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During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday. 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph . 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans , France.
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August 8. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 58. Menologion: The Eighth Day of the Month of August. Orthodoxy in China. August 8. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate ...
The August collection has a particular summer flavor to it -- a beluga whale spitting water on spectators during a heat Behold 31 awesome photos from August 2014 Skip to main content
August 8 is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) ... 1992 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
Saint Dominic, OP (Spanish: Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (Spanish:), was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists , and he and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary .
The name comes in reference to brunch, being a combination of the words "lunch" and "dinner" or "supper." [20] Dunch comes in reference to brunch, being a combination of "dinner and "lunch." An alternate historical term is Russin. [21] Dinner – Usually the largest and most elaborate meal of the day, which can replace either lunch, high tea ...
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in August 2012. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2012#1]] for August 1).