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1.How many hotels are operated on the Disneyland grounds, owned by Disney? 2.Name the only Disneyland ride to hang from the ceiling?

3. What is the name of the transportation system throughout Disneyland? 4. What ride beings in Space Port where guests board a rocket? 5. Where would a visitor find “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” and “Peter Pan’s Flight”?

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MONOPOLY (continued): • Charles soon came up with his own game, basing the board on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. He approached Parker Brothers about producing the game and was rejected. As Magie had, Darrow manufactured his new game independently, and experienced wild success during the Christmas season of 1934 at a Philadelphia department store, with a selling price of $2. • When Parker Brothers observed the sales performance of Monopoly, they changed their mind and purchased the game’s copyrights from Darrow, along with granting him royalties. Parker Brothers introduced the game of Monopoly on November 5, 1935. • Darrow was soon a millionaire, and gave up his heating contracting career, pursuing something he really loved – growing hothouse orchids. • As the popularity of Monopoly grew and it became a nationwide craze, 70-year-old Elizabeth Magie stepped forward, angered at the millions Darrow was earning. She conducted interviews, holding her own game board up to photographers’ cameras to prove she was the original inventor. Parker Brothers agreed to buy the rights to her patent, along with two other games she had created, for a reported $500 and no royalties. She soon faded into obscurity, and died a widow in 1948. • Less than a year after Parker Brothers released Monopoly, the company was making 35,000 copies of the game per week. In 1936, the game was licensed for sale outside the United States. • The Monopoly board contains 22 streets, divided into eight color groups containing two or three streets. As players move around the board, they purchase property, varying from $60 to $400 in price. The goal is to drive the other players into bankruptcy. (cont’d on next page)

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MONOPOLY (continued): • A player must own all of a color group in order to build houses or hotels. Each game contains 32 houses and 12 hotels. • There are four railroads on the game board – Short Line, Pennsylvania, B&O, and Reading. The Short Line refers to the Shore Fast Line, which was a streetcar line that served Atlantic City. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads also served the City. The B&O, which stands for Baltimore and Ohio, did not serve this coastal beach city. Players collect $25 if they own one railroad, $50 for two, $100 for three, and $200 for all four. • Hasbro acquired Parker Brothers, including Monopoly, in 1991. Hasbro credits Charles Darrow as the game’s inventor • There were 10 original metal token playing pieces in the original game – an iron, lantern, 3rd Quarter 2016 shoe, top hat, battleracecar, purse, thimble, ship, cannon, and a rocking horse. Of those, Week 34 the racecar, top hat, and August 14 -August 20 battleship remain. The Scottie dog, horse and rider, and wheelbarrow Pagein81942, and the rocking horse, were added lantern, and purse were retired. The iron was eliminated in 2013, and replaced by the cat. • In early 2017, Hasbro put the tokens up for an online vote to determine which pieces were no longer popular. More than 4.3 million people participated in the vote, resulting in the elimination of the thimble, the shoe, and the wheelbarrow. The long-time three were replaced by a penguin, a Tyrannosaurus, and a rubber duck. • In 2006, Hasbro released a special “Here and Now” Monopoly edition, designed to bring the game into the present. The game included playing pieces of McDonald’s fries, a Starbucks coffee cup, a New Balance sneaker, and a Toyota Prius. The railroads were replaced with airports, and other real estate from across the country, including Times Square and the White. (cont’d on next page)

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Part of the excitement of the month of October is filling the calendar with plenty of autumninspired activities that are full of thrills and some chills. Visiting places that have spooky histories or tales of murder and mayhem are particularly attractive around Halloween. One such place many people enjoy seeing is Salem, Massachusetts. Many historical places evoke feelings of mystery and horror, including Salem. In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials took place, and Salem has since become synonymous with a dark time in American history. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, which went against the colonial and puritanical beliefs of Massachusetts settlers at the time. Nineteen people were ultimately executed as witches, while others died in prison. Why the trials came to be or how the frenzy over witchcraft became so prevalent in and around Salem remains something of a mystery. Some historians surmise that origins of the trials may lie in immigrants bringing their beliefs from Europe, which had seen its own witchcraft craze beginning in the 1300s. In 1689, the King William’s War drove refugees from areas of New York, Canada and Novia Scotia into Salem Village, creating unrest and diminished resources. The conservative Reverend Samuel Parris, who was Salem’s first ordained minister, thought that the quarreling was the work of the Devil. When children began having “fits,” the supernatural was blamed and implicated women were brought in for trial. A steady stream of accusations all around Salem soon ensued, and paranoia was widespread. Although judges and courts eventually admitted wrongdoing and error in the Salem trials, many still believe that the innocent souls may still haunt the area look ing for justice. Many places around Salem continue to mark this dark time. The Witch House is a home where Magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John

