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months later after he defied the president and threatened to escalate hostilities with China. â–˛ On July 5, 1975, although seemingly past his prime, Arthur Ashe defeats a heavily favored Jimmy Connors to become the first black man ever to win Wimbledon, the most coveted Representatives votes to impeach a championship in tennis. federal officer. Sen. William Blount of Tennessee was charged with “a â–˛ On July 11, 1916, President Woodrow high misdemeanorâ€? for entering into a Wilson signs the Federal Aid Road Act. conspiracy with British officers to enlist Since the mid-19th century, the building frontiersmen and Cherokee Indians to aid and maintenance of roads had been seen as a state and local responsibility. the British. â–˛ On July 3, 1863, on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end. The tally: 23,000 killed, wounded or missing Union soldiers. The Confederates suffered some 25,000 casualties. â–˛ On July 4, 1919, challenger Jack Dempsey defeats heavyweight champion Jess Willard in searing 110-degree heat in Toledo, Ohio, to win the heavyweight championship of the world. “The Manassa Maulerâ€? bested Willard in 10 minutes. â–˛ On July 6, 1933, Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game takes place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The event was designed to bolster the sport and improve its reputation during the darkest days of the Great Depression. â–˛ On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the hero of the war against Japan, is appointed head of the United Nations Command by President Harry Truman. Truman fired MacArthur nine
McDONALD'S (Continued) • In a survey of 7,000 people from six foreign countries, 88% could identify a McDonald’s golden arches logo while only 54% could identify the Christian cross. • A survey of American schoolchildren found that 96% could identify Ronald McDonald. The only fictional character with a higher degree of recognition was Santa Claus. • Ronald McDonald is #2 on the list of top ten advertising icons of the twentieth century. The Marlboro Man is number one. • There are only two places in the contiguous U.S. where you can be over 100 miles away from the nearest McDonald’s: a spot in the desert of northwestern Nevada, and a place in the middle of the plains of South Dakota. • McDonald’s is the world’s second largest private employer with 1.5 million employees. Only Wal-Mart employs more people, with 1.9 million. One out of eight American workers has worked for McDonald’s at some point. The median age of its workers is 28. • McDonald’s spends more on advertising and marketing than any other company, replacing Coke as the world’s most famous brand. • McDonald’s is the world’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes, and the second largest purchaser of chicken (after Kentucky Fried Chicken). They buy 2 billion eggs each year. • McDonald’s sells about 550 million Big Macs each year in the U.S. Americans eat over 1 billion lbs. of beef at McDonald’s in a year, which is 5½ million cows. 400 quarter pounders can be made out of one cow. • McDonald’s sells an average of 75 hamburgers per second. One hamburger contains meat from up to 100 different cows. • McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets come in four shapes and they all have
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▲ On July 13, 1930, France defeats Mexico 4-1 and the United States defeats Belgium 3-0 in the first-ever World Cup soccer matches, played simultaneously in host city Montevideo, Uruguay. The World Cup has since become the world’s most watched sporting event. ▲ On July 9, 1947, in a ceremony at the Pentagon, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower appoints Florence Blanchfield a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, making her the first woman in U.S. history to hold permanent military rank. ▲ On July 12, 1984, Walter Mondale, Democratic presidential candidate, announces his choice of Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, the first woman nominated by a major party for the vice presidency.
