<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Mousse Day'. . Made with whipped egg whites or cream. Mousse
means 'foam' in French.
- From Wikipedia (Mousse):
' mousse (French 'foam' /'mu?s/) is a prepared food that incorporates air
bubbles to give it a light and airy texture. It can range from light and
fluffy to creamy and thick, depending on preparation techniques. A mousse
may be sweet or savory. Dessert mousses are typically made with whipped egg
whites or whipped cream, flavored with chocolate, coffee, caramel, puréed
fruits or various herbs and spices, such as mint or vanilla. Sweetened
mousse is served as a dessert, or used as an airy cake filling. It is
sometimes stabilized with gelatin. Savory mousse may be flavored with hard
boiled egg, herbs, fish or liver'.
[The Hankster says] You've heard the old saying 'Wat a difference a day makes.' Well, drop one of the 's''s in Mousse and that difference doesn't seem so inviting. Of course, Substitute the two s'''s with 'o''s and it gets a little better (if you have a big apatite).
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Computer Security Day'.
Since 1988 by the Association for Computer Security.
[The Hankster says[ I'm sure there is no such thing as "Computer Security', just better Computer Security (IE: you can make it much harder for the lazy hacker and a little more secure from the accomplished ones).
* 'National Package Protection Day*'.
By Ring.com as a focus on protecting your purchases against home theft.
[The Hankster says] Same as above. You can certainly make it harder for those Christmas packages to be stolen. I was going to say to just use a little common sense, but that is another thing that does not exist. If a security concept were sensible and common, we wouldn't be having this virtual conversation.
* 'Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting –'.
Since 1931.
- From Wikipedia (Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree):
'The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed
annually in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan. The tree is erected
in early to mid November and lit in late November or early December. In
recent years, the lighting has been broadcast live, nationwide, on NBC's
Christmas in Rockefeller Center show and scheduled for the Wednesday after
Thanksgiving with the tree lighting ceremony held at the end of every
broadcast. The tree, usually a Norway spruce 69 to 100 feet (21 to 30 m)
tall, has been put up every year since 1933. The 2015 Christmas Tree
Lighting took place on December 2 and remained on display through January
6, 2016.
Although the official Christmas tree tradition at Rockefeller Center began
in 1933 (the year 30 Rockefeller Plaza opened), the unofficial tradition
began during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when
workers decorated a smaller 20 feet (6.1 m) balsam fir tree with strings of
cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans on Christmas Eve
(December 24, 1931), as recounted by Daniel Okrent in his history of
Rockefeller Center. One claim is the tree had some gum wrappers and
detonator blasting caps as decorations. There was no Rockefeller Center
Christmas tree in 1932.
The decorated Christmas tree remains lit at Rockefeller Center through
January 6, which is the Christian feast of The Epiphany. Then it is removed
from the premises and recycled for a variety of uses. In 2007, the tree
went green, employing LED lights. After being taken down, the tree was used
to furnish lumber for Habitat for Humanity house construction.
The tallest Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was a 100 feet (30 m)
spruce erected on November 11, 1999 that was being cared for by Cathy and
Jim Thomson'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'National Meth (Methamphetamine) Awareness Day'. A 2006 presidential
proclamation.
- From Wikipedia (Methamphetamine):
'Methamphetamine (contracted from N-methylamphetamine) is a strong central
nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug
and less commonly as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder and obesity. Methamphetamine was discovered in 1893 and exists as
two enantiomers: levo-methamphetamine and dextro-methamphetamine.
Methamphetamine properly refers to a specific chemical, the racemic free
base, which is an equal mixture of levomethamphetamine and
dextromethamphetamine in their pure amine forms. It is rarely prescribed
due to concerns involving human neurotoxicity and potential for
recreational use as an aphrodisiac and euphoriant, among other concerns, as
well as the availability of safer substitute drugs with comparable
treatment efficacy.
Both methamphetamine and dextromethamphetamine are illicitly trafficked and
sold owing to their potential for recreational use. The highest prevalence
of illegal methamphetamine use occurs in parts of Asia, Oceania, and in the
United States, where racemic methamphetamine, levomethamphetamine, and
dextromethamphetamine are classified as schedule II controlled substances.
