November twenty, 2009
Countdown to turkey! (U.S. meat-eaters)
AND Happy “Happy Inventions” Day
First, the inventions. 2 fun things got North American nation patents on an equivalent day—November twenty, 1866. One was the rotary-crank bicycle (patented by capital of South Dakota Lallemont of Paris, France), and also the alternative was the toy (James L. Haven and Charles Hittrick of urban center, Ohio).
They weren't proprietary underneath these acquainted names, however. Instead, they were proprietary underneath the names velocipede (the name bicycle was conjointly fictitious within the 1860s) and bandelore (yo-yo was a Filipino term, most likely from the Ilokano and Tagalog languages, and was delivered to the U.S. by Filipino-American Pedro Flores in 1928).
By the way, that does not mean that bikes and yo-yos were entirely fictitious for the primary time thereon day in 1866. Bicycles had been fictitious and reinvented and improved upon since a minimum of 1817—and in fact still be improved upon these days. And yo-yos are around since a minimum of five hundred B.C.!
Now let's speak. In a couple of week several families in U.S. and its territories are celebrating Thanksgiving, several by ingestion ancient meal of cooked, stuffed turkey (or cooked turkey, turducken, or another turkey-based meal). Here's a couple of turkey activities to urge you ready:
Create a pine-cone turkey. Use a twist of paper or a stitched, stuffed little bit of material to create a head; attach the pinnacle to a pine cone “body.” Or draw a turkey head on paper, and glue the “chips” or “petals” of a pine cone in fan shapes behind to create the body and tail.
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