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WIMBLEDON

Since Wimbledon is just around the corner, Tidbits is investigating the particulars on this famous tennis tournament.

• Every year beginning on the sixth Monday before the first Monday of August, the world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis championship is held over 13 days in Wimbledon, a suburb of London. Wimbledon is located seven miles (11.3 km) southwest of central London. In Old English, the community’s name means “Wynnman’s hill.”

• Back in 1868, the private All England Croquet Club was founded off Worple Road in Wimbledon. In 1875, lawn tennis was added to the club and the name was changed to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club.

Two years later, the lawn tennis championships were held for the first time, with Gentlemen’s Singles as the only event. About 200 spectators attended the tournament, paying one shilling to watch the finals. Spencer Gore defeated 21 other contenders to take the title.

• The first players used heavy snowshoeshaped rackets. The net was 5 feet high (1.5 m) at center.

• The official name of the tournament is “The Championships, Wimbledon.” It is one of the four major Grand Slam tennis tournaments, along with the Australian Open, the French Open, and the U.S. Open. Of the four, Wimbledon remains the only one that is still played on grass, while the other three are played on hard or clay surfaces.

• Wimbledon’s turf is composed of 100% perennial rye grass, cut to an exact height of 8 millimeters. How a ball bounces depends on the soil, not the grass. The soil must be hard and dry, so the courts are rolled and covered to keep them in top form. The lines are not marked with paint, but rather with a mixture containing titanium dioxide, of which 500 gallons (416 British gallons) are used every year.

• Until 1884, only gentlemen participated in the championships. That year, Ladies’ Singles and Gentlemen’s Doubles were added. Ladies’ Doubles and Mixed Doubles came along in 1913. At the beginning, only amateurs were allowed to compete, a rule that stood until 1968 when professionals competed alongside amateurs.

• It wasn’t until 1920 that an American won a Wimbledon title, when Bill Tilden won the Men’s Singles. That was also the first year a woman played without wearing a corset!

• In 1922, the tournament moved from its original location on Worple Road to its current Church Road site.

• It was a long dry spell for England in the singles events. In the men’s singles, until 2013, the host country hadn’t had a men’s winner since (Continued next page)

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1. Is the book of Esarhaddon in the Old or New Testament or neither?

2. In Esther 2, what was Hegai “the keeper of” regarding King Ahasuerus? Holy Grail, Weapons, The women, Grain of the fields 3. What New Testament person was the “voice of one crying in the wilderness”?

Judas, Jude, Jehovah, John the Baptist 4. From Proverbs 22, what is bound up in the heart of a child? Foolishness, Mischief, Love, Rebellion 5. In biblical times, what were small copper coins called? Pennies, Shekels, Mites, Paschals 6. From Judges 10, who had 30 sons who rode 30 donkeys? Elijah, Jair, Ezekiel, Job

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It was 1989. We had our tech gadgets.Voice pagers were popular. So were the portable Motorola phone know simply as the “Brick” To be fashionable your car needed a bag phone e. I had a business known as a cyber café I named it Cyber City. People could surf the Internet for five dollars an hour and drink exotic coffees. Once a regular customer told me he had finished the Internet but might look at it once more for fun!

1936, with Andy Murray finally breaking the losing streak. British ladies have been waiting since 1977 for another singles winner.

• Czechoslovakia native Martina Navratilova made her debut at Wimbledon in 1973 at age 16.

Not only had she never played on a grass court before, she had never even seen one until the week prior! In 1975, at 18, she sought political asylum in the United States and was stripped of her Czech citizenship. In 1982, she began a sixyear reign as champion. Finally in 1988, German Steffi Graf beat Navratilova, and again in 1989.

Martina took the title back in 1990. She holds the record for the most singles wins with nine.

She is also the oldest winner, having won the mixed doubles in 2003 when she was nearly 47 years old. Martina is also the record-holder for the most Wimbledon matches played by either male or female, 326 matches.

• The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, have ten Women’s Singles titles between them, with five apiece. They also have five doubles titles.

A Williams sister won the singles championship in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012.

• English tennis player Tim Henman has the distinction of being the first person ever to be disqualified from Wimbledon. Henman had a little temper tantrum during one of his matches and smacked a ball away, unfortunately straight into the head of one of the teenaged ball girls, a blow that sent her to the ground. The extremely apologetic Henman later sent flowers to the young lady.

