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MOUNTAINS (continued): • The Appalachian Mountains are made up of mountains, ridges and valleys. The Great Smoky Mountains are in this region, and they run from Tennessee to North Carolina. • The Blue Ridge Mountains are the backbone of the Appalachian Mountain system. They extend from Georgia to Pennsylvania. • Mt. Mitchell, in the Appalachians, is the highest mountain on the eastern coast. It is about 6,684 feet high. • The Andes Mountain range is an uninterrupted chain of highland that is situated along the western coast of South America. It is the longest exposed mountain range in the world and comprises two great ranges: Cordillera Oriental and Cordillera Occidental, which stand divided by a deep intermediate depression. • The Himalayas stretch across six countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, the People’s Republic of China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Some of the world’s major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yangtze, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to some 1.3 billion people, including the people of Bangladesh. • The world’s highest peak on land is Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. It is 29,036 feet tall. When measured from sea-level, Mount Everest is without a doubt the biggest mountain peak on this planet. However, if one were to consider the height of a mountain from its base to its peak, there are few other mountains such as Mt. McKinley and Mauna Kea that are taller than Everest in totality. • Prior to being named Mount Everest, the mountain was commonly referred to as Peak XV. It was formally named Mount Everest after Col. George Everest who was the Surveyor General of India in the early 1860s.

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• Mount Everest also has some local names such as Sagarmatha (Nepali) and Chomolungma (Tibetan). • The first people to scale Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. They did it on May 29, 1953.

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MOUNTAINS (continued): • The Malaspina Glacier, at the foot of Mt. Saint Elias, is larger than Rhode Island. • The beautiful Rocky Mountains extend some 3,000 miles from the Mexican frontier to the Arctic Ocean, through the western United States and sections of Canada.

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• The highest peak in the U.S. Rockies is Mt. Elbert in Colorado, at 14,433 feet; in the Canadian Rockies it is Mt. Robson in British Columbia, at 12,972 feet. • The Continental Divide, located in the Rocky Mountains, separates waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico from those flowing into the Pacific Ocean. • The Rocky Mountains include at least 100 separate ranges, which are generally divided into four broad groupings: the Canadian Rockies and Northern Rockies of Montana and northeastern Idaho; the Middle Rockies of Wyoming, Utah and southeastern Idaho; the Southern Rockies, mainly in Colorado and New Mexico; and the Colorado Plateau in the four corners region. • The Canadian Rockies are quite different in appearance and geology from the American Rockies to the south of them. The Canadian Rockies are composed of layered sedimentary rock such as limestone and shale. The American Rockies are made of metamorphic and igneous rock, such as granite. • Alberta, Canada, is named after Princess Louisa Caroline Alberta, the fourth child of Queen Victoria. The Princess was born in 1848, and married the Governor General of Canada. The princess is also the namesake of Lake Louise in the Rocky Mountains.

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• It was journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Esther Dyson who made the following sage observation: “The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.” • In China, the Beijing Trafﬁc Management Bureau, which issues license plates, has recently stopped allowing the number 4 to appear on the tags. Evidently the number sounds like the word for “death” and is therefore considered to be unlucky. • Here’s a startling statistic: If your family is average, you throw out about $600 in unspoiled food every year. • If you’re planning a vacation sometime in the near future, you might want to keep in mind Travel & Leisure magazine’s most recent city rankings. These rankings didn’t involve food or culture, though. For this particular list, readers voted on the cities with the most- and least-attractive people. If you enjoy people-watching, head to Charleston, S.C., which reportedly boasts the most attractive populace, followed by San Diego and Savannah, Ga., in second and third places. The U.S. cities with the least attractive residents? According to the survey, they’re Memphis, Baltimore and Philadelphia. • Have you ever wondered what the largest irrigated crop in the United States is? It’s not soybeans, wheat or even corn; it’s grass, mostly in lawns, parks and golf courses. *** Thought for the Day: “The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.” -- Oscar Wilde (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

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MOUNTAINS (continued): • Five national parks are located within the Canadian Rockies, four of which interlock and make up the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage site. These four parks are Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho. • The world’s highest mountain, from its base on the ocean floor, is Mauna Kea, on Hawaii. It is 33,474 feet high, but only 13,796 feet are above sea level. The summit of Mauna Kea has been a celestial observatory since ancient times and is considered to be one of the best astronomical sites in the world. The summit of Mauna Kea is above approximately 40 percent of Earth’s atmosphere, which not surprisingly, allows for exceptionally clear and amazing images of the night sky. Additionally, the peak is well above the inversion layer, which leads to approximately 300 clear nights per year. • Standing at 4,406 feet, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles, and as such is the major challenge for any United Kingdom climber or walker. In Gaelic, the mountain’s name Beinn Nibheis has been linked with Irish and Gaelic words meaning poisonous or terrible. •

As the most recognized mountain on the European continent, the roughly chiseled rock pyramid that is the Matterhorn is a defining geographical landmark. With a near perfect pyramid, its absolute symmetry distinguishes this mountain. It is considered the birthplace of climbing.

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Hanukkah Hanukkah is celebrated around the world for eight days and nights. As in many other celebrations of many other cultures, it’s about family gathering together and sharing food, blessings and good times. • It’s a celebration of restored freedom. Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the Maccabees or Israelites over the Greek-Syrian ruler Antiochus about 2,200 years ago. • The holiday starts on the 25th of the month of Kislev. But because the Hebrew calendar is lunar rather than solar, it can fall anywhere from November to December on the standard calendar. • The date for Hanukkah this year is December 1 (sundown) to December 9. • Though Jews around the world commemorate Hanukkah, in Israel, Hanukkah is particularly festive. After all, to celebrate Hanukkah in Israel is to celebrate it where the story of the Maccabees took place. It’s a national holiday; schools are closed, menorahs are publicly displayed, and parties abound. • One of the most recognized symbols of Hanukkah, the chanukkiah is a special ninebranched candelabrum. It is different from the standard menorah, which holds seven candles and is the emblem of the State of Israel. • The chanukkiah or hanukkiyah symbolizes the time when the Maccabees wanted to rededicate their temple by lighting the “eternal flame,” but they only had enough consecrated oil to burn for one day. Miraculously, that little bit of oil lasted for eight days until more purified oil could be found. • Today, Jewish families light candles or burn oil in the chanukkiah for the eight days of Hanukkah, adding one candle each day. The ninth candle, the center one, is used to light the others.

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• Each night of Hanukkah, an additional candle is placed in the chanukkiah from right to left, and then lit from left to right. On the last night, all the candles are lit. • A dreidel, or sivion, is a four-sided top that has a Hebrew letter on each side. Spinning the dreidel is a popular Hanukkah custom. • During Hanukkah, families eat latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (jelly donuts) or other foods that are fried in oil to celebrate and commemorate the miracle of purified oil.

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• Gifts are also exchanged during the festival of Hanukkah. This tradition is adapted from the Christmas tradition of gift giving. • Hanukkah gelt, or money, is often distributed to children to enhance their enjoyment of the holiday. The amount is usually in small coins, although grandparents or other relatives may give larger sums as an official Hanukkah gift. • Unlike most spelling words you remember from school, Hanukkah can be correctly spelled many different ways, including Chanukah, Chanukkah and Hanukkah. • In North America especially, Hanukkah gained increased importance with many Jewish families in the latter half of the twentieth century, including large numbers of secular Jews who wanted a Jewish alternative to Christmas. Some Jews in North America and Israel now celebrate the environment along with Hanukkah, using the holiday’s “miracle of the oil” to reflect upon energy conservation.

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