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• In 1902, a French newspaper, “L’Auto,” was seeking to boost circulation and conceived the idea of a bicycle race as a marketing scheme. Sixty cyclists entered the race, with just 21 finishing the course. The length of the inau gural race was 1,508 miles. The first winner was Frenchman Maurice Garin, who completed the race in 94 hours, 33 minutes. Garin was declared the winner in 1904 as well, until it was discovered he had ridden the train for part of the race! He was also accused of hav ing his teammates knock other competitors off their bikes and place tacks on the road to cause punctures. The title was then awarded to 19-year-old Henri Cornet, who remains the youngest cyclist to win the Tour de France.
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• The route and its total distance change every year. The current length is about 2,200 miles compared to the original 1,508 miles. Kathy Wolfe
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• Although riders are given two “rest days” during the 23 days, they are seldom “resting.” They aren’t racing, but they are taking slower, shorter recovery rides to stretch out their legs, and scope out the next day’s stage. They also meet with journalists or have duties to perform for their sponsors. It’s usually a day to sleep in a little, grab a massage, and refuel with food.
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• Food is a vital part of the grueling race. A racer burns an average of 7,000 calories per day, and will need to consume nearly 124,000 calories to complete the three-week competition. How much is that? It’s the equivalent of 872 slices of cheese pizza, or 252 McDonald’s double cheeseburgers, or 619 Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts.
• The race encompasses 21 stages over 23 days. The mountainous stages require riders to climb 11,000 feet. Even a stage described as “flat” will demand a climb in elevation of over 4,000 feet. The riders’ times for each stage are compounded with previous stages, and the rider with lowest cumulative finishing times becomes the leader. Since 1919, the race leader after each stage wears the yellow jersey. The rider under age 26 with the lowest cumulative times wears a white jersey.
• The longest race was in 1926, with a distance of 3,570 miles. The cyclists always pass through the Pyrenees and the Alps, and always cross the finish line on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Until 1926, the starting line was in Paris (that year, the riders were taken by train to the start in Evian.) Since then, the beginning has been in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Monaco, and Denmark, among others, in addition to France. This year, the race will com mence in Copenhagen, Denmark. The route will wind through Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and France, and will include six mountain ranges.
What is the translation of “maillot jaune” at the Tour de TranslateFrance?the Tour’s nickname “La Grande Boucle.”
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• From the initial 60 starting riders in 1903, the number has grown to between 20 and 22 teams, with eight or nine riders in each.
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• For seven years, from 1999 to 2005, Texas-born Lance Armstrong won seven Tour de France titles. His first win came at age 27, two-and-ahalf years after being diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer, which had spread to his lymph nodes, lungs, brain, and abdomen, giving him a 20% chance of survival. Before his cancer treat ment, Armstrong had ridden in four previous Tours, winning two stages. Following his seventh win in 2005, he retired from racing. It wasn’t un til 2012 that a United States Anti-Doping Agency investigation determined that Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs during much of his career. He was stripped of all of his Tour de France titles and received a lifetime ban from all sports. He also lost $75 million of endorsements. The cy cling union decided that his wins would not be allocated to other riders. After years of denying doping allegations, in January, 2013, Armstrong made a “limited confession” during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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• Four cyclists have won the tour five times – Bel gium’s Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil and Ber nard Hinault of France, and Spain’s Miguel Ind urain. Indurain is the only man to have won five consecutive Tours. Merckx holds the record for the highest number of days wearing the yellow jersey, a total of 96 days.
• The average Tour cyclist makes 486,000 pedal strokes during the race, about 90 revolutions per minute.
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• Hard to believe, but Tour de France riders in the 1920s shared cigarettes while riding! It was a common conception at the time that smoking helped open up the lungs as the riders approached the tough climbs. Bikers also consumed alcohol along the route to ease body aches and pains. That was banned in 1960, as by then it was considered to be a stimulant.