• What do folks take home for souvenirs from the tournament? In 2014, towels were a big item, with 16,000 Men’s Championship towels and 9,000 Women’s Championship towels sold.

Spectators also like the mini-tennis ball key ring, snapping up 11,000 of these souvenirs.

• Last year’s attendance at Wimbledon topped 491,000, while the viewing audience is estimated at close to 380 million. There can be 38,500 spectators on the grounds at any one time, with the maximum capacity of the Centre Court at 15,000. More than 54,000 tennis balls were used during the tournament. In 2014, the Men’s and Ladies’ Singles champions received about $3 million in winnings.

• The longest tennis match ever played took place during the 2010 Wimbledon tournament when John Isner defeated Nicholas Mahut in a match lasting 11 hours and five minutes. It was played over a three-day period.

• Wimbledon is steeped in tradition, including the eating of strawberries and cream by spectators. This past year, 61,730 lbs. (28,000 kg) of berries were consumed along with 7,400 quarts (7,000 liters) of cream during the 13-day period. Tradition also includes a strict dress code for players, which requires they dress “almost entirely in white.” It does not allow off-white or cream, and if a stripe of color is on a shirt or shorts, it can be no wider than one centimeter.

No fluorescent colors are allowed on clothing or headwear, and it is preferred that all shorts and skirts are totally white. The rules even apply to shoes. In 2014, Roger Federer was required to change his shoes because they had bright orange soles. Even the great Navratilova was told that her skirt was against the rules because it had a pale blue stripe. Between 1988 and 1990, tennis great Andre Agassi refused to compete at Wimbledon, protesting the dress code.

• There’s even a dress code for spectators at Wimbledon. Don’t try to get into the gate wearing jeans, flip-flops, hoodies, strapless tops, or short skirts!

1. Who was the first player to hit 100 or more home runs for three different majorleague teams?

2. Four different pitchers won at least 20 games in a season for the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1960s. Name three of them.

3. When was the last time before 2013 that Clemson beat Georgia in a college football game?

4. Name the four Golden State coaches who led the Warriors to at least one 50-win season.

5. Who was the first hockey player to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

6. In 2014, goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon became the oldest soccer player (43) in World Cup history. For which country did he play?

7. When was the last time before 2015 (Deontay Wilder, WBC title) that an American won a major heavyweight boxing championship?

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by Samantha Weaver * It was Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, who made the following sage observation: “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” * Many people make provisions in their wills for their pets; it’s the compassionate thing to do. Singer Dusty Springfield went a bit further than most, though; she specified that her cat was to be fed only imported baby food. * For a nation based on a foundation of democracy, the U.S. certainly has a lot of states (that were originally colonies, of course) named for British royalty. The state of Virginia, for instance, was named for Queen Elizabeth I, known as the “Virgin Queen”; and Georgia was named in honor of King George II. King Charles II got both North and South Carolina, while the Duke of York and Albany -- later King James II -- was honored when the state of New York was named. Even France got in on the action: When explorer Robert de la Salle claimed a large chunk of territory for France in 1682, he named it Louisiana, after King Louis XIV.

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* Sissy Spacek was originally considered for the role of Princess Leia in the iconic 1977 film “Star Wars,” but she turned it down, paving the way for Carrie Fisher to play Luke Skywalker’s twin. Interestingly, the year before, Carrie Fisher had been offered the title role in the horror flick “Carrie”; when she declined, Sissy Spacek stepped in. * If you’re planning a trip to California this summer, you might want to keep in mind that in that state, it’s illegal for a woman to drive while wearing a housecoat. *** Thought for the Day: “Hell is paved with good Samaritans.” -- William M. Holden (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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The bellows must be pulled open and shut to keep the air passing over the reeds as the various notes are depressed. Like most folks that watch dad, I am always amazed he can push and pull and bleed air off all at the same time to make beautiful music. Something like a harmonica but much harder to accomplish. The instrument has both melody notes and bass notes for a great harmony of chords.

Dad has been entertaining at family birthday parties forever it seems.

He’s always got his box in the back seat of the car just waiting for an opportunity to make you smile and tap your foot.

If you’ve lived around Northern Arkansas for awhile and love music, you’ve probably met my dad, LeRoy V. Jones.

Dad has been a “one of a kind” musician for as long as I was knee high to a grass hopper. He learned to play the accordion from his mother Nellie Jones in Iberia, Missouri as a child in the 1920’s. Back then someone was always picking on a guitar or banjo as they entertained kin folk at the neighborhood get together.

