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The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ®Weeks of Jan. 8, 2013
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Great for People with Allergies
by Kathy WolfeWhether you’re a spectator or a participant, there’s
something for everyone this winter in the sports arena. Tidbits presents some interesting info about several favorites.
• It’s most probable that the Scandinavians in-vented the sport of skating by strapping ox or elk leg bones to their boots with leather straps. Five-thousand-year-old skates have been found in Fin-land, and were a mode of transportation rather than a form of entertainment. Metal blades didn’t come along until the 13th century.
• The game of ice hockey originated in eastern Canada in the mid-1800s. The first organized in-door hockey game was played in March of 1875 at Montreal’s Victoria skating rink in front of 40 spectators.
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• Manitoba-born Mervyn “Red” Dutton was serv-ing with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France during World War I when an exploding shell filled his leg with 48 fragments of shrapnel. When doctors informed him that his very life de-pended on amputating the leg, he refused, citing his love of hockey. His leg was placed at a 30-de-gree angle for the next 14 months. Dutton recov-ered, going on to play pro hockey for 15 years and serving as president of the NHL. He was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame in 1958. turn the page for more!
• No wonder they call him Mr. Hockey! Gordie Howe is the ultimate record-holder, beginning with the most NHL games played, 1,767, and the only player to play in five different decades, from the 1940s up to the 1980s. Although he retired in 1971 after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, he came out of retirement two years later to play in the World Hockey Association until 1980. When he retired at age 52, he became the oldest NHL player to retire, and the only one to play after age 50.
• The Winter Olympics were officially held for the first time in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and were called “International Winter Sports Week.” There were 16 events in six different sports, with 258 athletes participating. Four years later, the event moved to St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the number of athletes jumped to 464. By 1952, there were 694 athletes participating in Oslo, Norway, increasing to 1,272 in Sarajevo in 1984, and an all-time high of 2,566 in 2010 in Vancouver. Van-couver’s Olympics featured 86 events in seven dif-ferent sports.
• Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie competed in her first Olympics at Chamonix at age 11, finish-ing dead last. But just four years later she took the
gold medal, followed by two more wins in 1932 and 1936. Her per-f or m a n c e s took place on outdoor rinks in the cold and wind. Al-though she p er for me d in a knee-length wool skirt, she didn’t need
to worry about that hampering her jumps – in her day it was deemed “unladylike to jump into the air” or perform spins. Sonja retired at age 23, moved to Hollywood, and became one of the in-dustry’s highest paid movie stars of her day.
• Dick Button, former network sports commenta-tor, was the men’s figure-skating Olympic gold medalist for 1948 and 1952, and is still a record-holder as the youngest man, at age 18, to win the Olympic figure skating title. He was the first to
ever perform a triple-spin jump and the double axel jump, as well as inventing the flying camel spin.
• Figure skaters complete many triple axels, but what exactly is it, and why is it called that? The axel is a move created in 1882 by a Norwegian figure skater named Axel Paulsen. For the single axel, the skater launches into the air off one foot, spins around 1 ½ times, and lands on the opposite foot, going backward. The triple axel is 3 ½ rota-tions. Don’t confuse these with the Lutz, when the skater starts out backward, leaps into the air off the toe pick, spins, and lands on the same foot.
• Eddie Eagan was the Olympic champion in box-ing’s light-heavyweight division at the 1920 Sum-mer Olympics. Twelve years later at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, Eagan was a member of the gold medal winning four-man bobsled team, making him the first person to win in both Summer and Winter Olympics. He had taken up bobsledding a mere three weeks before the Olym-pics.
• Bobsled tracks are made of concrete and coated with ice. They are about 4,000 to 4,200 feet (1,200 to 1,300 m) in length and have at least 15 curves. The sleds typically move along about 93 mph (150 km/hr). The very first Winter Olympics featured the four-man bobsled race, and the two-man event was added in 1932.
• The East German women’s luge team had a unique strategy for the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. They heated the runners on their sleds, which caused the ice to melt, increasing their speed. No surprise that the women came in first, second, and fourth in the competition! Once their tactics were discovered, they were all disqualified and their medals were revoked.
• Anders Haugen of the United States received his bronze medal for ski jumping in 1974. What’s unusual about that? Anders was 86 years old! He had actually competed in Chamonix in 1924, but a calculation error put him in fourth place. Fifty years later, a Norwegian sports historian noticed the blunder and Anders was awarded his medal by the daughter of the actual fourth place finisher, who had taken the bronze home years before.
