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• Ben Franklin was Pennsylvania Hospital’s first secretary, second president, and charter member of the Board of Managers. Its original home, the Pine Building, still serves as a section of the hospital, housing offices and libraries. Even the original Portuguese floor tiles survive. The hospital had its own fire engine, one that can be viewed there today. The gardens contain plants that were used medicinally during the 1800s.

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• Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital is America’s third oldest hospital, established in 1811. At the time of its founding, the United States had only two other general hospitals, the Pennsylvania Hospital and the New York Hospital. It quickly became the first teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. This 1000-bed hospital has had its share of medical firsts, including the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia in 1846, the identification of appendicitis in 1886, and the first replantation of a severed arm in 1962. • William Worrall Mayo, a surgeon from Lancashire, England, traveled to Rochester, Minnesota in 1863, to serve for the military draft board during the American Civil War. His wife and two toddler sons joined him the following year, and Dr. Mayo opened a small private medical practice above the Union Drug Store. His practice thrived for many years, with his sons joining him after their graduation from medical school. An 1883 tornado changed Rochester’s history, destroying one-third of the town, causing 37 deaths and 200 injuries. Talks began about establishing a hospital in Rochester. When it opened in 1889 under the name Saint Mary’s Hospital, the Mayo boys and their father, now 70 years old, joined the staff. As the town outgrew the facility, new clinic buildings were built.

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• Today Mayo Clinic has facilities in Rochester, Jacksonville, Florida, and Phoenix Arizona. The main clinic in Rochester employs upwards of 34,000 people, including over 4,700 physicians and research scientists. Last year, 1.3 million people from all 50 U.S. states and 136 countries came to Mayo Clinic for care. It’s ranked as the No. 1 hospital in the country and is also on the list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”

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• Walter Reed Medical Center is the hospital set aside for the United States’ military forces. It opened in May 1909 through the efforts of Army Major William C. Borden. Borden and his close friend Walter Reed had worked side by side for years at the Army Medical School. Walter Reed had gained recognition as the researcher who discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes rather than by direct contact. Reed studied the disease in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Less than a year after his return from Cuba, Major Reed underwent an appendectomy performed by Major Borden. He developed peritonitis and perished from the ailment within days. Borden lobbied for the new military hospital to be named for his friend. Today, 16,000 active and retired military personnel are admitted to Walter Reed every year. • A simple prayer uttered by entertainer Danny Thomas led to America’s number one pediatric care hospital, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Thomas was a struggling comedian trying to break into the business when he attended Mass at a Detroit church. He put the last of his funds -- $7.00 – into the offering plate and prayed to St. Jude to provide his family, including his soon-to-be-born first child. His prayer, “Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine,” was answered a week later, with a gig that put Thomas on the road to success. ...continued

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• In the wild, catfish feed on the bottom of the water on a diet of insects, snails, other fish, and fish eggs. However, farm-raised fish eat feed pellets made of a mix of soybeans, corn, wheat, and nutrients, that float on the pond’s surface. A catfish’s entire body is covered with about 100,000 taste buds, with the greatest concentration on the whiskers. • Catfish, the fifth most popular fish in America, are one of the most farmed types of fish. Farm-raised catfish are produced in ponds built over soil rich in clay, filled with fresh water pumped from underground wells. The ponds average between 10 and 20 acres in area, and are about 4 to 6 feet deep. It takes between 18 months and two years for a farm-raised catfish to reach one pound. When a young fish reaches a length of 4 inches, it’s referred to as a fingerling. Catfish beds in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi account for 94% of all U.S. farm-raised catfish. Humphreys-Belzoni, Mississippi heralds itself as the Catfish Capital of the World, boasting 117 catfish farms covering 35,000 acres. The community hosts an annual World Catfish Festival, drawing 20,000 visitors to the area. • Channel catfish and blue catfish are the most commonly eaten species in the U.S., with both common in the wild and farm-raised. Rich in Vitamin D, catfish are typically coated in seasoned cornmeal and deep fried. Popular accompaniments in the southern U.S. are coleslaw, hush puppies, and buttermilk biscuits, served with a Mason jar of sweet tea.

