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We are the Enviable and Fragile Minnesota! Think of What We've Got! Minnesota sits at the crossroads of three major ecosystems—prairies to the west, boreal forests to the north, and hardwoods to the south—and its forests with approximately 2.2 billion trees (give or take a few million) that ..... reflect the variety of the State’s unique location.

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▲ On March 5, 1839, Charlotte Bronte writes to the Rev. Henry Nussey, declining marriage.

The 23-year-old Bronte told him that he would find her “romantic and eccentric,” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife. Her novel “Jane Eyre” was published eight years later. ▲ On March 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, this federal agency oversaw the transition of blacks from slavery to freedom. ▲ On March 4, 1888, Knute Rockne is born in Voss, Norway. He would go on to become one of the most successful coaches in the history of college football, leading Notre Dame during its golden era in the 1920s.

Rockne won three undisputed national championships with the Fighting Irish. ▲ On March 6, 1945, members of the Dutch resistance attempting to hijack a food truck unwittingly ambush German Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter, head of the Nazi SS in

Holland. In retaliation, the SS put to death 263 Dutch. 55 inches of snow in some areas. In New York City, Rauter later was executed for war crimes. drifts reached the second story of some buildings and stranded passengers on elevated trains. Enterprising ▲ On March 2, 1978, in a famous case of body- residents with ladders offered to rescue passengers for snatching, two men steal the corpse of film actor Sir a fee.

Charles Chaplin from a cemetery in Switzerland. After a five-week investigation, police arrested two auto ▲ On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader mechanics, who led them to Chaplin's body.

Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt. Britain’s Salt ▲ On March 8, 1982, the United States issues a Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, public statement accusing the Soviet Union of using a staple in the Indian diet. By picking one salt crystal poison gas and chemical weapons against rebel forces off the shore, Gandhi had committed nonviolent civil in Afghanistan. Evidence to support these charges disobedience. was largely anecdotal. Some critics charged that the accusations were a smokescreen behind which the ▲ On March 13, 1969, “The Love Bug,” a Walt Disney United States could go forward in upgrading its own movie about the adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle chemical weapons arsenal. named Herbie, opens in theaters. The film centered on a down-on-his-luck auto racer who goes on a winning ▲ On March 15, 44 B.C, Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator streak after teaming up with Herbie. of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators, who believed that his death ▲ On March 9, 1985, the first-ever Adopt-a-Highway would lead to the restoration of the Roman Republic. sign is erected on Texas’s Highway 69. The highway However, the result was to plunge Rome into a fresh was adopted by the Tyler Civitan Club, which round of civil wars, destroying the republic forever. committed to picking up trash along a designated 2-mile stretch of the road. ▲ On March 11, 1888, one of the worst blizzards in U.S. history strikes the Northeast, dumping up to (c) 2015 King Feaures Synd., Inc.

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ORANGES (cont'd) • 98% of Florida oranges are harvested by hand. Over 100,000 people in Florida are employed in the citrus industry.

WORD ORIGINS • The Sanskrit word ‘naranga’ meaning ‘fragrant’ passed into French, where the word ‘or’ means ‘gold.’

From there it became ‘orange’ meaning ‘gold and fragrant. ’ • The Cedars of Lebanon had round, hard orangecolored cones (like pine cones), and the word for cedar was ‘citron.’ When a new fruit showed up that resembled them, it too was dubbed ‘citron.’ This is the origin of the word ‘citrus’ which actually means ‘cedar.’

• Tangerines are a variety of citrus which first appeared in Tangier, a city in Morocco. (A person from Tangier is also called a Tangerine.) Mandarin oranges originated in China, where they speak Mandarin. Clementines may be named after Father Clement Rodier who hybridized them in an orchard in Algeria.

