincidence, but let's be careful out there. A pie is a terrible thing to waste.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Electronic Greetings Day'.
E-Cards have been around since about 1994.
- From Wikipedia (E-card):
'An E-card is similar to a postcard or greeting card, with the primary
difference being that it is created using digital media instead of paper or
other traditional materials. E-cards are made available by publishers
usually on various Internet sites, where they can be sent to a recipient,
usually via e-mail. It is also considered more environmentally friendly
compared to traditional paper cards. E-card businesses are considered
environmentally friendly because their carbon footprint is generally much
lower compared to paper card companies because paper is not used in the end
product.
E-cards are digital content, which makes them much more versatile than
traditional greeting cards. For example, unlike traditional greetings,
E-cards can be easily sent to many people at once or extensively
personalized by the sender. Conceivably they could be saved to any computer
or electronic device or even viewed on a television set, and digital video
E-cards have begun emerging.
Typically an E-card sender chooses from an on-line catalog of E-cards made
available on a publisher's web site. After selecting a card, the sender can
personalize it to various degrees by adding a message, photo, or video.
Finally the sender specifies the recipient's e-mail address and the web
site delivers an e-mail message to the recipient on behalf of the sender.
The greeting card metaphor was employed early in the life of the World Wide
Web. The first postcard site, The Electric Postcard was created in late
1994 by Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab. It started slowly: 10-20 cards
a day were sent in the first weeks, 1000-2000 a day over the first summer,
and then it gained momentum rapidly. During the 1995-96 Christmas season,
there were days when over 19,000 cards were sent by late spring of 1996
over 1.7 million cards had been sent in total. The source code for this
service was made publicly available, with the stipulation that users share
improvements with each other. The Electric Postcard won numerous awards,
including a 1995 GNN Best of the Net award.
MIT’s postcards and remained the dominant and the only documented E-card
service until the late fall of 1995. In Nov 1995, Awesome Cyber Cards and
also then known as marlo.com (located at marlo.com until Oct 2010, now
moved), began developing the Internet greeting card, a digital Internet
card including a fixed or suggested greeting as well as an image.
By mid-1996, a number of sites had developed E-cards. By mid October 1996,
directly emailable greeting cards and postcards (Email Express) were
developed and introduced by Awesome Cards, based on new capabilities
introduced in the Netscape 3.0 browser. This is the first time the E-card
itself could be emailed directly by the card sender to the recipient rather
than having an announcement sent with a link to the card's location at the
E-card site.
Between Sep 1996 and Thanksgiving 1997, a paper greeting card company named
Blue Mountain developed E-cards on its web site. Blue Mountain grew quickly
by allowing visitors to create greetings for others to use. Blue Mountain
further expanded when Microsoft promoted its service on its free Hotmail
service. This affiliation ceased and Blue Mountain sued Microsoft in Nov
1998 for putting email card announcements from it and other E-card
companies in the junk folder of its Hotmail users.
By 1999, major capital was starting to flow into the Internet, beginning
the dotcom boom. Of the E-card sites, Blue Mountain Arts was noteworthy in
this period for its sale in October 1999 to Excite@Home for $780M (which
represent a price of $71 per unique monthly user). The transaction has been
referenced by CNN and Business 2.0 as evidence of the Dot-com bubble. On
September 13, 2001, three weeks before filing for bankruptcy on October 1,
2001, Excite@Home sold BlueMountain.com to American Greetings for $35M, or
$3.23 per unique monthly user. The web site BlueMountain.com remains a
large web site, primarily focused on E-cards. In June 2008,
JustAnotherDotCom.com purchased the free E-card site Greeting-cards.com and
added it to their own greeting card site, which made them one of the
largest E-card sites in the world.
Originally, most E-cards were free, often sponsored by advertising. While
free greeting cards are still the most prevalent and popular, some sites
charge for either all E-cards or special premium E-cards. Others charge an
annual membership which enables members to send cards for the duration of
the membership.
Several non-profit organizations offer free E-cards as a way of having a
supporter introduce the organization to another individual. In 2006, SOS
Children's Villages - USA began offering free E-cards for many occasions
such as birthdays, thank yous, and Mother's Day'.
[The Hankster says] I guess this post is sort of an electronic card. So, Greetings.
* 'Square Dancing Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Square dance):
'A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a
square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square.
Square dances were first documented in 17th-century England but were also
quite common in France and throughout Europe. They came to North America
with the European settlers and have undergone considerable development
there. In some countries and regions, through preservation and repetition,
square dances have attained the status of a folk dance. The Western
American square dance may be the most widely known form worldwide, possibly
due to its association in the 20th century with the romanticized image of
the American cowboy. Square dancing is, therefore, strongly associated with
the United States. Nineteen U.S. states have designated it as their
official state dance.
The various square dance movements are based on the steps and figures used
in traditional folk dances and social dances from many countries. Some of
these traditional dances include English Country Dance, Caledonians and the
quadrille. Square dancing is enjoyed by people of all ages around the
world, and people around the world are involved in the continuing
development of this form of dance.
