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DON’T FORGET TO TURN

YOUR CLOCKS BACK ONE

HOUR...DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

TIME IS SUNDAY,

NOVEMBER 2ND!

Kitty Kommunity 2

Kubs Korner 3

Happy Birthday 3

Events 3

On This Day In... 4

Inside this issue:

Issue 21 November 2014

THE MEANING OF THANKSGIVING

Many Americans think of Thanksgiving as a wonderful

time to celebrate, getting out of school for a long weekend, and

eating a great dinner. Or, maybe they think it is the start of the

Christmas holiday season. What

is the real meaning behind Thanksgiving? We can trace this

historic American Christian tradi-tion to the year 1623. After the

harvest crops were gathered in November 1623, Governor Wil-

liam Bradford of the 1620 Pil-grim Colony, “Plymouth Planta-

tion” in Plymouth, Massachu-

setts proclaimed: "All ye Pil-grims with your wives and little ones, do gather at the Meeting House, on the hill… there to listen to the pastor, and render Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for all His blessings." This is the origin of our annual

Thanksgiving Day celebration.

Congress of the United States has proclaimed National Days of

Thanksgiving to Almighty God many times throughout the

following years. On November 1, 1777, by order of Congress,

the first National Thanksgiving Proclamation was proclaimed,

and signed by Henry Laurens, President of Continental Con-gress. The third Thursday of

December, 1777 was thus offi-cially set aside: "for solemn thanksgiving and praise. That with one heart and one voice

the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and conse-crate themselves to the service of their Divine Benefactor;… and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus

Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them (their manifold sins) out of remembrance… That it may please Him to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety under His nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth of 'righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost'." George Wash-ington, first President of the

United States Then again, on

January 1, 1795, our first United States

President, George Washington, wrote

his famed National Thanksgiving Procla-

mation, in which he says that it is "our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God, and to implore Him to continue is… our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God, and to implore Him to con-tinue and confirm the blessings we experienced." Thursday, the

19th day of February, 1795 was thus set aside by George Wash-

ington as a National Day of

Thanksgiving. Statue of Abra-ham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial,

Washington, D.C. Photo courte-sy of Wallbuilders. Many years

later, on October 3, 1863, Abra-ham Lincoln proclaimed, by Act

of Congress, an annual National Day of Thanksgiving "on the last

Thursday of November, as a day

of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who

dwelleth in the heavens." In this Thanksgiving proclamation, our

16th President says that it is "announced in the Holy Scrip-tures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord… But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, by the deceit-fulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and

virtue of our own… It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people." So it is that on Thanksgiving Day each

year, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for all His bless-

ings and mercies toward us throughout the year.

There are only

54 days until Christmas!

KITTY KOMMUNITY

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HISTORY OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

Kitties out supporting three of our

favorite DJs at the 3 of Us Jersey Jam. At Upscale Ballroom on October 17th,

Ezzy, Chuck B and Frisco had the place rocking from the windows to the

wall. WE HAD A BLAST but who wouldn’t when partying with them?

The concept of setting the clocks in

order to make better use of natural daylight was first introduced by US in-

ventor and politician Benjamin Franklin in 1784. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is

a change in the standard time with the purpose of making better use of day-

light and conserving energy. Clocks are generally set ahead one hour during

DST, meaning that the Sun rises one

hour later in the morning and sets one hour later than it otherwise would have

done. Although DST has only been used for about 100 years, the idea was con-

ceived many years before. Ancient civi-lizations are known to have engaged in

a practice similar to modern DST where they would adjust their daily schedules

to the Sun's schedule. For example, the

Roman water clocks used different scales for different months of the Year.