• There have been some fatalities in the race’s histo ry, with the first in 1910. That rider, Adolphe He liere, wasn’t killed in a biking accident, though. He drowned on one of the rest days. The first rider to die while racing was Spaniard Francisco Cepeda, who, in 1935, lost control of his bike while de scending a steep mountain pass in the Alps, crash ing into a ravine. In 1995, an Italian rider crashed into a concrete pylon in a high-speed descent in the Pyrenees. A British cyclist collapsed during a climb in the 1967 Tour, and was found to have a mixture of amphetamines and alcohol in his sys tem, as well as being severely dehydrated. It was reported that he drank a bottle of brandy to down the various pills he had ingested. Twenty specta tors were killed in 1964 when a tanker truck lost control coming around a curve too quickly, crash ing into the crowd, then over a bridge and into a
• Because the Tour’s record books are blank after vacating Lance Armstrong’s victories, there re mains only one American who has won the Tour. Greg LeMond was the champion in 1986, 1989, and 1990. American George Hincapie holds the record for the most consecutive finishes. Hincapie has completed the race 16 times, a distance of more than 32,000 miles.
Myth #5: As long as my area has a mosquito control program, I don’t have to worry about using repellent.
• Relatively few children have been reported with severe West Nile Virus disease. By contrast, most of the deaths due to WNV were among people over 50 years old.
• Grand Forks currently has a very low population of nui sance mosquitoes. This gives a false impression about the risk of WNV. Even though there are very few mosquitoes in our community, the risk of WNV is still present. Please take the necessary precautions to avoid mosquito bites.
Truth: People over 60 are at the highest risk for devel oping severe West Nile disease.
Myth #2: Kids are at the most danger of getting sick from West Nile Virus.
Truth: There is a lot that you, personally, can do to reduce your chance of getting West Nile virus infection.
• Being over 50 is a risk factor for developing severe West Nile disease if infected with the virus. There is a risk of get ting mosquito bites while leading an active life outdoors. This doesn’t mean you have to stay inside - it does mean that it’s important to use repellent when you go outside.
Truth: Mosquito control activities don’t eliminate every mosquito, so personal protection is still important.
Truth: Repellents containing DEET are very safe when used according to directions.
• Because DEET is so widely used, a great deal of testing has been done. When manufacturers seek registration with the US Environmental Protec tion Agency (EPA) for products such as DEET, laboratory testing regarding both short-term and long-term health effects must be carried out.
• Mosquitoes are usually most active from dusk to dawn. Pay close attention to protection during these hours, or avoid being outdoors if possible.
• Make it a habit to apply mosquito repellent with DEET when you’re spending time outdoors. This will reduce the number of mosquito bites you get.
Myth #1: There’s not much I can do about WNV.
• Eliminate any standing water that remains longer than 7 days. Inspect your yard once a week: get rid of contain ers that aren’t being used, empty water from flower pots, change water in bird baths and maintain clean gutters.
• Grand Forks Health Department maintains a proactive mos to control program designed to reduce mosquito populations and mosquito-borne diseases. However, this program can not eliminate all mosquitoes. Personal protection, such as using repellent, keeping window screens in good con dition, and control of house hold breeding sites are im portant steps for the public.
• Reduce mosquito breeding habitat around your house. The species of mosquito most common for transmitting WNV generally stays close to the habitat that it hatched from.
Truth: Healthy, active older adults who spend time work ing and exercising outdoors have been affected by severe West Nile virus infection.
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• It is always a good idea for children to avoid mosquito bites, but it’s also important for adults - especially older adults - to take steps to avoid mosquito bites.
Myth #4: Repellents containing DEET are not safe.
• There are products with different strengths (percentage of DEET) available. The longer the protec tion you need the higher percent of DEET needed.
Myth #3: It’s only people who are already in poor health who have to worry about West Nile virus.
• Repellent with DEET can be used for both adults and chil dren, according to directions.
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• The first person in the U.S. to use the "temporary insanity" defense was Daniel Sickles -- a Union general, senator and congressman -- after mur dering the son of Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner," who was having an affair with Sickles' wife. Sickles was acquitted.
• Art was an official Olympic event from 1912 to 1948. Submissions had to be in the categories of architecture, literature, music, painting or sculp ture, and inspired by sports. The event was removed after a report showed that almost all of the submitting contestants were professionals.
