Free Free The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Display until Nov 12, 2013 We’ve all seen it nearly every day of our lives. is week, Tidbits is full of “bet you didn’t know that” facts about the moon. • e moon is 225,745 miles from Earth. If you were able to plan a trip there, it would be about a two-day trip on a rocket or a 625-hour ride on a 747 jet flying at 400 mph. If you could drive your car there, it would take 135 days traveling at 70 mph. • Driving around the circumference of the moon, 6,790 miles, is about equal to a trip from New York to London and back. e moon is about 27% the size of Earth, with an area of 14,658,000 square miles. at’s about 9.4 billion acres. • Temperatures on the moon vary from 273 de- grees F at the hottest time of the day to -244 de- grees F at night. A day on the moon from sunrise to sunrise is about 708 hours. It rotates on its axis at a speed of about 10 mph. Compare this with Earth, which rotates at about 1,000 mph. Yet both the moon and Earth complete their orbit in about the same amount of time. • e average speed at which the moon orbits the Earth is 2,287 mph. • We only see about 59% of the moon’s surface from Earth. e pattern of the moon’s rotation causes the same side to face Earth at all times. What we Tidbits tells you all about... Of Greeley, Centerra, Loveland & More! Issue 904 Listen to... Tidbits Talk Wednesdays at 8:18am THE MOON by Kathy Wolfe
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We’ve all seen it nearly every day of our lives. This week, Tidbits is full of “bet you didn’t know that” facts about the moon.
•The moon is 225,745 miles from Earth. If youwere able to plan a trip there, it would be about a two-daytriponarocketora625-hourrideona747jetflyingat400mph.Ifyoucoulddriveyourcar there, itwould take135days travelingat70mph.
• Drivingaroundthecircumferenceof themoon,6,790miles, is about equal to a trip fromNewYork to London and back. The moon is about 27%thesizeofEarth,withanareaof14,658,000squaremiles.That’sabout9.4billionacres.
•Temperatures on the moon vary from 273 de-greesFatthehottesttimeofthedayto-244de-greesFatnight.Adayonthemoonfromsunrisetosunriseisabout708hours.Itrotatesonitsaxisat a speedof about10mph.Compare thiswithEarth,whichrotatesatabout1,000mph.YetboththemoonandEarthcompletetheirorbitinaboutthe same amount of time.
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frequentlycallthe“darkside”ofthemoon(thatpart we can’t see) should really be referred to as the “far side.” Ithasonlybeenphotographedfrom spacecraft. The surface is covered by a man-tle made up of an 825-mile-thick layer of ironandmagnesium-richrockknownasregolith.It’sbeen pounded by meteors, asteroids, and com-ets, which have created countless craters across its expanse.Thewidest craters are 140miles indiameterandareasdeepas15,000ft.Therearemountainsstandingashighas16,000ft.It’sesti-matedthatthemoonweighsabout81quintilliontons.
• Although themoon looks round tous, it’s real-lyegg-shaped.Aswe lookat it, the smallerendoftheeggispointedtowardus.Itappearstobeabout the same size as the sun, but it’s actually400timessmaller.Becausethemoonis400timescloser to Earth than the sun is, the two appearaboutthesamesize.ThemoonisactuallymovingawayfromEarthabout1.5inchesayear.
• Gravity on themoon is just 1/6 that of Earth.Thismeans if youweigh120 lbs. onEarth, youweighonly20lbs.onthemoon.Andifyoudon’tfeellikedieting,rememberthatbecauseofgravi-tationaleffects,youweighjustabitlesswhenthemoon is directly overhead.
•Theworldfirst saw close-upTVpictures of themoon’s surface in 1964 when images were sentbackbyRanger7,thefirstU.S.spaceprobe.