He quickly learned how to play almost every instrument someone else wasn’t playing. Never having any formal instruction in music he learned to play by ear.

If you’ve ever picked up a button accordion and attempted to make music you will appreciate how easy he makes it look. I use to tease him for having the “deer in the headlights” look when he was mastering all those buttons. After trying to play one in his footsteps I now have the same look on my face.

A very difficult instrument to play without lessons.

Every Friday evening during good weather dad joins about 20 other musicians at the Van Matre Senior Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas for an evening of good fun and music.

Each participant takes their turn as they pass the microphone stand for performers to show you what they’ve got. All the others play along making a full sound within the large room.

I suppose dad has played literally thousands of songs in his 90 years of music. I wonder sometimes how many applauds his kind audiences have honored him with. I certainly am proud of my father and his endless talent to make you smile and forget the days work. I feel very fortunate to have such a talented, loving father that still gives away a big smile and song you might just recognize.

Most of the fiddle players from the hills always bragged that dad played the best rhythm guitar around for a fiddle player. His brother-in-law, Henry (Hank) Thompson was one of the top fiddlers in Missouri in the 60’s.

Dad has certainly played with many inspired musicians.

At any rate, he’s the best in my book, and the best dad in the world. He now lives at the Baxter Retirement Village in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

And yes he plays for resident there at any given moment.

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* On June 15, 1215, following a revolt by the English nobility, King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or “Great Charter.” The document guaranteed that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church and maintain the nation’s laws. * On June 16, 1738, patriot printer, publisher and postmistress, Mary Katharine Goddard, is born.

She would later publish the first version of the Declaration of Independence to include all of the Congressional signatures. The document appeared “printed by Mary Katherine Goddard.” * On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 against Great Britain begins. The American war declaration had been called in response to the British economic sanctions against the U.S. and the impressment of American seaman into the British Royal Navy. * On June 19, 1905, in Pittsburgh, some 450 people attend the opening of the world’s first nickelodeon. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats and charged each patron 5 cents to view a 15-minute motion picture show. * On June 20, 1975, director Steven Spielberg’s thriller “Jaws” debuts in U.S. theaters. Jaws starred Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody and Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist. The film’s mechanical shark was named Bruce. * On June 21, 1982, John W. Hinckley, Jr., who on March 30, 1981, shot President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel, is found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity. * On June 17, 1994, after a dramatic “low-speed chase” on I-405 witnessed by millions on live television, former football star and actor O.J. Simpson surrenders to Los Angeles police. He was charged in the double-murder of his ex-wife and her friend.

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Temperatures are really warming up now, and with it, I know, will come the annual onslaught of fleas on my dog, cat and all over my house. Is there any way I can get rid of fleas for good?

-- Charlotte in Columbia, Maryland DEAR CHARLOTTE: Flea infestations are incredibly annoying and tough to beat --even when you think fleas have been eradicated, they often come back. Winter temperatures often send these pests into dormancy or at least reduce their activity, but they return with a vengeance in spring and summer.

A pre-emptive attack could make a big difference in this summer’s flea wars. While you may not notice adult fleas on your pets just yet, flea eggs or larvae may be present on their fur or throughout the house.

Start by talking to the veterinarian about the best treatment for your pets. Many owners swear by onemonth topical treatments that are applied to the back of a dog or cat’s neck, but others are leery due to potentially serious side effects. Consider alternatives if you’re not sure.

Next, treat your home for fleas -- using a carpet and upholstery treatment designed for both adult fleas and their eggs. You’ll want to tackle not just the carpet and dusty corners of the house, but the furniture and any linens, such as curtains, that aren’t frequently cleaned.

Keep pets out of rooms until the treatment you’re using has been vacuumed up or washed away.

Through the summer, brush your pets’ coats daily, checking for fleas. Vacuum and dust at least once per week.

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The lakes are at high levels so they are generating heavily at both Bull Shoals and Norfork especially in the afternoons when the demand for electricity is high. We are seeing several hours of 7 generators at Bull and that means high fast water with lots of moss in the water until the water settles a bit.

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NILS BOHLIN

Although the name of Nils Ivar Bohlin is unfamiliar to most, nearly everyone uses his invention every single day. Take a few minutes to learn about the inventor of the seat belt!

