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2.Name the only Disneyland ride to hang from the ceiling?

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

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• Maksymilian Faktorowicz spent his first 32 years in Russia as a cosmetician and wigmaker.

In 1904, Faktorowicz and his family immigrated to the United States and were processed at the Ellis Island immigration station, where officials gave him the Americanized name Max Factor. His first stop was the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where he set up shop selling his rouges and creams. Desiring to work in the movie industry, the family moved to Los Angeles, where Max created a make-up called Flexible Greasepaint for movie actors that would not crack or cake. Soon he was working with Hollywood’s film stars, including Ava Gardner, Jean Harlow, and Marlene Dietrich.

In 1916, he started selling his eye shadow and eyebrow pencils to the general public. In 1920, he unveiled a wide range or items dubbed Society Make-up, asserting that every woman could “look like a movie star” with his products. Max Factor himself coined the term “make-up.” He invented lip pomade (later called lip gloss) to produce a glossy look for actresses on film. His company was the first to create mascara applied with a wand in a tube, rather than the old cake and brush method. (turn the page for more!)

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COSMETICS COMPANIES (cont’d): • Florence Nightingale Graham’s company is one of the oldest names in the beauty industry.

Born in Canada in 1884, Florence was part of a large farming family that always struggled financially. While studying nursing, she became interested in lotions that treated burns. After a move to New York in 1908, she took a job as a beautician’s assistant, and two years later started her own salon with a partner on Fifth Avenue. The salon was named Elizabeth Arden, and Florence began using that as her own name.

By 1914, Elizabeth had dissolved the partnership, and had hired a team of chemists to create the first items in her line of beauty products -- face cream and lotion. She added eye makeup shortly afterward, and was the first to produce travel-size products in 1917. In 1915, Elizabeth Arden products were being sold internationally, and she opened a salon in Paris in 1922. The salons added makeovers and high-end spas to their list of amenities. In the midst of the Great Depression, Arden was bringing in upwards of $4 million a year. When Elizabeth Arden died in 1966, she had 100 salons around the world and a line of more than 300 cosmetic products.

The company was sold to the Eli Lilly Corporation in 1971 for $38 million, and today’s estimated value is more than $1.3 billion.

• Oil of Olay got its start in South Africa, created by chemist Graham Wulff in 1952. The name was a spin on the word “lanolin,” one of Olay’s key ingredients. It started out as a thick pink liquid rather than a cream and was dubbed “beauty fluid,” packaged in a heavy glass bottle. Now owned by Procter & Gamble, it’s estimated that an Olay product is sold every two minutes. (continued on next page)

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Is this just a female mommy-thing or is she obsessed? All three dogs have been fixed. -Jackie M. in Denver DEAR JACKIE: Chloe’s behavior sounds more like a compulsion than a simple “mommy” or nurturing thing. It also seems to be a way of signaling dominance over the two males.

Whether it bothers the other dogs or not, it bothers you, and you can work to stop it.

Recognizing pack dominance is important for dog owners regardless of how many dogs they have. Chloe may be the dominant dog of the trio, but you are the dominant member of the pack.

1. N ame the most visited theme park in all of Start by giving the dogs a refresher course in Europe. basic commands: sit, down and stay being the 2. W hat part of Disneyland contains the “Big mostThunder Mountain Railroad” and “Tom Sawyer important for this scenario. Dogs that Island”?

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What is the name of the transportation system quickly obey basic commands are often easier throughout Disneyland? to train out of other habits. When the dogs have 4. What ride beings in Space Port where guests board a rocket? been placed in a “down” position and told to 5. W here would a visitor find “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” and “Peter Pan’s Flight”? “stay,” keep an eye on Chloe. If she starts licking the others, repeat the “stay” command; if she continues the behavior, separate her from the others and practice the “down-stay” commands for a few minutes.

Other methods are available for curbing com“What youngster has not dreamed of pulsive behavior, but daily training in basic flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice’s commands is important in establishing a base nonsensical Wonderland?” to work from.

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COSMETICS COMPANIES (cont’d): • Founded in Maryland in 1961 by the Noxzema Chemical Company, Cover Girl’s first product line was called Clean Makeup. The brand, which at first offered just six products, was advertised as a “medicated face makeup,” because it contained camphor, menthol, and eucalyptus. In 1963, 16-year-old model Jennifer O’Neill was their first spokeswoman, appearing in the brand’s magazine and TV advertising.

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Clean Makeup line is still on shelves today and Apparently, their vehicle would neverremains of the world’s best-selling foundaneverone land. tions after 56 years.

• An accident in 1915 led to the formation of one of the world’s largest cosmetic companies.

A kitchen stove fire in the Chicago home of the Williams family burned daughter Maybel’s eyelashes and eyebrows. She mixed a concoction of petroleum jelly, coal dust, and ash from a burnt cork and applied it to her lashes and brows. Her brother Tom watched the process with interest, and envisioned an idea that would Rthe LO OT OAN WM change world of D women’s beauty.

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6. GEOGRAPHY: What is generally considered the world’s longest river?

7. MONEY: What is the basic currency of Argentina?

8. MOVIES: What is the name of the royal lemur in the animated movie “Madagascar”?

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‘Pilgrims’ Are Holiday Myth, Professor Says

Thanksgiving has few historical ties to the original 17thcentury celebration, according to Dr. Mark Miller, professor of history at Roanoke College in Virginia.

Take the first Thanksgiving celebration in Plymouth, Massachusetts, back in 1621, for instance.