• InMay, 1961,President JohnF.Kennedy statedhisgoalinanaddresstoCongressof“landingamanonthemoonandreturninghimsafelytotheEarth”bytheendofthe1960s.Thefirstmannedspacecraft to the moon was Apollo 8 in 1968,whenFrankBorman,JamesLovell,andWilliamAnderscircledthemoon10timesbeforeheadingbacktoEarth.
•The Apollo 11 crewmade history in July, 1969when they made the first landing. On July 20,Neil Armstrong became the first human to setfootonthemoon.ThereareveryfewAmericansunfamiliar with his famous words, “That’s one
smallstepforman,onegiantleapformankind.”Armstrong later reported that what he actuallysaid was, “that’s one small step for a man…” The crewspent21hoursand36minutesonthesur-face, with 2 hours and 36 minutes outside the
craft, walking on the surface.The footprints ofthe Apollo 11 crew astronauts will remain forthousandsofyears,consideringthereisnowindor adverse weather to disturb them.
•Atotalof12menhavewalkedonthemoon.Noone has done so since December, 1972 whenEugeneCernan of the finalmannedmission tothemoon,Apollo17,becamethelastmantosetfootonthelunarsurface.Apollo17wasthesixthlandingofhumansonthemoon.
• Doyouknowthedifferencebetweenwaxingandwaning?During thephasesof themoon’s cycle,when it appears to be getting larger, it’s calledwaxing,whilewaning iswhen it appears to getsmaller.
• If we didn’t have themoon, the oceans wouldhave no tides. Tides rise because of the pull of themoon’sgravity.ThisgravityisstrongestonthesideofEarthnearestthemoon,anditpullsupthewaterslightly,whichishightide.OnthesideofEarthfarthestfromthemoon,thegravityisatitsweakest, and the water moves a little away from the moon.
• What does it take the create an eclipse? Thesephenomenaoccuronlywhenthesun,Earth,andmoon are all in a straight line and one blocksthe lightfromanother.Theofficialtermforthisconfigurationof three celestialbodies is syzygy.A solar eclipse will occur during a newmoon,whenthemoonisbetweenthesunandEarthandblocksthesunlight.Alunareclipsewilloccuratthe timeofa fullmoon,whenEarth isbetweenthesunandthemoon,andblocksthesun’slightthatwouldnormallylightupthemoon.
•Accordingtofolklore,ifyouseetheslimcrescentmoon over your right shoulder, it’s consideredgoodluck,whileseeingitoveryourleftshoulderisunlucky.Legendfurtherstatesthatifyoumovetoanewhomeduringawaningmoon,youwillnevergohungry.
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• Born intohumblebeginnings,Victoria’sparentsranatravelingmedicineshow,wherehermotherwasaspir-itualist and her father, the typical “snake oil salesman.” Victoria andher sisterTennieworked as clairvoyantsandfortunetellersintheshow.Atage14,Victoriacon-tracted a serious illness and her parents consulted a 28-year-old doctor, ChanningWoodhull, who wouldbecome Victoria’s husband just twomonths past her15thbirthday.
• ItsoonbecameapparentthatDr.Woodhullwasanal-coholic,morphineaddict,andawomanizer,andVicto-riawenttoworktokeepthemafloat.Aftertwochildren,includingonewhowasmentallydisabled,Victoriadi-vorced Woodhull 11 years later.
theCivilWar,whohadalsobeenthefirstmayorofLaw-rence, Kansas. The sisters’ most famous client was rail-roadmillionaireCorneliusVanderbilt.Inappreciationfortheirservices,in1870VanderbilthelpedthemopentheirownstockbrokeragehouseonWallStreet,andthesistersbecamethefirstwomenstockbrokersinhistory.The companywas immediately successful, patronizedby wealthy widows and other women of means.
Weekly, a publication with 20,000 subscribers, whichfocusedonwomen’srightsandlaborreform.ThepaperwasthefirsttoprinttheEnglishversionofKarlMarx’sCommunistManifesto.
