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• Tom Mix was a rodeo champion in the early 1900s. One day a rodeo organizer showed him a cable from a film company looking for cowboys willing to do stunt work for a movie they were making. Mix signed up and that’s how he got started in films.

• In 1914 Mix was acting as safety man during the filming of “Lost in the Jungle.” Heroine Kathryn Williams was to cower between two logs while a leopard menaced her. The leopard had been trained to catch and kill chickens, and a chicken was tied directly behind the actress out of camera range. Mix stood by with a shotgun just in case.

• As the leopard stalked the chicken, the breeze kicked up, ruffling Kathryn’s hair which flew up into a feathery halo. The confused leopard leapt at the actress instead of the chicken, sinking its claws into her head. Mix, unable to shoot the animal without endangering the actress, grabbed the leopard by the tail and dragged it off.

• The director saw the potential in this heroic act and Tom Mix’s career as an actor and stuntman was launched. He went on to make 70 Westerns for the studio, performing all his own stunts. He ended up breaking each leg four times as well as fracturing ribs, ankles, and hands. His popularity soared until he was one of Hollywood’s top stars, earning $17,000 per week. He died in 1940 in a car crash at the age of 60.

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WILLIAM DUNCAN'S DROWNING

• William Duncan, a Scottish actor, insisted on doing his own stunts. In 1915 he plunged off an 80-foot cliff into the sea, but the cameras on the boats were rocked so violently by the waves that they were unable to get any close-up shots of Duncan supposedly drowning. So they moved to a 10-foot deep indoor tank in a studio.

• In the script, Duncan’s character plunges off the cliff to avoid capture by pursuing guards, who then shoot at him in the water. To simulate rifle shots hitting the water, production assistants were armed with heavy iron nuts and instructed to hurl them at Duncan’s head as he was going under.

• To ensure a life-like drowning, Duncan was tied to a rope which ran through an iron ring on the bottom of the tank and over to several men on the opposite side who were to pull on the rope to drag Duncan under. Duncan was then supposed to release himself from the rope and swim to the surface.

• Just as Duncan was being pulled under, one of the nuts hit him in the head, knocking him senseless. He suddenly found himself underwater, tied to a rope with no recollection of what he was supposed to do. He nearly drowned before the details of how to release himself from the rope came back to him. Meanwhile, the assistants were standing around the tank thinking, “Gee, he sure can stay under water a long time.”

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• Connie Tilton was stunt double for Hayley Mills in the 1959 movie “Tiger Bay.” She was to jump from a ship into a choppy sea, and a stuntman was to dive in to dramatically rescue her for the cameras. The stuntman panicked in the high waves and nearly drowned them both.

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• Mary Fuller was one of the first female stuntwomen. In 1916 she played the part of a mermaid. Her mermaid tail was firmly fitted to her bottom half and she was placed, bedecked with lilies and coral, on a rocky point off the coast in the midst of an angry sea. While the cameras rolled, she noted that the tide was rising far more rapidly than anyone had considered possible. She shouted to the director who stood on the shore, but she couldn’t be heard over the crashing of the waves. The cameraman was totally absorbed in getting the shot and didn’t notice her predicament. Water began splashing over her. Waves tore away her lilies and coral. She could not move because of the tail. Finally a wave swept over her, dragging her out to sea. Only then did the men realize the danger she was in. They dragged her back to shore, but the movie cameras were swept out to sea and never recovered.

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• In 1931 Frank Capra was filming “Dirigible” when he needed realistic-looking frozen breath.

The scene was supposed to take place in the Arctic but was actually shot in a hot studio. Capra designed metal cages to fit inside the mouth of each actor involved in the scene, and then filled the cages with chips of dry ice. Actor Hobart Bosworth found the cage interfered with his speech, so he threw the cage away and put the dry ice directly into his mouth. A second later he was in complete agony as the intense cold burned his mouth. Parts of his jaw, teeth, and tongue had to be surgically removed afterwards.

