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In This Issue: • Marketplace – Pg 2 • Douglas– Pg 3 • Home & Garden – Pg 4 • Glenrock, WY – Pg 6
• Wheatland, WY– Pg 6 • Good Health - Pg 7 • Classifieds – Pg 8 • Puzzle Answers – Pg 8
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RED AND GREEN by Kathy Wolfe
‘Tis the season for the display of red and green. However, this week, Tidbits examines a variety of red and green things not related to the season. • Red is a primary color, meaning that it is a pigment that cannot be made by combining any two colors. Garnet, scarlet, crimson, vermillion, carmine, rose, brick, cardinal … no matter the shade, they all spell red! We often associate red with love, passion, and romance, but it also symbolizes strength, confidence, and leadership. The red of the American flag represents valor and bravery. But it can also mean hatred, anger, danger, and malice. Pirates flew a red flag above their ship when they meant to show no mercy to their
OUT OUR GROWING CLASSIFIED PAGE! targeted prey. Likewise, during the Middle Ages, armies carrying a red flag signified “mortal warfare,” in which no enemy soldiers would be spared or taken prisoner. A red flag on the racetrack means there is potential danger to drivers. • In China, the color red denotes happiness and fortune. Brides wear red dresses and walk down a red carpet to the groom, who lifts her red veil. When the couple has children, friends and family give them red eggs. During Chinese New Year, homes are decorated with red, red clothing is worn, and unmarried children are given red envelopes filled with “luck money.” • Back in 1976, the Mars candy company eliminated red M&Ms from the mix of one of our favorite candies. This was due to the “Red Dye No. 2” scare, when the dye in red food coloring was linked to cancer in a 1971 Russian study. When FDA testing concluded that the colorant caused malignant tumors in female rats, it was banned, and red M&Ms were replaced with orange ones. We lived Continued on Page 2
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without red M&Ms for over a decade, even though Red Dye No. 2 wasn’t even used in them. In 1987, the red ones reappeared, along with the orange ones, which were retained in the bag. • The red carpet has become synonymous with status, celebrity, and prestige. We roll out the red carpet at awards ceremonies, for royalty, and for leaders. The tradition got its start in Ancient Greece, around 460 BC, when the story was told of a king returning from the Trojan War being welcomed with a red carpet. As time went one, only religious leaders and royalty walked the red carpet. Red dye came from an expensive dye made from cochineal insects, only afforded by those with considerable wealth. In 1821, fifth president, James Monroe, became the first U.S. leader to have the red carpet rolled out. In 1922, the custom migrated to the entertainment world when the stars of “Robin Hood” walked on a red carpet to enter the film’s premiere at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theater. The red carpet at the annual Academy Awards, where stars pause to make their entrance, is 900 feet long (274 m) and 33 feet (10 m) wide. • Rubies and sapphires below to the family of the mineral corundum, a very hard and tough mineral, second only to diamonds in
How about lime, olive, hunter, avocado, mint, sage, emerald, kelly, celadon, and chartreuse, just to name a few! • Because it’s the most common color in nature, the color green represents growth and the future. It’s also associated with prosperity, hope, and health. However, it’s also linked to the negative emotions of envy and jealousy, as the “green-eyed monster rears its head.” • Just 2% of the world’s population has green eyes. This compares with 79% of people with brown eyes, 8% with blue, and 5% with hazel eyes. Green eyes, which often are associated with German or Celtic ancestry, are most common in the Netherlands, Scotland, Iceland, Great Britain, and Scandinavia. • That rubbery character known as Gumby was created by a 32-year-old animator, Art Clokey, in 1953, when the figure appeared in a three-minute animated film. Clokey named his creation Gumby after the muddy clay, or gumbo, found at his grandparents’ farm. Clokey’s wife suggested that Gumby be modeled after the Gingerbread Man, and Clokey colored him green so that he would racially neutral and a symbol of life. Gumby’s hardness. Rubies get their red color from slanted head was modeled after Clokey’s chromium, and father’s hairstyle. all rubies are red, “The Gumby named as such There hath no temptation Show” ran for 233 from the Latin taken you but such as is episodes from 1956 word “ruber” for common to man: but God is faithful, to 1981, along with red. who will not suffer you to be tempted a feature-length • Rubies are made above that ye are able; but will with film. Gumbo under extreme heat the temptation also make a way to and Gumba are and pressure below escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Gumby’s parents, the Earth’s surface. 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV and Nopey is his Under the pressure, dog, since the oxygen and Brought to you by Roger Davis pet’s one-word aluminum atoms vocabulary is the become corundum. word “nope. ” When chromium Dr. Seuss • is present, the red introduced his green-skinned Grinch in hue is created. The world’s finest rubies the 1957 book “How the Grinch Stole are mined in Burma, with a lesser quality Christmas.” According to the story, the mined in Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Grinch had secluded himself on the cliff Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. The gift above the town of Whoville for the previous of ruby jewelry symbolizes love, passion, 53 years, because, according to the Whos, and commitment. • How many different ways can you say green? Continued on Page 4