• In1872,nearly50yearsbeforewomenhadtherighttovote,VictoriabecamethefirstfemalecandidateforU.S.President, nominated by the Equal Rights Party.ThePartychose formerslaveandabolitionist leaderFred-erickDouglassasherrunningmate,althoughheneveracknowledged thenomination.Victoria’splatform in-cluded an eight-hour workday, a graduated incometax,socialwelfareprograms,andwomen’srights.Asadivorced woman, she advocated new divorce laws that gavewomen the right to leave unbearablemarriages.Inherwords,“IhaveaninalienableconstitutionalandnaturalrighttolovewhomImay,toloveaslongorasshortaperiodasIcan,tochangethatloveeverydayifIplease!”
• Just days before the Presidential election,Woodhull,her husband, and her sister were arrested on obscen-itychargesforrunninganexposéonpopularBrooklynpreacherHenryWardBeecher.Victoriaspentelectionday in jail, and al-though she was ac-quittedof all charges,her reputation was de-stroyed and her busi-nesses went bankrupt.
• Woodhull divorcedher second husband in 1876, and movedto England, whereshe married a wealthy banker, and published amagazine calledTheHumanitarian for nine years.Shelivedouttheremainder of her days in England, dying inLondonin1927.
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Itmightbemeatcutfromthethighofapig’shindleg,oritmightbeatheatricalpersonshowingoff.Butham-mightalsobethebeginningofanumberofdifferent terms, as you’ll soon see.
•Thewordhamadryadcanrefertoavarietyofthings.InGreekmythology,it’sawoodnymphwhoinhab-itsatreeasitsspirit.Thenymphonlylivesaslongas the tree. Hamadryad is also another word for the kingcobra.Didyouknow that a cobrabitehas amortalityrateof50-60%ifleftuntreated?Abitecanbefatalinaslittleas30minutes.
HAM IT UP! • Wrestlers are familiarwith the hammerlock, thathold in which one arm of the opponent is twisted and forced upward behind the back.
•“Tobeornottobe,thatisthequestion.”Whoseques-tion was it?This famous phrasewasutteredbyPrinceHamlet inShakespeare’splayTheTragedyofHamlet,PrinceofDenmark,writ-tenaround1602.Itchroniclesthestory of Hamlet’s plot to avengethe murder of his father KingHamlet by his brotherClaudius.Hamlet questions whether it isworthwhile to stay alive when life contains so many hardships. Two of the most famous actors to por-trayHamletonstagewereJuniusBrutusBooth andEdwinBooth,
father and brother of John WilkesBooth whoassassinated 16th U.S.p r e s i d e n t A b r a h a mLincoln. •Weseehisface nearly every day on the U.S. ten-dollar bill, but whowasAlexanderHamilton?OneofAmerica’s founding fathers,Hamiltongraduatedfromwhatis now Columbia University,served in the Revolutionary War, was elected to the Con-tinental Congress, practicedlaw, and founded theBank ofNew York. He is commemo-rated on our currency because hewas thefirstU.S. Secretary
of the Treasury, and was instrumental in establish-ing the U.S. Mint. In 1804, after Hamilton madederogatory remarks about Vice President AaronBurr, Burr claimed his honor had been attacked,
and challengedHamilton to a duel.Burr shotHamilton in the lower abdo-men, mortally woundinghim,and Hamilton died the nextday. Ironically,the duelingsite, along theHudson River at Weehawken, NewJersey,wasthe same site where Hamil-ton’s eldest son had been killed in a duel three years earlier. • The 25 spe-cies of hamsters
•Thattinyrowofhooksthatconnectsthefrontandbackwingsofabeeisknownasahamulus.Ahu-man’s hamulus is a similar hook-like apparatus on our inner ear’s cochlea.
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Shewashomealonewithourtwotoddlerchildrenin our tiny house located about 11 miles into the bush fromLusaka,Zambia.ShewasmorethanaloneasIwas out of town and she had no vehicle, no telephone, noelectricityandshewasaboutaquarterofamilefromthenearestneighborwithnostreetlightsandnopaved roads.