• It might look like Alpine ski jumpers soar miles above the crowd, but in reality, they are rarely more than about 18 feet (5.5 m) above the ground. Jumpers reach speeds of up to 65 mph (104 km/hr).
• The biathlon, which combines cross-country ski-ing and rifle marksmanship, was originally a mil-itary training exercise. Over the 12.5-mile (20-km) course, the athlete must switch from arduous skiing with a rifle on his/her back to the intense focus of shooting. The sport wasn’t an official part of the Olympics until 1960 for men and 1992 for women.
• While Alaska’s Iditarod is probably the most fa-mous dog sled race, the 1,049-mile (1,688-km) trip from Anchorage to Nome is not the longest. That honor belongs to the Beringia Trail in Rus-sia, where the world’s longest race takes place on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The trail is 1,270 miles (2,044 km) long in an area where 29 active volca-noes dot the landscape.
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• The death of Lucy’s father when she was three changed her comfortable life into one of difficul-ties. Her mother found work in a factory and re-married. Her new husband didn’t care much for children, and moved Lucy’s mother out of state, leaving Lucy and her brother behind with grand-parents. Reunited with her mother at age 11, Lucy eventually convinced her to allow her to enroll in a New York City dramatic arts school. At age 15, she met fellow student Better Davis there. The overly-shy Lucy was so nervous on stage that the
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school’s head-master advised her mother, “Lu-cy’s wasting her time and ours. She’s too shy and reticent to put her best foot for-ward.”
• Although Lucy’s real name was Lucille Désirée Ball, when she secured work as a fashion model at age 17, she changed it to Diane Belmont, taking the name of New York’s Belmont racetrack. Lucy modeled fur coats for Hattie Carnegie, one of the leading designers of the 1930s. She was enjoying a blossoming career when she was suddenly struck ill with rheumatoid arthritis and spent the next two years relearning how to walk.
• At age 21, this natural-born brunette dyed her hair blonde and moved to Hollywood, and land-ed a job as a dancer with Metro-Goldwyn Stu-dios as a “Goldwyn Girl.” Her movie career was launched in 1933 with a part in Roman Scandals. Although Lucy is best remembered for her work in television, she appeared in 72 movies during her career.
• During the filming of 1940’s Dance, Girl, Dance, Lucy was introduced to castmate Desi Arnaz, a handsome 23-yr-old Cuban musician. They were married shortly afterward. In 1942, because there were so many blondes in Hollywood, Lucy dyed her hair her trademark red, hoping it would make her stand out.
• It was actually a radio program that launched Lucy into television. CBS Radio’s My Favorite Husband was so popular, it was developed for television, and I Love Lucy was born. It premiered in 1951 when Lucy was 40 years old, three months after she gave birth to her first child, Lucie. The sitcom quickly became a hit. Two years later, Lucy was ex-pecting her second child, and the pregnancy was written into the script. Her son Desi, Jr. was born the same day the episode of the birth of “Little Ricky” was aired. Over 71% of television viewers watched that episode, higher numbers than those who watched President Eisenhower’s inaugura-tion ceremony. The very first issue of TV Guide, which debuted in 1953, featured Lucy and her son on the cover. For four out of its six years, I Love Lucy was the number one show in America.
• After 20 years of marriage, Lucy and Arnaz di-vorced. Two years later, Lucy became the first woman to run a major television studio, one that produced several successful series. She was nomi-nated for 13 Emmy Awards,
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1. Name the three Chicago White Sox pitch-ers to throw a perfect game.
2. In 2012, Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera (29 years old) became the sixth-youngest player to get 1,000 career RBIs. Name three of the five younger ones.
3. Who were the first pair of rookie NFL quarterbacks to play in the same Pro Bowl?
4. Name the oldest head coach to win an NCAA men’s basketball national champion-ship.
5. In 2012, Colorado Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog became the youngest player (19
years, 286 days) to be named team captain in NHL history. Who had held the mark?
6. How many times has the U.S. won women’s gymnastics all-around team gold at the Olympics?
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ELLIS ISLANDJanuary 1 was Ellis Island Day, memorializing the portal through which more than 12 million immi-grants entered the U.S. between 1892 and 1954. Let’s learn more about this facility that was the gateway to the new world for so many. • Ellis Island hasn’t always been known by that
name. The Mohegan Indians dubbed it Gull Is-land, while early colonists called it Oyster Island. When pirates and convicts were hanged there in the mid-1700s, a tool known as a gibbet was used, and the island became known as Gibbet Island. New York businessman Sam Ellis purchased it in 1776, and ran a tavern and picnic area there.
