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• The guitar’s origins date back around 4,000 years. The oldest known image of an instrument with a guitar’s feature is 3,300 years old, a stone carving of a Hittite minstrel in Turkey. A Cairo, Egypt, archaeological museum is home to a 3,500-year-old guitar that belonged to an Egyptian singer named Har-Mose. His instrument was made of cedarwood with a rawhide soundboard and three strings

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• Ancient stringed instruments used tortoise shells or hollowed-out gourds, with a bent stick for a neck, and strings of animal gut or silk. • In the early days, a guitar was deďŹ ned as having “a long, fretted neck, at wooden soundboard, ribs, and a at back, most often with incurved sides.â€? • The word “guitarâ€? is derived from the Spanish word, guitarra, which is a very large six-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands. Other ancient terms from various languages include gitarre, qitara, cithara, kithara and sihtar. ‌turn the page for more

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• Famous Fender guitar players include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jimmy Page, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and John Mayer. Artists who have chosen Gibson have included Chet Atkins, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, and Joe Walsh.

• The neck of the guitar is comprised of the headstock (at the end of the neck), the fretboard (the fingerboard), the frets, which are metal strips embedded on the fretboard, the nut (a small strip of hard material at the junction of the headstock and neck), the tuners, and the truss rod, a metal rod along the inside of the neck.

• Frets are located along the neck at exact points that divide the scale into half-step intervals. Which fret the string is pressed against determines the note’s pitch.

• Decorative materials are usually set into the exterior of the guitar, such as dots on the fretboard to mark the positions or around the sound hole of acoustic guitars.

These are known as inlays and are frequently made of mother of pearl. Inlays around the sound hole are called rosettes and serve as a type of reinforcement to the opening.

• Acoustic guitars might be classical or flamenco versions. The classical guitar has a wide, flat neck to enable musicians to execute scales and arpeggios more efficiently. Strings are usually made of nylon.

• A standard guitar usually has six strings, typically tuned from a low E to a high E, with A, D, G, and B in between. The 12-string guitar, used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll, has six courses of two strings each, usually made of steel. The bass guitar has four strings, turned to E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the six-string.

• Les Paul came up with the idea of an electric guitar in the late 1930s. He wired a phonograph needle to his acoustic guitar and connected it to a ra-

• The Fender factor manufactures about 90,000 strings a day, equaling about 20,000 miles (32,187 km) in length, enough to circle the world.

dio speaker to amplify the sound. Unhappy with the hollow-body guitar, he designed a solid-body one from a cast-off railroad tie, an instrument with less feedback and a richer sound because of the wood’s mass. He nicknamed it “The Log,” and in 1940, the Epiphone guitar factory helped him produce a more attractive version with curved sides and an Epiphone fretboard. The Gibson Les Paul was first sold in 1952, and they have gone on to manufacture 100 different variations of Les Paul models.

• In 1946, a southern California inventor named Leo Fender founded a new guitar company (although he was a saxophonist, not a guitarist!). In 1951, the company introduced a new solid-body guitar that would become known as the Telecaster. (It was first called the Broadcaster, but this was a conflict with a drum kit with the same name.) They also unveiled a brand new instrument, the electric bass, allowing those who played the upright bass to play a more compact instrument, rather than the cumbersome upright. The Stratocaster came along in 1954, created from ash wood. In 1956, the wood was changed to alder, which continues to be used today.

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• In 2004, Eric Clapton sold his favorite guitar, a Stratocaster nicknamed Blackie at Christie’s Auction House in New York to raise funds for an alcohol and drug treatment center he had founded in 1997, the Crossroads Centre Antigua. The instrument fetched $959,500.

• In 1998, a devastating tornado struck Nashville, Tennessee, felling a giant 275-year-old poplar tree that stood on the grounds of the plantation of 7th U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage. The Gibson Company built 188 guitars out of the old tree, inlaid with the name “Old Hickory” (Jackson’s nickname) and pictures of the president and his home. The first Old Hickory was donated to the Smithsonian Institute, and proceeds from the sale of the remainder were donated to support restoration of The Hermitage.

• Some electric guitars have a lever attached to the bridge or tailpiece to enable the musician to quickly vary the tension and length of the strings to produce a vibrato or pitch bend effect. This accessory is referred to as a tremolo bar, or more commonly, a whammy bar.

• The C.F. Martin guitar company was established in 1833 and to this day, remains in the hands of the Martin family, with the great-great-great-grandson of the founder as its current CEO.

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• Did you know that jelly beans were the first candy to be sold by weight rather than by the piece? In 1905, the first recorded ad for the little beans was published in the Chicago Daily News, with a price of nine cents per pound. However, a Boston candy maker named William Schrafft was making them long before that, encouraging people to send his product to Union soldiers in the Civil War. It wasn’t until the 1930s that they became associated with the celebration of Easter.

