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TIDBITS® LOOKS AT SOME FAMOUS DUOS

by Kathy Wolfe This week, Tidbits investigates several famous pairs, duos whose names are more recognizable with their partner than alone.

• William Procter emigrated from England and James Gamble came from Ireland in the early part of the nineteenth century. They both settled in Cincinnati, where Procter established a candle-making business and Gamble became an apprentice to a soap maker. They happened to marry sisters, and their new father-in-law persuaded them to become business partners. The company was launched in 1837, with Procter and Gamble each putting up about $3,600. In 1879, the company introduced Ivory soap. They established research labs to develop innovative new products.

In 1890, they were selling 30+ different types of soap. Ivory Flakes for washing clothes and dishes soon followed. Crisco shortening made its debut in 1911, Camay beauty soap in 1926, Tide detergent in 1946, and Downy in 1960. P&G was the first to sell a toothpaste containing fluoride when Crest was introduced in 1955. P&G was also first on the scene with disposable diapers when they unveiled Pampers in 1961. From the humble beginnings of two immigrants, Procter & Gamble recorded sales of over $83 billion in 2014.

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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • Most folks have visited a Barnes & Noble bookstore somewhere in North America. Do you know the history of the last remaining national bookstore chain? Gilbert Noble was hired as a clerk at a New York City bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company in 1886. Eight years later, the 30-year-old Noble was made a partner and the shop became Hinds & Noble, an arrangement that endured 23 years. In 1917, Noble bought out Hinds and took on a new partner, Williams Barnes, and the stores remained family-owned until 1966. The current owners have grown the company into the largest retailer of books in North America, a Fortune 500 company that operates 640 stores.

• In May of 1939, DC Comics introduced the superhero known as “The Bat-Man,” created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. Underneath the cape, Batman is known as American billionaire and playboy Bruce Wayne. Wayne had witnessed the murder of his parents as a child and vowed to take revenge on all criminals. Batman has no superpowers, but rather depends on his genius intelligence, physical abilities, and martial arts skills to battle crime. In 1940, DC introduced his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder, a young circus acrobat named Dick Grayson. Grayson’s parents had been murdered by a gangster who sabotaged the trapeze equipment. Grayson begged Batman to bring the murderers to justice, and Bruce Wayne responded by making the boy his legal ward, training him with the skills necessary to fight crime by the Caped Crusader’s side in Gotham City.

• The term “Siamese twins” had its origins with two brothers Chang and Eng, born in Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. The brothers were joined at the sternum by a very superficial connection of skin tissue, one that could easily be separated by surgery today. They toured with P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus for several years, after which they purchased a small plantation in North Carolina.

Interestingly, these conjoined twins married sisters and shared a large bed built for four in their home. Chang fathered 11 children, and Eng, 10. The number of their descendants is more than 1,500, including Chang’s great-great-granddaughter Caroline Shaw, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner and Chang’s great-granddaughter Alex Sink, a former Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and former gubernatorial candidate.

• P.T. Barnum established his showman career with his first traveling show at age 25. In addition to conjoined twins Chang and Eng, he exhibited General Tom Thumb, a 3.35-ft-tall (102 cm) gentleman who happened to be a distant relative of Barnum. Barnum taught Thumb, real name Charles Stratton, how to sing, dance, mime, and impersonate famous people. In 1871, he launched the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a traveling circus, animal menagerie, and museum. A competing circus, owned by James Bailey, featured an African elephant. Barnum, after making several attempts to purchase the elephant from his competition and being refused each time, agreed to merge his circus, and in 1881, the Barnum & Bailey Circus was born. The two gentlemen operated their circus together for 10 years until Barnum’s death. Following Bailey’s death in 1906, the circus was purchased by the Ringling Brothers.

• Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn met on a cruise ship where Seigfried performed magic and Roy was a waiter. Shortly after Siegfried sought Roy’s assistance during a show, they began performing as a duo. Roy had been around exotic animals since he was 10 through a family friend, the founder of the Bremen, Germany, zoo. The pair worked together for more than 40 years, totaling 5,750 shows together, primarily at Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel. In 2003, while working with the show’s trademark white tigers, Roy was bitten on the neck by a 7-year-old male tiger during a show. Siegfried and Roy claim that Roy suffered a stroke during the performance and that the tiger picked him up and moved him to safety. Roy suffered severe blood loss and was partially paralyzed for many months. The Mirage was forced to lay off 267 crew members associated with the show, suffering a loss of $45 million in annual ticket sales.

• Nearly everyone has seen a Christmas card with the image of a Currier and Ives winter scene.

Nathaniel Currier was 15 years old in 1828 when he became an apprentice in a Boston lithography shop to learn engraving and printing. Seven years later he had his own company at 1 Wall Street in New York City, where he printed and duplicated pictures, music, architectural plans, and a host of other items. He became the first to provide illustrations for a newspaper, which to that point had no pictures to accompany news stories. At age 39, he hired a new bookkeeper, James Ives, who was also a fine artist. They eventually formed a partnership that produced more than 7,500 different images, and over one million prints using hand-colored lithography.

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TACOS In honor of National Taco Day on October 4, Tidbits dishes the facts on one of our favorite foods.

• Americans consume about 4.5 billion tacos a year, with a total weight equaling that of two Empire State Buildings! There are an estimated 31,000 Mexican food restaurants in the U.S. • When explorer Hernando Cortez landed in the New World in 1519, he found the Aztecs making flat corn breads. The Aztec word for these little breads was tlaxcalli, but the Spanish gave them the name “tortilla,” (although today we usually refer to the flour version as a tortilla). Some anthropologists claim there is evidence indicating dwellers of the Valley of Mexico ate tacos filled with fish long before the 16th century. Some areas added small live insects, ants, locusts, and snails to their filling.

• The first written record in the U.S. of a taco is in a 1905 Los Angeles newspaper. At a time when migrant workers were crossing over from Mexico to work in the mines and on the railroads, a group of women called the Chili Queens ran a street vendor business there.

• In 1914, a cookbook called the California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book featured a taco recipe, made by putting “chopped, cooked beef and chili sauce in a tortilla made of meal and flour, folded, edges sealed together with egg; fried in deep fat, chili sauce served over it.”

• The 1929 cookbook Ramona’s Spanish-Mexican Cookery contained six taco and tacquito recipes with various ingredients including pork snout, ears, jowls, kidneys, and livers. Also featured were cream cheese tacos, egg tacos, and Mexican tacos. (continued on last page)

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--DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I have a large male dog, and so does my mother-in-law. They have a history of fighting: Both dogs and my husband needed medical treatment after the last fight. We keep them separated, but would like to be able to put them and my mother-in-law’s two female dogs out at the same time.

They are only aggressive with each other. We have been thinking of buying muzzles for the males and letting them get used to one another. What do you think? -- J.S., via email DEAR J.S.: What’s going on here is aggression used to gain dominance: Both dogs want to be the boss of the backyard.

If the dogs only fight with one another, then this is a battle over territory. As long as they share the same space, even with muzzles on, they will fight. And if there are bitches in the area, they’ll fight even more.

If neither dog will be used for breeding, seriously consider having them neutered; it will curb their aggression. If you choose not to have them neutered, or if they still show aggression after the procedure, you’ll have to keep them separated. When one male goes outside, the other must stay inside. Of course, the guy stuck inside will go nuts if he knows his arch-enemy is running around “his” territory, so draw the shades and close the doors.

In the meantime, distract your dog’s attention by increasing the frequency of his training and play sessions. The truth is, you’re the boss, not him. He must learn to obey you and not leap forward into a fight.

Your in-laws must do the same with their dog. Aggression of any kind should not be permitted.

Send your questions or pet care tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

UNUSUAL ANIMALS: RAPTORS This week, Tidbits takes to the air in honor of National Raptor Month, investigating the facts on these birds of prey.

• Raptors are carnivores (meat eaters) that dine on mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, rodents, and other birds. The word raptor has its origins in the Latin word “rapere,” which translates “to seize or capture.”