Levomethamphetamine is available as an over-the-counter (OTC) drug for use
as an inhaled nasal decongestant in the United States. Internationally, the
production, distribution, sale, and possession of methamphetamine is
restricted or banned in many countries, due to its placement in schedule II
of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances treaty. While
dextromethamphetamine is a more potent drug, racemic methamphetamine is
sometimes illicitly produced due to the relative ease of synthesis and
limited availability of chemical precursors.
In low doses, methamphetamine can elevate mood, increase alertness,
concentration and energy in fatigued individuals, reduce appetite and
promote (initial) weight loss. At higher doses, it can induce psychosis,
breakdown of skeletal muscle, seizures and bleeding in the brain. Chronic
high-dose use can precipitate unpredictable and rapid mood swings,
prominent delusions and violent behavior. Recreationally, methamphetamine's
ability to increase energy has been reported to lift mood and increase
sexual desire to such an extent that users are able to engage in sexual
activity continuously for several days. Methamphetamine is known to have a
high addiction liability (i.e. compulsive methamphetamine use) and
dependence liability (i.e. withdrawal symptoms occur when methamphetamine
use ceases). Heavy recreational use of methamphetamine may lead to a
post-acute-withdrawal syndrome, which can persist for months beyond the
typical withdrawal period. Unlike amphetamine, methamphetamine is
neurotoxic to human midbrain dopaminergic neurons. It has also been shown
to damage serotonin neurons in the CNS. This damage includes adverse
changes in brain structure and function, such as reductions in grey matter
volume in several brain regions and adverse changes in markers of metabolic
integrity.
Methamphetamine belongs to the substituted phenethylamine and substituted
amphetamine chemical classes. It is related to the other
dimethylphenethylamines as a positional isomer of these compounds, which
share the common chemical formula: C10H15N1'.
o Other:
* 'Cities for Life Day'. Anti death penalty celebrated by several
countries.
- From Wikipedia (Cities for Life Day):
'Cities for Life Day is a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition
of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year.
Cesare Beccaria was one of the greatest Italian Enlightenment writers, who
was noted for his masterpiece Of Crimes and Punishments (1764), which was
later translated into 22 languages. In it, Beccaria put forth some of the
first modern arguments against the death penalty. His treatise was also the
first full work of penology, advocating reform of the criminal law system.
The book was the first full-scale work to tackle criminal reform and to
suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles.
As a consequence in Italy the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the
death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under
the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So
Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and
capital punishment.
Since then in the last two centuries the refusal of death penalty has been
increasing all around the world:
In 2012, 141 states have abolished either by law or on a de facto basis the
death penalty, while it is still on the books in 51 countries. Since 2007,
the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly called for a universal
moratorium with a view toward total abolition of capital punishment. In
2011 progress was made in all regions of the world, particularly the United
States: Illinois became abolitionist and in April 2012 Connecticut became
the 17th state to abolish the death penalty, thus becoming the fifth
American state to revoke capital punishment in the last five years.'.
<> Historical events on November 30
* 'In 1803, In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the
Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France
transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Throughout the second half of the 18th century,
Louisiana was a pawn on the chessboard of European politics. It was
controlled by the French, who had a few small settlements along the
Mississippi and other main rivers. Following French defeat in the Seven
Years' War, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi.
The United States controlled the area east of the Mississippi and north of
New Orleans. The main issue for the Americans was free transit of the
Mississippi to the sea. As the lands were being gradually settled by a few
American migrants, many Americans, including Jefferson, assumed that the
territory would be acquired piece by piece. The risk of another power
taking it from a weakened Spain made a profound reconsideration of this
policy necessary. New Orleans was already important for shipping
agricultural goods to and from the areas of the United States west of the
Appalachian Mountains. Pinckney's Treaty, signed with Spain on October 27,
1795, gave American merchants right of deposit in New Orleans, granting
them use of the port to store goods for export. Americans used this right
to transport products such as flour, tobacco, pork, bacon, lard, feathers,
cider, butter, and cheese. The treaty also recognized American rights to
navigate the entire Mississippi, which had become vital to the growing
trade of the western territories.
In 1798 Spain revoked this treaty, prohibiting American use of New Orleans,
and greatly upsetting the Americans. In 1801, Spanish Governor Don Juan
Manuel de Salcedo took over from the Marquess of Casa Calvo, and restored
the U.S. right to deposit goods. Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana
for French ownership from Spain in 1800 under the Third Treaty of San
Ildefonso, but the treaty was kept secret.
Louisiana remained nominally under Spanish control, until a transfer of
power to France on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the formal
cession to the United States on December 20, 1803. Another ceremony was
held in St. Louis a few months later, in part because during winter
conditions the news of the New Orleans formalities did not reach Upper
Louisiana. The March 9–10, 1804, event is remembered as Three Flags Day.
James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston had traveled to Paris to negotiate
the purchase of New Orleans in January 1803. Their instructions were to
negotiate or purchase control of New Orleans and its environs they did not
anticipate the much larger acquisition which would follow.
The Louisiana Purchase was by far the largest territorial gain in U.S.
history. Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, the
purchase doubled the size of the United States. Before 1803, Louisiana had
been under Spanish control for forty years. Although Spain aided the rebels
in the American Revolutionary War, the Spanish didn't want the Americans to
settle in their territory.
Although the purchase was thought of by some as unjust and
unconstitutional, Jefferson determined that his constitutional power to
negotiate treaties allowed the purchase of what became fifteen states. In
hindsight, the Louisiana Purchase could be considered one of his greatest
contributions to the United States. On April 18, 1802, Jefferson penned a
letter to United States Ambassador to France Robert Livingston.
Jefferson's letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage
about the day that France takes possession of New Orleans. Not only did he
say that day would be a low point in France's history, for it would seal
America's marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added,
astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program'.
* 'In 1886, George Westinghouse's first successful U.S. alternating current
(AC) power plant, opens in Buffalo, New York. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In 1879, Thomas Edison invented an improved incandescent
light bulb, and realized the need for an electrical distribution system to
provide power for lighting. On September 4, 1882, Edison switched on the
world's first electric power distribution system, providing 110 volts
direct current (DC) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan, around his Pearl
Street Station. The main drawback with Edison's low-voltage DC power
network was its short transmission range, with centralized plants only able
to supply customers within a mile of each plant.
Westinghouse's interests in gas distribution and telephone switching led
him to become interested in the field of electrical power distribution. In
1884 he started developing his own DC lighting system and hired physicist
William Stanley to work on it. Westinghouse became aware of the new
European AC systems in 1885 when he read about them in the UK technical
journal Engineering. An AC power system allowed voltages to be stepped up
by a transformer for distribution long distances without the severe power
losses suffered by DC systems, and then stepped down by a transformer for
consumer use. With AC's potential to achieve greater economies of scale
with large centralized power plants, and its ability to supply electricity
long distance in cities with more disperse populations, Westinghouse saw a
way to build a truly competitive system instead of simply building another
barely competitive DC lighting system using patents just different enough
to get around the Edison patents. The Edison DC system of centralized DC
plants with short transmission range also meant that there was a patchwork
of un-supplied customers between Edison's plants that Westinghouse could
easily supply with AC power.
In 1885 Westinghouse imported a number of Gaulard-Gibbs transformers
(developed by Lucien Gaulard of France and John D. Gibbs of England, and
demonstrated in London in 1881) and a Siemens AC generator, to begin
experimenting with AC networks in Pittsburgh. AC transformers were not new,
but the Gaulard-Gibbs design was one of the first that could handle high
power and be readily manufactured.
Stanley, assisted by engineers Albert Schmid and Oliver B. Shallenberger
developed the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer design into the first practical
transformer used in an AC system. In 1886, Westinghouse and Stanley
installed the first multiple-voltage AC power system in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts. The network was driven by a hydroelectric generator that
produced 500 volts AC. The voltage was stepped up to 3,000 volts for
transmission, and then stepped back down to 100 volts to drive electric
lights. That same year, Westinghouse formed the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company in 1889 he renamed it as Westinghouse Electric
Corporation
The Westinghouse company installed 30 more AC-lighting systems within a
year and by the end of 1887 it had 68 alternating current power stations to
Edison's 121 DC based stations. The expansion of Westinghouse's AC power
distribution system led him into a bitter confrontation with Edison and his
DC power system in a feud that became known as the War of Currents Edison
mentioned to colleagues at the end of 1886 that Westinghouse would kill a
customer within six months with his new AC system and first spoke out
(privately) in a late 1887 letter to a New York State committee trying to
determine a new, more humane system of execution to replace hanging, say
the best method would be to wire the prisoner to a Westinghouse AC
generator. In February 1888 Edison began a public media campaign claiming
that high voltage AC systems were inherently dangerous. Westinghouse
responded that the risks could be managed and were outweighed by the
benefits. Edison tried to have legislation enacted in several states to
limit power transmission voltages to 800 volts, but failed'.
