January 3, or Birthday of the Cocktail Straw

Zodiac Sign Capricorn

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Capricorn, January 3. Those born on this day are determined by one very important quality: having taken up something, from the first minute to the end, they are one hundred percent immersed in their occupation.

Their enthusiasm for almost any activity that they undertake is so great that it is impossible to imagine that they would be distracted even for a short time, or even more so give up their occupation.

However, this dedication can create difficulties for them; for example, when something does not work out, those born on this day simply do not want to admit it - defeat for them is worse than death.

In the same case, when everything is going as it should, they are the most reliable workers you can find - attentive, accurate, moderately proactive. They are not bored with even the simplest assignments, mainly due to their inherent sense of responsibility.

Born January 3 will never try to take on as few responsibilities as possible, they know perfectly well that to do so is simply to shift some of their functions onto others, which is not compatible with their principles.

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Capricorn men born on January 3:   Eli Manning, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mel Gibson.

• are distinguished by the following features: 
• gentleman,
• ambitious,
• persistent,
• prudent
• with a sense of humor.
• Men of this zodiac sign are not able to admit their mistakes and defeats, for them it is stress, severe moral suffering.
• On the one hand, they are too stubborn, but on the other, they perfectly know how to charge colleagues at work with their ideas, although they often use not entirely honest methods.
• Men born under the sign of Capricorn often find themselves in the front line of fire, which does not frighten them at all, because their innate aggressiveness allows them to go on the attack and achieve success in life with their pressure.
• However, you should not think that this person always acts this way, at first he will try to come to an agreement, find a compromise solution, and if it is not possible to agree, he acts assertively and tough.

Capricorn women born on January 3:  Sylvia Likens, Victoria Principal, Danica McKellar.

• are characterized by the following facets of temperament: 
• sincere,
• careful,
• economical.
• They tend to have a high level of self-control, which in certain situations helps them to win where it would seem impossible to get a positive result.
• Does not like to work individually, to a greater extent she loves collective work, which often occupies almost the main place in her life. 
• Capricorn lady literally dissolves in work, but to preserve her identity, it is necessary to choose those professions that could combine personal freedom and her sense of duty.

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Holidays

January 3

Birthday of the Cocktail Straw 

In 1888 there was a breakthrough in the art of drinking: a certain Michael Stone from Washington patented a straw for cocktails.

The first straws were made of paper. As the story goes, Marvin Stone, the owner of the paper cigarette mouthpiece factory, once sat in sad thoughts about the state of his business, as things were going badly at the factory, sipping a cocktail through a rye straw. Some of its fibers split and during the next intake of fluid, Marvin was stuck on his teeth. Then he, taking a strip of paper and spreading the edge along the entire length with glue, wound a spiral on a pencil, and then removed the resulting tube. And he got a straw through which it became much more convenient to drink a cocktail.

True, it was necessary to drink very quickly, as the paper got wet in the very first few seconds and stopped keeping its shape. Stone decided to refine his invention and a few days later found a solution when he came across a postage stamp (at that time they were made of manila paper, the raw materials of which included manila hemp, which made the paper very strong). It was from this paper that Stone began to make straws. And he took as his basis such a diameter so that while drinking it was impossible to “draw in” a bone from a lemon ...

January 3, 1888 Marvin Stone patented his invention - a straw. And already in 1890, their production became his main business, and at first straws for cocktails were made by hand. Only in 1906 was the machine for the manufacture of paper straws invented.

The next stage in the evolution of straws occurred in the mid-1930s, when Realtor Joseph Friedman added a corrugated section to the design of the straw, allowing it to bend for greater ease of use. To which he received a US patent on September 28, 1937.

Strangely enough, that none of the straw producers were interested in his idea. Then Friedman founded the Flexible Straw Corporation for the production of flexible straws and began mass production of his invention. After 10 years, this business has made Friedman a millionaire.

Finally, the last stage of the evolution of straws occurred in the second half of the 20th century, when Otto Diefenbach (owner of a small sewing machine shop in Baltimore) invented a cellophane straw for cocktails. And although, as in the situation with Friedman, the inventor himself had to find ways to promote his invention to the market, but his work was rewarded. He himself invented a machine for making such straws, created his own profitable business and achieved prosperity.

Since then, straws for cocktails have been made up by an incredible number of species: for example, a liquorice straw, a straw that changes color with temperature, a straw that changes the taste of milk for capricious children ... And straws are used not only for drinking various alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, also They are very fond of using creative people to create various decorations, handicrafts and compositions.

Also on January 3…

106 BC - Mark Tullius Cicero, a Roman orator, politician, and philosopher, was born. Author of numerous philosophical and legal treatises, letters and court speeches, according to which many generations of lawyers of antiquity, the Middle Ages and the new time learned about eloquence (“On duties”, “On glory”, “On philosophy”).

1825 - Robert Owen, manager of a spinning mill in New Lanark (Scotland) buys 30,000 acres of land in Indiana to organize the ''New Harmony'' communist colony there. An attempt in practice to realize the utopian socialist ideals will end in failure.

1850 - re-enactment of the execution of participants of the group of M.V. Butashevich-Petrashevsky. 21 member, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, were sentenced to death in November. On Semenovsky Parade, they read the sentence. Over the heads of the convicts break the swords, which means depriving them of noble dignity. The first three convicts are already tied to the pillars, the command “To the charge!” was announced. Everyone is waiting for the command “Shoot!” . but at the last moment, the outhouse adjutant of His Majesty Rostovtsev, drives up in a carriage, and reads Nicholas I’s decision to replace the death penalty with hard labor and exile. Dostoevsky’s penalty is replaced by a 4-year hard labor with the deprivation of all rights and subsequent surrender to the soldiers. These ten terrible minutes will be described by a great writer in the novel "Idiot".

1871 - Henry Bradley from New York patented margarine.

1892 - John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, English writer, medievalist, author of books about Chaser and the English medieval heroic epic was born.