It has been depicted as a friendly gathering between the Pilgrims and the Indians. But Miller says the Pilgrims could not possibly have attended the earliest Thanksgiving feast because the term “Pilgrim” was not even invented until the 1830s.

“During the pre-Civil War period, Northerners were in search of a counterpart image to that of the Southern settlers of Jamestown,” says Miller. “This led to the name ‘Pilgrims,’ which described the first group of Englishmen to live in the North.”

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COSMETICS COMPANIES (cont’d): • In 1886, David McConnell was a traveling book salesman, although not very successful at it. In an attempt to sell more books, he offered his female customers free perfume samples as a “door opener,” and soon discovered that the women were more interested in the perfume than they were in the books. McConnell ditched the book business and started up a perfume company in Manhattan, calling it the California Perfume Company, mixing the first fragrances himself in his tiny office. Having recognized women’s love of the products, McConnell recruited his customers as sales representatives.

Mrs. P.F.E. Albee developed the company’s direct-marketing system, selling perfumes doorto-door, the world’s first Avon lady – although the company wouldn’t be called Avon for 45 more years. The first product was the Little Dot Perfume set, but by the end of the first year, nearly 20 different perfumes were offered, and by 1902, a full range of cosmetics had been added. Their first catalog was distributed in 1896, an index of products with no illustrations.

The first full-color catalog came along in 1905.

In 1897, McConnell built his first factory in Suffem, New York, next to the railroad tracks for easy shipping. By 1899, there were 5,000 sales representatives for his company. Sales for 1920 reached $1 million.

• The California Perfume Company was renamed Avon in the 1930s in honor of William Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-on-Avon.

The first of their TV commercials with the famous line “Ding Dong! Avon calling” aired in 1954.

• David McConnell’s free perfume samples blossomed into a company that now has 6.4 million representatives. Brazil, the company’s largest market has more than 900,000 Avon ladies, more than the number of its army and navy.

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A perfume manufacturer founded in Paris in 1775 “The Europeans thought the Native Americans were a lost Israeli tribe that had been blown off course and landed in America,” says Miller.

“They thought the tribe arrived as civilized men and women, but became savages after living in the wilderness. For fear of contact with the savages, laws were enacted which forbade European settlers to touch or look at the Indians.”

The Civil War also played a predominant role in the timing of the celebration, Miller says.

The original harvest was likely held in late summer to early fall, following the final rush of fieldwork. However, in 1864, Abraham Lincoln, then president of the North, called for a day of thanksgiving in November. It wasn’t until the 20th century that Thanksgiving was celebrated in Southern states. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The large leaves, known as pads, of the water lily float on the surface of the water, but are in fact anchored to the soil at the bottom of the pond by a long stem. The plant doesn’t need to expend much energy producing a sturdy stem, because the water supports the plant and keeps it buoyant. The lilies grow completely within water, with the root system gathering its nutrients from the soil below. They spread in proportion to the size of the area where they are placed. Water lilies live only in still fresh water, usually in small ponds or around the edges of lakes.

• There are three groups of water lilies – hardy, night-blooming tropical, and day-blooming tropical. In areas that are frost-free, hardy varieties can be left outside all year round. But in colder areas, the tropical must be brought inside for the winter. Hardies will survive the winter as long as the underground stem does not freeze.

• Hardy varieties bloom only in the daylight and gently close at night. They have simpler flowers, usually white and yellow, that last only about three to five days. The tropical blooms at any time, day or night, depending on the variety, and remains open until the blossoms fade.

Its pads are much larger, as are the blooms, with many more petals, and more likely to produce multiple flowers than hardies. The colors are much more intense in shades of pink, red, purple, blue, and orange, and are much more fragrant. Their blooming season also lasts several weeks longer than that of the hardy varieties. (continued on next page)

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• Water lilies are not only beautiful, they provide shade and protection for fish, keeping the water temperature down during hot summer months. They can, however, become invasive and difficult to eradicate. Cutting off the top growth will help control their spread.

• Water lilies can be planted in man-made ponds with a liner by planting in pots and sinking the pots down into the water. A dense, claylike pot works best for this purpose.

• Painter Claude Monet, the father of French Impressionism, created an enormous garden and several lily ponds at his Giverny, France home that provided the subject of his famous series of artwork called Water Lilies. Over the course of 30 years, Monet produced more than 250 paintings of his beloved pond. One of the paintings sold for $80.3 million at a Christie’s auction in 2008.

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Although she worked at the hardware store and a department store, Esther, or Estee, as she was called by her family, was more interested in the business run by her uncle, a chemist, specializing in skin products that he sold to pharmacists. Estee began making her own creams and as a teenager began selling her creations to local hair salons. She promoted them as “jars of hope,” handing out free samples as incentives. At age 22, she married Joseph Lauter, a name that was later changed to Lauder. Since 3rd Quarter 2016 Estee Lauder had no desire to open her own 34 stores,Week her products were sold and demonstrated door-to-door for many August 14 -August 20years. There were only four products at that time, being made in a Page 8 former restaurant’s kitchen. In 1948, she obtained counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue, who ordered $800 worth of products, which were sold in two days. This opened the door to other upscale department stores, such as Neiman Marcus. In 1960, the company expanded to London’s Harrods store. In 1968, Estee Lauder branched out, opening Clinique Laboratories, offering the first dermatologist-guided, allergytested, fragrance-free cosmetic line. Estee Lauder passed away in 2004 at the age of 95.

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During World War II, they manufactured firstaid kits and hand grenades for the war effort.

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