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by Kathy Wolfe From politicians to stars to artists — Many famous folks were born this time of year. Let’s look into some notable people born during the second month.

• Although the name Tiffany is most often associated with fine jewelry, Louis Comfort Tiffany started out as a painter then moved to designing stained glass windows, lamps, mosaics and blown glass. He first gained fame when he redecorated many of the rooms in the White House in 1882, 1618 St. Joe Center Road; Fort Wayne, IN 260.481.9223 at the request of President Chester 30 days unlimited Arthur. It was Louis’ father Charles tanning only $19.95 who founded Tiffany & Company in Large variety of lotions 1837, 11 years before Louis’ birth.

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is the great-great-great-grandson • You might not recognize the name of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cooper of Daniel Lawrence Whitney, but himself was amodel for Calvin Klein you’ve probably heard his work. and Ralph Lauren from age 10 to Better known as “Larry the Cable 13.

Guy,” this February 1963 baby got • If Christie Brinkley hadn’t moved to his start as a disc jockey at a Blue Paris to study art in 1973, she may Springs, Missouri, radio station never have been the cover girl on before advancing to the Blue three Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Collar Comedy Tour. He’s often Issue editions and more than 500 heard saying, “Git ‘er done,” and “I other magazine covers. As she don’t care who ya are, that’s funny stood in a Paris post office she right there.” You’ll usually see was “discovered” by an American “Larry” in his trademark “redneck” photographer, Errol Sawyer, who attire — jeans, flannel shirt and took Brinkley’s first modeling camouflage hat. He named his pictures. Speaking of her discovery, daughter Reagan because in his Brinkley has said, “I was basically words, “Ronald Reagan was the a surfer girl from California. I never greatest president ever.” looked like a model.” You’ve seen • Speaking of Ronald Reagan, can her photo on the cover of Vogue, you name this February baby’s Newsweek, Rolling Stone and first screen role? It was the 1937 Esquire, among others, as well film “Love Is on the Air.” Reagan Life magazine’s best-selling issue had actually started his career ever. She’s been the spokesperson “on the air” when the University for Chanel, Max Factor, Nissan, of Iowa hired him in 1932 to Revlon, Halston, Anheuser-Busch broadcast the Hawkeyes’ football and many others. In her free time, games at the rate of $10 per Brinkley is an avid fan of the New game. Reagan appeared in over York Islanders hockey team.

50 movies, but his most famous is probably 1940’s “Knute Rockne, All American.” He entered active military duty during World War II in 1942, but because of his nearsightedness was prohibited from going overseas. He became California’s 33rd governor in 1967 and held the office for two terms.

Although Reagan ranks high in popularity as a U.S. President, he was actually defeated for the nomination in both 1968 and 1976, before finally winning in 1980. His administration is remembered for the end of the Cold War. When Reagan died in 2004 at the age of 93, he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease for over ten years.

• Although we think of Gloria Vanderbilt as a jeans designer, she was first a painter, studying at the Art Students League of New York, and known for her oil paintings, watercolors and pastels. She also did artwork for Hallmark cards. She was born an heiress of the famous Vanderbilt railroad family, and, at the age of 15 months, inherited a half-share in a $5 million trust fund when her father succumbed to cirrhosis. It wasn’t until she was nearing 50 years old that she stepped into the fashion world, starting with a line of scarves. By the mid-1970s, her famous swan logo could be seen on clothing, perfume, leather goods and liqueurs.

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Rosacea is common. Fair-skinned people with light hair are the most susceptible. So are those who blush easily. The actual cause is a bit unclear. Some believe the skin mite Demodex is involved. It lives in hair follicles. But people without rosacea also have the mite, so a cause and effect is not certain.

People with rosacea often have eye involvement, something that’s often overlooked but needs consideration. The eyes feel gritty and might burn. They, too, can become red.

Rosacea isn’t a curable condition, but it is highly treatable. Your husband ought to steer clear of spicy foods, sunlight and extremes of heat and cold. That he doesn’t drink alcohol is in his favor.

Metronidazole cream, gel or lotion, or Azelex (azelaic acid) cream can bring gratifying results.

Over-the-counter benzoyl peroxide often works for an acne breakout. Sometimes oral metronidazole or an oral antibiotic is added to the program.

You or your husband would do well to contact the National Rosacea Society, which can provide you with informative literature and keep you abreast of the latest changes in treatment. The society’s website is www.rosacea.org, and its phone number is 888-NO-BLUSH. *** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Is it possible to have had a heart attack and not know it?

