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• Dictionary Day is October 16, the birthday of Noah Webster. Webster, a 1778 graduate of Yale, began writing America’s first dictionary at age 43, wrapping up the job of 70,000 entries at age 70. He was responsible for changing some of the old English spellings, such as “colour” to “color” and “musick” to “music.”

• The National Mole Day Foundation urges you to celebrate National Mole Day on October 23.

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www.Tidbitscv.com OCTOBER OCCASIONS (continued): • October is a big month for monuments. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on an October day in 1886. The statue, officially called the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, had been received from France the previous June in 350 separate parts and was assembled over the next four months. In October 1941, South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore was completed after 14 years of work by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers. Unfortunately, Borglum didn’t get to see his 60-foot (18-m) carvings completed, as he died just months before the monument was done. Construction was completed on the St. Louis Arch in October 1965, following 32 months of work. Officially known as the Gateway Arch or Gateway to the West, it is the tallest man-made monument in the United States, towering 630 feet (192 m) over the city of St. Louis. When the structure was completed, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an order that any aviators who flew under the arch would receive a hefty fine and have their pilot’s license revoked. At least 10 pilots have disobeyed the edict. Only once have fliers been permitted — during the July 4th festivities of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976.

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As temperatures cool down and Jack Frost makes an appearance, homeowners start looking for efficient ways to heat their homes.

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Yet we can’t abandon space heaters entirely — they provide decent supplemental heat to individual rooms, and in some parts of the U.S. are the only source of heat during cold snaps.

So, careful selection and the observance of safety rules is the best solution to the dilemma of whether or not to use a space heater.

If you’re using an older model, check it thoroughly for problems — a frayed cord, damaged heating elements, dented or rusted casing and so on. DamSunday aged space heaters should be replaced as soon as pos4PM - 12 Midnightsible.

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As reported in a recent study, within the first 30 days home, 25 percent of veterans had gone through stop signs, 49 percent were anxious when approached quickly by another vehicle, 31 percent experienced anxiety when there was something by the side of the road and 20 percent were anxious when the situation was normal.

Here are some questions to ask yourself: Have you scared anybody with your driving or been told you drive dangerously? If you’re driving in the middle of the road to avoid the edges, weaving in traffic or making sudden changes, going through stop signs or not yielding to other drivers, or driving over the speed limit, then your driving hasn’t calmed down yet. How about risky stuff like not

using a seatbelt, or driving after drinking, or owning a fast car?

And let’s be frank: There could be an adrenaline component there too. It could take up to 12 months before driving behaviors return to normal. In the meantime, you don’t want to put yourself and others at risk.

You’re home now.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a program called the Safe Driving Initiative, designed to help returning veterans understand why their driving behavior is different and to give tips about how to calm down while driving.

Look at www.safedriving. va.gov. Check Richard Petty’s video.

Take a look at a brochure called, “Shifting Gears: Soldiers Returning to Driving on the Homefront” for veterans and families. Go online to www.armymedicine.army.mil/prr/post_ combat.html Welcome home. Now stay safe.

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It makes such a difference in reaching your goal when people encourage and cheer for you along the way. It’s as important as training, water and food.” Sure enough, seeing the familiar faces of her daughter and sister’s family would be the initial cheers of many she’d receive on her way to crossing the finish line.

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She’s always up to motivating the teachers and staff,” he said. Sure enough, to prove his point, he pulled out of his briefcase an eyecatching cellophane bag he found on his desk after a very busy week of work.

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• October 25 is set aside as St. Crispin’s Day as a tribute to Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers. According to legend, Crispin, who lived in Rome during the third century, preached during the day and produced shoes at night. Tradition states that he was beheaded for teaching the gospel.

• On her 63rd birthday in October of 1901, retired schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor and her cat climbed into an oak pickle barrel padded with a mattress and plunged over Niagara Falls. She was the first person to survive the ride. The barrel, held together with seven iron hoops, also contained an anvil for maintaining balance. With the goal of financial security, Taylor aimed to capitalize on her adventure.

After collecting meager earnings promoting her feat, she died penniless at age 83. Although she only received a minor concussion and a small cut on her head, she said, “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat. I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces, than make another trip over the Falls.”

• In October of 1908, the Chicago Cubs —28— defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. And that’s the last time they’ve won it to date; the team has gone 102 years without a championship, the longest of any major North American professional sports team.

• That famous silent film “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in October of 1921. Unfortunately, the Italian “Latin Lover,” born Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla, died just 10 years later at age 31 of peritonitis. And speaking of name changes, Rudolph’s wife Natacha Rambova changed hers slightly as well; she was born Winifred Hudnut!

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• In 1962, before London Bridge really could fall down, the city of London made plans to replace the 1831 structure, which could no longer support its heavy traffic load. As early as 1924, the east side of the bridge’s foundation was sinking under the weight. In 1968, London sold the bridge to a U.S. oil executive for $2.4 million and thus began the process of dismantling the edifice, carefully numbering each piece to help with reassembly. In October of 1971, the bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and is now the state’s secondbiggest tourist attraction, with only the Grand Canyon drawing more visitors.

• The “Crash of ‘29” came on October 29, 1929, when the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed after several days of panic. On “Black Tuesday,” the Dow lost 23 percent of its value, wiping out billions of dollars of wealth in one day. It was the financial ruin of banks, businesses and individuals, which, with soaring unemployment rates, ushered in the 12 years of the Great Depression.

