Welcome to Daily Bizarre & Unique Holidays: April 27th. Check out the Holidays below and leave me a comment telling me which one you most would like to celebrate and why.
Did you know in Scotland and England: National Tell a Story Day is October 27th? I didn’t and neither did Charlie or David.
Here is a bit about tell a Story Day which celebrates story-telling of all kinds. The story can be fiction or non-fiction, a tall tale, or folk lore. Today is a day to tell ’em all. Stories can be from a book, or other written material, or from memory. What’s stopping you from writing a story today? Charlie is going to in his #Homeschool Creative Writing Class.
If your looking for something to do with your friends and family today libraries celebrate this day with story telling hours for kids. Would you like to go with Charlie and I?
Make Tell a Story Day an important and pleasure-filled experience. To enhance the enjoyment of the story, try setting the atmosphere. If it’s an eerie or spooky story, turn down the lights.
Don’t forget to bring decorations and memorabilia that speak to the theme. If its about a person, display a picture of the individual. Serve snacks and refreshments.
Babe Ruth Day honors one of Baseball’s greatest players ever.
On April 27, 1947, Babe Ruth attended Yankee Stadium for Babe Ruth Day. This was to be the second last time he was at the stadium. In 1946, Babe Ruth was diagnosed with Throat Cancer. Back then, there was not as much treatment as today.
On this day in 1947, baseball’s “The Bambino” returned to “The House that Ruth Built” to be honored.
In our #Homeschool Class we will be studying Babe Ruth through movies we watch and books we read. As well as playing Baseball in PE. Then working on Lesson Plans I will find.
Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day is always January 11th since we missed this day Charlie and I can learn how to write our name in Morse Code this morning.
Here are two special days, that we celebrate for similar, for slightly different reasons. These holidays center around Samuel Morse, the Morse code, and the Magnetic Telegraph Machine that was first used to transmit this revolutionary means of communication from one distant location to another.
In 1836, Samuel Morse and his compatriots, Alford Vail and Joseph Henry developed Morse code. On January 11, 1838, Samuel Morse and Alford Vail demonstrated the use of the electric telegraph to transmit a message in Morse code for the first time. Don’t you wonder what that message said. Charlie and I do.
Did You Know? SOS signals were often sent in Morse code. While SOS had no specific translation, SOS was said to mean “save our souls” or “save our ship”.
Morse Code uses a unique series of dots and dashes, called “dii and dah”, for each letter of the alphabet, and the numbers 0 thru 9. Long before the invention of radios and cell phones, operators used telegraph machines to send messages in Morse code.
On the receiving end, the Morse code is translated back into alphabetic characters and numbers to form the message. The message allowed for instant, coast to coast communication of information over telegraph lines.
Once radios arrived, Morse Code continued to be a major means of communications. Morse code was in use in the military, along with ham radios and other means of communication for decades.
Morse code is in danger of disappearing as a means of communication as of 2007. Knowledge of Morse Code is no loner a requirement for a Ham Radio license.
Ar you hungry yet? Because I am and yes, I would like Prime Rib for lunch. How about you?
On this day, its the kind you can sink your teeth into because National Prime Rib Day gets your mouth watering, and starts you drooling. I wonder who is serving Prime Rib today.
For just a day, forget about the diet and, don’t fret over the high fat and cholesterol content. After all, if you don’t have some Prime Rib today, you’ll be “madder than a wet……cow!”
There’s only one way to celebrate Prime Rib Day and that is with a big, thick, juicy cut of prime rib,and a loaded Baked Potato.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
