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Originally named Sextilis from the Latin, August was the sixth month in the old ten-month Roman calendar when March was the first month of the year. Around 700 BC, August became the eighth month when January and February were added before March. Let’s look at several events that occur this month.

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• On August 7, 1782, in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, originated the Badge of Military Merit, a piece of purple silk shaped like a heart and edged with a narrow silver binding.

The word “Merit” was stitched across the badge in silver thread. It was Washington’s intention for the badge to be given to soldiers who had demonstrated any “singularly meritorious action.” Awardees were allowed to pass guard posts without question. Only three soldiers received the silk purple heart during that war, and for the next 145 years, its significance was pretty much overlooked. In 1927, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Charles Summerall attempted to renew its existence, submitting a draft bill to Congress. It was unsuccessful. Five years later, his successor, General Douglas MacArthur renewed the quest, and on the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1932, the War Department created the “Order of the Purple Heart.”

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• The current award is still a purple heartshaped medal, with Washington’s likeness and coat of arms in the center. It is bestowed upon those members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been killed or wounded in action, as well as to those who have experienced maltreatment as prisoners of war.

• August 1 is National Spumoni Day, set aside to honor an Italian confection. With origins in Naples, Italy, and brought to North America in the late 19th century, spumoni is a molded ice cream consisting of different flavors of ice cream layered with candied fruits and nuts.

Traditionally, its layers are pink (cherry), green (pistachio), and brown (chocolate). When spumoni is served, it is always sliced, never scooped like regular ice cream.

• The U.S. Armed Forces owe many of their World War II victories to the Navajo Code Talkers, a group of Native Americans who devised a method of sending secret information along battle lines without the Japanese military understanding its meaning. Although the enemy troops could hear the messages they intercepted, the code in the Navajo language, which was spoken only in the American southwest, could not be broken. It remains the only spoken military code that was never cracked. Because the code talkers were not allowed to ever discuss their war efforts, it was many years before the world knew of their role in the Allied victory. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed August 14 National Navajo Code Talkers Day in honor of their service. The last surviving member of the original 29 code talkers passed away in June, 2014.

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2. U.S. CITIES: Independence Hall is located in which city?

3. LANGUAGE: What is a shaggy dog story?

4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”?

5. MUSIC: Who composed “Clair de Lune”?

6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: When did Franklin Roosevelt contract polio?

7. PSYCHOLOGY: What fear is represented in the condition called “iophobia”?

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9. HISTORY: When did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begin?

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1. Who holds the record for most multiple-hit games in a major-league season?

2. Between 1980 and 1989, four men managed the New York Mets. Name three of them.

3. When was the last time before 2015 that the Big Ten had a player taken in the first 10 picks of the NFL Draft?

4. Who was the last player before Andray Blatche in 2014 to have a double-double off the bench for the Nets in an NBA playoff game?

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• We observe Watermelon Day on August 3, honoring the most-consumed melon in the U.S. (cantaloupe and honeydew rank #2 and #3, respectively.) With its origins in southern Africa, where it still grows wild today, the watermelon is relatives with the cucumber, pumpkin, and squash. Because watermelon is 92% water, there are only 46 calories in one cup. The early explorers used them as canteens. In just one month, a vine can spread 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 m), and within two months, that vine can produce its first watermelon, which will be ready to harvest one more month after that. There are more than 300 different varieties of watermelon grown around the world. Florida and Texas lead the United States in production. The world’s heaviest watermelon was grown in Arkansas in 2005, with a weight of 268.8 lbs. (121.9 kg).

• National Scrabble Week is celebrated every August, and Scrabble tournaments are held around the world. This board game was the brainstorm of Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed New York City architect who combined dice and card games with letter games to create his new invention. His idea was rejected by the Patent Office twice, and he had difficulty finding a corporate sponsor for the game he called Lexico.

He tried a name change to Criss-Cross Words with no better results. Butts was finally contacted by a New York investor named James Brunot, who added a new color scheme to the board as well as the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles in one word. In the early 1950s, Brunot and a team of friends began manufacturing 12 games an hour in an old schoolhouse, hand-stamping the letters onto tiles made of Vermont maple.

When the chairman of Macy’s discovered the game, he began stocking it at his department stores, and the game really took off. By 1954, 2,000 sets were being manufactured every week, and sales skyrocketed to nearly 4 million sets that year. Today, the game has been translated into 22 languages.

• On August 6, 1945, the world’s first atom bomb was dropped by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, piloted by Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets. The target was the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which before the bombing, had 90,000 buildings. After the bombing, only 28,000 structures remained. Its blast was equal to 12,000 to 15,000 tons of dynamite and destroyed five square miles of the city. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was bombed. Less than a week later, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied forces. These two bombings are the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare history.