I am a 59-year-old man and had my first-ever EKG this past week. The doctor tells me I had a heart attack. I have never had anything that felt like a heart attack. I don’t smoke and never have. Heart attacks don’t run in my family. My mother and father are alive at 85. I weigh 155 pounds and have weighed that since I was discharged from the Army, more than 35 years ago. Could this be a mistake? -- R.S. ANSWER: As many as 20 percent of heart attacks are silent, producing no pain or other symptoms. Those attacks are discovered when an EKG happens to be taken at a later date.

It’s also true that the EKG might show the pattern of an old heart attack without one ever having occurred.

If you want to settle the matter, consult a cardiologist. It’s probably the wise thing to do.

The booklet on heart attacks explains why they happen and how to recognize them. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 102W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. *** Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2011 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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2. In 2010, Garrett Jones became the sixth Pittsburgh Pirate to homer twice on Opening Day. Name three of the first five to do it.

3. How many consecutive NFL seasons did LaDainian Tomlinson rush for at least 10 touchdowns?

4. Name the last Ivy League men’s basketball team before Cornell in 2010 to win a game in the NCAA Tournament.

5. Who were the only teammates to each top 100 points during the 2009-10 NHL season?

6. When was the last time before 2010 that Spain’s men’s soccer team reached the semifinals of the World Cup? 7. How many different times did Sugar Ray Robinson hold the world middleweight boxing title?

Answers 1. Bob, with St. Louis, no-hit the Phillies in 1978; Ken (Houston) no-hit Atlanta in 1979.

2. Dale Long (1956), Richie Hebner (1974), Willie Stargell (1975), Andy Van Slyke (1990) and Xavier Nady (2008).

3. Nine (2001-09).

4. Princeton beat UNLV in 1998.

5. Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin (109 points) and Nicklas Backstrom (101 points).

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TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD as of Feb 5, 2011 1. The Social Network (PG-13) Jesse Eisenberg 2. Takers (PG-13) Chris Brown 3. Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) Steve Carrell 4. Buried (R) Ryan Reynold 5. The Town (R) Ben Affleck 6. Case 39 (R) Renee Zellweger 7. Machete (R) Danny Trejo 8. Piranha (R) Elisabeth Shue 9. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (PG-13) Michael Douglas 10. Inception (PG-13) Leonardo DiCaprio Top 10 DVD Sales 1. The Social Network (PG-13) (Sony) 2. Alpha and Omega (PG) (Lionsgate) 3. Machete (R) (Fox) 4. Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) (DreamWorks) 5. Despicable Me (PG) (Universal) 6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13) (Summit) 7. The Last Exorcism (PG-13) (Lionsgate) 8. Piranha (R) (Sony) 9. Salt (PG-13) (Sony) 10. The Other Guys (PG-13) (Sony) Source: Rentrak Corp. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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It was Irish author Oscar Wilde who made the following sage observation: “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

• The sun is one million times the size of the earth.

• Coffee was first discovered around 1000 A.D. by Arabs. At the time, it was used strictly for medicinal or religious purposes.

• Harper Lee’s iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” celebrated the 50th anniversary of its publication last year. The film will celebrate its anniversary next year, marking 50 years since Gregory Peck portrayed Atticus Finch, whom the American Film Institute named the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. Harper Lee was so impressed with Gregory Peck’s performance, in fact, that she gave the actor her deceased father’s pocket watch. Peck, however, lost it.

• Before the roller coaster was invented, some inspired entrepreneur began building deliberately undulating tracks for cars. Early thrill-seekers would pay a fee to drive on them.

• Those who calculate such things say that the odds of the same number coming out on top in eight successive rolls of a six-sided die are 1 in 1,679,616.

• Fifth-century conqueror Attila the Hun died on his wedding night, though it’s unclear from the records whether he died from internal bleeding caused by too much drinking or was murdered by his bride.

• If you’re like 24 percent of women in the United States, you shave every day.

• In 1978, the endangered Hawaiian bird the palila was named as the plaintiff in a lawsuit. In Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the bird won. *** Thought for the Day: “The saying ‘Getting there is half the fun’ became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.” -- Henry J. Tillman (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• We’ve been listening to Don Pardo introduce “Saturday Night Live’s” “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” since the program premiered in 1975. Baby boomers may remember Pardo as the announcer on the original “Jeopardy!” game show with host Art Fleming from 1964 to 1975. Pardo, who turns 93 on February 22, officially retired from NBC in 2004 and now prerecords his Saturday Night Live introductions from a studio in his Arizona home.

