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The word “black” doesn’t mean just an object’s color — It has cultural and psychological meanings as well. This week, Tidbits explores a variety of areas where we see both the color and the word.

• Those items that are black do not reflect any rays from the visible light spectrum.

Rather, they absorb the frequencies of all color pigments. The presence of all primary colors creates black. The absence of these results in white.

• Most of us are aware of the superstition that if a black cat crosses our path, bad luck is on the way. However, in Great Britain and Ireland, that feline is a symbol of good luck. The Scots even believe that a black cat near their house means prosperity is imminent. The Japanese also look upon it as good luck, and that ladies who own one will have many suitors. The Germans are very specific about the black cat’s route — If it crosses your path from right to left, it’s a bad omen, while a left to right course signifies future favorable times.

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• To the Japanese, black is the symbol of nobility, age and wisdom. Contrast this with their view of white, which represents serfdom, youth and naïveté. In light of this, they award the black belt in martial arts as a symbol of achievement and seniority, as a sign that the individual has “blended the mind and body into one, into a unity within oneself and with the universe.”

• Black History Month has been officially observed since 1976, when President Gerald Ford called on all Americans to recognize February as a time to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

• The ancient Aztecs viewed black as the color of war because black obsidian glass was used to make the cutting edges of their battle swords. Black also represented the institution of religion, because their priests wore only black.

• Traditionally, musicians in the orchestra pit wear black attire. This is not only because of the formal look, but more so, not to draw attention away from those performers on stage.

• The wearing of black clothing while in mourning dates back to the Roman Empire in the western world. However, in Japan, the color of mourning is white.

• In the field of astronomy, a black dwarf is a star that has burned out, while a black hole is an area in space created from a collapsed giant star that has run out of fuel. Matter and light cannot escape the intense gravitational pull of a black hole, the weight of which is estimated at a million times as much as the sun.

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To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is or "no longer in the red", or free of debt .

Being "in the red" is to be in debt—in traditional bookkeeping, negative amounts, such as costs, were printed in red ink, and positive amounts, like revenues, were printed in black ink, so that if the "bottom line" is printed in black, the firm is profiting.

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• There was the “Man in Black” and there were “Men in Black.” Country music icon Johnny Cash earned his nickname by wearing his trademark black clothing, including a long knee-length coat, differing from his country counterparts who dazzled in rhinestone suits. Cash said he wrote his 1971 hit “Man in Black” on behalf of the “poor and beaten down” and “the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,” as well as soldiers killed in Vietnam, “the lives that could have been.” But initially, Cash and his band mates wore black shirts because it was the only matching color shirt they all had! The first “Men in Black” movie premiered in 1997; it was a science fiction comedy about a secret agency that monitors alien activity in New York City. Clint Eastwood was chosen to play the lead character, but after he turned it down, Tommy Lee Jones was put in the role opposite Will Smith. Smith didn’t want the role of “J,” but his wife talked him into taking it. A sequel came along in 2002, and MIB III opened in the spring of 2012.

• More tea drinkers sip black tea than any other type; it equals 90 percent of total tea consumption. Although black, oolong, green and white teas all come from the same shrub, black tea is more oxidized than the other three. Green tea undergoes minimal oxidation during processing, and white tea is made with no fermentation whatsoever. White tea has the least caffeine, just 1 percent of what a cup of coffee contains. Black tea contains 20 percent of coffee’s caffeine.

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• If you’ve been denied a particular privilege or recognition, you’ve been blacklisted. The term also applies to those who have been rejected from work in a certain field, or one who has been ostracized from elite social circles. The word dates back to the 1600s, when England’s King Charles II compiled a list of 58 judges who had sentenced his father Charles I to death. When Charles II regained the throne 11 years later, 13 of those on his “blacklist” were executed, 25 were sentenced to life in prison, and the remainder escaped.

• Some clubs hold secret ballots to determine whether an individual should be admitted. Those who vote against the person’s admittance “blackball” him.

• If you’re bitten by a member of the Latrodectus genus, most likely you won’t die. Although the venom of the black widow spider is quite potent, it usually only results in muscle aches, nausea or difficulty breathing, although it can be fatal to small children. And the spiders generally bite only in self-defense, for example, when a person sits on them. The female, famous for consuming the male after mating, is more than twice the size of her mate and has venom three times more potent. She can grow up to about 1.5 inches (37 mm). Not every female will have the trademark red hourglass on the abdomen — Sometimes there are two red spots, sometimes no markings at all.

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Situated near the banks of the River Jumna in northern India sits the world’s most stunning mausoleum, visited by close to four million sightseers every year. This week, Tidbits has gathered some interesting information about the Taj Mahal, one man’s monument to his beloved wife.

• The emperor Shah Jahan met his future wife when he was just 15 years old and declared it was love at first sight. Although the couple did not marry for another five years, they were inseparable during the interim.

Upon their marriage, he titled his bride Mumtaz Mahal, meaning “Chosen One of the Palace,” and he began construction of a luxurious royal home.

