Welcome To The Land Of August

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    August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.
    – Rasmenia Massoud

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    And hate the bright stillness of the noon
    without wind, without motion.
    the only other living thing
    a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended
    in the blinding, sunlit blue.

    And yet how gentle it seems to someone
    raised in a landscape short of rain—
    the skyline of a hill broken by no more
    trees than one can count, the grass,
    the empty sky, the wish for water.
    – Dana Gioia (California Hills in August)
     
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    "Although the United States doesn't celebrate any official holidays during the month of August, the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar does celebrate the birthdays of many famous inventors, writers, scientists, and creators—find out who shares your August birthday"

    "August is also the month when many great inventions, works of art, and scientific discoveries were first patented, trademarked, or copyrighted, so if you're looking for what happened on "this day in history" during the month of August, there's plenty to discover."

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    • 1900: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum was copyright registered.
    • 1941: The first Jeep rolled off the assembly line, and Willy’s Truck Company was the first company to create a jeep.
    Born on this day:1936: Yves Saint Laurent is considered the greatest French fashion designer of the 20th century.
     
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    Judith I Bridgland: New Paintings of Northern Ireland

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    "More Ice!"
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    Yes, Charlie. In August the streets here will be full of new people, who have only been driving a couple years, and are lost most of the time. But it gets better by September.

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    August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
    – Sylvia Plath

    August is like the Sunday of summer.
    – Unknown


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    • 1904: A patent for a "glass shaping machine" was granted to Michael Owen. The immense production of glass bottles and jars today owes its inception to this invention.


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    August is the Sunday of summer
    I wish we could turn the hour glass over
    I wish that i could hold you closer
    But August is the Sunday of summer
    – MaK Cov (August is the Sunday of summer)
     
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    The best thing about August is that it means fall will soon be here.
     
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    @Joe Riley ..whoa you have been on roll on this thread.
     
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