• The fact that a bird hunts and eats meat does not automatically make it a raptor. Raptors have three distinct characteristics that distinguish them from other birds – hooked beaks with sharp edges, feet with sharp, curved claws or talons, and keen eyesight.

• The 446 species of raptors include falcons, osprey, hawks, eagles, vultures, and owls. Most are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day, with all owls being nocturnal, active by night.

• Owls have soft-edged feathers that allow them to fly silently. Their eyes face forward so that they are only able to see what is right in front of them. In order to see things around them, they use their 14 neck muscles to rotate their heads up to 270 degrees in one direction. The Northern hawk owl’s superb vision enables the bird to detect its prey up to half a mile away (0.8 km).

• Falcons can fly at speeds of more than 100 mph (161 km/hr), and peregrine falcons can dive at twice that speed. Peregrines are found on every continent except Antarctica.

• An osprey’s diet is fish, and they build their nests near the water in treetops or platforms on top of man-made poles if there is a shortage of trees in their area. These raptors are excellent fishermen, with the average time spent before making a catch about 12 minutes.

• The diet of the large black raptors known as vultures consists of dead meat. They won’t find their prey on the day that it is killed, because it is too fresh and doesn’t have enough odor to attract the birds. By the second and third days, the prey has decayed enough for the vulture to detect the stench. But by the fourth day, the meat is so rotten that even the vultures won’t eat it. A vulture’s head is bare and featherless to discourage infection as they dine on rotten meat.

• The most common species of eagles found throughout North America are the bald eagle and the golden eagle. In fact, the bald eagle is found only in North America. Its white head and tail and bright yellow beak do not appear until the raptor is three to four years old. Its wingspan can reach lengths of 7 feet (2.13 m). The bald eagles’ nests can measure up to 6 feet (1.8 m) wide and weigh nearly 100 lbs. (45.4 kg). A nest measuring 9 feet (2.7 m) across and 20 feet high (6.1 m) was found in Florida, while one found in Ohio weighing over 4,400 lbs. (2 metric tons) fell to the ground when the tree it was in tumbled in the wind. The nest had been in use for 34 years.

• Hawks show no mercy to their prey. After capturing a smaller bird with its feet, they repeatedly squeeze it until it’s dead or they might hold it underwater until it drowns. When preparing dinner for its family, the male will tear of the head of its prey and eat it. The hawk’s vision is amazing – 8 times greater than that of a human!

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TACOS (continued): • Hard shells as we know them came along in 1947, because corn tortillas didn’t stay fresh very long. Their recipe was first included in a cookbook in 1949, which described taking a tortilla, frying it, and bending it over to form a U-shape.

• Californian Glen Bell started out with a hot dog stand in San Bernadino in 1946 at age 23. In 1952, he opened his first taco stand, called Taco-Tia. He sold Taco-Tia in 1962 and opened a new restaurant in Downy, California, and named it Taco Bell. He sold his first franchise in 1964, and by 1967, there were 100 Taco Bells and 325 by 1970.

Glen Bell sold 868 Taco Bell restaurants to the Pepsi company in 1978. Today there are 6,400 restaurants, serving two billion customers a year.

• Do you remember the Taco Bell Chihuahua featured in their ads in the late 1997?

“Gidget” became popular immediately, and toys were even made in her likeness. When Taco Bell discontinued the ads in 2000, their revenue dropped by 6%.

• Tacos in Mexico are considerably different from what North Americans eat. A favorite in northern Mexico is Tacos de Cabeza, made from the brain, tongue, eyes, and lips of a cow’s head, which have been steamed overnight. They also enjoy crispy tripe tacos, made from a cow’s stomach, as well as shrimp tacos. Another popular Mexican variety is the Taco al Pastor, which means shepherd’s style taco. Its ingredients are spiced pork that has been roasted over an open flame, then cut into slivers. Taquitos, or flautas as they are sometimes called because of their flute shape, are filled with shredded chicken or beef, rolled into a tube, and deep-fried until crispy.

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