• In 1631, the Shah set out with his armies to pacify an uprising. His wife chose to accompany him, which was not an unusual occurrence, except that she was advanced in pregnancy. After experiencing complications, Mumtaz Mahal, age 38, died shortly after the birth of her 14th child. With her dying breath, she asked her husband to promise to honor their love by building the world’s most beautiful mausoleum.

• Construction of the Taj Mahal began in 1632, and an estimated 20,000 laborers worked on the edifice over the course of more than 21 years. A 9.3-mile- long ramp was built for dragging materials to the site.

Teams of 30 oxen as well as 1,000 elephants pulled marble blocks to the sophisticated pulley system that raised the blocks into position.

• A huge gateway and arch welcome visitors to the area, symbolic of the gateway through which Mohammed entered Paradise. The marble portal of the main entrance is inscribed with the “promise of Allah,” which reads, “O thou soul at peace, return thou unto thy Lord. These are the Gardens of Eden, enter them and live forever.”

• A minaret stands at each of the four corners of the pedestal platform on which the tomb rests. Each stands 130 feet tall, the traditional components of mosques.

• There are 42 acres of grounds in the complex, divided by four channels of water, which represent the four rivers of Paradise mentioned in the sacred Koran.

Colossal sunken flowerbeds, trees, pools and fountains complete the magnificent landscape. The large white marble monument with its distinctive onion dome appears pinkish in the mornings, a milky white during the evening, and golden in the moonlight.

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• Because Muslim tradition forbids the elaborate decoration of graves, the actual tombs holding the bodies of the Shah and his wife are in a much simpler crypt below the inner chamber. Their faces are turned toward Mecca, Islam’s holy city. Inscribed along the sides of Mumtaz Mahal’s tomb are “The 99 Names of God,” including Noble, Magnificent, Majestic, Eternal and Glorious.

• The reign of Shah Jahan came to an unfortunate end when his son plotted to overthrow him, imprisoning his father in a tower and taking over the throne. From his window in his prison, Shah Jahan was able to view his beautiful monument. Upon his death, the son buried him next to his beloved wife.

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Mortgage origination costs can be astronomical, draining away the equity.

Scammers tie home-equity mortgages to other financial products. And, it learned, homeowners were found in default if they failed to pay property taxes or homeowners insurance.

The biggest concern, however, is if only one spouse’s name is on the paperwork.

You can’t take a reverse mortgage unless you’re age 62. If only one spouse is that age, then only that person’s name goes on the paperwork. If that older spouse dies, the younger spouse can be evicted from the home if he or she can’t come up with all the money to immediately pay off the mortgage.

Consumers Union is asking for a number of safeguards: ● Ensure that the loan is suitable for borrowers and won’t put them at risk. ● Establish a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of the homeowner. ● Outlaw deceptive marketing. ● Prohibit mingling a reverse mortgage with other financial products. ● Strengthen the pre-mortgage counseling that homeowners are required to have. ● And the big one: protect the nonborrowing spouse.

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• Sometimes called para nuts or cream nuts, Brazil nuts are grown in tropical South American rainforests. Their name might be “Brazil,” but most of the world’s supply comes from Bolivia. The huge tree that produces them grows up to 150 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter. The nuts form inside a hard pod about the size of a coconut, which holds between 15 and 25 nuts. Because these pods can fall from the tree without warning, harvesters wear wooden hats to protect their heads. Brazil nuts are high in fat, about 65 percent in content, which causes them to spoil more readily than other nuts.

• We call them peanuts, but they’re not really nuts — Peanuts are legumes grown underground. Of all the nuts that Americans snack on, peanuts account for two-thirds of the total, about 700 million pounds every year. One acre of plants will produce 2,860 pounds of peanuts, enough to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

One 18-ounce jar of peanut butter requires 850 peanuts. Just over half of the U.S. crop comes from Georgia, with half of Georgia’s crop going to the manufacture of peanut butter. Chocolate manufacturers use about 20 percent of the peanut crop.

• Do you have a phobia about peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth? You suffer from arachibutyrophobia.

• What’s the difference between a filbert and a hazelnut? Nothing! They are one and the same. St. Philibert was a 7th century abbot who founded a French monastery.

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• Two varieties of nuts are mentioned in the Bible, almonds and pistachios. The almond is not a true nut, but rather a drupe, related to other stone fruits, such as peaches, plums, apricots and cherries. California is the world’s top producer of almonds, although they are also grown in Spain, Syria, Iran and Morocco. These nutritious nuts are an excellent source of protein, potassium, Vitamin E and magnesium, and have been shown to help lower cholesterol. Twentyfive almonds contain only 160 calories, with one gram of saturated fat. Pistachios, mentioned in Genesis 43:11, come from one of the oldest flowering nut trees, harvested for at least 9,000 years. A member of the cashew family, the pistachio is one of the lowest calorie nuts — about 100 calories for 30 nuts. They are also a good source of antioxidants, scoring higher than a cup of green tea.

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