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While the modern game was developed in Canada, ice hockey made it to the USA and was first played here in 1893. By the beginning of the 20th century, the sport had spread to England and other parts of Europe and now is very popular in North America and Eastern Europe. • The National Hockey League is considered the most important Ice Hockey league in the world and is made up of teams from the United States and Canada. For many years almost all NHL players were Canadians. • In 1917, the NHL began with the following “Original Six” teams: Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadians and Toronto Maple Leafs. Through a sequence of team expansions, reductions and relocations, the league currently consists of 30 teams, 24 based in the United States and six in Canada. • The team that wins the NHL championship wins the Stanley Cup trophy. • The first Olympic Games to include ice hockey for men took place in Antwerp, Belgium in 1920; it was the Summer Games. However, the first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France, and also included hockey. Women’s hockey was added to the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. • Pucks weren’t always the same. Now, a puck must meet guidelines set forth by the NHL for weight and dimensions. In 1940, Hockey Hall of Famer Art Ross came up with the idea of having all pucks meet certain standards. Pucks have remained the same since then, with each being 3 inches (8 centimeters) in diameter and an inch (3 centimeters) high. The puck must weigh no less than 5.5 ounces (156 grams) and no more than 6 ounces (170 grams). Grooved, diamondshaped edges, a feature that gives a puck some traction with the hockey stick, are necessary. • The NHL puck, with the exception of the colored logos on it, is always black. Hockey pucks are frozen before being used in play, because the rubber with which they are made is too bouncy otherwise. • NHL overtime was eliminated during WWII, because there were restrictions on train travel. Officials couldn’t risk a game going too long and players missing the one and only train that night. It was reinstated in 1983-84.

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A man named Joe had tickets to game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, right at center ice. As Joe sat down, a man came and asked him if anyone was going to occupy the seat next to him. "No," said Fred, "sit right down. The seat will be empty." "That's incredible!" said the man. "Who in their right mind would reserve a seat like this for the Stanley Cup and then not use it?" Joe said, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first Stanley Cup we haven't been to together since we got married nearly 50 years ago." "Oh... I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else - a friend or relative, or even a neighbor - to take her seat?" Joe shook his head sadly. "No. They're all at the funeral."

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The Police burned up the airways in the eighties and are now considered rock n’ roll royalty, having sold more than 50 million records worldwide to date. • The Police were founded by American-born drummer Stewart Copeland in early 1977. After the demise of his progressive rock band Curved Air, Copeland was anxious to form a new threepiece group and join the London punk scene. • Singer-bassist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977 as the Police, and they recorded their first single, “Fall Out”/”Nothing Achieving,” the following month. • In July 1977, Copeland, Sting, Padovani and Andy Summers began performing as a four-piece version of the Police. Padovani’s relatively limited ability as a guitarist curtailed his time with the band. Soon after an aborted recording session with producer John Cale in August of 1977, Padovani left the band, and Summers took over guitar duties. The lineup of Copeland, Sting and Summers would endure for the rest of Police history. • The music for “Walking on the Moon” came into Sting’s head when he was alone in a hotel room. He originally wanted to call it “Walking Round the Room.” After he thought of the riff, he began to walk around the room to the beat. • For the Police, recording their first album, “Outlandos d’Amour” was a hardship. They worked with a small budget and had neither a manager nor a record deal.

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• In October 1979, the group released their second album “Reggatta de Blanc,” which was a major seller throughout Europe. The album topped the British charts for four weeks and spawned the UK number-one singles “Message in a Bottle” and “Walking on the Moon.” The instrumental title track won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. • By this time, Sting was becoming a major star, and he established a career beyond the Police by branching out into acting. He made a well-received debut as the Ace Face in “Quadrophenia,” the film version of The Who’s rock opera. He also played the character Feyd Rautha in the movie “Dune.” As Sting’s fame rose, his relationship with band founder Stewart Copeland began to deteriorate. • After the “Synchronicity” tour ended in March 1984, the group disbanded, and each band member went on to pursue his own solo career. In June 1986, the trio reconvened to play three concerts for the Amnesty International tour. In July of that same year, a tense, short-lived reunion in the studio produced only subdued re-recordings of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” and “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.” • The Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2003.

