Hamburger Day - May 28

May 28 is the Hamburger day, one of the days devoted to food in the US where The hamburger is a popular dish, a staple of a meat meal, present in almost all the meat menus in restaurants, and everybody know it, there almost no one who has never tasted it. 

Everyone knows the simple burger. Eat it with a bun, sauce, vegetables and fries on the side and it is made from beef.

Vegetarians and vegans can also find a substitute hamburger - hamburgers made of lentils, mushrooms or soybeans.

No matter what hamburger you eat and where, on May 28 you can celebrate the Hamburger day. On this date you can see hamburgers  competitions in the US, such as the highest hamburger in the world or a hamburger eating competition. 

Hamburgers animated gifs

In the picture: the highest burger in the world- John Clarkson of Lancashire, UK, owner of Mister Eaters Fish and Chips, took hamburgers and prepared this high-quality burger sandwich, which contains 30,000 calories. In this hamburger tower there are 10 hamburgers, with half rolls and side dishes such as vegetables, sausages, cheeses and fries. Other things between the layers of the bun and hamburgers: spaghetti Bolognese and meatballs, meat and potato cake, pepperoni pizza and black pudding. The height of the burger tower is 5 meters and 4 inches. John had put this animal together with his wife for hours. If you take care of your health, the burger skyscraper comes with a side salad;). Want to see more photos and read a little bit? Visit the Mister Eaters Fish and Chips page

 May 28 is also Amnesty International Day

Texas coloring pages

Texas is a state in the central southern United States, located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and bordering southern and southwestern Mexico. Texas is the second largest state in the United States. Austin is the capital of Texas, however Houston is its largest city, and Dallas is the largest metropolis. In 1845, Texas joined the union as the 28th state. Here are coloring pages of the state of Texas. You can paint the state flag, the map, Texas symbols and more. The coloring pages are suitable for Texas holidays like day of Texas annexation, Juneteenth Day and Independence day of USA. Symbols of Texas are: Flag: Lone Star Flag, Flower: Bluebonnet, Large Mammal: Texas Longhorn, Sport: Rodeo, Dish: Chili Con Carne, Insect: Monarch Butterfly, Reptile: Horned Lizard, Tree: Pecan Tree, Plant: Prickly Pear Cactus. The coloring pages are suitable for children of all ages. To print the coloring page click on it and it will open in a new window. It can be saved or printed immediately using CTRL + P. Fun coloring!

PS- To save paper and help our planet, you can print on used pages, on the blank side ♥

Texas map and symbols

Hand waving Texas flag

Children hold the Texas flag

Texas nature and a cowboy

A cowboy on a horse

Landscape of Texas

Sunscreen Day- 27th May

Today, May 27, is the day that reminds us of how important it is to put on sunscreen, as the song by Buzz Luhrmann says "Wear Sunscreen." 

Ultraviolet radiation can cause sunburn, skin cancer, sunspots and premature aging. The sunscreen should also be used on cloudy days, because UV rays penetrate through the clouds.

If you live in the northern hemisphere (like about 88% of the world population), then you are entering into summer. If you live in the tropics of the earth (like about 40% of the world's population), you are always in an area with direct sunlight. So, now is the time to purchase a new sunscreen.

If you already have sunscreen, check the expiry date. Most modern fluorescence filters work up to three years. So if you want the cream you put to work (that's the whole idea, isn't it?), You need to replace the protective cream that you have expired.

Another last thing, sunscreen is not only when you go to the sea. Our skin is exposed to the sun even when we are in the car, walking, running, etc., so as the song says: 

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

Copyright: olegdudko / 123RF Stock Photo

May 27 is also Cellophane Tape Day

Cellophane Tape Day - May 27

How would we manage without the cellophane tap? It is hard to imagine what we would do without it, how would we stick covers of gifts, books, etc.?

May 27 is the day of the cellophane paper.

It was invented by Richard Garley Drew (June 22, 1899 - December 14, 1980).