American inventor and politician Benja-min Franklin is often credited with being

the inventor of DST. In his 1784 essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing

the Cost of Light” he proposed to econ-omize the use of candles by getting

people out of bed earlier in the morning

to make use of the morning sunlight. Another major contributor to the inven-

tion of DST was New Zealand entomol-ogist George Vernon Hudson. In 1895,

Hudson presented a paper to the Wel-lington Philosophical Society, proposing

a two-hour shift forward in October and a two-hour shift back in March. Hudson

followed up his proposal with an article

in 1898, and although there was inter-

est in the idea, it was never followed through. US President Franklin D. Roo-

sevelt instituted year-round DST in the United States, called “War Time” during

World War II from February 9, 1942 to September 30, 1945. The change was

implemented 40 days after the bomb-ing of Pearl Harbor and during this

time, the U.S. time zones were called

“Eastern War Time”, “Central War Time”, and “Pacific War Time”. After

the surrender of Japan in mid-August 1945, the time zones were relabeled

“Peace Time”. Britain applied “Double Summer Time” during World War II by

moving the clocks two hours ahead of GMT during the summer and one hour

ahead of GMT during the winter. In the

United States, DST caused widespread confusion from 1945 to 1966 for trains,

buses and the broadcasting industry because states and localities were free

to choose when and if they would ob-serve DST. Congress decided to end

the confusion and establish the Uniform Time Act of 1966 that stated DST

would begin on the last Sunday of April

and end on the last Sunday of October. However, states still had the ability to

be exempt from DST by passing a local ordinance. The U.S. Congress extended

DST to a period of ten months in 1974 and eight months in 1975, in hopes to

save energy following the 1973 oil em-bargo. The trial period showed that

DST saved the energy equivalent of

10,000 barrels of oil each day, but DST

still proved to be controversial. Many complained that the dark winter morn-

ings endangered the lives of children going to school. After the energy crisis

was over in 1976, the U.S. changed their DST schedule again to begin on

the last Sunday in April. DST was amended again to begin on the first

Sunday in April in 1987. Further chang-

es were made after the introduction of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST is

now in use in over 70 countries world-wide and affects over a billion people

every year. The beginning and end dates vary from one country to another.

The European Union adopted the “Summer Time” period that was used in

the United Kingdom for many years,

where DST begins on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in

October. The DST schedule in the U.S. was revised several times throughout

the years. From 1987 to 2006, the country observed DST for about seven

months each year. The current sched-ule was introduced in 2007 and follows

the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which

extended the period by about one month. Today, DST starts on the sec-

ond Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. Currently,

most of the United States observes DST except for Hawaii and most of Arizona,

as well as the U.S. insular areas of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands,

American Samoa, and Guam.

KUBS KORNER

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! The Kitty Kat Social Club would like to wish each of you a very special Happy Birthday or Happy Anniversary

and we hope you enjoy your special day. If you wish to have your birthday listed, please email us

at kittykatclub06@gmail.com.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2nd - K-9’s Boogie; 3rd – Kae; 4th – Scorpion; 5th – PS’s Marlo; 6th – Nikki W., Tasha J.; 8th – Sassy Kitty, Akua, Vashon; 11th – Nyobi, Robin M, Road Runna,

Dominique; 12th – Will Coop, Kim; 13th – PS’s Kim; 15th – Dee Talley, Marcus M, 100G; 17th – Deebo; 20th – RBP’s Markel;

24th – Von; Sylvia, Rude; 25th – PS’s Kael, Denise; 26th – DPSC’s Luscious; 27th – Face, Melissa; 28th – Self, Caress; 30th – Mocha Kitty

WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND TOWN

6th - Divine Purpose SC Anniversary Fish Fry, M Lounge, Capitol Heights, MD,

7 pm

8th – PSSC’s Pantry Drive, Giant Food, Silver Hill Rd, District Heights, MD,

10 am

8th - Red Divas SC’s 10th Anniversary, Gentleman 10, 2135 Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore, MD 9 pm $20 / $25 @ door, BYOB

8th - Positive Sisters SC’s Fall Back Jam, IBEW 898 Airport Park Road, Glen Burnie, MD, 8 pm, $25

