NATIONAL BEEF BURGER DAY 

If you hear a sizzle and your mouth begins to water, it just might be National Beef Burger Day! On May 28th and all summer long, there's no better time to enjoy a juicy beef burger. The day is all about kicking off the grilling season and honoring America's favorite grilling protein – beef!

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A beef burger starts with real ground beef on a bun or between two slices of bread. And don't forget the toppings like cheese, onions, pickles, and condiments. Each one allows for the perfect customization – the mouthwatering possibilities are endless. Of course, some of us like ours double stacked, and others prefer them spicy. Add those seasonings, too, if you want. What's really important is what's in the middle - that delicious beef burger.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL BEEF BURGER DAY

You know what to do! It's summer, so start grilling those beef burgers. Share your favorite recipes or find some mouthwatering ones from BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com. We can see you now, the master of the grill, taking charge, and taking orders, too. Be sure to share your favorite beef burgers using #NationalBeefBurgerDay on social media.

NATIONAL BEEF BURGER DAY HISTORY

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association, founded National Beef Burger Day in 2020 to celebrate America's favorite grilling protein and to kick off summer with delicious recipes, too.  On May 26, 2020, the Registrar at National Day Calendar proclaimed the celebration to be observed on May 28th, annually.

WOMEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO PURSUE PANTS 102 YEARS AGO 

No matter what they were called, pants, slacks, and trousers were off limits to women for much of recorded history. In the United States, it wasn’t until May 28,1923 that the attorney general declared it was OK for women to wear pants in public.

“Though that statement was made, it wasn't really a ruling,” Amy Vedra Director of Reference Services at the Indiana Historical Society says. “It wasn't really a law that was put into effect.”

But despite that statement, women tended to stay away from pants.

It was very situational, you wouldn't have seen a lot of women just wearing pants all of the time, they would have been wearing them for certain activities,” Vedra says.

“In 1923, we're just post World War I, and a lot of those women had gone into the factories and had gotten a taste of wearing pants.”

But the option to wear pants was far from buttoned up.

“Women have always had an uphill battle when it came to having any kind of rights,” Vedra says.

It was a battle waged well into the 1970s. The push for the Equal Rights Amendment and organizations like the National Organization of Women helped give women a leg up on their pursuit of pants.

“I think women's activism, when it came to especially voting rights, and women's rights and equality, that was really the spark,” Vedra says. “That's when you see the activists pushing back and really fighting for their equality to wear what they want and to be who they want to be.”

All of this gives new meaning as to “who wears the Pants in the family”! 

Net Discussion Questions

Are you a Beef Burger fan?

• What would be your favorite place to get a burger?

• BK  | Wendys  |  McDonalds | others

• How do you like them cooked?

Did you know about the ruling back in 1923 regarding women wearing pants?

Connecticut enacts first speed-limit law  

On May 21, 1901, Connecticut becomes the first state to pass a law regulating motor vehicles, limiting their speed to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads.

Speed limits had been set earlier in the United States for non-motorized vehicles: In 1652, the colony of New Amsterdam (now New York) issued a decree stating that “[N]o wagons, carts or sleighs shall be run, rode or driven at a gallop” at the risk of incurring a fine starting at “two pounds Flemish,” or about $150 in today’s currency. In 1899, the New York City cabdriver Jacob German was arrested for driving his electric taxi at 12 mph. The path to Connecticut’s 1901 speed limit legislation began when Representative Robert Woodruff submitted a bill to the State General Assembly proposing a motor-vehicles speed limit of 8 mph within city limits and 12 mph outside. The law passed in May 1901 specified higher speed limits but required drivers to slow down upon approaching or passing horse-drawn vehicles, and come to a complete stop if necessary to avoid scaring the animals.

On the heels of this landmark legislation, New York City introduced the world’s first comprehensive traffic code in 1903. Adoption of speed regulations and other traffic codes was a slow and uneven process across the nation, however. As late as 1930, a dozen states had no speed limit, while 28 states did not even require a driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle. Rising fuel prices contributed to the lowering of speed limits in several states in the early 1970s, and in January 1974 President Richard Nixon signed a national speed limit of 55 mph into law. These measures led to a welcome reduction in the nation’s traffic fatality rate, which dropped from 4.28 per million miles of travel in 1972 to 3.33 in 1974 and a low of 2.73 in 1983.

Concerns about fuel availability and cost later subsided, and in 1987 Congress allowed states to increase speed limits on rural interstates to 65 mph. The National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 repealed the maximum speed limit. This returned control of setting speed limits to the states, many of which soon raised the limits to 70 mph and higher on a portion of their roads, including rural and urban interstates and limited access roads.

Lindberg and Earheart complete solo flights across the Atlantic on the same day - 5 years apart           

On May 21, 1932, five years to the day that American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. Earhart traveled over 2,000 miles from Newfoundland in just under 15 hours.

Unlike Charles Lindbergh, Earhart was well known to the public before her solo transatlantic flight. In 1928, as a member of a three-person crew, she had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aircraft. Although her only function during the crossing was to keep the plane’s log, the event won her national fame, and Americans were enamored with the daring and modest young pilot. For her solo transatlantic crossing in 1932, she was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross by the U.S. Congress.

American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours before.  At 10:22 p.m. local time, his gray and white monoplane slipped out of the darkness and made a perfect landing in the air field. The crowd surged on The Spirit of St. Louis, and Lindbergh, weary from his 33 1/2-hour, 3,600-mile journey, was cheered and lifted above their heads. He hadn’t slept for 55 hours. Two French aviators saved Lindbergh from the boisterous crowd, whisking him away in an automobile. He was an immediate international celebrity.

 Net Discussion Questions

1. Do you have a “lead foot” when you are behind the wheel?

2. Who are today’s Lindberg and Earhart?

Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman, it is the first installment in the Shrek film series. The film stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. In the film, an embittered ogre named Shrek (Myers) finds his home in the swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures banished by the obsessive ruler Lord Farquaad (Lithgow). With the help of Donkey (Murphy), Shrek makes a pact with Farquaad to rescue Princess Fiona (Diaz) in exchange for regaining control of his swamp.

The sudden silence from your radio, the erratic static replacing a clear signal, or the complete absence of connection – these are the dreaded signs that something in your communication setup has failed. While equipment breakdown is an inevitable reality in any field reliant on technology, the true test often comes when these failures occur at the most inconvenient times. Perhaps you're relying on that radio for critical information during a storm, an emergency, or a crucial competition. Maybe you're deep in a remote area with no immediate access to professional help, or perhaps you're simply trying to enjoy a hobby that now feels irrevocably interrupted.

Unfortunately, sometimes our radios, antenna or cables break. Hopefully it's not at an inconvenient time! When this happens, are you more likely to try and repair the problem? Or do you lean towards a replacement?