Drew began working for 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1920, which was a small company manufacturing products for industry, including sandpaper.

One day, while testing their new sandpaper, WetorDry, Drew realized that their popular automatic painting machines had difficulty distinguishing between two colors. So he started working hard in 3M labs and invented the first masking-tape strip, which was 5 cm wide and glued with light glue using pressure.

In the first masking tape the glue was smeared on the edges, but not in the middle. During the product's first trial year, the glue fell off the automatic dyeing machine and Drew growled in response to his assistant: "Take this paper back to your stingy bosses and tell them to put more glue on it!". When he said "stingy" he used the word "Scotch" which in slang meant "thrifty". And so in 1930 he invented an improved adhesive tape called "Scotch".

In 1925 Drew invented the world's first transparent cellophane adhesive (called cellophane tape in the UK and other countries in the world and velcro in the United States). Following the economic crisis and the collapse of Wall Street in 1929, people began to use the thing paper to fix things instead of throwing them away and so the 3M company was able to grow out of the Great Depression and invent another variety of products.

Cellophane Tape

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May 27 is also Sun Screen Day

Paper Airplane Day - May 26

Paper Plane Day is a national unofficial day celebrated in the United States on May 26 each year, in honor of the beloved but so simple toy that is made entirely of paper and creativity. A paper plane is a toy plane made entirely of folded paper, yet it can provide hours of Competitive game and fun.

Paper Plane Day is usually celebrated at social gatherings where participants create and fly paper airplanes. Among the participants it is customary to hold competitions in which the basic categories are the distance reached by the plane and the time spent in the air.

Interesting facts about paper airplanes

The common hypothesis is that the use of paper planes began 2,000 years ago in China, because the Chinese even then liked to fly kites as a pastime.

The earliest date for the creation of modern paper planes was 1909.

In Japanese paper plane called  Kami Hikouki (紙 飛行 機 Kami = paper, Hikouki = plane). Paper airplane is probably the most common form of origami (Japanese art of paper folding).

The largest paper airplane had a wingspan of 59.74 feet. Students and workers from Germany created it on September 28, 2013.

Joe Ayoob documented the longest distance a paper airplane has flown in February 2012. His airplane flew 226 feet (which is 10 inches or 69.14 meters).

The longest paper plane flight took 29.2 seconds.

How to celebrate Paper Plane Day?

You can celebrate Paper Plane Day in several ways. One is to challenge yourself in building a paper airplane and hone your aerodynamics skills by designing new paper airplanes that will go as far as possible and spend as much time in the air as possible. You can play with family or friends in a paper airplane competition. If you have children or little nephews, today is to teach them how to make a paper airplane. Watch videos about paper planes on YouTube. Use the hashtag #PaperAirplaneDay to share on social media. No matter how you celebrate Paper Aircraft Day, you are sure to have fun!

So have a happy paper airplane day!

May 26 is also Dracula Day

Dracula Day- 26th May

On 26 May 1897 Dracula was first published by the Irish writer Bars Stoker, in London. 

The book was very popular and Count Dracula became an inspiration for the genre of horror that remains popular to this day.   

Count Dracula, whose first name was not written, is a centuries-old vampire from Transylvania. He is a nobleman lives in a castle in the Carpathians near the Borgo Pass. During his life as a man he fought bravely in the Turks and when he died he was buried in a large grave in the chapel of his castle. He had returned from the dead like a vampire and had lived for hundreds of years in his castle with three beautiful vampire women beside him.

Among Dracula's special abilities: becoming a wolf, a rat or a mist, controlling wolves, rejuvenating the face and climbing walls. 

May 26 is Dracula Day. 

It's no exaggeration to say that Dracula is the most famous vampire in history, but he certainly was not the first and the writer Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire out of his fertile imagination. 

