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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

August Trivia

The sardonyx and peridot are the gems for August.  

 

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The poppy and gladiolus are the flowers for the month of  

August.  

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Colorado became the 38th state, August 1, 1876.  

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August is the eighth month, renamed by the Romans from  

Sextilis', means sixth, to honor their emperor, Augustus.  

 

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August is the height of the summer time in the temperate  

zone of the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere,  

August means the winter will soon be over.  

 

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An American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb used in  

warfare, on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945.               

  

 

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