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• Those who remember Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” might not know that it is the tale of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. On November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter was en route from Silver Bay, Minnesota, to a steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan, following her regular route. Seventeen miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan, she encountered a winter storm with winds exceeding 58 miles per hour (93 km/hour) and waves of about 35 feet (11 m) high. Although the Coast Guard’s rescue efforts recovered lifeboats and rafts, none of the 29 crew members survived the wreck. Nearly seven months later, the freighter was photographed under water for the first time, 530 feet (160 m) below the surface of the lake. The ship’s bell was recovered in 1995 and now resides in a museum near Whitefish Point. It’s estimated that more than 25,000 lives have been lost on the Great Lakes in its 300 years of shipping history. The Whitefish Point area alone has claimed at least 240 ships.

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• “Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road” are lyrics from a well-known Scottish tune published around 1841. The singer and his true love will never meet again on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, the largest lake in Great Britain, which contains more than 30 islands. The “low road” refers to the Celtic belief that a person dying away from his homeland would be provided a route home by fairies. • The state of Minnesota may be known as “The Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but that figure isn’t the real number. According to the state’s Department of Natural Resources, the actual count is 11,842 lakes measuring at or larger than ten acres each. There are only four counties that don’t have at least one natural lake. The state’s shoreline from lakes and rivers is more than that of California, Florida and Hawaii combined. • Switzerland’s Lake Geneva was the inspiration for the British rock band Deep Purple’s megahit “Smoke on the Water” in 1972. The band was set to record “Machine Head” in a Montreux, Switzerland, casino in December of 1971 on the morning after a Frank Zappa concert there. During Zappa’s performance, a spectator fired a flare gun at the ceiling and started a fire that completely destroyed the casino. Deep Purple members watched the smoke spreading over the Lake from their hotel window. The song, No. 426 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” has opening lyrics of “We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline.” The line “Swiss time was running out” referred to the fact that their visas were due to expire shortly. A portion of Lake Geneva lies in France, where it is called Lake Léman.

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Agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater by far: about 70% of all freshwater withdrawals go to irrigated agriculture.

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• On Jan. 9, 1768, Englishman Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. Astley, a former cavalry sergeant major, found that if he galloped in a tight circle, centrifugal force allowed him to perform seemingly impossible feats on a horse’s back. He invited the public to see him wave his sword in the air while he rode with one foot on the saddle and one on the horse’s head. • On Jan. 6, 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, N.J. The telegraph eventually would revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s. • On Jan. 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers started excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages. The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937. At 3,000 feet, it was the longest bridge span in the world at the time. • On Jan. 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, formerly known as the Savoy Big Five, travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play its first game, in Hinckley, Ill. The Globetrotters won 101 out of 117 games that first season. • On Jan. 8, 1946, Elvis Presley receives a $6.95 guitar from the Tupelo Hardware Co. store for his 11th birthday. It’s said that what Elvis really wanted for his birthday that year was a rifle or a bicycle. • On Jan. 4, 1974, President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. Marking the beginning of the end of his presidency, Nixon would resign from office in disgrace eight months later. • On Jan. 3, 1990, Panama’s General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking. In 1992, the former dictator was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

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This week, Tidbits expresses admiration for a true sports hero, Phillipe Croizon, who recently made a historic swim across the English Channel. Follow along and see what made this crossing especially amazing. • Phillipe Croizon’s day started out as any other back in 1994. The 26-year-old Frenchman had a good job as a steelworker at a nearby foundry, was married with a son and had another baby on the way. This was the day he chose to work on the outside television antenna at his home in SaintRémy-sur-Creuse, France. As Croizon stood on a metal ladder on the roof, the antenna touched a high-voltage power line, sending 20,000 volts of electricity through the young man’s body. As the electricity grounded, he became adhered to the ladder, and he remained in that state for 20 minutes before his neighbor contacted help. His injuries were so severe, they necessitated the amputation of both arms and both legs. • As Croizon lay recuperating in his hospital bed in Tours, France, he happened to watch a television documentary about swimming the English Channel, and was so inspired, he made the decision that this would be something he would accomplish during his lifetime. • The English Channel is, at its narrowest, a 22mile (34-km) body of water separating England and France, and crossing it is no small feat for any swimmer, let alone a quadruple amputee. Swimming the Channel first became a popular achievement in 1875, when Captain Matthew Webb completed the first documented unassisted swim across the Strait of Dover in 21 hours and 45 minutes.