ORANGE TREES • All citrus trees graft very easily so it’s easy to have oranges growing from a lemon rootstock, or lemons growing from an orange rootstock. In fact, a single citrus tree can have numerous grafts so that it bears lemons, limes, grapefruit, tangerines, kumquats, and oranges all on the same tree at the same time.

• During cold snaps, owners of orange groves will sometimes spray their trees with water in order to form ice. The trees will die if the temperature drops to 24F (-4C), but with a layer of ice, the temperature stays at 32F (0C) if the wind is calm and conditions are right.

• The lifespan of a typical orange tree is about 40 years, but there’s one tree in Europe that was planted in 1421 that lived until the year 1894 and survived several transplants. Some trees in Florida are more than a century old.

• Citrus trees are evergreen. An orange tree seedling doesn’t start to bear fruit until it’s about 15 years old. Grafting new shoots to old roots makes orange production much faster.

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• Oranges have a natural wax which protects the fruit from dehydration. During processing, the wax is washed off as the fruit is cleaned. Therefore, an artificial (and edible) wax is applied to the skin of the orange before it leaves the processing plant. Too much wax and the orange suffocates. Too little and it shrivels due to dehydration.

• An orange will last about a month after being picked.

An orange will not continue to ripen after it is picked.

• Oranges that grow high on the tree are sweeter than those that grow on the lower branches. Oranges that grow on the outside branches are sweeter than those growing on inside branches. Oranges growing on the south side of the tree are sweeter than those on the north side of the tree.

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On Majestic • Green oranges are just as sweet as Oaks orange oranges, and oranges only turn orange Golf Course when the weather turns cold. Oranges that have turned orange in the cold weather will revert to green again if the weather warms up once more. In many areas, such as Thailand, all oranges remain green constantly and never turn orange at all.

• A single orange provides about twothirds of your daily requirement of vitamin C.

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process by which a green leaf turns orange in the fall as chlorophyll production tapers off with cold weather.

• The use of ethylene gas was first discovered when Californians noticed that oranges kept in a room where a kerosene stove was being used turned orange very quickly. At first they assumed it was the heat, so packinghouses began ‘ripening’ their oranges in heated rooms, which only served to dehydrate the fruit.

Eventually it was discovered that it was the ethylene gas produced in the combustion of kerosene which was actually affecting the color of the oranges.

JUICE • The search for an orange juice concentrate began during World War II when soldiers needed nutritious drinks in the field. The process of concentrating the juice was finally perfected in 1948. Today, about 96 percent of Florida’s oranges are processed into juice.

• The majority of California's crop is sold as fresh fruit, whereas Florida's oranges become juice products.

• 53% of total global frozen concentrated orange juice production comes from Brazil.

• Orange juice squeezed at home will begin to turn bitter within hours because it reacts with oxygen.

Orange juice squeezed in a factory is pasteurized which helps prevent this.

• When Citrus Hill decided to call their orange juice "Fresh Choice," the FDA seized 2,000 cases because the label, reading "Citrus Hill Fresh Choice Orange Juice" led people to believe the juice was fresh when it was not.

GETTING GASSED • To change the color of a green orange, the fruit is placed in air-tight containers and then surrounded by ethylene gas for up to four days. Ethylene gas is a natural substance that is given off when fruits and vegetables ripen. The gas eliminates the chlorophyll in the skin, allowing the orange pigment to show through. This is the same

