{"id":41,"date":"2019-09-22T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/Humanist-Calendar\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2019-09-22T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:30:57","slug":"august","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/august\/","title":{"rendered":"August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Birthdays<\/em>:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.randi.org\/about-james-randi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Randi&nbsp;<\/a>(7th, 1928):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Silverman_(activist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Silverman<\/a>&nbsp;(13th, 1966);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/secularhumanism.org\/index.php\/1172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Ingersoll<\/a>&nbsp;(11th, 1833; d. 1899)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Founding Dates<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cflfreethought.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Central Florida Freethought Community (CFFC)<\/a>&nbsp;(31st, 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Palindrome Day<\/strong>&nbsp; \u2013 A palindromic number is similar to lexical palindromes \u2013 they are the same forward as backward.&nbsp; A Palindrome date, when written in a certain format, appears as a palindromic number \u2013 for example, 8102018 (8\/10\/2018).<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/33583-palindrome-dates-21st-century-weird.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palindrome Dates in this century from Live Science<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Ingersol Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 On August 11th, celebrates the life and contributions to Freethought of Robert Green Ingesoll. Learn more at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/secularseasons.org\/august\/ingersoll_day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secular Seasons<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Pythagorean Theorem Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where a= month, b= day, and c= year. what a great day to do math activities with children and teach them about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofmathematics.com\/greek_pythagoras.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pythagoras<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>There\u2019s not another until 2020, so we\u2019ll leave this at the 2017 marker until then.<\/em>&nbsp;Upcoming Pythagorean Theorem Days are<ul><li><strong>August 15, 2017 (8\/15\/17 or 15\/8\/17): 8\u00b2 + 15\u00b2 = 17\u00b2<\/strong><\/li><li>December 16, 2020 (12\/16\/20 or 16\/12\/20): 12\u00b2 + 16\u00b2 = 20\u00b2<\/li><li>July 24, 2025 (7\/24\/25 or 24\/7\/25): 7\u00b2 + 24\u00b2 = 25\u00b2<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>World Humanitarian Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp; sixty-third session of the UN General Assembly designated 19 August as World Humanitarian Day.&nbsp; August 19th is the anniversary of a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The day honors those who have lost their lives in humanitarian service and those who continue to bring assistance and relief to millions.&nbsp; It also seeks to educate the public about global humanitarian needs and the importance of international cooperation to address these needs.&nbsp; Learn more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/humanitarianday\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN.org<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Florida Primary Election<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 August 28, 2018 \u2013 Find more information at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/dos.myflorida.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/dos.myflorida.com\/elections.<\/a>&nbsp;Secular Americans can find voter information and assistance at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularvaluesvoter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secular Values Voter<\/a>, a project of the Secular Coalition for America.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthdays:&nbsp;James Randi&nbsp;(7th, 1928):&nbsp;David Silverman&nbsp;(13th, 1966);&nbsp;Robert Ingersoll&nbsp;(11th, 1833; d. 1899) Founding Dates:&nbsp;&nbsp;Central Florida Freethought Community (CFFC)&nbsp;(31st, 2012) Palindrome Day&nbsp; \u2013 A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}