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• Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. Seuss, a name with Bavarian roots, was his mother’s maiden name and was pronounced “Zoice,” (rhyming with “rejoice”), not “Soose,” the Anglicized pronunciation.

• As a senior at Dartmouth College, Ted Geisel was the editor of “Jack-O-Lantern,” the college’s humor magazine, a medium he used to publish his cartoons. Prohibition was in full swing in 1925, and when Geisel and nine of his friends were caught drinking gin in his room, all the young men were put on probation. Geisel lost his position as editor of the magazine, but continued to publish his cartoons under several aliases, including T. Seuss.

• Geisel continued his education at Oxford University, studying English literature. Although he got close to earning a doctorate, he dropped out to travel around Europe.

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DR. SEUSS (continued): • Geisel returned to the United States to pursue a career as an illustrator and cartoonist for several notable publications, including Vanity Fair and Life. The Saturday Evening Post was the first to publish one of his cartoons in their July, 1927 issue. Geisel received $25 for the cartoon, which prompted him to make the move to New York City.

• Geisel branched out into advertising campaigns, and created an extremely successful campaign for a popular insecticide called Flit.

The slogan “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” became the trendy catchphrase of the day.

• While Geisel and his wife were aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic in 1936, he passed the time by putting words to the rhythms of the ship’s engines. The result was Dr. Seuss’ first children’s book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It was the story of a boy named Marco, who imagines a procession of fantasy creatures as he travels along Mulberry Street. Although all Marco really saw was an old horse pulling a wagon, he spins a tale of whizzleworps and cholmondelets. The real Mulberry Street is less than a mile from Geisel’s boyhood home in Springfield, Massachusetts. The book was rejected 27 times before fate finally stepped in. Geisel was walking down the street and bumped into a friend who had just landed a job as an editor in the children’s section at Vanguard Press. Geisel told the friend he had given up and planned to destroy the book. The friend asked to have a look, and Vanguard published the book in 1937, when Dr. Seuss was 33. continued on the next page TELL ALL THESE BUSINESSES YOU SAW THEM IN

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I feel terrible that he got so ill with a respiratory infection, and that I didn’t notice anything wrong. What signs should I have looked for that might have kept him from getting so ill? -- Doreen in Wheeling, West Virginia DEAR DOREEN: Observant owners often can spot when things aren’t quite right with their kittens and adult cats, but sometimes illness strikes seemingly without warning. Kittens can become ill very quickly; Maxie may have begun showing symptoms during the night, when you were asleep and couldn’t observe him. And often, cats reveal few to no symptoms at all.

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• Dr. Seuss’ second book, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, was published in 1938, followed by The King’s Stilts in 1939 and Horton Hatches the Egg in 1940. When World War II broke out, Ted Geisel supported the effort by designing posters for the Treasury Department and War Production Board. He became an Army captain in 1943, overseeing the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit, creating training films, one of which was THE “X” FACTOR (continued): awarded the 1947 Academy Award for Docu• Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have mentary Feature. abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies • After the war, Geisel returned to advertising, to you! which was his main source of income, although • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on the Mediterranean Sea sailed abooks, small threehe continued to publish children’s masted vessel with square and triangular sails including If I Ran the Zoo in 1950 and Horton that enabled them to sail faster than their Hears a Who invictims.

1954. His big breakthrough prospective Depending on the size of came in 1957 with The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Sethe ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 guns uss’ 13thmight book.be mounted on the vessel. xenia a variety of worked meanings.

• • The Duringword World War has II, Dr. Seuss had ToWilliam the ancient Greeks,who it was theonconcept with Spaulding, went to be- of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown come director the education at it’s to those far of from home. To division the botanist, Houghton Mifflin publishers.

Spaulding, con- in the effect of pollen on a seed.

