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• The Romans noted that a two-step pace of a marching man was about five feet. 1,000 paces, or 5,000 feet, became their mile, which they called ‘milia passuum’ meaning 1,000 paces. However, farms in England were measured in furrow-longs, or furlongs, which equaled 660 feet. In 1575 Elizabeth I proclaimed that the mile should henceforth be 5,280 feet, so that it could easily be divided into 8 furlongs. • The Latin word for pound, ‘libra,’ gave us our abbreviation ‘lb.’ The Italian ounce was called an ‘onzia,’ leaving us with ‘oz.’ • ‘Tun’ was the early Anglo-Saxon word for tub or vat, giving us our ton. • The short ton is 2,000 lbs. The long ton is 2,240 lbs. The metric ton is 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 lbs. Why is a long ton 2,240 lbs? Because when London merchants sold 2,000 lbs. of wine, the 8 oak barrels the wine was kept in weighed 30 lbs each, so the total weight of wine and barrels was 2,240 lbs.

MORE MEASUREMENT ORIGINS • The Egyptians called 200 paces a ‘stade.’ Greeks revised it to ‘stadion,’ which became a standard length for Olympic foot races. Today races are held in a stadium. • An early English system for measuring grains used the ‘measure-full.’ Eight measures equaled a peck, and 16 pecks equaled a ‘hlot.’ Eventually the ‘hlot’ became ‘a lot’, so when you say you have ‘a lot’ of peaches, you’re talking about 16 pecks! • The tuffet Miss Muffett sat on was used to measure corn.

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FULL MEASURE • The English adopted this system for measuring liquids: a handful was a jigger, two jiggers were a jack, two jacks were a jill, two jills made a cup, two cups made a pint, two pints made a quart, two quarts made a pottle, two pottles made a gallon, two gallons made a peck, two pecks made a half bushel, two half bushels made a bushel, two bushels made a cask, and two casks made a barrel. • In the 1600s King Charles I lived lavishly and spent the royal treasury. To raise money, he tried to increase taxes paid on liquids. Parliament vetoed him. So he reduced the size of the jack and jill, while leaving the taxes the same. To get around the tax, people stopped using the jack and jill as measurements, and they made up a rhyme: “Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water / Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.” The crown refers to the English unit of money.

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• On July 15, 1606, the Dutch master Rembrandt is born in Leiden. His portraits began to go out of style after the 1630s, when his human figures were criticized as being coarse and indecorous. • On July 19, 1779, Massachusetts launches a 4,000man naval expedition consisting of 19 warships, 24 transport ships and more than 1,000 militiamen to capture a 750-man British garrison on the Penobscot Peninsula. The failed expedition was considered the worst naval disaster in American history until the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. • On July 18, 1914, convicted on meager evidence of murdering two Salt Lake City policemen, Wobbly Joe Hill is sentenced to be executed in Utah. Hill was a member of the International Workers of the World, called Wobblies. Scholars have debated whether Hill was railroaded because of his radical politics. • On July 17, 1938, Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan, a glory-seeking flier, takes off from Brooklyn, pointed west. Twenty-eight hours later, Corrigan landed his plane in Dublin, Ireland, stepped out, and exclaimed, “Just got in from New York. Where am I?” • On July 20, 1948, President Harry Truman institutes a military draft calling for nearly 10 million men to register within the next two months. Truman’s decision underlined the urgency of his administration’s concern about a possible military confrontation with the Soviet Union. • On July 16, 1951, J.D. Salinger’s only novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” is published by Little, Brown. The book, about a confused teenager disillusioned by the adult world, was an instant hit and was taught in high schools for half a century. The 31-year-old Salinger had worked on the novel for a decade. • On July 14, 1974, U.S. Army Gen. Carl Spaatz, fighter pilot, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 83. In September 1947, Spaatz, an illustrious combat career behind him, was named the first chief of staff of the independent U.S. Air Force, which previously had been a unit of the Army. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• You might think that hot dogs are a relatively recent food offering, but you’d be wrong. The first sausages were created more than 3,500 years ago when ancient Babylonians began stuffing spiced meat into the intestines of animals. • If you hear the word “Bilbo” you might think of a famously adventurous hobbit, but a bilbo also is a finely tempered Spanish sword. • Elvis Presley reportedly was worth $10 million when he died in 1977. •In Western medicine in the 19th century, experts believed in a phenomenon called “maternal impressions,” which posited that what a pregnant woman looked at could influence the appearance of her child. This belief set off a rush of pregnant Parisian women heading to the Louvre to gaze at the lovely artworks, hoping to give birth to attractive babies. • If you were at a certain street corner in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on a certain day in 1962, you would have seen a startling thing: After plunging through the atmosphere, a 21-pound chunk of the Soviet Sputnik IV spacecraft made impact at the corner of Park Street and North 8th Street.

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• 300 years ago, the pound was applied to 391 different weights across Europe, and the foot indicated 282 different lengths. Thomas Jefferson, traveling across Europe, found that the mile from country to country could be as short as 3,600 feet or as long as 36,000 feet. Even today, the U.S. uses two kinds of miles, 56 different bushels, eight types of tons, two pounds, and three different ounces. Corn is sold by the bushel, shipped in tons, and stored in cubic feet. A bushel of wheat does not equal a bushel of potatoes or apples. • Our measurements evolved by happenstance. They have no simple formulas, equations, or relationships. For instance, consider the acre. It’s defined as an area that can be plowed in one day with two oxen. To figure acres, you must multiply the width of the land by the length and divide by 43,460. A one-acre square lot measures 208 ft. 8 in. per side. There are 640 acres in a square mile. Easy to remember? Easy to calculate? No way! What we need is a system that makes more sense. • Today more than 25,000 items are covered by national standards, from nuts and bolts to two-by-fours and light bulbs.

