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‘Tis the season, as they say, so this week, Tidbits is wondering just how much you know about the turkey, one of our favorite meals over the holidays. • The U.S. Department of Agriculture tells us that about 45 million turkeys will be cooked in America for Thanksgiving, about 17% of all the turkeys sold throughout the year. Close to 250 million turkeys are raised in the U.S. annually. • The Meleagris gallopavo is the wild turkey from which our domesticated turkey is descended. There are six subspecies of wild turkeys, including the Gallopavo silvestris, or forest turkey, the most numerous of all turkeys, more than five million birds. The turkey is the only poultry native to North America. • Because domesticated turkeys have been bred to have large breasts for cooking purposes, they are top-heavy and unable to fly. However, wild turkeys can fly as fast as 55 mph (89 km/hr) and they even roost in the treetops at night to avoid predators. Wild birds can also run up to a speed of 25 mph (40 km/hr). The domestic bird will weigh about twice as much as the wild one. • During the 1930s, excessive hunting brought the wild turkey population down to about 30,000. A wildlife restoration project was instituted, and today, there are an estimated 7 million wild turkeys across the nation. Turn the page for more!
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Tidbits® of Bismarck TURKEYS (continued):
• Are you familiar with all the turkey terms? That flap of skin that hangs over a turkey’s beak is known as a snood. Brightly-colored fleshy bumps on a turkey’s head and throat are called caruncles. Both the snood and caruncles turn bright red when the bird becomes frightened or agitated. The wattle, that flap of skin under the turkey’s chin, also changes to bright scarlet on a male in the midst of mating season. Although we frequently hear males referred to as toms, they are also known as gobblers, because of the distinctive noise they make to announce their presence to females. A baby turkey is known as a poult or a chick, and of course, the female is called a hen. • Speaking of gobbling, in addition to the familiar gobble, a male turkey can make more than 30 different vocal sounds, including purrs, yelps, and kee-kees, distinctive and unique enough to be recognized by his fellow males. A gobble can be heard a mile away. Female turkeys aren’t nearly so vocal, usually making a clicking noise. • There are obvious differences in the outward appearances between males and females, with the male having a featherless bright red head and a body of red, bronze, and gold feathers. The female’s head is grayish-blue and her plumage is mostly a drab brown with a few feathers on the neck and head for camouflage. The adult male also has a beard, a cluster of feathers on the center of its breast, feathers than can be more than 7 inches (17.8 cm) long. • Turkey gender can also be determined in a rather unusual way – by observing their droppings. A male’s droppings are spiralshaped, while a female produces droppings shaped like the letter J. • Turkeys have excellent hearing, able to determine sounds up to a mile away, but oddly enough, have no external ears. They hear through small holes in the head directly behind the eyes. The birds have periscopic vision, with eyes on the sides of the head, able to achieve a 360-degree field of vision. • The male turkey has sharp bony spikes on the back of its lower legs, used as a method of defense. You can determine a turkey’s age by measuring the length of these spurs. A one-year-old can have spurs of 7/16” (1.1 cm), while two-year-olds’ spurs range from ½” to 15/16” (1.27 cm to 2.4 cm). The spurs on a five-year-old turkey are from 1.5” to 2.25” (3.8 cm to 5.7 cm) in length. • During mating season, the male turkey fluffs out his feathers, fans out his tail feathers, and drags his wings when he walks. This little performance is called strutting. See the next page for more!
