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“T” TOWNS (continued) • When Taipei 101 opened in 2004, this 101-floor skyscraper grabbed the title of world’s tallest building and remained so until 2010. It’s located in Taipei City, the largest city in Taiwan and capital of the Republic of China. The city was founded in the early 1700s and developed into an important overseas trade center over the next 100 years. It’s home to several ornate temples, including the Longshan Temple, constructed in 1738. In 1945, the temple was badly damaged when it was hit by American bombers who believed the Japanese were hiding armaments inside. • On the northwest shore of Lake Ontario lies Toronto, Canada’s largest city. The city takes its name from an Iroquois word meaning “place where trees stand in the water.” Toronto ranks high on the list of the world’s “most livable cities” based on quality of living. Its low crime rate also makes it one of the safest major cities in North America. The homicide rate there is about 3.3 per 100,000 people, compared with Atlanta, Georgia at 19.7. Covering an area of 243 sq. miles (630 sq. km), Toronto has about 2.6 million residents, 49% of whom were born outside Canada. It’s obvious the city’s residents enjoy ice sports, as there are 52 outdoor ice skating rinks in the city. • Canada isn’t the only place where you’ll find Toronto. There are five U.S. states with a community by that name – Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, and South Dakota. (continued on page 4)

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“T” TOWNS (continued) • Five U.S. states and a Canadian province have also honored the Native American leader of the Shawnee by naming a community Tecumseh. Born in Ohio, Tecumseh (“Shooting Star” or “Panther Across the Sky”) grew up to be a key figure in the War of 1812. He is quoted with these words of wisdom: “Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.” • Back in 1950, NBC radio was home to a popular radio quiz show known as Truth or Consequences. Looking for a creative way to celebrate the program’s tenth anniversary, the host Ralph Edwards announced that he would air the program from the first American town to rename itself after the show. Hot Springs, New Mexico jumped at the chance, and on March 31 of that year, the residents voted in favor of the switch, and the very next day, Ralph Edwards and the crew flew in for the anniversary broadcast. For the next 50 years, Edwards visited the town each May for their annual fiesta. Every April 1, Truth or Consequences, or “T or C” as the locals call it, celebrates Ralph Edwards Day. • A small Japanese fishing village named Edo founded around the year 1200 has grown to the world’s most populous metropolitan area with 8,949,447 residents. Edo was renamed Tokyo in 1868, when it became the imperial capital. Tokyo’s entire urban area has a population of 35,623,327. The city had already reached 1,000,000 people back in the 1720s. It’s not only the most populous city in the world, it’s also the most expensive, with the highest cost of living worldwide. (continued on page 5)

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SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A more-positive aspect helps you get a clearer focus on how to handle your time so that you can deal with several responsibilities that are just now showing up on your schedule. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A very close friend (you know who that is!) has advice that could help you work through a confusing situation. So put your pride aside and ask for it. You’ll be glad you did. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A workplace situation could turn a bit tense. The best way to handle it is to confront it and deal with it openly. Doing so can help reveal the underlying reasons for the problem. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A colleague’s remarks appear to be especially cutting. But don’t waste your time or your energy trying to deal with the situation. You have more important things to do. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Support for your work comes as a surprise from someone you thought was critical or, at least, indifferent. Your spouse or partner has big plans for the weekend. BORN THIS WEEK: Your spiritual strength often acts as an inspiration to help others make decisions about their lives. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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On Feb. 11, 1858, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a 14-year-old French peasant girl, claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. The apparitions occurred in a grotto of a rock promontory near Lourdes, France. Today millions of people travel to Lourdes every year to visit the grotto, whose waters supposedly have curative powers. On Feb. 12, 1912, Hsian-T’ung, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate. A provisional government was established in his place, ending 267 years of Manchu rule in China and 2,000 years of imperial rule. The former emperor was only 6 years old. On Feb. 16, 1923 in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. The chamber was virtually intact, with its treasures and the perfectly preserved mummy of King Tut untouched after more than 3,000 years. On Feb. 13, 1945, the most controversial episode in the Allied air war against Germany begins as hundreds of British bombers descend on Dresden, Germany. With two days, the city was a smoldering ruin. Dresden had been regarded as one the world’s most beautiful cities for its architecture and museums. On Feb. 15, 1950, Walt Disney’s animated feature “Cinderella” opens in theaters. Disney’s full-length animated feature films began in 1937 with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Disney had risked $1.5 million of his own money on the venture. On Feb. 14, 1962, President John F. Kennedy authorizes U.S. military advisers in Vietnam to return fire if fired upon. Kennedy was acknowledging that U.S. forces were involved in the fighting, but he wished to downplay any appearance of increased American involvement in the war.