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Fact or fiction? Study these facts on mermaids and make your own decision! • The word mermaid has its origins in the Old English word “mere,” translating “sea,” combined with the word “maid”, meaning a young woman.

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• Tales of mermaids first appeared in writing in ancient Assyria, around 1000 B.C., with the legend of the goddess Atargaris falling in love with a mortal, a common shepherd. When the goddess accidentally killed her lover, she was so ashamed, she jumped into a lake and changed herself into the form of a fish that was human above the waist. • Greek mythology likened mermaids to sirens, more dangerous and aggressive creatures who used their enchanting voices to lure ships to crash into rocks or sandbars, and were said to have the ability to call up fog or storms, or cause insanity.

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• While in some folklore, mermaids are associated with danger and misfortune, Irish legends paint a much more romantic picture of benevolence toward mariners, and sailors marrying mermaids and bringing them home. Some Irish families even claim that mermaids are their ancestors and include images of the aquatic creatures on their family crests. • Explorer Christopher Columbus recorded seeing mermaids during his first voyage to the New World. In the ship’s log, he wrote “when the Admiral went to the Rio del Oro he saw three mermaids which rose well out of the sea…they were not as beautiful as they are painted though they have something of a human face.” That’s been explained away by attributing the sight to manatees breaking the ocean surface from beneath patches of seaweed, giving the impression of flowing hair. Manatees have a flat tail and flippers that resemble stubby human arms, and from a great distance, may have resembled a mermaid. ...cont'd

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• Another explorer, Sir Richard Whitburne, who discovered Newfoundland in 1610, also reported the sighting of a mermaid, as well as Answer: Dell. Henry Hudson’s crew during their search for A VERY LARGE NUMBER the Northwest Passage in 1625. The Mermaid •ofEdward Kasner a mathematician. Amboina waswas reportedly captured In off1938 the he was asked to come up with a name coast of Borneo in the mid-18th centuryfor anda very large number: the numeral one, followed is said to have survived for four days. Even in by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young the 21st century, mermaid are reportnephews what name they sightings would suggest. ed, mostly noted in Israel and Zimbabwe. The • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name tourism board in the Israeli town where a merout of the funnies. A cartoon strip character maid wasBarney reported a $1 million named wasoffered very popular. Miltonreward chose toBarney’s the first last person to photograph her. name for the number. To date, rewardannounced has not been •the Kasner the claimed. new name for the big number in next book, alteringfeatured the spelling. • Carvings in his Medieval churches mera comb a mirror, symbol•maids Sixty holding years later, Larryand Page and Sergey Brin izing the sins of pride andsearch vanity. Mermaids developed a new internet engine. Other search aengines eachChristian webpagesouls and holding starfishsearched symbolized ranked according to how many times a who had them been lost to the sin of lust. specific term appeared on them, but Page and • Danish author Hans Christian Andersen pubBrin designed their search engine to search for lished his fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” in the specific term and then find out how many 1837, story of athat young who page, gave linksthe there were led mermaid back to that upwhich her life in the sea to gain a human soul. resulted in a better search engine. Acthe story, honor ofahername birthday, •cording They to decided theyin needed that the mermaid was permitted to swim to surreflected how many websites the the search face, where observed They the birthday celebraengine wasshesearching. took the name of of Edward Kasner’s verybeing largeheld number, only tion a handsome prince on a ship. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being When a storm sank the boat, she saved the spelledfrom exactly the same way the the cartoon prince drowning and delivered uncharacter Barney spelled his last name. What’s conscious royal to the shore. The mermaid barit called? (Answer at bottom of page) gained with a sea-witch, giving the witch her COMPUTER FACTS tongue in exchange for human legs. Unlike the •happily-ever-after In 1981 Bill Gates said, of “640 of memory ending thekb1989 Disney ought to be enough for anybody.” film, the mermaid could not tell the prince of •her Moore’s computer effortsLaw that states savedthat his life, couldperformance not win his doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever Dansince love, and died when he married another. 1971, this has beenErichsen true. ish sculptor Edvard gifted the city of •Copenhagen HP, Google,a bronze Microsoft, and were all statue of Apple the Little Merstarted in garages. maid in 1913, and the 4.1-ft-tall statue sits atop a rock inGoogle, the city’s harbor. Answer: from googol.

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