And to those Ohio, it’s children the county Greene cerned that wereseat not of learning toCounty, read, a community about miles (34 words km) that from approached Seuss, with 21 a list of 348 Dayton. he felt were important for first-graders to know.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to Spaulding asked for a book containing 250 a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of of ancient those words, andgymnasiums. only those words, Greek Here,a book athletes would can’t exercise during Nine inclement “children put down.” monthsweather. later, To the Romans, the xystus was the garden Seuss presented him with The Cat in the Hat, walkway in front of the porticoes, where they using 236 words from the list. The book was an planted flower beds. immediate success, selling nearly a million cop• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” ieswords, by the xyster end of and 1960. xiphisterna. The xyster is a • How the Grinch Stoleused Christmas was also surgical instrument for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage published in 1957, and in 1958, The Cat in theat Hatthe lower end of the body’s sternum, that long Comes Back! Seuss’ success led him to flat bone located at the center of the chest. found Beginner Books, a division of Random • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” House, books designed to help children learn to and several of our words use it for a prefix. read. continued on the page 5 Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition LIKE AND SHARE OUR FACEBOOK known as xanthopsia, everything PAGE FOR YOUR CHANCEthey AT see seems to have a yellow hue.

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DR. SEUSS (continued): • Fellow publisher Bennett Cerf bet Seuss that he could not write a book using 50 words or less. This challenge resulted in 1960’s Green Eggs and Ham, Seuss’ best-selling title and the fourth best-selling children’s book of all time.

The text does in fact consist of just 50 different words.

• Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 books, of which 40 are in rhyme. Twenty-two other books were illustrated by others, co-authored by Seuss, written under another name, or published after his death. Of the total of 66 books, only five are not written in rhyme. For the 10 books that Geisel wrote and others illustrated, he used the pen name Theo LeSieg, which is Geisel spelled backwards. These include Ten Apples Up on Top, I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, and The Tooth Book.

• Although Dr. Seuss married twice, he had no children of his own. He did have two stepdaughters with his second wife. When he was frequently asked how he could write so well for children, his reply was, “You have ‘em, I’ll entertain ‘em.” It’s ironic that he wrote his first children’s book in the same year that his first wife learned that she could not have children.

• Dr. Seuss’ books have sold more than 600 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages.

• Of all the characters invented by Seuss, he said the one that was most based on himself was the Grinch. He once described himself as a “nasty anti-Christmas character,” and wrote the story to see if he “could rediscover something about Christmas” that he’d lost.

• Dr. Seuss final book was Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, written in 1990, the year before he died.

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CORPSE FLOWER Ew, what’s that stench? If that beautiful flower smells disgusting, it just might be a corpse flower. Read along and discover the facts on this unusual plant.

• Found in the humid rainforests of Sumatra, the corpse flower is the world’s largest flowering plant, reaching heights of 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.6 m), and blossoms up to 6 feet (1.83 m) wide, although the record-holding flower reached over 10 feet (3 m). It was first discovered in Sumatra in 1878 by an Italian botanist. Although it is cultivated at many arboretums worldwide, it grows wild in Asia’s tropical regions.

• The corpse flower is an inflorescence, meaning that a cluster of flowers is arranged on one stem. A leafy sheath known as a spathe, and resembling a large petal, encloses the flower cluster. Irises and crocuses have the same construction. The corpse flower’s stem alone weighs about 110 lbs. (50 kg).

• The large dark burgundy red flower of the corpse plant might lead you to sample its scent. However, it emits a very strong displeasing odor similar to rotting meat or a decaying corpse beginning about 12 hours before it blooms.

• It requires seven to ten years of growth before the corpse flower can bloom, and they usually bloom only once every few decades and remain open for just 24 to 48 hours. Because of this, nurseries and arboretums around the world schedule special events in conjunction with the blooming, gathering large crowds of visitors.

• The bloom usually opens between mid-afternoon and late evening and remains open all night. After 12 hours, it already begins to wilt.

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CORPSE FLOWER (continued): • So why does this unusual plant smell like rotting flesh? The corpse flower has both male and female flowers, yet they are unable to pollinate.