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the Montgomery Ward company because it refused to comply with a labor collective bargaining agreement. Roosevelt said • On Dec. 30, 1803, Francis Lewis, signer of strikes in wartime the Declaration of Independence, dies in cannot be New York City at age 90. Lewis’ patriotism condoned. came at a high • O n cost: The British Dec. 29, army destroyed his 1956, the Archipelago, 1918-1956,” is published in Long Island estate New York Times leaks news that the Paris. On Feb. 12, 1974, Solzhenitsyn was and took his wife United States is preparing a major arrested, stripped of his citizenship and prisoner in 1776. policy statement on the Middle East. deported. • On Jan. 1, 1863, The Eisenhower Doctrine would • On Jan. 2, 1980, in response to the farmer Daniel proclaim that the U.S. would use December 1979 Soviet invasion of Freeman submits force in the Middle East to contain Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asks the first claim under Soviet aggression. the Senate to postpone action on the SALT the new Homestead • On Dec. 31, 1968, the Soviet II nuclear weapons treaty. Carter feared Act for a property Union’s TU-144 supersonic airliner that the Soviet invasion could lead to its in Nebraska. By makes its first flight, months ahead gaining control over much of the world’s the 1890s, many of the Anglo-French Concorde. In oil supplies. homesteaders found 1965, the French had arrested Sergei that farming 160 Pavlov, head of the Paris office of the (c) 2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. acres of such dry Soviet airliner Aeroflot, for illegally All Rights Reserved land was nearly impossible, and at least half obtaining classified information about the original claims were abandoned. France’s supersonic project. • On Dec. 27, 1944, during World War • On Dec. 28, 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s II, President Franklin Roosevelt gives “literary investigation” of the police-state orders to seize properties belonging to system in the Soviet Union, “The Gulag
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he was born with a heart that was “two sizes too small.” The first film adaptation was a 1966 television special, in which the Grinch was voiced by famous horror film actor Boris Karloff. • The Minnesota Valley Canning Company opened in Le Sueur, Minnesota in 1903, using the brand name “Le Sueur Z” for its canned vegetables. In 1925, they first used the brand name “Green Giant,” but it was three years before the company incorporated the figure of a giant into their advertising dressed in a bearskin. Ten years later, the giant’s garb was changed to a leafy suit, he was given a big smile, and became the “Jolly Green Giant.” Television advertising added the familiar “Ho ho, ho” in 1961, and the Giant’s sidekick, Little Green Sprout, debuted in 1972. Sixty miles south of the cannery lies the city of Blue Earth, Minnesota, where in 1978, a 55-foot (17 m) fiberglass statue of the Jolly Green Giant was erected. When the interstate was routed to bypass Blue Earth, a local radio station owner rallied local business owners to contribute to the construction of the four-ton figure to attract tourists to their community. It took just a week for the $50,000 in necessary funds to be raised. About 10,000 folks visit the statue each year. WONDERFUL WORDS: CLOTHING ITEMS Even a fashionista might have trouble recognizing all of these clothing items. Follow along as Tidbits “dresses up.” • Members of several religious orders wear habits as an outward sign of their undertaking of the religious life. The word has its origins in the Latin word “habitus,”
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meaning an acquired discipline. There are several parts of the habit, beginning with the coif, a cap-like head covering the hair. The coif is topped by the wimple, which encircles the neck and covers the chin. The white guimpe lies on the shoulders and covers the shoulders and the lower part of the neck. The tunic, a loose pleated cloak drapes over the torso, flowing to the ground. The long scapular sits on the shoulders and covers the wearer’s front and back down to the knees. • You may have seen folks wearing Lederhosen at your local Oktoberfest festival. Although it may sound like stockings, Lederhosen are actually short or kneelength breeches, made popular by Alpine men in Bavaria, Austria, and Switzerland. The word comes from the German language, translating into English as “leather breeches.” Traditional Lederhosen are made from leather because they easier to clean after a day of strenuous labor. • During the early days of cattle drives, cowboys needed a coat that would protect their clothing from the dust of the trail. The full-length duster was designed with a slit up the back to the hip to accommodate riding on horseback. Originally made from light-colored canvas, they were modified to oilcloth or waxed cotton as a safeguard against prairie rainstorms. Dusters became known as part of the uniform for the early Texas Rangers. When open automobiles came along at the turn of the 20th century, both men and women wore them to protect clothing from the dusty dirt roads. • Are you old enough to remember the Nehru jacket? This hip-length tailored jacket features a narrow stand-up collar and no lapels. The close-fitted single-breasted garment has one row of buttons up the front. It’s named for the first Prime Minister of India, who became the leader when India achieved independence from Great Britain in 1947. Jawaharial Nehru was pictured on the cover of Vogue magazine in 1964 in his traditional jacket. Once the Beatles adopted the look, a new fashion trend was born. • Another Indian ruler, Rao Jodha, founded the city of Jodhpur in northwestern India
