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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings. 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. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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ONIONS (cont’d) • Onions range in size from pearl onions that are less than an inch wide to yellow onions that are often over 4 inches wide. The world’s biggest onion was grown by a British a farmer in 2014. It weighed 18 lb 11.84 oz (about 8.5 kg) and was larger than his head. It measured 32 inches (81 cm) at its circumference and spent 11 months growing in his backyard greenhouse. • Onions can be yellow, red, or white, but 87% of onions grown and consumed in the U.S. are yellow. Worldwide, 75% of onions grown are yellow. • Flavonoids are phytonutrients (plant chemicals) found in fruits and vegetables that give them their color. Flavonoids are antioxidants with anti-inflammatory and immune system benefits. Yellow onions have the highest total flavonoid content of any type of onion, amounting to 11 times higher than white onions. • Onions are grown commercially in more than 20 U.S. states from coast to coast by about 500 commercial growers, all of whom also raise other crops. The top onion-producing states are California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. • U.S. farmers plant about 125,000 acres of onions each year resulting in a harvest of about 6.75 billion pounds a year. This amounts to 7% of the world’s supply. World onion production is estimated at approximately 105 billion pounds each year. Top onion-exporting countries include the Netherlands, China, Mexico, India, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, and Turkey. • With an average onion containing only 64 calories, they add a lot of flavor without adding calories. Onions contain vitamin C, folic acid, calcium, and iron. They are low in sodium and contain no fat. • When you slice a raw onion open, it releases an enzyme called lachrymatory-factor synthase, from the Latin word “lacrima” meaning “tear” which is also the root of the word “lachrymose” meaning “tearful.” Anything that causes the formation of tears is called lachrymatory, including tear gas. When the lachrymatory(continued next page)

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factor synthase is exposed, it reacts with amino acids contained in the onion. The combination of the two chemicals are then converted into sulfenic acids, which spontaneously form syn-propanethial-S-oxide, which floats through the air, lands on your cornea, irritates the nerve fibers in the lachrymal glands (tear ducts), and triggers tears. Why do onions contain these chemicals? As a deterrent, to prevent animals and insects from eating it. • Onions grown in sandy loams that are naturally low in sulfur content will result in onions that are less pungent than those grown in clay soils which are high in sulfur content. The Vidalia onion, grown in the 20-county region around the town of Vidalia, Georgia, is particularly sweet because the sandy soil it grows in is very low in sulfur content. The Vidalia onion was named the Georgia State Vegetable in 1990. Onions that are grown outside the specified 20 counties cannot by law be called Vidalia onions. • The Walla Walla onion is another sweet-tasting low-sulfur onion, named for Walla Walla County in Washington where it is grown. It was developed by selecting and cross breeding the sweetest tasting onions in every crop, starting in the year 1900. The Walla Walla onion is the official Washington State Vegetable. Both Vidalia, Georgia and Walla Walla, Washington sponsor onion festivals every year, including onion eating contests. • To avoid crying when cutting onions, refrigerate them prior to cutting, and cut them in front of a blowing fan. Leave the root end intact because the base has the highest concentration of sulfur compounds. Cut them as close to cooking or serving time as possible because the flavor deteriorates and the aroma intensifies over time. High heat makes onions bitter so use low or medium heat when sautéing them. To get rid of (continued on next page)

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AVOIDING ONION TEARS (cont) onion breath, chew a sprig of parsley. • Onions and garlic, as well as all other members of the Allium family, are toxic to dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and other animals, causing anemia which can kill. A 45-pound dog would only have to eat one medium-size onion to experience toxic levels; a quarter of a cup would be enough to kill a 20-pound dog. Garlic and onions are toxic to animals whether cooked, raw, or powdered. • Why can people eat onions and garlic while dogs and cats cannot? Onions contain thiosulfate, formed when oxygen molecules bind to sulfur molecules. Thiosulfate gives onions, garlic, skunks, and rotten eggs their odor. In the blood, hemoglobin carries oxygen. Also in the bloodstream are something called reactive sulfhydryl groups. Thiosulfate binds to the reactive sulfhydryl groups and the result is that the hemoglobin starts clumping together. In clumps, the hemoglobin cannot deliver oxygen. • The difference between cats, dogs, and humans is that humans have only two types of reactive sulfhydryl groups, whereas dogs have four, and cats have eight. Dog hemoglobin clumps at twice the rate as humans, and cat hemoglobin clumps at four times the rate. The result is a fatal anemia. Humans can metabolize onions while other animals can’t. Symptoms often don’t show up until days after the onions have been eaten. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Jesus shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

