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A NEW DRINK • In the mid-1700s, a man named Joseph Priestley spent a lot of time at the brewery next door to his house in Glasgow, Scotland. He was intrigued by the layer of strange air which hung over the top of the beer vats. Mice, when placed in this gas, would die. Candles would go out.

Sound was muffled. Water flowing through it would be filled with bubbles. He collected the gas and began experimenting.

• The bubbly water tasted good, so Priestley began to hawk it as a health aid. He called it soda water. Now we know that the gas was carbon dioxide, which is given off when yeast ferments. Carbon dioxide puts the fizz into soda pop.

A POPULAR DRINK • German-Swiss jeweler and amateur scientist Jacob Schweppe is considered the “father of soda pop.” In 1783, he developed the first practical process to manufacture carbonated mineral water based on the earlier findings of Joseph Priestley.

SCHWEPPE’S INVENTION • Setting up shop in England, Jacob Schweppe’s business struggled until Dr. Erasmus Dar(continued next page)

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To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• 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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SODA POP (cont’d) win, grandfather of Charles Darwin, endorsed Schweppe’s carbonated mineral water as amedicinal cure-all. Business boomed, and Jacob Schweppe sold the company at the age of 58 and retired, living comfortably until his death in 1821. Today Schweppe’s is owned by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and the Schweppe’s brand is distributed around the world.

RECIPE FOR SODA POP • Regular soda pop (not diet) is high in sugar, with each 12-ounce can containing about 9 teaspoons of sugar. Most colas are flavored with vanilla extract and lemon oil, with a bit of lime oil, orange oil, nutmeg oil, and other flavorings.

Phosphoric acid gives the drink bite, alcohol dissolves the oils, caramel (burnt sugar) gives the coloring, glycerin makes it thicker, and caffeine adds pep.

FACTS ABOUT COKE • The first Coca-Cola syrup was concocted by pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton and sold by the glass in a drug store in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1886. Coca-Cola was advertised as being a “wonderful nerve and brain tonic.” Many people believe that Coke used to contain high levels of cocaine. However, even in the early days when coca leaves were used to flavor it, you would have had to drink a gallon and a half in order to get the slightest effect.

• In 1905 when the Pure Food and Drug Act required all ingredients be listed on the label, Coke began to remove all traces of cocaine.

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PEPSI vs. COKE • The inventor of Pepsi-Cola was a druggist in North Carolina named Caleb Bradham. In 1893, he began selling “Brad’s Drink” at the soda fountain in his store. Later he renamed the drink Pepsi Cola because he believed that it helped to stave off dyspepsia. When the price of sugar increased during World War I, Bradham offered to sell his company to Coca-Cola, but was turned down three times.

• Charles Guth was the president of a chain of candy stores that sold Coca-Cola by the glass, and lots of it. In 1930 his stores dispensed over 30,000 gallons of Coke’s syrup. Because he dealt in such volume, he asked the people at Coke if he could have a discount. The answer was no. Guth was so angry that he bought the Pepsi Cola Company and started selling Pepsi instead. The rivalry has been fierce ever since.

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• John Dorrance was a gifted chemist and a graduate of MIT. He was so eager to work for the company that he agreed to work for the low salary of $7.50 per week (equal to about $200/ week today), and volunteered to supply all his own equipment.

• While studying in Germany, Dorrance noted that Europeans frequently ate soup, but Americans didn’t seem to favor it. The company did sell soups, but whereas they were cheap to make, they were expensive to ship. Dorrance wondered what would happen if you could remove the heaviest ingredient from the soup: the water.

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HATEBEAK: Full Metal Parrot • In 2003, two guys from Baltimore released the world’s first death-metal album featuring a parrot on lead vocals. The band is named Hatebeak, a pun on the Connecticut-based heavy metal band Hatebreed.

• Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan work in the music industry and thought it would be fun to integrate the squawks of a Congo African grey parrot named Waldo into their music. Waldo was born in 1991 and reportedly always enjoys listening to heavy metal. With Waldo on vocals, Sloan on guitar, and Harrison on drums, their music has been described as “a jackhammer being ground in a compactor.”

• Chris Okon is a cockatiel owner and Hatebeak fan who describes the group’s sound saying, “Hatebeak pecks your eyes out and assaults your ears in a flurry of pummeling riffs and grey feathers that leaves you lying in a pool of blood,” going on to appreciate the fact that “the artists seem to respect the ancient, raptor-reptilian roots of parrots.”

• In an interview on the Howard Stern Show, Harrison said the band exists to “raise the bar, as far as extreme music goes.” It is truly extreme. There are no intelligible lyrics. The harsh vocals of the parrot’s death-squawking are “ground-breaking, nest-crushing, and eggshattering” according to one review.

• How do they do it? Harrison explains, “Waldo gets very hyper when we play music he likes and we record his outbursts following an extended listening period. We take the best parts and track them with the music.”

• Their 2004 album “Beak of Putrefaction” is a nod to the Carcass classic, “Reek of Putrefaction.” The song “God of Empty Nest” is named after Morbid Angel’s “God of Emptiness.” The third song is a bonus track called “Seeds of Destruction.” (continued on next page)

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• The album cover for Hatebeak’s first single was a blatant rip-off of Judas Priests’s “Screaming for Vengeance” which quickly earned a cease-and-desist order. It was reissued with Waldo obscuring most of the original picture.

• In 2005 they released their second album “Bird Seeds of Vengeance” performed in conjunction with the band called Caninus whose lead vocals are performed by the barking and growling of two pit bull terriers. This is easily Waldo’s best work, featuring a mixture of hoots, honks, and growls that show off the parrot’s vocal versatility.

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• Hatebeak does not tour. “We don’t play live because it would be absolute torture for the bird to experience decibels at those levels,” explains Blake.

• Therefore, Hatebeak is a studio project only, in the tradition of Steely Dan, except with unintelligible lyrics, paint-peeling guitars, frantic drumming, and no melody, at three times the volume.

• The two human members of the band have now moved on to other endeavors. Blake Harrison sings in the band Pig Destroyer, and Mark Sloan performs with The Index. Waldo the Parrot went on to do album reviews for “Decibel” magazine.

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