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DECEITFUL TRAVELERS (cont’) • The name of this stealthy and coordinated fraternity of assassins originated from the Hindu word for thief or deceiver, “thag,” and the crimes they committed were called acts of “thuggee.” Today a modified version of that word has come into English meaning a criminal who attacks innocent people: A thug. A GERMANIC TRIBE • Long ago an East Germanic tribe lived on the shores of the Danube River. Around the year 400 AD, they began to move west, possibly because they had been attacked by Huns. They were led by King Godigisel. • When they reached the Rhine River, they met resistance. A battle ensued. They won the fight, but Godigisel was killed. • His son, Geiseric (meaning “spear king”) took over. Over the next 50 years, King Geiseric turned this little-known tribe into a major power. They crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul, which they looted. Then they wreaked havoc across Spain. From there, the entire tribe of 80,000 crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded North Africa, pillaging and plundering along the way. In the year 438 A.D. they took the ancient Phoenician city of Carthage by entering the city when everyone was attending races. Geiseric led his people in conquering Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. • Then they sacked Rome. Pope Leo the Great pleaded with Geiseric to refrain from murdering the people or burning the buildings. Geiseric stole all the treasure and took the Empress hostage, along with her daughters. • Geiseric continued to lead his tribe until his death in the year 477 A.D. Following his death, his vast empire quickly crumbled. Today Geiseric’s people are remembered because the name of this East Germanic tribe now denotes someone who willfully destroys or defaces property. The tribe was known as the Vandals. (Continued next page)

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A MEAN MAN According to the legend, Patrick was never a very nice guy. He arrived in London in the late 1800s and hired himself out as a bouncer. From there, he graduated to mugging people, racketeering, and vandalism. Then he organized a street gang and his influence was felt throughout the slums of London. Eventually, he killed a cop and went to prison for life, dying behind bars years later. In 1899 a writer named Clarence Rook wrote a book which followed the life of a typical street punk, describing life in the slums from a criminal’s point of view. Clarence was a journalist, a novelist, and a writer of short sketches that depicted London in a realistic light. His book offered an irreverent depiction of the lifestyle of a working-class thug. Patrick was a central character in Clarence’s story. The book was very popular. No one is really sure whether the book was fiction or fact, or whether Patrick was a real person or not. One way or the other, however, Patrick’s last name came into our language meaning a tough, aggressive, or violent youth. Soon the word was being used in police reports, newspaper articles, and even in a Sherlock Holmes story. Today it is still commonly used to describe someone who causes mayhem or disturbances, particularly regarding rowdy and unruly behavior surrounding sporting events. Patrick’s last name was Hooligan, and the book Clarence wrote was called “Hooligan Nights.” A SAN FRANCISCO THUG According to legend, a man named Muldoon led a gang of street thugs that kept the entire waterfront area of San Francisco under their tight control in the 1870s. A newspaper wanted to end their tyranny but was so intimidated by the gang that they dared not use Muldoon’s real name. They spelled it backwards and changed the N to an H, and “hoodlum” entered the language.

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A CONTEST WINNER During Prohibition in 1924, a wealthy banker from Massachusetts named Delcevare King backed the Prohibition laws and was angry that people blatantly broke the no-liquor rules. He decided to sponsor a contest to come up with a new name to describe “a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor,” offering the substantial sum of $200 in prize money (worth about $2,775 today). Because King was a graduate of Harvard, the editors of the school newspaper promoted the contest and followed the results with interest. King was quoted as saying, “People can poke fun at the idea that the violator of law is a menace to the government, but after all, law is the basis of government.” He hoped that his contest would result in coining a new term that was so stinging it would turn people away from drink. He received over 25,000 entries submitted by more than 6,000 people. The winning entry was submitted by two people, and they split the prize money. Most people, especially linguists, thought the new word would never catch on, and an editor of Funk & Wagnalls dictionary commented that the term, “widely publicized several months ago as the term applied to those who violate the prohibition laws, is fast fading.” However, the new prize-winning word survived and is now a common term denoting a petty criminal who flaunts the rules or ignores regulations, or refuses to show up in court for minor violations. The word is scofflaw, one who scoffs at the law. IN EXILE The words “banned,” “banished,” “bandit,” and “bandito” all spring from the Italian word “bandire” meaning “to exile.” That became the Germanic word “bannan” which applied to their practice of banning, or exiling, all bandits.

