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Volume 65 | Number 37
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CELEBRATING THE RESIDENTIAL PARK COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
Land Trust Launches Free Program of Videos on Mojave Desert Science
In This Issue
Senior News Line.................................2 Strawberry Lovers’ Pie.........................3 Veterans Post.......................................6 Here to Serve You................................8
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he Mojave Desert Land Trust launched its “Citizen Scientist” program on the YouTube channel at its “Desert Indoors” page last week. The trust’s outreach and public engagement teams launched the program in response to the stayat home order. Citizen scientists who participate can become desert experts with information on pollinators, wildflowers and owls, to name just a few of the subjects. Visit mdlt.org to view the next interpretive nature talk in the Desert Indoors Series. Visit the MOjave Desert Land Trust’s YouTube channel for more for informational videos. The trust’s Desert Discovery Field Studies is one of the outreach programs that has been re-
1. GEOGRAPHY: Which is the only country to have three capital cities? 2. MOVIES: What year did the first Academy Awards ceremony take place?
tooled so the nonprofit can provide free educational content in English and Spanish online. Trust continues to need volunteers. MDLT continues to need volunteers, and has set up a virtual volunteer orientation session with volunteer voordinator Cindy Holland
at 11 a.m. May 23. The 90-minute session will be held online and is limited to 25 participants. To register for the orientation, email cindy@mdlt.org and type “Register for Volunteer Orientation” in the subject line. See the YouTube Channel at mdlt.org/discover-learn.
Here comes your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
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ear not the coronavirus pandemic; your favorite superheroes — and a few lovable villains -- may be able to come to your rescue. At least, that seems to be the thinking in Southeast Asia and its environs, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens. Actors dressed as Spiderman and Superman showed up
• Chickens can see and dream in full color. They also can taste saltiness, but not sweetness. • In 1834, American physician John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup, which previously consisted of fish or mushrooms. As
recently at the request of Indonesian authorities to urge residents and their kids to wash your hands, wear your masks and stay at home. Meanwhile, in the Philippines Darth Vader, himself, and a few of his Stormtroopers recently visited communities on the outskirts of Manila delivering simi-
lar instructive messages as well as supplies. As Spiderman was wont to say: “With great power, comes great responsibility.”
tomatoes contain a healthy dose of vitamins and antioxidants, Bennet then branded his sauce as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice and rheumatism.
• Contrary to what you’d likely expect, this juicy citrus fruit wasn’t named for its bright hue. Instead, the word “orange” came to us from a transliteration of the Sanskrit “naranga,” which was in turn derived from the Tamil “naru,” meaning “fragrant,” which describes its blossoms.
• Japanese high schools often enforce strict conformance when it comes to hair. Half of Tokyo’s schools require students whose locks aren’t naturally black to prove it with baby pictures, while in 2017, a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.
Association of Mature American Citizens provides the Filler Files as a service on issues of concern to Americans over 50.
• The first vending machine was invented by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria and dispensed holy water after a coin was inserted. Hero also came up
3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: In police radio code, what does 10-31 mean? 4. U.S. STATES: What state would a Hoosier come from? 5. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “carpe noctem” mean? 6. GAMES: What color property is Kentucky Avenue in the Monopoly board game? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What do you call an animal that eats plants and meat? 8. SCIENCE: What is the study of mycology? 9. MEDICAL: What is a more common name for varicella? 10. AWARDS: Which group has received the most Nobel Peace prizes? © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6
with the first steam engine and the first wind-powered machine -- a whopping 2,000 years before the Industrial Revolution. • Singularity chess is played on a board that’s distorted in the center, allowing for some pieces to make U-turns and attack the same square in a variety of ways, while bishops can change square colors. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.