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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020 On This Date 1800 – Spain sold the North Quote of the Day American territory of Louisiana to “My forte is awkwardness.” France. Just three years later, France sold the territory to the United States. ~ Zach Galifianakis 1960 – In Toronto, the O’Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (later the Hummingbird Centre, now Meridian Happy Birthday! Hall) opened with the premiere of Zach Galifianakis, born in 1969, Camelot, featuring Robert Goulet is an actor and comedian from as Sir Lancelot. The venue is now a Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He Toronto heritage building. started out with a series of popular comedy shows, including a Comedy 1982 – EPCOT Center opened at Central Presents stand-up special Walt Disney World near Orlando, and VH1’s Late World with Zach in Florida. The park is represented by the early 2000s. He Spaceship Earth, a geodesic sphere. hit it big with his Did You Know? hilariously oddball portrayal of the Owls cannot move their eyes, but tagalong brother in they can rotate their heads up to the 2009 film The 270 degrees. They cannot turn Hangover. Since their heads all the way around. then, Galifianakis has appeared in numerous movies including Birdman and The Lego Batman Movie, and on TV shows including Baskets and his talk show, Between Two Ferns. He’s married to Quinn Lundberg, cofounder of the charity Growing Voices. They have two sons.

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HURSDAY CTOBER T , O 1, 2020

Today is International Music Day. First declared in 1975, this holiday celebrates the role of music in our lives. Music is a big part of religious

ceremonies, civic gatherings, and the identities of many cultural groups.

Root of the Matter You Are What You Eat

Down to the wire Spain is known for its flan, that

If something comes down to the wire, creamy, baked, egg custard dessert it means that the outcome was unable topped with caramel. Brazil enjoys to be decided until the very last its own version, known as pudim. moment. This expression comes from The dish is terribly simple to make horse racing. To help determine a and requires only four ingredients: winner in close races, a sweetened condensed milk, regular wire was hung across the milk, eggs, and sugar. While many finish line, which allowed hail Brazil’s pudim as superior to officials to better see Spain’s flan, other countries beg to which horse crossed first. differ. Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, and other Latin and South American Many races quite literally were run countries all boast their own unique down to the wire. Today, the versions of flan. Perhaps the expression applies to all kinds of only way to determine which of closely contested sporting events, as the recipes tastes best is to sample well as stressful business deals or them all! economic transactions.

Who Said So? Word Scramble This clergyman, an advocate of uniting churches of different faiths, E B G L B O

said, “When all is lost, ask the To eat hurriedly and noisily

GOBBLE

IRS—they’ll find something.” ANSWER:

Horton Douglas ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020 On This Date Quote of the Day 1836 – Charles Darwin returned to England after his “Heresy is another word for five-year voyage aboard freedom of thought.” the HMS Beagle, an ~ Graham Greene adventure that became the basis for The Origin of the Species. Happy Birthday! 1950 – The comic strip Peanuts, from Graham Greene (1904–1991) was the pen of Minneapolis cartoonist a renowned English novelist. The Charles Schulz, began on this day author of more than 25 novels and in seven U.S. newspapers. The strip screenplays explored many religious began with only three characters: and modern moral themes in his Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, work. Author William Golding called and Shermy. Greene “the ultimate chronicler of 20th century man’s consciousness 1952 – The Royal Canadian Navy and anxiety.” Greene’s most destroyer HMCS Iroquois was hit prominent books include The Power by artillery fire from Korean shore and the Glory, The End of the Affair, batteries, killing three sailors. They Our Man in Havana, and The Quiet were the only RCN casualties of the American. One of his earliest jobs Korean War. was as a film critic, and many of his novels were made into films. You Don’t Say! The annual Graham The Code of Hammurabi is a Greene International well-preserved Babylonian law of Festival is held in ancient Mesopotamia. The code his hometown of dictated the death penalty for many Berkhamsted—but criminals, including bartenders this year is cancelled who watered down beer. due to the pandemic.

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RIDAY CTOBER F , O 2, 2020

Today is World Smile Day, a holiday conceived by Harvey Ball, the artist who created the yellow smiley face figure we all know so well. In 1963, Ball created

the image to increase morale at an insurance company. He was paid $45.

Who Am I? Centennial Memories

When I was a child, my mother left our On this day 100 years ago, family, seeking freedom from her Major League Baseball abusive husband. In high school, I was held its last tripleheader, a cheerleader and basketball player the only one of the who liked to go to nightclubs, and that 20th century. The Cincinnati Reds was where I met a musician who began their three games against became the love of my life and eventual the Pittsburgh Pirates at noon in musical partner. We went on to gain Pittsburgh. By winning the first worldwide fame and win a Grammy, game, the Reds were able to take but my husband became abusive and third place in the National League. we divorced. My fame dimmed, but in They went on to win the second the 1980s I again found my voice and game, but Pittsburgh avoided a launched into superstardom as both an three-game sweep by winning the

actress and singer, winning several final contest. The last game did not

more Grammys. Who am I? go the full nine innings, however, as

Turner Tina ANSWER: it was called in the sixth inning on account of darkness.

Buy a Vowel High Five

_ B _ D _ Can you name the five largest

countries by population?

Accept or act in accordance with million 233 Pakistan, 5. million; 267 Indonesia,

million; 4. 4. million; 329 States, United 3. billion;

ABIDE ANSWER:

1. China, 1.39 billion; 2. India, 1.32 1.32 India, 2. billion; 1.39 China, 1. ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2020 On This Date 1925 – The silent film The Gold Quote of the Day Rush, inspired by the Klondike “If having a soul means rush and starring Charlie Chaplin, being able to feel love played to record-breaking crowds at and loyalty and gratitude, Winnipeg’s Capitol Theatre. then animals are better off 1927 – The first transatlantic than a lot of humans.” telephone service to the U.K. was ~ James Herriot launched when Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King called British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Happy Birthday! 1990 – East and West Germany were James Herriot (1916–1995) is the officially reunified. The country had pen name of James Alfred Wight, been divided by a wall since the end a British veterinary surgeon and of World War II. writer who penned more than 20 semi-autobiographical books about Daily Trivia animals and their owners. Herriot didn’t start writing until age 50. His Virtually all the gold that has been works are loved mined throughout history is still for their focus on in existence in the aboveground the relationships stock. That means that if you have between people and a gold ring, some of the gold in that animals. Some of ring could have been mined by the his most popular Romans 2,000 years ago. works include All Creatures Great and Small and If Only They Could Talk. His books have been turned into television and stage productions.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2020

Today is World Card Making Day, a day that reminds us that the best gifts are not store-bought, but instead, come from the heart. The card you make

might be a beautiful creation, but the message inside is just as important.

Wild Kingdom Silver Memories

Parts of the southwest Pacific, On this day 25 years ago, O. J. Simpson including Indonesia and Australia, was found not guilty of the double are home to a beautiful bee species murder of his estranged wife known as Homalictus. What makes Nicole Simpson and her the insect so beautiful is its metallic friend Ronald Goldman. The sheen, giving it reflective hues of aqua sensational 252-day trial had blue, bronze orange, fluorescent pink, captured the nation, and and iridescent green. They truly look 140 million Americans tuned in to like flying gemstones, which has given hear the trial’s verdict. The former rise to the nickname “rainbow” bees. football star had assembled a “dream They are also known as “sweat” bees team” of lawyers to execute a careful because females are attracted to and controversial defense that human sweat. Like other bees, these convinced jurors that he could not be are natural pollinators, but they do not convicted “beyond a reasonable produce honey. doubt.” The prosecution believed the evidence against Simpson to be Word Wise overwhelming, but the jury deliberated Which word is not like the others? for only four hours before ruling him innocent. gable buttress Riddle Me This

hip gambrel I give milk and have a horn, but others are types of roofs. of types are others

buttress is a wall’s support; the the support; wall’s a is buttress A

ANSWER: I’m not a cow. What am I? A milk truck milk A ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2020 On This Date 1864 – Jos Montferrand died in Quote of the Day Montreal. The French Canadian “I knew the wild riders and lumberjack and voyageur was known the vacant land were about for taking on 20 English to vanish forever . . . and the troublemakers at once. more I considered the subject, He is commemorated the bigger the forever loomed.” in the folk song “Big Joe Mufferaw.” ~ Frederic Remington 1883 – The Orient Express passenger train set out on its first formal Happy Birthday! journey, delighting its passengers with the luxury equivalent to Europe’s Frederic Remington (1861–1909) finest hotels. was a painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer from New York. He 1957 – The Soviet Union launched specialized in images of cowboys, Sputnik I, the world’s first satellite, Native Americans, and other depictions into orbit. of the American Old West. He 2006 – The website WikiLeaks enjoyed commercial and critical was registered by its founder Julian success during his lifetime, and his Assange. The controversial website many friends included the most publishes sensitive documents and prominent celebrities, businessmen, classified information. and politicians of the day. As a young man, Remington Did You Know? attended the art school at Yale. Frederic Remington was a cousin Today, his work is to Eliphalet Remington, founder of some of the most the Remington Arms Company. iconic and recognizable western art.

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UNDAY CTOBER S , O 4, 2020

Today is International Ship in a Bottle Day. Fitting objects into bottles dates back to at least 1719, when the German artist and magician Matthias Buchinger

popularized the hobby despite being born without fully formed hands.

