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• Hurricanes are born where the ocean is warmest, when it is warmest. The Caribbean Sea gets warmer as the sun passes over it on its way north in June and July; it warms up again when the sun travels south in September and October.

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• The practice of naming hurricanes seems to have begun in a fictional book called “Storm” published in 1941. In this book, a meteorologist amuses himself by naming tropical storms after girls. The idea caught on. It became standard practice in 1950 when there were three different hurricanes going on at the same time in the Caribbean. Meteorologists began choosing names in alphabetical order. In 1978 they started naming hurricanes after men.

• The word ‘hurricane’ may have originated from the Carib god Huracan, a malicious spirit who ruled over fire, wind, and stormy weather and craved human life, haunting the coastlines and delivering destruction, chaos, and death indiscriminately.

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• The farther the wind blows across the top of the sea unobstructed, the higher it pushes the waves. The taller the waves get, the more they absorb the energy of the wind. The rule of thumb is that the maximum height of the waves equals half the speed of the wind. So a hurricane wind of 150 mph (241 km/hr) can produce waves up to 75 feet (23 m) tall.

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• Hurricanes usually track forward at between 5 and 15 mph (8 to 18 km/hr). At 15 mph, a hurricane can cover 3,600 miles (5,800 km) in 10 days. They can be up to 600 miles (965 km) wide. Most hurricanes last between 7 and 14 days from the time they form until the time they dissipate when they encounter land.

NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE In 1989, Tammy Faye Bakker announced that Hurricane Hugo was God’s way of punishing Charlotte, South Carolina, for putting her husband, televangelist Jim Bakker, on trial. Jim Bakker served five years in prison for fraud and conspiracy.

• It is said that in 1938, a resident of Westhampton Beach, NY received in the mail a barometer he had ordered. Opening the package, he was disappointed to find that it registered “hurricane”. He tapped it and smacked it, but still nothing could dislodge the indicator from the hurricane setting. Obviously the barometer was faulty. He wrote a letter of protest to the manufacturer and went to the post office to mail it back. He was never able to return home from the post office, because the hurricane struck just then and swept his house into the sea.

HURRICANE FACTS • On September 3, 1821, a hurricane hit New York City and moved north up into New England. A man named William Redfield rode on horseback through the area shortly after the storm passed and noticed as he moved through the area that in the southernmost areas hit by the storm, the trees had all fallen down in the exact opposite direction as the trees that had toppled in the northernmost area damaged by the storm. Upon returning home, Redfield collected information about the storm from newspapers, letters, and ships’ logs and afterwards was the first human to come to a great conclusion concerning the nature of hurricanes: “This storm was exhibited in the form of a great whirlwind.”

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7. GEOGRAPHY: The Catskill Mountains are located largely in which U.S. state?

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• In some places, hurricanes are called cyclones, which is Greek for “wheel” or “coils.”

• When hurricanes strike places like New England, thousands of elms, birches, spruces, and hemlocks fall, but oaks, hickories, and walnuts do not. That’s because they have taproots that sink like a shaft straight into the earth, whereas other trees have shallow root systems that spread out flat.

• In 1954 Hurricane Edna became twins when it reached the New England coast: it split apart and became two storms with two eyes.

• In 1963 the weathermen in Taiwan predicted than oncoming hurricane Gloria would bypass the island. However, the storm struck the island head-on the following day, killing some 250 people and causing over $17 million in damage.

The weathermen were arrested and charged with criminally negligent forecasting, a crime which carried a penalty of up to ten years in prison. The weathermen brought in experts who testified to the unpredictability of hurricanes. The judge decided that the prosecution had failed to prove criminal intent. The weathermen were freed.

HURRICANES IN HISTORY • Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, was getting ready to invade Japan in 1274 when a hurricane blew in. Hundreds of his ships were sunk in the storm and thousands of his troops drowned. Japan was saved. Seven years later he tried to invade Japan again. This time he managed to get to the shores of Japan with some 200,000 men and a thousand ships. Then another hurricane blew in, wrecking the ships and sweeping the beaches clean of soldiers. Kublai Khan no doubt thought of hurricanes as work of the devil, but the Japanese referred to their savior storms as “kamikaze” meaning “divine wind.”

• In 1854 during the Crimean War, 500 British soldiers died in the Battle of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. A few weeks later, a hurricane wrecked 13 supply ships that were destined for the British army still stationed in Balaklava. With no supplies, over 8,000 soldiers died during the winter.

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2. In 2014, Denard Span set a Washington Nationals record for most hits in a season (184). Who had held the mark?

3. Who is the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to also hit a home run in his first major-league at-bat?

4. When was the last time before 2014 (Kentucky and UConn) that the two teams in the NCAA Tournament men’s basketball title game did not make the tourney the year before?