In most American forms of square dance, the dancers are prompted or cued
through a sequence of steps (square dance choreography) by a caller to the
beat (and, in some traditions, the phrasing) of music. In some forms of
traditional square dancing, the caller may be one of the dancers or
musicians, but in modern Western square dancing the caller will be on
stage, giving full attention to directing the dancers. Modern Western
square dances are not learnt as complete routines the dancers learn basic
movements, each with its own distinctive call, but do not know in what
order they will be called.
The American folk music revival in New York City in the 1950s was rooted in
the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the
1940s, which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure'.
[The Hankster says] Yes, that is exactly what I am when I try to dance.
* 'National Day of Giving / Giving Tuesday'.
Since 2001 by New York 92nd Street Y.
- From Wikipedia (Giving Tuesday):
'Giving Tuesday, often stylized as #GivingTuesday for purposes of hook
activism, refers to the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving in the United
States. It is a movement to create an international day of giving at the
beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. Giving Tuesday was started
in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation as a
response to commercialization and consumerism in the post-Thanksgiving
season (Black Friday and Cyber Monday)'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People'. A U.N.
observance.
- From Wikipedia (International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People):
'The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is a
UN-organized observance. Events are held at the United Nations headquarters
in New York, as well as at the United Nations offices at Geneva and Vienna.
It is generally held on November 29 each year to mark the anniversary of
resolution 181. In 2003, it was observed on December 1.
The annual observance was established in UN General Assembly Resolution
32/40 B of 2 December 1977, to start in 1978. In Resolution 34/65 D of 12
December 1979, the issue of commemorative postage stamps was requested.
Special commemorative activities are organized by the Division for
Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat, in consultation with
the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People.
In 2012, The General Assembly voted to grant Palestine non-member observer
State status at the United Nations by a vote of 138 in favour to 9 against
with 41 abstentions by the 193-member Assembly, Resolution 67/19'.
<> Historical events on November 29
* 'In 1775, The U.S. Congress establishes a Committee of Secret
Correspondence. It later was rename Foreign Affairs and now, The Department
of State. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Committee of Secret Correspondence was a committee
formed by the Second Continental Congress and active from 1775 to 1776. The
Committee played a large role in attracting French aid and alliance during
the American Revolution. In 1777, the Committee of Secret Correspondence
was renamed the Committee of Foreign Affairs.
The Committee of Secret Correspondence was created for the sole purpose of
corresponding with our friends in Great Britain and other parts of the
world However, most of the efforts of the committee went not to making
friends in Great Britain, but towards forging alliances with other foreign
countries that would sympathize with the patriot cause during the American
Revolution.
While forming foreign alliances, the committee also employed secret agents
abroad to gain foreign intelligence, conducted undercover operations,
started American propaganda campaigns to gain patriot support, analyzed
foreign publications to gain additional foreign intelligence, and developed
a maritime unit separate from the Navy. It also served as the clearinghouse
for foreign communications with foreign countries'.
* 'In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- From Wikipedia: 'He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a
device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 (early
reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the
beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working
on a 'talking-machine' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9),
and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 (it was
patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200,521)'. .
* 'In 1929, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over
the South Pole. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25,
1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in
feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest
honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American
aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights
in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the
Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the
Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his expeditions had been the first to
reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air. However, his claim to
have reached the North Pole is disputed.
When he returned to the United States from the Arctic, Byrd became a
national hero. Congress passed a special act on December 21, 1926,
promoting him to the rank of commander and awarding both him and Floyd
Bennett the Medal of Honor. Bennett was promoted to the warrant officer
rank of Machinist. Byrd and Bennett were presented with Tiffany Cross
versions of the Medal of Honor on March 5, 1927, at the White House by
President Calvin Coolidge. The widespread acclaim from the flight enabled
Byrd to secure funding for the subsequent attempt to fly over the South
Pole.
In 1928, Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two
ships and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was the City of New York (a
Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a
ship some claimed was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic when the latter
was sinking) a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett (named after the
recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions) flown by Dean Smith
a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named Stars And Stripes (now
displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air
and Space Museum) and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia
(Byrd's birth state). A base camp named Little America was constructed on
the Ross Ice Shelf and scientific expeditions by snowshoe, dog-sled,
snowmobile, and airplane began.
Photographic expeditions and geological surveys were undertaken for the
duration of that summer, and constant radio communications were maintained
with the outside world. After their first winter, their expeditions were
resumed, and on November 28, 1929, the first flight to the South Pole and
back was launched. Byrd, along with pilot Bernt Balchen, co-pilot/radioman
Harold June, and photographer Ashley McKinley, flew the Ford Trimotor to
the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 minutes. They had difficulty
gaining enough altitude, and they had to dump empty gas tanks, as well as
their emergency supplies, in order to achieve the altitude of the Polar
Plateau, but they were ultimately successful.
As a result of his fame, Byrd was promoted to the rank of rear admiral by a
special act of Congress on December 21, 1929. As he was only 41 years old
at the time, this promotion made Byrd the youngest admiral in the history
of the United States Navy.
