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A SALUTE TO MOM! by Sarah Bates
Celebrating Mom is an international tradition that spans centuries – and here at Tidbits, we like to celebrate that tradition with some facts, quotes and trivia dedicated to Mom.
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• The oldest woman to conceive naturally was Dawn Brooke of Guersney. She gave birth to her son on August 20, 1997 at fifty-nine years old. • Gaia, or Terra is the ancient goddess of the earth and is considered by many historians to be representative of Mother Earth. • When John F. Kennedy, Jr. dated Madonna back in the 80s, Jackie would have nothing to do with it. John was quoted as saying, “I don’t want to string her along if I’m really just rebelling against Mother.” • “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” - Sophia Loren
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Page 2 A SALUTE TO MOM! (continued) • “Mother” is an energy drink from the land down under and is put out by the Australian distributors of Coca-Cola. • August is the most popular month for women to give birth. • All of Mr. Rogers’s cardigans were handknit by his mother. • Mother’s Day is officially celebrated on May 10th in India. • “Mother” (1926) is a film about a woman’s struggle during the Russian revolution. • A mother is someone who studies moths. It is pronounced moth-er. • Jayne Bleackly gave birth to her daughter Annie (3/20/00) 208 days after giving birth to her son, Joseph (9/3/99). This is the shortest interval between births for one mother on record. • Rhea is the mother of most Greek deities, including Zues. • A celebration of mothers was practiced in early Europe on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On this day, Christians celebrated the church they were baptized in as their “mother church.” In the 1600s, this celebration was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Day. • Mothering Day was brought to America with the Pilgrims. • The American celebration of Mother’s Day began with Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation. She called for an international Mother’s Day to celebrate peace and motherhood. Howe was the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. • In 1908, U.S. Senator Elmer Burkett proposed a National Mother’s Day. The proposal was defeated, but by 1909, nearly all the states held Mother’s Day services. • In 1949, Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. • Elizabeth Ann Buttle gave birth to her son Joseph 41 years and 185 days after she gave birth to her daughter Belinda in 1956. This is the longest interval between births by one woman in recorded history. • Jenna Cotton has three children born on the same date: Ayden 10/02/03, Logan 10/02/06 and Kayla 10/02/07. What are
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the odds? 7.5 in every one million births. • “I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” – Rose Kennedy • Another film titled “Mother” (1996) stars Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. Reynolds’ role of Mother was originally offered to both Doris Day and Nancy Reagan. • Omkari Panwar of India is the oldest recorded woman to give birth. She was estimated to be about seventy years old when she gave birth to her twins– it was an estimate due to the fact that she does not have a birth certificate. She conceived through in vitro fertilization and delivered the children in 2008. • Although it is currently unverified, a Polish record shows Margaret Krasiwa (16551763) married for the third time at age ninety-four and had three children in that marriage. • In Yugoslovia, Children’s Day is celebrated three days before Christmas. Mother’s Day is the following Sunday and Father’s Day is the Sunday after that. • Rosinete Palmeira Serrao volunteered to be the surrogate mother for her daughter, Claudia de Brito, who could not have children. Rosinete gave birth to her own grandchildren on September 20, 2007. • Liza Minelli and Lorna Luft both come by their talent honestly as the daughters of Judy Garland - but did you know that Garland was the daughter of the vaudevillians Frank and Ethel Gumm? • Bast is a goddess of Egypt and is called the “mother of all cats.” • First Mom Michelle Obama won hearts back in the summer of 2008 by telling supporters she only spent two days a week on the campaign trail and made sure to be home by the end of the second day to
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be with her kids. • “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” - Jewish Proverb • The Greek myth for the origins of the seasons all started with the sorrow of a mother. Peresephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, was kidnapped by Hades and taken to his kingdom in the underworld. After many difficulties, Persephone was only forced to stay with Hades for one season of the year and it is said that Demeter, the goddess of grain and fertility, makes this season the most barren and desolate of all the seasons as a sign of her mourning the time her daughter is away. • The Egyptian goddess Isis is one of the earliest known celebrated mother figures. She was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus, the first ruler of a unified Egpyt. She was worshipped as the mother of all Pharaohs. • Mother’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in May in South Africa and the last Sunday in May in Sweden. • Feodor Vassilyev was a Russian peasant who was married twice. What is most remarkable about him was that his first wife set the record for most children born of a single mother. According to the Guiness book of World Records, Feodor’s wife gave birth twenty-seven times and sixtyseven of her sixty-nine children survived infancy. How is this possible? Feodor’s wife bore him sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets!
