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On November 18, 1820, an American seal hunter named Nathaniel Brown Palmer became the ﬁrst American to lay eyes upon mainland Antarctica. He is considered to be one of three primary candidates to have discovered the frozen continent. Palmer proclaimed the frozen terrain before him to be Palmer Land, and the Palmer Archipelago still carries his name. Come along with Tidbits as we visit Antarctica!

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• The lowest reliably measured temperature of a continuously occupied station on Earth was −128.6°F (−89.2°C) on July 21, 1983 at Vostok Station. • In summer, the population of Antarctica averages about 5,000. In winter, it drops to 1,000. About 40,000 tourists visit each year. There are no permanent residents. • Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone. The scientists who reside there go by either the time of their home land or the supply line that brings them supplies. • Antarctica is the world’s largest desert. In Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, it hasn’t rained for more than 2 million years. The ground and climate so closely resemble the surface of Mars that NASA did testing there for the Viking mission. (cont’d next page)

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• Early astronomers plotted the circle of the sun passing in orbit around the earth. (This was in the days when they thought the earth was the center of the universe.) The circle passed through the constellation of the Great Bear, whose name was Arktos. That is how the northernmost regions of the Earth near that circle became known as the Arctic. The preﬁx ‘ant-’ means opposite, so the Antarctic is the southernmost region of the planet. • The Antarctic has about eight times as much ice as the Arctic because the Antarctic is a continent and the Arctic is an ocean covered with ice. Land does not hold heat nearly as well as water does, so the ocean moderates the climate in the Arctic. The Arctic is not always cold: summer temperatures above 70°f (21°C) are fairly common. At Fort Yukon near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, it has even reached 100°f. (38°C) in the shade. However, the average year-round temperature in the Antarctic is -18°f. (-28°C) Summertime highs seldom go above freezing. • Both the Arctic and Antarctic are classiﬁed as deserts because annual precipitation totals less than 4 inches (10 cm) a year— but the snow that falls stays. In the Arctic, the ice eventually drifts and melts, but in the Antarctic it accumulates year after year. The deepest layers of ice in the Antarctic are some 3 million years old. In the Antarctic, the ice averages more than a mile (1.6 km) thick and is over 14,000 feet (4.2 km) deep at its thickest. The ice in the Arctic Ocean averages only 8 feet (2.5 m) thick. Only 5% of the Antarctic continent is ice-free. The weight of the ice on the Antarctic continent is so great that it has pressed much of the land below sea level. If all the ice were removed, much of the land would probably not rise above the water. (Continued next page)

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• There are only three species of flowering plants living in the Antarctic, plus 75 kinds of moss and 400 kinds of lichen. In the Arctic, there are 900 types of flowering plants, 400 kinds of moss, and 2,000 species of lichen. The largest known land animal living on the Antarctic continent year-round is a wingless relative of the common housefly that is only 1/10th of an inch (.2 cm) long. The Arctic teams with wildlife such as polar bears, wolves, and musk ox. Furthermore, there are about 315 million people living within a radius of 2,700 miles (4,345 km) of the North Pole, but only 4,600 living within the same distance of the South Pole— and half of those only live there temporarily.

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• Scientists in Antarctica rarely suffer from colds because they are isolated from infected humans. However, when the supply ships arrive bringing visiting scientists, colds run rampant. In an experiment, each scientist was issued packets of iodine-impregnated tissues and instructed to sneeze and blow their nose into them, then wipe their faces and hands with a clean iodine tissue. Furthermore, they were asked to wipe their hands and faces every hour with the tissues. As a result, the number of new colds reported daily dropped from an average of 4.3 to 1.7. Biologists report that Antarctica has only one bacterium per pint of snow making it difﬁcult to pick up illnesses that aren’t imported. HIGH, WIDE AND COLD • The average altitude of the land is 6,000 feet (1,828 m) which is more than twice as high as any other continent. The ice is about 8,000 feet (2,438 m) thick on top of the mountains, making the total average height of the continent 14,000 feet (4,267 m).

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• It was noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who made the following sage observation: “The truth is more important than the facts.” •You might be surprised to learn that the Ford Mustang, an icon of American automobiles, was originally named the Torino. • If you live in Arkansas, you can reflect on the fact that your state is home to the only diamond mine in North America. • Popular Science magazine once dipped its toes into predictions -- and got it all wrong. In 1898, it published an article stating, “The energy necessary to propel [an airplane] would be many times greater than that required to drive a train of cars at the same speed; hence as a means of rapid transit, flying could not begin to compete with the railroad.” The magazine can be forgiven its lack of foresight, though, considering the fact that the first powered airplane flight didn’t even occur until five years later. •Tofu has the distinction of being the most hated food in America. •Method, a company that makes eco-friendly homecleaning products, has at their headquarters a brainstorming room whose walls, floor and ceiling are completely covered in live, growing grass. The purpose? To bring the outdoors in, and to “keep Method weird.” • Those who study such things say that a $1 million lottery prize is actually worth about $468,000, once taxes and fees are deducted.

