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SCIENCE & INVENTION

• In Baltimore, MD visit the Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting.

Highlights (pun intended) include the largest bulb ever made, throwing out 50,000 watts. It was manufactured to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s discovery and could only be lit for 30 seconds at a time before overheating. It sits next to the smallest bulb ever made, which is the size of a pin point. Bulbs this tiny are still used in surgery and to inspect missile parts. The museum also boasts a cockpit bulb from the Enola Gay- the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan; a bulb from the Statue of Liberty’s original torch; and about 8,000 other lightbulbs of historical significance, including some of Edison’s early prototypes. What a bright idea!

• In North Canton, Ohio, visit the Hoover Historical Center and see over 100 different models of vacuums. There’s the 1956 Walk-on-Air model which was lifted on its own exhaust and floated behind the user, a selection of early models which weighed over 100 lbs, and the computerized French model which understands four languages. (cont’d next page)

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• In Columbus, OH, visit the Optometry Museum. A local professor of optometry wrote letters to celebrities asking for the donation of their used glasses. On display here are John Denver’s granny glasses, engraved with the words “Rocky Mountain High;” race car driver Bobby Rahal’s spectacles, broken from a crash into a wall; Elvis’s sunglasses, worth an estimated $7,000; Mary Kay’s glasses which are, of course, pink; Joan Collin’s glasses with matching earrings; and former President Bush’s glasses which became warped while he was reading in the sauna.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

• In Statesboro, GA visit the U.S. National Tick Collection. Around a million ticks float inside 120,000 vials of alcohol on campus at Georgia Southern University, which is one of four different tick museums around the world. This collection proudly exhibits 760 of the 850 known species of tick. The biggest is about the size of a quarter and the smallest would fit on the head of a pin.

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FOOD & DRINK MUSUEMS

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• In Columbus, GA, the Lunch Box Museum is now rumored to be closed. When it was open, visitors could view 3,000 boxes and 2,000 thermoses. Regular tin lunch boxes pails used to be the norm until Walt Disney came out with a Mickey Mouse lunch box in the 1930s. In the 1950s lunch box mania swept the nation when Hopalong Cassidy was pictured on the front of a metal box with matching thermos. Over 600,000 sold in the first year and over 120 million lunch boxes of all sorts were purchased across the U.S. over the next two decades.

In 1987 steel lunch boxes were replaced with softer plastic models, reportedly after irate parents lobbied the Florida state legislature to ban metal boxes due to injuries sustained in cafeteria disputes when children used them as weapons.

• In Mount Horeb, WI, visit the Mustard Museum. Here they display over 3,800 different kinds of mustard, making it the world’s largest collection. Samples of 150 varieties are available for taste tests. Beware of the habañero mustard, described frankly by its manufacturer as the mustard from hell. Watch the “Mustard-piece Theater” video and read the newsletter The Proper Mustard which is billed as ‘yellow journalism at its best.’

There’s also a recipe book which includes the recipe called ‘Crude Person’s Mustard Delight’ which consists of alternating swigs of cheap beer with spoonfuls of mustard. No ketchup is allowed and in fact visitors must pass through a ketchup detector before entering. No mayo, either.

The museum sponsors National Mustard Day every August 5th. You can even see a modified Oscar Mayer Wienermobile now called the Lamborg Wienie.

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Several of their friends wanted to attend the trial, including Emily Murphy. However, they were turned away at the door to the courtroom because the judge said the testimony “was not fit for mixed company.” Emily went to the Attorney General of Alberta, arguing that the government needed to set up a court presided over by women in order to try other women.

He agreed with her, and to her surprise, appointed her as the magistrate.

• Unfortunately, when she showed up to her first day on the job, a lawyer for her first client dismissed her ruling because, under the law as defined by the British North America Act, only “qualified persons” were allowed to rule in court, and the lawyer said that “qualified persons” referred to men only, and not women, since “persons” elsewhere in the document were referred to as “he” and never “she.” Another portion of the law noted that, “Women are persons in matters of pains and penalties, but are not persons in matters of rights and privileges.”

• Emily took exception to this, and carried her case to court. In 1917, the Supreme Court of Alberta ruled that women were indeed “persons.” However, this ruling applied only to Alberta and not to the rest of Canada.

Emily Murphy decided to press the issue by applying as a candidate for Senator. The Prime Minister of Canada rejected her application, stating that Emily was not recognized as a “person” and only “qualified persons” were allowed to be appointed to political office.

• Half a million Canadians signed a petition asking for Emily to be appointed Senator, but the Prime Minister rejected the request.

• In 1927, Emily teamed up with four women’s rights activists, now known as the Famous Five, in order to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. They asked, “Does the word ‘persons’ in Section 24, of The British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”

In 1928, the Supreme Court answered, “No.” The decision said that in 1867 when the law was written, women did not vote, run for office, or serve as elected officials, and because the British House of Lords did not have a woman member, Canada should not have women members in their Senate, either.

• Unwilling to accept that decision, the Famous Five appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England, which was the highest court of appeal for Canada, in what became known as “The Persons Case.”

• In 1929, the Council announced their decision that, “Yes, women are persons… and may become Members of the Senate of Canada.”

The decision also said that “the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word ‘persons’ should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?”

• A few months later, the Prime Minister appointed Cairine Wilson to the Canadian Senate. Many expected Emily Murphy to be appointed, but the Prime Minister was a Liberal and so was Cairine Wilson.

• Nearly 80 years later, the Senate voted to posthumously name the Famous Five Canada’s first “honorary senators” for their work on women’s rights.

• Today, 38 out of 105 Senate seats are held by women.

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Christmas and New Years are a time when we invite a lot of people into our house. We never know who is going to come knocking. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in… Revelation 3:20 What if Jesus knocked on my door.

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