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1. LITERATURE: Which literary character grew up at 4 Privet Drive?
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• On May 9, 1671, in London, Irish adventurer “Captain” Thomas Blood is captured attempting to steal the Crown Jewels in retaliation after being deprived of his Ireland estates. King Charles was so impressed with Blood’s audacity that he restored his estates in Ireland and made him a member of his court with an annual pension.
2. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “pan” mean? 3. SCIENCE: What is the primary substance that makes up most of a plant’s cell walls? 4. AD SLOGANS: What product’s sales slogan was: “Tastes so good, cats ask for it by name”? 5. MYTHOLOGY: What does the Greek goddess Iris personify?
• On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet and are connected in Promontory, Utah. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. Journeys that had taken months by wagon train or weeks by boat now took only days.
6. ENTERTAINERS: What was the name of singer Michael Jackson’s famous California estate? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the adjective used to describe bees? 8. ANATOMY: What is the correct medical name of the shoulder blade?
• On May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, with 1,198 people drowned. It was later revealed that the Lusitania was carrying about 173 tons of war munitions for Britain, which the Germans cited as justification for the attack.
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• On May 6, 1940, John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they lose the family farm and move to California in search of a better life. • On May 4, 1965, San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays hits his 512th career home run to break Mel Ott’s National League record. Mays would finish his career with 660 home runs, good for third on the all-time list at the time of his retirement.
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• On May 8, 1984, the Soviet government announces a boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles. Although the Soviets cited security concerns, the boycott was more likely due to America’s generous aid to Muslim rebels fighting in Afghanistan.
Barrel of Knowledge • Longest tornado path: 293 miles on the ground, 1917, traveled from Missouri to Indiana. • Greatest snowfall in a day: 75.8 inches (Silver Lake, Colorado; April 14-15, 1921) • Largest hailstone: 17.5 inches (Coffeyville, Kansas; September 3, 1979), weight 1.67 pounds
• On May 5, 1995, the Dallas area is hit by a severe hailstorm that causes many serious injuries. It was the worst recorded hailstorm to hit the United States in the 20th century. The Texas storm came on suddenly, and many people had not yet sought shelter when tennisball-sized hail began to fall.
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May 04, 2009
WEEKLY FUNNIES
By Samantha Weaver
• You may recall the character of Tarzan from movies and cartoons as somewhat lacking in language skills -- “Me Tarzan, you Jane.” In the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, however, Tarzan was quite a linguist, speaking French, Latin, English, German, Dutch, Portuguese, several dialects of Arabic and ancient Mayan. • It was expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer Lawrence George Durrell who made the following observation: “There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her or turn her into literature.” • Researchers have determined that infants tend to react strongly to the color red -- and to no other color. • If you suffer from entomophobia -- the fear of insects -- you might not want to read the following tidbit of information: Those who study such things say that there are more than a quarter of a million different species of beetle. • In the mid-1990s, a Thai man who kept peacocks was killed by one of his pets when the sole male in the flock clawed him viciously. In retribution, the man’s family killed the bird and cooked it in curry. • Four-time Pulitzer-winner and American poet laureate Robert Frost was named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. • The neck of the trumpeter swan is the same length as the rest of its body. • You might be surprised to learn that air conditioning in private homes was available in the United States as early as 1929. Of course, that was the same year as the great stock market crash, so few people availed themselves of the newfangled -- and expensive -- convenience. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
Thought for the Day: “A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.” -- P.J. O’Rourke