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Listed as one of TIME magazine’s Top 100 products of the 20th century, rollerblades were the brainstorm of Minnesotan Scott Olson. And he’s currently hard at work on a new concept, the Skyride. Let’s take a look at his story.

• In 1980, Scott Olson was a 19-year-old Junior A pro hockey player trying to figure out an interesting way to train in the summer. After seeing a pair of inline skates in a catalog, he asked his local sporting goods dealer, Bloomington, Minnesota’s Athletic Outfitters, if any were in stock. The few pairs in the store had been sitting there for years with no sales. Olson bought them all, surprising the owner who said, “I’ve had those things for five years and you are the only one that ever bought them.”

• Since he didn’t really like the design of the skates, Olson began experimenting with a pair in his parents’ Minneapolis basement, making the wheels softer and able to be attached to hockey skates. He pushed his product to hockey players and coaches directly, offering a money-back guarantee. With a patent in hand, he fashioned a better boot, and at age 23, formed the company known as Rollerblade, the first company to massproduce inline skates.

• Olson, who had no formal business training, hired his friends as employees, one of whom, his best friend and accountant, embezzled funds from him. Although Rollerblades were becoming popular worldwide in 1985, Olson was close to losing his company. He was approached by two investors who would keep the Rollerblade brand alive, along with giving Olson a small percentage in the business.

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• There are many laws that have been passed during our nation’s history that make you think that some of our legislators have a bit too much time on their hands. For example, in Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from an airplane; an Illinois law states that a car must be driven with the steering wheel; in West Virginia, you can be imprisoned for cooking sauerkraut or cabbage, due to the offensive odor; and a California law of 1925 made it illegal to wiggle while dancing.

• The same man who discovered the planet Uranus also invented contact lenses.

• A giraffe can use its tongue to clean its ears -- not too difficult a task, I suppose, if your tongue is 21 inches long.

• Everyone has seen bonsai -- those tiny trees that are pruned into aesthetically pleasing shapes. Many people don’t realize, though, that even trees that grow to be giants of the plant world, such as redwoods and giant sequoias, can be used to create these miniatures.

• The United States once issued a bill of currency that was worth 5 cents.

• The name of the popular Japanese dish teriyaki literally means “shiny and broiled.”

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• By 1988, annual sales were close to $10 million, and it was the fastest-growing sport in America. In the 1990s, sales peaked at nearly half a billion dollars annually.

• Because the sport was so popular along the sidewalks bordering the Pacific Ocean, Olson says, “A lot of people thought Rollerblades must’ve started in Southern California, but in reality, it started in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hockey capital of the world.”

• With enough money to live comfortably, Olson was free to try his hand at a few new inventions on his 45-acre Minnesota farm.

He devised the LunarBed, a bed enclosed in a clear plastic globe designed for sleeping under the stars, and Rowbike, a bicycle that is rowed rather than peddled. A giant-outdoor version of ping pong known as Kong Pong was another invention birthed at the farm. One of his more unusual inventions was a plastic penguin lawn ornament that waddles in the wind.

• Olson’s biggest dream these days is a fitness device known as Skyride, sit-down, bicyclestyle capsules suspended from a 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) aboveground track. It’s a monorail system, on which the capsules can be pedaled or rowed. Featured on television’s Shark Tank, the invention is intended for tourist attractions, fitness clubs, and sports facilities. His next vision involves designing fitness equipment for those with disabilities.

• On Aug. 10, 1776, news reaches London that the Americans have drafted the Declaration of Independence. Parliament was unwilling to negotiate with the American rebels and hired Hessians, German mercenaries, to help the British army crush the rebellion.

• On Aug. 13, 1903, engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of a rotary engine, is born in Lahr, Germany. Wankel reportedly came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine when he was only 17 years old.

• On Aug. 15, 1914, the American-built Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. vessel Ancon, a cargo and passenger ship. Engineers moved nearly 240 million cubic yards of earth in constructing the 40-mile-long canal.

• On Aug. 11, 1934, the first group of federal prisoners classified as “most dangerous” arrives at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop in San Francisco Bay. The convicts joined military prisoners left over from the island’s days as a U.S. military prison.

• On Aug. 12, 1973, golfer Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA Championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones’ 43-yearold record.

• On Aug. 16, 1984, John DeLorean, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, is found not guilty due to entrapment after being charged with smuggling drugs in an effort to raise money for his struggling automobile company.

• On Aug. 14, 1994, Illich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, is captured in Sudan by French intelligence agents. In 1975, Sanchez and his men took 70 OPEC officials hostage at a Vienna conference, escaping with up to $50 million in ransom after killing three hostages. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Olson, known as “Olie the goalie” to his friends, raises donkeys and trumpeter swans in his free time.

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2. “Rock and Roll All Nite” was originally on which Kiss album and when?

