MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!

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Happy May 1 :slight_smile:

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Historical Origin

The term “Mayday” was conceived in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, who was asked to create a word that would clearly indicate distress and be easily understood by pilots and ground staff. Because much of the air traffic at the time was between London and Paris, Mockford chose “mayday” as the phonetic equivalent of the French m’aider, a short form of venez m’aider, meaning “come help me”. The word was introduced for cross-Channel flights in 1923 and officially adopted in the U.S. in 1927.

Happy Mayday!

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Red countries celebrate Labour/Workers Day today, picked to commemorate the Haymarket Affair.

In Haymarket square, in the ultimate NYC supremacy move, Labor day isn’t until September

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Oh a map WITH NZ. How nice. Yeah our labor day is in October. :person_shrugging:

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I only this year learned about Walpurgis Night

The fact that it is exactly six months opposite Halloween is NOT lost on me

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You see, you really do learn something every day. I did not know that.

#learningplace