In the late afternoon she noticed a large spiderdashingbetweentheraftersofourunfinishedcement-blockhousethathadaroofbutnoceiling.Asdaylightquicklyvanished,shetriedtoreachthespidertokillit, but it hid in the shadows between the rafters and the roof.
Aftersunsetshelitacandle,preparedourtwochil-dren for bed, and read them several bedtime stories untiltheynoddedofftosleep,whilebeingverymuchaware of her unwelcome guest hiding somewhereabove her.
Shetuckedthechildreninthenmovedcautiouslythroughtheshadowsofthehouseintoourbedroomtoprepareherselfforbed.Beforegoingtobedshetookone more peek into the children’s room and found them safe and fast asleep. Relieved, she returned to the bedroom and set down her candle on the small table at the side of the bed.
Beforeblowingout the candle she glancednerv-ously around the dimly lit room and breathed a silent prayerforthesoonarrivaloftwothings:courageand
You’re Something Special #8You Have More Courage Than You Realize
daylight.Sheknewtherewasalargeuglyspidersome-whereinherhouseandtherewasnothingshecoulddotofinditorkillitorchaseitoff.Sosheblewouthercandle, laid her head down on the pillow, and soon, in theremotedarknessoftheAfricannight,shewenttosleep.That’scourage.
Youdonotknowwhatkindofcourageyouhavedeep within your soul until you face a situation that callsitforth.Ibelievemostofushavefarmorecour-agethanwemayhaveexhibitedtodate.
Sureyou’veseenyourselffailthecouragetestfromtime to time. You have kept silent when you should have spoken up, or you succumbed to peer-pressure when you should have walked away, or you ran and hidwhenyoushouldhavestoodandfought.
Butdonotletyourpresentfearsoryourpastfail-uresdeterminethelevelofcourageyouarereallyca-pableofdisplaying.You’resomethingspecial.Youtoocanfacewithcouragethesaucer-sizedspidersofyourown daily life.
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• To give stuffed animals new life, wipe cleanwithadamprag,thenfluffinthedryerfor10minutes with a fabric softener sheet.
• “TwiceayearIliketocleanoutclutterandgetridof the things Ino longerneed.One thingthat has really helped is to schedule a charity pickupforthemorningafterIhaveayardsaleortagsale.Then,anythingthathasn’tsoldgetspackedupandgoesdirectlytocharitythenextday.Ican’tputitoff,soIdon’tendupsecond-guessingmy decision to get rid of things.” --M.S.inAlabama.
• “Savepiecesofbrokencrayonstomakecolor-fulsuncatchers.Justplacecrayonshavingsbe-tweentwopiecesofwaxedcraftpaperandironto create a colorful sheet you can cut shapes from.Youcanfindexplicitdirectionsforthisinmostcraftbooksoronline.”--V.E.A.inColo-rado.
• Denture tablets are great for cleaning toughstainsinthetoiletbowl.Justdropa couple in the bowl and let it sit overnightbeforeflushing.
• “Popsiclestickscanbeusedto labelherbs in aflowerpot gar-den.Mine areonmywindowsill,soIdon’thavealotofspace.ThePopsiclesticks takeupbarelyanyroom in the pot and they are basi-callyfree.”--M.L.inTexas.
14. Who was president when eighteen American troopswerekilledinasavagefirefightinSomaliaandthebodyof one American was dragged through the streets ofMogadishuastheSomali’scheered?
15. WhowaspresidentwhenOsamabinLadentoldABCnews:“Theyouth…realizedmorethanbeforethattheAmerican soldier was a paper tiger and after a fewblowsranindefeat”?
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• It was the ever-proper Emily Post whomadethefollowingsageobservation:“Mannersareasensitiveawarenessofthefeelingsofothers.Ifyouhavethatawareness,youhavegoodman-ners, no matter what fork you use.”