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in 1459. His name now refers to riding breeches, or jodhpurs, which are cut full over the hips and taper from the knees to a tight fit at a cuffed ankle. The term also refers to the short riding boots worn by riders. • Back in the first half of the 19th century, ladies wore crinolines under their dresses. These were stiff petticoats made from “crin,” the French word for “horsehair” and added “pouf ” to their garments. Around 1850, the horsehair was replaced by a frame of cane or whalebone and they were referred to as “caged crinolines” or “hoop skirts.” Although all that excess fabric was a sign of wealth, hoop skirts were also dangerous, and their popularity faded out in the late 1860s. • What do Dolman, raglan, and gauntlet have in common? These terms all refer to types of sleeves. Dolman is very wide at the armhole and tight at the wrist, taking its name from a Turkish robe known as a dolama. A raglan sleeve has a slanted diagonal seam from the underarm to the collarbone, such as you’d find on a baseball jersey. It’s named for Lord Raglan, a British Army officer who lost his arm in the Battle of Waterloo, and had a coat designed to give him greater mobility. The gauntlet sleeve is pointed in a V shape on the back of the hand, named for the glove worn as part of medieval armor. CROSSWORD PUZZLES Get a clue! National Crossword Day is December 21, and Tidbits is across and down with these facts. • A New York City journalist, Arthur Wynne, is credited with the first true crossword Continued on Page 5
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puzzle, published in the “New York World” in December, 1913. Previous word puzzles • with a square grid had been printed in an Italian magazine over 20 years earlier, but not in the familiar horizontal and vertical line pattern, introduced by Wynne. Wynne debuted his puzzle under the name “Word-Cross,” but a few weeks later, a typesetting error resulted in the puzzle being called a “Cross-Word,” and the name stuck. • Puzzle fans know that the “New York Times” is perhaps the most famous crossword. Yet the well-known newspaper was the last to join the pack of puzzle publishers. In fact, one of their writers derided crosswords in his column, calling them a “sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words” and “a primitive form of mental exercise…irrelevant to mental development.” Although most New York papers joined in publishing puzzles by 1920, the “Times” continued to call it a “colossal waste of time and nothing but a fad.” • It took the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor to change the opinion of the “New York Times.” The Sunday editor insisted • that a crossword would help Americans relax and take their minds off the tragedy,
and maintained that readers might need an activity to busy themselves during blackouts. In February, 1942, the “Times” published its first crossword puzzle. The daily “Times” puzzle measures 15 squares x 15 squares. The Sunday is larger at 21 x 21. The puzzle is designed to become gradually more difficult as the week progresses, with the easiest puzzle on Monday. In 1996, Mr. Stanley Newman set a record for solving a “New York Times” crossword, completing it in 2 minutes, 14 seconds. In 1924, a brand-new publishing company, Simon & Schuster, released the first crossword puzzle book, and continues to lead the pack in the U.S. for similar books. Crosswords became so popular that architect Alfred Mosher Butt created the crossword board game Scrabble in 1930. • There’s a special name for crossword devotees – cruciverbalists. There’s also a term for those who create them – e n i g m at o l o g i s t s . Will Shortz, the editor of the “New York Times” puzzle since 1993, claims he’s the only person with a college degree in enigmatology. Captivated by crossword puzzles at a young age, Shortz sold his first one at age 14. He convinced Indiana University to allow him to create a degree because no other school offered that field. Although Shortz also has a law degree from the University of Virginia, he prefers his first love. He’s also the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament that began in 1978. The Guinness Book of Records hails the largest crossword puzzle as measuring 7