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• Jimson weed is a double-edged plant. On one hand, it’s the source of several invaluable pharmaceutical medicines. On the other hand, it can kill.

• The Latin name for the plant is Datura stramonium.

• “Datura” comes from the Hindi word meaning “thorny apple” because the seed pod is spiky and round.

• “Stramonium” springs from the Greek words “strychnos” denoting the poisonous nightshades (a word that also gave us “strychnine”) and the word “maniakos” meaning “mad.” Jimson weed is a member of the nightshade family, and it can drive a creature mad.

• The name “jimson weed” is a shortening of “Jamestown weed.” In Jamestown, Virginia in 1676, a group of British soldiers helped themselves to a salad made with the leaves of this toxic plant. It took them eleven days to recover from the resulting delirium and hallucinations.

• It’s also known by various other names, including devil’s trumpet and loco weed.

• Every part of this weedy herb is dangerously toxic: leaves, flowers, seeds, and stems. Reportedly, even honey made from the nectar can be dangerous.

• Because it has a bitter taste, most animals avoid it, though livestock fenced in pens or fields where other forage is scarce may graze on it to their detriment.

• A primary danger comes when the weed is growing wild amid hayfields and it is harvested with the silage and fed to livestock. Likewise, chickens have been poisoned by eating the seeds that were milled by accident along with other edible grains.

• Jimson weed is an annual herb that grows up to five feet tall and can be found nearly worldwide in moderate climates. It prefers disturbed areas such as garbage dumps, roadsides, and pastureland rich with animal waste.

• When any part of the plant is ingested, it triggers delirium and hallucinations that mimic schizophrenia, making it difficult for the victim to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Victims often speak to people who aren’t there, or smoke imaginary cigarettes.

• It also causes alarming symptoms including an irregular heartbeat, seizures, high blood pressure, hypothermia, amnesia, and coma. Symptoms usually last 24 to 48 hours but can persist for up to two weeks.

• Yet the plant is the source of a number of essential pharmaceutical medications. Scopolamine helps prevent nausea and vomiting caused by motion sickness or following anesthesia and surgery. Atropine is used to treat poisoning, to speed an irregular heartbeat, to reduce salivation during surgery, and to dilate the pupils of the eyes.

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• “Print out recipes and tape them to your kitchen cabinets, or hang from a door pull with a pants hanger. You could even stack a week’s worth of recipes on a clipboard and add a dedicated hook for them in your kitchen.”

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• On Feb. 26, 1919, the Grand Canyon is established as a national park. American geologist John Wesley Powell, who popularized the term "Grand Canyon" in the 1870s, was the first person to travel the entire length of the gorge in 1869. The harrowing voyage was made in four rowboats.

• On Feb. 25, 1938, the city of Miami gets its first drive-in movie theater. At their peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there were some 4,000 drive-ins across America.

• On Feb. 23, 1945, during the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines take the crest of Mount Suribachi. The iconic image of six Marines raising the American flag on the peak was taken by photographer Joe Rosenthal.

• On Feb. 22, 1959, Lee Petty defeats Johnny Beauchamp in a photo finish at the justopened Daytona International Speedway in Florida to win the first Daytona 500. The race was so close that Beauchamp was initially declared the winner.

• On Feb. 21, 1965, in New York City, Malcolm X, a black nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of AfroAmerican Unity in Washington Heights.

• On Feb. 20, 1985, in a highly controversial vote, the Irish government defies the powerful Catholic Church and approves the sale of contraceptives, a major turning point in Irish history. Up until 1979, Irish law prohibited the importation and sale of contraceptives.

• On Feb. 24, 1991, after six weeks of intensive bombing against Iraq and its armed forces, U.S.-led coalition forces launch a ground invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. By the end of the day, the Iraqi army had effectively folded, 10,000 of its troops were held as prisoners and a U.S. air base had been established deep inside Iraq. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Roger That If you’ve done a little studying in your life, you know that there are abstract concepts you can ponder (think Descartes) and cold, hard facts (I was told there would be no math, however). The scientific method teaches us that we learn by observing.

