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In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy.

And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"

And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."

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And the drums rang out and were an immediate success.

Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).

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And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."

And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known.

He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."

And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."

"YAHOO," said Abraham.

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▲ On July 26, 1775, Congress establishes the United States Post Office and names Benjamin Franklin the first postmaster general. While postmaster, Franklin streamlined postal delivery with properly surveyed and marked routes from Maine to Florida, the origins of Route 1. ▲ On July 23, 1878, gentleman bandit Black Bart robs a Wells Fargo stagecoach in California. At the next robbery he left behind a handkerchief. Through a laundry mark, Pinkerton detectives traced the handkerchief back to Charles Bolton, an elderly man in San Francisco. Bolton confessed to being Black Bart. ▲ On July 24, 1915, the steamer Eastland overturns in the Chicago River, drowning more than 800 of its passengers. The disaster was caused by serious problems with the boat’s design. The Eastland capsized next to the dock, trapping hundreds of people on or underneath the large ship. ▲ On July 21, 1959, Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green

• The word "sneaker" is often attributed to an advertising agent who, in 1917, coined the term because the rubber sole made the shoe stealthy. The name "sneakers" referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy hard leather-soled dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could "sneak up" on you while someone wearing standard shoes could not.

• Australian fashion lore has it that Ugg really does stand for "ugly." The sheepskin boots have been used by outdoorsy Australians for decades, but they were designed to be utilitarian rather than fashionable.

• Sandals were first worn in warm climates where the soles of the feet needed protection but the top of the feet needed to be cooler.

• Before the 19th century there was no left or right shoe, they were both identical.

• "Schubert" and "Schumann" both mean shoemaker.

IF THE SHOE FITS • 88% of women wear shoes that are one or two sizes too small, usually because they were once that size but haven't been properly measured in years.

• The best time to try on shoes is usually at the end of the day when your feet are the most swollen.

• 43% of women confessed they have been at least moderately injured by shoes and 8% reported serious injuries like sprains or breaks.

MORE SHOE FACTS • Because of stringent new environmental laws in Europe, the chemical composition of Barbie dolls changed to a softer plastic that doesn't produce as many toxic gases when burned. To show that the new plastic was non-toxic to children who might swallow pieces of Barbie, they tied plastic Barbie shoes to tethers and fed them to pigs. The shoes were retrieved at various points in the digestive process and weighed to show that there was no absorption.

• In the 1950s DuPont decided leather was no good for shoes because leather wears out. DuPont invented an imitation leather that they claimed would never wear out. They called it Corfam. Not only did Corfam never wear out, it also never broke in. Shoes would not mold themselves to fit the wearer's foot like leather does.

Instead, the shoes "wore like armor plate," according to "Time" magazine. Corfam did not breathe like leather, resulting in hot sweaty feet, and it was also more expensive than leather. DuPont lost over a quarter million dollars on Corfam shoes.

BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW • Some islanders used to use the skin of sea cucumbers to make shoes.

• Up until the 1700s, both men and women wore high heels.

• The world's largest shoe size was 37AA worn by Robert Wadlow back in 1940. Wadlow was the tallest man in the world at 8 ft. 11 inches (2.7 meters).

• The average American woman buys about five pairs of shoes each year, and the average man, about two pairs.

• Cowboy boots have heels to help a rider's feet stay in the stirrups.

• The inside of a banana peel is a great shoe polisher for patent leather.

• There are about a quarter million sweat glands in an average pair of feet.

SHOES IN SPORTS • Bobby Jones was golfing in the Southern Amateur Tournament in New Orleans in 1920 when his ball landed inside an old shoe that was sitting on top of a