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STRANGLER FIGS (continued): • As destructive as the strangler fig may seem to be, it is actually quite important to the ecology of tropical forests. The large hollow center provides shelter and breeding sites for bats, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. Several times a year, the tree bears small golden yellow figs, about 1/3-inch (.76 cm) in diameter providing a sweet and juicy treat for parrots, toucans, hornbills, monkeys, gibbons, and bats. During certain seasons, the figs are the only source of food, and can comprise up to 70% of the diets of the rainforest animals. The trees flower almost continuously. • The strangler fig is a member of the mulberry family. Stranglers are far from the only figs in the rainforest ecosystem. There are nearly 1,000 different species of Ficus, found in every rainforest in the world. In Spanish, stranglers are called matapalo, which translates “killer tree.” • Every species of fig has its own exclusive species of tiny pollinating wasp, each about 2 mm long, which enters the plant through an opening at the bottom of the fruit. It seems that each unique and specialized wasp never gets into the wrong fig! • The Hindus regard the banyan tree, or Ficus religiosa as a sacred plant, because they believe that Buddha once meditated beneath one. • One Ficus tree in India, The Great Banyan, has over 1,000 roots and covers an area of 4.675 acres. It’s about 250 years old, and is believed to be the largest Ficus tree in the world. Hathorne examined the accused for signs of witchcraft, while local museums boast memorabilia and specimens associated with the trials. The 552 original documents pertaining to the witchcraft trials have been preserved and are still stored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Burying Point is the oldest cemetery in Salem and contains the graves of pilgrims and even Judge Hathorne himself. Salem has become known as The Witch City not only for its storied past but also because the area has become home to many modernday witches. There are a number of people educating others about witchcraft. The Witches Education Bureau and The Pagan Resource and Network Council of Educators are just two organizations working to provide accurate information about wiccan and pagan history and happenings. In addition to the normal activities available for tourists, specialized Halloween tours and “haunted” happenings also take place throughout the month of October, helping to make Salem a popular place to visit this time of year. Those who cannot visit Salem but are interested in the hysteria surrounding the witch trials can read Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” a play based on the accounts of the Salem Witch Trials. While the image of a witch riding her broomstick across a full moon is one of the more indelible images associated with Halloween, the likelihood of witnessing a full moon on Halloween is pretty slim. According to Moongiant. com, a full moon on Halloween happens an average of just once every 18 or 19 years. That means Halloween celebrants will likely only witness a full moon on Halloween five times every century. In fact, the last time trick-ortreaters went on the prowl for Halloween candy beneath a full moon was October 31, 2001. And Halloween lovers will have to wait just a little bit longer to dodge evil spirits in the light of a full moon, as Moongiant notes the next time a full moon is slated to appear on October 31 is not until 2020.

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Since November 11 is Red Lipstick Day, Tidbits is taking this opportunity to look up the facts on one of our favorite cosmetics. • We’ve been coloring our lips since prehistoric times, when women used readily available natural resources, such as crushed berries and the juice of fruits and plants. Around 2600 BC, Sumerian Queen Shub-ad blended white lead and crushed red rocks to paint her lips. The fact that it was poisonous didn’t seem to deter her. Five thousand years ago, women in Mesopotamia ground precious gems into dust and applied it to their lips and eyelids. • Ancient Egyptians made their lipstick out of dye extracted from seaweed, along with iodine and bromine mannite, which produced a deep purple shade. Unfortunately, the bromine was a dangerous toxin which frequently led to death, resulting in the coining of the term the “kiss of death.” This steered the Egyptians to a new formula of red carmine dye from cochineal insects, beetles, and ants, along with red ochre, a natural earth pigment containing iron. • Cleopatra of Egypt used lipstick regularly and especially favored red lipstick made of beeswax, crushed ants or carmine, with fish scales added for shine. The concoction not only colored her lips, it also protected them from the harsh Egyptian sun and desert wind. • During the 1500s, English Queen Elizabeth I popularized the look of a stark white face and bright red lips. At a time when pastors were condemning lip painting as the “devil’s work,” the Queen regularly painted her lips with crushed insects, tree sap, egg white, and fig milk. • First lady Martha Washington mixed beeswax, lard, sugar, almond oil, ground raisins, extract from the alkanet plant, and balsam to create her cherry-colored lips. (continued on the next page)

Pumpkins are readily available in fall, when people carve jack-o’-lanterns out of pumpkins for Halloween or serve up pumpkin pie after a hearty Thanksgiving dinner. But people who are unsatisfied with plain old pumpkin pie can add something new to their repertoire this fall by cooking up the following recipe for “Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust,” courtesy of Lori Longbotham’s “Luscious Creamy Desserts” (Chronicle Books). Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust Serves 8 to 10 Crust 11⁄2 1⁄2 6 1⁄4

cups gingersnap cookie crumbs cup finely chopped hazelnuts tablespoons unsalted butter, melted cup sugar

Filling 11⁄2 pounds cream cheese, at room temperature 1⁄2 cup packed light brown sugar 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 2 large egg yolks 11⁄2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 1 cup solid-pack pumpkin purée (not pumpkin pie mix) 1⁄2 cup créme fraîche, homemade (see below) or store-bought, or sour cream 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Lightly butter an 8- or 81⁄2-inch springform pan. 2. To make the crust: Stir together all of the ingredients in a medium bowl until the crumbs are moistened. Press the mixture over the bottom and up the sides of the pan. Bake the crust for 10 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Increase the oven temperature to 425 F. 3. To make the filling: With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the cream cheese, brown sugar and granulated sugar in a large deep bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and then the egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour and pumpkin pie spice and beat on low speed until just combined. Add the pumpkin purée, créme fraîche and vanilla, and beat until just combined. Pour the filling into the shell. 4. Place the cheesecake on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 250 F and continue baking for 1 hour. 5. Turn the oven off and let the cheesecake cool in the oven for 21⁄2 hours. Then transfer to a wire rack and let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate, tightly covered, for at least 10 hours, until thoroughly chilled and set, or for up to 2 days. 6. To serve, run a knife around the side of the cheesecake and remove the side of the pan. Serve slightly chilled or at room temperature, cut into thin wedges with a sharp knife dipped into hot water and wiped dry after each cut.

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