Eye in the Sky Think-tionary

For those interested in traveling to arrogate space, a new company A. To take or claim something provides an alternative without justification to blasting off. Space or Perspective has designed a special balloon called B. A small amount of interest paid

Spaceship Neptune that can float to a depositor, amounting to

you to the very edge of space. For mere pennies ill. fell CEO

making after the the after making - decision company’s the of

NSWER: A. The assistant arrogated much much arrogated assistant The A. NSWER: $125,000, tourists can enjoy a A six-hour trip—which includes a gentle two-hour ascent, two hours of When Was It? 360-degree views in space, and a It was during this year that the Navy two-hour return to Earth—all in a SEALs were established. Sam Walton pressurized capsule complete with opened the first Walmart store. Jackie drinks, Wi-Fi, and a lavatory. Robinson became the first African American baseball player to be elected Whatchamacallit? to the Hall of Fame. Wilt Chamberlain What do you call a group of . . . set the basketball single-game scoring camels? record with 100 points. Ringo replaced team herd Pete Best as the drummer of the Beatles, and Rachel Carson published

pack troop

HERD

ANSWER: ANSWER: Silent Spring. When was it? 1962 ANSWER:

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 On This Date 1789 – The Women’s March on Quote of the Day Versailles brought thousands of “I didn’t have anyone women to the royal palace to protest to play with, so I made the scarcity of bread. up my own world.” 1877 – After a five-day battle ~ Maya Lin in Montana, Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrendered with the Happy Birthday! words, “I will fight no more forever.” Maya Lin, born in 1959, is an American architect and artist. 1962 – The Beatles released their At age 21, when she was still an first single, “Love Me Do,” written undergraduate student at Yale by 17-year-old John Lennon and University, her design was chosen 16-year-old Paul McCartney. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1984 – Marc Garneau became the in Washington, D.C. The structure, first Canadian in space on board which was completed the space shuttle Challenger. He in 1982, is heralded also flew two missions aboard the as one of the most Endeavour in 1996 and 2000. important memorials of the period. Her Did You Know? inspiration for the memorial was the idea of cutting the Maya Lin’s idea for the Vietnam earth with a knife and letting that Memorial was originally a project wound heal to symbolize the loss of for her architecture class. The the fallen soldiers. Lin describes the design beat out 1,420 other entries, central focus of her work as finding including one from her own “balance and tension between the Yale professor. man-made and the natural.”

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ONDAY CTOBER M , O 5, 2020

Today is Get Funky Day. The word funky has been tied to upbeat jazz music and the cool atmosphere of jazz clubs since the 1930s. This meaning is quite a

contrast to the word funk, which means to be down or depressed.

Golden Memories Gadgets & Gizmos

On this day 50 years ago, National Educational Television (NET) ceased broadcasting, to be replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). NET had been founded in 1954 with the aim of providing educational programming to viewers. Over the years, NET was unafraid to broadcast For those curious about tattoos but hard-hitting programs on racism, wary of their permanence, there is the poverty, and the Vietnam War— Prinker temporary tattoo printer. This issues that concerned some federal $269 device contains cosmetic ink officials. The U.S. government cartridges and prints skin-safe tattoos established the Corporation for Public that are waterproof and last up to two Broadcasting, which formed PBS as a days. You can even create your own successor to NET and allowed local unique designs using a Prinker app PBS stations to choose their own for your phone. noncontroversial content. Who Said So?

Word Scramble This writer of extremely candid semi- E R Z A U autobiographical novels said, “I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I

Bright blue, like a cloudless sky am the happiest man alive.”

AZURE ANSWER: Miller Henry ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 On This Date 1981 – Egyptian president Anwar Quote of the Day Sadat was assassinated at a military “At the time, I think I was rally in Cairo. more thrilled over meeting Extremists were Douglas Fairbanks.” also responsible for 11 other deaths ~ Janet Gaynor, on what her that occurred during Oscar win meant to her the attack. 2003 – Jordin Tootoo became the first player of Inuit descent to sign Happy Birthday! a contract with the National Hockey Janet Gaynor (1906–1984) was an League. The Canadian played for actress in film, on stage, and on multiple teams and retired in 2018. television. She quickly found fame 2015 – Arthur B. McDonald of after signing with the Fox Film Kingston, Ontario, Corporation in 1926. Gaynor won won the Nobel Prize the first Academy Award for Best in Physics. The Actress in 1929 for Queen’s University her roles in the silent professor discovered films 7th Heaven, that neutrino particles Sunrise, and Street have mass. Angel. This was the only time an award was presented for Daily Trivia multiple roles. She went on to be nominated for another Best Actress Bikini designer Louis Réard said a award for her role in the original two-piece bathing suit couldn’t be A Star Is Born (1937). After retiring called a bikini “unless it could be from acting, Gaynor became an pulled through a wedding ring.” accomplished still-life painter.

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UESDAY CTOBER T , O 6, 2020

On this day ten years ago, the photo-sharing application Instagram was founded. It allows users to publicly or privately post photos, which others

can “like” and follow. After just two months, the app had one million users.

Picture of the Day Garden Party

The massive kauri tree in New Zealand known as Tāne Mahuta, the “Lord of the Forest,” is a sacred site for the Maori. Kauri trees are some of the largest in the world. This particular tree is more than 2,000 years old, over 60 feet wide, and nearly 170 feet tall. The tree, a natural marvel, is believed to be the offspring of the sky father and Earth mother. Few kauri trees remain. Jaws did not want to pass up the Logging decimated numbers starting opportunity for a selfie with his in the 1820s, and dieback disease biggest fan. threatens the rest. Because this rot can Now it’s your turn to come up with be carried on peoples’ shoes, visitors to a good caption. Tāne Mahuta must rinse their soles before entering the forest. Viewing the Word to the Wise tree is also a soul-cleansing experience. The word irregardless, often mistakenly used in place of Buy a Vowel regardless, has been added to the C _ N D _ _ T dictionary. To be fair, many people in

many places have been misusing A channel for conveying water CONDUIT this word for hundreds of years. ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020 On This Date 1913 – William Stewart Herron, a Quote of the Day local horse wrangler, discovered oil “We may be surprised at the on the Dingman site near Calgary. people we find in heaven. He first noticed gas bubbling out of God has a soft spot for an old mine shaft in 1911 and then started drilling. His find sparked sinners. His standards Alberta’s first oil boom. are quite low.” 1918 – The Spanish influenza ~ Desmond Tutu claimed its first victim in Montréal. Brought by soldiers returning from World War I, the flu eventually killed Happy Birthday! about 55,000 people in Canada, most of whom were between the ages of Desmond Tutu, born in 1931, is 20 and 40. a South African Anglican cleric and theologian who is known for 1959 – The U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 his work as an activist in the anti- transmitted the first photographs of the apartheid movement. Tutu worked far side of the moon. The six photos closely with Nelson Mandela and caused excitement and interest around the South African government to the world. negotiate fair solutions and outcomes at the end of apartheid. He has held positions as Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town. Tutu retired from public life in Daily Trivia 2010 but has issued The islands of Bermuda have no several letters since rivers or lakes. The inhabitants then in support of must use rain for water. various causes, including gay rights.

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EDNESDAY CTOBER W , O 7, 2020

Today is Random Acts of Poetry Day. Established and aspiring poets are encouraged to write poetry in public places with chalk, give impromptu poetry

readings, or take time to express themselves through this powerful medium.

Only Human Fashion of Yesteryear

What makes hair curly? The curvature Steve Jobs wore one every day. of a strand of hair is dependent on the British actress Audrey Hepburn did, hair follicle. Symmetrical hair too. Miles Davis, Yves Montand, follicles produce straight hairs, while Andy Warhol, and asymmetrical follicles produce hairs Marlene Dietrich all wore that tend to curl. This is likely due to a plain black turtleneck. the fact that the outside edge of a hair Over the years, this has more hair cells than the inside unassuming garment has edge, forcing hairs to bend and come to symbolize intellect, coolness, therefore curl. Why do some people and rebellion. The turtleneck was have curly hair and others straight? invented in 1860 for polo players, Curly hair is a dominant genetic trait, hence the name “polo neck.” It was which means that if just one of the adopted by countercultural artists in parents has curly hair, their offspring Paris almost as a sort of uniform after will have curly hair. World War II. It has become so iconic that today the black turtleneck is Word Wise almost a parody of itself, symbolizing Which word is not like the others? not intellect but an oversized ego.

ring pendant What’s in a Name? This “Triple Crown of Acting”

pompadour anklet winner and wife of Mel Brooks was jewelry. of types are others

Pompadour is a hairstyle; the the hairstyle; a is Pompadour

ANSWER: born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano. Bancroft Anne

ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 On This Date 1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrated Quote of the Day the first “permanent wave” for “I’ve been really lucky. hair at his beauty salon in London, I’ll completely forget England. The method required that I’m a celebrity. And then the client wear a dozen brass curlers, something will happen, each weighing one and three-quarter and I’ll go, ‘Oh, right.’” pounds, for six hours. ~ Matt Damon 1935 – Wedding bells rang for a singer and a bandleader making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson, and the singer Happy Birthday! was Harriet Hilliard. Matt Damon, born in 1970, is an 1944 – The first broadcast of The American actor and producer. His Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was first role was a small part in the 1988 heard on the CBS radio network. The movie Mystic Pizza. A decade later, show aired on the radio until 1953 Damon became a household name, and on ABC-TV from 1952 to 1966. heartthrob, and an Academy Award– winning screenwriter with Good Will Daily Trivia Hunting, the 1997 film he cowrote (and costarred in) with fellow actor Lighters were invented in the and friend Ben Affleck. Since then, 16th century out of converted Damon has become a flintlock pistols. box office staple with such films as Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, and The Martian. He and his wife Luciana Bozán Barroso have four daughters.

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HURSDAY CTOBER T , O 8, 2020

On this day in 1982, the musical Cats opened on Broadway. The blockbuster mega-musical was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is based

on T. S. Eliot’s poetry collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

You Are What You Eat Root of the Matter

Morocco is famous for its sweet Fit as a fiddle and savory meat pie known as If you are judged to be as pastilla. Historians believe that fit as a fiddle, then you Moorish Muslims brought the dish are strong and in good from Spain to North Africa as early health. The fiddle refers to as the 16th century. Today, it is a gem a “violin,” but the word of Moroccan cuisine. It was once fit doesn’t mean “good health.” In traditional to make it with pigeon, but the 1600s, fit meant “in good working today it is most likely made with order.” A fiddle that was well either chicken or seafood. The meat or maintained – strung properly, pegs fish is minced and cooked in a savory tightened, well-cleaned – was deemed fit for use. It makes sense that a and sometimes spicy broth, which is well-maintained instrument evolved thickened with the addition of eggs. It to metaphorically describe a is layered with crushed almonds and well-maintained body. Why was a then wrapped in werqa, a paper-thin fiddle chosen over other instruments? pastry dough similar to phyllo, and It is probably due to the alliterative then topped with cinnamon and sugar. nature of the expression fit as a fiddle.

Word Scramble Name Three

T R O S P E Can you name three U.S. states that begin with the letter O?

Suddenly, as if by magic

PRESTO ANSWER:

Oregon Oklahoma, Ohio, ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020 On This Date 1668 – François de Laval opened the Quote of the Day Grand Séminaire de Québec to local “I’d like to tidy up the entire students, forming the Petit Séminaire. planet. I would go anywhere It was Canada’s first institution of higher education and later expanded if there were something to Laval University. that needs tidying.” 1867 – William Jackman heroically ~ Marie Kondo rescued 27 people from a foundering schooner off the coast of Labrador. He swam from shore in the frigid ocean 11 times to save passengers, Happy Birthday! and then, taking a rope to the ship, he saved 16 more. Marie Kondo, born in 1984, is a Japanese organizing expert who 1918 – General Sir Arthur Currie popularized the concept of only led Canadian and British divisions keeping items that “spark joy.” She in the liberation of Cambrai, France. became an international phenomenon The attack led to Germany’s defeat with her 2011 book The Life-Changing in World War I. Magic of Tidying Up. Kondo’s Did You Know? philosophies spurred a paring down and tidying up movement known Cats sleep up to 18 hours a day as the KonMari technique. Kondo but not as deeply as humans. hosts the 2019 Netflix reality show They fall asleep quickly and wake Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, up frequently to make sure their which earned her environment is still safe. an Emmy Award nomination. She is married to Takumi Kawahara and has two children.

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RIDAY CTOBER F , O 9, 2020

Today is World Post Day. This holiday honors the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874, an event that set off a global

communications revolution, allowing letters to be delivered all over the world.

Wild Kingdom Where Am I?

A rare sight was seen on a South This small archipelago off the African beach recently. A nearly northwest coast of Africa is known 14-foot-long giant squid washed for its black and white sand ashore on Britannia Bay, which was beaches created by significant because it was entirely volcanoes. I will avoid the intact. Squid have proven elusive beaches, though, and to scientists over the years because head to a national park they live and hunt in extremely deep where the landscape is so waters and rarely come to the surface. moon-like that Apollo 17 astronauts In the wild, giant squids tend to live trained there. Afterward, I can explore just five years and can grow as long as a series of volcanic caves that are home a school bus. This one was estimated to albino crabs. A visit to a neighboring by scientists to be less than two years island brings me to a snowcapped old, but it was still a prized find. volcano, which is a sacred place linked Scientists are eager to study its DNA to as much local mythology as and learn if it is a unique species. Mt. Olympus was to the Greeks.

Where am I? Canary Islands, Spain Islands, Canary ANSWER:

Buy a Vowel

Riddle Me This D _ R _ V _ T _ V _ A boy fell off a 20-foot ladder but

Imitative of the artwork of did not suffer even a scratch.

another person

DERIVATIVE ANSWER:

How can this be?

He fell off the bottom step. bottom the off fell He ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020 On This Date 1933 – Procter & Gamble introduced Quote of the Day their first synthetic detergent, Dreft. “Like they say, you can In Canada, the detergent is called learn more from a guide in Ivory Snow. one day than you can in 1935 – Porgy and Bess premiered three months fishing alone.” on Broadway. George Gershwin’s ~ Mario Lopez iconic opera featured a cast of talented African American singers performing the classic tunes “I Got Happy Birthday! Plenty o’ Nuttin’,” “Summertime,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” Mario Lopez, born in 1973, is an American actor and entertainment 1973 – Pierre Trudeau began a journalist who was a child prodigy in six-day visit to China, where he dance. Lopez found stardom with the met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. role of A. C. Slater on It was the first visit to China by a the much-loved NBC Canadian prime minister. teen sitcoms Saved by the Bell (1989–1993) and Saved by the Bell: Did You Know? The College Years OK is possibly the (1993–1994). He started working most common word as a child model in local ads in his in the world. It hometown of San Diego but quickly originated with U.S. moved on to parts on television President Martin shows including Kids Incorporated Van Buren, who and an episode of The Golden Girls. approved documents Lopez appeared on Dancing with with an OK for his nickname, the Stars in 2006 and is currently an Old Kinderhook. anchor on Access Hollywood.

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ATURDAY CTOBER S , O 10, 2020

Today is I Love Yarn Day. You don’t need to be a cat to love playing with yarn. If you already know how to knit or crochet, share your skills with someone

interested in learning this pastime, or treat yourself to a yarn shopping spree!

Eye in the Sky Think-tionary

lentigo Mars is known as the “Red Planet,” but scientists have discovered a A. A freckle or other pigmented strange green glow in its atmosphere. spot on the skin Earth also has a greenish glow, or commonly called the auroras—the

result of electrons from space B. The natural fading and wear of

fabric like denim

colliding with gases in our lentigos. several in results

NSWER: A. Exposure to the sun often often sun the to Exposure A. NSWER: atmosphere. Mars’ glow was hard to A find, but once scientists got the right perspective, it was brighter than Toys of Yesteryear Earth’s glow. This is because it is The Drinking Bird is both a caused by high levels of carbon marvel of thermodynamics dioxide in the atmosphere, or rather, and a fascinating toy. Versions the oxygen molecules that result of the toy have existed since when CO2 is split apart. Oxygen emits a green wavelength that had the 1700s. The key to the toy is been seen previously only on Earth. the substance found in the glass bulbs, often dichloromethane. The felt beak Word Scramble absorbs water, which cools the upper bulb and causes the liquid inside to M L E S I P G condense. The change in pressure

causes the liquid in the base bulb to rise

A brief, passing look

GLIMPSE ANSWER: to the top. As it grows top-heavy, the bird again tilts to “drink” more water.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2020 On This Date 1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor Quote of the Day warship that sank on July 19, 1545, “She liked to be in the thick while leading a raid on a French of things and did not delegate invasion fleet, easily, except where domestic was raised from chores were concerned.” the seabed in the ~ Mary Allsebrook, on her Solent Channel near Portsmouth, mother, Harriet Boyd Hawes England. The remains of the ship and thousands of priceless artifacts are now on display to the public. Happy Birthday! Daily Quiz Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) Q: Why was the bridge in Venice was a trailblazing named the “Bridge of Sighs”? American archaeologist A: This bridge over the Rio di who discovered a Bronze Palazzo connects a prison to Age settlement of the the interrogation rooms in the Minoan civilization in Doge’s Palace. The nickname Crete. After graduating from Smith College, was inspired by the sighs of the Boston native pursued further prisoners taking their last training at the American School of glimpses of Venice. Classical Studies in Athens. When her professors refused to allow her to participate in official field studies, Hawes used her fellowship funds to go in search of her own archaeological finds, becoming a renowned expert in her field.

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UNDAY CTOBER S , O 11, 2020

On this day in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first (former) president to fly in an airplane, a Wright Type AB piloted by Arch Hoxsey. Roosevelt, with his

trademark bravado, called it “the bulliest experience I ever had.”

Gadgets & Gizmos Garden Party

Namibia is home to the Quiver Tree Forest, which is not really a forest at all, for the trees grow quite far from each other atop dolerite rock formations. Nor are they even trees, but instead a rare species of aloe that can grow up to 30 feet tall. They are known as quiver trees because the indigenous bushmen once used the Segway introduces its S-pod, an hollowed-out branches to make egg-shaped personal vehicle that is quivers for their arrows. The trees designed to transport the rider over also display a rare characteristic closed campuses. It does not move by known as “self-amputation,” where leaning, like previous Segways, but they drop diseased limbs in an act of maneuvers using a knob. This self-preservation or even in times of self-balancing chair reaches speeds of severe drought. The site was declared 24 mph and can climb hills. a national monument in 1995.

Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This comedian, television host, and _ _ C T _ _ N journalist said, “Insanity is

hereditary; you get it from

Public sale to the highest bidder

: AUCTION : ANSWER

your children.” Levenson Sam ANSWER:

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2020

Quote of the Day “I was supposed to be the coolest kid on the planet, but no one knew what On This Date a dork I was.” 1216 – King John of England lost his ~ Kirk Cameron crown jewels in the Wash, an estuary on the east coast of England. The loss was a terrible blow for the king, and it affected his health and state of mind. Happy Birthday! Kirk Cameron, born in 1970, is an 1899 – The Canadian government actor who grew up on TV as a lead declined to enter the Boer War in South on ABC’s Growing Pains sitcom, Africa but offered 8,300 volunteers which ran from 1985 to 1992. to Britain and provided $3 million Cameron quickly in funding. became a teen idol 1933 – The San Francisco island of while playing the Alcatraz became a maximum security role of the cool federal prison. Today, the island is a and charismatic historic site operated by the National Mike Seaver. Since Park Service. the show ended, Cameron and fellow cast members Daily Trivia have performed in two reunion Sideburns were projects, The Growing Pains Movie originally called and Growing Pains: Return of the Burnsides, named Seavers. Cameron’s recent projects after Civil War include Extraordinary and Connect. Union Army General He is an evangelical Christian who Ambrose Burnside. cofounded the Firefly Foundation.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2020

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Many states across America have chosen to celebrate the peoples who populated America before the arrival of Christopher

Columbus instead of the explorer who ushered in an era of genocide and slavery.

