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• Prior to his role as the fictional Sheriff Andy Taylor in Mayberry, Andy Griffith taught English at the high school in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

He was also responsible for creating the school’s award-winning marching band during his tenure from 1949 to 1953.

• Art Garfunkel is more than just a stellar singer/songwriter. He’s also a math whiz who earned an M.A. in the subject from Columbia University, and was working toward his doctorate during the peak of Simon & Garfunkel’s fame.

Shortly after the immense success of “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the duo parted ways, and Art branched out into acting, with roles in 1970’s Catch-22 and 1971’s Carnal Knowledge. He also took a position as a math teacher at a private prep school in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1971. It was a little difficult being a pop star math teacher. In Garfunkel’s words, “I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions and they would say, ‘What were the Beatles like?’”

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FORMER TEACHERS (continued):

• Before he was Mr. T, He was Mr. Tureaud, working as a physical education teacher in the Chicago public schools system. Lawrence Tureaud had his break-out movie role in 1982’s Rocky III after being discovered by Sylvester Stallone, and went on to his role as Sgt. Baracus in the NBC series “The A-Team.” Speaking of Stallone, he also worked as a gym teacher while attending the American College in Switzerland during the 1960s.

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• Stephen King hasn’t always been a successful author. After his graduation from the University of Maine, he went to work in an industrial laundry while he job-searched. He secured a position teaching English at the high school in Hampden, Maine, and worked on a novel during his offhours. After two years, Carrie was accepted for publication and in 1973, King quit teaching to write full-time.

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• Author Dan Brown originally wanted a career as a singer-songwriter. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his calling and landed a position teaching Spanish at Beverly Hills Prep School in 1991. Brown returned to his home town of Exeter, New Hampshire, the following year, where he taught English and Spanish at Phillips Exeter Academy until 1996 when he resigned to devote his full attention to authoring his best sellers The da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, among others.

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• History has always been an important part of Bill O’Reilly’s life. The FOX News political program host is the author of several historical best sellers including Killing Lincoln, Killing Patton, Killing Kennedy, and Hitler’s Last Days.

Prior to his broadcasting career, O’Reilly was an English and History teacher at Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Opalocka, Florida from 1970 to 1972.

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NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE Billionaire author J.K. Rowling has penned the seven enormously successful “Harry Potter” novels. But did you know she is also the author of a series of detective novels called “The Cormoran Strike” series, which features the private investigator Mr. Strike?

You may have missed it at your local book store unless you were looking for books by Robert Galbraith, Ms. Rowling’s pseudonym. Rowling reportedly sent the manuscript to publishers anonymously, and at least one publishing house rejected it.

• Thirty-sixth President Lyndon B. Johnson was a school principal and teacher of 5th, 6th, and 7th-graders at the Mexican-American Welhausen School in Cotulla, Texas, in 1927 when he was just 19 years old. He went on to teach public speaking at high schools in Pearsall and Houston, Texas, before entering politics in 1937. As a Congressman in 1941, he was the first member of Congress to volunteer for active duty after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He reported to the U.S. Navy on December 9, just two days after the bombing. Johnson was sworn in as U.S. President approximately 90 minutes after President John F. Kennedy was declared dead in a Dallas hospital. He took the oath of office in the conference room aboard Air Force One, as the plane sat at Dallas’ Love Field, the first and only time a President has been sworn in on an airplane.

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1. RELIGION: In what country was the Coptic Orthodox Church founded?

2. TELEVISION: Who played Officer Pete Malloy in the TV show “Adam-12”?

3. ART: What war did Pablo Picasso’s famous painting “Guernica” draw attention to?

4. GAMES: In what game might a player be invited to “bat the birdie”?

5. LANGUAGE: What is “plonk” in Great Britain?

6. HISTORY: The Boer War is most closely associated with which African nation?

7. LITERATURE: What 18th-century novel was inspired by real tales of a shipwrecked sailor?

8. MUSIC: Who composed the operas “Madame Butterfly” and “Tosca”?

9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 19thcentury novelist once said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”?

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10. 10. MATH: What is the Arabic equivalent of the Roman numeral MCCCXXVI?

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“My dog ate it,” was his reply.

“Johnny, I’ve been a teacher for 18 years. Do you really expect me to believe that?”

“It’s true! I swear it is!” insisted Johnny. “I had to smear it with honey, but I finally got him to eat it.”

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2. Who was the first relief pitcher to win the N.L. Rookie of the Year Award?

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• From 1974 to 1976, Gordon Sumner used his degree from Northern Counties Teachers Training College in Newcastle, England, to teach at a convent school in nearby Cramington for two years, the only male on the faculty. On his free evenings, he played in a group called the Phoenix Jazzmen, and frequently wore his favorite black-and-yellow-striped sweater while performing. The bandleader thought Gordon looked like a bee and gave him the nickname “Sting.” In 1977, Sumner moved to London and teamed up with two others to form the band The Police. Today, Sting’s net worth is estimated in the $300 million range.

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• We know him best as the bass player of the band KISS, with his face painted white with black flames. But prior to his musical fame, 1929 N Washington St. • Suite X • Bismarck, ND Gene Simmons was a teacher of sixth-graders hours: Wednesday and Thursday 11:00 - 7:00 Friday and Saturday 10:00 - 4:00 in a Harlem, New York, grade school. Simmons tel: 701.425.8181 web: mommies2bnd.com was born Chaim Witz in Israel to a mother who had survived the Holocaust. The two of them emigrated to New York City when Simmons was eight years old, without knowing a word of English. (This musician now speaks English, Hungarian, Hebrew, and German.) KISS, formed in 1973 in New York, has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, and has 45 gold albums to date. Despite his somewhat “demonic” look, Gene Simmons says he has never drunk alcohol, taken drugs, or even smoked a cigarette.

• Singer Kris Kristofferson might not have been the successful singer he is today had he not turned down the opportunity to teach Literature at West Point Academy. Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Master’s degree in English Literature at Oxford, graduating summa cum laude, and even appeared in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” for his accomplishments in collegiate rugby, football, and track and field. After graduation, he joined the Army and rose to the rank of Captain, completing Ranger training, and becoming a helicopter pilot. At the end of his tour in 1965, Kristofferson was offered a professorship at West Point. At the last minute, he turned down the offer, resigned his commission, and pursued a music career. His family, including his U.S. Air Force Major General father, disowned him and never reconciled with him.

4. In 2014, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard became the third-youngest NBA Finals MVP (22). Who was younger?

6. In 2015, Ryan Lochte became the second swimmer to win the same event (200-meter individual medley) at four straight world competitions. Who was the first?

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• The second U.S. President, John Adams, also did a stint as a schoolmaster in Worcester, Massachusetts. He found the profession boring and stated that his students were a “large number of little runtlings, just capable of lisping A, B, C, and troubling the master.” Yet he kept the job in order to pay the bills while attending law school.

3. When was the last time before 2014 that the University of Texas did not have a player taken in the NFL Draft?

5. When was the last time before 2015 that the Tampa Bay Lightning won an NHL playoff Game Seven at home?

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• Born in England in 1739, at age 14, John Spilsbury became an apprentice to Thomas Jeffreys, an engraver, map seller, and the Royal Geographer to the King. At 21, Spilsbury branched out on his own as an engraver, mapmaker, and printer of children’s educational books, maps, charts, and stationery.

• In 1766, when he was 26, Spilsbury devised the idea of mounting maps on a sheet of hardwood. Using a fine-bladed marquetry saw, he cut around the borders of the countries, with the goal of teaching Geography to British students.

He called his invention “Dissected Maps,” and became the first commercial manufacturer of jigsaws. Over the next two years, he marketed several different styles, including the world, Africa, America, Asia, Europe, England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Unfortunately, Spilsbury did not live to see the great success of his invention, passing away at age 30.

• For the next 50 years, the puzzles were primarily an educational activity. They gradually transitioned into a leisure pastime, with illustrations mounted on plywood. They were still known as “dissections,” but when the treadle saw was introduced around 1880, they began to be called “jigsaw puzzles.” Penciled tracings of where to cut the pieces were made on the back of the wood.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was 20th-century American journalist and cartoonist Robert Quillen who made the following sage observation: “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

• In a recent survey of parents with adult children, 45 percent of respondents said they would rather stay in a hotel than in the home of one of their kids.

• In 2009, the government of Saudi Arabia established a special Anti-Witchcraft Unit to combat the practice of sorcery. By 2011, there were nine bureaus in cities across the country.

The following year, 215 people were arrested for sorcery.

• Those who study such things say that all kangaroos are left-handed.

• When you think of hibernation, you probably picture a bear holing up in a cave for the winter, right? You might be surprised to learn that creatures don’t just hibernate to get through the winter months; almost any adverse environmental condition can trigger such a response. For instance, on the island of Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernates for seven months during the dry season.

• If you’re a fan of Major League Baseball, you’re going to pay three times as much to attend a game in Boston as in San Diego.

• Wildlife biologists say that the milk from a mother hippopotamus is pink.

• The size of a nickel represents the halfway point between the size of an atom and the size of the earth. If an atom were the size of a nickel, a nickel would be the size of the earth. *** Thought for the Day: “I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?” -Andrew Sullivan (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• In the late 1800s, cardboard puzzles made their debut, mostly for children’s puzzles. For many years, they were not the top seller, as retailers continued to stock mostly wooden puzzles, believing that customers liked them better than “cheap” cardboard varieties.

• The puzzles of the early 20th century did not interlock, and many an hour’s work was negated by a bump to the table. Adult puzzles of this era did not have the picture on the box and the subject matter was a mystery until all the pieces were in place.

• Early puzzles were quite expensive, as much as $5 for a 500-piece puzzle in 1908, because each piece was cut individually. Cardboard puzzle quality improved and prices dropped with the invention of a device that would die cut them in a press. Strips of metal with sharp edges were fastened to a plate, much like a cookie cutter, enabling the mass production of puzzles.

• On Oct. 5, 1892, the Dalton gang attempts to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, Kansas, but meets resistance from townspeople, who kill four of the five bandits. The gang had turned to crime when they became bored with their other career possibilities on the Western frontier.

• On Oct. 11, 1925, novelist Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans. He decided to write either Westerns or detective novels, whichever would generate the most income. By the time of his death in 2013, he’d penned 45 books.

• On Oct. 9, 1934, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.

The Cards nickname, the “Gashouse Gang,” had to do with the team’s close resemblance to the rowdy, dirt-streaked thugs who hung around the Gashouse District on Manhattan’s East Side.

• On Oct. 10, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower offers his apologies to the Ghanian finance minister, who had been refused service at a restaurant in Delaware. It was one of the first of many such incidents in which African diplomats experienced racial segregation in the United States.

• On Oct. 6, 1961, President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

• On Oct. 8, 1970, Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Arrested in 1945 for criticizing the Stalin regime, he served time in Russian prisons, forced labor camps and internal exile.

His works had to be secreted out of Russia in order to be published.

• On Oct. 7, 1983, Sean Connery stars in “Never Say Never Again” as the British secret service agent James Bond, a role he last played in 1971. The film’s title referenced the fact that Connery had previously said he would never play Agent 007 again. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

• During the 1930s, puzzles were a method of advertising, with stores offering free puzzles with the purchase of a toothbrush or other sundry item. The illustration featured an image of the product, a clever way for manufacturers to keep a vision of their item in the consumers’ minds. Puzzles were especially popular during the Great Depression as an inexpensive form of entertainment. Sales of adult puzzles were an astounding 10 million per week. Puzzles were also something that could be made by hand at home by those who could not afford the storebought kinds.

• Today, people enjoy jigsaw puzzles more than any other table game.

• The record for the most pieces assembled together in a single jigsaw is 209,250, an event that took place at Taiwan’s Grand Formosa Regent Hotel.

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5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Just say a word and the boys will be right there, With claws at your back to send a chill through the night air, Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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J.K. ROWLING Tidbits continues celebrating World Teachers Day by focusing on author J.K. Rowling, who has been wildly successful with her Harry Potter series of books.

• The life of Joanne Kathleen Rowling has been a true “rags-to-riches” story. Born in 1965 to a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer father and science technician mother, Rowling went from receiving welfare benefits as a single mother to being a multi-millionaire in just five years.

• Shortly after the death of her mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 when Joanne was 25, she answered a newspaper ad for an English teacher in Portugal. It was while working at a language institute in that country that she began penning the stories that would become the series about a young wizard. She claims she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip when the idea “came fully formed” into her mind.

• Her teaching duties were in the evenings, freeing up her day to write, which she did while listening to the music of Tchaikovsky. She married and had a child in Portugal, but after three years, she was back in England as “poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.”

• Two years later, Rowling finished typing the manuscript on her old manual typewriter and went looking for a publisher. Twelve publishing houses rejected the story of Harry Potter. Finally, in 1997, a London publisher, whose chairman’s 8-year-old daughter had read and loved the first chapter, agreed to a run of 1,000 copies under the title Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Rowling’s editor advised her to get a day job, because he couldn’t see her as a children’s book author. As her book began winning award after award, it was plain to see Rowling had a bright future.

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PICKS OF THE WEEK Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) -Greg (Thomas Mann) is a high-school senior who’s skilled at distancing himself from others.

He’s friendly but has almost no friends. His mom makes him spend time with a classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke), because she’s been diagnosed with leukemia. While painfully awkward at first, the two hit it off. Greg introduces her to his only friend, Earl (RJ Cyler), who reveals that he and Greg produce intentionally horrible home movies out of mangled film titles -- like “A Sockwork Orange,” made with sock puppets.

It’s a clever coming-of-age flick that explores the joys and pains of actually connecting with others.

When Marnie was Still There (PG) -- Anna (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) has never felt like she’s inside “the magic circle” that includes most of humanity. Her foster mother sends her on a summer vacation to a small, coastal

town in northern Japan, hoping it will do some good for Anna’s asthma and outlook. Once there, Anna becomes drawn to a supposedly abandoned old mansion, where she meets Marnie (Kiernan Shipka), a mysterious and kind-hearted girl about her own age. What does it mean if your only friend is a ghost?

Studio Ghibli -- the Japanese animation studio renowned for some of the most amazing and enchanting hand-drawn movies ever -- is on its way out, and it appears this could be the last feature with the name. True to the legacy, this movie reels you in visually, and surprises you with perspective and emotion you wouldn’t expect from a children’s movie.

such a good job with it. The script and direction keep you guessing, and the casting gets the right balance of talents for screams, paranoia, and grim comedy.

Magic Mike XXL (R) -- The oiled muscleman with a dream, Mike Lane (Channing Tatum), gets back in the swing of things for One Last Show. In the last movie, Tatum was a stripper who longed to chase his other passion -- making custom furniture. Now his furniture-smithing business is doing OK, but he jumps at the chance to hang with his bros when they come through town on their way to a convention in Myrtle Beach. There’s plenty more bumping and dancing, but this time Matthew McConaughey We Are Still Here (R) -- Not all ghosts are as is out of the line up, so the other musclemen from friendly as the one in the above review. The the back move up and get more development.

Sachettis (Barbara Crampton and Andrew It’s a silly sequel, but the same sense of selfSensenig) find this out after they move from the awareness and earnestness is there. city to a dreary town in rural Massachusetts. Right TV RELEASES away, it’s a perfect storm for a haunting: young married couple, new in town with emotional “Penny Dreadful: Season 2” baggage, weird standoffish locals and an old “South Park: Season 18” house with a surprise gruesome backstory! Also, “Vikings Season 3” it’s the late 1970s, so there are no cellphones and “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” “Leftovers: Season 1” everything is 15 percent creepier.

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2. Joe Black of the Dodgers in 1952.

3. It was 1937.

4. Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1980 (age 20) and 1982 (22).

5. It was the 2004 Stanley Cup Final.

6. Australia’s Grant Hackett did it in the 1500-meter freestyle between 1998 and 2005.

7. Eleven, including winning the event twice (1984, 1995).

Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. Sarah Vaughan, in 1959. Vaughan didn’t like the song, but it netted her the first gold record of her career.

2. The Weavers, in 1950, on a 78-rpm single. It was written by group member Pete Seeger.

3. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.”

4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973, written

by Randy Bachman.

5. “Bungle in the Jungle,” by Jethro Tull in 1974. Songwriter Ian Anderson explained that the song was a study of the human condition, using animals (monkeys, snakes, tigers, crocodiles) as analogies, all wrapped up in a catchy tune.

• The second and third books in the series followed in 1998 and 1999. When the fourth book, Goblet of Fire was released in 2000, its first-day sales were nearly as much as the first year’s sales of the second book, Prisoner of Azkaban. During its first 48 hours in the U.S., three million copies of Goblet were sold, breaking all records.

• The sixth book in the series, The Half-Blood Prince, went on sale in 2005, with U.S. sales of nine million copies in the first 24 hours. The seventh and final book, The Deathly Hallows, was released in 2007, breaking all previous records with 11 million books the first day. The books have now been translated into 65 languages.

• Rowling sold the film rights to Warner Brothers and the first of eight films premiered in 2001. It took 10 years to complete the filming of the series. The first movie was to be directed by Steven Spielberg, but he declined the offer. It was his thought that the series should be animated films, with American actor Haley Joel Osment voicing Harry Potter. Rowling had specifically demanded that the principal cast be British.

• The eight-film series garnered 12 total Oscar nominations, but strangely enough, won no awards. The series grossed over $7.7 billion worldwide, more than the first 22 James Bond films combined, and the six Star Wars movies.

• J.K. Rowling is ranked as the 12th richest woman in the United Kingdom, with an estimated worth of approximately $1 billion.

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