3. What do the albums “Message from a Drum” and “The Witch Queen of New Orleans” have in common?

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5. Name the 1967 song that contains this lyric: “I knew a man that I did not care for, And then one day this man gave me a call, We sat and talked about things on our mind, And now this man he is a friend of mine.” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The Pony Express Company was the idea of three owners of a freight business, who proposed a faster method of transporting mail between St. Joseph and the California Gold Country, a journey of roughly 1,800 miles (2,897 km).

Although critics said it was impossible, William Russell, William Waddell, and Alexander Majors claimed that the mail could be moved across the distance in just 10 days.

• The men acquired more than 400 horses for their operation and set up a series of 157 relay stations along the route about 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) apart. This was the distance that a horse could gallop at top speed before tiring. Riders changed to a fresh horse at each relay station.

Home stations were also constructed about 90 to 120 miles (145 to 193 km) apart, where the riders were switched out and allowed to rest.

• About 120 riders were hired, each weighing less than 125 lbs. (57 kg). A rider rode between 75 and 100 miles (120 to 160 km), whether day or night, rain or shine, before being switched out.

His salary was $100 a month, which compared in its time to 43 cents to a dollar a day for unskilled labor.

• The initial postage rate for the Pony Express was $5 per ½ ounce (14 g). It was later lowered to $2.50, then dropped to its lowest in July, 1861, of $1. The rider’s pouch could hold 20 lbs. (9 kg) of mail. In addition, his saddle bag contained a water sack, a Bible, a horn to alert the relay station of his arrival in order to have a fresh horse ready, and a revolver. The requirement was to have no more than 165 lbs. (75 kg) on the horse’s back.

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• In April, 1860, the Pony Express made its inaugural run, with a rider leaving St. Joseph at the same time one left Sacramento. The westbound rider made the journey in 10 days, beating the eastbound rider’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days, proving that the route could be covered in 10 days.

• At any one time, there were about 80 Pony Express riders along the trail traveling east or west, with an average speed of 10 mph (16 km/ hr).

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• In May, 1860, the Paiute Indian War broke out, resulting in an interruption of mail delivery.

Several Pony Express stations were attacked by the tribe, with 16 employees killed and 150 horses stolen. The war cost the Company about $75,000 in addition to the loss of life.

• During its 18 months of operation, the Pony Express delivered about 35,000 letters between Missouri and California. The owners hoped to obtain a mail delivery contract from the U.S. Government, but it never materialized. When the first transcontinental telegraph line was instituted in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were over. During that time, it had grossed $90,000 and lost $200,000. Its assets were later sold to Wells Fargo for $1.5 million.

• There have been nine movies made about the company, with the first a silent film in 1925, Sports Quiz followed by Frontier Pony Express, starring Roy Answers Rogers in 1939. A popular television series, The 1. Al Simmons had 85 for the Philadelphia A’s Young Riders, ran from 1989-1992, starring in 1925.

Stephen Baldwin and Josh Brolin.

2. Joe Torre, George Bamberger, Frank Howard and Davey Johnson.

3. It was 2008 (Michigan’s Jake Long and Ohio State’s Vernon Gholston).

4. Armen Gilliam, in 1994.

5. It was 1979 (Boston, Montreal and New York Rangers).

6. Chevrolet, with 23.

7. Lindsay Davenport, who completed the feat in 2000.

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Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. James Brown, in 1965. For that version, the song’s tempo was increased. The 1991 box set has the song as originally written.

2. “Dressed to Kill,” in 1975.

3. Everything. The first was the 1971 Redbone album released in the U.S. The name was changed to “The Witch Queen of New Orleans” for release in the U.K. 4. Donna Summer, in 1978.

5. “Reach Out of the Darkness,” by Friend and Lover. The song has made the rounds: the film “1969” and multiple TV series, such as “Night Stalker,” “Mad Men” and “Beverly Hills 90210.”

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Sunday, August 16, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Vintage Shoppe and Historic Buildings All-Faith Bethel Church Service & Hymn-Sing Vintage Tractor & Automobile Parade Children’s Activities Hungry Five–Ompah Band and Ragtime Piano Demonstrations and Displays Food Service Begins at 11:00 AM Sweet Corn on the Cob, Fry Bread, Burgers, Brats, Hot Dogs, Cheese Buttons, Kuchen, Sarsaparilla, Sloppy Joe BBQ’s, Hand-dipped Ice Cream Cones, and More!

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Scarlett the Scottie says, “On a hot summer day, I love to cool off with a cold popsicle and the latest issue of Tidbits!”

Admission 5 & under: free; 6 - 18: $3; Adults: $6 Admission Includes: Entrance to Buckstop Junction, Historic Buildings, Entertainment, Demonstrations, Displays, Programs & Events Food, Beverages, and Kids’ Games Extra.

Sorry, No Coolers or Pets.

Proceeds Benefit Historic Restoration and Education at Buckstop Junction www.BuckstopJunction.org

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