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In the early 1600s, a group of dissidents decided to separate from the Church of England. Facing persecution for this choice, they left their country for Holland, and eventually made their way to the New World.

• Almost half of the original Pilgrim settlers died during the first winter. • Although so many of the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower died, many more would have perished had it not been for the Native Americans teaching the Pilgrims to harvest foods. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three whole days and provided enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. • The Pilgrims already celebrated days of thanksgiving as part of their religion. But these were days of prayer, not days of feasting. “NATIONAL” (continued): • It was Massasoit, WORDS chief of the Wampanoag tribe,

• The Pilgrims, discouraged by economic difficulties and the pervasive Dutch influence on their children, decided to immigrate to America in 1617. • The first Pilgrims came to America in the Mayflower. They sailed from Holland to England •who French: Chefs it with means to first invited the know Pilgrimswhat to feast them. “french” a food item. It’s a verb that means to meet up with the Mayflower on another ship, • Although menu to cut intothe thintraditional strips, like, Thanksgiving well, french fries. the Speedwell. The Speedwell left England with often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes (And yes, that’s how the finger-friendly po-and the Mayflower, but leaked so badly that both pumpkin pie,took the first didGreen not consist these tato dish its feast name.) beansofare ships turned back. Finally, on September 16, another item commonly prepared in this items. For this feast, the “turkey” was represented 1620, the Mayflower again set sail for America. by manner. several types of fowl. Pumpkin pie wasn’t The voyage was more than 3,000 miles and •on Maltese: the menuThese because wereare no easy ovensto for tiny there spaniels identify to their long, silky coats. The beset by autumn storms. baking, butthanks they might have had boiled pumpkin. Andy came to work one day, limping something awful. e greatAmerican Kennel Club groups Cranberries weren’t introduced at this time. Due to One of his co-workers Josh, noticed and asked Andy HL. He • When the Mayflower departed Plymouth, with supply other of “Toy what happened. Andy replied, “Oh, nothing. It’s just thethem diminishing flour, there was no bread England, she was carrying 102 passengers, Dogs” like Pugs and an old hockey injury that acts up once in a while.” of any kind. The foods included in the first feast Cups in including three pregnant women. During the Yorkshire Terriers. included duck, geese, venison, fish, lobster, “Gee, one I never knewwas you played JoshHopkins, said. Feline swan, aficionados voyage, baby born, hockey,” Oceanus clams, this also berries, use thedried termfruit, pumpkin, squash and making totalAndy of 103 passengers. Three “No I adon’t,” replied. “I hurt it last year whendays many more to vegetables. Maltese describe my team thesighted, Stanley Cup play-offs. I put myWilliam foot before landlost was one passenger, that houses have ainsiplayer • Thecats earliest Plymouth had thatched roofs, through the television.” Button, died, so the Mayflower arrived with 102 milarly silky, gray-more likely to catch on fire, but because they were blue coat. passengers. the colony eventually passed a law that required Colombian: Thiswith termplank means different things • The Pilgrims originally wanted to settle on the •new homes be built instead. Most houses to different people, depending on how had dirt floors, not wooden floors, and eachyou had a Hudson River in New York. get your “jones.” Narcotics dealers may refer prominent fire and chimney area, since this was the • The Pilgrims started constructing their living to their products as Colombian, although the only source of heat as well as the only way tothe cook. actual source is often unknown. Luckily, houses and storehouses in late December 1620, Each house would have had its own garden, where majority of us prefer a bit of legal Colombut only managed to get a few built before y vegetables herbs couldgrown be grown. Each family bian, as and in the coffee in the South pt.” – and during the first winter; they were hindered was also assigned a field just outside of town, American nation. The plot prevalence of coffee further by occasional fires, usually caused by a shopsthey throughout America proofpeas, enough where could grow corn, is beans, wheat This word means: score spark or ember from a fire making it onto a roof, that many of us just can’t get along and other crops that required more space, in andthe raise morning without a hot cup of Colombian. which was constructed of dried thatch. larger livestock.

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