1. LITERATURE: What famous character lived in the village of Little Whinging? 2. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “pan” mean? 3. SCIENCE: What is the primary substance that makes up most of a plant’s cell walls? 4. MOVIES: What 1990s comedy movie had the tagline, “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl”? 5. MYTHOLOGY: What does the Greek goddess Iris personify? 6. ENTERTAINERS: What was the name of singer Michael Jackson’s famous California ranch? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the collective noun for a group of mosquitoes? 8. ANATOMY: What is the correct medical name of the shoulder blade? 9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 20thcentury doctor and theologian once said, “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory”? 10. MUSIC: How many keys are on most standard pianos? (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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TURKEYS (continued):
• When it’s time for the female hen to lay eggs, she’ll lay about 12 eggs at the rate of one per day in just under two weeks. Those eggs will incubate about 28 days before hatching. • Although turkey is regularly served as a Thanksgiving mainstay, it’s unlikely that the Pilgrims dined on the bird at their first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. This threeday celebration was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims, and written accounts of the menu mention “fowl,” which was probably duck or grouse, but turkey was not listed specifically. • George Washington was responsible for proclaiming the first nationwide celebration of thanks in America in 1789, but Thanksgiving wasn’t declared a national holiday until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln decreed the final Thursday in November as the official holiday. • The Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. It was first observed in April of 1872 in recognition of the recovery of the Prince of Wales from a serious illness. • What’s in that little plastic bag found in your turkey’s empty body cavity when you bring it home from the store? That bag contains the giblets, which are the turkey’s edible internal parts, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck. The gizzard is part of the turkey’s stomach, containing tiny stones that help grind up food in the digestion process. Some cooks chop up the giblets to add to the gravy or stuffing, but in all probability, most giblets end up in the dog’s dish! • The meat of an older, larger male turkey is preferred over that of a younger bird, which is usually stringy and tougher. However, when it comes to female turkeys, the meat of a younger bird is better.
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• Benjamin Franklin favored the turkey as a symbol for America over the chosen bald eagle, saying, “I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird…a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours.”
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FEMALE VOCALISTS This week, Tidbits looks at four dynamic Canadian female vocalists who’ve all hit the charts in a big way. • Ontario country singer Shania Twain began life as Eilleen Regina Edwards, and was raised in near poverty. She was adopted by stepfather Jerry Twain, a member of the Ojibwa tribe, and took on the first name of Shania, said to be a translation from that language as “I’m on my way.” She began singing in bars at age 8 to help the family make ends meet, wrote her first song at age 10, and appeared on CBS television at 13. From her humble beginnings, Twain has gone on to have sales of 85 million albums, has earned five Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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• Although Ontario native Avril Lavigne is just 30 years old, she has already sold more than 30 million albums and 50 million singles. By age 16, she had already appeared on stage with Shania Twain, and had a $2 million recording contract in her pocket. She’s also a songwriter for other artists, having cowritten the mega-hit “Breakaway” recorded by Kelly Clarkson. She has branched out into films, doing a voice-over for a character in the 2006 animated film Over the Hedge, and appeared in Fast Food Nation. She has two perfumes on department store shelves, and has launched her own clothing line, Abbey Dawn. Avril (whose name means April in French) gives back to the world through the foundation she founded that funds Easter Seals and Make-A-Wish, helping children and youth with serious illnesses.
by Samantha Weaver • It was Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos who made the following sage observation: “Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” • Board games date back at least 5,000 years, when people were playing on a board that looks like an ancestor to backgammon. • The next time you’re overwhelmed with emotion and find yourself passionately kissing your partner, you probably won’t remember that one word to describe what you’re doing is “deosculation.” • It was in 1958 that the first stereo phonograph record went on sale. • The soft drink 7-UP was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda -- and it contained lithium, which is now prescribed to treat manic depression. That ingredient (which continued to be part of the formula until the 1940s) probably helped spur the drink’s success, since 7-UP was introduced just before the Great Depression. The new name was derived from the size of the soda bottle (7 ounces) and “bottoms up,” which is presumably what many people did during the difficult years of the Depression. • A man in Orange County, California, stole a diamond worth $25,000 and, despite being arrested for the crime, was able to smuggle it into prison with him by swallowing it. He then managed to hide the gem in a shower drain in hopes of retrieving and swallowing it again before his release. All that effort was in vain, however; prison guards found the diamond and returned it to the jewelry shop. • If you’re using an average brand-new pencil, you’ll be able to draw a line about 35 miles long before running out of lead (though you’ll have to stop for sharpening breaks, of course). *** Thought for the Day: “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” -- Thomas Henry Huxley (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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FEMALE VOCALISTS (continued):