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• In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the channel, with a time of 14 hours and 39 minutes, defeating the time of two of the five men who had successfully completed the distance in previous years. The current world record was set in 2007 by Bulgarian Petar Stoychev, the first to break the seven-hour mark, with a time of 6 hours, 57 minutes, 50 seconds. • At 8 a.m. on September 19, 2010, 42-year-old Croizon pushed off from the English coastline near Folkestone. He had been training about 35 hours per week for the previous two years off France’s Atlantic coast. He was equipped with specially designed prostheses fitted with flippers that fixed onto the stumps of his legs that he used to propel himself, and a snorkel for breathing. According to his calculations, he was prepared for his crossing to take up to 24 hours. • As Croizon paddled along, he was joined by three dolphins that swam with him for a time, something he interpreted as a good luck charm. At approximately 9:30 that evening, he touched the bank at Wissant, France, just 13 and a half hours after leaving England. A quadruple amputee had beaten Gertrude Ederle’s time! A portion of his victory speech stated, “I’ve done this for myself, for my family, and for all those who have suffered tragedy and lost their taste for life.” • Croizon has documented his experiences in a recent autobiography “J’ai Decide de Vivre (I Decided to Live).” His record-making swim wasn’t the first time he’s been in the news. In 2007, this remarkable man achieved recognition for parachuting from an airplane.

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• It was American author, social critic, economist and political commentator Thomas Sowell who made the following sage observation: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” • Visiting the longest chain of mountains on Earth requires some rather special arrangements -- aquatic ones, to be precise. The 10,000-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge, as its name indicates, is located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The only parts of the chain above water are a few volcanic islands, including Iceland and the Azores. • Those who live in Florida probably won’t be surprised to learn that they live in the state with the most instances of lightning every year. • If you travel to Alaska, you can go to the North Pole -- the town of North Pole, that is. It’s not the real deal, though. The town is actually 1,700 miles south of Earth’s geographic North Pole. • Famed American composer Philip Glass was a member of both the cab driver’s union and the steelworkers’ union before he became enough of a success in his chosen field to become a member of the musicians’ union. • In 2000, psychiatrists at Italy’s University of Pisa published their finding that being in love is biochemically indistinguishable from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. • If you’re like 24 percent of the Americans who responded to a recent survey, you believe that people should be allowed to be naked in their own back yards. ¥ What do the lawn sprinkler, rubber shoe heels, portable ironing boards and tire treads have in common? They were all invented by the same man, Elijah McCoy, an AfricanCanadian inventor and engineer. *** Thought for the Day: “Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” -W. Somerset Maugham (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

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IN YOUR DREAMS “Dream a little dream of me” goes the old song. This week, Tidbits delves into the world of dreams — what we know and what we don’t know! • You’ll spend about six years dreaming over the course of your life (about two hours a night). Although some dreams seem to go on and on all night, they typically last only five to 20 minutes. • What is the purpose of dreams? A physician might say that they are a response to the body’s neural processes that take place during sleep. A psychologist might see them as a reflection of what goes on in the subconscious. (Freud felt that bad dreams were the brain’s way of controlling the emotions from life’s disturbing experiences.) A spiritual person might see dreams as a message from the gods or from a deceased loved one. Some oneirologists (scientists who study dreams) think that dreams are a way of securing experiences in our longterm memory. •

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is that stage of sleep when the large muscles of the body become immobile, heart and breathing rates become faster, and brain activity increases. Characterized by the rapid movement of the eyes, it is at this stage when people dream. REM sleep is usually about 25 percent of an adult’s total sleep, about two hours a night, but it is divided into four or five periods. It usually begins about 90 minutes after falling asleep. Although people do dream during non-REM sleep, the most bizarre and vividly recalled dreams are during REM.

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