• DuringtheDarkAgesinEurope,itwasacom-mon belief that the soul of the first person to be buriedinanewgraveyardwouldbelongtothedevil.
• Ifyou’replanningatriptoWashingtonstatean-ytimesoon,youmightwanttoheadtoOlym-picNationalParkandtaketheSpruceRailroadTrail up to Lake Crescent, a 600-foot deepmountain lake. Ithasa rather spookyhistory,withBigfootsightingsandnumerousaccountsofghostsandinexplicablesoundsinthenearbywoods. The native Kallam Indians refused tofish in the lake for fearof stirringup the evilspiritsthatresidedthere.LakeCrescentalsoisthe setting for the Lady of the Lake. It seemsthat in 1940, two local fishermen (not afraidofevilspirits, itseems)foundabodythere.Itturnedout tobe theremainsofoneHallie Il-lingworth, awaitresswhohaddisappeared in1937.Herhusbandhadmurderedher,weightedher body down and disposed of it in the depths ofthelake.Butitwasthoseverydepths--or,more accurately, the cold water in those depths -- that preserved the body almost perfectly and made identification possible three years after her death.
• Thosewhostudysuch things say that40per-centofallmodernChinesepeoplearedescend-edfromjustthreemen(dubbed“super-grand-fathers”)duringtheNeolithicperiod.
***ThoughtfortheDay:“IntheUnitedStatesthereismore space where nobody is than where anybody is.That’swhatmakesAmericawhat it is.” --Ger-trudeStein
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Airlines Humor• An airplane encountered some turbulence, it
startedjudderingandrockingnoticeablyfromside to side.The flight crewwheeled out thedrinks cart to keep the passengers calm.Theattendant asked a business man “Would you likeadrink?“Whynot?”herepliedunkindly“I’llhavewhateverthepilot’sbeenhaving.
• ItwasdinnertimeonaBritishAirwaysflightfrom London to New York. As the flight at-tendant moved down the plane, she asked one of the passengers: “Would you like dinner?”“What aremy choices?” asked thepassenger.“YesorNo,”repliedtheattendant
Some Good Clean Jokes!• A guywaswalking along the streetwhen he
sawacrowdofpeople running towardshim.He stopped one of the runners and asked:“What’s happening?” The runner repliedbreathlessly:“Alionhasescapedfromthezoo.”“Ohmy,whichway is itheading?”“Wellyoudon’tthinkwearechasingit,doyou?”
Thesergeant-majorgrowledattheyoungsoldier:“I didn’t see you at camouflage training thismorning.”
“Thank you very much, sir.”
• A couple of terrorist were making letterbombs.Aftertheyhadfinished,onesaid:“DoyouthinkIputenoughexplosiveinthisenve-lope? “Idon’tknow,” said theother. “Open itandsee.”“Butitwillexplode.”“Don’tbestupid!It’snotaddressedtoyou!
• Awifegotsomadatherhusbandshepackedhisbagsandtoldhimtogetout.Ashewalkedtothedoorsheyelled,“Ihopeyoudiealong,slow, painful death.” He turned around and said,“So,youwantmetostay?”
• A group of doctors were out duck hunting,whenalargebirdflewoverhead.
The family doctor raised his gun to shoot, butthenloweredhisgunsaying“Iamnotsurethatis a duck.”
ThePsychiatristraisedhisgun,butthenlowereditagainsaying“Iknowit’saduck,butI’mnotsure that it knows it’s a duck.”
Thefirst judgetookthebenchwhilethesecondstood at the defendant’s table, and admitted his guilt.The sentencing judge immediately sus-pendedboththefineandcosts.
Theyswitchedplaces.Thesecondjudgeadmittedthathewasspeeding,too.Thereuponthefirstjudgeimmediatelyfinedhim$250andorderedhim to pay court costs.
