The September birthstone is the sapphire, which was once thought to guard against evil and poisoning. On this day in , President John F. He had called on Congress in the previous year to fund a massive project to put a man on the Moon and bring him home safely before the end of the decade. Toward that end, he asked his vice president, Lyndon Johnson, to make it happen. Johnson, a Texan, was happy to oblige.
If that happened, federal money would flow to that city and to Rice, a university distinguished for its scholarship, if not for its football. In football, the University of Texas was king, although Rice gamely played Texas every year.
Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, Why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? The line drew a huge laugh and added a touch of humor and humility to the soaring rhetoric.
And, three years after the speech, in , Rice beat Texas. It would be 28 years before that happened again. The time we know call "Michaelmas" may have started as a Celtic observance, but was "re-branded" so to speak by the Catholic church and named for St.
Michael the Archangel to get people's minds off their pagan traditions. Because the Church was practically the only entity keeping a calendar, many common events were tied to Michaelmas food traditions, planting, harvests, etc as well as the settling of debts.
At Fisheaters. John on June 24, and Christmas on December I live in Southern Vermont. One of the most popular times of the year is Autumn foliage. Is there a prediction of when "peak foliage" will be this year? Does it mean something when we an abundance of crickets? We have hundreds if not thousands of crickets everywhere! September is the start of the new year at many schools, and parents and teachers alike may be encouraging students to review their lessons such as important vocabulary from the previous year.
Yom Kippur , a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri, begins the evening of September 15, Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October How well do you know the language of the Constitution?
September also belongs to Virgos those born between August 23 and September 22 and Libras people born between September 23 and October Virgos can be described as elegant and orderly , while Libras are known as clever and convivial. Feedback See Today's Synonym. Word of the Day. The farmers all wanted to prove that they had the best reapers, so they tried to gather in the last of their crops before the neighbouring farmer did.
The last sheaf of the harvest was used to make a rough mare shape and it was quickly sent round to any farmers who had not finished gathering his crops. It was a way of saying to the farmer that wild horses would be after his crops, if he didn't gather them in quickly. The men would run round to the neighbouring farm, throw the mare over the hedge into the field where the other farmer was working, and they would shout 'Mare, Mare' and then run away. The farmer, who received the mare, would then have to work quickly to see if he could finish before another farm did, then he would throw the mare to them.
The farmer who was last to finish had to keep the mare all year and have it on display so that everyone knew he had been the slowest farmer of that year. Corn Dolly. A corn dolly was supposed to have been the spirit of the corn goddess and dates back hundreds of years.
People believed that the corn goddess lived in the corn and would die when the corn was harvested unless some of it was saved. So to make sure the corn goddess stayed alive until next spring sowing, a corn dolly was made from the last sheaf of corn for the corn goddess to rest in until the next.
Michaelmas Day. Michael is the patron saint of the sea and maritime lands, of ships and boatmen, of horses and horsemen. He was the Angel who hurled Lucifer the devil down from Heaven for his treachery.
Michaelmas Day is traditionally the last day of the harvest season. The harvest season used to begin on 1 August and was called Lammas , meaning 'loaf Mass'.
Farmers made loaves of bread from the new wheat crop and gave them to their local church. Michaelmas used to be a popular day for the winter night curfew to begin - the first hint that winter was on the way. Curfew took the form of a tolling of the church bell, usually one strike for each of the days of the month that had passed in the current year and generally rung at 9pm. The word curfew may derive from the French word couvre feu , meaning 'cover fire'. Curfew was the time when household fires were supposed to be doused.
The bell was tolled every night, apart from Sunday, until Shrove Tuesday. Their oldest Curfew bell dates from ! Find out more. Michaelmas Day is sometimes also called Goose Day. Goose Fairs are still held in some English towns, but geese are no longer sold.
A Great custom in England was to dine on goose on Michaelmas. One reason for this was said to be that Queen Elizabeth I was eating goose when news of the defeat of the Armada was brought to her. In celebration she said that henceforth she would always eat goose on Michaelmas Day.
Others then followed her lead. When the British changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in , they needed to adjust some days to get the seasons aligned with the months. They took 11 days from the month of September jumping directly from September 3rd to the 14th. Now it's as if the days between September 3 and 13 during never happened in British history. Constitution Week takes place during the month of September.
American college and professional football begins during the month of September.
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