After a further summer of exploration, the expedition returned to North
America on June 18, 1930. A 19-year-old American Boy Scout, Paul Allman
Siple, was chosen to accompany the expedition. Unlike the 1926 flight, this
expedition was honored with the gold medal of the American Geographical
Society. This was also seen in the film With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)
which covered his trip there.
Byrd, by then an internationally recognized, pioneering American polar
explorer and aviator, served for a time as Honorary National President
(1931–1935) of Pi Gamma Mu, the international honor society in the social
sciences. He carried the Society's flag during his first Antarctic
expedition to dramatize the spirit of adventure into the unknown,
characterizing both the natural and social sciences'.
* 'In 1944, The first surgery to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by
Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- From Wikipedia: 'Blue baby syndrome (or simply, blue baby) occurs when
newborn babies have cyanotic heart defects, such as: Persistent truncus
arteriosus, Transposition of the great vessels, Tricuspid atresia,
Tetralogy of Fallot[1], Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection'.
* 'In 1948, The children's puppet TV show 'Kukla, Fran, and Ollie'
premiers. It began a year before as a local show 'Junior Jamboree.'
- From Wikipedia: 'Fran' was Fran Allison, a radio comedienne and singer
who was usually the only human to appear on screen, filling the role of big
sister and cheery voice of reason as the puppets engaged each other
concerning their foibles. The design style of puppets was in the style of
Neapolitan puppet shows, or Punch and Judy without the slapstick, but their
personalities were less caricatured'. ' 'The puppet cast included 'Kukla',
the earnest leader of the troupe 'Ollie', or 'Oliver J. Dragon', a roguish
one-toothed dragon (who would slam his flat chin on the stage in
frustration or roll on his back to be endearing) Madame Oglepuss, a retired
opera diva Beulah Witch, a liberated witch Fletcher Rabbit, the troupe's
mailman and resident fussbudget Cecil Bill, the troupe's union stagehand
who spoke in 'tooie talk' Colonel Crackie, a Southern gentleman Dolores
Dragon, Ollie's younger cousin, and a number of others'. .
* 'In 1961, The Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a
chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice
and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Enos (died November 4, 1962) was the second chimpanzee
launched into space and the first chimpanzee to achieve Earth orbit.
Enos was brought from the Miami Rare Bird Farm on April 3, 1960. He
completed more than 1,250 training hours at the University of Kentucky and
Holloman Air Force Base. Training was more intense for him than for his
predecessor Ham, because Enos was exposed to weightlessness and higher gs
for longer periods of time. His training included psychomotor instruction
and aircraft flights.
Enos was selected for flight only three days before launch. Two months
prior, NASA launched Mercury Atlas 4 on September 13, 1961, to conduct an
identical mission with a crewman simulator on board. Enos flew into space
aboard Mercury Atlas 5 on November 29, 1961. He completed his first orbit
in 1 hour and 28.5 minutes.
Enos was scheduled to complete three orbits, but the mission was aborted
after two due to two issues: capsule overheating and a malfunctioning
avoidance conditioning test subjecting the primate to 76 electrical shocks.
The capsule was brought aboard the USS Stormes (DD-780) in the late
afternoon and Enos was immediately taken below deck by his Air Force
handlers. The Stormes arrived in Bermuda the next day.
Enos's flight was a full dress rehearsal for the next Mercury launch on
February 20, 1962, which would make Lt. Colonel John Glenn the first
American to orbit Earth, after astronauts Alan Shepard, Jr. and Gus
Grissom's successful suborbital space flights. On November 4, 1962, Enos
died of shigellosis-related dysentery, which was resistant to then-known
antibiotics. He was constantly observed for two months before his death.
Pathologists reported no symptoms that could be attributed or related to
his previous space flight. Many believe Enos's remains were dissected like
Ham, who was extensively studied postmortem at the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology. Some of Ham's remains, minus the skeleton (which remained
with AIP), were buried at the International Space Hall of Fame in New
Mexico. Recent attempts by space scholars to locate Enos's remains were
unsuccessful. Some confirmed post-mortem study was undertaken, but no
evidence of final disposition has been found. Enos's body may have been
discarded when examinations completed'.
* 'In 1972, The Atari company announces the release of its first video game
'Pong'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games and the
very first sports arcade video game. It is a table tennis sports game
featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games
such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video
games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat an opponent in a
simulated table-tennis game by earning a higher score. The game was
originally manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn
created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder
Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game
included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against
Atari. Surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work, Bushnell and Atari
co-founder Ted Dabney decided to manufacture the game.
Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful
arcade video game machine, which helped to establish the video game
industry along with the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey. Soon
after its release, several companies began producing games that copied
Pong's gameplay, and eventually released new types of games. As a result,
Atari encouraged its staff to produce more innovative games. The company
released several sequels that built upon the original's gameplay by adding
new features. During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home
version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores. It was also a
commercial success and led to numerous copies. The game has been remade on
numerous home and portable platforms following its release. Pong has been
referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and
has been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions'.
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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
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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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