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Published under licensing agreement with Tidbits Media, Inc., Montgomery, AL www.tidbitsmedia.com Falcon Prince Inc . New Hope, Mn Phone: 763-218-0033 Fax: 763-792-4795 Email: [email protected] www.TidbitsTwinCities.com DISCLAIMER: Falcon Prince Inc. provides text, bar codes, and website addresses in Tidbits® for retrieving information, and has deemed them safe and reliable. By scanning these codes and entering these sites however, you do so at your own choice and risk. The information contained herein is deemed reliable. Tidbits Media Inc., Falcon Prince Inc. along with their subsidiaries and assigns are not responsible for the correctness of the content contained herein, nor for errors, typographical or otherwise. GLOBAL CHARM ANTARCTICA THE BEST OF EVERY PLACE By: Joanna Johnson When we think of Antarctica, we imagine a vast snowy, icy, atland, extending for miles and miles. We envision the movie, “Penguins of Madagascar.” We might even get a shiver from the thought of those cold, harsh winds. Antarctica has more to offer than frostbite and the color white, it is a very interesting and valuable asset to our planet. Almost 16 million years ago, Antarctica’s climate was very similar to modern day Iceland! It was supple and green, lush with abundant vegetation. Antarctica would have been a lovely, vacation destination. A good indicator was the large quantities of pollen and algae found in sediment extracted from below the ice. Even now, plants grow in Antarctica in ice-free regions (only about 2 percent of the continent is ice-free). Lichens and moss grow in any favorable niche, including sand, soil, rock even on the weathered bones and feathers of dead animals. The Antarctic continent wasn't actually seen until 1820 and in 1895 the rst human landing was claimed by Henryk Bull, with a party from a whaling ship. In 1935, the rst woman, Catherine Mikkelson, wife of a Norwegian whaling captain, stepped foot on Antarctica. Incredibly, the true South Pole was rst visited by a Norwegian named Roald Amundsen in 1911. To put his herculean feat into perspective, the rst photo ever taken from an airplane was in 1911, and the Titanic was launched on May 31, 1911. Don’t confuse the Arctic with Antarctica. In fact, the arctic is not even a land mass, and aside from some islands is just one big slab of ice covering the arctic ocean. Long before people staked their claim at the North Pole in the arctic there were penguins, whales, seals, krill (whale food), and even sh swimming in Antarctica's waters. Currently, there are no land mammals and as far as scientists know, no native peoples on the continent of Antarctica. Eskimos and polar bears are found in the ARCTIC, not the Antarctic. In Antarctica, Penguins along with a slew of other things are studied. These studies found that female Emperor Penguins lay one egg in June then leave to spend the winter at sea. It’s the male Emperor penguins that stay on land all winter, surviving the most extreme conditions with no food. Their duty is to keep that one egg warm by balancing it on their feet and covering it with a ap of abdominal skin. The female returns just about the time the egg hatches. Other studies include Antarctic cod, who have a special antifreeze agent in their blood, whales, seals, global warming, climatology, meteorites, glaciology, astronomy, volcanoes and UV radiation. There are even studies on how the human body adapts to cold and how the human mind and heart react to extreme isolation. Scientists conducting such research make up the majority of the 5000 annual human residents and generally live on a base where everything is provided for them. When staying in tents or huts everyone takes turns doing the everyday work and there are sufcient rations for much longer than the intended stay. "Pitch your tent as though you're there for a month, even though it may only be a night" is the motto. If the wind gets up, then a storm could (and has) kept the scientists in their tent for a month, unable to leave because of the terrible weather. Just in case the base burns down and they are left with nothing, a nearby hut contains enough extra tents, clothing and food to last about 18 months for the full base compliment. Antarctic skies display the aurora australis (southern lights), which change simultaneously and have almost identical features to the aurora borealis (northern lights). An aurora is a natural light display in the sky caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. 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Published under licensing agreement with Tidbits Media, Inc., Montgomery, AL www.tidbitsmedia.comFalcon Prince Inc . ● New Hope, Mn ● Phone: 763-218-0033 Fax: 763-792-4795 ● Email: [email protected] ● www.TidbitsTwinCities.com