8th - Stiletto Drivers’ Jerseys & High Socks Skate Party, Skate Palace, Temple Hills, MD, 11:45 pm, $15 in advance

9th - Loud Pack Riders SC Winter Donation Challenge: Bagged Lunches and/or Coats & Blanket donations, Franklin Square, Washington, DC, 12 pm

15th - Fire N Ice Coalition Party, 94 Albe Drive, Newark DE, 8 pm, $10 colors $15 w/o

16th – Diamond Star Divas’ Annual Trophy Bowling Party, AMF Capital Plaza Lanes, Landover Hills, MD, 6 pm Throwback 70’s Theme

22nd - 2014 Unity Food Drive by SC, Road Wolves MC – The Den, 7452 Old Alexander Ferry Road, Clinton, MD, 12 pm

22nd – Rorie Boys Productions All Black Scorpio vs Sagittarius Bday Bash, Da Luft Lounge, 1242 H Street NE, WDC, 10 pm

$20 / more @ door

Universal Children’s Day is on Thursday, November

20, 2014. Universal Children's Day is a global observance and not a public

holiday. On December 14, 1954, the UN General Assembly recom-

mended that all countries should introduce an annual event from

1956 known as Universal Children's Day to encourage fraternity and

understanding between children all

over the world and promoting the welfare of children. It was recom-

mended that individual countries should choose an appropriate date

for this occasion. At the time, the UN General Assembly recommend-

ed that all countries should establish a Children's Day on an

“appropriate” date. Many of the

countries respected this recom-mendation and the Universal Chil-

dren's Day has since been annually ob-

served on November 20. There are how-ever, some countries, such as Australia

and India, which still chose various differ-ent dates during the year to celebrate

this day. On November 20, 1959, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declara-

tion of the Rights of the Child and on November 20, 1989, it adopted the Con-

vention on the Rights of the Child. Since

1990, Universal Children's Day also marks the anniversary of the date that

the UN General Assembly adopted both the declaration and the convention on

children's rights. "We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the

well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the

most universally cherished aspiration of

humankind."

1st 1914 The Bra was patented.

2nd 1721 Peter the Great becomes Emperor of Russia.

3rd 1839 First Opium War between China and Britain begins.

3rd 1952 Clarence Birdseye marketed frozen peas.

4th 1842 Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd.

6th 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States

7th 1874 Cartoonist Thomas Nast depicts Republican Party as an elephant in a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly.

8th 1889 Montana became the 41st state.

8th 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt forms the Civil Works Administration to help create jobs for millions of workers

unemployed during the Great Depression.

9th 1927 Giant Pandas are discovered in China.

10th 1775 The United States Marine Corps was created.

10th 1951 Direct dial telephone service is first available coast to coast.

10th 1969 Sesame Street premiered on PBS television.

10th 1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald and its entire crew is lost during a storm on Lake Superior.

11th 1620 Forty one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sign a compact calling for a “body Politick” just off the Massachusetts coast.

12th 1981 The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the 2nd time. This was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.

13th 1927 The Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River opens to the public, connecting New York City and New Jersey.

13th 1942 The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.

14th 1832 The first streetcar went into operation.

14th 1968 Yale University goes Co-ed.

15th 1777 The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

19th 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

20th 1959 Ford quit making the unpopular Easel.

22nd 1963 President John F. Kennedy, the youngest person to become a U.S. president, is assassinated in Dallas, Texas as his motorcade travelled through the city.

23rd 1835 A patent is issued for the horseshoe manufacturing machine.

24th 1859 Charles Darwin publishes his theory on evolution “On the Origin of the Species” sparking great controversy.

26th 1716 The first lion was exhibited in America.

28th 1925 The “Grand Ole Opry” debuts on radio.

28th Disney’s Steamship Willie premieres – Mickey Mouse is “born”!

30th 1782 The United States and Great Britain sign a peace treaty in Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War.

ON THIS DAY IN NOVEMBER...

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