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November 19, 2010 Issue #00042
3rd Quarter 2010Week 39
Sept 19- 25Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTSISSUE 2010.39
PIRATES!pages 1-4
Music Legend:Johnny Cash
pages 5-6
Castlespages 7-8
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PIRATES!by Rick Dandes
They ruled the seven seas back in the 1600s and 1700s and even today are plundering sea vessels in international waters. They are pirates. From movies and books to real life, pirates fascinate people endlessly and probably always will. Tid-bits walks the plank this week, in honor of Na-tional Talk Like a Pirate Day observed on Sep-tember 19. • Although Hollywood pirates, such as Jack
Sparrow’s friends, like to grumble “arrr” or “arrrrgh” frequently, real pirates were not known to do so. Hollywood actor Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950s, had a regional accent from the Cotswolds district of England where they like to roll the “r” a bit. However, your average real pirate did not.
• Pirates may have thrown men overboard, but no one was ever known to have “walked the plank.” Again, this one is a Hollywood myth.
• Lady Ching Shih of China became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed the ocean blue. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of Asia during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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3rd Quarter 2010Week 39
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TABLE OF CONTENTSISSUE 2010.39
PIRATES!pages 1-4
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PIRATES!by Rick Dandes
They ruled the seven seas back in the 1600s and 1700s and even today are plundering sea vessels in international waters. They are pirates. From movies and books to real life, pirates fascinate people endlessly and probably always will. Tid-bits walks the plank this week, in honor of Na-tional Talk Like a Pirate Day observed on Sep-tember 19. • Although Hollywood pirates, such as Jack
Sparrow’s friends, like to grumble “arrr” or “arrrrgh” frequently, real pirates were not known to do so. Hollywood actor Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950s, had a regional accent from the Cotswolds district of England where they like to roll the “r” a bit. However, your average real pirate did not.
• Pirates may have thrown men overboard, but no one was ever known to have “walked the plank.” Again, this one is a Hollywood myth.
• Lady Ching Shih of China became one of the most powerful pirates to have ever sailed the ocean blue. She commanded one of the most formidable pirate fleets in all of Asia during the early 1800s, with hundreds of ships under her command.
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TIDBITS® LOOKS ATMORE NOTABLE WOMEN
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Politicians, entrepreneurs, athletes, performers and philanthropists — Women have made their mark in every walk of life. This week, Tidbits takes a closer look at some of the more notable ones.
• BeforeshewasCoco,shewasGabrielleBonheurChanel,born inFrance in1883.Sheopenedamillinery shop in Paris in 1912 after a four-year career as a café singer. In 1922, she introduced aperfume,simplynamedChanelNo.5,namedsuch because a fortune teller had told herfivewas her lucky number. In 1926, she introduced the “little black dress” and was known for saying, “Fashion fades; only style remains the same.”
•AlthoughwomenwerenotgiventherighttovoteuntiltheNineteenthAmendmentwasratifiedin1920, women in the state of Montana had that right before ratification. In fact, Montana hadalreadyelectedtheU.S.Congress’firstwoman,Jeannette Rankin, in 1916. She is remembered as the only vote against entering World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She had also voted against the U.S. entry into World War I. She continued her anti-war stance for years to come, and in 1968, she led a demonstration march in Washington, D.C.,protesting U.S. military action in Vietnam.
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• Twinsisterswithunusuallysimilarnamesbornin 1918 went on to exactly the same profession. Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman both became advice columnists within months of each other. Esther Pauline was known for 56 years as Ann Landers, dispensing frank, sometimes controversial advice to millions of readers. Pauline Esther wrote under the byline Dear Abby for 39 years until she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’sDisease. Although the sisters had a joint wedding ceremony on their 21st birthday, in later years, their competition created a rift in theirrelationship,andtheydidn’thavecontactfor many years.
•JournalistElizabethJaneCochrantookonthepen name of Nellie Bly to write for a Pittsburgh newspaper back in 1885 and concentrated her early efforts on the working conditions of female factory workers. When her editor reassigned her to the society and gardening sections, she rebelled and traveled to Mexico as a foreign correspondent. At age 23, she went undercoveratawomen’sinsaneasylum,fakinginsanity to probe reports of brutality at the New York facility.After enduring filth, starvationand abuse for ten days, she penned an exposé that created such a racket that an additional $850,000 was dispatched to the asylum in short order. At age 25, Bly undertook a trip around the world reproducing the fictional journeyofPhileasFogginJulesVerne’s“AroundtheWorld in80Days.”Shefinishedher24,899-mile trip in just over 72 days, actually meeting Jules
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Verne during a stop in France. After an early retirement from journalism, she invented and patented a steel barrel, whose design is still in useintoday’s55-gallonoildrums.