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Carnivorous insects, such as dung beetles and flesh flies, feed on dead flesh. In order to draw these pollinators in, the flower is a dark burgundy color with a pungent odor that imitates a dead animal. The female flower opens first, then a day or two later, the male flower opens, thus preventing the flower from self-pollinating.

• These flowers also have the unusual ability to warm up to 98 degrees F (36.7 C), which further boosts the odor and fools the insects into believing the flower is food. The spiked center part of the flower is covered with a large quantity of pollen. The bugs fly inside, then realize there is nothing to eat. They fly away, but their legs are covered with pollen that ensures pollination of the stinky plant. When the pollination is complete, the flower collapses.

• What gives this rare flower its powerful stench? Several chemicals are released by the plant, including dimethyl trisulfide, the same chemical emitted by limburger cheese, and trimethylamine, also found in rotting fish and ammonia. The isovaleric acid found in the corpse flower is the same as that which causes sweaty socks to stink, as well as indole, a chemical that lends its aroma to human feces. Mixed in with these foul-smelling aromas is benzyl alcohol, a sweet floral scent that can be found in jasmine and hyacinth.

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PANCAKES Happy Pancake Week! In conjunction with Shrove Tuesday, February 28, Tidbits is flipping over this breakfast food!

• International Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday takes place 47 days before Easter Sunday. Due to the variation of Easter’s date based on the cycles of the moon, Pancake Day can occur anytime between February 3 and March 9. It falls one day before Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of Lent. Over 1,000 years ago, the tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began. It was a way of eating up all leftover fatty, rich, perishable foods before the fasting period of the Lenten season began. The term “Mardi Gras” is French for “Fat Tuesday.”

• The word “shrove” is the past tense of “shrive,” which translates “absolve” or “confess.” Therefore, many Christians use the day as a day of self-examination, reflecting on any wrongs from which they need to repent.

• Pancakes have been around for thousands of years, with the earliest known made from ground grains and nuts, mixed with water or milk and cooked on hot stones. The first pancake recipe similar to what we know today appeared in an English cookbook in the 15th century. Citizens of Buckinghamshire, England were the first to celebrate Pancake Day in 1445.

• According to French legend, if you hold a coin in one hand while flipping a pancake with other one, you can make a wish come true.

• Although pancake batter is frequently made with milk (along with flour, sugar, butter, and eggs), those pancakes made with buttermilk are softer and fluffier. Before we had baking soda, cooks used fresh snow because it contained ammonia, which made the cakes fluffier.

• How about some record holders in the pancake department? The world’s largest pancake to date was made in Manchester, England, in 1994. It measured 49 ft., 3 in. (15.01 m) in diameter and was 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick. Calorie count for the massive cake was estimated at 2 million. The fastest pancake flipper is an Australian chef, who flipped 140 in 60 seconds in 2012. The highest pancake flip occurred in Cheektowaga, New York, in 2010 when the cake’s flip was measured at 31 ft., 1 in. (9.47) meters. The longest continuing pancake flipping in a frying pan occurred in Niagara Falls in 1999, when Mike Cuzzacrea flipped cakes nonstop for 3 hours, 2 minutes, and 27 seconds.

And the record for the most pancakes made in one hour by an individual was set in Washington state in 2013, when a restaurant made 1,092 pancakes in 60 minutes.

• The earliest written record of the use of the expression “as flat as a pancake” is from 1611 according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

• Aunt Jemima pancake flour was the first ready-mix food available on the grocer’s shelves. It was invented in Missouri and made its debut in 1889.

• The first International House of Pancakes, or IHOP as we call them, opened in Toluca Lake, California in 1958. Today there are more than 1600 locations.

• What do you call your pancakes? Hotcakes, griddlecakes, flapjacks? The French call them “panne-quaiques” (what we know as crepes), while the Dutch say “pannenkoekento,” and the Austrians, “Palatschinken.”

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