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I just discovered Being Mary Jane and have become a fan of Gabrielle Union. What else has she done? —Janice L., Omaha, Neb.

A: Union, 42, plays the title role of TV journalist Mary Jane Paul in the BET comedy series, which will begin reruns of its recently completed second season in June. She also appeared in the teen movies 10 Things I Hate About You and Bring It On, and in Think Like a Man, Bad Boys II and Top Five. “People associated me with being a teenager for so long, it was a tough transition to be taken seriously as an adult actor,” she says.

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After supporting appearances in two Best Picture Oscar winners in a row—Argo (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013)—McNairy, 37, turned to the small screen for a starring role in Halt and Catch Fire, AMC’s series about the ’80s computer boom, returning for its second season tonight.

You play Gordon Clark, a computer engineering genius, in Halt and Catch Fire. In real life, are you tech-savvy? “I do know electronics, somewhat. I used to rip out and install car stereos, car alarms, anything I could take apart in the garage. I messed with a soldering iron, but if I can’t physically touch it, mechanics are hard for my dyslexic brain to process.” Do you talk to kids with dyslexia to inspire them? “This summer, I’m going to speak at the Shelton School of Dallas (Texas) that I attended for dyslexia—my nieces go there now and both my brothers went there— and tell them what I went through, all the things that the school taught me and how it helped me later in life.” Because reading was difficult for you, did it make you more appreciative of music? “I love music. Every time I hear the band Florence and the Machine, something about their music gives me chills.” You moved back to Texas from Los Angeles. Why? “I personally feel more creative and a lot more inspired living out in the country, where there’s nothing that can infect my process or get in the way of it.”

Q: What’s my favorite Jersey boy, Bobby Cannavale, up to these days? —Carlos M., Orange, N.J.

A: Cannavale, 45, should be packing people into theaters this summer. He plays De Luca, the villain in the comedy Spy, opposite Melissa McCarthy, opening June 5. Then he’ll co-star with Paul Rudd in Ant-Man, in theaters July 17. “I wake up every morning and go, ‘I can’t believe I’m still getting to do this,’” says Cannavale, who began his acting career 25 years ago. Q: I’ve heard that the star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood had a distinguished military career. Is that true? —Charlie Norval, Dunedin, Fla.

A: The rumors that the late Fred Rogers served as a Navy SEAL or a U.S. Marine sniper are urban legends. It is true that Rogers, who died at age 74 in 2003 of stomach cancer, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. He was honored for his commitment to teaching and nurturing children on his long-running PBS TV series.

‘Aloha,’ Emma! Birdman star Emma Stone, 26, gets romantic with Bradley Cooper in the just-released Aloha. Cooper plays a military contractor to Stone’s U.S. Air Force pilot. Here are five more facts about the Arizona native you may not know: 1. The natural blonde spent five years as a redhead after producer Judd Apatow wanted her hair dyed for Superbad. 2. Named her first dog Alvy after Woody Allen’s Annie Hall character Alvy Singer 3. Was the voice of London Tipton’s dog, Ivana Tipton, in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 4. Studied American Sign Language in middle and high school 5. Fell off the parallel bars in gymnastics class and broke both arms when she was 7

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Lighting Up the Night

The beloved Main Street Electrical Parade got a modern-day makeover with a new Paint the Night Parade that features 1.5 million LED lights. There’s a new fireworks show over Sleeping Beauty’s Castle too.

Via digital technology, longtime Disney parks fan Harris co-hosts a new World of Color—Celebrate! show alongside Mickey Mouse, telling the story of Walt Disney’s journey to create Disneyland.

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New food and beverages for the anniversary celebration include orange- and lemonflavored Diamond Celebration cupcakes and a Frozen Pomegranate Silver Sparkler.

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his park? One reason: Annual rainfall there averaged only one inch a month, drier than much of surrounding L.A. County. 2. Adult admission to the park was just $1 when Disneyland first opened—and it cost just 25 cents to park a car! 3. There were 17 main attractions on opening day—today there are 60+.

