- The August birthstones are jade and peridot.

- The flower for August is the gladiola, which means "splendid beauty."

- August is Artist Appreciation Month, Cataract Awareness Month, Catfish Month, Eye Exam Month, Golf Month, Immunization Awareness Month, Inventors Month, Romance Awareness Month, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month, and Water Quality Month.

- The meaning of the word August refers to Augustus Caesar.

- The Anglo Saxons called it August Weod monath, which means Weed month because it's the time of the year when weeds, as well as other plants, grow the fastest.

- August is the busiest month for travel.

- Aug. 1 is Lammas Day in England. It is marked with a festival that signals the beginning of the harvest. People go to church to give thanks for the first cut corn. This tradition ended when Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church.

- Some wives tales about August include: The hottest days of the year are in August and, if the first week of August is warm, then the following winter will be long and full of snow.

- When the Julian calendar was created, July had 31days. And since only two months, July and August, were named after caesars, August was given 31 days around 8 B.C. because it was named after Augustus Caesar and therefore couldn't have less days than the month of July. At the time, February had 29 days, except during a leap year. With this change, that's when February changed to 28 days and 29 during a leap year.

- In Polish, August is called sierpien or the month of the sickle; in Japanese, hachigatsu, meaning eighth month; in French, aout; and in Finnish, elokuu or month of life.

- The U.S. Congress usually takes its recess during August.

- Colorado became the 38th state on Aug. 1, 1876.

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