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makes his Boston Red Sox debut, becoming the first by a Japanese submarine in the Pacific and sinks within black ever to play for the Red Sox, the last team in the minutes in shark-infested waters. Of the 1,196 men on major leagues to integrate. board, an estimated 900 made it into the water and just 317 survived to be rescued four days later. ▲ On July 20, 1972, a U.S. government study disputes consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s charges against the ▲ On Aug. 1, 1961, the amusement park Six Flags Chevrolet Corvair. Conducted by the National Highway Over Texas opens. The park was the first to feature a Traffic Administration, the two-year study concluded log flume and a 360-degree looping roller coaster. A that 1960-63 Covairs were at least as safe as other cars day at Six Flags cost $2.75 for an adult. sold in the same period. ▲ On July 28, 1978, “National Lampoon’s Animal ▲ On July 31, 1916, future racing legend Louise Smith House,” a movie spoof about 1960s college fraternities, is born in Barnesville, Georgia. In the mid-1940s, starring John Belushi, opens in U.S. theaters. “Animal racing promoter Bill France was looking for a female House” became a box-office hit and part of pop-culture driver as a way to attract spectators and recruited Smith, history. who was famous for outrunning law enforcement on the local roads. ▲ On July 27, 1981, Adam John Walsh, age 6, is abducted from a mall in Hollywood, Florida, and ▲ On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding later found murdered. In the aftermath of the crime, dies of a stroke. Harding, 58, was returning from a Adam’s father, John Walsh, became a leading victimspresidential tour, a journey some believed he had rights activist and host of the long-running TV show embarked on to escape corruption rumors circulating “America’s Most Wanted.” in Washington. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc. ▲ On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed wheelbarrow. Jones decided not to take the penalty for dropping the ball out of the shoe, and instead he played the shoe. He whacked it as hard as he could. The ball flew out and kept rolling, landing a few feet from the green. Jones made par.

• During a 1967 soccer game in Bulgaria, the referee got down on one knee and bowed his head.

Members of both teams assumed he was praying, so they also got Changing the World, Little by Little down on their knees to pray. The spectators joined in the moment of reverent silence. Then the referee finished tying his shoelace.

• John McEnroe tied his shoelaces seven times during a single Wimbledon match in 1979 in an effort to stall for time.

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• William Scholl was born in LaPorte, Indiana in 1882 as one of 13 children. Even as a boy on a mid-western farm, William was interested in feet and shoes. As a teen he learned to make shoes, and then was apprenticed to a cobbler.

• When he moved to Chicago to set up his own shop, he noticed how many people had trouble with corns, bunions, and fallen arches, and he was appalled.

So he worked as a shoe salesman by day and put himself through medical school by night, becoming a podiatrist in 1904 at the age of 22.

• That same year he patented an arch support which he peddled to other shoe salesmen, and its popularity gave him the capital he needed to invent more products for the feet, including remedies for corns, bunions, warts, calluses, foot odor, ingrown toenails, athlete’s foot, and many other foot-related ailments.

• He established a correspondence course to teach basic podiatry to shoe store clerks and sent a team of trained sales representatives around the country to deliver public lectures on proper foot care.

• In 1916 William Scholl sponsored the national Cinderella Foot Contest to find the most beautiful feet in the U.S. Ladies flocked to shoe stores by the thousands to have their feet measured and scrutinized, and pictures of the prize-winning feet were published in magazines and newspapers nationwide. Then the ladies flocked to drugstores by the thousands to buy Scholl's products in order to make their feet look more beautiful.

• By the time he died in Chicago in 1968, William Scholl's line of foot care products eventually expanded to include over a thousand different items. He left the company to his nephews, and it still flourishes today.

Noteworthy Inventors QUIZ: ADOLPH DASSLER • Born in Germany in 1900, Adolf Dassler, who went by the nickname of Adi, loved tap dancing.

He began creating his own tap shoes and got a lot of advice from his father, who worked in a shoe factory, manufacturing cleats for athletes. After he returned from service during World War I, he set up a cobbler's shop in his mother's laundry. Adi decided to go into the dance shoe business, and his brother joined him in the venture, which they called the Dassler Brothers Shoe Company.

• At the World Tap Dancing Competition in 1928, Adi outfitted a number of the top competitors, and sales of his shoes climbed. During World War II, Adi was drafted into producing boots for soldiers.

• After the war, Adi and his brother split up and his brother started a sports shoe company called Puma.

Adi renamed his own company, combining several letters from both his first and last names. He designed his company’s three-striped logo. He branched out and soon was making 30 different types of shoes for 11 different sports.

• Much of his success was due to his close contact with the athletes who wore his shoes, and his persistent presence at sporting events. Sales skyrocketed after Germany won the World Soccer Cup in 1954 with every member of the team wearing his shoes. He got many famous athletes to use his footwear including Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali. • Aggressive marketing was a cornerstone of his business, and he expanded into many different sporting goods. When Adi died in 1978, his son took over the business. Today the shoe company Adi founded is the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world.

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