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ANTOINE AND POTATOES • Potatoes originated in the Peruvian Andes. The Incas called them “batatas.” They were eating potatoes 2,000 years before Columbus set sail. When the Spanish Conquistadors ar-rived, they had never seen anything like it. They were forced to eat potatoes when their food supplies ran low. The potatoes they in-troduced to Europe were more valuable than the gold they sought. However, it was hard to convince the European populace to try them. • Because the potato is a member of the deadly nightshade family, Europeans were suspicious of it, and rumors spread that eating them would cause death. Laws were passed forbidding their cultivation for fear they would spread leprosy. That changed due to French pharmacist Antoine Parmentier. • Parmentier was serving the French army during the Seven Years War in the mid-1700s when he was captured by the Prussians and thrown into jail. At the time, potatoes were considered to be livestock feed only, not fit for human consumption. Jailers fed Parmentier only potatoes, expecting him to die. In-stead, he thrived. By the time he was released from prison, he was convinced that potatoes were the food of the future. Now he needed to convince the rest of France. • He entered a contest that offered a prize to the person who could come up with the best recipe that offered the most nourishment for patients suffering from dysentery. He won with a recipe for potato soup. • Next there was a contest to come up with the best substitute for wheat flour when making bread – and potato flour won. No one paid much attention at the time, but when the wheat crop later failed, it was potatoes that kept the populace of northern France from starving. • Parmentier began his fight for the potato in earnest. He invited all the royalty, the famous, and the wealthy to a well-publicized banquet in which every single dish, from soup to dessert, was made from potatoes. The queen even wore a garland of potato flowers in her hair. He knew that the common folk tended to copy whatever the elite were doing. • Next he planted potatoes in a plot and posted armed guards around it, while spreading the rumor that
he was growing something valuable and rare. The guards were instructed to accept any and all bribes they were offered in order to let the local peasants steal potatoes. At night, the guards were removed, encourag-ing even more thievery. • Then he published a pamphlet that gave in-structions on how to grow potatoes along with many recipes on how to cook them, and he made sure that the treatise carried the words “Published by order of the King” on the front page. Copies were distributed to every administrator in France with the instructions that the cultivation and consumption of potatoes was to be encouraged among the population. • During the siege of the first Paris Commune in 1795, it was potatoes that kept the people from dying of starvation, and finally potatoes became accepted as a nourishing food. • Antoine Parmentier went on to make a great many other advances as he studied things such as how to bake a better bread, make cheese, store grain, grow mushrooms, and make wine, as well as how to use corn flour, how to make sugar from beets, and how to make sea biscuits that would not spoil on long ocean voyages. • When Parmentier died in 1813, he was buried in Paris, in a plot ringed by potato plants.
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● Researchers have discovered that humans aren’t the only ones to imbibe alcohol on a egular basis. It seems that the tiny pen-tailed tree shrew makes a habit of consuming naturally fermented palm flower nectar, which has an alcohol content of 3.8 percent -comparable to that of most beers.
● I’d be very surprised if you’d ever heard of Bokassa I, former emperor of the Central African Republic. It’s interesting to note, though, that while he was on trial for infanticide, cannibalism and torture, he commented, “Being head of state is an extremely thankless job.”
● At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, Abraham Lincoln is the tallest president in the history of the United States.
● Filmmaker George Lucas is arguably best known for his “Star Wars” franchise, but he also directed “American Graffiti.” During the making of that earlier film he designated each reel of film with an R before the reel’s number, and each instance of dialog was prefixed with a D. At one point during the sound mixing, the sound designer needed to use Reel 2, Dialog 2, and so asked for “R2D2.” Lucas liked the sound of it so much that he used it for the name of a robot character in his later work.
● You may be among those people who think good deeds and selfless acts are on the decline. If so, consider this story: In 2010, an employee at a recycling company came across 23 U.S. savings bonds while sorting through a bin of discarded papers. Instead of trying to cash the $22,000 worth of bonds himself, Mike Rodgers decided to track down the owner. It turned out that the woman who had bought the bonds, Martha Dobbins, had been dead for almost two decades. Rodgers didn’t give up, though; he began a search for Robert Roberts, who was also named on the bonds. Though the name is common and Rodgers hit many dead ends, he eventually located the correct Robert Roberts, the son of Martha Dobbins. Roberts hadn’t even been aware of the bonds’ existence. Rodgers, his good deed finally being done, refused a reward.
● The next time you see a shampoo commercial and note how creamy and frothy the lather seems to be, keep this in mind: The model in the advertisement probably has either laundry detergent or frothed egg whites on her hair.
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● You might be surprised to learn that the largest irrigated crop in the United States isn’t soybeans, wheat or even corn; it’s grass -- mostly in lawns, parks and golf courses.
● It was noted 20th-century American novelist, short story writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway who made the following sage observation: “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
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