The Games People Play Only Human

Cardboard Tube Dueling is exactly A 60-year-old man previously very what it sounds like: people sword skilled at math was diagnosed with a fighting with the cardboard tubes rare neurodegenerative disorder that found in rolls of prevented him from “seeing” the wrapping paper. Believe written numbers 2–9. Instead, he it or not, the Cardboard described seeing “visual spaghetti.” Tube Fighting League is Any other images, like a picture of a a sports organization with chapters all violin, placed near the numbers also around the globe. The rules are turned to senseless scribbles. Even simple. Be the last person standing stranger, although the man could not with an unbroken cardboard tube. “see” the picture of the violin, his Hands and arms may not be used to brain did recognize it. Scientists were block, although a shield is allowed. astounded to find proof of the brain’s No stabbing is permitted. And tubes ability to practice “non-conscious must be held at the bottom, never in visual processing.” the middle. Duels occur in one-on-one or three-person melee formats. Word Wise

Which word is not like the others? What’s in a Name? gouache pastel This actress, a favorite pinup girl

cantata encaustic

types of painting. of types

for WWII GIs, was born Margarita

Carmen Cansino. are others the vocalists; for composition

A cantata is a musical musical a is cantata A ANSWER: Rita Hayworth Rita : ANSWER

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020 On This Date 409 – The Vandals crossed the Quote of the Day Pyrenees mountains and settled in Hispania (modern-day Spain). They “Power is like being a lady—if were an East Germanic tribe that you have to tell people you eventually sacked Rome in 455. are, you aren’t.” 1896 – The Canadian Red Cross ~ Margaret Thatcher Society was formed in Toronto. The first international activity of the organization was treating the sick and wounded in South Africa during the Boer War. Happy Birthday! Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) was a British stateswoman. She served three terms as prime minister of the United Kingdom, from 1979 to 1990. Her nickname was “the Iron Lady” 1923 – Ankara replaced Istanbul as because of her uncompromising the capital of Turkey. politics and leadership style. After Fun Fact college, where Thatcher studied chemistry and law, she married and M&M candies were named for Mars had twins. Thatcher and Murrie, who developed the candy then was elected in 1941. Packaged in cardboard tubes, as a member of they were a favorite of American Parliament, going soldiers during World War II. on to head the Conservative Party. An ally of President Ronald Reagan, she shares credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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UESDAY CTOBER T , O 13, 2020

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, in honor of the pioneering computer programmer who helped invent the first “Analytical Engine.” This is a day to honor not only

Lovelace but also all other women who work in the STEM fields.

What’s the Difference? Mystery to Me

What’s the difference between a Named after the series of Peter Sellers cathedral and basilica? A cathedral is comedy films, a real-life Pink Panther the home church of a bishop or gang of jewelry thieves is working archbishop of a diocese. The term throughout Europe, the Middle East, cathedral comes from the Latin and Asia. The thieves are thought to be cathedra, meaning “the bishop’s highly trained ex-military members, chair.” A basilica is a special perhaps former soldiers of the Bosnian designation given to a building by the War, numbering up to 800. The Pink Vatican. Basilicas often have Panthers have committed some of the significant historical, architectural, or most notorious and expensive heists spiritual qualities. A cathedral might over the past two decades, including indeed be a basilica, but not all the largest diamond heist in British basilicas are cathedrals. history. Their work is flashy and

Word to the Wise brazen, often involving disguises and fancy cars. They have even moved The word swole has been added to the beyond jewels, targeting art museums. dictionary. This is a term often reserved for bodybuilders Buy a Vowel because it refers to the “swollen” look of bulging T _ R N _ D _

muscles. But it can also be A vortex of violent winds

TORNADO ANSWER: applied to those aspiring to get more fit, as in, “I want to get swole.”

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2020 On This Date 1874 – The North West Mounted Quote of the Day Police built a post in Alberta named “You can’t be a real spy and after Assistant Commissioner James F. Macleod. The police station, which have everybody in the world included a barracks, stables, hospital, know who you are and what and smithy, was made of logs plastered your drink is. That’s just with clay. hysterically funny.” 1926 – English author A. A. Milne ~ Roger Moore published Winnie-the-Pooh. The name Winnie was what Milne’s son called a Canadian black bear that he often visited at the London Zoo. Happy Birthday! 1964 – At age 35, civil rights Roger Moore (1927–2017) was an leader Martin Luther English actor. He King Jr. became the is most famous for youngest person (at his portrayal of Ian the time) to win the Fleming’s fictional Nobel Peace Prize secret agent, James for his work to end Bond. Moore took racial discrimination. over the role from Sean Connery and portrayed Bond Astronomy Quiz in seven different films between 1973 and 1985. A chance run-in Q: Which planet is considered with a director paved the way for Earth’s “sister” planet? Moore’s introduction to acting. He A: Venus. The difference between also served as a UNICEF Goodwill Earth’s diameter and Venus’ Ambassador and was knighted by diameter is very little; Earth is Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for service bigger by only 407 miles. to charity.

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EDNESDAY CTOBER W , O 14, 2020

Today is Be Bald and Be Free Day, a day to trash the toupee, wig, or weave and let your bald head stand out in the crowd. Scientists believe that in men,

baldness signals wisdom, nurturance, and other indicators of social maturity.

Picture of the Day Bookworm

This 1958 book, the first of a trilogy, follows the life of an African man who was an esteemed wrestling champion and leader of his tribe. With the arrival of Europeans, the village is forced to reckon with new laws, a new government, and a new religion brought by missionaries. As I’m not bald. My hair just decided tensions rise between the Africans it wants to be a moustache today. and Europeans, the main character is

Now it’s your turn to come up with forced to defend his tribe, but soon a good caption. realizes that he stands alone in its defense. The village’s traditional Household Tip ways have been overwhelmed by

the sudden changes. What book is it?Achebe

If you’ve run out of toilet bowl , by Chinua Chinua by , Apart Fall Things cleaner, there is no need to panic; cola ANSWER: will work in a pinch! The soda will efficiently clean the bowl thanks to its Word Scramble high level of acidity and fizziness. Simply pour a can of Coke all around U B L B Y B the bowl and leave it to soak

Effervescent or lively

BUBBLY overnight. Come morning, flush the ANSWER: toilet and say goodbye to stains.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020 On This Date 1905 – Former U.S. President Quote of the Day Grover Cleveland wrote an article “If you don’t follow your for Ladies’ Home Journal opposing dream, who will?” female voters. The president said, “Sensible and responsible women ~ Emeril Lagasse do not want to vote.” 1917 – Exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a Happy Birthday! French firing squad Emeril Lagasse, born in 1959, is for being a German the famed celebrity chef, cookbook spy. France had author, and restaurateur known been experiencing for saying “Kick it up a notch!” battlefield losses, and “Bam!” while and Mata Hari seasoning his dishes. made a convenient scapegoat for The charismatic chef everything that had gone wrong. starred in the cooking shows Emeril Live Classic Film Quiz and Essence of Emeril Q: When Alfred Hitchcock made on the Food Network. his appearance in The Birds, Lagasse is a Massachusetts native what was he doing? and specializes in his own take on Cajun and Creole cuisine, which he calls “New New Orleans” cooking. In 2003, he won a National Best Recipe Award for his “Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili.” He has also won a regional James Beard Award and owns numerous restaurants, including A: He was walking dogs. NOLA Restaurant and BAM.

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HURSDAY CTOBER T , O 15, 2020

Today is Global Handwashing Day. Handwashing with soap has always been one of the most effective ways to prevent disease and save lives, but in

the midst of the coronavirus epidemic, handwashing is even more essential.

Root of the Matter You Are What You Eat

A little birdie told me The next time you dig a chip into a bowl of guacamole, know that the If you have a secret and do not want to delicious dip has existed for over divulge the identity of your informant, 500 years. The Aztec civilization then you might say that a little birdie of central Mexico used avocados to told me. Some believe this make a guacamole-like dip as early expression comes from as the 15th century. The food made the practice of sending a big impression on Spanish messages via passenger conquistadors. The Spaniards even pigeon. Others posit that the origin attempted to cultivate avocado might be biblical; in Ecclesiastes, it is trees back in Spain to replicate written that “a bird of the air shall carry the dip. Guacamole was relatively the voice.” In 1833, novelist Frederick unknown in the U.S. for most of the Marryat wrote, “A little bird has 20th century due to a ban on Mexican whispered a secret to me,” providing avocados. Since the ban was lifted in perhaps the first iteration of this 1997, Americans have eaten more common idiom. than a billion avocados each year.

Riddle Me This Word Scramble

What can jump higher than O P L C S A L E

a building?

Buildings don’t jump. don’t Buildings Fall down in ruin

COLLAPSE

ANSWER:

jump! can that Anything ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020 On This Date 1829 – The Tremont House opened Quote of the Day in Boston, Massachusetts. It was the “Obsessed with a fairy tale, first hotel in America to have indoor we spend our lives searching plumbing, and it cost $2 a day. for a magic door and a lost 1841 – Queen’s University was kingdom of peace.” founded in Kingston, Ontario. This ~ Eugene O’Neill premier Canadian university began as a Presbyterian seminary. 1953 – The Roman Catholic Happy Birthday! Church in Canada issued a report (1888–1953) was an discouraging teenagers from dating. Eugene O’Neill American playwright from New 1963 – The Canadian government York City. O’Neill’s increased old age security pensions unique talents won to $75 per month. Today, the basic him the Nobel Prize amount is $570.52 per month. in Literature in 1936 and four Pulitzer 1975 – Rahima Banu, a three-year- Prizes for Drama in old girl from Bangladesh, became 1920, 1922, 1928, and the last known person to be infected 1957. O’Neill’s plays are heralded with naturally occurring smallpox. for their realism and use of everyday life and characters as his subjects. Long Day’s Journey into Night is Did You Know? considered his masterpiece and one of the finest plays of the 20th century. Noah Webster reformed the English Some of O’Neill’s other key works language to make it easier to learn; include Anna Christie and Strange namely, he changed spellings to Interlude. He was married three better match pronunciation. times and had three children.