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• Texas is home to the towns of Telephone and Tele- • Mahatma Gandhi called Thiruvananthapuram, India, that country’s “Evergreen City.” This ancient city has graph. Telephone, Texas was named because the only been a busy trade center since 1000 B.C. It is home to telephone in the area was in the community’s general the temple of Vishnu, the richest temple in the world, store. About 210 people live there these days. Telewith its monumental items and assets valued in the graph’s name was based on all the telegraph poles $15 billion range. cut to build communication lines to the U.S. Army forts just east of town. Today, it’s pretty much a ghost • Edgar Rice Burroughs was 35, nearly broke, and selltown, population, 3. ing pencil sharpeners when he wrote the first Tarzan book. Beginning in 1912, Burroughs published 26 • If you like fireworks, you’ll love the city of Tondanovels about our favorite jungle hero. His success bayashi, Japan, home to the largest annual fireworks allowed him to purchase a 550-acre ranch north of display in the world. Several displays are held every Los Angeles, which he appropriately named Tarzana. August, with the main display consisting of 120,000 Within in a few years, the city had grown to surround shells fired in less than an hour. the ranch, and Burroughs sold off part of his property • The Native Americans gave Ten Sleep, Wyoming its for new homesites. This small community, incorpounusual name. This Indian rest stop was 10 days’ travrated in 1917, is still known as Tarzana, California, el, or “10 sleeps” from Fort Laramie to the southeast with a population of around 35,000. and Montana’s Indian Agency to the northwest. Today

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• Safer’s 1983 investigative report on a wrongly-convicted armed robber sentenced to life in prison highMORLEY SAFER lighted new evidence that led to Lenell Geter’s release It would be tough to find someone who hasn’t seen the from prison. Safer spent six months doing “the work face of Morley Safer on CBS’ 60 Minutes. Let’s trace the police didn’t do,” and contradicted their “proof” his famous career back to his Canadian roots. of Geter’s guilt. Within days of the broadcast, Geter • Toronto, Ontario, was home to an Austrian Jewish was released. family, Max Safer, an upholsterer, and his wife Anna. • Safer has expressed his opinion on today’s reality TV In 1931, their son Morley was born. After Morley programming: “What have reality shows got to do finished high school, he enrolled in the University of with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing Western Ontario in London. At age 20, he landed his real about it. Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. first job in journalism as a reporter for Woodstock, It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.” Ontario’s Sentinel-Review, and he dropped out of college. After a few other newspaper jobs, he was hired • Safer is a 12-time Emmy Award winner, along with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a correAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences and three spondent. George Foster Peabody Awards. During Safer’s ten• Safer was an eminent war correspondent, beginning ure at 60 Minutes, the broadcast has been in the Top with the 1956 Egypt-Israel conflict. He joined CBS Ten highest-rated programs for 22 consecutive seain 1964, and moved to Vietnam, where he opened the sons. It’s the only program to finish first in three difnetwork’s news bureau in Saigon, where he would ferent decades. Nielsen ratings tell us that 16 million remain for two years. It was his report on a “search people tune into the program every Sunday night. and destroy” mission to the village of Cam Ne that IT’S VAL- DAY first alerted viewers to the traumatic conditions of the Vietnam War. President Lyndon Johnson reacted Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but this week negatively to Safer’s report, calling the head of CBS Tidbits is switching the focus to other words that begin to complain. Johnson ordered a security check done with Val-. on Safer, certain that he was a communist. LBJ was • According to ancient Norse mythology, Valhalla is a informed that Safer “wasn’t a communist, just a Camajestic hall where the souls of heroes slain in batnadian.” tle are received. The Valkyries are the maidens of the • Safer moved to London, England in 1967 as the city’s god Odin who choose which soldiers will die and then bureau chief, holding the post for three years, while escort them to the afterlife. According to legend, the still covering the world’s conflicts. In fact, in 1968, he helmeted Valkyries descend from the heavens in bolts proposed to his future wife over the phone while reof lightning wearing waist-length armor carrying porting from Nigeria, where he was reporting on that brightly-shining spears. In 1870, composer Richard country’s civil war. Wagner wrote his well-known opera “The Valkyries,” containing the famous piece “Ride of the Valkyries,” • In 1970, Safer received the job offer that has taken in which the mythological creatures greet each other him to this day. CBS’ newsmagazine 60 Minutes was and sing their battle-cry. Fans of the animated Elmer in its third season when Safer accepted the position. Fudd might know that he frequently sings, “Kill the He is now in his 44th season on the program. While wabbit, kill the wabbit” to this tune as he stalks Bugs covering the news on the program, Safer branched out Bunny. into writing, and became the author of a best-selling book in 1990, Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. • The adventures of another mythical Norse figure are Twenty-five years after he left Vietnam, Safer returned chronicled each week in the Sunday newspaper’s in 1989 to film a report for 60 Minutes and ended up comics section. Artist Hal Foster introduced Prince writing of his recollections as a war correspondent, as (continued on page 8) well as his observations of Vietnam then and now.

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1. To drink often or much 2. Mel Brooks 3. “Ben-Hur” 4. More than 1,000 miles 5. FTD 6. In the feet 7. “Great Expectations” 8. “Mother and Child Reunion” 9. Queen of the Amazons 10. Raspberry

1) Old 2) Sisera 3) Solomon 4) Vashti 5) Silver 6) 7

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