Sometimes you just need a sweet, yet Valentine ’s Day only comes once a year. What’s a body to do? Well, you celebrate the Sweetest Day of course! Like Valentine’s day this day is known for its distribution of sweets in heart shaped boxes, and a recognition of the love of candy.
History of Sweetest Day
On October 8th, 1921, Cleveland Confectioners came together to create a new day to celebrate the people’s love of candy and each other. On the first celebration of this day 20,000 boxes of candy were distributed throughout the city, everyone from newsboys, old folks, the poor, and orphans were gifted with delicious treats to help make it the “Sweetest Day” of the year for them.
From there the idea spread through big cities like New York and Detroit, expanding in popularity and importance as the years went on. Through various promotions Sweetest Day has gone on to become a popular choice for charity drives, including by organizations like the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, starting as early as October 17, 1940.
How to celebrate Sweetest Day
The simplest way to celebrate Sweetest Day is to indulge your sweet-tooth and buy your favorite treat. An even better idea is to share it with someone who loves it as much as you do! Bring in a box of treats for your co-workers, or surprise your sweety with their favorite sugary indulgence.
If you’re feeling truly ambitious, you can coordinate with a local charity to help do a sweets drive to generate money for them. Candy is always a popular item for charity drives, and if you contact the creator of these confectionery delights you can probably get them at a heavily discounted price for use in charity drives.
Finally, you can just buy candy and distribute it like a reverse Halloween, handing out candy to friends, co-workers, and random people on the street to remind them to have the Sweetest Day of the year.
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (noun) The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. | ||
| Synonyms: | capital, cap | ||
| Usage: | Scattered throughout the ruins were ornately carved chapiters that had once supported a soaring coliseum. | ||
Idiom of the Day
spring fever— A feeling of often restless excitement or exuberance coinciding with the onset of warmer spring weather. |
This Day in History
The Anglo-American Convention (1818)
The Anglo-American Convention was a treaty signed in 1818 between the US and UK resolving their standing border issues and allowing for joint rights to the Oregon Country. Though it marked the beginning of improved relations between the two countries, tensions remained over the shared territory in Oregon. The British-chartered Hudson's Bay Company had already established a trading network there and sought to exclude US fur traders.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854)
Rimbaud may have put down his pen when he was just 19 to lead an international vagabond life as a merchant and trader, but in his few years as a poet, the precocious young Frenchman managed to create a literary legacy that would have a lasting influence on the symbolists and subsequent modern poets. He put his verbal virtuosity on display in works like "The Drunken Boat," A Season in Hell, and Illuminations.
Georgia Peanut Festival
| A harvest festival paying tribute to Georgia's top crop is held in Sylvester, the Peanut Capital of the World—more peanuts are produced in the region around Sylvester than anywhere else in the state. This festival, which comes at the end of the peanut harvest time, began in 1964. Events of the festival include a beauty pageant to choose a Little Miss Peanut, Junior Miss Peanut, and Georgia Peanut Queen; a peanut-recipe contest for school children; clogging exhibitions; a kiddy parade and a grand parade with floats, horses, antique cars, and people dressed as peanuts. |
The Moon Eclipsed the Sun. Then the Bees Stopped Buzzing.
| Last year's Great American Eclipse drew hundreds of millions of eyes to the sky. But while people across the country "oohed" and "aahed" at the phenomenon, it appears the bees went silent. So found a new study that monitored the acoustic activity of ... |
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1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1873 - A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre. The show starred Andy Griffith and Don Knotts made his Broadway debut. The last show was on September 14, 1957.
1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
2009 - European astronomers discover 32 exoplanets.