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• In 1926 Julius Freed decided he wanted to open an orange juice stand in Los Angeles. Real estate broker Bill Hamlin helped him find a location for his stand downtown. Julius and Bill subsequently became friends. • Julius didn’t do badly, but he thought there was room for improvement. Bill had a sensitive stomach and the acid in the orange juice bothered him. Bill also happened to be a chemist, so be began experimenting with orange juice recipes. • One day he presented Julius with a recipe that mixed orange juice, ice, and milk in a blender for a creamier, smoother, more interesting drink than just plain orange juice. • When Julius began selling it, his income jumped, rising from an average of $20 a day ($266 in today's money) to $100 a day ($1,333). Because people in line at his stand would call out, "Give me an orange, Julius!" he named the new drink after himself: Orange Julius. • Soon Julius Freed began franchising his operations, assisted by Bill Hamlin who quit his job in real estate and focused on opening Orange Julius stores across the United States. Within three years they had opened 100 stores and the profits for the system, whose only product was a 10-cent drink, approached $3 million. As shopping malls began expanding across America, so did the Orange Julius franchises. • In 1964, the Orange Julius was named the official drink of the New York World's Fair. According to the Orange Julius website, the drink was also subsequently named the official drink of Intergalactic Fair in Andromeda Galaxy in 1965, although those reports remain unconfirmed. • In 1965 Johnny Carson was granted a lifetime pass to every Orange Julius restaurant outlet in the country. Astronaut Alan Shepard was given a similar pass the following year. • It has been widely reported that in his spare time, Julius also invented an inflatable shrimp trap and a portable pigeon shower for cleaning racing pigeons, which was one of his hobbies. However, others insist this information is untrue. • By the time Dairy Queen bought the business in 1987, there were Orange Julius stores throughout the U.S. and Canada, selling a variety of fruit smoothies along with the original orange drink, which has changed little since its invention. • Today Orange Julius has thousands of stand-alone stores, as well as combination Dairy Queen / Orange Julius locations in the U.S., plus locations in Canada and other international markets. Both Orange Julius and Dairy Queen are currently owned by a multi-national conglomerate called Berkshire Hathaway, whose CEO is billionaire Warren Buffet.

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• The demand for lemons and their scurvypreventing properties hit a peak during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Miners were willing to pay huge sums for a single lemon. As a result, lemon trees were planted in abundance throughout California.

• Today, California and Arizona produce 95% of the entire U.S. lemon crop. California produces more lemons than all of Europe.

• Lemons are technically berries, as are oranges, watermelons, and tomatoes.

• Although lemon trees need lots of sunshine and cannot tolerate killing frosts, they grow surprisingly well in poor soil, even in sandy soils. Lemon trees bloom and produce fruit year-round. Each tree can produce between 500 and 600 pounds of lemons in a year, which amounts to up to 3,000 lemons annually.

• Lemon juice is about 5 percent citric acid, making it a natural for slowing the browning or oxidation of fresh, raw foods: apples, avocados, bananas, and other fruits.

• When given a choice of orange, grapefruit, peaches, apples, or lemon, cattle will eat lemons first.

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recorded in Kefar Zeitim, Israel. It weighed just over 11.5 pounds (5.265 kg), had a circumference of 29 inches (74 cm), and was 13.7 inches (35 cm) long. (cont'd) • You may store lemons at room temperature for about two weeks. They will keep for up to six weeks in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. Sprinkle them with water to keep them fresh in the plastic bag. You can also freeze lemons.

HEALTH BENEFITS • Lemons are nature’s top source of citric acid, a life essential found in the cells of all living creatures.

Fresh lemon juice has only 4 calories per tablespoon.

• They are one of nature’s seven top sources of potassium, a mineral that promotes clear thinking, aids in normalizing blood pressure, and works with sodium to regulate the body’s water balance. The juice of half a lemon in warm water helps eliminate toxins and ease aches, cleanse the liver, and stimulate the metabolism.

• High in vitamin C, lemons prevent scurvy, a disease that causes bleeding gums, loose teeth and aching joints. To this day, the British Navy requires ships to carry enough lemons so that every sailor can have one ounce of lemon juice a day.

• Add the juice of one lemon to an equal amount of hot water for an anti-bacterial gargle.

• Lemon juice promotes perspiration and helps block pain. When lemon juice is heated, salicylic acid – the chemical precursor of aspirin’s active ingredient – is produced.

• Citric acid can help eliminate calcium deposits in the arteries as well as pancreatic and kidney stones.

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