Pure

This date marks the 1822 birth of Louis Pasteur, the French bacteriologist, microbiologist and chemist, who invented a process which became known as pasteurization in which liquids such as milk are heated to kill most bacteria and molds present within them.

On this day in 1845 ether is used as an anesthetic in childbirth for the first time. The doctor is Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia and the patient is his wife, who successfully brings a baby girl into the world.

Today in 1937 Mae West — who once remarked "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" — performs an Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio. And, on this date in 1900 prohibitionist Carrie Nation a k a Carry A. Nation smashes her first saloon, the Hotel Carry Annex Bar in Wichita, Kansas. She did not carry an ax but was, in fact, known to employ a hatchet during such activities.

This got snow? "infant creeper" — the same phrase is available on other wares here — is in the Holidays section of the Got Parodies? zone (poking fun at the famed milk advertisement campaign — some "Rated X" designs on board) within the quite varied inventory of the CafePress.com Rinkydinks shop.

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