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RED AND GREEN— (continued) 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

hardness. Rubies get their red color from chromium, and all rubies are red, named as such from the Latin word “ruber” for red. • Rubies are made under extreme heat and pressure below the Earth’s surface.

Under the pressure, oxygen and aluminum atoms become corundum.

When chromium is present, the red hue is created. The world’s finest rubies are mined in Burma, with a lesser quality mined in Afghanistan, Cambodia, India,

Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. The gift of ruby jewelry symbolizes love, passion, and commitment. • How many different ways can you say green?

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 slanted head was modeled after Clokey’s father’s hairstyle. “The Gumby Show” ran for 233 episodes from 1956 to 1981, along with a feature-length film. Gumbo and Gumba are Gumby’s parents, and Nopey is his dog, since the pet’s one-word vocabulary is the word “nope.” • Dr. Seuss introduced his green-skinned Grinch in the 1957 book “How the Grinch Stole

Christmas.” According to the story, the

Grinch had secluded himself on the cliff above the town of Whoville for the previous 53 years, because, according to the Whos,

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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV Brought to you by Roger Davis Continued on Page 4