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The Hunt for Blue August

From Wikipedia's timeline for 1991—

• August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
• August 13 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
• August 19 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
• August 20 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
• August 21 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 24 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 25 – Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
• August 25 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 27 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
• August 31 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.

September

• September 2 – The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
• September 5–7 – At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
• September 6 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
• September 6 – The name Saint Petersburg  is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad  in 1924.

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Remembrance

“Great is your love,  Prince Ombra answered finally, and eternal is its mystery to me.  Yet honor was not denied me in the fire of Creation.  Ombra, lord vanquisher of heroes, pledges this, O brother of David, Arthur the King, and Susano– the child will speak even as you fall before me.  You will be remembered.“

—  Prince Ombra, by Roderick MacLeish

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet