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TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1898 – Brown defeated Harvard 6–0 in the first intercollegiate hockey “I’ve been asked repeatedly game in the U.S. Before that, ice what the ‘key’ to acting is, polo, which was played with short and as far as I’m concerned, sticks with rounded ends and a the main thing is to keep the rubber ball, was popular. audience awake.” 1953 – Lucy Ricardo gave birth to ~ Jean Stapleton little Ricky on I Love Lucy. More viewers in the U.S. tuned in to watch the episode than the following Happy Birthday! day’s inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jean Stapleton (1923–2013) was an actress who grew up in New York 1966 – Indira Gandhi became prime City and went on to entertain devoted minister of India. fans as on nine seasons She was India’s of CBS’s hit show All in the first female head Family. She was the daughter of an of government and opera singer mother and a salesman held that power until father. Stapleton began her career her assassination in theater, performing on Broadway in 1984. in many popular musicals, including Just Cloning Around , Bells Are Ringing, and Damn The first cloned animal, “Dolly Yankees. She then the Sheep,” was named after Dolly moved on to TV and Parton because the sheep was film projects, including cloned from a cell taken from and Cold Turkey, the ewe’s mammary gland. before focusing on .

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Today is World Quark Day, not in honor of the subatomic particles studied by physicists, but for the mild, creamy cheese known as quark that people often

describe as a cross between cottage cheese and yogurt. Try some!

Mad Science 25 Years Ago Today

Malaysian researchers want people to On this day 25 years ago, it was digitally transmit smells as easily as reported that Major League Baseball they send a text message. Virtual owners unanimously approved reality is all the rage these days, with interleague play. It was a move 3D sight and ambient sounds intended to renew fan interest after the dominating immersive 1994 players’ strike. Purists worried technology experiences. that interleague play would spell the Researchers believe they end of the American League’s can add scent to virtual designated hitter rule and ruin the reality, allowing people to smell statistics baseball relies so heavily virtual dinner dates or walks in the upon, but most fears were unfounded, woods. The scientists have and fans returned to ballparks with experimented with delivering these enthusiasm. But after 25 years, now smells through electrodes inserted that crowds have returned, should into the nostrils. Using weak interleague play be abandoned? electrical currents, they have already recreated 10 different smells, ranging Word Wise from fruity to woody to minty. Which word is not like the others?

Name Three Beppu Old Faithful

Can you name three vegetables that Strokkur Steamboat

begin with the letter A? geysers. erupting famous are

asparagus, arrowroot arrowroot asparagus,

Beppu is a hot spring; the others others the spring; hot a is Beppu ANSWER:

artichoke, arugula, arugula, artichoke, : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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