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membering the first game the famous basket-ball team played on that day in 1927. They traveled 48 miles west from their Chicago home to play a game in Hinckley, Illinois. The team was the brainstorm of Chicago business-man Abe Saperstein during a time when only whites were permitted to play professional basketball. The team had nothing to do with the New York City borough of Harlem. Abe chose the name to emphasize the team’s ethnic heritage. The Globetrotters didn’t even play their first game in Harlem until the late 1960s! Since their creation, they have played in front of 120 million fans in more than 115 countries.

• January 10 is Save the Eagles Day, reminding us of the importance of protecting the world’s 70 species of eagles from extinction. Eagles can be found on every continent except Ant-arctica. America’s national emblem, the bald eagle, inhabits every state except Hawaii. This enormous bird can have a wing span of up to 8 feet (2.5 m) and weigh 15 lbs. (6.8 kg). Sur-prisingly, it is monogamous and mates for its entire 15- to 20-year lifespan.

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• January 11 is officially Amelia Earhart Day, but not because that was the day she disap-peared. It marks the date she became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Ho-nolulu to Oakland, California in 1935. It was two years later on June 1 that she and her navigator Fred Noonan departed Miami on a 29,000-mile (46,671 km) journey, attempting to fly around the world. They were just 7,000 miles (11,265 km) from completing the goal when radio transmission ceased and the two were never seen again.

• The name Margaret Gorman is probably not familiar to most folks, but she is notable as the first Miss America, winner of the pageant in 1920. Originally initiated as a local Atlantic City festival in an attempt to extend the tour-ism season past Labor Day, the event became was not known as the Miss America Pageant until 1922. Miss America Day is now in Janu-ary each year, with the next pageant scheduled for January 12, 2013. It was broadcast for the first time in 1954, with a record-breaking 27 million viewers, and remains the fourth lon-gest-running live event in television history. The state of California has had the most win-ners with six, while 21 states, including Wash-ington, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, and Montana, have never had a Miss America hail from their state.

• Happy Cable Car Day on January 17! This year marks the 142nd anniversary of the first cable car railway patent bestowed upon An-drew Smith Hallidie. He was inspired to in-vent the cable car after witnessing an accident with a horse-drawn streetcar on San Fran-cisco’s steep streets. The cable car made its first appearance in that city in 1873. The cars move up and down San Francisco’s inclines at a speed of about 9 miles per hour (14.5 km/hr).

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• Sharpen your pencils! It’s time for National Handwriting Day on January 23, a day estab-lished by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association to promote the use of pens, pencils, and writing paper. This day was chosen because it is the birthday of John Hancock, whose styl-ish and flamboyant signature is easily recogniz-able on the Declaration of Independence. Even his name has become synonymous with the word “signature,” as we ask folks to “put their John Hancock” on important documents. This member of the Continental Congress and later governor of Massachusetts was the very first person to sign the Declaration.

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• January 25 is observed as World Leprosy Day, intended to educate people on this disease that damages the nerves that control the muscles in the hands and feet. Left untreated, it can lead to the inability to use the hands, paralysis of the feet, loss of sensation in the extremities, and even blindness. Every day, 620 people are diagnosed with leprosy – that’s one every two minutes! Also called Hansen’s Disease, lepro-sy is contagious, spread by droplets from the nose and mouth by coughing and sneezing. India has more leprosy than any other coun-try. The good news in this century is that it is curable, and deformities can frequently be remedied with reconstructive surgery.

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• The “race to space” began when Christa was just a young child, and she became enthralled with Project Mercury and the Apollo pro-grams. On February 21, 1962, the day after John Glenn’s historic orbit of the Earth aboard Friendship 7, she told a high school friend, “Do you realize that someday people will be going to the Moon? Maybe even taking a bus, and I want to do that!”

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• The pool of applicants was narrowed down to 114, then down to 10, and on July 19, 1985, Christa McAuliffe’s name was announced as NASA’s choice. The agency liked her “infectious enthusiasm,” and declared her “the most broad-based, best-balanced person of the 10.” She and the first alternate, Barbara Mor-gan, each took a one-year leave of absence from their schools, with NASA covering their sala-ries. The Challenger mission was scheduled for early 1986.

• It was intended that Christa would teach two 15-minute classes to the nation’s schoolchil-dren from space, broadcast via closed-circuit television. The first was to have been “The Ul-timate Field Trip,” including an introduction of the other six crew members and their duties, a tour of the spacecraft with a description of the equipment, and a summary of living aboard the craft. Her second lesson was to summarize the benefits of space travel, entitled “Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, Why.” She was also set to conduct science experiments in magne-tism, Newton’s laws, and chromatography.

• Just 73 seconds after takeoff, the Challenger ex-ploded over the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. The entire craft disintegrated, due to the failure of a rubber O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster, which caused a leak in the joint it was meant to seal. This allowed pressurized hot gas to reach the external fuel tank. Christa, aged 37, left behind her husband, a nine-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter.

• It’s estimated that 85% of Americans heard of the disaster within one hour of its occurrence.

• Twelve years after Christa’s death, her backup Barbara Morgan, a former Idaho schoolteach-er, was chosen by NASA as an astronaut. She flew aboard the Challenger’s replacement, the Endeavor, to the International Space Station in 2007.

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• The fifth most-expensive stadium, Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field, carries a Fan Cost Index of $557.18. Home of the Bears since 1971, it holds 61,500 fans, and has an average single ticket price of $101.55. Fans can have a beer for $8 and a hot dog for $5. The team has a season ticket renewal rate of 98%, and every game has sold out for the last 27 years.

• The third most expensive stadium belongs to the New England Patriots, with an index of $597.66, and a single ticket average of $117.84. Gillette Stadium also offers “premium tick-ets,” which include oversize plush seats, fan-cier food and beverages, flat screen TV’s, and access to the field post-game. Want a season ticket? Get in line, there’s a waiting list.

• The Dallas Cowboys play in the second most expensive stadium, with a cost index of $613.80. The $6 price tag on sodas is the high-est in the league, and fans fork over $75 for parking at the three-year-old arena. If money is a little tight, spectators can purchase a $29 “party pass” that allows a standing-room view of the game from platforms on the end zone and corners.

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• It was humorist Jerome K. Jerome who made the fol-lowing sage observation: “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in do-ing 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 unconstitution-al and therefore unenforce-able, there is a law on the books in Tennessee which prohibits duelists, preach-ers and atheists from be-ing elected to public office.• According to most his-tory books, the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, S.C., in April of 1861, but that’s not en-tirely 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.

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• How about the cheapest prices in the league? That honor belongs to EverBank Field, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Although it’s the fifth-largest stadium in the NFL, its Fan Cost Index is just $316.50, and an average ticket price of $58.90. It’s close to the bottom in terms of attendance.

• The average ticket price for last year’s Super Bowl was $2,900. Tickets for the 2013 game are slated to be much higher, with the cheap-est in the $2,500 range and the most expensive over $9,500. This will be the 7th year for the contest at New Orleans’ Superdome, the larg-est fixed-dome structure in the world, which has a seating capacity exceeding 76,000. New York’s MetLife Stadium is scheduled for the 2014 matchup.

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• With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic in-terests. He co-founded both the First Nation-al Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replace-ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reduc-ing the spread of disease.

• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri-ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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