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RIDAY CTOBER F , O 16, 2020

Today is Department Store Day. For centuries, department stores have been major drivers of the world’s economy. The very first might have been

Harding, Howell & Co., on Pall Mall in London, which opened in 1796.

Think-tionary Silver Memories

tummler On this day 25 years ago, A. The heavy leather apron worn the Million Man March was by smelters and blacksmiths held in Washington, D.C. Its or purpose was to call attention

B. A comedian or entertainer who to the economic and social struggles encourages guests at a resort to of African Americans. For those who

participate in activities could not attend in person, a national

Catskills. the of resorts

the throughout Day of Absence was encouraged, when

tummler best the as known was I B. NSWER: A Black Americans could attend local Who Am I? teach-ins, worship services, and voter registration drives. The March was When I first decided to begin my also part of a larger campaign to music career, my father, an Air Force counter negative stereotypes of Black lieutenant, tried to convince me to go men. While numbers may not have into banking. My over-the-top persona reached one million, an estimated and penchant for wild costumes were 837,000 marchers attended the rally. a direct response to a strict childhood. At age 11, I won a scholarship to a Buy a Vowel music school, and by age 15, I was playing at a local pub. Who knew I M _ L _ P R _ P _ S M would become one of the world’s Use of an incorrect word with

most well-known rock pianists and a similar sound

MALAPROPISM

be knighted by the queen? Who am I? ANSWER: John Elton Sir ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020 On This Date 1604 – King James I wrote his smart Quote of the Day treatise, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, which criticized the popular habit of “I never really thought of smoking in Britain. myself as a sex goddess; 1888 – The first issue of National I felt I was more a comedian Geographic was published. who could dance.” 1933 – Albert Einstein fled Nazi ~ Rita Hayworth Germany for the United States. 1989 – The deadliest U.S. earthquake since 1906 rocked San Francisco, killing 63 people and injured 3,757. Happy Birthday! 2011 – Sable Island, off the coast Rita Hayworth (1918–1987) was of Nova Scotia, became a national an actress and dancer who became park. The island is home to wild the most glamorous horses, grey seals, and birds. screen idol of the 1940s. This iconic You Don’t Say! Life photo made her The creator of the Celsius scale, the top pinup girl for Anders Celsius, had a temper. When GIs during World he first developed his War II. She starred scale, he accidentally with Gene Kelly in the 1944 musical made freezing 100 Cover Girl, and opposite Glenn degrees and boiling Ford in the 1946 film noir Gilda. 0 degrees. No one Hayworth also appeared in two dared point this out movies with Fred Astaire, and he to him, so fellow referred to her as his favorite dance scientists waited until Celsius died partner. She was married five times to change the scale. and had two daughters.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020

Today is Playing Card Collectors Day. Playing cards are collected for more than just card games. Vintage sets represent some of the first forms of

portable art. They are hand-held galleries that date back to the 13th century.

Wild Kingdom Eye in the Sky

Twenty-one students from Harvard Last June, Australians living in a University were invited to play a remote western town were quite memory game against an unlikely confused by the appearance of a opponent—an African Grey parrot strange bluish-green fireball lighting named Griffin. It was the classic shell up the night sky. Some game in which players seek the thought it was the pom-pom hidden under the shuffling remains of a recent plastic cups. Griffin defeated the Ivy rocket launch. Others Leaguers almost every time. Perhaps suggested that it was a satellite Griffin had an edge; after all, he was burning up in the atmosphere. raised by the Harvard psychologist Scientists explained that the bluish conducting the study. The scientist color was proof of high iron content, believes that this study might prove making it most likely a meteoroid or an evolutionary link exists between asteroid careening from space into the brains of humans and parrots. Earth’s atmosphere.

Whatchamacallit? Who Said So? What do you call a group of . . . This Mexican painter and cultural doves? icon remembered for her large skein tribe eyebrows said, “At the end of the

day, we can endure much more

dule drove than we think we can.” DULE ANSWER:

Frida Kahlo Frida ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020 On This Date 1954 – The company Texas Instruments Quote of the Day introduced the first transistor radio for $50 (more than $400 today). Listeners “I will use all my strength to could hear only AM stations on these bring about a just society portable devices. to a nation living in a 1961 – The collage Le Bateau, tough world.” by French painter ~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau Henri Matisse, went on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For the first Happy Birthday! 47 days of the exhibit, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000) with more than 100,000 visitors was the 15th prime admiring the work, nobody realized minister of Canada, that the painting was hanging from April 1968 to upside down. June 1979 and from Fun Fact March 1980 to June 1984. His supporters Tickets for Frank Sinatra’s first admired Trudeau’s solo performance at the Paramount charisma, intellect, Theatre in New and political acumen in preserving York City in national unity. The statesman’s 1942 sold for personal life was fodder for the only 35 cents tabloids, but most agree that he was a each. He sang to towering figure who helped redefine 5,000 stamping, Canada. He published his memoirs screaming, and in 1993. His son, Justin Trudeau, is applauding kids. now the Canadian prime minister.

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UNDAY CTOBER S , O 18, 2020

Today is Comic Strip Appreciation Day. The first comic to appear in a United States newspaper was The Yellow Kid, in 1896. Over the years, comics like

Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes have amassed major fan bases.

Only Human Garden Party

A simple list can do much to make Tulips, although commonly us feel less anxious and more associated with Holland, are in control of our daily lives. actually native to Turkey and Psychologists have learned that the Central Asia. The name act of making a step-by-step plan Tulipa is derived from the to achieve a goal allows us to live Turkish word for turban. freer, abandoning the worry There is perhaps no better associated with leaving goals place to enjoy these native unfinished. Most surprising was the flowers than Emirgan Park, along notion that we do not have to finish the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, our goals in order to unload them Turkey. The special garden was from our minds. Simply writing established in 1960 to honor the down a plan to achieve the goal is tulip as an integral symbol of enough to free us from worry, as Turkey’s cultural heritage. The long as the plan is specific, well- walled garden is home to many defined, and has short time frames. other rare and native species, as well

as historic pavilions, jogging tracks, Buy a Vowel and elaborate ponds.

_ N _ _ G _ R _ T _ Name Three

To ceremoniously put Can you name three countries that

someone into office start with the letter V?

INAUGURATE ANSWER:

Vanuatu Vietnam, Venezuela, ANSWER:

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020 On This Date 1781 – The Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary Quote of the Day War, ended with British General “All the gold which is Cornwallis’ surrender to American and under or upon the earth French forces in Yorktown, Virginia. is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.” ~ Plato

Happy Birthday! 1872 – The Holtermann Nugget was discovered in Australia. The nugget Elizabeth Bagshaw (1881–1982) was is considered the largest single one of Canada’s first female doctors mass of gold ever found, weighing and was the medical director of 629 pounds. Canada’s first birth control clinic. Over the course of her 1933 – The Berlin Olympic career, she delivered Committee voted to include basketball thousands of babies. in the 1936 games. The U.S. team took When she retired at the gold medal. the age of 95, she was Did You Know? the oldest practicing physician in Canada. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, She adopted an orphaned relative which will dissolve silver and base in 1926, and he eventually became metals. Nitric acid has long been a doctor. Both he and his physician used to confirm the presence of wife later worked in Bagshaw’s gold in items, and this is the origin office. A film about her life entitled of the colloquial term acid test. Doctor Woman was produced in 1978.

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ONDAY CTOBER M , O 19, 2020

Today is Evaluate Your Life Day, a day to take stock of your life aspirations and determine if you have become the person you hoped you would. Have you

learned to play that musical instrument? Gone back to school? Fallen in love?

Mad Science Weather or Not

Australian researchers believe that In 480 BC, Athenians fled to Salamis they have created a new font, called on the east coast of Crete after the Sans Forgetica, that can help people Persians, under Xerxes, ransacked better remember what they have their city. But a battle lay ahead. The read. Letters in Persian fleet outnumbered the Greeks the typeface have 4 to 1, but they were lured into a been deliberately narrow strait where they could not half-finished, forcing readers to maneuver. The Persians attempted focus more strongly on each word. to retreat when a strong wind blew The researchers believe that if in, trapping them in the strait. The readers are forced to read more smaller and lighter Greek forces were slowly and deliberately, they will able to destroy wave after wave of the absorb more of the material and Persian attack. Historians believe this increase their memory retention. And victory saved Greece and ensured the it worked! Readers of Sans Forgetica emergence of Western Civilization. retained seven percent more text than readers of traditional fonts. Word Wise Which word is not like the others? High Five chevalier reprobate

Can you name the five oldest

national parks in America? rapscallion miscreant

1899; 5. Crater Lake, 1902 Lake, Crater 5. 1899; villains. are others the

1890; 3. Yosemite, 1890; 4. Mount Rainier, Rainier, Mount 4. 1890; Yosemite, 3. 1890; A chevalier is a heroic person; person; heroic a is chevalier A ANSWER:

Yellowstone, 1872; 2. Sequoia, Sequoia, 2. 1872; Yellowstone, 1. : ANSWER

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020 On This Date 1970 – American agricultural Quote of the Day pioneer Norman Borlaug received “Something about your life the Nobel Peace Prize always makes it into your for his contribution to stories. That’s just the the “green revolution.” nature of the beast.” He increased grain production throughout ~ Nikki Grimes the Third World by introducing new strains of wheat and rice crops. He has been called “the Happy Birthday! man who saved a billion lives.” Nikki Grimes, born in 1950, is a 1973 – Queen Elizabeth II opened writer from New York City. The the Sydney Opera House. The iconic children’s book author has described structure is one of the 20th century’s books as her “survival tools” while most famous and distinctive buildings. growing up. Since publishing her first book, From a Child’s Heart, in 1993, the 2003 Coretta Scott King Author Award winner and Laura You Don’t Say! Ingalls Wilder Medal winner now has dozens of publications to her Cleopatra (69–30 BC) lived closer in name. Some of Grimes’ most time to the first moon acclaimed works include Barack landing (1969) than Obama: Son of Promise, Child of to the building of the Hope; and Danitra Brown. Grimes Great Pyramid of Giza is also an artist who works in fiber (2560–2540 BC). art, beading, and photography.