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1. The main Christmas story about the birth of Jesus is paraphrased from what two New Testament books? Mark/John, Acts/Romans, Matthew/Luke, Jude/ Revelation 2. Approximately how old was Jesus when the wise men (Magi) arrived with their gifts? 1 day, 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years 3. Where did the angel Gabriel appear to Mary, saying, “Blessed art thou among women”? Nazareth, Tyre, Ninevah, Gazi 4. How many times does the word “Christmas” appear in the Bible (KJV)? Zero, 1, 2, 7 5. In what city of Judaea was Jesus born? Damascus, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Gezer 6. Who plotted to kill the baby Jesus? Archelaus, Herod, Pontius Pilot, Caesar Augustus ANSWERS: 1) Matthew/Luke; 2) 2 years; 3) Nazareth; 4) Zero; 5) Bethlehem; 6) Herod “Test Your Bible Knowledge,” a book with 1,206 multiple-choice questions by columnist Wilson Casey, is available in stores and online. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Christmas Dinner Happens on the Sly The annual Christmas dinner at the senior center was a wonderful event, mostly because it didn’t happen at all. The original plan -- seniors sitting in a cold parking lot outside the center to eat food open the rec center. He’d fled to his cabin in the that would stay hot for maybe one minute woods, tossing the keys to others, to sit out the -- was ditched by means of a petition to insanity, at which point the town changed the board members. That petition mentioned the locks. Once brought back, he quickly jimmied absolute folly of the whole outdoor dining open the rec center door and installed a new idea. The board’s second plan was to host the lock, smiling the whole time. dinner indoors, but for only one-third the Organizers came together in secret with not number of guests, with clear Plexiglas shields a word said to senior-center board members on the tables, which would interfere with (or the town council). Tables and chairs were conversation. borrowed. One of the town’s finer restaurants There was a snap, (the owner himself a senior) an awakening, an was coaxed into providing THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE audible collective finger foods and drinks click -- and the and two bartenders. A half seniors said NO. dozen seniors who were in a The former band years ago regrouped to recreation-center provide the music and play supervisor, who songs we actually knew. had quit after too The annual Christmas dinner many snarling turned dance party was a meetings about major hit, and just what yoga classes masked we needed after this long versus unmasked, pandemic lockdown. We ate was brought back to
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and we mingled and we drank and we laughed and we danced. And long after what should have been bedtime for most of us, we were still there dancing. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
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GOOD HEALTH. GOOD LIFE. LIFE. Paw’s Corner
by Sam Mazzotta Visiting Yap Dog Ruins Holidays
ask her to leave Mitsi in a kennel during visits? -- Barked Out in Birmingham DEAR BARKED OUT: I don’t know that there’s a way to tell your sister-in-law to leave her dog at home that would be taken well. Mitsi clearly is a full member of their family and travels with her. Can a compromise be reached instead? Ask her if Mitsi can be placed in a separate room during mealtimes while they are visiting. She’ll probably still bark, but at least it won’t be right in your ear. You also need to discuss how Mitsi is stressing out the cats. Sometimes people think it’s funny when a visiting dog chases the family pets around, but it’s not fun for those pets. It’s like having a schoolyard bully walk right into your home. Try to keep the discussion civil. Ultimately, you’ll have to decide what level of compromise to ask for in order to keep peace in your house, and you’ll have to be firm. Your sister-in-law takes her relationship with
DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My sister-in-law insists on bringing her yappy, ill-tempered lap dog, “Mitsi,” to our house every Christmas through New Year’s. Mitsi gets along with no one but her owner, frightens our two cats and barks at everyone in the house during dinner, nonstop. I love having my brother and his wife over, but Mitsi is making things hellish. How can I politely
• Save the peel on oranges and grapefruits. You can toss them on a fire for a nice smell. • Fold and snip a coffee filter into a paper snowflake. Lay over an iced cookie or cake to sift a sugar design on top. • “When planning to visit my hometown for the holidays, I set aside a few hours to take the kids to the park or a nice playground. I message all my old friends and classmates with kids (Facebook is great for this) a few weeks ahead of time and let them know when I’ll be there. It’s great to catch up while the kids play, and even if no one shows up, we still have a fun break.” -- F.L. in California • “When there are big family jobs to be done (like getting ready for the holidays), we write all the tasks down on slips of paper and put
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her dog seriously; she should respect your concerns as well. That discussion probably won’t be comfortable, but if Mitsi’s barking and bullying are making the holidays a living hell, you need to speak up. Send your tips, comments and questions to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
them in a hat. We take turns choosing tasks until all the paper is divvied out. Sometimes we trade, but we all get a fair chore list.” -- V.O. in Oregon • Make a holiday cheese ball simply: Combine a package of cream cheese with a cup of finely shredded cheese (your choice) and 1/3 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt. Form into a ball, roll in coating of your choice (dried fruit pieces, chopped nuts, spices, etc.) and chill. Wrap in a pretty cellophane bag and bring with pita chips, crackers or pretzels as a hostess gift. • “Wax drippings from candles can be scraped off of most hard surfaces with the side of a credit card.” -T.E. in Kansas
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