AUGUST 2020

ACCORDING TO ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, WHAT SONG IS THE BEST SUMMER SONG OF ALL

TIME?

"California Girls,"

The Beach Boys

"Dancing in the Street," Martha & the Vandellas

"Summertime

Blues," Eddie

Cochran

"School's Out,"

Alice Cooper

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26th to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the

19th Amendment to the Constitution, which

prohibits the states & federal government from denying the right to vote

on the basis of sex.

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Whether you’re working from home or back in the classroom, have fun

with this math based puzzle!

In the earliest days of the automobile,

navigating America’s roads was a chaotic

experience, with pedestrians, bicycles, horses & streetcars all competing with motor

vehicles for the right of way. The world’s first electric traffic signal was put into place on

the corner of Euclid Avenue & East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 5, 1914.

Based on a design by James Hoge, who received U.S. patent no. 1,251,666 for his

“Municipal Traffic Control System”, it consisted of four pairs of red & green lights

that served as stop-go indicators, each mounted on a corner post. Wired to a

manually operated switch inside a control booth, the system was configured so that

conflicting signals were impossible. According to an article in The Motorist, published by the Cleveland Automobile Club in August 1914,

“This system is, perhaps, destined to Revolutionize the handling of traffic in

congested city streets & should be seriously considered by traffic committees for

general adoption.”

www.history.com

Celebrate Elvis Week!

August 8th-16th

8/2 ● Friendship Day 8/4 ● Coast Guard Day

8/13 ● International Left-Hander’s Day 8/16 ● National Tell a Joke Day 8/26 ● Women’s Equality Day

● National Golf Month ● National Immunization

Awareness Month ● National Inventors Month ● National Peach Month

● National Water Quality Month

ACCORDING TO ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, WHAT SONG IS THE BEST SUMMER SONG OF

ALL TIME?

"Dancing in the Street," Martha & the Vandellas

Summer is the time for dance jams, backyard cookouts, and partying at

the beach. The music industry knows this.

Summer's arrival spawns some of the most sizzling

songs to hit the charts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked summer hits - from oldies to classic

hip-hop, from indie-rock to hard-core rock 'n roll - of all time. The winner is "Dancing In the Street,"

by Martha & The Vandellas. This song encourages the world to transform into a giant summer block party (with proper social-distancing, of course!). The iconic party-jam lyrics were co-written by

Marvin Gaye. Source: RollingStone.com

August 2nd is Friendship Day! Just like the name sounds, it’s a day to honor and celebrate our friends. In the United States, Friendship Day is celebrated on

the first Sunday in August. Of course one of the best ways to spend any day is to

hang out with friends. Be smart, and stay safe, but good friends can be one of the great joys in life and

Friendship Day is a great time to let your friends know how much they mean to you!

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

-Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer co-founder

(born 08/11/1950)

The United States Coast Guard is much

older than many Americans realize. It was

founded on August 4, 1790, by Treasury

Secretary Alexander Hamilton & was known

back then as the Revenue Marine. Hamilton

authorized the construction of ten vessels

known as Revenue Service cutters, which were intended to enforce

the earliest United States tariff laws. In 1915, President Woodrow

Wilson signed an act of Congress into law that

combined the Revenue Marine with another

agency known as the United States Life-Saving

Service with the intent of having a single entity

responsible for maritime law enforcement &

life-saving. The merger was accompanied by

a change of name to the United States

Coast Guard.