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▲ On Aug. 25, 1835, the start of a six-part series announcing the discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper. Sales of the paper soared as readers believed the tales about unicorns, twolegged beavers and furry, winged humanoids. Even Yale University scientists were fooled. ▲ On Aug. 19, 1909, the first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After the unstable rock and tar track caused the deaths of six people that day, the surface was replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks. ▲ On Aug. 21, 1920, Daphne Milne, wife of writer A.A. Milne, gives birth to a son, whom they name Christopher Robin Milne. He would be immortalized in A.A. Milne’s books “Winnie-the-Pooh” and “The House at Pooh Corner.” ▲ On Aug. 20, 1975, Viking 1, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Mars. On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down on the Chryse Planitia region, becoming the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars. ▲ On Aug. 22, 1989, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers becomes the first pitcher in major league history to record 5,000 career strikeouts. Ryan would go on to compile 5,714 strikeouts, a record that still stands. ▲ On Aug. 23, 1999, seven people die in New York from what turns out to be the first cases of West Nile virus in the United States. West Nile virus, previously found only in

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a million bouquets of flowers were laid outside the gates following the death of Princess Diana. • Kensington Palace was known as Nottingham House when William III purchased it from the Earl of Nottingham in 1689. • Highgrove House is the country property of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla. Although completed in 1798, it didn’t become royal property until 1980. Charles remodeled the home, which sits on about 900 acres (364 ha), and is a working farm. The Prince has cultivated 100 acres of spectacular gardens, which receive upwards of 30,000 visitors annually. He has published five books on his project, including his principles of organic gardening. • When in London, Charles and Camilla reside at Clarence House, a home inhabited by Queen Elizabeth’s mother for more than 50 years, as well as by Elizabeth and Phillip for six years when she was just a princess. The house has always been owned by the royal family, having been completed on the grounds of St. James’s Palace in 1827. • Henry VIII built St. James’s Palace in 1536, and it was the home to kings and queens until Queen Victoria’s reign. She married Prince Albert in the Palace’s chapel in 1840. It’s home to Princess Anne, and four other princesses. • Sandringham House sits on 20,000

Uganda and the Middle East, had been contracted by birds and spread by mosquitoes. ▲ On Aug. 30, 1776, Gen. George Washington rejects British Gen. William Howe’s second letter of reconciliation. Howe had failed to use Washington’s title of “general” when addressing the letter. ▲ On Sept. 1, 1864, renowned Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow drowns off the North Carolina coast when her craft capsizes while fleeing a Union gunboat. Greenhow was carrying Confederate dispatches and $2,000 in gold sewn into her underclothes. The weight of the gold pulled her under. ▲ On Aug. 28, 1917, 10 women suffragists are arrested as they picket the White House to demand that President Woodrow Wilson support a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. After the jailed women went on a hunger strike and had to be force fed for months, Wilson finally agreed to a suffrage amendment. ▲ On Aug. 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in New York. The video coverage was somewhat crude. There were only two stationary camera angles. ▲ On Aug. 31, 1955, William Cobb of General Motors demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sunmobile,” the world’s first solar-powered automobile, at an auto show in Chicago. ▲ On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead of an accidental drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home. In 1962, Epstein was hired in a deal that gave him 25 percent of the band’s gross earnings for five years. (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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acres, including 60 acres of gardens. This country retreat was the wedding gift from Queen Victoria to her son Edward in 1862. It’s the royal tradition to spend Christmas at Sandringham. • Anmer Hall, built in the 18th century, is part of the Sandringham estate and was a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth to William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. • Hillsborough Castle is the British royal family’s home in Northern Ireland, an 18th-century country house, purchased by the British government in 1922. It’s also the official residence of that country’s Secretary of State. • Half a mile (800 m) south of Windsor is Frogmore House, a 10-bedroom house that was purchased by Queen Charlotte in 1792. Queen Victoria gifted it to her mother in 1840. The estate has been called such since Queen Victoria had breakfast there in 1875, and commented on the “immense number of little frogs,” which she found “quite disgusting.” The estate is located in a low-lying, marshy area near the River Thames where these amphibians are found in abundance. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their wedding reception at Frogmore House, and have recently moved into Frogmore Cottage, a 10-bedroom home on the grounds. • Scotland is home to two royal residences, Balmoral Castle and the Palace

of Holyrood House. If the Queen is on an official visit, she stays at Holyrood, while Balmoral is a private residence. Balmoral Castle, located in Aberdeenshire, was a gift to Queen Victoria from her husband Prince Albert in 1852. An older castle was demolished because it was too small, and the current castle was completed in 1856. It’s a working farm of about 50,000 acres (20,000 ha), with herds of deer, cattle, and ponies, along with a private golf course and 150 buildings. The grounds are also home to the Royal Lochnagar Single Malt whiskey distillery. A sevenbedroom stone house, Craigowan Lodge, a mile from the main castle, was a retreat for Charles and Diana during their marriage. Another residence on the property, Birkhall, dating to 1715, is the summer retreat for Charles and Camilla. • Holyrood House got its start as an Edinburgh monastery in 1128. James IV rebuilt it as a palace in 1501 for his bride, the sister of Henry VIII. Mary, Queen of Scots also spent the majority of her life there. • Prince Charles is also the Duke of Cornwall, which entitles him to the island property, Tamarisk, on the island of St. Mary’s, in the Isles of Scilly off the tip of Cornwall. When in Wales, the Prince stays at Llwynywermod, his 192-acre (0.78 sq. km) estate in Carmarthenshire.

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at the nearest train station. • The next year his partners left him, and Ward continued to expand his offerings and catalog. His brother-in-law joined up shortly afterward. By 1883, the “Wish Book,” as Ward’s catalog was popularly known, was 240 pages featuring 10,000 items. In 1888, annual sales reached $1 million. • In 1895, Ward experienced his first significant competition when Richard Warren Sears released his general merchandise catalog. Sears had been using printed mailers since 1888, but just to advertise watches and jewelry. In 1895, he added sewing machines, sporting goods, musical instruments, saddles, baby buggies, clothing, eyeglasses, and a host of other products. By 1900, while Ward had total sales of $8.7 million, Sears had rung up $10 million. In the struggle for dominance, in 1904, Ward mailed out 3 million catalogs, each weighing 4 lbs. (1.8 kg). • Not everyone loved the Wish Book. It was an object of scorn to rural

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● Those who study such things say that Niagara Falls will only last another 2,400 years.

● According to the Crayola Company, you can eat 3,500 of their crayons a day and still not reach the level of toxicity found in an ordinary glass of drinking water. They don’t mention how -- or why -- anyone would consume that many crayons in a lifetime, let alone a single day.

● Most people are aware of the fact that scorpions have eight legs -- they are, after all, arachnids -- but you probably didn’t realize that they also have eight eyes.

● In the language known as Ewe, spoken by some natives of West Africa, the concepts of “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are expressed by the same word. If you were to translate that word literally into English, you’d come up with “not now.”

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● You might be surprised to learn that Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” was originally titled “First Impressions.”

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