* 'In 1934, The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam
locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. .
- From Wikipedia: 'LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a Pacific steam
locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at
Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. It was employed on
long-distance express East Coast Main Line trains by the LNER and its
successors, British Railways Eastern and North-Eastern Regions, notably on
the London to Edinburgh Flying Scotsman train service after which it was
named.
The locomotive set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first
steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at reaching 100 miles per
hour (160.9 km/h) on 30 November 1934, and then setting a record for the
longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive when it ran 422 miles (679 km)
on 8 August 1989 while in Australia.
Retired from regular service in 1963 after covering 2.08 million miles,
Flying Scotsman gained considerable fame in preservation under the
ownership of, successively, Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony
Marchington, and finally the National Railway Museum (NRM). As well as
hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured
extensively in the United States and Canada from 1969 until 1973 and
Australia in 1988/89. Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's
most famous steam locomotive'.
* 'In 1954, In Sylacauga, Alabama, U.S., the Hodges meteorite crashes
through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only
documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at
13:46 local time (18:46 UT) in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. It is
commonly called the Hodges meteorite because a fragment of it struck Ann
Elizabeth Fowler Hodges (1920–1972).
The Sylacauga meteorite is the first documented extraterrestrial object to
have injured a human being in the USA. The grapefruit-sized fragment
crashed through the roof of a frame house, bounced off a large wooden
console radio, and hit Hodges while she napped on a couch. The 34-year-old
woman was badly bruised on one side of her body but able to walk. The event
received worldwide publicity.
The Sylacauga meteorite was the first verified extraterrestrial object to
hit a human being. A manuscript published at Tortona, Italy, in 1677 tells
of a Milanese friar who was killed by a meteorite. In 1992 a small
meteorite fragment (3 g) hit a young Ugandan boy in Mbale, but it had been
slowed down by a tree and did not cause any injury.
The meteor made a fireball visible from three states as it streaked through
the atmosphere, even though it fell early in the afternoon. There were also
indications of an air blast, as witnesses described hearing explosions or
loud booms'.
* 'In 1956, The first use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the
News). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The electronics division of entertainer Bing Crosby's
production company, Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first
demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951.
Developed by John T. Mullin and Wayne R. Johnson since 1950, the device
gave what were described as blurred and indistinct images using a modified
Ampex 200 tape recorder and standard quarter-inch (0.6 cm) audio tape
moving at 360 inches (9.1 m) per second. A year later, an improved version
using one-inch (2.6 cm) magnetic tape was shown to the press, who
reportedly expressed amazement at the quality of the images although they
had a persistent grainy quality that looked like a worn motion picture
Overall the picture quality was still considered inferior to the best
kinescope recordings on film. Bing Crosby Enterprises hoped to have a
commercial version available in 1954 but none came forth. The high-speed
longitudinal tape system, called Simplex, in development since 1951, could
record and play back only a few minutes of a television program. The color
system used half-inch (1.3 cm) tape to record five tracks, one each for
red, blue, green, synchronization, and audio. The black-and-white system
used quarter-inch (0.6 cm) tape with two tracks, one for video and one for
audio. Both systems ran at 360 inches (9.1 m) per second. RCA-owned NBC
first used it on The Jonathan Winters Show on October 23, 1956 when a
prerecorded song sequence by Dorothy Collins in color was included in the
otherwise live television program.
BCE demonstrated a similar color system in February 1955 using a
longitudinal recording on half-inch (1.3 cm) tape. CBS, RCA's competitor,
was about to order BCE machines when Ampex introduced the superior
Quadruplex system. BCE was acquired by 3M Company in 1956.
The first practical professional broadcast quality videotape machines
capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape
(Quad) machines introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956 at the National
Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago. Quad employed a
transverse (scanning the tape across its width) four-head system on a
two-inch (5.08 cm) tape, and stationary heads for the sound track.
CBS Television first used the Ampex VRX-1000 Mark IV at its Television City
studios in Hollywood on November 30, 1956 to play a delayed broadcast of
Douglas Edwards and the News from New York City to the Pacific Time Zone.
