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• A group known as the Hog Farm was hired to manage the crowds and lend a helping hand where ever possible. Their leader, known as Wavy Gravy, when asked how he intended to maintain law and order, replied, “With seltzer bottles and cream pies.” Their secret password was “I forget.” Instead of calling themselves the Police Force, they called themselves the Please Force. • Concessionaires hired to feed the crowd were woefully under-prepared, and took the opportunity to price gouge. When they ran out of food, one of their stands was burned down in protest. The word went out to the community that there were half a million hungry kids out there. Churches, Boy Scouts, and even the local air force base went on food drives and donated food by the ton. • Friday’s schedule of performers got messed up before it even began, when groups on their way to the site got stuck in traffic or couldn’t even move from their hotels. A fleet of 16 helicopters was rented to help. • The first act to go on, at 5:07 p.m. on August 15, 1969, was Richie Havens, because he looked the most ready. No other acts were ready yet so he wasn’t allowed to leave the stage. He played for three hours, improvising his last song, “Freedom.” His bass player, who had abandoned his car 25 miles (40 km) away and had walked from there, finally arrived just as Havens was finishing his set and walking off the stage. • John Sebastian, former lead singer for The Lovin’ Spoonful, was thrust on stage even though he had not even been invited to perform at the festival. Realizing the fans could get out of control if the music stopped for any length of time, organizers abandoned their original plan of having the music end at midnight and instead opted to have it played until dawn. They begged performers to extend their sets. Most agreed. (continued on next page)

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Red Foods Red fruits and vegetables have either lycopene or anthocyanins. Lycopene has been shown to reduce the risk of some cancers, while anthocyanins serve as antioxidants that can protect cells from damage. Red foods include apples, grapes, potatoes, raspberries, tomatoes and watermelon. Orange & Yellow Foods Orange and yellow foods are colored by carotenoids, which gets converted into vitamin A in the body. Carotenoids have also been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer and improve the body’s immune system. Oranges and nectarines obviously qualify as orange and yellow foods, but so do sweet corn, sweet potatoes and some watermelon.

RANDOM FLOWER FACTS (cont’d) from 1,000 fuchsia flowers daily to maintain its weight. • Cloves are dried flower buds from a tree that grows in Indonesia. • St. Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to illustrate the principle of the Holy Trinity, and it’s now Ireland’s national flower. • When Norwegians invaded Scotland, they were slowed by patches of wild thistle, allowing the Scots time to escape. Because of this, the wild thistle was named Scotland’s national flower. • Heather often grows over tin deposits, and certain types of grasses grow over iron deposits. When some metals such as nickel and copper are present in the soil in excessive amounts, the leaves of the plants growing there tend to turn yellow. Aluminum deposits cause the leaves to become mottled. Plants with strangely shaped leaves and fruits may indicate uranium underground. • In the 1800s, Catholic priests wandered among the Native Americans in California to spread their religion. It is said that as they travelled, they would drop mustard seeds behind them. Later they could find their way back by following the trail of bright yellow mustard blossoms. • Maple sap is only sweet when the sap is running in the spring. As soon as the buds bloom, the taste changes. • The gas plant, sometimes called the burning bush, has flowers that give off a strong lemonscented vapor which can be ignited with a match on calm evenings. • About 60% of fresh-cut flowers grown in the U.S. come from California. Green Foods The green family is larger than most, and it has a variety of benefits. Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower may help to protect against cancer, while leafy greens contain sources of B vitamins and vitamin C and have a high iron content. Some green vegetables like peas, peppers and celery contain lutein, a chemical that helps maintain eye health. Blue & Purple Foods Like their yellow counterparts, blue foods contain anthocyanins. Blueberries, figs, plums and raisins have powerful antioxidants and have been shown in some studies to reduce risk of cancer and stroke. White Foods White fruits and vegetables get their color from anthoxanthins. Some are good sources of potassium, while others may help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Onions, parsnips, bananas, garlic and potatoes all fall into the category of white foods. An added benefit of eating a variety of foods is that you’ll get a variety of flavors. When people eat a variety of flavors, they tend to eat less food. Of course, any food can make you obese. Even if you eat only vegetables, if you eat too many of them and don’t control your portion size, you will gain weight. Similarly, the recommendations here depend on the natural coloring of fruits and vegetables. Blue mustard or green chicken nuggets aren’t going to have the natural pigments of whole fruits and vegetables. If you want to eat healthy, you don’t have to spend all of your time calculating micronutrients or being swayed by the latest report on the evening news. All you have to remember is that a healthy mixture of colors will help you get a good mix of nutrients.

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• On August 21, there will be a total eclipse of the Sun. Throughout history, eclipses have offered astronomers a chance to collect information about the Sun and the universe. • About 75% of the Sun’s mass is composed of hydrogen, and 25% is helium. These are the two lightest elements, so you’d think the Sun would be light and airy. The opposite is true, due to the pull of gravity. The Sun is 150 times as dense as water, and 20 times as dense as iron. The temperature is 20 million degrees F. (10 million degrees C) and the pressure is 200 billion times Earth’s atmospheric pressure. The Sun is a giant nuclear reactor. On Earth, we can re-create what happens on the Sun by dropping a hydrogen bomb. • Gravity pulls hydrogen to the center of the Sun where the pressure is so great that hydrogen fuses and forms helium along with nuclear energy. Pockets of this superheated gas swell and bubble to the surface, like water boiling on a stove. When those bubbles burst, they give off light, and that causes the corona, a halo of light around the Sun. Scientists can only get a look at the corona during an eclipse. • It was during the eclipse of August 18, 1868, when astronomers found out that the Sun is made of hydrogen and helium. On that date, astronomer John Herschel and a group of scientists used a new tool, called a spectroscope. When light of the Sun’s corona passed through the prism in the spectroscope, it was broken down into a spectrum of lines and colors which allowed the scientists to identify the chemical elements present, as well as their temperature and density. This is when they found that the corona of the Sun was composed mainly of hydrogen. But the spectrograph showed an unfamiliar yellow line from an element that could not be identified; it was unknown on Earth. An astronomer named Lockyer named it “helium” after the Greek word for Sun, “helios.” (cont)

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TOTAL ECLIPSE (cont’d) • Helium wasn’t found on Earth for another 27 years. Scientist William Ramsay was studying radioactive rocks. He found the same substance trapped inside the rocks, which exhibited the identical mysterious yellow line seen during the eclipse of 1868. Helium is created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements. • An eclipse on May 29, 1919 led to another momentous discovery. The gravity of the Sun is so great that when light from other stars passes by it, the light is bent and distorted, causing the distant stars to appear to be displaced. This displacement can be measured during a total solar eclipse. During the eclipse of 1919, Einstein’s general theory of relativity was proved to be true when astronomers took pictures that showed the light from stars beyond the Sun was bent in a slight curve when it passed by the gravity of the Sun. When the news of this discovery hit the headlines, Einstein suddenly found himself world-famous. • Thomas Edison was 31 years old when he invented an instrument he called a tasimeter that was designed to measure the temperature of the infrared radiation emitted by the Sun’s corona. The tasimeter was so sensitive that it could measure the heat from a human hand 30 feet away. Edison traveled to Rawlins, Wyoming for the total eclipse on July 29, 1878. Unfortunately, by the time he arrived in town, all the rooms at the local hotels had been taken by other scientists. The only spot available for him to set up his experiment was in a chicken coop. This was fine, until the eclipse became so dark that all the chickens returned to their coop, thinking it was night. The dust, confusion, and body heat from the chickens ruined any chance for an accurate reading from Edison’s tasimeter.

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