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GLOBAL CHARM

ANTARCTICA

THE BEST OF EVERY PLACE By: Joanna Johnson

When we think of Antarctica, we imagine a vast snowy, icy, fl atland, extending for miles and miles. We envision the movie, “Penguins of Madagascar.” We might even get a shiver from the thought of those cold, harsh winds. Antarctica has more to offer than frostbite and the color white, it is a very interesting and valuable asset to our planet. Almost 16 million years ago, Antarctica’s climate was very similar to modern day Iceland! It was supple and green, lush with abundant vegetation. Antarctica would have been a lovely, vacation destination. A good indicator was the large quantities of pollen and algae found in sediment extracted from below the ice. Even now, plants grow in Antarctica in ice-free regions (only about 2 percent of the continent is ice-free). Lichens and moss grow in any favorable niche, including sand, soil, rock even on the weathered bones and feathers of dead animals. The Antarctic continent wasn't actually seen until 1820 and in 1895 the fi rst human landing was claimed by Henryk Bull, with a party from a whaling ship. In 1935, the fi rst woman, Catherine Mikkelson, wife of a Norwegian whaling captain, stepped foot on Antarctica. Incredibly, the true South Pole was fi rst visited by a Norwegian named Roald Amundsen in 1911. To put his herculean feat into perspective, the fi rst photo ever taken from an airplane was in 1911, and the Titanic was launched on May 31, 1911. Don’t confuse the Arctic with Antarctica. In fact, the arctic is not even a land mass, and aside from some islands is just one big slab of ice covering the arctic ocean. Long before people staked their claim at the North Pole in the arctic there were penguins, whales, seals, krill (whale food), and even fi sh swimming in Antarctica's waters. Currently, there are no land mammals and as far as scientists know, no native peoples on the continent of Antarctica. Eskimos and polar bears are found in the ARCTIC, not the Antarctic. In Antarctica, Penguins along with a slew of other things are studied. These studies found that female Emperor Penguins lay one egg in June then leave to spend the winter at sea. It’s the male Emperor penguins that stay on land all winter, surviving the most extreme conditions with no food. Their duty is to keep that one egg warm by balancing it on their feet and covering it with a fl ap of abdominal skin. The female returns just about the time the egg hatches. Other studies include Antarctic cod, who have a special antifreeze agent in their blood, whales, seals, global warming, climatology, meteorites, glaciology, astronomy, volcanoes and UV radiation. There are even studies on how the human body adapts to cold and how the human mind and heart react to extreme isolation. Scientists conducting such research make up the majority of the 5000 annual human residents and generally live on a base where everything is provided for them. When staying in tents or huts everyone takes turns doing the everyday work and there are suffi cient rations for much longer than the intended stay. "Pitch your tent as though you're there for a month, even though it may only be a night" is the motto. If the wind gets up, then a storm could (and has) kept the scientists in their tent for a month, unable to leave because of the terrible weather. Just in case the base burns down and they are left with nothing, a nearby hut contains enough extra tents, clothing and food to last about 18 months for the full base compliment. Antarctic skies display the aurora australis (southern lights), which change simultaneously and have almost identical features to the aurora borealis (northern lights). An aurora is a natural light display in the sky caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. The aurora australis are visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

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• In 1961, Cleveland Indian pitcher Herb Score was hit in the eye by a line drive hit by New York Yankee Gil McDougald. The ball bounced off Score's

