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• About 95% of Americans own some kind of cell phone, and 77% have smartphones. About half of American smartphone owners have had to cancel or shut off their service for a time due to the high cost of maintaining it. • The Nokia 1100 was launched in 2003 and was discontinued in 2009. During that time, more than 250 million devices were sold, making it the world’s best-selling electronics gadget in history. • Apple introduced its first iPhone to the public in 2007, with its touch screen interface and virtual keyboard, with sales of 1.4 million units that first year. By the end of 2014, more than 590 million iPhones had been sold. The iPhone accounts for more than 60% of Apple’s total revenue, more sales than everything else Microsoft offers combined. • When the iPhone 4 was introduced in 2012, Apple was experiencing sales of 340,000 phones per day. Within 14 weeks, more than 37 million phones had been sold. That’s 262 phones every minute, 4 phones per second. • Although the sales of iPhones have been astronomical, 88% of all mobile phones are not iPhones. Androids actually have a larger market share. • The average person unlocks his or her smartphone about 110 times each day. What do we do with our mobile phones? While you might think the most common use is calling or texting, it’s actually checking the time! About 87 hours are spent each month by the average American browsing on a smartphone. A recent survey shows that users in the age group 18 to 29 report they do about 5 surveys a week on their phone. Nearly half of that study group admitted to using their phone to avoid interacting with people around them. (continued on next page)

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ROBIN HOOD (continued): • Because the Earl of Huntingdon during King Richard I’s reign was actually David of Scotland, the theory of Robin Hood being the Earl is contradicted. Other versions portray Robin Hood as a simple commoner who formed a band of outlaws, rebelling against wealthy landowners and the feudal system. • Some accounts depict him as a hero, while others as a violent criminal. Legal records of the 13th century list the terms “Robehod” and THE “X” FACTOR (continued): Rabunhod” as common nicknames for crimi• Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies nals. to you! •• From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on Robin Hood’s reported habitat, Sherwood the Mediterranean sailed a small threeForest, covered about Sea 100,000 acres of central masted vessel with square and triangular sails Nottinghamshire from at 13ththan century that enabled them to least sail the faster their prospective victims. Depending on the size of until the 17th century. It was over 20 miles the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 guns might mounted the vessel. (32.2 km) longbeand 8 mileson(12.9 km) wide. • The word xenia has a variety of meanings. • While one hasGreeks, been able to prove that RobTo thenoancient it was the concept of generosity, andestate courtesy shown in hospitality, Hood existed, the Kirksley in Yorkto those far from home. To the botanist, it’s thehas effect of pollen a seed. And to those shire claimed sinceonthe 16th century that itin Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, is the site of his grave. A 15th-century ballad a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton. tells of Robin’s journey there to visit his cousin, • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a prioress the Kirksley convent. went to of a long, at covered portico, or mainHe entrance, Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes getancient himself bled, a medieval medical practice, would exercise during inclement weather. Romans, thetoo xystus theresultgarden butTothethe prioress let out muchwas blood, walkway in front of the porticoes, where they ingplanted flower beds. in his death. A related folktale says that his • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” cousin’s lover, Sir Roger, stabbed Robin while words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a he surgical was weak, as revenge for for Robin’s side bones, of the instrument used scraping while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at family inheriting their land and title. the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • On the silver screen, Robin Hood has been • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” portrayed by many, including Douglas and several of our words use it for Faira prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment banks (1922) and Errol Flynn (1938)found in thealong with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants early years, on up to Sean Connery in 1976, with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition Kevin Costner in 1991, and Russell Crowe known as xanthopsia, everything theyinsee seems to have a yellow hue. 2010.

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