• At age 19, Nils Bohlin already had a diploma in mechanical engineering from a Swedish university. At 22, he was hired by the aircraft maker, Saab, in their design department. Focusing on various safety features for airplanes, he received one patent for his invention of the rocketlaunched ejection seat for Saab fighter airplanes and another for a “device to protect an occupant against bodily injury during emergency escape from an aircraft.”

• In 1958, at age 38, Bohlin was considered an expert in aeronautical safety engineering. He was recruited by Volvo and joined the company that year. The head of Volvo had lost a relative in a car accident and gave Bohlin the mission of developing an improved seat belt. Safety belts had been an option in some automobiles since the mid-1940s, but were just a strap across the waist that frequently caused serious internal abdominal injuries and head injuries in accidents when the wearer was thrown forward.

• Bohlin set to work designing a device that would restrain the body safely under extreme conditions. In his words, “I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest and one across the hips,” along with “an immovable anchorage point for the buckle…” He also knew he wanted it to be put on easily with one hand.

• Less than a year after signing on with Volvo, Bohlin had come up with a three-point lap and shoulder seatbelt, introducing the invention to Volvo in 1959. The company added the seatbelt to its cars, with the Amazon and PV544 as the first cars in the world to have safety belts as a standard feature. Volvo graciously made the new design available to other manufacturers for free.

• Bohlin proved the effectiveness of his seat belt in a study of 28,000 accidents in Sweden, showing that “unbelted occupants sustained fatal injuries throughout the whole speed scale, whereas none of the belted occupants was fatally injured at accident speeds below 60 mph.” As a result, by 1968, it was a requirement on all new American vehicles.

• In 1969, Bohlin became the head of Central Research and Development for Volvo. His innovations for the company weren’t finished yet – he went on to invent the Side Impact Protection System for Volvo, receiving a patent for “sidecollision protection in automotive vehicles.”

Bohlin died on the same day he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

• Bohlin’s three-point seat belt is regarded as one of the eight “most important patents to have benefited humanity from 1885 to 1985.” The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that the belt reduces the risk of death in car accidents by at least 45%, and that about 11,000 lives are saved each year in the U.S. alone.

At the time of Bohlin’s death in 2002, Volvo estimated that the seat belt had saved more than one million lives.

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Honey-Glazed Salmon Is Fast, Nutritious Shopping for salmon at your local fish market or grocery store can be a real-life geography lesson for your kids, so be sure to take them along.

Alaska, Maine, Chile, Norway -- the places of origin read like a world atlas as you check out the signs and labels. Spin a globe when you get home and discover together where your dinner was swimming.

Besides sharpening geography skills, this goodfor-you fish -- rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins and minerals -- is also super easy to prepare.

All this makes a family hungry!

Here’s our favorite recipe, made with a sweet honey glaze that young sous chefs can stir up. Top with chopped nuts or herbs from your garden, and roast in a hot oven while the table is being set, napkins are slipped into rings and beverages are poured.

HONEY GLAZED SALMON FILLETS 4 salmon fillets, about 6 ounces each 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons honey Salt, to taste 4 tablespoons chopped pecans OR 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh rosemary and 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh thyme 2 lemons, cut into wedges or thin slices 1. Preheat oven to 425 F. 2. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray 3. Place salmon fillets skin-side down on the prepared sheet. Sprinkle with salt.

4. Pour olive oil and honey into a small bowl, and stir to combine well. Spoon the mixture generously over fillets. Press nuts on top or sprinkle with herbs.

5. Bake in oven until completely cooked through, about 10-15 minutes, or until fish flakes readily with tip of a fork. Use spatula to transfer to dinner plates.

6. Serve hot over salad greens that have been tossed with a light vinaigrette and topped with thin lemon slices, or set a lemon wedge to the side. Serves 4.

TIP: As summer approaches, serve with fresh grilled peaches for a tasty, sweet, modern side.

To prepare, cut two almost-ripe peaches in half.

Let kids remove the pits and brush the cut sides with the honey-olive-oil mixture before coating the salmon.

Spray a grill pan with cooking spray, and place halves cut-side down on medium heat on your stove for 5 to 7 minutes, or until grill marks appear. Flip over to rounded side for an additional minute. Set on dinner plates with salmon and salad. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide.

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Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2015 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

1. Who had a hit with “It Hurts To Be in Love”?

2. Name the Bobby Lewis hit that was used in the 1978 “Animal House” soundtrack.

3. What song was released by all of these: Brian Hyland (1962), Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1968) and Bobby Vinton (1972).

