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• A.A. Milne, the author who created Winnie the Pooh, was born in London on January 18, 1882, hence the date of this commemoration.

Alan Alexander Milne was already a successful playwright, author of mysteries, and writer for Punch magazine before Pooh was published, but the success of the stories about his son’s bear overshadowed his other work.

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• Milne’s son Christopher Robin was born in 1920, and became the model for the character in the Pooh books. For his first birthday, Christopher, who was mostly called Billy, received a stuffed bear from Harrod’s Department Store in London from his mother.

The bear was given the name of Edward, and sometimes Big Bear, or Teddy Bear. A.A. Milne first wrote of Edward in a poem published in a 1924 edition of Punch, and later in a collection of children’s poetry called When We Were Very Young.

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• During World War I, in faraway Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a young lieutenant named Harry Colebourn boarded a train along with other troops being transported to eastern Canada for their deployment to Europe. When the train stopped in Ontario, Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub from a hunter who had killed its mother. He paid $20 for little cub that he named Winnipeg, nicknaming her Winnie. The bear cub traveled to London with the troops and became the mascot of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade.

• When the Canadians shipped out for France, Winnie was loaned to the London Zoo. She quickly became the favorite animal of Christopher Milne, and the bear was so tame, that the boy was allowed to spend time in Winnie’s cage feeding her. The stuffed Edward Bear’s name was soon changed to Winnie. “Pooh” was the name of a swan the Milnes had encountered while on a holiday vacation. And Winnie the Pooh was born.

• A.A. Milne began a series of stories about the “bear of very little brain,” centered around the only human character named Christopher Robin for his own son. He incorporated his son’s other toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger, into his stories. Piglet had been a gift to Christopher from their neighbors, while Eeyore had been a Christmas gift in 1921, the boy’s second Christmas. Kanga and Roo were added to the nursery in 1925. Milne invented two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, to round out the band of friends. Milne created a setting of the Hundred Acre Wood, based on the Five Hundred Acre Wood located in East Sussex, England’s Ashdown Forest. The Milne family lived at Cotchford Farm, on the northern edge of the forest.

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• Because Owl and Rabbit are “real” animals that Milne created, the two let it be known that they are smarter and wiser. In the Pooh stories, Rabbit remarks to Owl, “You and I have brains. The others have fluff.”

• Milne chose an illustrator named E.H. Shepard for his books. Shepard drew inspiration from Ashdown Forest for his illustrations, and used his own son’s teddy bear “Growler” for the model of Winnie the Pooh. The first chapter of the first book was released on Christmas Eve, 1925, with the entire book published the following October.

• Pooh lived in a tree “under the name of Sanders,” not because that was his name, but rather that of the previous resident. In Milne’s words, “…he had the name Sanders over the door in gold letters and Pooh lived under it.” Pooh’s first words each morning are “What’s for breakfast?” and his first activity is to look for “hunny to fill the rumblie in his tumblie.”

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• While serving in World War II, Christopher received injuries during an enemy bombardment of a bridge he had helped design and build. Flying shrapnel embedded in his brain, which went undetected for almost 50 years.

• Christopher Milne resented the books his father wrote about him, saying, "It seemed to me almost that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with the empty fame of being his son." Yet he followed in his father’s footsteps later in his life, penning five books of his own.

• Christopher Milne’s original toys are now displayed under glass in the Children’s Room at the main New York City public library. It’s estimated that upwards of 750,000 people view them every year.

• When A.A. Milne passed away in 1956, his widow sold the rights to the Pooh characters to Stephen Slesinger, a producer of radio, television, and films, as well as a comic strip creator. Slesinger also owned the rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan character, and was author Zane Grey’s agent. When Slesinger died, his widow sold all the rights to the Walt Disney Company.

• In Milne’s 1926 and 1928 stories, all the animals of the Hundred Acre Wood are said to fear the Heffalump, although they never actually encounter one, except in dreams. The Heffalump is depicted in the Disney movies as a friendly lavender creature much like an elephant.

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• On Jan. 22, 1779, famed Tory outlaw Claudius Smith meets his end on the gallows in Goshen, New York. Legend has it that Smith’s skull was filled with mortar and included in the edifice of the Goshen Court House.

• On Jan. 17, 1893, on the Hawaiian Islands, American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow the Hawaiian monarch and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. The coup occurred with the knowledge of the U.S. minister to Hawaii, and 300 U.S. Marines were called, allegedly to protect American lives.

• On Jan. 20, 1909, General Motors buys into Oakland Motor Car, which later becomes GM’s Pontiac division. It was founded in 1907 in Pontiac, Michigan, by Edward Murphy, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriages.

• On Jan. 21, 1950, in one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury in testimony about his involvement in a Soviet spy ring.

• On Jan. 16, 1970, star centerfielder Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals files suit to protest baseball’s player reserve clause, which prevented players from moving to another team unless they were traded. The Supreme Court ruled against him in a 5-3 decision in 1972.

• On Jan. 19, 1983, Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons, France, during the German occupation, is arrested in Bolivia for his crimes against humanity four decades earlier. Barbie had sent thousands of French Jews and French Resistance members to their deaths in concentration camps.

• On Jan. 18, 1990, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry is arrested and charged with drug possession and the use of crack cocaine. Barry was sentenced to six months in prison, but in 1994 was again elected mayor for an unprecedented fourth term. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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It’s On You, Jed York In October 2010, after a close loss to Philadelphia, ESPN’s Adam Schefter received not so much a text as a bold proclamation. The message was from Jed York, the 30-year-old CEO of the 0-5 San Francisco 49ers, and it simply stated “We’re going to win the division.”