•Anaturalbrunette,comedienneLucilleBallstarted her career as a blonde model named Dianne Belmont in 1933 and landed a movie roleshortlyafterwardinthatyear’s“RomanScandals.” She adopted her trademark red hair in 1942 at the advice of MGM Studios. She and husband Desi Arnaz hit the small screen in 1951 when “I Love Lucy” made its television debut. When she became pregnant in1952,itwaswrittenintothesitcom’splot,andtheepisodedepictingLittleRicky’sbirthaired on exactly the same day that Lucy delivered son Desi Jr. Lucy and her son were featuredonthecoverofTVGuide’sveryfirstissue, in 1953. She and Desi Sr. divorced after 20years.LucilleBallwasthefirstwomantoownherownfilmstudio,andoverthecourseof her long career, appeared in 72 movies and received 13 Emmy nominations, with four Emmy Award wins.
• How many women drove pink Cadillacsbecause of Mary Kay Ash? At age 45,this cosmetics entrepreneur had worked many years for Stanley Home Products but finally resigned after being passed over forpromotions in favor of men she had herself trained. It was her plan to write a book that would aid women in business, but the book ended up being a business plan for a new company, and in 1963, she and her husband began Mary Kay Cosmetics with a $5,000investment. She wrote three best-selling books, and her business philosophy, “Mary Kay on People Management,” became partof the business course curriculum at Harvard Business School. Although Ash passed away in 2001, today there are more than 1.8 million
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CASTLES (continued):• The famous Tower of London began as a
timber fortress in an earthen enclosure on the north bank of the Thames in London. In 1078, William the Conqueror replaced this timber fortress with a massive stone fortress called the Great Tower. William needed to show his authority and protect his new kingdom.
• In the Middle East, the Crusaders developed great castles with double circuits of curving outer walls and towers to overlook the entire wall. These castles influenced castle building throughout Europe and the British Isles, and the early 13th-century medieval castle was a marriage of Norman, English and Byzantine styles. Two good examples of this are the Château Gaillard on the Seine in France and the Conisbrough Castle in England.
• One of the last tower houses to be built in Scotland was Lethendy Tower, dating back to 1678.
• No two castles are the same. This is due to topography, taste, available materials and the ability of the designer.
• The spiral stairs in castle towers are designed to ascend clockwise in an effort to make the attackers expose more of their body in order to use the sword in their right hand.
• At Exeter Castle in England in 1136, the garrison used wine to extinguish fires from a siege.
• The largest inhabited castle in the world is Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom.
• There were once about 5,000 castles in Japan, but today there are only about a dozen original feudal castles left.
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Top 10 Albums1. Taylor Swift “Speak Now”2. Sugarland “The Incredible Machine”3. Kings of Leon “Come Around Sundown” 4. Lil Wayne “I Am Not a Human Being” 5. Eminem “Recovery”6. Elton John/Leon Russell “The Union”7. “Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show (EP)”8. Rod Stewart “Fly Me to the Moon ... The Great American Songbook Volume V”9. Darius Rucker “Charleston, SC 1966”10. Michael Buble “Hollywood: The Deluxe (EP)”
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•Althoughbestknownforpenninganovelaboutfour sisters that was loosely based on her own family, Louisa May Alcott also served as a nurse during the Civil War. This author of “LittleWomen” caught typhoid fever and suffered for the remainder of her life from mercury poisoning as a result of the treatment for the typhoid.
•ThelifeofthefirstwomanprimeministeroftheUnitedKingdom,MargaretThatcher,hadhumblebeginnings. Growing up as the daughter of a father who owned a couple of grocery stores, she enjoyed swimming and playing hockey. In college, she studied chemistry, and after graduation, went to work as a research chemist for a plastics company, followed by a stint as a chemist helping develop a method for preserving ice cream. After her marriage to Denis Thatcher, she began studying for the bar. At age 28, she became a barrister specializing in tax law, and later that year, became themotheroftwins.At45,ThatcherwasBritain’sSecretary of State for Education and Science, and in 1979 she was elected Prime Minister. Although she had the longest continuous period of officeof any 20th-century Prime Minister, she had the second-lowest approval rating of any post-war Minister.Followingher time inoffice,ThatcherwentontoserveasChancelloroftheCollegeofWilliamandMaryinVirginiaandChancellorofthe University of Buckingham.
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1. In 2009, New York Yankees became the third A.L. team in the decade to have seven play-ers hit 20 or more home runs in the same season. Name ei-ther of the previous two teams to do it.
2. When Hideki Matsui had six RBIs in a World Series game for
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3.WhoholdstheNCAADivisionIrecordformostrushingtouchdownsbyaquarterbackinaseason?
4.In2009,Orlando’sDwightHowardbecametheyoungest person to win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award at 23 years, 4 months. Who had been theyoungest?
5. Who is the only NHL player to be in the Stanley Cupfinalsthreeconsecutiveyears(2008-10)withadifferentteameachtime?
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7. In 2010, tennis player Rafael Nadal won his 18th ATP World Tour Masters 100 tournament title. Whoserecorddidhebreak?