The history of blood-sucking creatures began long before, in novels published in the Middle Ages. The inspiration for Dracula's character was taken from the figure of Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, the wavid (ruler) of Wallachia, a region in southern Romania. Vlad III also known as Draculia. Vlad the Impaler lived between the years 1431-1476 and during his reign Bolakia fought for its independence against the Ottoman Empire. He was known for his toughness and his cruelty. He had executed thousands of people and his name had been taken from his favorite form of execution - skewering people on a pointed pole. It is said that during his time people were so afraid of getting caught up in crimes and of being executed that you could leave a sack of gold in the middle of the street and no one would touch it.   In 1931 the first film was released on Dracula, starring actor Bela Lugosi.

The actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula, 1931

Dracula also appeared in comics, for the first time in 1972, as a super villain in Marvel's comics. 

 Sesame Street has a character named Count who teaching the children to count. 

In 2003, the American Film Institute rated Count Dracula, played by Bela Lugosi, as the 33rd biggest villain (Hannibal Lecter was first place in "The Silence of the Lambs"). Link to full list 

Adam Sandler played Dracula in the 2012 animated film "Hotel Transylvania" by Columbia Film Company.

Dracula in the film "Hotel Transylvania"

If you want to sleep in Dracula's seemingly castle, you can travel to Transylvania and rent a room through the Airbnb site. A carriage will take you on a trip across Transylvania, arrive at an intimate dinner by candlelight through a secret passage and change it in a coffin.

Link to Airbnb- Dracula's Castle

Animations of Dracula and other vampires

May 26 is also Paper Airplane Day

Tap Dance Day - May 25

Tap dance is a dance style in which the feet are locked in special shoes for dancing on the floor, in different rhythms. The shoes hitting the floor make knocking noises that add to the rhythm of the music. Sometimes the dance is not accompanied by music and what is heard is just the tapping of the shoes.

Tap dance has two main styles: Rhythm and Broadway. The Broadway style is most often seen in musicals because it focuses on dance and physical aesthetics. The rhythm style focuses on musicality and rhythms and is considered part of the jazz world.

International Tap dance Day was proclaimed by US President George W. Bush in 1989. He chose May 25 because it was the birthday of tap-father Bill Bojangles Robinson, who united whites and blacks in tap dancing in America in the early 20th century.

You can see tap dancing in many movies, including: "Tap", "Singin' in the Rain", "White Nights", "Move Your Feet", "The Cotton Club", "American in Paris" "Bootmen".

Among the most successful tap dancers today: Brenda Bufalino,  Dianne "Lady Di" Walker, Savion Glover, Sam Weber, Jason Samuels Smith, Sarah Reich, Melinda Sullivan, Maurice Hines, Michelle Dorrance, Chloe Arnold, Jason Janas, Heather Cornell, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards.

The tap shoe consists of two metal parts located in the heel of the shoe and in the toe area that produce tapping sounds.

A bride and groom in a tap dance at their wedding ceremony (Source)

In the next video (speakers required) you will see an amazing tap dance performance by a 6 year old boy named Luke Spring, who is dancing alongside a famous and popular dancer named Justin M. Lewis. The two demonstrate rhythm, speed and energy and produce the dance sounds with their own feet. Both perform across the United States and are enthusiastically swept away by a large audience.

May 25 is also Towel Day

Towel Day - May 25

The Towel Day, which falls on May 25, is a day of honor in memory of the author Douglas Adams (1952-2001), who wrote the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The date was set two weeks after the date of Adams' death, May 11, 2001, because it was the shortest time it took to spread the word about the existence of that day.

On this day, fans of the writer and lovers of his memory take a towel with them wherever they go.

Why celebrate Towel Day?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The source for Towel Day is in Adams' story, in the seventh episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first book, about his vacation in Greece, and the fact that whenever he wanted to go to the sea, he found that his towel was gone. After his vacation was over, he decided that whoever wanted his life to be tidy, "should know where his towel is" and not panic. The book describes the towel as the most useful item a hitchhiker can take with him as he wanders among the stars.

Towel Day is a great day to rejuvenate with a huge new beach towel in a mandala design or something else cool (Link)

 May 25 is also Tap Dance Day