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A HOME REMEDY

• In the late 1800s, Lunsford Richardson bought a drugstore and started inventing home remedies. He was intrigued by a little-known drug from Japan called menthol. It made a nice balm, which he named Richardson’s Croup and Pneumonia Cure Salve.

• Although he had over 20 different home remedies, none sold well. His son suggested they abandon all of their other products, which many other companies carried, and focus on the mentholated ointment, which was unique.

• Richardson agreed, but first they needed a better name. Smith chose the last name of his Carpet Cleaning • Carpet brother-in-law because it was short, simple to Cleaning SPECIAL! spell, and easy to pronounce. The re-branded Upholstery $229 •Cleaning medicated salve was released in 1912.

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• In 1918 when the flu epidemic swept the country, sales soared from $900,000 to $2.9 million in just one year. People rubbed it on their chest and throat to ease congestion and used it on sore muscles to improve circulation. The product, now owned by Procter & Gamble, is still made today. What’s it called?

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• Women used it as a facial cleanser and a makeup remover. Still, George struggled to make a profit during the first few years of business, and did all of the work himself. He advertised relentlessly, especially on the radio, and by 1925 he was selling nearly a million jars annually. During World War II, soldiers received the product to help ease tired, overworked feet and soothe dry, chapped, or irritated skin, and after the war, they introduced their wives to the product.

• George branched out and offered new products including shaving creams and medicated tissues. He changed the name of the product when a customer approached him and declared, “Your cream knocked my eczema!” The product is still a favorite face cream today. What’s it called?

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• Francis Townsend was a doctor living in Ocean City, Maryland in 1914. He was disturbed by how often tourists visiting his town would become sunburned on the beach, so he mixed up a healing salve containing camphor, menthol, and eucalyptus to help soothe their burned skin. He called it “Townsend R22.” He knew there was a market for the product beyond Ocean City, so he turned the formula over to Baltimore pharmacist George Bunting, who re-named the product “Dr. Bunting’s Sunburn Remedy” and packaged it in cobalt-blue glass jars. It was the first real alternative to the greasy medicated creams common at the time.

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JOHN'S SHAMPOO

• By the time John was 21, he was already going bald. It was 1898 and shampoo didn’t exist yet.

People washed their hair with bar soap, which was harsh, or they used whatever they had on hand, including cornmeal, oils, eggs, lemon juice, or vinegar. Indoor plumbing was still a new invention. John was convinced his balding was due to the poor quality of soaps available. He was determined to find a shampoo that would save his hair.

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• So he went to college and got a degree in chemistry, and then spent the next ten years experimenting. He discovered that the problem with the soaps people used on their hair was that the pH balance was wrong. By 1930 he introduced pH-balanced shampoos formulated for both oily and dry hair, naming the product after himself. It was America’s very first shampoo.

• When customers failed to flock to his product, John hired an artist to create beautiful full-color illustrations of ordinary women with extraordinarily shiny hair, placing the ads in large magazines. It worked. Alas, the shampoo did not keep John’s hair from falling out, but he became a very rich bald man.

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• In recent times, commercials for John’s shampoo launched the career of several famous models, including Brooke Shields, Kim Basinger, Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, and Cybill Shepherd. What’s the name of John’s shampoo?

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• On Oct. 6, 1847, "Jane Eyre" is published by Charlotte Bronte under the pseudonym Currer Bell. At age 5, Bronte was sent to a boarding school. The harsh conditions -- bad food, cold rooms and strict discipline -- all were reflected in the boarding school portrayed in the novel.

• On Oct. 4, 1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. It would take 12 years for the impressive granite images of four of America's most beloved presidents -George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt -- to be completed.

• On Oct. 7, 1960, the one-hour television drama "Route 66" debuts on CBS. The program followed two young men, Tod and Buz, as they drove across the country in a Corvette convertible looking for adventure.

• On Oct. 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws the first no-hitter in World Series history. Even better, it was a perfect game -- that is, there were no runs, no hits and no errors, and no batter reached first base.

• On Oct. 5, 1974, American David Kunst completes the first round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 pairs of shoes to complete the 14,500-mile journey across four continents. He left Minnesota in 1970 accompanied by a pack mule named Willie Makeit.

• On Oct. 2, 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. His death raised public awareness of the epidemic.

• On Oct. 3, 1995, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Evidence presented at the trial included blood DNA from the crime scene found on Simpson's glove and his blood DNA found at the crime scene.

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• As a youth, Andrew earned a living as a lumberjack and woodworker. He knew how chapped, dry, and cracked a pair of hard-working hands could become. By the time he was 30, he had quite a large amount of money saved up, and he was also tired of being a lumberjack, so he invested his money in a soap-making firm run

by Charles Geilfus in Cincinnati. They became partners in 1882, naming the firm the Andrews Soap Company.