• On Nov. 15, 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his famous March to the Sea by torching the industrial section of Atlanta. For the next six weeks, Sherman’s army cut a 60-mile-wide swath of destruction through Georgia before capturing the seaport of Savannah. • On Nov. 12, 1892, William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional football player when Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Athletic Association pays him $500 to play as a ringer in a game against the rival Pittsburgh Athletic Club. Before then, players had traded their services on the field for expense money or trinkets, not cash. • On Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 o’clock of the 11th day of the 11th month, the First World War comes to an end. The Great War claimed the lives of 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties caused indirectly by the war numbered close to 10 million. • On Nov. 10, 1969, “Sesame Street,” a TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and counting, makes its broadcast debut. Over the years, critics have blamed the show and its use of brief segments for shrinking children’s attention spans. • On Nov. 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood is killed in a car accident in Oklahoma on her way to a meet with a reporter. She reportedly carried documents proving that Kerr-McGee Corp. was negligent when it came to worker safety at its plutonium plant. The theory was that someone forced her off the road to prevent the meeting. • On Nov. 14, 1986, Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky pleads guilty to insider trading and agrees to pay a $100 million fine. “Boesky Day,” as the SEC would later call it, was crucial in exposing a nationwide scandal at the heart of the ‘80s Wall Street boom. • On Nov. 16, 1999, construction begins on a giant bonfire at Texas A&M University, the continuation of a 90-year tradition. Two days later, the 59-foot-high pile of more than 7,000 logs collapsed, killing 12 students and injuring another 27. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Anne Murray paved the way for other female Canadian singers, as the first Canadian female to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts. Her single “Snowbird” was one of North America’s most played songs of 1970, and earned her an American gold record, another first for a Canadian female. Born in Nova Scotia to a doctor father and a nurse mother, Anne began classical voice lessons at age 15, enduring a two-hour bus ride every Saturday. Yet she chose physical education as her major in college and taught P.E. at a Prince Edward Island high school for a year before giving it up to pursue her musical career. She’s had sales of more than 55 million records, won four Grammy Awards, 26 Juno Awards (Canadian music awards), and three CMA Awards. • Celine Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist of all time with record sales topping 200 million. The Quebec-born star got her start in her teens on French language albums. Her manager, who would later become her husband, mortgaged his house to finance her first record. Throughout the 1980s, she released a series of French albums, with her first English language album hitting North America in 1990. Those aren’t the only two languages she Dion can sing – she also sings in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. She’s known her husband/manager since she was 12, when her mother sent him a demo tape. They began a relationship seven years later when she was 19 and he was 45. They now have three children. Dion has won five Grammy Awards, including the ever-popular “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme from the movie Titanic.
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1. Who was the first to record “I’m Gonna Be Strong” in 1963? 2. Name the artist who had a hit with teen suicide song “Patches.” 3. Which band released “Black Night” in 1970? 4. “The Logical Song” came from which Supertramp album? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “O’ beautiful, for spacious skies, But now those skies are threatening, They’re beating plowshares into swords, For this tired old man that we elected king.” (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Tidbits® of Bismarck “Mike and Molly” and her madcap role in “Bridesmaids.” Here, though, the charm is buried under layers of blue humor and onenote weight jokes.
EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Nov. 10, 2014. PICKS OF THE WEEK How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) -- The gawky Viking boy called Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and his tamed dragon, Toothless, are a little bit bigger and a little bit tougher in this satisfying sequel. Hiccup still balks at the prospect that he will one day lead his warrior tribe, but he has to step up in the face of new enemies and dragons. Gerard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill return to their original roles, building on the magic of the first flick. This adventure is a little bit grittier and a lot more action-packed. The heroes are all older by a few years, and the tone of the story has matured with them. You’ll get plenty of gags and emotional weight (especially from Cate Blanchett’s new character), but the real headliner here is the soaring battle sequences. Tammy (R) -- Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) is a crass, loud-mouthed and short-tempered fast-food worker whose antics are intended to delight audiences for about an hour and a half. However, like her crappy job in the film’s first act, she can’t do the job and chooses to be obnoxious and ridiculous without getting much laughter. Tammy and her grandmother (Susan Sarandon) resolve to go on the road to keep the plot going. Melissa McCarthy is incredibly likable and funny -- established by her work on TV’s