• Two Hungarian sisters, both born in February, achieved movie stardom in America. Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor were born the same week two years apart, Zsa Zsa in 1917 and Eva in 1919. Eva was the first sister to come to the United States, along with her husband, Dr. Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician who later was doctor to film legend Greta Garbo.

Although Eva appeared nearly 30 movies, she’s best known for her portrayal of Lisa Douglas, the ditzy blond wife on the six seasons of the 1960s sitcom “Green Acres.” Zsa Zsa was Miss Hungary, 1936 and emigrated to the States five years later, where she had 40 film roles and scores of television appearances over the years. Neither sister was a stranger to marriage — Zsa Zsa had nine husbands, while Eva was married five times.

• Nearly everyone has seen the stunning black-and-white photographs of Yosemite National Park snapped by Ansel Adams.

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and contributed to the team’s his major league career, one seven pennants and four World that would span 23 seasons. By FEBRUARY SLUGGERS Series titles. Prior to his arrival, 1955, Aaron had already made the Yankees had never won a his first All-Star team, a feat he Two great home run hitters entered pennant. would repeat 20 more times. He the world during February. Both • In 1927, the Bambino became spent 21 seasons with the Braves overcame difficult childhoods to go the first player to hit 60 homers in (first Milwaukee, then Atlanta). on to record-setting fame. one season, a record that stood His final two seasons were with • A rough neighborhood in until 1961 when it was broken by the Milwaukee Brewers.

Baltimore, Maryland, known as Roger Maris. His record of 714 • In the final game of the 1973 Pigtown was the birthplace of home runs was on the books season, “Hammerin’ Hank” tied the “Sultan of Swat,” George for 41 years. He retired at age Babe Ruth’s home run record of Herman Ruth Jr. Of the family’s 40 in 1935 after 21 seasons.

714. During the ensuing winter, eight children, only George The Babe perished from throat he received death threats and and one sister survived. His cancer in 1948. hate mail from those who didn’t mother battled tuberculosis for • Hank Aaron spent his childhood want to see the Babe’s record many years, and when he was in poverty, picking cotton on an broken by a black man. On April just seven years old, his father Alabama farm. When his family 8, 1974, in a game between the brought him to an orphanage/ didn’t have money for baseball Braves and the Los Angeles reformatory, St. Mary’s Industrial equipment, he hit bottle caps Dodgers, Aaron reached that School for Boys, operated by with sticks. Attending high school goal on a pitch from Al Downing. the Xaverian Brothers Jesuit in Mobile, Hank played outfield In October of that year, he hit missionaries. There, Ruth Sr. and third base on the school’s his 733rd home, which proved signed over custody of his son, championship team but was also to be his last as a member of and for the next 12 years, Babe a success on the football team. the Braves ball club. Within a saw his family only on special In fact, he received several month, the Braves traded him to occasions. He learned the trade scholarship offers to play college the Milwaukee Brewers. of tailoring and shirt making at football, but turned them down, • During Aaron’s first season with the school, and played in the knowing that baseball was his the Brewers, he broke Babe school band. first love.

Ruth’s all-time RBI record of • Brother Mathias Boutlier was • A spot on a Negro League team, 2,217. Aaron still holds the allSt. Mary’s Head of Discipline the Mobile Black Bears, came time record with 2,297 runs and took young Ruth under his along in his junior year of high batted in. His final home run, wing, teaching him the game of school, and Aaron was paid $10 No. 755, was achieved during baseball. In 1919, at 19, Ruth per game. At 17, he was given his last season in July of 1976, a signed with the Boston Red Sox, a minor league contract with the record that stayed in place until and being the youngest member Indianapolis Clowns, part of the 2007, when Barry Bonds hit his of the team, was given the Negro American League. Three 756th. nickname “Babe.” He was sold years later in 1954, he started to the Yankees five years later OVERCOMING THE ODDS:

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A Texas couple, one of them an attorney, was indicted last summer for stealing more than $2 million from veterans they were sworn to protect. They’d been declared fiduciaries and legal guardians for veterans who’d been deemed incompetent to handle their own affairs. According to the 26-count indictment, this couple had been at it since 2003.