5. Who holds the goaltender record for most shutouts in a season for the Washington Capitals?

6. Of Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon, who has recorded more NASCAR Cup wins at Martinsville?

7. In 2015, Andy Murray, became the second Open Era male tennis player to lose four finals at a Grand Slam event and never win it. Who was the first? (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• In December 1944 a hurricane struck the U.S. Pacific Fleet that was preparing to invade the Philippines. Three destroyers sank, nine ships sustained serious damage, and 19 ships suffered some damage. The storm wrecked 146 planes, and 790 soldiers drowned. The invasion was postponed. Some experts feel that if the invasion had not been drowned out and the Philippines had been re-taken, the war with Japan would have ended without any atomic bombs being dropped.

• On November 13, 1970, a hurricane roared up the Bay of Bengal in Pakistan and swamped the area. Half a million people died. Survivors turned to the government for help. But the government of Pakistan was located 2,000 miles away, out of the path of the storm. They sent no aid. Thousands died while waiting for help. The governmental indifference caused such resentment that revolution broke out which hastened the split of Bangladesh, which became a nation independent of Pakistan.

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• At that time perfumes and colognes were packaged in unattractive pharmaceutical bottles.

Francois was inspired to package his product in elegant bottles instead. He asked designers to craft bottles for him from crystal, feeling he should sell perfume as “something in a lovely bottle,” rather than “something lovely in a bottle.” He wanted to appeal to the eye as well as the nose. He also thought the label should be beautiful as well, such as raised gold lettering on a black background.

• Sales were slow when he tried to make the jump to department stores, but then fate intervened: in a store in Paris, he dropped a bottle of his perfume and it shattered, its scent permeating the store, creating immediate demand, resulting in a large order, and launching his career.

• Now his line of perfumes, named after his French mother’s maiden name which he adopted as his own name, is well-known worldwide.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was beloved Russian author Leo Tolstoy who made the following sage observation: “Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

• If you see a group of flamingoes together in one place, it will be handy to know that the appropriate collective noun is a “flamboyance.”

• You might be surprised to learn that feta cheese has been around for 6,000 years.

• It may be the hottest part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and temperatures in the United Arab Emirates may be reaching the triple digits Fahrenheit, but that’s no impediment to winter sports in Dubai, the UAE’s most populous city. Residents and visitors can take a break from the heat at Ski Dubia, an indoor ski resort featuring a 290-foot mountain, sled and toboggan runs, climbing towers, an ice cave and even face-to-beak encounters with penguins.

• As the new school year kicks off in the United States, it might be interesting to renew a familiarity with a now-disused word: a “belterwerrits” is an annoying child.

• Many people know American counterculture figure Ken Kesey as the author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which presents a disturbing portrait of life in a mental institution. It’s less well known, though, that Kesey got an inside view of the system when he worked as a janitor in a mental hospital before he became famous.

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• His dad, David Mullany, Sr., thought all it needed was extra weight on one side of the ball.

A friend of his worked at a cosmetic factory and said that the round plastic moldings that covered Coty perfume bottles for shipping were the size of a baseball. David started experimenting with them.

• He cut one in half, added weight, and taped it back together, but it didn’t curve. Next he cut some holes in it to create drag but it still didn’t curve. Over the next few weeks he and his son experimented, discovering that the trick was to perforate one half of the ball, and leave the other half intact.

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• Finally they had a ball that was guaranteed to curve at least two feet (.6m). David Mullany, Jr. named it after a slang baseball term meaning ‘to strike out swinging.’ They set up a factory, selling the ball for 49 cents, and a year later added a plastic bat.

• On Sept. 6, 1522, the Vittoria, one of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships, arrives in Spain, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the world. The Vittoria was commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who took charge after the murder of Magellan in the Philippines.

• On Sept. 2, 1666, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II’s baker. When the fire was finally extinguished four days later, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed.

• On Sept. 4, 1886, Geronimo, the wiliest and most dangerous Apache warrior of his time, finally surrenders in Arizona. A brilliant strategist, Geronimo never learned to use a gun, yet he armed his men with the best modern rifles he could obtain.

• On Aug. 31, 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp. demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sunmobile,” the world’s first solar-powered automobile. When sunlight hit 12 photoelectric cells made of selenium, an electric current was produced that powered a tiny motor.

• On Sept. 5, 1969, Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder in the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in March 1968. Reportedly, the massacre was stopped only when a pilot landed his helicopter between Calley’s troops and the fleeing South Vietnamese.

• On Sept. 3, 1977, Sadaharu Oh of Japan’s Yomiuri Giants hits the 756th home run of his career, breaking Hank Aaron’s record for career home runs. Oh retired in 1980 with 868 home runs, still a professional record.