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• During World War II, tapioca became hard to find because supply lines to the U.S were cut. In 1941 General Foods hired chemist William A. Mitchell, asking him to come up with a substitute for tapioca. Mitchell came up with a somewhat inferior tapioca substitute, which was distributed widely to soldiers. Next, he turned his attention to other things, eventually collecting over 70 patents, all related to food. He had a Did you hear about the family who got stuck hand in inventing Jell-O, Tang, Cool-Whip, and on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? PopApparently, their vehicle would neverRocks. • Innever 1956land. he was working on inventing an instant carbonated drink: a tablet that could be dropped into water to form cola. What he accidentally invented is something called “gasified confections” or “carbonated candy.” • Hard candies such as lollipops are made from sugar, corn syrup, water, and flavorings. The ingredients are heated until the sugar melts, and then boiled to evaporate the water. When it cools down, the result is hard candy. • Mitchell altered this recipe by subjecting the molten sugar to pressurized carbon dioxide. This forces tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide into R LOnce O Othe T sugar D Ocools A Ndown, W Mthe presthe sugar. sure is released quickly. Sheets of sugar shatter Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space into tiny shards, and each shard still contains Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” trapped bubbles of pressurized carbon dioxide. When the sugar bits are place on the tongue (or in any other liquid) the sugar dissolves, releasing the still-pressurized trapped bubbles with a sizzle and a pop. Disneyland Paris •1. Mitchell patented this process in 1956, but it 2. Frontierland took nearly two decades for the nearly forgotten 3. The Monorail discovery to be resurrected. Pop Rocks went on the in 1975. 4. market Space Mountain •5. A pouch of Pop Rocks contains less carbonFantasyland ation than half a can of soda, but in 1979 (continued on next page)

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• It is called Plymouth Rock because the Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England, and named the new settlement after it. Plymouth, England, was named after the Plym River, and the Plym River was named after town of Plympton, which means “plum tree farm.” Here is the full history of Plymouth Rock. • In the heat generated deep underground, rocks melt and become magma. When magma cools, it turns back into rock. These types of moltenturned-solid rocks are called igneous rocks, from the Latin “ignis” meaning “fire” from which we also get “ignite” and “ignition.” • Granite is an igneous rock, from the Latin “granum” meaning “grained” or “grainy” because of its granular appearance. Granite is formed when magma cools very slowly deep underground. Granite forms the foundation of much of the continents and is a signature rock of planet Earth. Other rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, and Mars – are primarily made of basalt. Earth has plenty of basalt, but only Earth has granite. • Granite is composed of three main minerals: quartz, mica, and feldspar. These three minerals slowly separate and crystalize as the molten magma cools, resulting in a tight matrix of interlocking minerals that makes granite so hard and gives it a salt-and-pepper appearance. Different ratios of these three minerals result in different colors of granite, ranging from white to grey to pink. • Additional minerals may be mixed into the granite, resulting in different types of granitelike rocks called “granitics” or “granitoids.” When granite is mixed with another type of igneous mineral conglomerates called diorite, the result is a granitic called granodiorite. • When continents shift, deep layers of rock are lifted and exposed. Erosion removes overlying sediments, and granite that was once buried deep underground is now on top of the surface of the Earth. • Plymouth Rock began as a slab of granodio (continued next page)

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• The average weight of a turkey purchased at Thanksgiving is 15 pounds and is about 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat. The heaviest turkey ever raised weighed 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog. • The “turkey trot,” a ballroom dance popular in the early 1900s, was named for the short, jerky steps that turkeys take. • In England, 200 years ago, turkeys were walked to market in herds. They wore booties to protect their feet. • Age is a determining factor in taste. Old, large Toms (males) are preferable to young Toms, as their meat is stringy. The opposite is true for females: Old hens are the tougher birds. (continued in next column)

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Rock is a glacial erratic. • There is absolutely no evidence that the Pilgrims in the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock when they arrived in the year 1620. The claim was made by a church elder 121 years after the fact. The 94-year-old man said his father, who had been aboard the Mayflower, told him that. • There is far more accurate evidence that the Pilgrims actually landed on Cape Cod, at the point that is now Provincetown, MA. Weeks later they sailed to Plymouth Harbor because it was a better port, and no one knows for sure that anyone ever set foot on Plymouth Rock. The Pilgrims did not refer to it in any of their writings. • Today only about one-third of the original rock remains, after portions were chipped off as souvenirs. It’s about the size of a bear. It’s now a part of Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Plymouth, MA. About a million people a year visit.

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PLYMOUTH ROCK (cont) rite on the supercontinent called Gondwana perhaps 800 million years ago. As the continents drifted, Plymouth Rock became a part of the new continent called Pangaea. As the rift between continents grew, Plymouth Rock would have had a front row seat to the formation of the ever-growing Atlantic Ocean, becoming part of the new continent now called North America. • As a series of glaciers covered North America and then retreated, a slab of granodiorite that weighed perhaps 20,000 pounds broke away due to constant cycles of freezing and thawing water. It landed on a sheet of glacial ice which carried it like a raft some hundreds of miles. When the last glacier melted about 10,000 years ago, that slab of granodiorite was left on the shoreline of what later became Massachusetts. Stones that are carried by glaciers and then dropped are called glacial erratics. Plymouth