On January 22, 1957, the NBC Television game show Truth or Consequences,
produced in Hollywood, became the first program to be broadcast in all time
zones from a prerecorded videotape. Ampex introduced a color videotape
recorder in 1958 in a cross-licensing agreement with RCA, whose engineers
had developed it from an Ampex black-and-white recorder. NBC's special, An
Evening With Fred Astaire (1958), is the oldest surviving television
network color videotape, and has been restored by the UCLA Film and
Television Archive.
On December 7, 1963, instant replay was used for the first time during the
live transmission of the Army–Navy Game by its inventor, director Tony
Verna. Although Quad became the industry standard for approximately thirty
years, it has drawbacks such as an inability to freeze pictures, and no
picture search. Also, in early machines, a tape could reliably be played
back using only the same set of hand-made tape heads, which wore out very
quickly. Despite these problems, Quad is capable of producing excellent
images. Subsequent videotape systems have used helical scan, where the
video heads record diagonal tracks (of complete fields) onto the tape'.
* 'In 1982, Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released
worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer
Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records. In just
over a year, it became—and currently remains—the world's best-selling
album, with estimated sales surpassing 65 million copies. It is the
best-selling album in the United States and the first album to be certified
32x multi-platinum, having shipped 32 million album-equivalent units. The
album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards in 1984, including Album of
the Year. Seven singles were released from the album, all of which reached
the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Thriller, the follow-up to Jackson's successful fifth album Off the Wall
(1979), explores genres similar to those of its predecessor, including pop,
post-disco, rock and funk. Recording sessions for Thriller took place from
April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles with a
production budget of $750,000 (US$1,842,155 in 2016 dollars). Quincy Jones
produced the album, while Jackson wrote four of its nine songs.
Thriller enabled Jackson to break down racial barriers in pop music, via
his appearances on MTV and meeting with President of the United States
Ronald Reagan at the White House. The album was one of the first to use
music videos as successful promotional tools, and the videos for the songs
Thriller, Billie Jean and Beat It all received regular rotation on MTV. In
2001, a special edition reissue of the album was released, which contains
additional audio interviews, demo recordings and the song Someone in the
Dark, which was a Grammy-winning track from the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
storybook. In 2008, the album was reissued again as Thriller 25, containing
remixes that feature contemporary artists, a previously unreleased song and
a DVD, which features the short films from the album and the Motown 25
performance of Billie Jean That same year the album was inducted into the
Grammy Hall of Fame, along with Jackson's Off The Wall album.
In 2012, Slant Magazine placed Thriller at number one on its list of Best
Albums of the 1980s In 2003, Rolling Stone placed the album at number 20 on
their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The album was listed by
the National Association of Recording Merchandisers at number three on its
list of the Definitive 200 albums of all time Thriller was also included in
the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of culturally
significant recordings, and the Thriller music video was included in the
National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry of culturally,
historically, or aesthetically significant films'.
* 'In 2004, Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City,
finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game
show winnings. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Kenneth Wayne Ken Jennings V (born May 23, 1974) is an
American game show contestant and author. Jennings holds the record for the
longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and as
being the second highest-earning contestant in game show history. In 2004,
Jennings won 74 Jeopardy! games (in a row) before he was defeated by
challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on
Jeopardy! are $3,196,300, consisting of $2,520,700 over his 74 wins, a
$2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance, a $500,000 second-place
prize in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, a $100,000 win for
second-place prize in the Jeopardy Battle of the Decades, as well as half
of a $300,000 prize in the IBM Challenge, when he competed against Watson.
During his first run of Jeopardy! appearances, Jennings earned the record
for the highest American game show winnings. His total was surpassed by
Brad Rutter, who defeated Jennings in the finals of the Jeopardy! Ultimate
Tournament of Champions (first aired on May 25, 2005), adding $2,000,000 to
Rutter's existing Jeopardy! winnings. Jennings regained the record after
appearing on several other game shows, culminating in an appearance on Are
You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (first aired on October 10, 2008), though
Rutter retained the record for highest Jeopardy! winnings and would once
again pass Jennings' total after his victory in the 2014 Jeopardy Battle of
the Decades tournament.
After his success on Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote about his experience and
explored American trivia history and culture in his book Brainiac:
Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs,
published in 2006'.
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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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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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