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The most popular campfire treat is recognized each year on August 10th. In 1927, Girl Scouts troop leader Loretta Scott Crew wrote a recipe for “Some Mores,” and published it in Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts, an official Girl Scouts publication, though the exact origin of S’mores is unknown. x This delicious, gooeyContinue reading “For your burning coals give me refreshment.”

August 9, 1945 –Just three days after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb (a 22 kiloton Atomic Bomb) called Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, population 270,000, by the U.S. B-29 bomber Bockscar. Though the amount of energy generated by the bomb was significantly larger than that of the LittleContinue reading “If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. – Albert Einstein”

It’s the day recognizes the succession plan of the President of the United States. The day also acknowledges the one president who was neither elected vice president nor president – Gerald Ford. And so it goes

August 9, 1930 –A forerunner of the cartoon character Betty Boop made her debut in Max Fleischer’s animated short Dizzy Dishes on this date. In later films she loses the dog ears and becomes the familiar human character we know today. And so it goes

August 8, 1960 –Decca Records in England refuses to release Ray Peterson’s latest single, Tell Laura I Love Her, going so far as to throw away 25,000 pressings of the teen-tragedy song, which they feel is “too tasteless and vulgar for the English sensibility.“ A cover by Ricky Valance proves them wrong by going straightContinue reading “My love for her will never die”

August 8, 1968 –Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Later that day, Nixon chose Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew to be his running mate. August 8, 1973 –VP Spiro T Agnew branded as “damned lies” reports he took kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland on thisContinue reading “Richard Nixon – Beware the 8th of August!”

August 7 is annually recognizes a famous sea serpent sighting. This sighting was made by the men and officers of HMS Daedalus in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. The 60 foot long creature that they saw held a peculiar maned head above the ocean water. I, for one,Continue reading “Armless, harmless, ten foot tall and wet.”

Avoid mosquitoes at all cost, they’re not good! Though not as front of mind and the Delta variant, West Nile Virus cases have been been once again on the rise in New York City, as it has been in the past. Beyond being itch-provoking summer pests, mosquitoes kill more that an an estimated million peopleContinue reading “Bunkies, as we tell you every summer –”

August 6, 1945 –The first atomic bomb used in combat was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, on this date. President Truman ordered the use of the first nuclear bomb, which the military referred to as “Little Boy.” Harry had been vice president for only 82 days when PresidentContinue reading “The Light of a Thousand Suns”

August 6, 1911 –Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. Lucille Ball, film and television executive, actress and comedian, was born on this date. A commentContinue reading “Lucille Désirée Ball”