head and rolled to fi rst base, where the Cleveland fi rst baseman nabbed it and put the batter out. Score was credited with an assist.• William Kennedy was pitching for Brooklyn in 1897 when the umpire called a close decision against him. Kennedy lost his temper and hurled the baseball at the umpire, intending to smack him in the head. The ball narrowly missed the ump, who called the ball in play. A runner on base scored before the catcher could retrieve the ball. Brooklyn lost the game 2 - 1.• Joe Engel, pitching in Washington, did not do a very good job. The question was not whether his pitches would go over the plate but whether they would stay in the ballpark. Manager Clark Griffi th called him to his offi ce one day and informed him he was being sent to Minneapolis. "Who am I being traded for?" Engel asked. "No one," replied Griffi th. "It's an even trade!"• In 1918, Otis Crandall was pitching for Los Angeles against Salt Lake City. He had a perfect no-hitter going. There were two out in the ninth inning and not a single man had reached base. Then his brother Karl came to bat for Salt Lake. He made a base hit — the only known instance where a no-hitter was broken by the pitcher's brother.• Bob Fothergill was a big man. He was a good hitter, but he was sensitive about his weight. As Leo Durocher got ready to pitch against him, he called out, "Stop the game!" and approached the umpire. When the ump asked what was wrong, Durocher replied, "Don't you know the rules?" he asked, pointing at Fothergill. "BOTH those guys can't bat at the same time!" Fothergill was so angry he couldn't bat well and struck out. • Ty Cobb, playing for the Detroit Tigers in 1912, was suspended from play when he jumped into the stands and beat up an abusive heckler. His sympathetic teammates went on strike. So the manager advertised for new players to fi ll in the next day at a game in Philadelphia. This impromptu team went up against the world champion Oakland A's. The pitcher allowed 25 hits and 7 walks in 8 innings, but did manage to get one strike-out. An infi elder was hit in the mouth by a ground ball and lost two teeth. An outfi elder was hit on the head by a fl y ball. This pick-up team got 4 hits and made 10 errors and the fi nal score was 24 - 2. The next day, the regular team members ended their strike, paid their fi nes, and went back to work, except for Cobb, who was suspended for 10 days.• Charlie Grimm was managing the losing Chicago Cubs. One day he got an excited call from his scout saying that he found a pitcher who struck out 27 men in a row. Only one man had even managed to hit a foul. He asked if he should sign

the pitcher. Grimm replied, "Sign up the guy who hit the foul. We're looking for hitters!"• In 1939, Bob Feller was the best known pitcher in the country, playing for Cleveland. On Mother's Day, he brought his mother from her Iowa farm to Chicago so she could see him play. A Chicago White Sox batter slugged a foul ball into the stands — where it hit Feller's mother, knocking her unconscious.• Germany Schaefer was batting against Nick Altrock. There was a man on fi rst. Schaefer swung and missed a fast ball. Then the pitcher, pretending he was getting ready to throw to the batter, let loose with a fast ball to fi rst base, where the runner was leading off. • When he got the ball back, Altrock let fl y another scorcher of a fastball. Schaefer got a second strike. He threw down his bat and walked back to the dugout. "Hey," called the ump, "You've only got two strikes!" "No," replied Schaefer, "It's three strikes — I swung at that pitch he threw to fi rst base!"• In the early 1900s, Rube Waddell was such a great pitcher that all batters feared him. One day the pitcher on the opposing team got a great idea: if he could tire Waddell out before the game, his pitching would be off. So he challenged Waddell to a pitching contest. Whichever one of them could throw the farthest would win $5. They both showed up before the game and threw the ball as far as they could. Waddell's throw went farthest. The opposing pitcher challenged him to throw that far again. He did. In fact, he threw the ball that far around 50 times. Convinced that Waddell's arm would be worn out, the rival pitcher handed over the $5. That afternoon, Waddell struck out 14 batters and his team won handily. As he was walking to the clubhouse, he called out to the other pitcher, "Hey, thanks for the workout this morning. That was swell practice!"• Texas University was up against the Yankees in an exhibition game when Lou Gehrig came up to bat. There were two runners on base and it was three and two for Gehrig. The catcher signaled the pitcher, the pitcher nodded — then threw a straight ball right to home plate. Gehrig sent it clear out of the park. The catcher marched up the pitcher, ranting at him for not paying attention to the signals. "Why did you throw him such a nice pitch?" he yelled. The pitcher was not sorry. "I got to thinking: I'll never pitch a Big League game and maybe I'll never get to see a game at the Yankee Stadium, and I sure did want to see Gehrig bust just one!”

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■ On April 2, 1513, near present-day St. Augustine, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon comes ashore on the Florida coast and claims

the territory for the Spanish crown. Ponce de Leon is credited with the fi rst recorded landing and the fi rst detailed exploration of the Florida coast.

■ On April 3, 1776, because it lacked suffi cient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers permission to attack British ships. Any goods captured by the privateer were divided between the ship’s owner and the government.

■ On April 7, 1873, John McGraw, one of the winningest managers in baseball history, is born in Truxton, N.Y. McGraw’s career total of 2,763 wins ranks second only to Connie Mack. Between 1902 and 1932, the New York Giants won 10 pennants, came in second place 11 times and won three World Series championships.

