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• Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, was adopted by two university professors, Ernest and Dorothy Hamilton. At the age of two, he fell ill with a mysterious malady that caused him to stop growing. After several incorrect diagnoses, it was discovered that his body was unable to absorb nutrients. When Hamilton was nine, the condition disappeared as quickly as it had come, and he began to grow again, reaching a final height of 5 feet, 4 inches. His parents adopted another son after Scott. After Haiti’s massive earthquake in 2010, Hamilton’s wife was moved to help out the country’s residents. A visit to Haitian orphanage resulted in the Hamilton family adopting two orphans, an 11-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother, who joined their family of two other biological children at their Nashville home.

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• Another Olympic champion, swimmer Greg Louganis, was adopted after being in the foster care system for the first nine months of his life. He was enrolled in acrobatics and gymnastics classes at the tender age of 18 months, and later in childhood took up trampolining. At age 9, he began diving lessons, which led to his first Olympic medal at 16. Four more medals followed. At age 24, Louganis met his biological father, who’d been a teenager at the time of his son’s birth. His father had been aware of Louganis’ identity, but honored his privacy and did not seek him out until 1984. Louganis didn’t know the identity of his mother until he was 57 years old. ...continued

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• The 2009 Oscar-winning film The Blind Side chronicled the life of Michael Oher, one of 12 children born to a crack cocaine addict mother and a frequently-imprisoned father. Oher was placed in foster care at age 7, and attended 11 different schools during his first 9 years of education. Although he was in various foster homes, he also experienced several periods of homelessness. After meeting Collins Tuohy as a 15-year-old in the hallway of Briarcrest High School High School in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2004, Oher was adopted by the Tuohy family, who own and operate 93 fast food restaurants. He went on to earn a scholarship to Ole Miss, and was drafted by NFL’s Baltimore Ravens in 2009. He’s had eight seasons with the NFL and has played in two Super Bowls. • Melissa Gilbert first gained fame in her role as Laura Ingalls Wilder in NBC’s television series Little House on the Prairie, beating out 500 other child actresses for the part in the series, which aired from 1974 to 1984. In 1964, Melissa was adopted when she was just one day old by actor/comedian Paul Gilbert and his dancer/actress wife Barbara Crane. The couple later adopted a son, Jonathan, who also starred on Little House as Willie Oleson. Melissa received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985, the youngest person ever to receive a star on the famous walk.

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• On Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In just 272 words, Lincoln reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War. • On Nov. 21, 1877, Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound. He used a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder to play back a song he had recorded, "Mary Had a Little Lamb." • On Nov. 24, 1932, the FBI crime lab officially opens in Washington, D.C. The single room lab, chosen because it had a sink, had scant equipment and was used primarily as a public relations tool. • On Nov. 20, 1967, San Jose State College students demonstrate against Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm. Napalm was an acronym derived from naphthetic and palmic acids, whose salts were used to make the jellied gasoline -napalm -- used in flame-throwers and bombs. • On Nov. 23, 1972, secret peace talks resume in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese representative. The talks deadlocked weeks later, leading President Richard Nixon to order the massive "Christmas bombing" campaign to break the impasse. • On Nov. 25, 1986, Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals that proceeds from arms sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. President Ronald Reagan accepted the resignation of his national security adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter, and fired Lt. Col. Oliver North, a Poindexter aide. • On Nov. 22, 2002, the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," starring Pierce Brosnan as the fictional British secret-service agent 007, opens in theaters. Its debut came almost exactly 40 years after the first Bond movie, "Dr. No," was released. © 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• Dave Thomas opened his first Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969, naming the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter. When he died, there were more than 6,000 Wendy’s across North America. He founded The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992, dedicated to finding permanent homes for children in the foster care system. • You might not recognize the name Norma Jeane Mortenson, but you’ll surely know her stage name, Marilyn Monroe. Although born with the surname Mortenson, she was baptized Norma Jeane Baker. Her early life was a series of heartbreaking events. Because Norma’s mother was unable to care for her financially, she placed her 12-day-old baby with a foster family, paying them $5 a week to care for her. Although her mother visited her regularly, Norma had no idea the woman was her mother. When Norma was seven, her mother regained custody for two years, but was then hospitalized for mental illness. Her mother’s best friend, Grace McKee, was named legal guardian, but Grace placed Norma in an orphanage because of her own financial difficulties. After two years in the orphanage, Grace rescued Norma, but sent her to live with her own maiden aunt. When the elderly aunt could no longer support Norma, to avoid a return to the orphanage, Grace decided on a convenient solution – Norma’s marriage to a 21-year-old local boy, Jim Dougherty. The pair were married less than three weeks after Norma’s 16th birthday. Adopted as an infant after her birth in Mississippi, singer Faith Hill was raised near Jackson, where her adoptive father worked in a factory. She had her first band at age 16, and moved to Nashville after high school. One of her first jobs in Nashville was packaging fan merchandise for her idol, Reba McEntire. She met her birth mother when she was 26 years old, and Hill has chosen not to divulge her identity.

