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• Harold Lloyd was one of Hollywood’s first moviemakers and he did his own stunts. His career nearly ended in 1919 due to a mix-up.

The prop department manufactured bombs that looked like small black bowling balls with fuses sticking out. Some of them were full of real flash powder and some of them were merely smoke bombs.

• During a publicity shoot, Lloyd picked up what he thought was a harmless smoke bomb, lit the fuse, and proceeded to light the publicity man’s cigarette from the fuse. Unfortunately the prop man had mixed some of the live bombs in with the fake ones, and the bomb exploded catastrophically while Lloyd was holding it.

• He was lucky he wasn’t killed. As it was, he lost his thumb and forefinger, suffered facial lacerations, and nearly lost an eye. The blast blew a hole in the studio ceiling, split a production worker’s false teeth in half, and caused the photographer to faint. The prop man and cameraman were also injured, but recovered. continued on next page

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TOM MIX VS LEOPARD • Tom Mix was a rodeo champion in the early 1900s. One day a rodeo organizer showed him a cable from a film company looking for cowboys willing to do stunt work for a movie they were making. Mix signed up and that’s how he got started in films.

• In 1914 Mix was acting as safety man during the filming of “Lost in the Jungle.” Heroine Kathryn Williams was to cower between two logs while a leopard menaced her. The leopard had been trained to catch and kill chickens, and a chicken was tied directly behind the actress out of camera range. Mix stood by with a shotgun just in case.

• As the leopard stalked the chicken, the breeze kicked up, ruffling Kathryn’s hair which flew up into a feathery halo. The confused leopard leapt at the actress instead of the chicken, sinking its claws into her head. Mix, unable to shoot the animal without endangering the actress, grabbed the leopard by the tail and dragged it off.

• The director saw the potential in this heroic act and Tom Mix’s career as an actor and stuntman was launched. He went on to make 70 Westerns for the studio, performing all his own stunts. He ended up breaking each leg four times as well as fracturing ribs, ankles, and hands. His popularity soared until he was one of Hollywood’s top stars, earning $17,000 per week. He died in 1940 in a car crash at the age of 60.

A BUSY GUY • Guinness Book of World Records awarded Jackie Chan the record for the most film credits for his work in movie “Chinese Zodiac” where he was not only the lead actor performing all his stunts, but also the writer, director, producer, cinematographer, art director, production manager, prop man, gaffer, composer, theme song vocalist, and catering coordinator. continued on the next page

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• William Duncan, a Scottish actor, insisted on doing his own stunts. In 1915 he plunged off an 80-foot (24 m) cliff into the sea, but the cameras on the boats were rocked so violently by the waves that they were unable to get any close-up shots of Duncan supposedly drowning. So they moved to a 10-foot deep (3 m) indoor tank in a studio.

• In the script, Duncan’s character plunges off the cliff to avoid capture by pursuing guards, who then shoot at him in the water. To simulate rifle shots hitting the water, production assistants were armed with heavy iron nuts and instructed to hurl them at Duncan’s head as he was going under.

• To ensure a life-like drowning, Duncan was tied to a rope which ran through an iron ring on the bottom of the tank and over to several men on the opposite side who were to pull on the rope to drag Duncan under. Duncan was then supposed to release himself from the rope and swim to the surface.

• Just as Duncan was being pulled under, one of the nuts hit him in the head, knocking him senseless. He suddenly found himself underwater, tied to a rope with no recollection of what he was supposed to do. He nearly drowned before the details of how to release himself from the rope came back to him. Meanwhile, the assistants were standing around the tank thinking, “Gee, he sure can stay under water a long time.”

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• Mary Fuller was one of the first female stuntwomen. In 1916 she played the part of a mermaid. Her mermaid tail was firmly fitted to her bottom half and she was placed, bedecked with lilies and coral, on a rocky point off the coast in the midst of an angry sea. While the cameras rolled, she noted that the tide was rising far more rapidly than anyone had considered possible. She shouted to the director who stood on the shore, but she couldn’t be heard over the crashing of the waves. The cameraman was totally absorbed in getting the shot and didn’t notice her predicament. Water began splashing over her. Waves tore away her lilies and coral.