• The famous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, in October 1881 lasted only 30 seconds, with 30 shots fired and three men killed. The Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday were up against the Clanton-McLaury gang, a group of cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. Two McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton were killed, while Holliday and two of the Earps were wounded. The shootout didn’t really take place in the Corral, but rather in a wide alley six doors east of the Corral’s rear entrance.

• The Grand Ole Opry got its start in Nashville in October of 1925 as a one-hour radio broadcast.

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• By age 20, Charles Krauthammer already had an honors degree in political science and economics in hand and was furthering his education as a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford. It was then on to Harvard to attend medical school.

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• At age 22, as a freshman in pre-med, Krauthammer broke his neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed. A hospital visit from Harvard’s associate dean of students helped direct the rest of Krauthammer’s life.

Although confined to a wheelchair, he was determined to stay in class. The dean arranged for his professors to give bedside lectures, using the ceiling as a screen for the slide presentations.

• Krauthammer underwent a year of rehab in a Harvard teaching hospital to enable him to continue his studies. Because he did not relearn the skill of handwriting for another three years, he was allowed to take his tests orally. He earned his M.D. in 1975 and began a career as chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. During his tenure there, he and a colleague discovered a mental illness related to bipolar disease, resulting in highly acclaimed medical journal writings.

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The 1980 presidential campaign brought the opportunity to serve as a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale during his run for the executive office.

• Krauthammer’s journalism career further expanded when he began writing essays for Time magazine in 1983. He nabbed 1984’s “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” The following year, The Washington Post began featuring a weekly column by Krauthammer, which led to the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He was responsible for coining the term “The Reagan Doctrine,” referring to the strategy implemented by the Reagan Administration to oppose the Soviet Union’s global attempts to promote communism.

• Financial Times magazine has declared Krauthammer “the most influential commentator in America.” Considered an expert in the area of foreign policy, bioethics and electoral politics, Krauthammer is a panelist on the PBS weekly news program “Inside Washington” and does a nightly stint as a political commentator on Fox News. During his broadcasts, you might see him twist and turn in his wheelchair as he seeks to relieve some of the pain he experiences on a daily basis.

• Krauthammer is president of the charitable organization The Krauthammer Foundation and also serves as chairman of Pro Musica Hebraica, an organization devoted to recovering and bringing lost or neglected Jewish music to concert halls.

• At the time of his accident, Charles Krauthammer pushed himself beyond measure in order to “keep disaster from turning into ruin.” It’s apparent that he triumphs over his disability every single day.

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She gave him the middle name of Winston, in honor of Prime Minister Churchill. John Lennon’s Aunt Mimi gifted him with a guitar when he was 16, telling him, “The guitar’s all very well as a hobby, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.” Before long, Lennon had formed his first band, The Quarrymen.

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OCTOBER CELEBRITIES (continued): • The family of comedian, writer and actor Chevy Chase has been around New York a long time. Born Cornelius Crane Chase in October of 1943, Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker, tracing his Manhattan ancestors back to 1624; two former NYC mayors are among them. Although he was listed in the Social Register at a young age, that didn’t keep him from working odd jobs such as cab driver, busboy, supermarket produce manager, wine store manager and theater usher. Many members of Chase’s family have been involved in the arts, including his book editor/writer father, concert pianist mother, opera singer grandmother, artist grandfather and painter great-uncle. As valedictorian of his high school class, he had ambitions of becoming a doctor. But his comedic nature won out, even resulting in expulsion from Haverford College for bringing a cow into a campus building.

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The Ebb and Flow of Jimmie Johnson CONCORD, N.C. — Think the Chase for the Sprint Cup varies week to week? Consider the extreme example of the driver who has won the past five championships.

Jimmie Johnson offers evidence of how the NASCAR title format punishes mistakes more than it rewards successes.

Finishes of 10th and 18th in the Chase’s first two races left Johnson 29 points behind Tony Stewart, who won them both. Then Johnson finished second at Dover and first at Kansas, pulling to within four points

Jimmie Johnson’s quest for a sixth straight Cup title took a hit after a wreck at Charlotte Motor Speedway dropped him to eighth in the standings with five races left. (John Clark/ NASCAR This Week photo) of the lead, now occupied by Carl Edwards.

Johnson crashed at Charlotte in the Bank of America 500, resulting in a placing of 34th. As a result, he is now eighth, 35 points behind Edwards. The point system changed this year, and each point has a greater value.

Comparing point totals of 2010 with those of the current year, the gap between Edwards and Johnson, 35 points, is the equivalent of

about 90 under the previous format.

Five races remain. Johnson’s bid for a sixth straight title is in jeopardy, but he is far from conceding.

“We just have to go racing,” he said. “That’s all there is to it. There are five races left, and right now all we have are those five races.

“Definitely not the night we wanted. This is not going to help us win a sixth

championship. I promise you, this team and myself, we won’t quit. We will go for every point we can from here on out, and hopefully we are still champions at the end of the year.”

The volatility is obvious in everyone’s results except Edwards, who has finished eighth or better in each Chase race (ninth or better in his last eight, dating back to the regular season), and Kevin Harvick, who has finished 12th or better in the Chase events. At the top, they are five points apart.

The last four positions in the Chase standings are occupied by drivers in considerably worse situations than Johnson. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is 60 points out of the lead, followed by Ryan Newman (-61), Jeff Gordon (-66) and Denny Hamlin (-86). *** Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at nascarthisweek@ yahoo.com. © 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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