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“What youngster has not dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice’s nonsensical Wonderland?” -- Walt Disney

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• Behind the bridge of the nose and below the brain, two small pieces of tissue dangle in the nasal passage. They’re packed with ten million receptor cells and covered with mucus. Nerve fibers connect them to the two olfactory bulbs below the brain. Airborne chemicals are carried up the nose, mixed with warm humid air, trapped by mucus, and sampled by these sensors. The signals are sent to the brain which identifies the odor. Nerves in the nose are the only nerves in the human body that regenerate. This may be due to the fact that they’re the only nerves that are out in the open, protected only by mucus. • The average person can name more than 2,000 odors. Trained experts can recognize over 10,000. The power of the nose peaks in middle age and then fades. About half of people over 80 cannot smell, which may account for the high number of accidental gas poisonings each year among the elderly. People with Alzheimer’s disease are likely to have smelling deficits. One out of every 15 victims of head injury wakes up in a permanently odorless world. Accidents are the leading cause of the inability to smell, an affliction suffered by 2 million Americans. (continued on next page)

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• According to legend, Frederick the Great of Prussia was inspecting his soldiers when he noticed their sleeves were dirtier than the rest of their uniforms. When he asked why, he was told that the men used their sleeves to wipe the sweat from their brow and to blow their noses on. To stop this, he ordered that buttons be sewn on the sleeves, giving the men a nasty scratch whenever they used their sleeves as hankies. Today men’s suits are still adorned with useless buttons.

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• When you inhale air that is 10°F, it will be warmed to 91°F inside your nasal passages before it ever reaches your throat. • The mucous lining catches debris like flypaper attracting flies and it manufactures more than a pint of mucus a day. The mucus also keeps the humidity in your nose at 80%. • Suppressing a sneeze has been known to damage ribs, facial bones, cartilage, and ears. Anything so powerful it can propel droplets 6 feet at 100 mph should not be stopped.

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• Junius Brutus Booth, father of John Wilkes Booth, was a famous stage actor. His handsome appearance was marred by a broken nose. Once a female fan gushed, “You’re such a wonderful actor, but I just can’t get over your nose!” He replied, “Well, no wonder! The bridge is gone!” • When Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the tip of his nose in a duel, he had it replaced with a silver one. • Sir William Davenant, a British writer, lost his nose due to illness and his appearance was very disconcerting. An old woman once blessed his eyesight. When he enquired why, she replied that if his eyesight ever failed, he would have no place to prop a pair of spectacles. (continued on next page)

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• Smelling certain fragrances or thinking about certain foods can have a relaxing effect on people. Researchers at Yale measured the brainDid you hear about the family who got stuck waves of students as they sniffed three odors: on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? spiced apple, eucalyptus, and lavender. While sniffing spiced apples, the students’ alpha brain Apparently, their vehicle would neverwaves increased and their theta brain waves denever land. creased. This is a pattern that scientists relate to a mental state of being awake, yet very relaxed. The other two odors had similar effects. • The same result was found when the students were asked to imagine their favorite meal or dessert. One researcher said, “When we savor a pleasant fragrance, we take deeper and slower breaths, relaxing our respiratory pattern much as we do in meditation. The odor might also serve as a distraction, focusing our attention. . . or inducing positive memories and emotions.” • Research indicates that the smell of lavender reduces headaches; eucalyptus keeps people awake; mint acts as a stimulant; peach eases pain; and spiced apple reduces stress.

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(continued) In Scotland, inventor Coburn Haskell stumbled upon the rubber ball. He realized that its application to kolf would improve the game, as a rubber ball would fly much farther than the gutty. When combined with a hard, rough exterior, the rubber ball became the basis for today’s modern golf balls. As the century wore on, clubs continued to change in design. Shafts were made of bamboo or ash and specific clubs, like the mashie, sand iron, driving cleek, niblick and putting cleek, were used by players under different circumstances. The first golf courses were also a far cry from what we know today. There were no beautifully manicured lawns, golf carts or clubhouses to relax in afterwards. The links were mostly barren and inhabitable pieces of land, often windswept and sandy with no trees and a rugged terrain filled with rocks and crevices. Using crude clubs and even cruder balls, it’s a wonder the sport survived at all. But it did and it grew in popularity, coming to the United States in the late 1700s where it flourished. The next time you step up to that tee, remember those who came before you and how hard it was to get a hole-in-one with a feathery.

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