She could not move because of the tail. Finally a wave swept over her, dragging her out to sea.

Only then did the men realize the danger she was in. They dragged her back to shore, but the movie cameras were swept out to sea and never recovered.

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• In 1931 Frank Capra was filming “Dirigible” when he needed realistic-looking frozen breath.

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Capra designed metal cages to fit inside the mouth of each actor involved in the scene, and then filled the cages with chips of dry ice. Actor Hobart Bosworth found the cage interfered with his speech, so he threw the cage away and put the dry ice directly into his mouth. A second later he was in complete agony as the intense cold burned his mouth. Parts of his jaw, teeth, and tongue had to be surgically removed afterwards.

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JIMSON WEED • Jimson weed is a double-edged plant. On one hand, it’s the source of several invaluable pharmaceutical medicines. On the other hand, it can kill.

• The Latin name for the plant is “Datura stramonium.”

• “Datura” comes from the Hindi word meaning “thorny apple” because the seed pod is spiky and round.

• “Stramonium” springs from the Greek words “strychnos” denoting the poisonous nightshades (a word that also gave us “strychnine”) and the word “maniakos” meaning “mad.” Jimson weed is a member of the nightshade family, and it can drive a creature mad.

• The name “jimson weed” is a shortening of “Jamestown weed.” In Jamestown, Virginia in 1676, a group of British soldiers helped themselves to a salad made with the leaves of this toxic plant. It took them eleven days to recover from the resulting delirium and hallucinations.

• It’s also known by various other names, including devil’s trumpet and loco weed.

• Every part of this weedy herb is dangerously toxic: leaves, flowers, seeds, and stems. Reportedly, even honey made from the nectar can be dangerous.

• Because it has a bitter taste, most animals avoid it, though livestock fenced in pens or fields where other forage is scarce may graze on it to their detriment.

• A primary danger comes when the weed is growing wild amid hayfields and it is harvested with the silage and fed to livestock. Likewise, chickens have been poisoned by eating the seeds that were milled by accident along with other edible grains. (cont’d on next page)

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JIMSON WEED (cont’d) • Jimson weed is an annual herb that grows up to five feet (1.5 m) tall and can be found nearly worldwide in moderate climates. It prefers disturbed areas such as garbage dumps, roadsides, and pastureland rich with animal waste.

• When any part of the plant is ingested, it triggers delirium and hallucinations that mimic schizophrenia, making it difficult for the victim to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Victims often speak to people who aren’t there, or smoke imaginary cigarettes.

• It also causes alarming symptoms including an irregular heartbeat, seizures, high blood pressure, hypothermia, amnesia, and coma.

Symptoms usually last 24 to 48 hours but can persist for up to two weeks.

• Yet the plant is the source of a number of essential pharmaceutical medications. Scopolamine helps prevent nausea and vomiting caused by motion sickness or following anesthesia and surgery. Atropine is used to treat poisoning, to speed an irregular heartbeat, to reduce salivation during surgery, and to dilate the pupils of the eyes.

• The amount of scopolamine and atropine varies widely in the plant, changing from day to day depending on the age of the plant and the conditions it’s growing under. This unpredictable nature makes it dangerous to use the plant for home remedies, especially since the difference between a therapeutic dose and a toxic dose is difficult to discern without medical apparatus.

• Some people who have ingested Jimson weed, whether accidentally or intentionally, have ended up in psychiatric wards when they were unable to describe the reason for their bizarre behavior.

• Some experts think that ancient Delphic oracles boiled the plant and inhaled the steam in order to induce visions.

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THE ISLAND OF SURTSEY

• Surtsey is an island off the coast of Iceland that was born from a volcanic eruption that started in 1963 and continued until 1967.