Sophie and Shirley, two elderly widows in a Florida adult community, are curious about the latest arrival in their building -- a quiet, nice looking gentleman who keeps to himself. Shirley says, “Sophie, you know I’m shy. Why don’t you go over to him at the pool and find out a little about him. He looks so lonely.” Sophie agrees, and later that day at the pool, she walks up to him and says, “Excuse me, mister. I hope I’m not prying, but my friend and I were wondering why you looked so lonely.” “Of course I’m lonely,” he says, “I’ve spent the past 20 years in prison.” “You’re kidding! What for?” “For killing my third wife. I strangled her.” “What happened to your second wife?” “I shot her.”“And, if I may ask, your first wife?” “We had a fight and she fell off a building.” “Oh my,” says Sophie. Then turning to her friend on the other side of the pool, she yells, “Yoo hoo, Shirley. He’s single.” As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection. A thick slab of ham, a fresh bun, crisp lettuce and plenty of expensive, light brown, gourmet mustard. The corners of my jaw aching in anticipation, I carried it to the picnic table in our backyard, picked it up with both hands but was stopped by my wife suddenly at my side. “Hold Johnny (our six-week-old son) while I get my sandwich,” she said.I had him balanced between my left elbow and shoulder and was reaching again for the ham sandwich when I noticed a streak of mustard on my fingers. I love mustard. I had no napkin. I licked it off. It was not mustard!No man ever put a baby down faster. It was the first and only time I have sprinted with my tongue protruding. With a washcloth in each hand I did the sort of routine shoeshine boys do, only I did it on my tongue. Later (after she stopped crying from laughing so hard) my wife said, “Now you know why they call that mustard ‘Poupon.’” The children begged for a hamster, and after the usual fervent vows that they alone would care for it, they got one. They named it Danny. Two months later, when Mom found herself responsible for cleaning and feeding the creature, she located a prospective new home for it. The children took the news of Danny’s imminent departure quite well, though one of them remarked, “He’s been around here a long time--we’ll miss him.” “Yes,” Mom replied, “But he’s too much work for one person, and since I’m that one person, I say he goes.” Another child offered, “Well, maybe if he wouldn’t eat so much and wouldn’t be so messy, we could keep him.” But Mom was firm. “It’s time to take Danny
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to his new home now,” she insisted. “Go and get his cage.” With one voice and in tearful outrage the children shouted, “Danny? We thought you said Daddy!” A blonde couple was delighted when their long wait to adopt a baby came to an end. The adoption center called and told them that they had a wonderful Russian baby boy and the couple took him without hesitation. On the way home from the adoption center, they stopped by the local college so they each could enroll in night courses. After they filled out the forms, the registration clerk inquired, “What ever possessed you to study Russian?” The couple said proudly, “We just adopted a Russian baby, and in a year or so he’ll start to talk. We just want to be able to understand him.” Winston Churchill is arguably one of the greatest speakers of all time - and he had a wicked sense of humor. One time he was speaking with Lady Astor. Lady Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband, I should flavor your coffee with poison.” Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.” I was scheduled to fly from North Carolina to Germany, where my husband was stationed in the military. As I checked in at the airport, the ticket agent asked me some standard security questions. “Has anyone given you a package that you didn’t pack yourself?” he asked. I told him that my mother-in-law had given me a parcel to take to her son. He paused for a second, looked at me very carefully and asked: “Does she like you?”
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Laugh Lines! A Mother’s Dictionary ...
Tidbits® - Denver Metro Area • Verbal: Able to whine in words. • Whoops!!!: An exclamation that translates into, “Get a rag, quick!!”
• Bottle Feeding: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2 am, too.
• Drooling: How teething babies wash their chins. • Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. • Family Planning: The art of spacing children far enough apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster. • Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn’t appreciate the strained carrots. • Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word. • Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid. • Look Out!: What it’s too late for your child to do by the time you say it. • Prenatal: When your life was still somewhat your own. • Show Off: A child who is more talented than yours. • Sterilize: What you do to your first baby’s pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby’s pacifier by blowing on it. • Temper Tantrums: What you should keep to a minimum so as not to upset the children. • Top Bunk: Where a child wearing Superman pajamas should never be.
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