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• It was a Kentucky chemist who really got the ball rolling. In 1922, Joseph Rosefield invented a means of making peanut butter that kept the oil from separating. His peanut butter could stay fresh for up to a year. In 1928, he licensed his invention to the company that had created Peter Pan peanut butter. Just a year earlier, Peter Pan had been known as Derby & Pond, but when a theatrical production of “Peter Pan” was running on Broadway and becoming quite popular, the company’s founder made a quick name change. Four years later, the company decided to cut Rosefield’s licensing fee, resulting in Rosefield ending the partnership and starting up his own brand that he dubbed Skippy. Sales of Skippy boomed and overtook Peter Pan as the nation’s top-selling peanut butter. In 1935, Skippy introduced a wide-mouth cylindrical jar. In 1955, Rosefield sold his company to Best Foods for $6 million. Over the years, Skippy has used Dennis the Menace, actress Annette Funicello, and Olympic speed skater Bonnie Blair in their advertising.

• In 1958, Procter & Gamble got serious about peanut butter with a new formula. Their product used oils other than peanut oil in the hydrogenation process and added sugar and molasses. They called their new product Jif. Other manufacturers protested the additions, which led to an FDA proposal that a minimum of 95% peanuts were required in order to be called peanut butter. Manufacturers asked for 87%, and finally the standard was set at 90%. • Jif rolled out their product with a house-to-house distribution of free sample jars from special trucks adorned with their mascot, the “Jifaroo,” a blue kangaroo. Their slogan was “Jif is never dry, a touch of honey tells you why.” Jif’s catchy advertising slogan of “Choosy mothers choose Jif,” which debuted in 1966, led to boosting the brand from third place in sales to first place. It remains the nation’s bestselling peanut butter. The J.M. Smucker Company purchased Jif from Procter & Gamble in 2001. • Jif’s peanut butter factory in Lexington, Kentucky, is the world’s largest, producing 250,000 jars every single day. • The average person consumes about 3 lbs. of peanut butter every year. About 90% of homes have a jar in the cupboard. • It takes about 540 peanuts to produce a 12-oz. jar of peanut butter.

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Celebrate Mickey Mouse’s birthday on November 18 by taking note of these facts about one of everyone’s favorite characters. • November 18 is considered Mickey Mouse’s birthday because his first animated film, Steamboat Willie, premiered on that day in 1928. It wasn’t the mouse’s first animated film – two other shorts had been produced earlier that year, but neither “Plane Crazy” nor “The Gallopin’ Gaucho” impressed any distributors and were not released. • Steamboat Willie was the first animated film to feature music and sound effects, and it was an immediate hit. • Mickey Mouse came about as the result of failed negotiations between Walt Disney and Universal Studios. In 1927, Walt had created a character name Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a big hit with the studio, who ordered a series of short films with the character. When it came time to negotiate a new contract, the studio informed Disney that they owned all of the rights to Oswald, and would allow Disney to stay on if he took a lower salary. Disney declined and struck out on his own with one loyal Universal animator who chose to stay with him. Disney and the animator, Ub Iwerks, came up with the mouse character and dubbed him Mortimer. However, Walt’s wife, who detested the name Mortimer, suggested Mickey, and the popular creature was born. • Although Steamboat Willie had sound, Mickey didn’t speak his first words until 1929’s The Karnival Kid, voiced by Walt Disney himself. The first spoken words were, “Hot dogs, hot dogs!” Disney was Mickey’s voice in cartoons through 1946, then again from 1955 to 1959 for The Mickey Mouse Club television series. • Mickey’s signature white gloves, covering his three fingers and a thumb, were added in late 1929 after viewers complained that they couldn’t see what his black hands were doing in the black-and-white films.

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