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February 18: National Battery Day, National Drink Wine Day, National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day, and Presidents Day.

🔋National Battery Day is a day to appreciate the convenience batteries provide to our everyday lives. Today we would be hard-pressed to find someone in the United States who doesn’t benefit from a battery. Even those who live “off the grid” have battery operated devices such as a flashlight, radio or watch. A battery is used to change chemical energy into electricity by bringing the different chemicals together in a specific order. When correctly ordered the electrons will travel from one substance to another creating an electrical current. While manufacturing of batteries for everyday personal use has only developed in the last 50-60 years, archaeologists have found evidence of a device that may have been used to electroplate gold onto silver, much like a battery would. 🍁In 1936, during the construction of a new railway near Baghdad, a Parthian tomb was found. Archaeologist Wilhelm Konig found a clay jar containing a copper cylinder encasing an iron rod. Konig suggested the find to be approximately 2,000 years old. 🍁In 1748, Benjamin Franklin first coined the term “battery” to describe an array of charged glass plates. 🍁In 1800 French scientist Alessandro Volta layered silver, cloth or paper soaked in salt or acid and zinc into what he called “voltaic piles,” which generated a limited electrical current. He published his work, and we get the word “volt” from his name to describe electric potential. 🍁It was William Cruickshank, an English chemist, who first designed a battery for mass production in 1802. 🍁We can credit chemist John Daniell with developing a way to reduce corrosion when batteries aren’t being used. In 1820 he invented the Daniell Cell, which incorporated mercury, reducing the corrosion. 🍁Gradual improvements were made by various scientists and inventors over time until in 1896 when the National Carbon Company (later known as the Eveready Battery Company) manufactured the first commercially available battery called the Columbia. Two years later, National Carbon Company introduced the first D sized battery for the first flashlight. 🍁The first battery operated watch was produced in 1957 by the Hamilton Watch Company. Today batteries are available for numerous purposes. In our modern age, portable electricity isn’t something we think about every day because it is so easily accessible. We charge the batteries on our phones by using the batteries in our cars as we travel down the road. We even have portable chargers that can charge our batteries where ever we are. 🍁National Drink Wine Day! Wine does have its benefits. Moderate drinkers of wine have lower risks of liver disease, type II diabetes, certain kinds of cancers, heart attack and stroke. It also can reduce the bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase the good (HDL). Suggesting a fresh, fruity white wine to go along with celebrating National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day.

🦀🐟National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day! Crab stuffed flounder is a dish composed of a stuffing made with crab meat, bread crumbs, butter and seasonings, which is stuffed into the whole flounder or rolled up into the fillets and baked. Popular along the East and Gulf Coasts, there are a variety of restaurants that serve crab stuffed flounder, and there are plenty of recipes to try your hand at making at home.

🎩Presidents Day is a federal holiday in the United States. This day is set aside to honor all of the past United States Presidents that have served our country. Two of our nation’s most prominent Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, are brought to mind as we celebrate this day. Their birth dates, which fall close to this same time, have been honored for decades and always will be. Presidents Day is celebrated with public ceremonies in Washington, D.C.. The origin of Presidents Day lay in the 1880s when the birthday of George Washington was celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved several federal holidays to Mondays. During the debate on the bill, it was proposed to have George Washington’s birthday be renamed Presidents Day to honor the birthdays of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Washington’s birthday is February 22nd and Lincoln’s birthday is February 12th. Although Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was celebrated in many states, it was never an official federal holiday. Following much discussion, Congress rejected the name change. However, after the bill went into effect in 1971, Presidents Day became the commonly accepted name.

I'm late. I was so into our next theme state I almost forgot this one.

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