4. Legend has it that spooky spirits roam

the park at night. Ghosts have reportedly been seen in various locations, including the Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain and even Walt Disney’s apartment above the Fire Hall in Town Square. 5. What’s the Disneyland attraction with the longest official name? The Disneyland Story Presenting Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. 6. Tallest structure: Matterhorn Mountain (147 feet) 7. Got time? Look for more than two dozen clocks and other timepieces throughout the park that tell the wrong time, or no time at all, including one in the Haunted Mansion marked with only one hour: 13 o’clock. 8. While in line for the Indiana Jones Adventure, pull the rope marked “Do Not Pull Rope!” (You’ll hear a surprise.) 9. The iconic Jungle Cruise ride was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn movie The African Queen. 10. Most expensive souvenir at the Main Street Magic Shop: a key owned by Harry Houdini ($875) —from The Disneyland Book of Lists by Chris Strodder (Santa Monica Press)

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—John P., Maynard, Mass.

Surprise: They’re the same. Air temperature has no effect on the strength of the ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the ground, and it is UV rays that cause sunburn and contribute to skin cancer. Instead, major factors are the time of day and year, the elevation of the location, the thickness of the ozone layer over the area and the cloud cover that day.

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Average number of tornadoes that touch down in the U.S. in a typical year By Kim Cross

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Twister season is here, and it pays to be weatherwise. The author of the new book What Stands in a Storm shares tips to keep you and your family safe.

3. Get as low as possible to ride out the storm. A basement or underground storm shelter is ideal. Otherwise, find a small, windowless room on the lowest floor near the center of the house. 4. Cover up. Wear a helmet and shoes, and get under a sturdy piece of furniture or a mattress to shield yourself from flying debris. 5. Stay in touch. If you lose power, receive and share warnings via your smartphone or social media: Update via Twitter and Facebook, watch livestream TV coverage and text family when phone lines are overloaded.

Though official tornado records only date back to the 1950s, twisters have fascinated people since long before Benjamin Franklin “Every home needs an NOAA Weather Radio so you chased one—on horseback—in Maryland in 1755. These rapidly won’t miss the warnings. And good smartphone apps rotating columns of air are produced by less than one percent of thunderdesigned to pass along severe weather warnings are a storms, but they don’t just form in so-called Tornado Alley in the Midwest and Deep South. “Tornadoes have been observed on every contigreat alternative, like MyWarn or WeatherRadio.” nent and in every American state at every hour of the day and in every —James Spann, award-winning meteorologist month of the year,” says Charles A. Doswell III, Ph.D., a meteorologist for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Ala. and severe storms research scientist. Twisters are rated on the Enhanced-Fujita scale from EF0 (the mildest) to EF5 (the strongest), based on the damage they leave behind. | WIND 101 | What causes tornadoes? We’re still learning. Scientists HOW A TORNADO DEVELOPS know the atmospheric conditions present when twisters form (see “Wind 101,” right), but the exact recipe is unknown. A tornado watch means tornadoes are likely, while a warning means it’s time to take shelter. Weather radars scan the skies, but a tornado isn’t confirmed until a person sees it. That’s why meteorologists also rely on a nationwide network of 290,000 volunteer “storm spotters” trained to identify signs of tornadoes (such as strong rotation) and report Highest recorded tornado “ground truth.” To bewind speed (measured remotely come a storm spotter, by Doppler radar) Award-winning journalist Kim Cross is the author of What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in visit nws.noaa.gov/ the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South’s Tornado Alley (Simon & Schuster). skywarn and find a class near you.

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1. Don’t rely only on sirens. Take cover if you do hear a siren. But be aware that sirens typically warn across entire counties (and may not apply to your exact location) and often can’t be heard inside. Instead, get a weather radio (with a cellphone charger) and a GPS-based weather app that will wake and warn you if you’re in the path. 2. Avoid mobile homes and cars. These are two of the most dangerous places to be in a twister because they’re unstable and easily destroyed. Get out of the car or mobile home and into a building or an underground shelter. Overpasses provide little protection. Only as a last resort, lie in a ditch or depression, covering your head, until it passes.