• In 1808, the U.S. Government bought the island from Ellis’ heirs for $10,000 in order to establish a defense system to protect New York City. A fort was built, which, during the Civil War, housed prisoners, as well as weapons and ammunition for the Union Army. Ellis Island became the first federal immigration station in 1890.
• The island, located just off the New Jersey coast near the Statue of Liberty, was originally 3.3 acres, but was expanded to 27.5 acres as landfill was added to the site, along with excess dirt from the excavation of New York City’s subway system. A
new wooden structure opened on New Year’s Day of 1892, with a 15-year-old Irish girl named An-nie Moore processed as the very first immigrant. Five-and-a-half years later, a fire raged through the complex, burning it to the ground, taking with it all of the U.S. immigration records dating back to 1855. A new fireproof structure opened in 1900.
• Medical clearance was a source of anxiety for many immigrants who feared being turned away at the gate for miscellaneous maladies. First- and second-class passengers were not subject to the medical exam, with the assumption that they were less likely to be a medical burden to the govern-ment. Because third-class “steerage” passengers traveled in the lower level of ships under more unsanitary conditions, they were required to un-dergo the three-to-five-hour inspection, which included answering 29 questions.
1. Charlie Robertson (1922), Mark Buehrle (2009) and Philip Humber (2012). 2. Mel Ott (27 years old), Jimmie Foxx (27), Alex Rodriguez (28), Ken Griffey Jr. (28) and Lou Gehrig (28). 3. Cam Newton and Andy Dalton, after the 2011 season. 4. Jim Calhoun was 68 when UConn won in 2011. 5. Sidney Crosby was 19 years, 297 days old when named captain of Pittsburgh in 2007. 6. Twice -- 1996 and 2012. 7. Lexi Thompson was 16 when she won an event in 2011.Sports Quiz Answers...
• Those who did not pass the medical exam were ones with a contagious disease, who were exclud-ed from entry. Ellis Island gained a reputation as the “Island of Tears” for those who were turned away, while in actuality, only 2% of all immigrants were denied entry during all the years of opera-tion.
• During the Island’s peak years, 1900 to 1914, 5,000 to 10,000 people were passing through every day. After World War I, the U.S. established embassies worldwide, enabling immigrants to complete pa-perwork and medical exams in their own coun-tries, and by 1924, only those with paperwork problems were sent to Ellis Island. During World War II, it was a detention center for captured en-emy seamen, and was also used as a Coast Guard training facility. In 1954, it officially closed and remained abandoned until 1976, when it was opened to the public on a limited basis for tours. The structure underwent a massive $160 million restoration during the 1980s, and now receives 2 million visitors a year.
• Many well-known immigrants were processed through Ellis Island, including Irving Berlin, Max Factor, Rudolph Valentino, and Cary Grant, who arrived at age 16. The family of entertainer Bob Hope, who arrived at age 4 with his mother and four brothers in 1907, has established a memorial library in his name in the restored facility.
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• It was humorist Jerome K. Jerome who made the following sage observation: “It is impossi-ble to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
• Though it is unconstitutional and therefore un-enforceable, there is a law on the books in Ten-nessee which prohibits duelists, preachers and atheists from being elected to public office.
• According to most history books, the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, S.C., in April of 1861, but that’s not entirely true. The first shots of the war between the North and the South actually were fired in January of that year in Pensacola, Fla., where a garrison of Union troops was stationed at Fort Barrancus. A con-tingent of Florida and Alabama troops marched on the fort with the intent to throw out the Yan-kees in their midst. However, the Southerners’ dedication to the cause was somewhat lacking; as soon as the Union soldiers fired at them, they beat a hasty retreat.
• Those who study such things say that the aver-age lightning bolt has a temperature of approxi-mately 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. For com-parison, the sun’s average temperature is only 10,000 F.
• If you’ve ever been told to shut your pie-hole, you might have wondered where the expression came from. The term was first used in 1983, in the film version of Stephen King’s horror novel “Christine.”
