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WHERE DID 2010 GO? (continued): • The ﬁrst Olympic Winter Games were in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The Canadian hockey team outscored their opponents 110 to 3, winning ﬁve matches and the gold medal. Canada won the gold in the following three winter Olympics, and settled for the silver in 1936. Since then, Canada’s hockey dominance has waned even though the popularity of hockey remains strong among the Canadian people. Prior to 2010, Canada’s most recent hockey gold was in 2002 in Salt Lake City, and that win followed a 50-year gold medal drought. In 2010, however, at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada had a chance to win hockey gold on Canadian soil. In one of the most exciting games in hockey history, Canada defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime to win the gold medal. There were many other great Olympic moments, but considering how much Canadians love hockey, this was a colossal victory for them.

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• Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is famous for its golf courses and “island paradise” beauty. The island is also notable for the number of alligators in its lagoons and waterways. In July 2010, three ‘gator wrestlers and a truck pulled an 11-foot-long (3.4 meters), 500-pound (226.8-kilograms) behemoth from a lagoon. So, you may want to keep your eyes open while riding or walking around the island’s many lagoons.

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For the superstitious, 2010 should have been a good year, with only one Friday the 13th, which occurred in August. Friggatriskaidekaphobia and paraskavedekatriaphobia both mean “fear of Friday the 13th.” Hopefully you don’t suffer from this malady – mainly because the long words are extremely hard to pronounce!

• The world’s largest oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The BP (British Petroleum) well released almost ﬁve million barrels of oil. Compared to the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989, this spill released 10 times more oil. The Exxon Valdez spill had previously been the worst in American history. The BP spill also surpassed the 3.3 million barrels spilled off the eastern coast of Mexico in 1979, which had been the world’s largest oil spill. • In more sports news: The Colorado Rockies dazzled baseball fans with a record-setting 12-run eighth inning to defeat the Chicago Cubs 17-2 on July 30, 2010.

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• Due to the ongoing economic recession, the year 2010 saw the closure of Coastal Community Bank in Panama City Beach, Florida. This closure, which included the incorporation of Apalachicola State Bank, occurred July 30, 2010. Apalachicola State Bank started as a branch of Tallahassee’s Capital City Bank in 1897 and was incorporated in 1906. More than a century of service has now gone away. •

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• On Jan. 1, 45 B.C., New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time as the Julian calendar takes effect. In designing his new calendar, Roman ruler Julius Caesar enlisted the aid of Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, who calculated a year to be 365 and 1/4 days. • On Dec. 29, 1890, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. The cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers and demanded they surrender their weapons. A brutal massacre followed, with nearly half those killed being women and children. • On Dec. 30, 1936, in one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, autoworkers occupy the General Motors Fisher Body Plant in Flint, Mich. The strike lasted 44 days. GM’s output went from a robust 50,000 cars in December to just 125 in February. • On Dec. 27, 1941, the federal Office of Price Administration first begins to ration automobile tires. Only those who demonstrated need were allowed to purchase cars, metal typewriters, bicycles, stoves and rubber shoes. Butter, coffee, sugar, cooking fat, gasoline and non-rubber shoes also were rationed. • On Jan. 2, 1962, The Weavers, who sparked the folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s, are banned from appearing on NBC when they refuse to sign an oath of political loyalty. The group saw their careers nearly destroyed during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, and they lost their recording contract over their leftist politics. • On Dec. 28, 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “literary investigation” of the police-state system in the Soviet Union, “The Gulag Archipelago, 19181956”, is published in the original Russian in Paris. On Feb. 12, 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his citizenship and deported. • On Dec. 31, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a white man dubbed the “subway vigilante” after he shot four young black men on a New York City subway train, turns himself in at a police station. Goetz was viewed by some people as a hero, fighting back against his attackers. In 1987, a Manhattan jury acquitted Goetz of criminal assault and attempted murder. (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Chinese: The generic term “chinese” now represents types of food that are very different from the meals that are (or ever were) served in China. That said, the same argument could be made about what we consider “American” food. Hamburgers? Ice cream? Hot dogs? Pizza? Our national favorites seem to have originated everywhere except in the United States!

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Fairbanks, Alaska, hosted winter carnivals in the 1930s that included ice sculpting. In 1989, the winter fun was revived with the Annual World Ice Art Championships. Competitions for single block and multi-block carvings in abstract and realistic sculptures attract ice artists from the world over. The month-long events are run by Ice Alaska, Inc., which is a nonproﬁt organization. Recent years have hosted as many as 70 teams and 45,000 visitors. The 2011 events will be held from February 22 – March 27.

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