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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

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• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

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man (born Araminta Ross) worked as a field hand and endured numerous beatings. After adaring escape, this African-American abolitionist returned to the South 19 times to lead dozens of slaves to freedom through the network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Despite the reward on her head, which swelled to $40,000, she managed to dodge bounty hunters, never losing a single person. In addition to her U.R. activities, she also operated as a Civil War scout and a spy.

Because she was paid just $200 over a threeyear period, Harriet supported herself by selling baked goods and homemade root beer. Following the war, she opened the Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes in New York, funded by giving speeches and selling copies of her biography.

• Thomas Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, and Jeremy Glick all boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark, New Jersey, on September 11, 2001 for different reasons. Burnett learned of the destruction of New York City’s Twin Towers via a cell phone call from his wife, and upon realizing that their own plane was controlled by terrorists, whose plan was to use the plane as a missile to destroy government buildings in Washington, D.C., the four men devised a plan to take the plane back from the hijackers. Jeremy Glick’s last words to his wife from the plane were, “We’re going to rush the hijackers.” Todd Beamer was the passenger who spoke the now-famous words, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll!” Thanks to the heroic actions of the men storming the cockpit, the plane failed to reach Washington, D.C. However, the plane crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of the hijackers’ target, killing all 40 passengers and crew members.

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ing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in Poland and the Czech Republic. He gave large bribes and gifts to Nazi officials to prevent the Jews’ execution in Nazi concentration camps, and by the end of the war, he was bankrupt, having spent his entire sizeable fortune on bribes and supplies for his workers.

After failing at several business ventures, he survived on donations from the “Schindlerjuden” (Schindler’s Jews), those he had saved, from all around the world. He died penniless in 1974.

• Dale Beatty set out in his Humvee for a day of patrol across northern Iraq in 2004. His life was forever changed when the vehicle hit a land mine, sending the Humvee 50 feet (15.2 m) into the air. When Beatty woke up, his legs were pinned beneath the wreckage, an injury that necessitated amputation of both legs below the knee. After a year of recovery at Washington’s Walter Reed Hospital, Beatty hoped to build a handicapped-accessible home for his wife and two sons. His fellow church members, along with a fellow Iraq vet, John Gallina, helped him build the house on donated land. In 2008, the two vets founded Purple Heart Homes, a non-profit that helps provide homes for other disabled vets. Beatty and Gallina provide free renovations for the disabled, using donated labor and materials. The basis for the organization’s helping dozens of vets is Beatty’s statement, “We wouldn’t leave someone behind on the battlefield. Why would we do it at home?”

• Mohandas Gandhi was renowned for his heroic methods of nonviolence in India’s fight for independence from British rule. A former lawyer, Gandhi organized India’s common population of peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest Britain’s excessive land taxes and discrimination, while advocating nonviolent civil disobedience, or “passive non-cooperation,” in the quest for civil rights. His approach involved “refusing to use brute force against the oppressor” and “seeking to eliminate antagonisms between the oppressor and the oppressed.” For all of his peacemaking efforts, Gandhi was named “Man of the Year” by Time magazine in 1930.

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• Colonial silversmith and engraver Paul Revere is famous for his midnight ride that warned fellow colonists of the approaching British armies in 1775. Having already established an intelligence network that spied on the British military, Revere received word that the King’s troops were on their way to capture Patriot leaders and seize supplies. Revere’s system of lanterns placed in the steeple of Boston’s North Church – “one if by land, two if by sea” – signaled the militia of the landing. Although legend has it that Revere shouted, “The British are coming!” eyewitnesses say his actual words were, “The Regulars are coming out.”

• Born in Macedonia in 1910, Anjeze Bonxhe Bojaxhiu devoted her life to helping the sick and poor in India. After taking her vows as a nun, Anjeze traveled to India to become a teacher. After 17 years of teaching, she stepped away from that calling after seeing the slums of Calcutta, where she established a hospice, a center for the blind, aged, and disabled, and a haven for lepers. Known as Mother Teresa, this selfless woman received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her aid to what she called “the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for.”

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• It’s a little ironic that dentists first invented cotton candy, a confection whose only ingredient is sugar. A Nashville dentist named Dr. William Morrison teamed up with candy maker John Wharton in 1897 to invent a machine that melted sugar and spun it through tiny holes in a fine screen using centrifugal force to create sugar threads. After receiving their patent, the pair improved their packaging method and took the product they called fairy floss to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where they sold 68,000 boxes for 25 cents each. In today’s money, that’s around $6.75 a package.

• Another gentleman named Thomas Patton patented a different type of cotton candy machine in 1900, one that caramelized sugar, forming the threads using a fork. A gas-fired rotating plate spun the sugar into threads. Patton marketed his candy at the Ringling Brothers Circus.

• In 1921, a New Orleans dentist, Dr. Josef Lascaux, improved on the machine design as well as trademarking the name “cotton candy.” He first introduced his candy at his dental practice!

• The process of making cotton candy begins with melting granular sugar into a liquid state.

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• Even though the sole ingredient of cotton candy is sugar, there is a lot more sugar in a 12-oz. can of soda pop than in a cone of cotton candy. There is really more air in cotton candy than there is sugar.

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• The world’s largest cotton candy manufacturer is Tootsie Roll of Canada, Ltd., a company that bags a fruit-flavored variety they call Fluffy Stuff .

• The idea of spun sugar has actually been around since the 1600s, when chefs decorated cakes and pastries with melted sugar whipped into strands with a fork.

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