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• When air travel became cheap, business dropped off and the resort entered a period of depression. The slump lifted in 1976 when gambling was legalized, and the first casino opened in 1978. By 1990 the city was hosting 30 million visitors a year, and the boardwalk is now six miles long and 60 feet wide. What’s the name of the city? Answer: Atlantic City.

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• At the southwest end of Long Island, New York, there was a wonderful sandy beach. It was five miles long and it ran from east to west. There were many rabbits living in the area, so the place was named after the Dutch word for rabbit, “konijn.” Because it was such a lovely beach and so close to New York City, it became a popular destination in the 1800s. A hotel was built in 1829 which attracted many famous people. People built concession stands to serve people walking on the beach, bath houses were constructed, and games and amusements were next, followed by souvenir stands, beer gardens, and arcades. By the end of the Civil War, it was becoming a major resort. • In 1875 the railroad arrived, bringing a million visitors to the beach that year alone. Two million came the next year. Restaurants were built that could feed 15,000 people at a time and hotels there could put up 20,000 tourists nightly. In the 1920s the subway was extended. Visitors could ride out to the beach for a nickel, buy a hot dog for a nickel, take a spin on the rides for a nickel, and play the games for a nickel. By the 1930s it wasn’t unusual to find a million people enjoying a day off here. And today they still flock there. It is not an amusement park as much as it’s a collection of amusements. What’s it called? Answer: Coney Island.

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A NEW BERRY • Rudolf was the superintendent of parks in Anaheim, California and in his spare time he experimented with hybridizing three kinds of berries: red raspberry, blackberry, and loganberry. The plants didn’t do well in the farm fields behind his house, so he gave up and eventually sold the farm and left the plants behind. • A few miles away in Buena Park, Walter was growing berries with phenomenal success and selling them at his roadside berry stand. In 1932 George Darrow of the USDA heard reports of Rudolf’s experiments and contacted Walter. Together they visited Rudolf and went out to his old farm. There they found a few frail hybrid berry plants struggling to survive in a weed-choked field. Walter dug them up, took them home, and nursed them back to health, naming them after Rudolf. The berries thrived, and he named the new hybrid after Rudolf’s last name. By 1935 he was selling them at his berry stand and his wife Cordelia used them to make jams and preserves.

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• Business boomed. Cordelia worried that the people standing in line might be hungry, so she opened a restaurant featuring berry pie. Walter worried the people waiting in line might get bored, so he started adding amusements and attractions, and it just kept growing. It was California’s very first amusement park. They named the attraction after their last name. • Today, their combination berry patch and amusement park is one of southern California’s hottest attractions, with 4 million visitors each year. What is it called? Bonus points for knowing both the name of the berry that launched the enterprise and the name of the amusement park it spawned. Answers: Boysenberry, named for Rudolf Boysen, and Knott’s Berry Farm for Walter & Cornelia Knott.

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• Yellow fever is spread by the bite of a mosquito. In places where mosquitoes die off in the winter, the disease is not nearly as prevalent as places in the tropics where they live year-round. It’s called yellow fever because it attacks the liver, causing jaundice, which turns the skin yellow. • When slaves in Haiti rebelled against the French plantation owners in 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte could not win back the island because so many of his troops died of yellow ever. The following year France sold the Louisiana Purchase to the U.S. because their colonists in New Orleans kept dying of yellow ever. The French plan to dig the Panama Canal was abandoned in 1893 after 22,000 workers died of yellow fever. • After 5,000 citizens in Philadelphia died of yellow fever in 1793, a medical student named Stubbin Firth did everything he could to try to catch yellow fever, but never came down with it, proving the illness is not contagious.

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• Eighty years later, Carlos Finlay, a Cuban doctor, noted that yellow fever was common near bodies of water buy seldom found inland, and that nurses tending the sick didn’t seem to catch it. He theorized it was carried by mosquitoes, but was never able to prove it. • When Dr. Walter Reed joined Finlay in Cuba, he set up a series of experiments that did indeed show that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquito. After recommending that eliminating mosquitoes would help eliminate yellow fever, construction of the Panama Canal was resumed, with no further deaths from yellow fever. • It was Max Theiler, a South African researcher working in New York, who discovered a vaccine for yellow fever. He won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1951. ...continued

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