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HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS A decimeter is 1/10th of a meter. A cubic decimeter equals one liter. A liter of water weighs 1,000 grams. Alexander Graham Bell, arguing for the adoption of the metric system, gave Congressmen an imaginary problem: You have a tank containing 123,456,789 cubic inches of water. You want to know the weight and volume of the water. First you must go to the library to find out how many cubic inches of water are in a gallon and how much a gallon of water weighs. Then you must complete difficult calculations. But if the tank contains 123,456,789 cubic centimeters of water, you need only to move the decimal point over to find out that it holds 123,456.789 liters and that it weighs 123,456.789 kilograms. INCH BY INCH The Army and Marines use metrics. So does NASA. The Olympics have been metric since they began in 1896. The first country in the Western Hemisphere to adopt metrics was Columbia, which explains why cocaine is purchased in grams and kilograms. Your electricity is measured in metric kilowatt hours, and you buy skis in centimeters. The power of your motorcycle is expressed in cubic centimeters, and your medication is dispensed in milligrams. After one speech where a government official vowed that “The inch will never die!” a prometric man arose and asked the speaker to answer the questions that appeared at the beginning of this issue: How many feet in a mile? How many ounces in a gallon? How many acres in a square mile? How much does a quart of water weigh? The speaker was unable to answer any of these questions. Answer: There are 5,280 feet in a mile; 128 ounces in a gallon; 640 acres in a square mile; and water weighs 2.0825 lbs. per quart.

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Avon Collectors, P.O. Box 7006, Kansas City, MO 64113. A second source is a fascinating website, ICollectAvon.net, which features ads, a list of discontinued Avon products and much more. Q: I have a pennant with an image of Dwight Eisenhower and the words “We Still Like Ike.” It is obviously from his re-election campaign in 1956. Is it collectible? -- Sarah, Homestead, Fla. A: Your pennant would retail in the $25 to $40 range, according to “Warman’s Political Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide,” by Enoch L. Nappen and published by Krause Books. Collecting political memorabilia remains one of America’s favorite hobbies. Q: I have a small collection of Coca-Cola items and would like to ﬁnd a club so I can swap some of the duplicates that I have. Can you help me? -- Steve, Ramona, Calif. A: The Coca-Cola Collectors Club is one of the most active. Contact is PMB 609, 4780 Ashford-Dunwoody Road, Suite A, Atlanta, GA 30338; cocacolaclub.org. Write to Larry Cox in care of KFWS, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to questionsforcox@aol.com. Due to the large volume of mail he receives, Mr. Cox cannot personally answer all reader questions, nor do appraisals. Do not send any materials requiring return mail. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Acquire Conﬁdence Part 1: How Conﬁdent are You?

How confident are you? It makes a difference, you know. The measure of your self-confidence is revealed in a variety of ways: your voice, the language you use, your body language, your grooming and much more. Self-confident people have a natural magnetism about them. They can be identified almost immediately when they enter a room. They walk with buoyancy, stand with dignity, speak with conviction, and love with passion. They know where they’ve been, where they’re going, and why. They believe they are able to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals. Self-confident people inspire trust and gain the support and loyalty of their family, friends, bosses, clients and even strangers. You want to be that kind of person; so do I. But what is confidence? Is it swagger, hubris, or arrogance? Is the ability to prance around a room like a show horse on steroids?

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1. Tony Conigliaro, 1964-65. 2. He played three games with the San Diego Padres in 2003. 3. It was 1915. 4. Grant Hill and Jason Kidd. 5. Jaromir Jagr (1,755 points) and Patrik Elias (983). 6. Bert Patenaude, in 1930. 7. Mine That Bird in 2009 and I’ll Have Another in 2012.

ANSWERS: 1) Old 2) Sin 3) Charity 4) Sennacherib 5) Adonibezek 6) Aaron

Answers 1. “In the beginning ...” 2. Teething 3. Seven 4. Three (England, Wales and Scotland) 5. Fear of sunlight 6. They are miners. 7. Q 8. Delaware 9. Paul (His first name is James.) 10. A liter

Certainly not. Just the opposite. The simplest definition of confidence is “full trust”. True confidence is full-trust in oneself and one’s strength, abilities, intelligence, and good judgment. One writer calls confidence “undisturbed calm”. The word “confidence” comes from two Latin words, conducere from which we get the word “conduct” and ﬁdere which means “to trust”, the same word from which we get the words fidelity and faithfulness. So to have confidence means to “conduct or behave in a trustworthy or faithful manor”. There are two extremes of confidence. One extreme is mistrust and self-doubt where you have no confidence in your ability to do anything; the other extreme is arrogant selfconceit where you think you are much better than you really are. True confidence stands squarely between the two extremes. A confident person has a

realistic view of his skills based on knowledge and experience. He is neither arrogant nor selfeffacing. He does not have to be belligerent to get his way nor must he be so timid that he is little more than a doormat. Balanced self-confidence is what you want and you can have it. Self-confidence can be learned. No matter how uncertain or insecure you feel right now you can build the kind of confidence you desire. Check back here each week for another injection of confidence building thoughts and ideas and you will learn how you can Acquire Confidence! You can read all of Dr. Ross’ columns by visiting RonRossToday.com. Subscribe to his weekly newsletter and receive your free copy of Acquire Conﬁdence, a compilation of all these columns.