• On Sept. 1, 1985, a joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic, 73 years after it sank after being struck by an iceberg in the North Atlantic. An experimental, unmanned submersible found the ocean liner at a depth of 13,000 feet. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

• David Mullany, Sr. sold the buyer for Woolworth’s on the new toy when he threw the ball against the man’s office window, which didn’t shatter. TV ads featured Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford hurling the ball against plate glass, which also didn’t break. In alleys and backyards children across the country started playing with the new ball.

1. Name the male artist who had a 1964 hit with “Right or Wrong.”

• When the New York state legislature declared that the sport was risky enough to require government oversight, they received such ridicule that the law was rescinded. Today there are national tournaments. What’s the name of the ball? (Answer on page 7.)

4. Name the group that released “Listen to What the Man Said.”

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3. Who was the first to release “Let’s Hang On”?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Well those drifters days are past me now, I’ve got so much more to think about, Deadlines and commitments, What to leave in, what to leave out.” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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MEMORABLE CAMPAIGNS • In 1970, the Dr Pepper company decided it wanted to make itself better known in New York City. It spent $1.3 million in advertising, including 13,200 bus posters, 6,600 subway ads, 150 TV spots, and almost 2,000 radio ads.

The next year sales in New York increased by 1.5 million cases. At 35¢ per can, the company gained $9.1 million gross from this promotion— seven times the amount spent on the advertising.

• William Wrigley once said, “Anybody can make gum. The problem is selling it.” He decided the solution was advertising, and he turned into not only the world’s largest gum manufacturer, but also the world’s largest advertiser. He spent $100,000 on an advertising campaign in New York City that flopped. So he tried spending another $100,000 just on Broadway, and it also flopped. Then he spent $100,000 advertising in small New York towns, buying every billboard, all the streetcar space, and huge newspaper spreads. Orders poured in.

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• An ad for a dental clinic in Topeka, Kansas in the 1920s featured a grinning boy with red hair, freckles and a missing front tooth. The boy was not worried a bit, because his dentist was Painless Romine. The picture of the grinning boy appeared also in ads for shoes and soft drinks. In the 1950s the boy was adopted by Mad Magazine, and named Alfred E. Neuman. In 1956 he was even featured as a write-in candidate for president, but lost.

• A study done of U.S. television ads showed the following words to be the most frequently used: new, improved, better, extra, fresh, clean, beautiful, free, good, great, and light.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK I’ll See You in My Dreams (PG-13) -- Carol (Blythe Danner, making an excellent turn as the lead of a film) is a retired teacher and vocalist, whose been living alone since her husband passed 20 years ago. She’s trying to find her way without moving into the retirement community with her gal pals. She learns how to enjoy this new phase in her life through an unlikely friendship with her pool cleaner, Lloyd (Martin Starr). While that friendship helps her connect with a lost part of herself, Carol also is drawn into a romance with the handsome and age-appropriate Bill (Sam Elliot, whom you may recognize as the stoic cowboy from every movie ever).

The script cleverly dodges cliches endemic to retirement-age dramas and lets Danner explore every part of her character. The movie as a

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Instead of going the usual reboot-route of giving us another origin story for an already-loved protagonist, this movie has the respect to start us off in the thick of the action and let the pieces of the story jostle into place along the ride -- and it works. If we’re going to get a glut of franchise films every year, may there be more like this one: True to what was great about the original, and more than able to rock in their own right.

Good Kill (R) -- Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a veteran Air Force pilot, whose latest mission has him blowing up Taliban from an air-conditioned drone-control base in Las Vegas. As his targets erupt on video monitors, the seasoned soldier struggles to make sense of his role in this new kind of war. This struggle pushes him ever further from his vexed wife, Molly (January Jones of TV’s “Mad Men”), and forces him to question his core beliefs about war.

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2. Cristian Guzman, with 183 hits in 2008.

3. Clarence “Ace” Parker, for the Philadelphia A’s in 1937.

4. It was 1966 (Texas Western and Kentucky).

5. Jim Carey (1995-96) and Braden Holtby (2014-15), with nine each.

6. They are tied with eight victories apiece.

7. Bjorn Borg, who lost four U.S. Open finals.

• Jim Backus, who did the voice of Mr. Magoo and played Mr. Howell on “Gilligan’s Island,” recorded 15,000 commercials for La-Z-Boy recliners and got listed in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the effort.

Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. Ronnie Dove. The song launched his career, and most of his early releases reached the Top 20 charts. Dove still performs on the East Coast, and is still in top form.

2. Thee Sixpence and Waterfyrd Traene.

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3. The Four Seasons in 1965, followed quickly

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4. Wings, in 1975.

5. “Against the Wind,” by Bob Seger in 1980.

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