• About 16 billion jelly beans are manufactured in the U.S. every year just for Easter.

Laid end to end, that’s enough to go around the world more than three times.

• The process of making jelly beans is called “panning,” a method that creates the firmer outer shell while preserving a gummy interior. It takes between one and three weeks to make a jelly bean.

• In 1869, 24-year-old German immigrant Gustav Goelitz and his brothers established a candy business in Belleville, Illinois, featuring caramels and candy flowers for cake decorating. His sons relocated the business to Ohio in 1898, and specialized in candy corn and buttercreams.

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• In 1976, the Goelitz beans, now called Jelly Belly, were offered in eight gourmet flavors – root beer, green apple, licorice, cream soda, lemon, tangerine, very cherry, and grape. By the 1980s, 40 flavors were available, including now-President Reagan’s favorite, blueberry, created expressly for him. More than 7,000 lbs. (3,175 kg) of red, white, and blue Jelly Belly beans were served at Reagan’s inaugural ball in 1981, and the President was reported to order 60 cases of the beans every month. He also gave jars of the beans to visiting dignitaries as a welcome gift.

• Visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential library in Simi Valley, California, and you can view a portrait of the former chief executive made from 10,000 Jelly Belly beans.

• The term “jelly bean” isn’t always about candy. In the 1920s, it referred to a young man who dressed stylishly for the ladies, but had nothing much else to offer.

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The story centers on Camille Preaker, played by Amy, who is a journalist in Chicago trying to make a better life for herself following years of self-harm that landed her in a psychiatric hospital. Camille returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to cover the murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. *** Q: I haven't heard mention of Gerard Depardieu in a while. Does he have anything in the pipeline? -- Sam T., Webster, N.Y. A: The accomplished French actor stars in Netflix's original drama series "Marseille," which is the network's first original French production. The eight-episode series -- available for streaming beginning May 5 -- follows the mayor of Marseille, Robert Taro (played

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We have a French naval officer who found a large flowering strawberry plant in Chile in 1714 to thank for the selective breeding process that has resulted in the flavorful strawberries we enjoy today. The Chilean strawberry plant was sent to a French horticultural center where, by chance, it was cross-pollinated with a North American species. The result was the development of the pineapple strawberry to which our modern, large-fruited strawberries can be traced.

The red color and heart shape of a strawberry are a good indication that the fruit is beneficial to your health. Eating strawberries helps to protect your heart, increases HDL cholesterol (the good kind), lowers blood pressure and guards against cancer.

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My recipe for strawberry salad showcases the strawberry in a fresh, delicious way that's perfect for a light, spring supper for four.

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Salad Dressing: Choosing Strawberries: Pick medium-sized berries that are firm, plump and deep-red in color; once picked, they don't ripen further. Flavor varies with variety and ripeness.

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The troopers look on in approval as an army of construction workers transform the center median from a bucolic, cherry blossom and grass-covered median into a Martianesque hellscape of paint-gouging gravel.

The weather has been nice all winter, and on this day -game day -- as drivers gather up the courage to engage in the Beyond Thunderdome-like experience that merging onto the interstate has become, all windows are down and the radios are on. It doesn't matter where you are on the radio dial because every station is playing the same tune: They're talking about the Villanova Wildcats.

At Cherry Hill Pizza, a full regiment of delivery drivers stand in wait. The orders are coming in and they expect a run at about 9 p.m., 20 minutes before the tipoff against North Carolina. A few weeks earlier, one of the drivers had an epiphany: "You guys ... Villanova is, like, the only good team in Philadelphia right now." Soon

Through it all, Villanova stood apart. Counted out virtually all season until they finally punched through and held the No. 1 ranking for a time, 'Nova reminded everyone of why they love the multi-tiered sports scene of the town. Philadelphia basketball is an institution, and no institution has garnered more love over the years than Villanova. In 1985, Villanova played the "perfect game" in beating Georgetown for the title; this year Villanova had the second-best shooting performance in Final Four history, second only to that '85 squad, and their average margin of victory in the tournament was surpassed only by the 1996 Kentucky team.

Still, people weren't sure that Jay Wright, in his 15th season as head coach, had what it would take to beat North Carolina. None of the people at The Kibbitz Room over on Springdale could imagine that the next morning, over nova lox and bagels, they would be passing newspapers and recounting what was surely the best basketball game they had ever witnessed. "Kris Jenkins" and "Archie Diacono" (Ryan Arcidiacono, the tournament's outstanding player) schmeared right in with "Curry" and "Laettner" in conversation.

Yet, there they were, local rush-hour traffic be damned.

'Nova over nova, highlights over pizza, and Jenkins over North Carolina. Suddenly, everything was sunny in the Philadelphia suburbs. Villanova delivered.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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