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• Five U.S. presidents were born in a log cabin – Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and James Garfield. Although we think of Illinois as the Land of Lincoln, Abe was actually born near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Tourists who visit the site of Lincoln’s birthplace will see a cabin “representative of the type of cabin that Lincoln’s family would have lived in when he was born in 1809.” The original cabin is long gone. A Greek-style temple constructed in 1909 houses the replica cabin that is built from logs from the period. • About ten days and one acre of sod were needed to build a 12 x 14 foot sod house on the Great Plains. Rectangles of sod measuring 1 x 2 feet were stacked to form the walls. Colorful wildflowers were often seen sprouting from the roof. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided 160 acres of free land, as long as the homesteader was 21 years old, paid an $18 filing fee, built a home, farmed the land, made improvements, and had continuous residence for five years. There were 4 million homestead claims, with just 1.6 million deeds actually obtained. • An Indiana doctor named Brewster Higley acquired land in Smith County, Kansas in 1871 under the Homestead Act and built a cabin along West Beaver Creek. He loved his surroundings so much, he penned a poem entitled “My Western Home,” which was published by the local newspaper in 1874. His friend, Daniel Kelley, a Rhode Island musician and Civil War veteran, set the words to music. “Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam” was the opening line of the well-known cowboy serenade we know as “Home on the Range.” It’s the official state song of Kansas. ...continued
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• Gagarin’s early life was rather ordinary, growing up in the Russian village of Klushino. He loved sports, especially hockey, playing as his team’s goalie. En- • The Vostok I flight ended up being Gagarin’s only space flight. He was chosen as the backup pilot for thralled with flying from his youth, Yuri participated fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on the Soyuz in a group of young people that built model airplanes. I mission in April, 1967. Gagarin felt that safety was At age 16, he entered an apprenticeship as a foundryan issue after several system failures aboard the craft. man at a steel plant near Moscow. Yet the rocket blasted off and orbited Earth 18 times • By age 19, Gagarin had joined the Soviet Air Force’s before module crashed to the ground during its depilot school. Four years later, in 1959, he was one of scent to Earth when its parachutes failed to open, six young men selected for cosmonaut training. Due to killing Komarov. The Soviet officials immediately the small space in the Vostok capsule, candidates were banned Gagarin from any further spaceflights, fearrequired to weigh less than 159 lbs. and not exceed 5 ing the loss of another national hero. ft. 7 in in height. Gagarin stood just 5 ft. 2 in tall. • Having been trained as a fighter jet pilot, Gagarin re• The cosmonauts began their vigorous physical trainsumed regular aircraft training, which he completed ing for the flight in March, 1960. Endurance tests inin February, 1968. Just five weeks later, Gagarin and cluded oxygen starvation where they were locked in a another pilot were killed while on a routine training flight. Gagarin was 34 years old, and left behind his chamber as the air was slowly pumped out, along with wife and two daughters, aged 7 and 9. experiencing G-forces in a centrifuge. The cosmonauts were asked to vote anonymously for who should • When American astronauts Neil Armstrong and be the first to fly, and Gagarin was chosen by his peers. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969, they left a memorial contain• The 27-year-old Gagarin blasted off from Baikonur ing medals on the Cosmodrome that April morning at 6:07 after giving Moon’s surface to a farewell of “Poyekhali!” or “Off we go!.” Vostok I honor Gagarin. The orbited the Earth for one hour and 48 minutes, during following year, a which Gagarin uttered the first words ever spoken in crater on the far side outer space, “I see the Earth! It is beautiful!” When of the moon was the spacecraft reached 23,000 feet, Gagarin ejected named after him. according to plan and landed in Kazakhstan using a
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• On March 13, 1836, Texan Gen. Sam Houston begins a series of strategic retreats to buy time to train his ill-prepared army, which consisted of 374 poorly equipped men. A month later, his newly trained army won a stunning victory against Mexico's Santa Anna. • On March 10, 1902, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that despite his claims, Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. It did admit that Edison invented the sprocket system that moved perforated film through the camera. • On March 8, 1917, the February Revolution begins when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd. A week later, centuries of czarist rule in Russia ended with the abdication of Nicholas II. Vladimir Lenin returned home and took control of the Russian Revolution.