■ On April 5, 1951, death sentences are imposed against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, after they were found guilty of conspiring to transmit atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The only seriously incriminating evidence came from a confessed spy who was given a reduced sentence to testify against them.

■ On April 6, 1968, Stanley’s Kubrick’s science-fi ction classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” makes its debut in movie theaters. The fi lm clocked in at around three hours and contained less than 40 minutes of dialogue, with long stretches of absolute silence or of the sound of human breathing.

■ On April 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signs legislation offi cially banning cigarette ads on television and radio. In 1969, Congress had passed the Cigarette Smoking Act, requiring warning labels that stated: “Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health.”

■ On April 12, 1945, U.S. President Franklin Delano

Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in his home at Warm Springs, Ga. The only man to be elected to four terms as president of the United States, Roosevelt is remembered for his New Deal social policies and his leadership during wartime.

■ On April 10, 1953, the horror fi lm “The House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price, opens at New York’s Paramount Theater. It was the fi rst feature from a major motion-picture studio to be shot using the three-dimensional, or stereoscopic, fi lm process, and one of the fi rst horror fi lms to be shot in color.

■ On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. After an oxygen tank exploded on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive.

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Jane Austen was a novelist that appealed to female readers at a time when female writers were very rare. No public acknowledgement of her writing was made during her lifetime. • Born at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, England on December 16, 1775, Jane was the seventh child of a clergyman and his wife, George and Cassandra Austen.• Jane and her siblings were educated at home and then at a boarding school. They benefi ted from their father’s extensive library and the great learning atmosphere that was created for them. Austen’s closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra, three years her senior. • The fi rst writings of Jane Austen were comic stories in three notebooks that are now referred to as the Juvenilia. She wrote her fi rst novella when she was 19, entitled Lady Susan. It was written in epistolary form, which means as a series of letters. It was not published

until long after Jane’s death. • Austen lived a quiet life with her family but was provided worldly access via London and its theater, art exhibits, and social events through her brothers. Two brothers were in the Royal Navy and involved in the Napoleonic Wars. One brother became a clergyman like his father and another served in the militia and then worked in banking. Her brother, Edward, was adopted by some wealthy cousins, and became their heir. • Jane and her sister visited Edward’s estate, Godmersham, in Kent, for extended periods of time and were able to be a part of the privileged life of the wealthy. This lifestyle is refl ected in her writings. She also spent a great deal of time in Bath, which is the home of the very popular Jane Austen Centre today. • Another place honoring Austen’s British roots is the Jane Austen Museum at Chawton, UK. She spent eight of her later years in the home that her brother, Francis, provided for Jane and her sister. Many of her popular books were written at the Chawton Cottage.• When Austen’s novels were fi rst published she was not identifi ed as the author. After her death on July 18, 1817, two of the novels, Persuasion

and Northanger Abbey, were published together by her brother, Henry, in December of the same year. He included a “Biographical Notice,” where he identifi ed Jane as the author of the two novels as well as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfi eld Park. • The number of books that Austen authored is low, only six published, especially when you consider the great following of her works. All of Austen’s books have been made into movies, with Pride and Prejudice being the book that has been on fi lm the most (fi ve times). • The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) has over 4,500 members affi liated with the society in 70 regional groups in Canada and the United States. Evidently the members agree with Jane’s quote from her book, Emma, “It is such a happiness when good people get together – and they always do.”• Austen wrote about an idyllic life, romance, fi nancial considerations in marriage and used satire quite frequently. Unfortunately she never married and much about her private life was kept private. She died when she was only 41 in Winchester, England and is buried at the cemetery at Winchester Cathedral. • Jane Austen’s gravesite, visited by many admirers annually, does not mention that she was an author.