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verybody knows exercise is good for your health. But there have been recent reminders of the importance of being careful—particularly if you’re using exercise bands or treadmills. In January, a resistance band sent U.S. Sen. Harry Reid flying into the furniture, causing serious injury to his eye. And treadmill-related accidents are at an all time high. RESISTANCE BANDS These elastic strips used for strength training and stretching are “notorious for snapping and hurting people,” says Sabrena Merrill, senior exercise science consultant for the American Council on Exercise and a fitness trainer in Kansas City, Mo. Always do a quick check by running your hand down the length of the band or tube to check for nicks or small tears, which may be too tiny to see, she says. Keep bands and tubing away from the heat and out of the sun, which can weaken them. And toss old or damaged gear.

TREADMILLS To up your safety, “know where that emergency stop button is before you even turn the thing on, and don’t be afraid to use it,” says Merrill. Doublecheck that your shoelaces are tied. And for happy joints, it’s better to increase the incline, not your speed (which hikes impact), as long as your heart can handle it. —Marianne Wait Go to Parade.com/getfit for more get-fit tips

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America’s premier documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, 61, has spent most of his adult life examining what makes our country tick. He certainly knows about American treasures—his work, which began with his 1981 documentary on the Brooklyn Bridge, continues to lead him to an endless number of them, including baseball, the Civil War, jazz, Mark Twain, Lewis and Clark, Prohibition, World War II, our national parks and the Roosevelts. “An American treasure ought to be something that resonates with all of us,” he says. “The Latin motto of the United States is E pluribus unum, which means ‘Out of many, one.’ I see the idea of an American treasure as something that reminds us of the things we share in common, not the things that separate us.” (Go to Parade.com/kenburns to read our full interview.) His upcoming projects include films on country music; baseball great Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport’s color barrier; and Vietnam. “We can appreciate the fact that we have a complicated past and a complicated present,” he says. “These ‘treasures’ reinforce our dedication to always making things better, to improving, based on that mysterious phrase in the Declaration of Independence, in ‘pursuit of happiness.’ “Americans are restless and unsatisfied and competitive and striving toward that ultimate goal,” he adds. “We are always ‘in pursuit’ of happiness. These treasures allow us to reinvigorate our creed. They let us keep our eyes on the prize and go forward together, not as a fractured world, with everybody buried in their own device, be it a smartphone or a computer, oblivious to the rest of the world. These are our anchors.” —Neil Pond 8 | MAY 31, 2015

America has a lot to celebrate. We’re the country of front porches and potato chips, Converse sneakers and John Deere tractors. We invented the National Park System that protects 84 million acres of wilderness. We brought the world the clear-eyed innocence of Scout Finch and the joy of the high five. We’re the birthplace of brilliant dreamers who change lives in wide-ranging ways. And we’re the country that declared more than 230 years ago that all people are created equal and have a right not only to be free but also to be happy. Here, Parade highlights a few of the uniquely American people, places and things that make us very, very happy. Go to Parade.com/nationaltreasure to tell us about the national treasures that make you happy. And watch for our National Treasure column in the magazine. (St. Augustine, Jazz and NASCAR coming up.) You may ﬁnd your favorite featured there soon. BURNS BY JOSH REYNOLDS/AP IMAGES; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES/ ZUMA; YELLOWSTONE BY ISTOCK PHOTO; WONDER BY KEVIN MAZURE/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES; CHIPS/HAT/HOLLYWOOD/DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY ISTOCK PHOTO

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Its words are a permanent reminder of the values underlying the American republic