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Cat Goes Everywhere But the Litter BoxDEARPAW’SCORNER:Myhousecat“Snow-ball” has been having problems urinating in places other than her litter box. She loves rugs, towels, my daughters’beds,pillowsandevenherownbed.Thevet suggested getting another litter box. She now has two. She will urinate on something within 1 foot of a litter box.I read in your column that cats that do this could have a urinary-tract infection or diabetes. Snowball was treated for six weeks for a urinary infection and still continues to urinate outside of her box. I took her back to the vet to be tested again for urinary-tract infection and diabetes. Both tests were negative. The vetthinksshe’sjustmadatus.I’mtiredofthishap-pening.Anysuggestions?--MichelleS.,viae-mail
DEARMICHELLE:There’susuallyagoodreasonfor a cat urinating regularly outside the litter box, and being “just mad” is probably not one of them. You did the right thing by having her checked and treated for a urinary tract infection, and checked for more se-riousdiseases,soyou’veeliminatedaphysicalissuethatmayhaveinitiatedtheproblem.Nowit’stimeto
address the behavioral issue -- which has nothing to do with Snowball resenting you, but more to do withanassociationshe’sformed.First, get rid of both litter boxes (yes, the new one too). Thoroughly clean the area where they were located, and then get a new box. Next, monitor Snowball closely. As soon as she starts urinating anywhere other than her box, simply pick her up and place her in the box. Use soothing, encouraging language. She may be associating the box with the pain of her urinary-tract infection, so you need to reintroduce her to it.Remember also to thoroughly clean the areas that Snowball has urinated using an enzyme cleaner de-velopedspecificallyforpetcleanup.It’savailableatpetstores.Ifshe’surinatedoncarpet,youmayneedto treat the padding underneath as well.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) This year, instead of jumping into the whole holi-day prep scene, move in a little at a time. You’ll appreciate the sense of control you’re more likely to enjoy.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) The separation between the Bovine’s head and heart is never as far apart as it seems. Both senses work best when they come out of logic and hon-esty.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) The best way to keep those pre-holiday pressures under control is to just say no to taking on new tasks while you’re still trying to work with a heap of others.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) News means a change might be on its way, but what does it hold? Don’t just ask questions; make sure you get answers you can trust.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) Old friends and new have one thing in common: Both your longtime and newly minted pals have much wisdom to impart.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22)With time running out, this is a good time for you to show ‘em all what those Virgo super-organiza-tional skills can do.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Librans and holidays are made for each other, es-pecially if children and animals are going to be part of your joyous season.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Time is getting too short to allow a spat to taint the holiday season. Restart your relationship and reschedule holiday fun times.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Seeking advice is laudable. You might learn far more than you thought you could. Stay with it.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Continuing to assess changes works toward your getting your new project up and ready. Trusted col-leagues remain ready to help.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) That new situation needs a lot of attention, but it’s worth it. This is a very good time for you to involve the arts in what you do.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) It might be a good idea to slow your hectic holiday pace so that you don’t rush past what -- or who -- you’re hoping to rush toward.
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On Nov. 27, 1703, an unusual storm system finallydissipatesoverEnglandafterwreakinghavoc on the country for nearly two weeks. Fea-turing hurricane strength winds, the storm killed somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 people and sank hundreds of Royal Navy ships.
OnNov.22,1783,JohnHanson,thefirstpresi-dentoftheContinentalCongressundertheArticlesofConfederation,diesinhishomestateofMaryland.Hansonissometimescalledthefirstpresident of the United States, but this is a misno-mer, since the presidency did not exist until 1789.
On Nov. 28, 1925, the Grand Ole Opry, one of the longest-lived and most popular showcases for CountryWesternmusic,beginsbroadcastinglivefrom Nashville, Tennessee. The showcase was originallynamedtheBarnDance,afteraChicagoradio program called the National Barn Dance.
OnNov.26,1931,thefirstcloverleafinterchangeto be built in the United States, at the junction of US 1/9 and NJ Route 35 in Woodbridge, N.J., is featured on the cover of the Engineering News-Record. A piece on the under-construction Hoover Damwasrelegatedtothejournal’sbackpages.
On Nov. 24, 1944, 111 U.S. B-29 Superfortress bombersraidTokyoforthefirsttimesince1942.Their target: the Nakajima aircraft engine works. Despite the barrage of bombs that were dropped, fewer than 50 hit the main target, doing little damage.
OnNov.23,1966,ElvisPresley’s22ndfilm,arock‘n’rollmusicalcalled“Spinout”inwhichElvis played a singing race car driver, opens in theatersacrossthecountry.“Spinout”wasfilmedon location at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles andtheAscotMotorCarRacingGround,awell-known dirt track nearby.
On Nov. 25, 1980, Sugar Ray Leonard regains boxing’swelterweighttitlewhenhisopponent,reigning champ Roberto Duran, waves his arms andwalksawayfromthefightintheeighthround, telling the referee “No mas, no mas” (“No more”). Duran maintained that he had stomach cramps and could barely stand up.
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