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UESDAY CTOBER T , O 20, 2020

Today is World Statistics Day. This United Nations event began in 2010 and is celebrated every five years. Statistics can help us make better decisions and make

better progress towards living healthier and happier lives.

50 Years Ago Today Gadgets & Gizmos

On this day 50 years ago, the North Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center became the tallest building in the world. The building was not yet finished, but at 2:51 PM, a piece of framework was set into place that made the North Tower 1,254 feet tall, surpassing the Hyundai and the Uber ride-sharing 1,250-foot height of the Empire State company have teamed up to create the Building. The North Tower would SA-1 urban air taxi. Uber is dead not be completed until December 23, serious about promoting its Elevate air when it would stand a full 1,353 feet taxi service as the future of urban tall and be the tallest building in the travel. The taxi seats five, including world for three years until the the pilot, and its drone-like props will completion of the Sears Tower in be much quieter than a helicopter, Chicago in 1973. making it superior in cities.

Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This chemist and researcher of radioactivity, the first woman to win G _ R R _ L _ _ S

a Nobel Prize, said, “Have no fear

Excessively talkative

of perfection; you’ll never reach it.” GARRULOUS ANSWER:

Curie Marie ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 On This Date 1879 – After 14 months of experimenting Quote of the Day in Menlo Park, New “Before you can make a Jersey, Thomas Alva dream come true, you Edison succeeded in must first have one.” producing a working prototype of the ~ Ronald Erwin McNair electric incandescent bulb. It could burn for 13.5 hours. The following year, Happy Birthday! his plant produced 50,000 lamps. Ronald Erwin McNair (1950–1986) 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy was a physicist and astronaut from acquired its first ship, the HMCS South Carolina. McNair, who was Niobe, from the British Admiralty. one of the first African American NASA astronauts, died in the tragic 1986 Challenger disaster. Before Daily Trivia joining NASA, McNair was an accomplished The erroneous publication in staff physicist studying 1888 of Alfred Nobel’s premature lasers at the Hughes obituary prompted his decision to Research Laboratories leave a better legacy. The obituary in Malibu, California. stated, “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who During his first space mission in became rich by finding ways to kill 1984, he operated a robotic arm while more people faster than ever before, fellow astronaut Bruce McCandless died yesterday.” Aghast that this is performed the first untethered how he would be remembered, the spacewalk. In 2004, McNair and the inventor of dynamite set aside other lost Challenger crew members the bulk of his estate to fund were awarded the Congressional Space the Nobel Prizes. Medal of Honor.

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EDNESDAY CTOBER W , O 21, 2020

Today is Unity Day. This is the signature event of Anti-Bullying Week, encouraging everyone to put our differences aside, embrace our common

humanity, and remember that our similarities outnumber our differences.

Picture of the Day Root of the Matter

Doggy bag

Most of us have taken a doggy bag home from a restaurant, meaning either a bag or other container used to bring home leftovers. Originally, these bags were quite literally meant for diners’ pet dogs. The first reference to doggy bags came Dogs can keep their doggy bags. I in the 1950s. Bandleader Guy prefer my sushi fresh. Lombardo opened a restaurant

Now it’s your turn to come up with in Long Island, where he offered a funny caption. patrons a “Doggie Paks” special, giving diners permission to take Word to the Wise leftovers home for their pets.

The word tattoo comes from the References to doggie bags showed Polynesian word tatau. In 1786, up in restaurant reviews in Captain James Cook chronicled newspapers all over the country. the tradition of tattooing among inhabitants of the South Pacific and Word Scramble the use of the word tatau. Tattooing D N U B R E already existed in England, but it was

A heavy load BURDEN called “painting” or “staining.” Cook ANSWER: brought the term tattoo to England.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 On This Date 1692 – Madeleine de Verchères Quote of the Day gathered local farmers into her family’s fortified home when “I get asked a lot what the Iroquois attacked. She fired off a key is to creating a hit show, cannon to warn other neighbors. and I have a standard answer: Her father, a militia colonel, was a Do everything right, and day’s journey away, but the 14-year- old girl defended the fort against an then get lucky 10 ways.” eight-day siege. ~ Christopher Lloyd 1924 – Toastmasters International was founded with the purpose of improving public speaking skills. Happy Birthday! 1978 – Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Universal Pastor of Christopher Lloyd, born in 1938, the Roman Catholic is an actor who began Church. He was the as an apprentice in first Polish Pope and summer stock at age the first non-Italian 14 and appeared in Pope since Adrian VI more than 200 stage (1522–1523). productions before working in film. He made his on- Celebrity Trivia screen debut as a psychiatric patient Christopher Lloyd is descended in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest from Mayflower passengers. His and gained fame through his role as maternal grandfather was one of Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series the founders of Texaco Oil. Lloyd Taxi. You may also recognize him as attended prestigious prep schools. “Doc” Brown from the Back to the He also spent weeks at a mental Future films. Lloyd enjoys fly-fishing institution studying for a role. and hiking at his home in Montana.

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HURSDAY CTOBER T , O 22, 2020

Today is Smart Is Cool Day. Intelligence is always in fashion. Today is a day to embrace learning and strive to be smarter. Education is not just an elitist

pursuit, for curiosity is one of the most powerful characteristics of humanity.

Think-tionary You Are What You Eat

sidh Sit down for dinner in India,

A. The strongest rays of the sun, and you will likely find a which shine from the solar wide variety of chutneys. zenith directly overhead These sauces come in

or an array of tastes and colors. Sweet chutneys made from dates, tamarind,

B. A hill or mound inhabited or fruits are slathered on biscuits,

by fairies

met the fairy queen when she was a child. child. a was she when queen fairy the met crackers, or chaat (savory roadside sidh down by the riverbend where she once once she where riverbend the by down sidh snacks). Tomato chutneys are

ANSWER: B. My aunt told me about a distant distant a about me told aunt My B. ANSWER: spicy and tangy. Coconut chutneys When Was It? accompany breakfast dosas or idli.

It was during this year that the novel Green pudina chutneys get their bright Jaws was published. The last color from mint and coriander. Onion Japanese soldier surrendered almost chutneys are a blend of earthy lentils, three decades after the end of World smoky chilies, garlic, and tamarind.

War II. The Terracotta Army was discovered in China. Magicians Penn Buy a Vowel and Teller met for the first time. The P R _ T _ N T _ _ _ S Heimlich maneuver was invented. Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov Trying to appear more important

defected to the west, and President or clever than you are

PRETENTIOUS

Nixon resigned. When was it? ANSWER: 1974 ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 On This Date 425 – Six-year-old Valentinian III was Humor of the Day named Roman emperor. A bodyguard assassinated him in 455, the final year “Are you stalking me? of the empire. Because that would 1958 – Boris Pasternak, a Russian be super.” poet and novelist, was awarded the ~ Ryan Reynolds Nobel Prize for Literature. However, he was forced to refuse the honor because of negative Happy Birthday! Soviet reaction. Ryan Reynolds, born in 1976, is a Pasternak won the Canadian American actor who grew award for writing up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Doctor Zhivago. Reynolds started out 2001 – The Mars Odyssey began in the early 1990s on its orbit around Mars. Still active, the teen soap opera it is the longest-serving spacecraft Hillsdale. In 1998, the in orbit around a planet other than comic actor landed Earth. The Odyssey still has enough his breakthrough role propellant to operate until 2025. as Berg on the popular ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl, Did You Know? which ran until 2001. Reynolds The cubit, a unit of measure used followed with a variety of films, in various ancient cultures, was including National Lampoon’s Van the distance from the elbow to the Wilder, The Proposal, Blade: Trinity, fingertips. The length varied from Safe House, Green Lantern, and the 17.5 inches for a Hebrew short hugely popular Deadpool series. He cubit to 20.6 inches for an is married to fellow actress Blake Egyptian long cubit. Lively. They have three daughters.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020

Today is Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day. After nesting in and around the mission in southern California, the cliff swallows begin their

long migration back to Argentina. This natural spectacle is so popular that locals have been celebrating the birds’ arrival and departure for decades.

Where Am I? Wild Kingdom

This remote peninsula is Russia’s land Last April 24, August of fire and ice, one of the world’s most the golden retriever volcanic regions. It is also home to one turned 20 years old, of the world’s densest populations of making her the oldest of brown bears, which thrive due to her breed, or so her massive sockeye salmon runs into the owners believe. They interior rivers and lakes. As I venture adopted “Augie” at age 14, already a to the coast, I spy a Steller’s Sea-Eagle senior by dog standards, but she in the air and humpback whales has remained active and alert— breaching in distant waters. I feel factors that likely contribute to her extraordinarily lucky to visit this land, longevity. She lives in Oakland, seeing as it was closed to visitors until Tennessee, with her owners and three

1989. Where am I? golden “siblings.” The current record Russia Kamchatka, ANSWER: holder for the world’s oldest dog was a 21-year-old rat terrier named Jake Whatchamacallit? who lived in Davenport, Iowa, until he What do you call a group of . . . passed away in 2015. kangaroos ? Who Said So? band mob This first female prime minister of

India said, “You cannot shake

colony romp ç

MOB

ANSWER: ANSWER: hands with a clenched fist.” Gandhi Indira ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020 On This Date 1897 – The first French child to be born in North America, Eustache Quote of the Day Martin, was baptized near Quebec. His father, Abraham Martin, was “I preferred a life in the woods a riverboat pilot, fisherman, and to one in the laboratory.” farmer for whom the Plains of ~ John Tuzo Wilson Abraham are named. 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opened, linking New York City with New Jersey. Happy Birthday! John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geologist and geophysicist whose work focused on the theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits 1939 – Nylon hosiery went on sale that Earth’s crust is formed of for the first time at Wilmington Dry 13 independently moving plates. The Goods, near the Delaware headquarters shifting and moving of these plates of DuPont, the inventor of nylon. against each other along fault lines creates earthquakes, 2008 – The stock market took a volcanos, and other huge hit on what became known as natural phenomena. “Bloody Friday,” with most indices The Wilson cycle dropping nearly 10%. of seabed expansion Fun Fact and contraction is named in his honor. If you keep going north, you will Wilson served with the Royal Canadian eventually go south. If you keep Engineers during World War II. He going east, you will never go west. achieved the rank of colonel.