• The forward slashes in Web addresses serve no real purpose, according to Tim Berners-Lee, cre ator of the World Wide Web.
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• Dragonflies can control all four of their wings in dependently.
• A 45-year-old Bosnian man named Amir Vehabo vic faked his death in 2007 because he wanted to see who would attend his funeral and what they would say about him. After his mother was the only mourner to show up, he wrote dozens of an gry letters to his (so-called) friends and what he thought about their relationship going forward.
• During World War II, it was illegal in Britain to give cats a saucer of milk, dogs a biscuit or bread to pigeons.
• According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Super Bowl Sunday is the second-highest day of food consumption in America, second only to Thanksgiving.
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• Glenn orbited Earth three times during a flight that lasted 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before splashing down about 800 miles southeast of Bermuda, near Grand Turk Island. The space craft can be seen at the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, VA.
OUT OF THIS WORLD JOHN GLENN
• Ohio-born John Glenn was in college when World War II started. He abandoned his studies to enter the Naval Aviation Cadet Program in 1942, and a year later was de ployed as a Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific front. By the war’s end he had flown 59 combat missions in the South Pacific.
• Glenn remained in the Marines, both as a test pilot and a trainer of other pilots, until he was called up as a fighter pilot in the Korean War. During this conflict, from 1950 to 1953, Glenn flew 90 missions. His total of 149 mis sions in two wars earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross six times.
• All of Glenn’s achievements contributed to his selection by NASA to join the first group of astronauts in 1959, a group dubbed the “Mercury Seven.” Glenn wasn’t the first American in space – that honor went to his fellow astronaut Alan Shepard in May of 1961, followed by Gus Grissom in July of that year. But both of these mis sions were suborbital space flights, meaning their crafts reached outer space but did not orbit the Earth. That hon or belongs to John Glenn.
• Following his historic flight, Glenn remained as an advisor to NASA until 1964. On the day af ter his resignation, he entered politics at age 43, running in the Ohio Democratic primary for U.S. Senator. However, five weeks after his announce ment, he suffered a fall, resulting in a concussion and inner ear injury that forced him to resign from the race. After his full recovery, he took a job in the business world as an executive for Roy al Crown Cola.
• More history was made by this remarkable man in 1957, when he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. He set a speed record flying from Los Angeles to New York during “Project Bullet,” coast to coast in three hours and 23 minutes.
• In February, 1962, Glenn was launched from Cape Canav eral, Florida, aboard a Mercury spacecraft, the “Friend ship 7.” He traveled at 17,500 miles per hour, 160 miles above Earth, in a tiny capsule built for one man, a craft just 9 feet long, and 6 feet across at its base.
• When John Glenn died in 2017 at age 95, he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on his 74th wedding anniversary. He was survived by his wife Annie, whom he had known since he was a toddler.
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• Glenn’s interest in poli tics wasn’t over. In 1970, he ran for the Senate again, but was narrowly defeated in a 51% to 49% margin by Howard Metzenbaum. Four years later, in his third Senate run, Glenn emerged the victor, and remained the Ohio Senator for the next 25 years.
• And Glenn’s history-making wasn’t over! In 1998, at the age of 77, he returned to space aboard the space shuttle “Discovery,” the oldest person to enter space. It was a nine-day mission with 134 orbits of Earth, with one of the goals to study the effects of space on an elderly person.
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We care most about our brain health, our independence and our relationships, in that order, as we move into our 70s. By the time we reach our 80s, it's relationships that spike to the top of our list of concerns.
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But age plays a part in that: We're most concerned about health in our 60s, much less concerned in our 70s, and very concerned again in our 80s, mostly about stamina, strength and flexibility. There's something to be said for picking a form of exercise and sticking with it, especially if it helps with those three concerns.
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• On July 12, 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first president to ride in the newest advance in aviation technology: the HMX-1 Nighthawk helicopter, admin istered jointly by the Army and the Marine Corps.
