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Few American icons are more recognizable than the cowboy. People from the Caribbean to the Middle East to Down Under recognize the rough-ridin’, cattle-herdin’, land-lovin’ cowboy. It’s a powerful image that has long served as a symbol of the United States. • Tom Mix, Hollywood’s first superstar cowboy, was born this month back in 1880. He grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania and became an expert horseman who had dreams of being a star in the circus. His parents frowned on such a “frivolous” career choice, and Mix instead enlisted in the Army during the Spanish-American War where he became an expert marksman. • After the War, Mix worked on a ranch in the Oklahoma Territory. His riding and roping skills caught the attention of a producer from a fledgling moviemaker, who invited Tom to come to Los Angeles to participate in a silent film about life on a ranch in the southwest. The picture turned out to be a surprise hit, and suddenly, America had an insatiable demand for “cowboy movies.” Tom Mix became a star; he appeared in 160 silent Western films, and then had his own radio series. • When barbed wire began appearing around cattle trails and grazing pastures in 1870, cowboys dubbed the spiky fencing material the “Devil’s Rope.” In general, fences were rare on the Plains and in the West due to a shortage of available wood. Wire fencing was manufactured, however – not harvested – so many ranchers installed it to both mark their property and to keep their cattle from wandering. The thorny barriers forced some cowboys’ herds to make wide detours in order to find water and open grazing land. turn the page for more!

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• The Boss of the Plains isn’t a “who,” but a “what.” It’s the nickname that was given to the Stetson hat that many cowboys relied upon. John B. Stetson grew up in New Jersey and learned hat-making from his father. Ill health forced him to travel West in search of a drier climate. In 1862, Stetson designed the famous hat that eventually bore his name.

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1. TELEVISION: In “Murphy Brown,” what was the name of the TV show that included the title character, played by Candice Bergen? 2. GAMES: What color is the cue ball in the game of pool? 3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the source of the drug digitalis? 4. THEATER: The Tony Awards were named after which director/actress? 5. LANGUAGE: What is the British term for “baloney” or nonsense? 6. COMPUTERS: What does the acronym FORTRAN stand for? 7. OLYMPICS: In what event would the “Fosbury flop” be used?

1. What pop singer’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy hit #1 back in 1975? 2. What design appears on the helmets of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys? 3. The 1980 motion picture Urban Cowboy was set at what real-life Texas tavern? 4. What brand of cigarettes has long used a cowboy as part of its advertising campaign? 5. What was the name of the ranch featured on the long-running TV series Bonanza?

NUMBER PUZZLE Fill in the grid so that every column, every row, and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

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1. Elton John 2. a star 3. Gilley’s 4. Marlboro 5. the Ponderosa • On Jan. 7, 1785, Jean-Pierre ALWAYS FREE Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon, becoming theALWAYS first to crossFUN the English Channel by air. They nearly crashed into the Channel, however, as their balloon was weighed down by extraneous supplies such as silk-covered oars, with which they hoped to row their way through the air. • On Jan. 8, 1867, Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson’s veto of a bill granting all adult male citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote, and the bill becomes law. It was the first law in American history that granted black males the right to vote.

NUMBER • On Jan. 11, 1908, President PUZZLE ANSWER Theodore Roosevelt designates a large part of the Grand Canyon 6a 1national 2 8 9 monument. 7 4 5 3 Congress increased the protection of the 5 7 by1 making 2 4canyon 9 8 6in 31932 it a 1 4ensuring 9 6 8that private 7national 5 3 2park, development would never spoil the 2 9 Canyon. 5 7 8 6 4 1 3Grand

• 1On4 Jan. 5 9 9,2 1493, 6 3 Italian 8 7 explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near 5 2 9 sees three 8the7Dominican 6 1 4 3Republic, 3 7 4 8 -- 1in2reality 9 6 manatees 5“mermaids” -- and describes them as “not half 2as 6beautiful 1 3 5 as9 they 8 7 are 4 painted.” Mermaids, mythical half-female, 6 2 1 3 are 5 typically 9half-fish 8 4 7 creatures, depicted as having a woman’s head and torso, a fishtail instead of legs GOES LONG and holding a mirror and comb.

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• The celebration of the New Year was first observed in ancient Babylon on March 23, about 4000 years ago. • January 1 became the beginning of the New Year in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar. • The Chinese new year begins at the time of the first full moon (over the Far East) after the sun enters Aquarius sometime between January 19 and February 21.

• On Jan. 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers start excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages. The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937, the longest bridge span in the world at the time. • On Jan. 10, 1979, the last convertible Volkswagen Beetle is produced. The VW “Bug” was a popular car throughout the 1960s and 1970s, leading to innovations such as sunroofs and convertible tops in an otherwise unchanging design.