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• Over 4,000 years ago ancient Egyptians built incubators capable of housing 10,000 chicks. • The oldest chicken known was 22 years old. Chickens can easily live to the age of 7, though the chickens for sale in the grocery store are slaughtered at the age of 5 to 8 weeks old. • At any given time there are over 450 million chickens in the U.S. Americans consume 8 billion chickens per year. • Americans eat more than 90 lbs. of poultry per person each year, plus an average of 250 eggs. • In the 1930s, the average American hen laid 121 eggs per year. Today, they’re up to about 217 eggs annually. • The world record for egg-laying by a chicken is held by a white leghorn in Sri Lanka, who laid 17 eggs in six hours in 1967. Another record was set when a white leghorn laid 371 eggs in 364 days. • Marigolds have routinely been dried, powdered, and fed to chickens to make egg yolks look more yellow. • The yolk has 59 calories, and the white has only 16. • Brown eggs and white eggs are identical nutritionally. Only two kinds of chickens out of the thousands of varieties lay white eggs. If a chicken has red ear lobes, it will lay brown eggs; if the ear lobe is white, it lays white eggs. (Continued next page)

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My father was born and raised in Winston-Salem, N.C., the perfect place to find a delicious pulledpork barbeque sandwich. The Piedmont triad area where he grew up is famous for its pork barbeque and highly seasoned, vinegar-based sauces. Pigs are plentiful in that area of the South, so barbeques featuring the whole pig -- split open and roasted over a hardwood charcoal fire, or using just the pork shoulder -- are popular. After the meat is cooked, it’s “pulled” off the bone by hand, sliced, shredded or chopped into pieces, mixed with barbeque sauce and served on a bun. Pork shoulders are the front leg of the pig and are fairly inexpensive cuts of meat. The shoulder includes two cuts: the Boston butt, which is a rectangular roast from the upper part of the front leg, and the picnic shoulder. The Boston butt is the cut of choice for pulled-pork sandwiches. Select a Boston butt that has a white-fat cap and is marbled with fat throughout the meat. The fat and the collagen (the connective tissue) “baste” the meat as it melts away. The collagen also turns into simple sugars that make this typically tougher cut of meat moist, tender and flavorful as it slowly cooks. Pulled-pork barbeque sandwiches were used to entice potential voters to attend political rallies. These flavorful sandwiches definitely have my vote. This crockpot recipe for pulled pork is perfect for anyone who can’t barbeque the traditional way. Serve the pulled pork with a scoop of coleslaw on the sandwich or on the side, along with some baked beans, corn on the cob and sweet, lemon-flavored iced tea, and you’ll have the makings of a Southern-style barbeque no matter where you live!

Barbequed Pulled-Pork Sandwiches This recipe is a great way to tenderize an inexpensive cut of meat and conserve energy by using a crockpot. The salsa infuses the meat with flavor while it cooks, and the barbeque sauce is the perfect finish. You’ll have enough pulled pork to feed a crowd, or you can freeze any leftovers for another fabulous meal!

5 pounds boneless pork butt, cut into 2-inch chunks 2 large onions, sliced 1 jar (16 ounces) Pace Chunky Salsa, or pineapple-mango or similar salsa 1 1/2 cups water 1 bottle (16 ounces) barbecue sauce 1/4 cup apple-cider vinegar 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 24 hamburger buns 1. Place half the onions in the crockpot. Add the meat and then the rest of the onions. Pour the salsa and the water over the pork and the onions. 2. Turn the crockpot to the HIGH setting for 4 to 5 hours or on the LOW setting for 7 to 9 hours or until the pork is tender and can be shredded easily with a fork. 3. Remove the pork and onions from the crockpot and discard any of the remaining liquid and accumulated fat. Let the meat cool slightly. Shred the pork, using two forks. Mix together the barbeque sauce, vinegar, mustard, brown sugar and salt until well-combined. 4. Mix the shredded pork and onions with the barbeque sauce. Return the barbequed pork to the crockpot and cook on HIGH for another hour. Serve about 1/2 cup shredded pork in each roll. Top with coleslaw, if desired. Serves 24. Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis