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MONTANA SNOW • How long would it take to give a lift to the entire population of Montana in the state’s 65 ski lifts? About 13 hours at maximum capacity of 72,000 people per hour. There are 15 ski areas in the state, with a combined area of 14,000 acres of skiing and 548 downhill runs.
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• Martin City hosts the annual Barstool Races each February, where barstools must be mounted on skis to enter. • Red Lodge Mountain hosts the Cardboard Cup Classic each winter, during which cardboard contraptions hit the slopes and are awarded prizes for the most creative. • At Big Mountain near Whitefish each winter, they host the annual furniture race, where skis are attached to any snow-worthy item of furniture and ridden down the mountain. • Showdown ski area hosts mannequin jumping, where decorated mannequins are attached to skis and sent down the mannequin ski jump. • The city of Missoula sponsors the Frost Fever Festival every February, featuring snow football, snow softball, and snow volleyball. IT’S A FACT • Percent of avalanche victims in the U.S. who are men: 90%. • Percent of Montana’s stream flow that originates from melting snow: 70%. • Miles of interstate in Montana: 1,200. • Miles of groomed snowmobile trails in Montana: 4,000. MONTANA STATE FLOWER • The Montana state flower is the bitterroot. It can live for over a year without water and can be revived even after being boiled, dried, or pressed. Its tenacity is reflected in its Latin name “Lewisia rediviva” with “Lewisia” being for Meriwether Lewis who cataloged it, and “rediviva” meaning “one who lives again.” NAME THAT STATE • The only state that has more hiking trails than Montana’s 15,000 miles (24,140 km) of trails is California. • The only states that have more pick-up trucks per capita than Montana’s 361 trucks for every 1,000 residents are North and South Dakota. • The only state that has a higher rate of private airplane ownership than Montana is Alaska. • The only state that has an average daily wind speed higher than Montana’s 12.7 mph (20 km/ hr) is Wyoming, averaging 12.9 mph.
NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE Montana’s smallest incorporated city, Ismay (population 20) changed its name to Joe for the duration of the 1993 football season as a publicity stunt to honor NFL quarterback Joe Montana. Joe Montana never visited Joe, Montana.
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1. MOVIES: What kind of fish is Dory in “Finding Nemo”? 2. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which U.S. president served the shortest term? 3. HISTORY: What is the earliest written system of laws known to us? 4. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 20thcentury comedian once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”? 5. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest country in South America? 6. LANGUAGE: What does it mean when someone “bloviates”? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How long is the Tour de France bicycle race? 8. FIRSTS: Who was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court? 9. U.S. STATES: Which state is known as “The Pine Tree” state? 10. TELEVISION: Which Muppet character lives in a garbage can on “Sesame Street”? (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• About 80% of Montana communities have a population of 3,000 or fewer, and there are only seven cities in the state with populations of over 10,000. The population of the entire state is just over one million. MONTANA GOLD • When six prospectors dipped their gold pans in Alder Creek in 1863, leading to one of history’s richest placer gold discoveries, they were hoping to find just enough gold to pay for their tobacco. Instead the $10 million worth of gold taken out of Alder Creek, which runs through Virginia City and Nevada City, would be worth about $2.5 billion today. • Today Montana ranks 5th in production of gold, behind Nevada, California, Alaska, and South Dakota. The Montana state motto “Oro y Plata” is Latin for “gold and silver” and the state seal displays a pick, plow, and shovel. • When a hotel was built in the state capital of Helena, enough gold was recovered from the excavation of the basement to pay for the construction of the entire building. • At a nearby gulch, miners pulled 700 pounds (317 kg) of gold from a two acre plot in a single day. • In the 1880s, Helena had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the nation, with 50. 1. In 2014, Detroit’s Victor Martinez became the third A.L. player in history to have a season of 30-plus homers and less than 50 strikeouts at age 35 or older. Who were the first two? 2. Name the last major-league playoff team before the 2014 Kansas City Royals to not have at least 100 regular-season home runs. 3. Who was the last player before Jacksonville’s Allen Hurns in 2014 to score on each of his first two NFL receptions? 4. Name the first men’s basketball coach to take five different schools to the NCAA Tournament. 5. Who was the first graduate from Harvard to score a goal in the Stanley Cup Finals? 6. In 2015, Alex Morgan became the thirdfastest U.S. female player (79 games) to score 50 goals in international competition. Who did it faster? 7. How many losses did heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier have during his 37-fight pro career. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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MONTANA FUN • The town of Drummond, Montana sponsors the annual Flapjack Race, where rules dictate that you must build a fire and cook an edible pancake, all while keeping your untied mule next to you at all times. • Bearcreek’s 50 residents hold Pig Races each summer. Pigs are tended by “sowboys.” • Missoula hosts the annual “Punkin’ Chuckin’ Contest” to see who can build a catapult to throw a pumpkin the farthest without using motors or explosives. The current record is nearly 4,000 feet (1,219 m). • Reed Point’s answer to Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls is the annual Running of the Sheep, including the Sheep Roundup, the Sheep Beauty Contest, and sky-diving (plastic) sheep.
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• In the mid-1800s malaria caused many deaths. The only remedy was quinine, painstakingly derived from the bark of the cinchona tree. • After hearing a lecture on the difficulties of extracting quinine, Perkin decided to try to synthesize quinine. He started with aniline, made from distilling the indigo plant, because he thought the chemical structure was similar enough to quinine that he could alter it. • After mixing in carbons and hydrogens extracted from coal tar, the result was a black sludge. Perkin threw it away, then washed his flasks out with water and alcohol but was interested to see that the sludge residue turned the water and alcohol purple. • Experimenting further, Perkin extracted the substance that caused the color, and sent samples to a friend in the dye business. The purple substance was effective at dying cotton and silk. • At the time, purple dye was obtained from mollusks and it took 12,000 mollusks to produce enough dye for a single dress, and it was not color-fast. Only royalty could afford purple clothing. Perkin’s dye was permanent, cheap, and easy. • William, who was only 17 when he made his discovery, subsequently decided to go into the dye business. In 1856, the Patent Office granted Perkin a patent for ‘a new colouring matter for dyeing.’ Continued on the next page!
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by Samantha Weaver • It was early 20th-century American horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft who made the following sage observation: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” • Those who study such things say that Americans spend about $1.65 billion every year on tattoos, and that 45 million Americans have at least one tattoo. • Ancient Aztecs believed that when a warrior died, he became a hummingbird. • In 1974, fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken launched a new marketing campaign in their Japanese stores. Called “Kentucky for Christmas,” it has had a lasting impact on the habits of the Japanese. More than 40 years later, the special fried chicken meal, which comes complete with cake and sparkling wine, is offered every Christmas. It’s so popular that those who fail to order theirs months in advance end up waiting in line for hours on Christmas Day to get their traditional holiday meal. • Scientists have identified fruit flies that are genetically resistant to getting drunk. It seems the insects have a certain gene that influences their susceptibility to the effects of alcohol; those with the inactive version of the gene are far less likely to get drunk. Those conducting the studies are calling the gene “happyhour.” • The average citizen of France drinks six times as much wine as the average American. • You might be surprised to learn that acclaimed American author (and noted recluse) J.D. Salinger once worked as an entertainment director for a Swedish cruise line. *** Thought for the Day: “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” -- Leo Tolstoy (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• William didn’t know anything about textiles or the large scale production of chemicals. However, 1857 the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, began to wear mauve-colored gowns. In 1858, Queen Victoria wore mauve to her daughter’s wedding. Suddenly mauve was in demand. Since he was the only person who knew how to produce the dye, his success was assured. • William’s father invested his savings in order to build a factory, and the business was wildly successful. He continued his research, finding how to prevent cloth from being dyed unevenly by using a soap bath to ensure even application of the color. He found methods of creating light and dark shades of mauve. He figured out how to dye cloth in calico patterns. • His contribution to dye chemistry happened just as the Industrial Revolution was taking place. Cotton fabric could be manufactured and dyed very cheaply, making it possible for common people to buy better and more colorful clothing.
• On Nov. 10, 1775, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the Continental Navy. The date is now observed as the birthdate of the United States Marine Corps. • On Nov. 13, 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” is born in Scotland. He pursued a career as a writer, but his decision alienated his parents, who expected him to follow the family trade of lighthouse keeping. • On Nov. 15, 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City, making up-to-theminute prices available to investors around the country. Since the New York Stock Exchange’s founding in 1792, information had traveled by mail or messenger. • On Nov. 14, 1900, composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York. Copland was responsible for the creation of some of the 20th century’s most beloved and enduring works of classical music, such the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Appalachian Spring” (1944). • On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor. • On Nov. 11, 1978, on the Georgia set of “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a stuntman launches the iconic 1969 Dodge Charger named the General Lee off a makeshift dirt ramp and over a police car. More than 300 different General Lees were used in the CBS TV series. • On Nov. 9, 1989, East German officials open the Berlin Wall, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear down the wall, the defining symbol of the Cold War. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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QUIZ: PASTA • In 1920, so the story goes, an Italian man named de Lelio was concerned because his pregnant wife had lost her appetite. He owned a restaurant in Rome, so he concocted a dish of egg noodles covered with a rich delicious sauce to tempt his wife’s appetite. History does not record whether or not she liked it, but the patrons of his restaurant did. He called the dish after himself and began to serve it regularly.
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• Movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were on their honeymoon in Rome and stopped in his restaurant for dinner nearly every night. They enjoyed his noodle dish so much that they presented him with a gold-plated fork and spoon with which to stir his famous sauce. • Within a year the recipe was featured in a cookbook produced by the famous Rector’s Restaurant in New York, which helped popularize the dish in America. Hollywood movie stars continued to eat at di Lelio restaurant in Rome, and they insisted that their favorite chefs back home try their hand at the recipe as well. • Today the noodle dish, with a sauce made from butter, cream and Parmesan cheese, is popular across the U.S. The restaurant started by di Lelio is still in business. What was his first name, now attached to his famous pasta recipe? (Answer on Page 7.)
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Terminator Genisys (PG-13) -- In the postrobot-apocalypse, human resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clark) sends his trusted comrade Kyle (Jai Courtney) back to 1980s to protect his mother from the machines. But what’s this?! The time-travel thingy done messed up, landing Kyle in an alternate timeline in the year 2017, where Sarah Connor (Emilia Clark) has already befriended the Terminator from T-2. Also, a new app called Genisys will connect all of our data and devices, opening the door for machine takeover. That’s as much plot as can be coherently explained in this four-car pile-up of a time-travel movie. There are just so many Terminators. Putting the current-era “Ah-nuld” next to a computerrecreation of him in his prime 1980s form may not have been such a good idea. Back then, the Terminator was an ice-cold killer who could give you chills with a one-liner. Now the cybernetic assassin is more of a good-natured
old pal, joking about what a tough guy he was Holmes gets caught up in one more mystery and still kinda is. with the help of a curious and observant young Trainwreck (R) -- Comedian Amy Schumer boy (Milo Parker). This isn’t the fists-of-fury stars in her first leading-role in this raunchy Sherlock of Robert Downey Jr., nor is it the fastromantic comedy that knowingly goes against talking defective detective played by Benedict rom-com trends. Schumer’s character gets the Cumberbatch. McKellen shows audiences a traditionally male role of being the over-the- new angle on the familiar hero. top-but-likable slob saddled with immature ideas about love and commitment. She ends up having real feelings for a surgeon played by Bill Hader. He’s got the role of being there for the protagonist as they hilariously struggle to grow up and be in a healthy relationship -- usually the woman’s job in this formula. Lebron James surprises everyone with his scenes (not cameos) as Hader’s friend and confidant. It’s the best Judd Apatow-ish comedy out there, but Schumer shines as she should. Hader is really hitting his mark with easy-going comedy and just the right amount of drama at just the right times. The ending doesn’t really support the rest of the film, but it’s an overall victory for people who want more perspectives in major comedies.
Mr. Holmes (PG) -- Long after the height of his crime-solving career, the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) returns to England to find that the popular stories of his exploits are all wrong. Now in his 90s, Holmes tends to his bees and worries over his diminishing mental powers. Never truly able to retire,
Selfless (R) -- Damien (Ben Kingsley) is a mega-rich Manhattan mogul whose days are numbered thanks to cancer. Damien hears of a way for the rich and powerful to cheat death by transferring their consciousness into a younger, healthier, more attractive body. So for the rest of the movie, Damien has Ryan Reynolds’ body. While he was assured that the transplant bodies were grown in a vat, Damien suspects that might not be true while also realizing just how selfish he was with his first life. Sadly, the deeper ideas about identity and morality never go anywhere, and we get lukewarm action sequences instead. TV RELEASES “Better Call Saul: Season 1 Collector’s Edition” “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” “Alvin & The Chipmunks: Alvin’s Wild Adventures” “Slowhand at 70 -- Live at The Royal Albert Hall” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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QUIZ: LUIZA’S PASTA • Luiza was born in Italy in 1871 and began singing at the age of three. She made her debut in opera in 1890 when the scheduled soprano failed to show up for a performance and Luiza stepped in, garnering immediate acclaim. She had a remarkable voice and toured the world. In 1905 she made her American debut in San Francisco, which became her favorite U.S. city. • As she grew older and stouter, Luiza’s voice declined somewhat. One of her husbands stole her fortune and she died in 1940 after suffering years of ill health and poverty. She is remembered today, not so much for her astonishing voice, as for one of her favorite dishes that is thought to have been named after her by a chef at the San Francisco hotel where she stayed. The dish consists of bits of turkey or chicken, swimming in a sauce of cream and wine, served over noodles. Name it. (Answer on Page 7.)
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HECTOR’S PASTA • Hector worked in restaurant kitchens near his home in Italy from the age of 11. His family came to the U.S. in 1915 when he was 17, and he soon got a job as a chef in the kitchens of the prestigious Plaza Hotel in New York City. • In 1926 he opened his own Italian restaurant in Cleveland. His spaghetti sauce was so popular that diners often asked him for some to take home with them. As demand for his sauces continued to grow, he opened a spaghetti sauce factory next to the restaurant. Business was so brisk that in 1929, he started a company selling bottled spaghetti sauce.
• He wanted to name the company after himself, but his Italian surname had a difficult spelling. So he Americanized it. The label included a depiction of him, wearing his white chef’s hat. Chef Hector experimented with Flash Back Trivia canning spaghetti, and when that turned out Answers well, he added not only canned spaghetti but 1. Band founder Peter Green combined the last also canned ravioli to his product line. During names of two of the original members, Mick World War II, the firm supplied American troops Fleetwood and Christine McVie. with rations of canned pasta. By the time Chef 2. “Last Kiss,” in 1961. The single was Hector died in 1985, his Americanized name was repeatedly released, often with a different b-side. known throughout the world: Hector Boiardi, 3. “All in My Mind,” in 1961. It reached No. 2 now Boyardee. on the R&B charts. 4. Shocking Blue, at the same time their “Venus” climbed the charts. 5. “Dead Man’s Curve,” by Jan and Dean. In the 1964 song, the ill-fated teen race starts at Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles, with the North Whittier Drive 90-degree curve nearby. Two years later, Jan Berry of Jan & Dean had a near-fatal crash in his own Sting Ray on North Whittier Drive.
Quiz Answers Pasta Quiz: Alfredo, who named Fettuccine Alfredo. Luiza’s Pasta Quiz: Turkey Tetrazzini, named for Luiza Tetrazzini.
1. 5.5% of Montana is metropolitan, compared to 100% in Washington, D.C. and 0.3% in Alaska. 2. 24% of Montana is forested.
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Hay Ride & Santa 3327 Memorial Hwy., Mandan, ND 701-663-0277 Not valid during Thunder Alley, Limit 1 person per day. Anytime lanes are available. Not valid with Groups/Reservations. Bowling shoes are required. Rental Shoes not included with this coupon.
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Historic Buckstop Junction
Saturday, December 5: Noon – 4 PM Enjoy a Hay ride through the streets of historic Buckstop Junction in a horse drawn wagon/sleigh with a stop at the 1914 Lewis Hotel for a visit with Santa and treats! Please note there will be some downhill walking involved to reach the ride and the Lewis Hotel.
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