• In 1963, men on a fishing trawler off the coast of Iceland saw a column of smoke and thought it was a ship on fire. When they investigated, they found that it was instead an underwater volcanic eruption. By the end of the week, the volcano had broken the surface of the sea and an island began to form.

• After the eruption ceased, the island was measured at one square mile in area (2.7 km2) but in the years since, wave action has eroded the island and it is now half the size that it once was. Though erosion continues, it’s unlikely the island will ever completely disappear because the waves now beat against the hard volcanic shores instead of the loose volcanic fragments.

• The island is 20 miles (32 km) south of the southern coast of Iceland. The name is Icelandic meaning “Surtr’s Island” named for the mythological Norse giant Surtur, who is charged with the responsibility of setting fire to the world after the Last Judgement.

• The formation and development of this island has been closely studied by scientists who want to understand more about how a sterile environment is colonized. Access to the island has been controlled since its birth.

• When the island was only one month old, microbes hovered in the air over the island. The first flies and butterflies appeared on the barren island a few months later.

• By 1967 when the volcanic eruption finally ceased, there were 63 species of insects found there. By 1970 the list of insect species found on the island had grown to 136. Most of the insects found had been blown there and did not survive. However, by 1970 there were breeding populations of both springtails and midges.

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SURTSEY (cont’d) • The birds found Surtsey quickly as well. Only two weeks after the island had been formed, sea gulls were landing there to rest. In 1967, 14 species of birds stopped by the island reguTHE “X” FACTOR larly. By 1970 three different(continued): species of birds • Do nesting you suffer from xeroderma?

If you have were on Surtsey while 16 other species abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies stopped by occasionally to rest. to you!

• Plants also arrived in short order. A sea rocket • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on was the first plant to set down roots there, in the Mediterranean Sea sailedofathe small three1965. Sea rockets are members cabbage masted vessel with square and triangular sails family growthem well intosalty sandy condithat that enabled sail and faster than their tions. prospective victims. Depending on the size of • By 1969 there were four additional species of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 gunson might be mounted the vessel. plants Surtsey.

Many ofon these plants grew around a barrel scientists placed the • The word xenia has a had variety of on meanings. island to collect on of To the ancientrainwater.

Greeks, itBirds was perched the concept and Their courtesy shown thehospitality, edge of thegenerosity, barrel to drink. droppings, to those seeds far from home.

To had the eaten, botanist, containing of plants they fellit’s the effect of pollen on a seed.

And to those in on the ground and sprouted.

Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, • Mosses also grew well, but scientists suspecta community about 21 miles (34 km) from ed Dayton. they had brought in the moss spores on the bottoms of their shoes.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to • Another brought in unintentionally by of a long, item covered portico, or main entrance, a scientist a tomato plantHere, that was ancient included Greek gymnasiums. athletes found growing on the island inclement in 1969. Researchwould exercise during weather. theconfused Romans,atthe was until the garden ersTo were howxystus it arrived, they walkway in front of the porticoes, where they concluded that someone had defecated and the planted flower beds. tomato seed had sprouted after passing through • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” the human digestive system. The tomato plant words, andit xiphisterna. xyster is a was pulledxyster up, lest contaminateThe the natural surgical instrument used for scraping bones, order of things. while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at • When a large, grass-covered tussock washed the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long ashore in 1974, scientists found it harbored 663 flat bone located at the center of the chest. land invertebrates, most of which survived the • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” seaand crossing. seals were breeding on several By of 1983, our words use it for a prefix. theXanthophyll island. Today about 60 species of plants is a yellow pigment found along grow the island regularly. withon cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow are xanthopous.

To those • Today there is stems a webcam, a weather station, abnormal condition andsuffering a hut to from shelterthe scientists onvision the island. known as xanthopsia, everything Only about 100 people have set foot onthey the see seems to have a yellow hue. island since it formed.

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