The message was ridiculed. The 49ers under Mike Singletary — a head coach who mooned his team — looked to be careening out of control, far removed from the stately grace of Bill Walsh or precision play the team used to execute under Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice and Roger Craig. Making bold predictions doesn’t make them smart or learned takes on a situation ... it just makes them bold. I went into a new diner and the menu was typed out in bold comic sans, it didn’t help the meatloaf one bit.

The 49ers would almost pull it off though, but York’s star didn’t rise along with it ... in fact, it probably only exacerbated the problems to come. Unlike his very well-respected father, John York, one of the country’s foremost cancer researchers and great philanthropist, Jed fit the mold of the rich kid who didn’t earn his spot ... the kid born on the opponent’s one-yard line who thinks he just ran back a kickoff for 99 yards.

He had a BA from Notre Dame, he was captain of his high-school base-

ball team, but he spent only one year in the work force before his family brought him into the family business, owning one of the premier franchises in sports.

The turnaround occurred when Jim Harbaugh took over the reins.

Harbaugh, a fierce competitor and brilliant football mind with the abrasive personality to match, took the team to a Super Bowl. Allegedly, Harbaugh and Jed clashed behind the scenes, and Harbaugh had insulted him in front of the team.

Apparently unable to stomach the slight, Jed took every opportunity to point out shortcomings in Harbaugh’s game plan. Harbaugh left for Michigan after being fired amid a slew of stories that were obviously leaked by Jed and then-49ers GM Trent Maalke.

There would be some who would (wrongly) point out parallels between him and George Steinbrenner III. George used to love talking about how he was captain of the high-school football team.

He too was keen on firing coaches and leaking damaging information to the press. The comparison stops there, as Steinbrenner had true business acumen and after a fan revolt, mellowed enough to find the right set of winners.

After firing Chip Kelly, an uncharacteristically brazen press started asking Jed questions about his future as CEO. Fans and columnists in the Bay Area alike are calling for his removal, a move that would seem likely if the team plans on getting any head coach with substance to take over the job and carry the once-great team back to the heights of success.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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This week, Tidbits is “strummin’ on the ole banjo,” as we look at the facts surrounding this stringed instrument.

• There are differing theories as to the origin of the word “banjo.” It may have its roots in the Nigerian Yoruba language, from the term “Bami jo,” translating “dance for me.” Others claim it came from the Kimbundu language in Angola, from their word “mbanza,” or from a West African term for a bamboo stick that was used for the instrument’s neck. But there’s no argument as to the African origin of the banjo.

• The journals of English explorer Richard Jobson during his 1620 voyage down the Gambia River in Africa mentioned an instrument “made of a great gourd and a neck, thereunto was fastened strings.” A 1678 document from the Caribbean island of Martinique references slave gatherings where the “banza” is played. Because of many different countries engaged in the slave trade, the instrument spread throughout the world. An English physician visiting Jamaica in 1687 referred to it as a “strum strump.”

• There were 19 different spellings in the 1700s for the banjo, including “banjar,” “banjil,” “bangoe,” “bangie,” and “banshaw.”

• The banjo is classified as a chordophone, meaning it makes sound through vibrating strings stretched between two points. The banjo’s round-shaped body has animal skin or parchment stretched over it, and usually has four or five strings, a fretted fingerboard, and an elongated neck.

• The first American commercial manufacturer of banjos was a drum maker and musical instrument dealer from Baltimore named William Boucher, who began production in the early 1840’s. Three of his banjos are housed in the Smithsonian Museum of American ...continued

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• In the 1860s, the banjo became popular as a “parlor” instrument for amateur music performances Dell. in the home, and was frequently used Answer: to accompany classical music.

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1938 for the first time during he was asked to come the up 1890s. with a name for a large number: the numeral one, followed • Avery four-stringed banjo is a plectrum banjo, by a hundred zeros. He his It’s twoprimaryoung meaning it is played withasked a pick. nephews would suggest. The ily used inwhat jazz name music,they such as Dixieland.

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English ballads. It was also influenced by the •early Kasner announced the new name for The the earbig music of the African-Americans. in hisbanjos next book, spelling. lynumber five-string were altering referredthe to as “claw•hammer” Sixty years later, meaning Larry Page andpicks Sergey Brin banjos, that weren’t developed a new internet search engine.

Other used, rather rhythmic right hand techniques search engines searched each webpage and were employed. ranked them according to how many times a • Inspecific 1945, term a young 21-year-old named appeared on them, but Page Earl and Brin designed their search engine to search for Scruggs joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys the specific term the anddistinctive then find out howwemany Band, and created sound now links there were that led back to that page, call bluegrass. Earl popularized a three-finger which resultedstyle in a better search engine. banjo-picking now known as “Scruggs •style.

They“ decided they needed a nameat that Earl, who had started playing age reflected how many websites the search four, was introduced in 1945 at the Grand Ole engine They the tookbanjo the name Opry as was “the searching. boy who made talk.” of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only Three years later, Scruggs had his own group, they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being The Foggy Mountain spelled exactly the Boys. same way the cartoon characterwe Barney hisLennon last name.

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• In 1981 Bill Gates said,Martin “640 kb • Actor/comedian Steve is of an memory accomought to be enough for anybody.” plished banjo player, having first learned to •play Moore’s Lawage states computer around 16.that In his words,performance “The banjo to 24 months, andcan’t everplay sincea isdoubles such a every happy18instrument – you 1971, this has been true. sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so •cheerful.”

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