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ATURDAY CTOBER S , O 24, 2020

Today is Make a Difference Day, a day when anyone can make a positive change in their community by volunteering. Our communities are only as strong

as those who live in them and dedicate a few hours to community service.

Centennial Memories Eye in the Sky

On this day 100 years ago, Agatha New studies of the Christie’s first Hercule Poirot surface of the moon mystery (and her first novel), The indicate that there was a Mysterious Affair at Styles, was sea of magma on the published. Christie had worked as a moon’s surface for 200 million years. nurse during World War I, attending Scientists believe that the moon was to Belgian soldiers and Belgian formed more than four billion years refugees. These Belgians greatly ago when a young Earth collided with inspired the creation of Inspector a Mars-sized object known as Theia. Poirot, who himself was a Belgian The collision produced such high refugee of the Great War. Poirot temperatures that the outer crust of the uses his keen detective skills to moon turned to magma. It took 150 to investigate the death of the wealthy 200 million years for this fiery ocean Emily Inglethorp. The mystery was to finally cool. hailed as “ingenious,” and Poirot would become one of fiction’s Word to the Wise greatest detectives. The word barbecue comes from the Taíno word barbakoa, meaning Word Scramble “framework of sticks,” referring to frames used to cure meat. Spanish N T F O L Y B A M A explorers of the Caribbean took the

Strikingly bold and showy word back to Spain, where it evolved

FLAMBOYANT ANSWER: ANSWER: from the wooden rack upon which food was cooked to the food itself.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2020 On This Date 1854 – The infamous Charge of Quote of the Day the Light Brigade occurred in the “Nowadays, I know the true Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. Lieutenant Alexander Dunn reason I read is to feel less became the first Canadian awarded alone, to make a connection the Victoria Cross for the courage with a consciousness other he displayed during the battle. than my own.” 1923 – The Nobel Prize in Medicine ~ Zadie Smith was awarded jointly to Frederick Grant Banting and John Macleod, researchers at the University of Happy Birthday! Toronto, for the discovery of insulin. Zadie Smith, born in 1975, is an 1955 – The Tappan Company English writer who skyrocketed to introduced the microwave oven. The the literary glitterati in 2000 with her manufacturer advertised that it could acclaimed best-selling debut novel cook eggs in 22 seconds. White Teeth. She won the Women’s 1962 – Author John Steinbeck won Prize for Fiction in 2005 for On the Nobel Prize for Literature for his Beauty, which is loosely based on “realistic and imaginative writings, the classic Howards End. Her 2018 combining sympathetic humor and book of essays, Feel Free, was keen social perception.” awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Smith is a tenured professor of Did You Know? creative writing at New York University. She is LEGO is an abbreviation of married to novelist and the Danish phrase leg godt, poet Nick Laird, and which means “play well.” they have two children.

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UNDAY CTOBER S , O 25, 2020

Today is World Pasta Day, and pasta is, indeed, a worldwide food. Humans have been eating pasta in one form or another since 5000 BC. Italy might be

famous for their pasta dishes, but noodles can be found on every continent.

Garden Party Only Human

The Ajuda Botanical Garden in Some psychologists have started Lisbon, Portugal, was created after a using Lego bricks, those colorful great earthquake and its ensuing tidal building blocks for children, as wave in 1755. King Joseph I moved therapeutic tools for patients. What the palace to the high hillside of Ajuda makes the bricks so appealing? First, and commissioned the construction of almost no prior skills are required to a botanical garden. It was finished in start building, so even 1768, the first of its kind in Portugal. very young children The garden was once home to 5,000 can fashion together species of plants and flowers, but models. In addition, Lego bricks curators believe that Napoleon’s army encourage problem-solving and use plundered the gardens during the of imagination. From a psychological invasion of 1808. The beauty of the point of view, the bricks allow gardens was not diminished, however, people to create order out of and visitors today still enjoy rare chaos, transforming a multitude of species and elaborate fountains. individual pieces into anything they wish. Lego brick therapy is even Buy a Vowel becoming a popular way to help

children with autism communicate. B _ R _ _ L

Riddle Me This Relating to the north,

near the Arctic

BOREAL

ANSWER: Where would you take a sick boat? dock the To

ANSWER:

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020 On This Date Quote of the Day 1825 – The Erie Canal opened. The waterway was the first transportation “Sometimes you just stumble conduit between the eastern seaboard into something that works, and the Great Lakes, and it cut transport and here I am a quarter costs by about 95%. century later.” 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceased operations after only 19 months. ~ Pat Sajak The mail service was made obsolete when the transcontinental telegraph was invented. Happy Birthday! 1965 – Each member of the Beatles Pat Sajak, born in 1946, is the host received a medal from Queen of the popular game show Wheel Elizabeth II in a formal ceremony at of Fortune. The engaging Chicago- Buckingham Palace. born television personality has been hosting the show for nearly 40 years. 1986 – Donald Duck was shown Sajak started out in show business for the first time in China. Chinese as a teen when he won a contest to television launched a weekly half- be a guest deejay. He worked as a hour of Donald Duck and Mickey radio newsman on the Mouse cartoons. night shift while in Did You Know? college and as a disc jockey for the army Only 250 known examples of Pony Express mail still exist. during the Vietnam War, signing on to the Dawn Buster program with the iconic greeting, “Good Morning, Vietnam!” Sajak is also the author of multiple puzzle games, including the 2007 game “Lucky Letters.”

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today is Howl at the Moon Night. Folklore suggests that wolves howl when the moon is full. In truth, full moons have nothing to do with howling. As nocturnal

animals, wolves begin their hunts at dusk and howl to communicate with members of the pack. These social animals vocalize to maintain pack stability.

Gadgets & Gizmos Golden Memories

On this day 50 years ago, Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury made its debut. The strip actually began in the Yale University student newspaper as Bull Tales, a comedic take on local campus life fueled by the counterculture revolution of the

1960s and 70s. Doonesbury lost none of its biting political and social The Sarcos robotics company has been commentary when it made the leap busy engineering the world’s first into 28 national newspapers. In 1975, wearable robotic exoskeleton. The Doonesbury became the first comic Guardian XO was designed for Delta strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, and Airlines as protection for workers who President Gerald Ford even joked that lift heavy baggage. While wearing the the comic was a reliable bellwether of robotic suit, airline workers can lift up Washington politics. to 200 pounds with ease. Word Scramble Punny Business H P L I O D S S Is it ignorance or apathy that’s

Careless, untidy, or shoddy

SLIPSHOD wrong with the world today? I don’t ANSWER: know and I don’t really care.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020 On This Date 1891 – Philip B. Downing was Quote of the Day awarded a patent for improvements “Far and away the best prize to the street mailbox. that life has to offer is the These improvements chance to work hard at (in the covering and work worth doing.” the opening) protected mail from intruders ~ Theodore Roosevelt and the weather. The design has remained relatively unchanged Happy Birthday! to this day. Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivered served as president of the United his famous “A Time for Choosing” States from 1901 to 1909. He also speech on behalf of Republican served as Secretary of the Navy, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. vice president, and governor of The speech launched Reagan’s New York. Roosevelt suffered from political career. asthma as a child, Did You Know? but he overcame his health problems by Teddy Roosevelt so loved living a strenuous adventure that he took time from lifestyle and building his honeymoon to climb the up his strength. He Matterhorn. As president, he led was world-famous vigorous hikes and was known to for his cowboy persona and his love go skinny-dipping in the Potomac of nature and the outdoors. After River, even in winter. He was losing the 1912 election, Roosevelt the first president to fly in an undertook a dangerous two-year airplane—a Wright brothers’ expedition in an uncharted part of the plane, no less! Amazon that nearly killed him.

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UESDAY CTOBER T , O 27, 2020

Today is Cranky Co-Workers Day. Everybody gets cranky from time to time, so we can all understand where crankiness comes from. Commiserate with your

cranky co-workers and let them know that their gripes are welcome (for today).

What Am I? The Games People Play

I was first invented during the Machi Koro is a fast-paced tabletop Victorian era. Visitors could twist or Japanese board game pull me to produce a pleasant jingle. where players roll dice During the Industrial Revolution, I to earn coins and then was mechanized thanks to the work of trade in coins to build a Scottish engineer named William their city. Cities are “built” by Murdoch. He invented a mechanism earning color-coded cards that operating with pipes and compressed represent industries such as farms air. I eventually went electric in and mines, commercial ventures 1831, and finally gained prominence like restaurants and shops, and other in 1913, when electricity became businesses. The more cards common in people’s homes. The only collected, the more income a player problem was that I now sounded like earns, which allows them to an annoying buzz. In the 1930s, I complete the construction of

sounded like a pleasant chime once valuable city landmarks. The first

doorbell A more. What am I? ANSWER: player to construct four landmarks wins the game.

Buy a Vowel Who Said So? This American poet and activist V _ B R _ T _ _ N said, “If you’re always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how

Continuous, quick shaking

VIBRATION

ANSWER: ANSWER: amazing you can be.”