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• Hugh Blackwall Evans was the first Canadian to spend a winter in Antarctica. • Evans was born in England in 1874 and moved to Canada at the age of 16. After attending an agricultural school in the Northwest Territories, he spent the next three years as a hired hand on a cattle ranch. He returned to Britain in 1897 where he landed a job on a sailing brig called the Edward which embarked on a sealing expedition to Desolation Island. Desolation Island is one of the most isolated points on the planet, located more than 3,300 km (2,051 mi) away from the nearest populated place. It’s situated halfway between the Australian continent and Antarctica. Evans’ job was to collect specimens for display in a museum. • Because of this experience, Evans was hired to be the assistant zoologist for the British Antarctic Expedition in 1898. The Norwegian born captain, Carstn Borchgrevink, was determined to be the first expedition to spend the entire winter on the Antarctic continent. This was also the first expedition that pioneered the use of sled dogs in Antarctic travel. • They embarked in August of 1898 in a ship called the Southern Cross. The ship dropped off 75 sled dogs, a winter’s worth of supplies, and ten men (including Evans) at Cape Adare, the northwest-most extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. Once camp was established, the Southern Cross sailed away, leaving the men alone on the Antarctic for the duration of the winter. The men constructed a hut that was 15 feet square which was the first building on Antarctica. Additional huts provided storage space and shelter for the dogs. (continued next page)

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• When the main zoologist died of intestinal problems half way through the winter, he became the first person buried in Antarctica (with the help of dynamite to dig the grave) and Evans took over as the main zoologist. • During this time there were two near-fatal incidents, once when a candle left burning beside a bunk set fire to the hut and caused extensive damage, and another time when three of the party were nearly asphyxiated by coal fumes as they slept. • The man kept themselves busy by taking scientific observations, exercising the dogs when weather permitted, and soaking in an improvised sauna in a snowbank outside the hut. Still, boredom was rampant. It was 11 months before the Southern Cross returned for them. Before returning the England, they explored the Ross Sea and set a new record for the farthest south ever reached by humans. • They returned to England where they received a lukewarm reception. Captain Borchgrevink was, after all, half Norwegian and only half British. The geographical society of London had been planning a similar expedition and was upset that Borchgrevink had beaten them to the punch. Borchgrevink’s book about the expedition, First on the Antarctic Continent, was published the following year. • Hugh Blackwall Evans returned to Canada where he married, had two children, and raised cattle for many years. In 1923 he became a founder of the Alberta Wheat Pool and eventually retired in Vermilion, Alberta where he helped establish the Anglican Church. • He died in February of 1975 after being awarded the Polar Medal as the oldest living explorer from the heroic era. He was 100 years old.

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MD 21404; and 410-224-3655. Check out Theriault’s current auction catalog at www. theriaults.com. Q: My grandfather was born in 1905 and one of his prize possessions as a child was a teddy bear. Although I am not certain I want to sell it, can you recommend an expert so I can determine its value and collectability? -Deborah, Peterburg, Pennsylvania A: Sara Bernstein Antique Dolls and Bears is highly recommended and might help you establish a value for your bear. The telephone number and website are 732-536-4101; and www.sarabernsteindolls.com. Q: I have a glass bowl that has been identiﬁed as Flambo Ware. What is Flambo Ware? -- Connie, Pueblo, Colo. A: Flambo Ware is an opaque glass, usually tomato red in color. This particular glass was manufactured by the Pairpoint Glass Works prior to the mid-1920s. Most Flambo Ware was made for the Christmas trade, and it was difﬁcult to produce and maintain a uniform color. 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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• Penguins have never been seen at the North Pole. However, they do live near the Equator. Penguins live in many places such as on the ice off the Antarctic continent, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and even as for north as the Galapagos Island which is near the Equator. All of these areas are touched by cold ocean currents, which the birds love. They refuse to cross warm currents. • Penguins raise their families a little differently than most animals— the male is the one who incubates the egg while the female is totally out of the picture. The female lays the egg on the ice, then immediately takes to the ocean and is not seen again for the next two months or so while she feeds in warmer waters. The male holds the egg on the top of his feet and under a special pouch of blubber. He neither eats nor moves much as he incubates the egg through the two months of the worst winter weather. When the chick hatches, he feeds it a milk-like substance produced in his crop, and the chick eats from his throat. Only then does the female return, and the male goes to sea to replenish his blubber while she takes over. When he returns, they share the business of feeding Junior. If both parents are out ﬁshing, the chick will be left in the care of another adult babysitter. Rookeries can contain more than a million birds. Since each pair lay only one egg per year, populations have a hard time recovering from disaster. • Penguins return to the very same nest year after year, building it up with new stones in a ring. When they return to their nesting grounds each year, the old nest is buried under several feet of snow. Still, the penguins know exactly where it is located and will place additional stones on top of the ice. When the snow melts, the new stones will be laying exactly on top of the old ones. (cont’d)

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Those who lived at Camp LeJeune during its toxic water heyday (from 1957 to 1987) drank water contaminated with dry-cleaning fluids that seeped into a well from a dry cleaners that was only 900 feet from the water supply and solvent from a leaking fuel tank farm. Babies were born with twice the average number of birth defects. There have been kidney, bladder, ovarian, cervical, lung, prostate and breast cancers among veterans and dependents. Add in non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and liver disease. Some of these illnesses surfaced fairly quickly, but getting attention from the VA was difficult when it was claimed there was nothing wrong with the water. And there was no help for dependents. Families and individuals sued for damages. But not every illness surfaced quickly enough to be tied in to the Camp LeJeune water lawsuits because of the Statute of Repose. In an attempt to get them some help, the North Carolina legislature tried to undo its Statute of Repose, which had limited filing of lawsuits to ten years, to allow families to file beyond that time limit. Finally, after a string of lawsuits and appeals, a federal court objected to North Carolina’s new legislation attempts. Claims older than ten years are now dead. Starting a few years ago, veterans were one by one able to convince VA doctors that they were made ill by the Camp Lejeune water. In 2012 a law was passed to cover the health costs (after any other insurance pays first) of dependents who were made sick by the water. Only now, two years later, are they getting around to actually doing that, and it’s limited to a list of illnesses and costs incurred only since March 26, 2013. Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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