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• On March 11, 1942, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur abandons the island of Corregidor under orders from President Franklin Roosevelt. Left behind were 90,000 American and Filipino troops, who would soon succumb to the Japanese offensive. Only onethird of those left behind survived to see MacAuthur's return in January 1945. • On March 12, 1969, the London drug squad appears at house of Beatle George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd with a warrant and drug-sniffing canines. Sgt. Pilcher, the man behind the raid, was convicted of planting drugs in other cases and went to jail in 1972. • On March 9, 1979, Major League Baseball teams are ordered by the MLB commissioner to allow equal access to all reporters. The order came after Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke's successful lawsuit for refusing her access to clubhouses at Yankee Stadium during the 1977 World Series. • On March 7, 1988, representatives of the Writers Guild of America called a strike for all the union's members. The five-month walkout was estimated to cost Hollywood some $500 million, as many viewers began watching cable channels.
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Since the first week of March has been designated National Cheerleading Week, Tidbits is showing its support for this group of athletes. • Back in 1883, Princeton graduate Thomas Peebles, who had been a “yell leader” at the university, moved to Minneapolis to coach the University of Minnesota football team and teach philosophy. When the team was going through a losing streak, Peebles promoted the idea of an organized pep squad to cheer on the players, and in 1898, a team of six male cheerleaders, led by Johnny Campbell, rallied the spectators in support of the team at a game that is considered the birth of cheerleading. • Cheerleading remained an all-male activity until the 1920s, with the University of Minnesota a pioneer in allowing women to join the squad in 1923. Women generally were not allowed until the 1940s. Today, well over 90% of American cheerleaders are female. • In 1948, a cheerleader from southern Methodist University named “Herkie” Herkimer, devised a move that became known as the Herkie Jump. It’s a well-known cheerleader move in which one leg is bent towards the ground and the other leg is out to the side as high as it will go in the toe touch position. Herkimer is also credited with the invention of the pom-pom, a word derived from the French word “pompe,” meaning “tuft of ribbons.” • Both women who co-hosted “Live!” alongside Regis Philbin were high school cheerleaders. Kathie Lee Gifford was on the squad at her Bowie, Maryland high school, and Kelly Ripa was a cheerleader at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Another daytime icon, chef Rachael Ray, cheered at Lake George, New York High School.
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• How about some famous males who cheered on the team as youths? Steve Martin was a cheerleader at Southern California’s Garden Grove High School. He moved on to his first job – selling guidebooks at Disneyland, two miles from his home. Samuel L. Jackson attended an all-male college and joined the cheerleading squad in order to meet girls at the neighboring all-female school. Actor Kirk Douglas was on the squad at his high school in Amsterdam, New York in the 1930s. His son Michael Douglas followed suit at Choate Preparatory School in Wallingford, Connecticut in the 1960s. • Four U.S. presidents were members of a cheerleading squad – Franklin D. Roosevelt at Harvard, Dwight D. Eisenhower at West Point, Ronald Reagan at Eureka College, and George W. Bush, who was head cheerleader at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1963. • The NFL started up cheerleader squads in the 1960s, when the Baltimore Colts became the first team to create an official squad. However, NFL cheerleaders didn’t really enter the spotlight until 1972, when the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders debuted highly-choreographed dance routines in their star-spangled uniforms. Prior to that, the Cowboys’ squad was a male and female group known as the CowBells & Beaux, a team of local high school students. The common rate of pay for an NFL cheerleader is about $100 to $200 per game. • Males didn’t join NFL cheerleading squads until 2018 when the Los Angeles Rams squad added two classically-trained male dancers. • Cheerleading is not without its risks. Although just 3% of the nearly 3 million female high school athletes are cheerleaders, they account for over 66% of catastrophic injuries. It’s no surprise that football is most dangerous high school and college sport, but cheerleading is Number Two. Locally Owned
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