December 8: Brownie Day, Time Traveler's Day
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Today, sweet tooths around the world celebrate Brownie Day, a chocolate dessert created in 1893. For science fiction fans, December 8 is Time Traveler's Day.
Today, on December 8, all those with a sweet tooth and dessert lovers can celebrate Brownie Day, writes UNN.
It is believed that in 1893, during an event in Chicago American socialite Bertha Palmer suggested to the pastry chef of the Palmer House to create a new cake. The pastry chef coped with his task, and the Palmer House Brownie chocolate dessert with walnuts and apricot glaze.
Different confectioners continued to experiment with ingredients for brownies. The classic version of the recipe for this dessert was formed in the the first half of the twentieth century.
Even today, you can celebrate the Time Traveler's Day. The event appeared about 20 years ago on the initiative of the online science fiction community. of science fiction fans on the Internet.
Time travel and time machines have been one of the most of the favorite topics of science fiction writers for many years.
A classic work of this particular subject is the novel by the English writer H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine. In 1888, the work was published in a in a shortened magazine version. In 1895, the novel was published in its entirety.
Christians of the Western rite today celebrate the Feast of the of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
The Catholic Church believes that even though she was born from the womb of ordinary people, Mary did not absorb original sin. This means that from the very from the moment she was born, she was incapable of doing evil.
In the fifteenth century, Pope Sixtus IV officially introduced the feast of the to the list of feasts recognized by the Catholic Church, and on December 8, 1956 1956, Pope Pius IX enshrined a dogma that proclaimed the purity and chastity of the mother of Jesus.
According to the Orthodox New Julian calendar, today is the Day of of the Martyr Anfisa of Rome, who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries.
She devoted most of her life to serving the God and the fight against the Arian heresy.
At some point, the enemy captured Anfisa and tortured her to and tortured her to death.
Anfisa, Victoria, and Sergiy celebrate their name days on December 8, Cyril, and Victoria.
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