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“Hypocrite!” That’s a charge oft heard by people who believe something and then because of their human weaknesses somehow fail to live up to the standards they have set for themselves or others. So the other day I decided to study the word to dis-cover what those ugly nine letters are all about.
The word hypocrite comes from the Greek word which is pronounced almost exactly as we pro-nounce it today. Its origin was in the ancient Greek theater where actors wore masks to hide their real faces while they played the parts of others – they were pretenders or hypocrites. Fortunately the word no longer applies to those who perform on the stage but to those who pretend in everyday life.
I think you would agree that there are many hyp-ocrites out there but not just in the church (where there are, I must admit, plenty).
There’s a guy somewhere who had the Ten Com-mandments tattooed on his back. He must have been quite religious, don’t you think? My thought was why didn’t he have them tattooed upside down on his stomach where he could review them from time to time?
Have you noticed the athletes who genuflect before they step up to bat or who, right after they make a touchdown, take a knee and bow as if they are praying? Is it possible that this, for some, is just a show? I do.
The most common hypocrisy among politicians are the wealthy elite who get elected then raise taxes while they do everything possible to avoid paying taxes on their billion dollar estates. Then there’s the politician that runs on the platform that he is “pro life” but when the opportunity to confirm a judge that might vote to outlaw abortions he suddenly does something different. Pretenders. Hypocrites.
Main Street business people too: A great preacher of the last century observed, “When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop
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window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.” - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some of the worst hypocrites are the rappers and rockers who denigrate women, call for cops to be killed, promote drug use, and wallow in all kinds of depravity while they wear big gold crosses around their necks and perform using religious icons as props.
Some years ago a man was absolutely insistent that his daughter have a lavish wedding invoking all the blessings of the church on the marriage of his daughter. He spared no expense to see that the cler-gyman involved would provide the religious bless-ings he thought important to the event.
On the day of the wedding the father, along with the rest of the family, showed up by droves to the wedding. They were all decked out in their tuxedos and lovely dresses and a special group piety put on for the hour or so they were at the church. The con-gregation even added their “amen” to the clergy-man’s prayers.
Yet everyone in attendance was a hypocrite, a phony, a person who pretended to have moral or re-ligious beliefs that he/she did not actually possess. You see, the family owned a chain of porno theaters in a nearby city and everyone at the church knew it except the clergyman. It was all a show.
And now, what about you and me? We are hypo-crites as well for we have pretended a level of piety that belied the reality of our every-day lives. Each of us have said one thing and done another - often. We have all preached sermons to others with no in-tention of applying them to our own lives. We have each demanded justice for the other but mercy for ourselves.
Since hypocrisy is a matter of pretending to be one kind of person while being another, I’m afraid we are all quite guilty. And since we are all hypo-crites could it be said that the one who detests hy-pocrisy the most may be the biggest hypocrite of all?
• On Jan. 7, 1789, America’s first presidential elec-tion is held as voters cast ballots to choose state electors. Only white men who owned property were allowed to vote. As expected, George Wash-ington won the election and was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.
• On Jan. 12, 1928, a young pianist from Kiev named Vladimir Horowitz makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall. Sir Thomas Beecham, guest con-ductor of the New York Philharmonic, was the headliner, but it was the young Russian pianist playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 who stole the show.
• On Jan. 11, 1937, nearly two weeks into a sit-down strike by General Motors auto workers at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, Mich., a riot breaks out when police try to prevent the strikers from
receiving food deliveries from supporters on the outside. The melee was later nicknamed the “Bat-tle of the Running Bulls.”
• On Jan. 10, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program is brought before the U.S. Congress. It gave the chief executive the power to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of ” any military resources he deemed in the ultimate interest of the defense of the United States.
• On Jan. 8, 1962, at the National Gallery of Art in Wash-ington, D.C., Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is exhibited for the first time in Ameri-ca. The painting is a portrait of the wife of wealthy F l o r e n t i n e citizen Franc-esco del Gi-oconda.
• On Jan. 9, 1972, in Hong Kong harbor, a fire breaks out aboard the
Queen Elizabeth, and by the next morning the fa-mous vessel lies in a wreck on the bottom of the sea floor. After being purchased in 1970 by C.W. Tung, a Taiwanese shipping tycoon, the vessel was renamed the Seawise University.
• On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida Boeing 727 plunges into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people. The plane was forced to wait 45 minutes for clearance after de-icing, and at the end of the runway was able to achieve only a few hundred feet of altitude.
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