November
The month of November is another one of our months that comes from a Latin word and the Roman calendar. Novem is nine in Latin, but this our 10th month is called November.
November is a transitional weather status and time month. For those living in the Northern Hemisphere it means a transition from fall to winter. This year the time change from Daylight to Standard Time took place on October 31st for most people in the United States. Did you change your clock, if you had to???
Election Day, November 3rd in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal, state and local public officials. With respect to federal elections, it is statutorily set by the U.S. government as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November.
In the United States, voting takes place for various offices.
Veterans Day on November 11th. It is an official holiday to remember those who served our country. Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with holidays in several countries which also occur on the anniversary of the end of World War I. <en.wikepedia.org>
Thanksgiving is November 26th, it is a festive family and food event that has been an American holiday since
1941. Thanksgiving is a federal holiday. The modern national celebration dates to 1863 when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens"; prior to this, it was a regional holiday, whose origins lie in the 17th century days of fasting and days of thanksgiving of Calvinist New England. <en.wikepedia.org>
Hurricane season is supposed to end at the end of the month. It has been an exceptionally quiet season on the Atlantic side, but El Nino in the Pacific has been devastating, especially in Hawaii including much flooding in the southern USA.
Chrysanthemum is the birth flower. It. Topaz and Citrine are the birthstones.