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If You Were Born Today, October 20
You are warm and enthusiastic in your approach to the world. Your face is expressive, and you are moody, fun-loving, and compassionate. You have a real way with words--people listen when you speak. You are a romantic person with a distinctly gentle side to your nature. Music, lyrics, and poetry appeal to you and touch you deeply. Your sense of humor is well developed, and you make each person you talk to one-on-one feel very special. Your talents and interests are diverse. Famous people born today:
1632 Christopher Wren, English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire (d. 1723)
1854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer (Illuminations), born in Charleville, France (d. 1891)
1859 John Dewey, American philosopher, educational theorist and writer (learn by doing), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1952)
1882 Bela Lugosi [Blaskó], Austrian actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), born in Lugos, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1956)
1891 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935 discovered neutron), born in Bollington, Cheshire (d. 1974)
1904 Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (Father of Medicare), born in Falkirk, Scotland (d. 1986)
1931 Mickey Mantle, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (1956 Triple Crown, 20-time All Star), born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma (d. 1995)
1953 Keith Hernandez, MLB 1st baseman (St Louis Cardinals, NY Mets), born in San Francisco, California
1971 Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], rapper (What's My Name, Gin & Juice), born in Long Beach, California
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Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó)
(October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956)
(October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956)
Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian-born actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films including The Black Cat (1934) and The Raven (1935). He dropped out of school when he was twelve years old, and began appearing in
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The song "Big Girls Don’t Cry" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 17, 1962, and, like its predecessor "Sherry", spent five weeks in the top position. The song also made it to number one, for three weeks, on Billboard‘s Rhythm and Blues survey.
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Dell'Osso Pumpkin Maze 2018
Sep 29 - Oct 31, 2018 | Lathrop, CA
Dell'Osso Family Farm|501 S Manthey Rd
Held in Lathrop, California, the Dell’Osso Pumpkin Maze is a community-wide event with fun for the entire family. Held at the peak of pumpkin season, the event invites guests of all ages to join in celebrating autumn with festivities that last for the entire month of October including attractions like a haunted castle, zip lines, petting zoos, rides and an abundance of fall-themed food and beverages.
further information: Pumpkin Maze at Dell’Osso Family Farm
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Held in Lathrop, California, the Dell’Osso Pumpkin Maze is a community-wide event with fun for the entire family. Held at the peak of pumpkin season, the event invites guests of all ages to join in celebrating autumn with festivities that last for the entire month of October including attractions like a haunted castle, zip lines, petting zoos, rides and an abundance of fall-themed food and beverages.
further information: Pumpkin Maze at Dell’Osso Family Farm
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Winnsboro Autumn Trails Festival 2018
Sep 29 - Nov 4, 2018 | Winnsboro, TX
The Winnsboro Autumn Trails Festival is a month-long celebration of the fall season in Winnsboro, Texas. The vibrant aesthetic of the changing leaves creates a stunning backdrop for the festival's events, which include sidewalk sales, antique car shows, arts and crafts vendors and wagon rides. Guests can enjoy the fall festival any weekend throughout the entire month of October.
further information: AUTUMN TRAILS
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Danaus genutia, also known as the common tiger or striped tiger, is a species of butterfly found throughout India as well as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, South-East Asia and Australia. It is a member of the Danainae group of brush-footed butterflies. Both sexes have tawny wings with veins marked with broad black bands, and the male has a pouch on its hindwing. The butterfly is found in scrub jungles, fallow land adjacent to habitation, and deciduous forests, preferring areas of moderate to heavy rainfall. Its most common food plants in peninsular India are small herbs, twiners and creepers from the family Asclepiadaceae. The caterpillar of D. genutia obtains poison by eating poisonous plants, which make the caterpillar and butterfly taste unpleasant to predators. It has some 16 subspecies and although its evolutionary relationships are not completely resolved, it appears to be most closely related to the Malay tiger (D. affinis) and the white tiger.
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“A young boy who lost his leg was watching his friends play soccer, and he said he wanted to play soccer if he could.” Yangon, Myanmar
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Question: This adorable turntable -- called a phonograph on its label -- features a bright blue metal casing and a sweet bunny graphic on the side. Were there specific records produced to go along with it? How much did it cost when it was first introduced, and what is its value today?
Answer: Lindstrom Tool & Toy Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., started manufacturing toy cars and trucks out of light pressed steel, as well as tin, about 1913. Years later, the company made an identical phonograph, decorated with lithography rather than decals. Lindstrom seems to have ceased production in the 1940s. This Model 400 by Spear Products Inc., also of Bridgeport, is a direct descendant. It retailed for less than $4. Although the turntable has an electric motor drive, the sound is not amplified but comes from a simple reproducer -- low tech even for a 1940s or 1950s toy. Children’s records were sold separately and were widely available. These machines can be found on internet sites priced as much as $80 in clean and functioning condition. More often, the asking price is $25 to $50.
-- By Tom Hoepf, associate editor of Auction Central News
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