Jersey Boys (R) -- Oldies fans, rejoice! The Tony-award-winning musical about the Four Seasons got a movie adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood. The action follows the rise and fall of four boys from New Jersey who have enough heart and dreams to scrape their way into the spotlight. The group’s de-facto leader, Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) drives the story forward, even as he brings the group close to ruin in dealing with a shady mobster (Christopher Walken). The movie sags between musical numbers, but there are moments when the film has undeniably captured the bright energy of the music. DOG OF THE WEEK Let’s Be Cops (R) -- Two pals (Jake M. Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.) dress up as police officers for a costume party and get a little too invested in the role. People let you get away with a lot when they think you’re a cop, and these two do. The goofiness goes too far as the guys get wrapped up in real police work, turning what started as a party trick into a life-threatening hobby. Unfortunately, this little conceit is the only gag, and it wears thin. The leads have a fun chemistry -- you believe them to be guys who would do stupid stuff together -- but these fake cops fail to chase down a real laugh riot. TV RELEASES Batman: The Complete Series Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions Wings: The Complete Series True Blood: Season 7 Starsky & Hutch: The Complete Series ©2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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CRANBERRIES What would Thanksgiving dinner be without cranberries? Here’s the lowdown on this little fruit, a member of the heaher family. • Cranberries grow on creeping shrubs and vines that are about 7 feet (2 m) long and 2 to 8 inches (5 to 20 cm) in height. They flourish in sandy bogs and marshes, requiring at least a ton of vines per acre to plant a bog. • The cranberry is one of three fruits native to North America, along with the Concord grape and the blueberry. Long before the arrival of Europeans to the New World, the Native Americans were using cranberries for food, as a dye for fabrics, rugs, and blankets, and for medicinal purposes. They mixed deer meat with mashed berries to make pemmican, a food that kept for long periods of time. The tribes’ medicine man used cranberries in a poultice to draw out poison from wounds. Some tribes called the little berries “sassamanesh,” while others named them “ibimi,” meaning “bitter berry.” When German and Dutch settlers arrived, they called them “crane berries,” because the plant’s blossoms looked like the head of a sandhill crane. The word “cranberries” is first recorded in 1647 in a letter written by John Eliot, who was a missionary to the Native Americans. Eliot, who was also the translator of the first Bible printed in America, asked in his letter, “Why are strawberries sweet and cranberries sour?” • Just 5% of the cranberry crop is sold as fresh, with the other 95% turned into other products, such as juice and sauce. These little berries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products sold.
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• There are about 1,000 cranberry growers in the United States. The state of Wisconsin is the nation’s No. 1 producer of cranberries, producing nearly 5 million barrels, which amounts to 60% of America’s crop. Other contributors to the supply are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington. British Columbia is Canada’s leading producer, cultivating 20% of the world’s cranberries. A lot of fruit is produced in a tiny area – if all of North America’s cranberry bogs were put together, they would encompass an area about the size of Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island, just 47 square miles (122 sq. km). • Canned cranberry sauce was first marketed commercially in 1912 by the Cape Cod Cranberry Company in Hanson, Massachusetts. The Ocean Spray Company got its start in 1930, when it formed as a grower-owned marketing cooperative.
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Flash Back Trivia Answers Frankie Laine. But it wasn’t until Gene Pitney’s 1964 version that the song became a hit. Others also have covered the song, including Cyndi Lauper and Juice Newton. Dickey Lee. Songwriter Lee also penned the hit “She Thinks I Still Care” for George Jones. Hard rock group Deep Purple. “Breakfast in America,” 1979. The album included “Goodbye Stranger,” “Take the Long Way Home” and “Breakfast in America.” “The End of Innocence,” by Don Henley in 1989. The innocence that’s lost is that of the baby boomer generation. The song’s black-and-white video shows pieces of lost Americana, big cars, families, the American dream, and seems to point to the political (with President Ronald Reagan as an example) as the reason why.
• The health benefits of cranberries are many, including preventing urinary tract infections, respiratory disorders, kidney stones, and heart disorders. Their proanthocyanidin content and anti-carcinogenic components help inhibit the growth of several cancer cells, especially colon and prostate cancer. Its antioxidants may also contribute to a healthy immune system. • People who are allergic to aspirin should be careful of their cranberry consumption, as the berries contain sizable quantities of salicylic acid, also present in aspirin.
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Sports Quiz Answers Colorado’s Dante Bichette, in 1998. It was in 2002 (the Angels). Eric Dickerson (1983) and George Rogers (1981). Ralph Sampson (1981-83). The St. Louis Blues, who joined the NHL in 1967. John Andretti, in 1999. Bjorn Borg beat Premjit Lall, 20-18, in 1973.
Trivia Test Answers 1. Harry Potter 2. All 3. Cellulose 4. “Wayne’s World” 5. The rainbow 6. Neverland 7. A scourge 8. Scapula 9. Albert Schweitzer 10. 88
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