So, by any measure, if you watched Super Bowl 51, you witnessed something that can only be called irrefutable in the truest, most classic form of the word: Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. is the greatest quarterback to ever play the game of football, in any era, in any stadium, in any game, for any team, ever.

I don’t know what it is about the New England Patriots that inspires every coach not named Tom Coughlin to shave hundreds of IQ points off their cerebrum in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. This bewildering tendency to just do the stupidest things imaginable with the Patriots on the ropes is almost as awe-inspiring as Brady’s leveling up in response each time. The Seahawks passing instead of running? The Falcons acting like they smoked legal weed at halftime? It almost looks like the equivalent of Ali knocking out Sonny Liston without laying a glove on him.

Either way, Brady is the greatest of all time. This cannot be disputed any longer. Five Super Bowl rings will tend to work in your legacy’s favor. It’s a matter of record that I called for a Falcons-Patriots Super Bowl, and I have the texts to prove that I believed the smart money was on the Patriots to win and cover the spread, beating the over.

But like anyone who grew up a Giants fan and can’t stand seeing Ben Affleck any more than I absolutely must, I was pulling for the Falcons. It’s a great franchise, headed up by a great owner, led by Matt Ryan, the rightful MVP. The people and fans of Atlanta are championship starved, and on any other Sunday, against any other team, they would be coming home with the hardware.

But how could you not root for Brady in the final minutes of the fourth quarter? In overtime? After his 60th passing attempt? And how could you not smirk along with him as Roger Goodell — possibly the worst commissioner in organized sports history, the guy that stupidly suspended the league’s only real marquee star over a few ounces of missing air — had to hand the Lombardi Trophy to him? If your life depended on it, could you imagine starting any other quarterback?

Baby Boomers and subsequent generations have witnessed some of the greatest players and athletes of all-time. We’ve seen Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jordan, Gretzky, Howe, Bonds, Ali, Federer, Nicklaus, Woods, Serena Williams ... and now we can say we saw Tom Brady.

And nobody summed it up better than the man himself.

“I’ve been labeled a cheater. I’ve been suspended. My mom is dealing with cancer. I’ve been ripped for my Donald Trump friendship. I’m playing the Super Bowl against the MVP of the league (Matt Ryan). I was a sixth-round pick, No. 199. Nothing is easy. Nothing is handed to me. I’m going to do what I set out to do in this league from the start. And that is become the greatest quarterback that ever played.”

Greatest quarterback to ever play the game? Absolutely. Roger that.

You bet your life.

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

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• Surtsey is an island off the coast of Iceland that was born from a volcanic eruption that started in 1963 and continued until 1967.

• In 1963, men on a fishing trawler off the coast of Iceland saw a column of smoke and thought it was a ship on fire. When they investigated, they found that it was instead an underwater volcanic eruption.

By the end of the week, the volcano had broken the surface of the sea and an island began to form.

• After the eruption ceased, the island was measured at one square mile in area but in the years since, wave action has eroded the island and it is now half the size that it once was. Though erosion continues, it’s unlikely the island will ever completely disappear because the waves now beat against the hard volcanic shores instead of the loose volcanic fragments.

• The island is 20 miles south of the southern coast of Iceland. The name is Icelandic meaning “Surtr’s Island” named for the mythological Norse giant Surtur, who is charged with the responsibility of setting fire to the world after the Last Judgement.

• The formation and development of this island has been closely studied by scientists who want to understand more about how a sterile environment is colonized. Access to the island has been controlled since its birth.

• When the island was only one month old, microbes hovered in the air over the island. The first flies and butterflies appeared on the barren island a few months later.

• By 1967 when the volcanic eruption finally ceased, there were 63 species of insects found there. By 1970 the list of insect species found on the island had grown to 136. Most of the insects found had been blown there and did not survive.

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He asked his young the first plant to set down roots there, in 1965. nephews what name they would suggest.

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The tomato plant was pulled up, spelled exactly the same way the cartoon lest it contaminate the natural order of things. character Barney spelled his last name.

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