“It’s the seminal statement of the American promise,” PulitzerPrize-winning historian Joseph Ellis says of the 1,340-word document that dissolved America’s ties to Britain. The Declaration is 239 years old, yet most Americans know its most famous sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Declaration lives in the National Archives, visited by over one million people a year. COVER CREDITS: 1776 COURTESY NEWSCOM; MLK BY AFP/GETTY IMAGES; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES/ZUMA; ST. AUGUSTINE BY J. GWENDOLYNNE BERRY/THE PALM BEACHPOST/ZUMA; VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL BY ANH B. NGUYEN/GETTY IMAGES; BURNS BY JOSH REYNOLDS/AP IMAGES; DR.SEUSS BY GENE LESTER/GETTYIMAGES; WONDER BY KEVIN MAZUR/ WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES; DISNEY BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT/LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES

“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs”

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life story, fictionalized in the Little House on the Prairie books, is “the American story,” says Nancy Koupal, director of the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. “She brings the huge American westward movement down to the level where everybody can understand it.”

The Cowboy Spirit The heroes of dime-store novels and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West shows, and immortalized in movie westerns (John Wayne, anyone?), cowboys embody the independence and individualism Americans value.

45 feet tall, big and brash and unmistakable

First constructed in 1923 as an ad for an upscale housing development (the letters, illuminated with 4,000 light bulbs, spelled out “Hollywoodland”), the sign is one of the most identifiable tourist attractions in the U.S. It’s come to represent “anybody’s dream of making it in life to whatever their lofty goal might be,” says Hollywood Sign Trust chairman Chris Baumgart. What started as a sales ploy became something else in 1949, when the city of Los Angeles decided to remove L-A-N-D and send a message about the strength of the film industry with a towering H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D. “The sign started out as one thing and became enormously successful as another,” Baumgart says. Which is pretty American too.

Stevie Wonder Paul Simon calls him “the composer of his generation”

With 22 Grammys, membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and countless other awards, Stevie Wonder looms over American pop music. A child prodigy, he recorded his first No. 1 album at 13 and now, at 65, has sold more than 100 million records. His songs are the soundtrack to our lives, from wedding staple “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” to the driving funk of “Superstition” to “Isn’t She Lovely,” which he wrote to celebrate daughter Aisha’s birth.

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Front porches have been part of American architecture since Colonial days. Other cultures have them, but no one else has embraced porch life as wholeheartedly. The front porch is “the interface between the private world and your community,” says Claude Stephens, founder of the Professional Porch Sitters Union. Front porches dropped in popularity when radio, TV and automobiles wooed people away. But they’re making a comeback: 63 percent of single-family homes in 2013 had porches, up from 42 percent in 1993. The front porch is “a way of thinking about the world,” Stephens says. “We use it as a verb: ‘Would you like to come over and do a little porching?’ ”

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The creator of the iconic multimedia empire (read “Disneyland Turns 60,” page 4) touched “the child in all of us,” says Kirsten Komoroske, executive director of the Walt Disney Family Museum.

An American lesson in being your own person If Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is “our national novel,” as Oprah Winfrey has called it, then Scout Finch, the young narrator, is our national heroine. “Scout is a feisty girl who doesn’t see things in black and white; who believes in her town and loves her family and struggles to find her way. These are all very American things,” says Mary McDonagh Murphy, author of Scout, Atticus, & Boo (Harper), who can’t wait to read Go Set a Watchman, the recently discovered Harper Lee novel coming out in July.

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Our National Park System protects more than 84 million acres in all 50 states, as well as in Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories. “For the first time in human history, land was set aside, not for the rich, but for everyone and for all time,” says filmmaker Ken Burns. The Grand Canyon, the peaks of Alaska, the hills of the Shenandoah—it’s ours, all of it. The system even protects places of historical significance like Sand Creek in Colorado, where U.S. troops massacred a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho. “We have been unafraid of not only sharing with the world the glories of our natural wonders and our inspiring past, but also culpability for some things which have not gone particularly well,” Burns says. “That’s how a great nation goes forward.” —N.P.

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It all started when excited rookie outfielder Glenn Burke ran over with his arm in the air to his teammate Dusty Baker after he hit his 30th homer for the Dodgers in 1977. Baker wasn’t sure what to do, says Mark Langill, Dodgers team historian, so he slapped it. Now there’s even a National High Five Day.

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