• On July 15, 1606, the great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden. Rembrandt completed more than 600 paintings, many of them portraits or self-por traits. By the age of 22, he was accomplished enough to take on his own students.
• On July 14, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries and muti nous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress built in 1370 that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic ac tion signaled the beginning of the French Revolution.
• On July 16, 1935, the world's first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed in Okla homa City, Oklahoma. Indignant opponents of the meters considered paying for parking un-American, as it forced drivers to pay what amounted to a tax on their cars without due process of law.
• On July 13, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Mas sachusetts is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention. Four months later, on Nov. 8, Kennedy won 49.7% of the popular vote, edging the 49.6% received by Richard M. Nixon, a Republican.
• On July 17, 1975, as part of a mission aimed at de veloping space rescue capability, the U.S. spacecraft Apollo 18 and the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 rendez vous and dock in space. During the 44-hour ApolloSoyuz embrace, the astronauts and cosmonauts con ducted experiments, shared meals and held a joint news conference.
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• On July 11, 1922, the Hollywood Bowl, one of the world's largest natural amphitheaters, opens. Its stage was a wooden platform with a canvas top, and audi ences sat on moveable benches set on the hillsides of the surrounding canyon. In 1926, a group of Los Ange les architects built the Hollywood Bowl's first shell.
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• The traditional costume of the bull runners, who are known as “mozos,” is white pants and shirts, accent ed with a red bandana tied around the neck or waist. The white is to symbolize San Fermin’s sainthood, while the red represents the blood of his martyrdom.
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It’s time for Spain’s annual Running of the Bulls! Run along with Tidbits as we investigate the details on this cen turies-old tradition.
• The Running isn’t just one day – it occurs on eight of the nine days, beginning on the festival’s second day. It begins promptly at 8:00 AM, and takes an average of just three minutes to complete. The fenced course is 957 yards, less than half a mile, starting at the Corrales de Santo Domingo, where the bulls are kept, to the bullfight arena, the Plaza de Toros. Over a million spectators line the route.
• Pamplona, Spain’s annual San Fermin Festival provides the backdrop for the running of the bulls, a festival that takes place over nine days, July 6 to 14 every year. The dates are the same every year, no matter what the days of the week. Pamplona. The festival honors St. Fermin, the patron saint of the city that lies about 250 miles north of Madrid.
• The 12 animals aren’t just bulls. Six bulls are headed for the fights, but six steers (castrated bulls) are also released with them. The bulls are “Toro Bravos,” Spanish fighting bulls known for their aggression, energy, and strength. The calmer, slower steers help diminish the danger a bit.
• The Running of the Bulls can be traced clear back to 1385, when Pamplona began bullfights, and the tradition began when the animals were run through the city before the fights. The race seemed like an easy way to transport the bulls to the arena.
• Novelist Ernest Hemingway popularized the Pamplona Running of the Bulls when he wrote about the event in two of his novels, The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon. Hemingway loved the festival and attended it nine times. However, for all his enthusiasm, he never ran with the bulls.
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• Experts emphasize the cardinal rule of the ac tivity: “If you fall down, stay down. A mozo who falls should never get up – it’s better to be trampled by six bulls than to be gored by one.” For runners who do fall, the fetal position is ad vised, a position that has saved many runners.
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• Runners who want to snap a photo of them selves running with the bulls can forget that! Selfies are prohibited, as is the consumption of alcohol before the race. It’s illegal to slap or grab a bull, to touch its horns, or yank on its tail, although…who would want to? The 4-year-old bulls are around 1,500 lbs. with razor-sharp horns and an innate instinct for goring.
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• Not surprisingly, the adventure is a risky one. Between 50 and 100 people are injured every year. Official records have only been kept since 1924, but since that time 16 people have died in the run, with the most recent in 2009. There have been additional fatalities in other commu nities that host a smaller version of the Pam plona event.
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The winner of the Tour de France receives about $600,000 in prize money. It’s the Tour’s tradition for the winner to split his winnings among his teammates as a gesture of gratitude for their support. In 1919, only 10 riders finished. The average speed was 14.9 mph. Today’s average speed exceeds 25 mph.
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