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PICK OF THE WEEK “Pineapple Express” -- I’m usually not a fan of stoner movies. I liked Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke” and “Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie,” and more recently “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” but that’s about it. I think the reason I don’t go for the stoner humor is because most stoner movies are funny only to audiences who are already stoned. And let’s face it, it doesn’t take much to make a stoner laugh. A french fry can provide hours of hilarity. “Pineapple Express” is one of those rare pot pictures that is funny to audiences who aren’t ripped on the wacky tabacky. It stars Seth Rogan and James Franco as two lovable potheads who get mixed up in a mob war after Rogan’s character witnesses a murder of an Asian gangster by a mobster and a crooked cop (Gary Cole and Rosie Perez). The script is hilarious, the acting is better than you’d expect from a movie like this, and the action scenes are well-executed. Definitely worth a look. DOGS OF THE WEEK “Babylon A.D.” -- This is perhaps the worst science-fiction movie ever made that doesn’t have Uwe Boll’s name attached to it. French director Mathieu Kassovitz’s dystopian tale of a genetically manipulated “messiah” is a convoluted, plodding mishmash of “Blade Runner” and “Children of Men.” This movie was hacked up so badly in the editing room by the studio that Kassovitz publicly denounced the film. What was intended to be a commentary on organized religion and commerce and corruption became, instead, a bunch of action scenes strung together and no context. This isn’t even one of those movies that’s so bad it’s good. It’s just plain awful. “Righteous Kill” -- The big hoo-hah hype about this movie was that it was the Robert De Niro/Al Pacino movie that fans have been awaiting for some 30 years. Sadly, it should have been made 30 years ago. After more than a decade of phoning it in, De Niro and Pacino look old, tired and bored -- just like the audiences who got suckered into seeing this stinker in the theaters. TV SERIES “Battlestar Galactica” Season 4.0 “The Tudors” Season 2 “Duckman” Four-Season Pack “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” Collection 3 “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” “The Waltons” The Complete 8th Season “Frisky Dingo” Season 2 “Mannix” The Second Season “Transformers” Season Two (c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.

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By Samantha Weaver • Those who paint their fingernails these days tend to choose the color on a whim. In ancient China, though, it was a much more serious matter: The color of your fingernails was an indication of your social rank. • It was newsman Dan Rather who made the following sage observation: “Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn’t block traffic.” • Here’s something to consider the next time your allergies start acting up: It’s been reported that the force of the air movement generated by a sneeze can reach more than 100 miles per hour. • In 19th-century England, one Dr. William Palmer was suspected of going on a killing spree, poisoning his mother-in-law, his wife, his brother, five of his children and at least two people to whom he owed money. He was finally brought to trial for the murder of his friend John Parsons Cook, who had become violently ill and then died after having dinner at Palmer’s home. Palmer was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. As he was mounting the gallows, witnesses claim that Palmer looked at the trapdoor and exclaimed, “Are you sure it’s safe?” • If you’re ever lost in the wilderness of the eastern central part of North America, it might help to look for Silphium laciniatum, better known as the compass flower or compass plant. This perennial herb resembles the sunflower and can grow from 3 to 12 feet tall. The plant’s usefulness is based on the fact that its leaves tend to orient themselves so that they point north and south. (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The Aviator. Martin Scorsese’s lavish film tribute to Howard Hughes examined not only Hughes’ years as a pilot, but also his stint as a motion picture director. Scorsese shows Hughes directing the final scene of his 1930 epic Hell’s Angels. After saying “cut,” he held up a large sign that said “It’s a wrap!” But a director from that era would not have used that phrase; it didn’t enter the film industry vernacular for another 20 years.

• Twister. The beginning of this film is set in 1969 and shows young Jo’s family rushing to the storm cellar when her father announces that an F-5 tornado is • Changeling. This 2008 film was based approaching. The “F” stands for Fujita, on a true story of a series of brutal the scale on which the intensity of crimes committed in the late 1920s. The tornadoes are measured. But the Fujita beginning of the film is set in 1928, and Scale wasn’t introduced until 1971. Angelina Jolie’s character is seen giving What’s more, the Fujita scale isn’t applied her son some Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted to ahead of time. The rating system is Flakes for breakfast. However, that cereal based on the amount of destruction the wasn’t brought to market until 1952. Also, tornado causes on the ground, not its at one point in the movie, a policeman size or speed. makes reference to a “serial killer.” But • Rob Roy. It’s the early 18th century in the term “serial killer” was not used until the Scottish Highlands, yet actor Liam 1981, when the press coined the phrase Neeson (in the title role) appears in at to describe the heinous crimes of John least one scene with a modern-day Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. adhesive bandage covering a boo• Goodfellas. One scene in this boo on his hand. In another scene, a quintessential gangster film opens with fluorescent lamp is depicted on the wall the caption: “Idlewild Airport, 1963” while of a pub, many years before electricity the main character is shown leaning was harnessed for such uses. against a 1965 Chevrolet Impala. In the same scene, a Boeing 747 is seen taking off in the background, even though those jumbo jets didn’t enter air service until 1970. • The Green Mile. Most of the action in this 1999 movie takes place on Death Row in a Louisiana prison in 1935. Several scenes in the film deal with execution via the electric chair. In reality, Louisiana was a “hanging state” until the state legislature voted to switch to the electric chair in 1940. • Amadeus. If you really want to be nitpicky about Mozart biopic, you could note the fact that the famous composer, who died in 1791, is seen playing a celesta, an instrument that was not invented until almost a century later. A more noticeable

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