• Brooklyn had the bases loaded. Hank DeBerry was on third, Dazzy Vance on second, and Chick Fewster was on fi rst. Babe Herman came up to bat and hit a long one. DeBerry ran home and scored. Vance advanced to third and decided to stay there. Fewster ran to second and was on his way to third when he saw that Vance had stopped, so he turned around and went back to second. But Babe Herman was running full speed ahead, past fi rst, past second, and on to third. At third he made a great slide, only to fi nd Vance already occupying the base. Fewster stood halfway between second and third, wondering what he should do. The third baseman got the ball and began tagging everybody in sight. When the umpire recovered his senses, he called Herman and Fewster out, and Vance safe. It took half an hour for the audience to stop laughing, and it spawned a popular joke: "How's the game going?" "Brooklyn has three men on base!" "Oh really? Which base?"• Herman Schaefer, playing for

Washington in 1910, was on fi rst and a teammate was on third. Schaefer stole second, hoping the catcher would try to throw him out, giving the teammate on third a chance to go for home. But the catcher didn't make the throw. So Schaefer stole fi rst base back. The rule book revealed no rule against stealing bases backwards. When play resumed, Schaefer stole second again. The catcher threw (too late) and the teammate on third scored. Later the rules were amended and stealing backwards became an automatic out. • Herman Schaefer once hit a homer out of the park. He slid into fi rst, slid into second, slid into third, and slid home. • In Fenway Park, rules declare that if a batted ball hits one of the pigeons who roost in the stadium, the ball is declared dead. • In 1984, Dave Klingman went to bat for the Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota Twins. Klingman hit a fl y ball that penetrated the protective netting of the Metrodome ceiling 180 feet up. It never fell. Umpires called it a ground rule double. When the ball was retrieved by the groundskeeper, it was sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.• In 1920, the Cleveland Indians were up against Brooklyn in the World Series. Bill Wambsganss was in center fi eld for the Indians when he caught a fl y for one out. The force of the running jump carried him to second base, where he tagged out the second base runner who had been heading for third. Then he got another easy out by tagging the fi rst base runner heading for second. It was an unassisted triple play. The crowd was silent while they tried to fi gure out what had happened and how many outs there were. When realization set in, fans went wild. • Mike Grady, third baseman for the New York Giants, holds the distinction of making the most errors in one play. In 1895, he missed a ground ball and the batter reached fi rst. He overthrew the ball to fi rst, and the batter got to second. When the runner headed for third, the fi rst base man threw to Grady, but he dropped it and the runner raced home, whereupon Grady threw the ball over the catcher's head. Four errors on a single play. • In 1931, the Braves were losing to the Cardinals, 12-0. Rabbit Maranville called time out and gathered the team for an infi eld conference. They gathered in a football-type huddle. Rabbit called the signals, someone snapped the baseball back to him, and the players went crazy tackling each other.

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The Reluctant PsychicHOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU HAVE A READING?

Having a psychic reading is a great way to get clarity about issues you have going on in your life. It’s wonderful to be able to sit down with someone who can give you guidance on which way to turn. That said, there should be a limit to the amount of readings you have during a year. If you’re running off to your trusted psychic every few weeks, perhaps you need to step back and re-evaluate that. It’s important that you learn how to make decisions for yourself. Over the years, I have had several different clients who felt the need for frequent readings. One even wanted to have a reading daily. I had to refuse to read these clients that often. It’s too easy to let someone else make all of your life decisions. I’ve also had clients who came with specifi c questions about a path to take in their life. They would move in that direction - or away from it - and then they would want to come back in a few weeks for clarifi cation. This is fi ne if it’s every few months. If you’re requesting a reading more than 4 times a year, I would suggest re-thinking this. One of the goals I have with my clients is to teach them how to understand

their own instincts and to listen to their guides information. Even though I’m able to communicate directly with their guide, the true purpose of our having guides is for the two of you to have a relationship. Learning to pay attention to your gut instincts or that little voice in your head telling you yes or no about a situation. That’s what’s really important. When you reach a point where you have some specifi c questions to ask, perhaps about a relationship you’re in or a new job, then making an appointment is a great idea. Make your list of questions and when it’s fi lled up a page, call and make an appointment for a reading. An exception to this rule would be if you make an appointment with a psychic and you didn’t prepare quite well enough. You fi nd that after you leave you still have a lot of questions to ask. Then make your list and call soon for a second appointment. It’s the 3rd and 4th appointments that you should space out further. Thank you for your interest and attention. If you’d like to have a reading, please contact me. Till next time, stay in touch with yourself, your life, and with those loved ones who have moved on.

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