But what of veterans who are declared incompetent without any due process whatsoever?

The Department of Veterans Affairs took a married couple who didn’t need money-managing help, said the veteran was 100 percent disabled with PTSD and declared him incompetent and in need of a fiduciary representative. With the stroke of a pen, this couple is no longer capable of making decisions about their money?

In another case, a son (with a power of attorney) had been handling his veteran father’s money for many years.

Suddenly, a doctor said the veteran was incompetent and the VA assigned an attorney to manage his money. The attorney grabbed the money in the account and put it into another one, which the son has no access to. All this without a hearing, without input from family and without the knowledge of the veteran.

The abuses go on and on, they include: --Veterans forced to accept a fiduciary situation they didn’t ask for, don’t want and weren’t told about in advance.

--Veterans who have their utilities cut off because the fiduciary hasn’t paid the bills on time.

--Spouse fiduciaries who have been sued because the VA has appointed two fiduciaries, and the other one wants the money.

The Veterans Administration Office of the Inspector General (VAOIG) is great at nabbing those who steal from veterans, but what about the VA itself forcing veterans into fiduciary relationships against their will? When will it look at that?

Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@ gmail.com. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Is the Book of Rehoboam in the Old or New Testament or neither?

2. From Genesis 4, what righteous man started the practice of herding sheep?

Adam, Cain, Abel, Job 3. How many times is the word “Bible” mentioned in the scripture of the Bible (KJV)? Zero, 3, 49, more than 1,000

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We all know that hearts are synonymous with Valentine’s Day. This week, Tidbits studies up on the human heart, the muscle that “takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’!”

• Just a little larger than the size of your fist, your heart weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (200 to 425 g). The average heart beats about 72 times per minute, which is about 100,000 times a day. You do the math —That’s 3.6 million times every year. If you live 70 years, that’s 2.5 billion beats over the course of your lifetime.

• Every day your heart pumps 2,000 gallons (7,570 l) of blood through your body’s 60,000 miles (96,560 km) of blood vessels. Turn on your kitchen faucet full blast for the next 45 years and that will equal the amount of blood pumped by your heart during your lifetime. That’s about 1.5 million gallons (5,678,118 l), which would fill about 200 tanker cars on a train.

• About four weeks after conception, a fetus’ heart starts beating. Its heart rate is about 150 beats per minute, twice as fast as an adult’s.

At 12 weeks, its heart is pumping 60 pints (28 l) of blood every day.

• The heart cavity is made up of four parts, two upper chambers

and two lower chambers. The every year. After two years, about upper compartments are called 80 percent of recipients are alive, the right and left atria, and the and after five years, 73 percent of lower chambers are the right and males and 67 percent of females left ventricles. The body’s largest still survive. Medical research artery, the aorta, originates from has shown that same-gender the left ventricle, the largest and transplants have better results. strongest chamber that pumps to • The world’s longest-surviving heart all body parts. Its walls are about transplant recipient lived 31 years ½ inch (1.27 cm) thick. Your body after his surgery. Tony Huesman was contains about 75 trillion cells that 20 years old when viral pneumonia receive blood from the heart. Only damaged his heart and he received one body part, the cornea, receives a new one in 1978. He lived until no blood.

2009, when ironically, it was cancer The word “cardiac” means “related that claimed his life. Kelly Perkins to the heart,” and has its origins in received her new heart in 1995 the Greek word for heart, kardia. and has since climbed Mt. Fuji, Mt. There’s a difference between the Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn, Mt. hearts of men and women. The Whitney and Argentina’s Cajon de man’s is typically about 2 ounces Arenales.

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When you have a good belly laugh, up to 20 percent more blood is pumped throughout your entire body. This can contribute to stress reduction, so laugh it up!

The world’s first successful human heart transplant was completed in 1967 by South African physician Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The recipient Louis Washansky lived 18 days. Today, heart recipients live an average of 15 years. About 3,500 transplants are performed

4. According to Jesus, what was Satan from the beginning? Deceiver, Evil, Thief, Murderer 5. In Biblical times, which was a large unit of money or weight? Levy, Talent, Shekel, Sepulcher 6. Of these, who wasn’t a son of Noah?

Shem, Ham, Levi, Japheth ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Abel; 3) Zero; 4) Murderer; 5) Talent; 6) Levi Wilson Casey’s new book, “Firsts: Origins of Everyday Things That Changed the World,” is available from Alpha/Penguin publishing. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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