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34 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | June 2016 | Did You Know? By Micki Rosen, Four Seasons Beaumont DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE 12 IS PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DAY? The ancient Aztecs and Incas made a paste by mashing roasted peanuts, and that was the first known peanut butter. Peanut butter cookies have been popular since the early 1900s, and in 1913 the wife of the 28th U.S. president, Woodrow Wilson, published a list of her cookie recipes including one for Peanut Cookies that used peanut butter. To promote peanuts in 1916 a bulletin called "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption" was released that included three different recipes for cookies. Find your own recipe and enjoy! DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE 3 IS FISH AND CHIP DAY? Fish and Chip Day commemorates this fundamental meal of the working class, and while its roots may lay on Britannia's foggy shores, there are few places in the world that this comfort food hasn't found its way to. In the late 1800s, trawl fishing became a major part of the industry in the North Sea, resulting in a growing availability of fresh fish in areas further inland, especially within the cities. Cheap, filling and high caloric food created an excellent foundation for a working class that held incredibly physically demanding jobs. Thus it was that "chippers" - the vendors that served fish and chips to the people on the street - started cropping up all over major population centers. It used to come wrapped in the day's news, with the tang of malt vinegar, but on a plate with a little tartar sauce works just as well. DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE 10 IS BALL POINT PEN DAY? On June 10, 1943 the Biro brothers, Laszlo and Gyorgy, became owners of US Patent 2,390,636 – better known around the world as the ball point pen. The Hungarian inventors' new pen, inspired by the quick-drying inks used by professional printers, was as remarkable as the first fountain pen had been the century before. Nowadays, their invention is the ultimate cheap and disposable product, but it was once a luxury product, available only to the rich. DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE 29 IS CAMERA DAY? Cameras and photography have developed substantially over the years, from their early roots with the French inventor Joseph Niepce right up to modern day digital photography. Joseph Niepce developed the heliograph, a technique used to produce the world's first known photograph in 1825. In 1839, Louis Jacques Daguerre took the first fixed image that didn't fade. He is recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. His method required 30 minutes of exposure. Tintypes were developed in 1856 by Hamilton Smith; decades later, George Eastman invented flexible and unbreakable film that could be rolled. This was the birth of the first Kodak that was offered for sale in 1888. In 1925 the first Leica went on sale and its immediate popularity spawned a number of competitors. The Japanese camera industry began with the birth of Canon in 1936 with its 35 mm range finder. The Polaroid, the world's first instant-picture camera, appeared on the market in 1948. The first digital camera, by Fuji, was sold in 1989 in Japan and cost $13,000! These days everyone has a camera on their mobile phone – what a different world! DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE 25 IS GLOBAL BEATLES DAY? It was in the year 1960 that music history changed forever – four young boys came together and changed the world one song at a time. They started their career playing cheap dives all over their home town of Liverpool; their explosion in popularity came on the heels of their first hit song "Love Me Do," and love them we did. Global Beatles Day celebrates the huge influence they brought to the world, not just with their musical sounds but with the values they professed and believed in. Throughout their entire career they promoted the idea that we could all live in a peaceful world, built on the ideas of truth, love, and reaching beyond the boundaries of current human consciousness. So break out your favorite old albums and honor this influential band.

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