#31 july

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July 31: Happy Birthday Scorch (Beanie Babies)!!!!

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Spiffing up the Queensboro Bridge with a fresh coat of paint, July 31, 1948.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP

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31 July 1968

On this date, Ringo gets up to pee without anyone noticing, requiring him to sneak back into place just in time to start in on the drums while recording "Hey Jude."

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5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia (Official Video)

Amnesia video, released 31 July 2014

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#OTD in Irish History | 31 July:

1661 – The Act of Settlement confirms some adventurers’ landowning rights but allows claims from ‘innocents’ and royalist supporters. 1689 – Robert Lundy, Governor of Derry, advises surrender at the approach of James’s army but is overruled and allowed to escape. The city holds out under siege for 105 days and is relieved on this date. 1689 – The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at…

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Today in Disney Channel History...

The Owl House season 2, episode 8 “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” premiered on Disney Channel (31 July, 2021)

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31 July 2023, Dublin. The Empty Space

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Happy Birthday to our strongest boy 🥰❤️

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National Cotton Candy Day  

Today celebrates cotton candy, a popular confection at fairs,  circuses, and amusement parks, that is almost all sugar. There is some  indication that cotton candy originated from “spun sugar” in Europe in  the 19th century. But, the story and creation of machine-spun cotton  candy as we know it goes back to a handful of people at the turn of the  20th century, some of whom were, ironically, dentists. In 1897,  confectioner John C. Wharton and dentist William Morrison invented the  electric-spinning cotton candy machine, which they filed a patent for. At the 1904 World’s Fair, The Louisiana Purchase Exposition  in St. Louis, they introduced their confection as “fairy floss.” They  sold more than 68,000 boxes of their treat, at 25 cents a box, for a  total of more than $17,000. Similarly, Thomas Patton also experimented  in heating sugar to create cotton candy. His creation debuted at the  Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus around 1900. Some sources  conflate the Patton story with the Wharton and Morrison story, and some  also claim it was Patton’s machine that was used at the World’s Fair,  after it was tweaked by the Electric Candy Machine Company. Whatever the  case, it is clear that cotton candy debuted sometime around the turn of  the 20th century.

Although the confection had been created, it did not yet have the  name cotton candy. Another dentist, Josef Lascaux, built a machine and  sold the treat to patients in his Louisiana office. It is believed that  he is the one that changed the name to “cotton candy,” in 1921. In 1949,  Gold Medal Products  created an improved cotton candy machine that had a spring base, and  most cotton candy machines are still made by this company today. Cotton candy machines are operated  by putting a sugar called floss sugar into a small spinning bowl which  heats it up. As it spins and heats, it gets pulled out into a larger  outer bowl by centrifugal force, where it solidifies in the air, and is  caught by a stick or cone. Although cotton candy consists almost  entirely of sugar, it is now most times flavored and colored, with two  of the most popular varieties being blue raspberry and pink vanilla.

How to Observe National Cotton Candy Day

Celebrate the day by eating cotton candy. Oftentimes it can be bought premade at a store. Although most commercial cotton candy machines are quite expensive, those for everyday residential use are not. You could celebrate the day by buying one and making your own cotton candy.

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31 July

In 1928, MGM's first talking motion picture White Shadow of the South Seas was released, and Leo the Lion's roar was heard at the beginning for the first time. There wasn’t much dialogue, however. The only word spoken in the film was Hello.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 31 July:

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Selamat ulang tahun, Madafakaaa

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July 31: Happy Birthday Korekiyo "Kiro" Shinguji (Danganronpa)!!!!

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Carrying a banner reading “Father Divine is God,” these followers of the African-American religious leader marched up Lenox Avenue in Harlem on July 31, 1938, chanting “hallelujah,” while the little cleric himself rode in his limousine to cheers from onlookers. The parade was partly in celebration of the new “Heaven” he had acquired, an estate on the Hudson River across from the lands of President Roosevelt, where his followers would live a rural life, and continue to cry “peace, it’s wonderful.”

Photo: Associated Press

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𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟹𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 31. But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation. END ID]

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no words

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#OTD in Irish History | 31 July:

#OTD in Irish History | 31 July:

1661 – The Act of Settlement confirms some adventurers’ landowning rights but allows claims from ‘innocents’ and royalist supporters. 1689 – Robert Lundy, Governor of Derry, advises surrender at the approach of James’s army but is overruled and allowed to escape. The city holds out under siege for 105 days and is relieved on this date. 1689 – The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at…