4. Which rock group released the “Demons and Wizards” album?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Goodbye, Norma Jean, Though I never knew you at all, You had the grace to hold yourself, While those around you crawled.”

Answers 1. Gene Pitney, 1964. Neil Sedaka was supposed to record the song, and he did, but his record company wouldn’t let it be released because Sedaka hadn’t recorded it in their studio.

2. “Tossin’ and Turnin’,” recorded in 1961.

3. “Sealed With a Kiss,” Hyland re-released the song in 1975.

4. Uriah Heep, in 1972. Legend says the gatefold album cover contained an erotic image.

5. “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, in 1973, in honor of Marilyn Monroe. In 1997, John rewrote the song (called “Goodbye England’s Rose”) as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, upon her death. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

“Be known before you’re needed” Advertise with Tidbits (870) 421-7898 MORE TENNIS GREATS • Billie Jean King competed at Wimbledon for the first time in 1961 at age 17. That year and the next, King and her Ladies’ Doubles partner were the champions. It wasn’t until 1966 that King took the Ladies’ Singles title. She has won a record 20 titles at Wimbledon – six singles, 10 Ladies’ Doubles, and four Mixed Doubles – over the years from 1961 through 1974. She competed there 22 times in 23 years.

• Andre Agassi’s career prize money amounts to more than $31 million. Turning professional at 16, Agassi had endorsement earnings of $25 million a year during the height of his career in the 1990s. This 1992 Men’s Singles winner at Wimbledon is the last American male to win the French Open (1999) and the Australian Open (2003). In his early 20s, Agassi dated singer Barbra Streisand, who was 28 years his senior. After a two-year-marriage to actress Brooke Shields, Agassi married fellow Wimbledon winner Steffi Graf in 2001.

• German-born Graf accumulated nearly $22 million in prize money over the course of her career. Having played her first professional tournament at age 13, Graf went on to win seven Ladies Singles’ titles at Wimbledon, along with six French Open wins, five U.S. Open titles, and another four singles wins at the Australian Open.

• Roger Federer has captured seven men’s singles titles, in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2012.

But he’s not alone with that record. Maryland-born Pete Sampras won seven out of eight years from 1993 through 2000. Between 1881 and 1889, William Renshaw won the tournament seven times.

• For five consecutive years from 1976 through 1980, Swedish-born Bjorn Borg was the Men’s Singles champion. Borg was the first player to earn more than one million dollars in prize money in a single season. When he retired abruptly at age 26 in 1983, he owned a penthouse in Monte Carlo, a Long Island mansion, and an island off the Swedish coast. Yet in 2006, the tennis great was nearly bankrupt due to poor business ventures. Borg decided to auction off his five Wimbledon trophies and two of his rackets. The trophies were expected to bring between $350,000 and $525,000 and the rackets, about $25,000 each. Borg’s former rival John McEnroe talked Borg out of the decision, but unfortunately, Borg had already handed them over to the auction house and had to buy them back.

• John McEnroe was well known for his outbursts and temper tantrums on the courts, and was even booed by the crowds for his poor behavior. He was fined and suspended for shouting objections at umpires’ calls during his matches, and once slammed his racket into a courtside juice cart after calling the umpire a jerk. Yet this “bad boy” was a #1 player who took the Men’s Singles title in 1981, 1983, and 1984.

• Three-time Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles champ Chris Evert still holds the record for the career winning percentage on clay courts of 94.55%. She is also remembered for her romance with fellow Wimbledon champ, six-time winner Jimmy Connors.

The couple was engaged in 1974 when Chris was 19, and they played mixed doubles on the court now and then, but the pair called it quits before the wedding day arrived.

BIBLE TRIVIA ANSWERS:

1) Neither; 2) The women; 3) John the Baptist; 4) Foolishness; 5) Mites; 6) Jair

1. Reggie Jackson, with the A’s (269 homers), Yankees (144) and Angels (123).

2. Don Drysdale (1962, ‘65), Sandy Koufax (‘63, ‘65, ‘66), Bill Singer (‘69) and Claude Osteen (‘69).

3. It was 1990.

4. Al Attles (twice), Mark Jackson, Steve Kerr and Don Nelson (twice).

5. Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens, in 1956.

6. Colombia.

7. Shannon Briggs won the WBO heavyweight title in 2006.

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