Angelou Maya ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2020 On This Date 1830 – Josiah Henson arrived Quote of the Day in Upper Canada with his wife, Nancy, and four children via the “I choose a lazy person to do a Underground Railroad. The escaped hard job because a lazy person slave became a clergyman, started will find an easy way to do it.” a technical school, and founded a ~ Bill Gates settlement for other escaped slaves. Henson was the inspiration for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Happy Birthday! 1886 – President Grover Cleveland Bill Gates, born in 1955, is a dedicated the Statue of Liberty software developer, entrepreneur, in New York Harbor. The first and cofounder of Microsoft. Raised ticker-tape parade took place following in Seattle, Gates started Microsoft the dedication. in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The venture became the 1929 – The stock market crash that world’s largest personal computer began the prior week accelerated, software company. In 2000, he losing 13% on October 28 and 12% stepped down as CEO but remained more the following day. company chairman and chief software architect. In 2006, Daily Quiz he further reduced Q: What is a marsupial? his Microsoft role to allow more time A: A marsupial is a mammal to focus on his with a pouch on the abdomen of philanthropic work the female. Examples include the at the Bill & Melinda kangaroo, bandicoot, wombat, Gates Foundation, which he started koala, and opossum. with his wife, Melinda Gates.

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EDNESDAY CTOBER W , O 28, 2020

On this day in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Emma Lazarus’s famous poem declaring, “Give me your tired, your

poor / Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,” wasn’t added until 1903.

Picture of the Day Root of the Matter

Pass with flying colors

If you were to take a test and pass with flying colors, then you did splendidly with an exceptionally high score. This phrase originated during the Age of Discovery, from the 15th to 17th centuries. Ships returning to port would fly their colors, or their flags, raised or lowered, signifying victory or defeat. Colors had long meant a ship’s flags. Pirates would sail The King has spoken: “I ain’t under false colors, meaning they nuthin’ but a hound dog.” would fly friendly flags as a ploy to

Now it’s your turn to come up with lure ships to their doom. a good caption. Word Wise Which word is not like the others? High Five

Can you name the five countries San Pellegrino Perrier

with the largest swaths of

remaining wilderness? Badoit Acqua Panna sparkling. are waters other the water;

4. United States; 5. Brazil 5. States; United 4.

Panna is uncarbonated uncarbonated is Panna Acqua ANSWER:

Australia; 3. Canada; 2. Russia; 1. ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020 On This Date 1998 – The space shuttle Discovery Quote of the Day blasted off, returning 77-year-old “I’d rather share the glory U.S. Senator John Glenn of a hit than star by to space some 36 years after he became the myself in a flop.” first American in orbit. ~ Kate Jackson Glenn was part of a crew of seven astronauts shepherding scientific payloads on Happy Birthday! the shuttle mission. Kate Jackson, born in 1948, is an 2013 – Turkey opened an undersea actress, producer, and director who rail tunnel connecting Europe and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. Begun in 2004, the project was delayed She got her start as an NBC page, several times by the discovery of followed by a string of parts in TV archaeological finds. and film, before landing a regular role as a nurse on the 1970s crime Daily Quiz show The Rookies. She is best Q: What famous artist sculpted known for playing Sabrina Duncan The Thinker? on Charlie’s Angels from 1976 to 1979. She then starred as Amanda King on Scarecrow and Mrs. King from 1983 to 1987, a series she also produced with her company Shoot A: Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). the Moon Productions. Jackson is The Thinker is Rodin’s most famous credited with coming up with the work and the first of his sculptures name of Charlie’s Angels, which to be erected in a public place. was originally titled The Alley Cats.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020

Today is Hermit Day. Everyone has times when they want to get away from society and be alone. Today recognizes the hermit in all of us. Feel free to spend

the day in seclusion, recharging and reenergizing for your return to society.

Think-tionary You Are What You Eat

moue The city of Utica, in upstate New A. A pouting expression of York, is home to a unique dish: Utica annoyance or distaste Greens. The dish originated in the

or homes of Italian American cooks who whipped it up using common

B. A shadowed area of a pond, pantry ingredients and homegrown

hidden in reeds and lily pads

escarole. Escarole, garlic, and hot instant.” instant.” this face your off moue that

“Wipe me, told mother My A. R: ANSWE pickled peppers are sauteed in olive oil. A bit of chicken broth is added Toys of Yesteryear and reduced for flavor, and then the dish is seasoned with red pepper In 1986, a California flakes and topped with bread crumbs engineer grew frustrated and fresh-grated Parmigiano cheese. that his young children The pan is then broiled to create a could not catch a ball, so tasty crust. The dish was made he invented the Koosh ball. Much famous by Utica’s Chesterfield easier to catch than other balls, the Restaurant in the 1980s. Koosh ball is made of elastic strands that absorb energy and keep it from Word Scramble bouncing away. A standard Koosh is made with 2,000 rubber filaments. The E B L M R U

prototype was made of rubber bands, A low, heavy, rolling sound

RUMBLE but the manufactured product is made ANSWER: with multicolored latex.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 On This Date 1925 – The first moving image Quote of the Day on television was transmitted in “Gymnastics has given me London, England. The device was built with everything but the kitchen everything in my life. I will sink. Scottish engineer John Baird continue to stay involved and used darning needles, piano wire, a try to give back to the sport tea chest, motorcycle lamp lenses, that has given me so much.” old electric motors, string, and wax, ~ Nastia Liukin among other items. 1938 – Orson Welles, at age 23, produced H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and Happy Birthday! achieved national Nastia Liukin, born in 1989, is a and international Russian-born American gymnast fame. Near panic who retired from the sport in 2012. resulted when radio Liukin immigrated to the United listeners believed States at age two. Her parents, Soviet the simulated news champion gymnasts Valeri Liukin bulletin (which described a Martian and Anna Kotchneva, opened the invasion of New Jersey) to be real. Texas World Olympic Daily Trivia Gymnastics Academy where Nastia trained, H. G. Wells and Orson Welles met becoming an Olympic when they were jointly interviewed champion in her own on the second anniversary of the right. In 2008, Liukin radio broadcast of The War of the won the Olympic all-around title as Worlds. Welles believed that the well as four other medals. She also has press had exaggerated the level of nine World Championship medals and panic following the broadcast. is a four-time U.S. national champion.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today is Frankenstein Friday. Remember, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist and not the monster! Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece about a scientist reanimating the dead is considered the first work of science fiction.

Wild Kingdom Golden Memories

Researchers analyzed 333 different On this day 50 years ago, Amtrak samples of cow grunts and moos and was created with the passage of determined that individual cows the Rail Service Act of 1970. communicate with each The National Railroad Passenger other about how they Corporation was created as a feel. Scientists knew that government-funded private entity mother cows could to combat the decline of communicate with their railroad passenger service. Officials calves, but they didn’t know that believed that if the federal cows maintain individual voices and government stepped in to fund the attitudes that they share with others trains, rail service would not only be in the herd throughout their lives. saved, but it could also be revived. Cows change the pitch of their The original name was Railpax, but vocalizations to express excitement, this was changed to Amtrak, a engagement, and distress about portmanteau of the words America topics as varied as food and the and track. weather, just like we do. Buy a Vowel

Who Said So? F _ R M _ L _ _ C This journalist and nightly news anchor advised, “Never eat spinach Following a familiar and

uninteresting pattern

before going on the air.” FORMULAIC ANSWER:

Rather Dan ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2020 Happy Halloween! Quote of the Day “The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.”

Irishmen escaping the Great Potato ~ Peter Jackson Famine brought the traditions of Halloween trick-or-treating and jack-o’-lanterns to America in the Happy Birthday! 1840s. On Halloween, Irish peasants Peter Jackson, born in 1961, is the begged the rich for food and played iconic director, screenwriter, and practical jokes on those who refused. producer of The Lord of the Rings To avoid being tricked, the rich and Hobbit movies, as well as many handed out cookies, candies, and fruit. other popular feature films. Some of These days, Halloween is all about his other movies include King Kong, parties, candy, and costumes. The Lovely Bones, and Heavenly Trick or Treat Creatures, for which he received an Academy Award Q: What do you call a nervous witch? nomination for Best A: A twitch Original Screenplay. The New Zealander leads the WingNut production company, and his movies have earned over $6.5 billion worldwide. Q: What was the witch’s favorite Jackson and his partner, screenwriter subject in school? and producer Fran Walsh, have two children. Walsh collaborates with A: Spelling him on his films.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2020

Today is Allantide in Cornwall, England, a time when church bells are rung to comfort lost souls. Traditionally, family and friends give gifts of glossy red Allan apples, which the children hide beneath their pillows for good luck.

Mad Science Eye in the Sky

Leonardo da Vinci’s An asteroid named Psyche orbits the painting Mona Lisa is a sun between Mars and Jupiter. NASA vision of beauty. Today, scientists are extremely interested in thanks to artificial the asteroid because they believe it intelligence (AI), we to be composed of iron-nickel, the know what this famous very same makeup of Earth’s core. lady would look like if she came to Scientists wonder if Psyche could life. Researchers have created an AI be the remaining core of a larger known as a convolutional neural planet. NASA hopes to launch a network—an algorithm that can space probe to the asteroid in 2022 analyze and process facial features and land on the asteroid by 2026. The and then apply that analysis to flat core might provide clues about images and turn them into Earth’s origins. It will also be an humanlike videos. After analyzing opportunity for NASA to test its new the facial movements of three deep space laser communications human subjects, the computer technology, known as Deep Space created realistic animated videos of Optical Communications. Mona Lisa moving and speaking.

Word Scramble Name Three

Can you name three American state S G E R S E

capitals that begin with the letter J ?

Missouri; Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Jackson, Missouri; An exit or way of going out

EGRESS

ANSWER: Juneau, Alaska; Jefferson City, City, Jefferson Alaska; Juneau, ANSWER: ANSWER:

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