• They started out with a single soap-making vat which they took turns tending, but the company grew quickly. A coconut oil soap they developed was particularly effective in hard water. Because hard water was so prevalent, the soap became very popular and their fortunes grew. They bought more vats, and by 1901 they were successful enough to buy out the Robert Eastman Company, which produced perfumes, creams, and a lotion. The lotion, called “Benzoin and Almond Lotion Compound” was superior to any other lotion on the market. Andrew changed the name of the lotion, using his last name.

• The company focused their advertising on women, just when women were beginning to prefer store-bought items over homemade. Following aggressive marketing in magazines, radio, and in-store displays, the lotion became the top-selling lotion in the U.S. The entire Andrews Soap Company was re-named for Andrew. Today it’s a leader in personal care products. What was Andrew’s last name?

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• Some of the most horrifying and fascinating members of the plant kingdom are found in the genus of fungi called “Cordyceps,” sometimes called “zombie fungus.” The word cordyceps springs from the Greek meaning “club head” for the shape the fungus typically takes as it grows out of the body of its hijacked victim. There are hundreds of different species of Cordyceps, and each one infects a different insect.

• One type infects a particular species of ant. It starts when the ant walks across some fungus spores. The spores latch on to the ant and cannot be dislodged.

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• After incubating for two weeks inside the ant’s body, the fungus is able to control the ant’s brain.

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• After maturing for three weeks, spores are released that rain down upon the anthill below, continuing the cycle. In this way, the fungus is often able to wipe out entire colonies of ants. When healthy ants discover an infected ant, they will carry the doomed ant far from the nest in an effort to avoid this fate.

The battle between fungus and insect prevents the insect population from getting out of control.

• Fossils show that this parasitical relationship has been going on for at least 48 million years.

• A particular species of Cordyceps will infect a particular species of ant. Experiments to try to infect ants with different strains of the fungus have failed, showing that the fungus and the ant co-evolved and cannot cross over. “It’s one of the most complex examples of parasites controlling animal behavior that we know about,” says entomologist David Hughes.

• Some Cordyceps species are sources of biochemicals with interesting biological and pharmacological properties. Extracts are used as immuno-suppressants to prevent rejection in organ transplants, as well as to treat multiple sclerosis. Processed Cordyceps can also be found worldwide in liquid extracts, tinctures, powders, and capsules, with various claims for improving health. Other types of Cordyceps are used as food in soups, stews, and teas.

• In China and Tibet, one species of fungus attacks the larvae of the ghost moth. Starting at the caterpillar’s head, the fungus grows into its body, eventually killing it, feeding off its carcass, and turning itself into an exact replica of the bug. This caterpillar fungus is used to make a tea reputed to have medicinal powers.

It supposedly cures impotence, cancer, hair loss, and fatigue. In fact, when the Liaoning Province women’s track team broke the world record for both the 10,000 meters and the 1,500 meters in 1993, they were suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs. However, they claimed their performance was because of caterpillar fungus tea.

• The demand for this caterpillar fungus tea is high.

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• It was 20th-century American philosopher, writer and educator Susanne Katherina Langer who made the following sage observation: "If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions."

• In Western cultures, the owl is associated with wisdom, but in some Asian countries, it's traditionally a symbol of stupidity.

• In the 9th century, a Norseman named Sigurd EysteinssonÊearned the name Sigurd the Mighty while helping to lead the Viking conquest of what is now northern Scotland. As part of a continuing effort to expand his Scottish conquest, Sigurd challenged a native ruler, Mael Brigte the Bucktoothed, to a battle. Each leader was supposed to bring 40 men to the battle, but Sigurd broke his own rule and brought 80 warriors. Unsurprisingly, Brigte lost. After beheading his defeated foe, Sigurd displayed Brigte's head on his saddle as a trophy of war.

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• If you use cold water to clean all of your clothes, you’ll save about $40 a year in electricity costs. Your clothes will last longer too. And consider a clothesline for air-drying items like towels and sheets on nice days. That saves electricity as well.

• “I just filled a nick in my wood floor with a brown crayon. It totally works.

I just rubbed it into the mark, and then used a soft rag to work it in. You can’t even tell where it was. I thank my dad for this tip.” — C.L. in Arizona • “To see the numbers on my socket set, I used my wife’s red nail polish. I painted it over the numbers and then quickly used a tissue to wipe off the excess. The red color sunk into the indentations, making the numbers easier to read.” — E.L.D. in Indiana • “To get my kids to do chores, I sometimes will leave the tasks I want done written on sticky notes. The kids have to complete the tasks and turn in the notes to me in order to get their allowances. Some money is just given, but more chores means more money.

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CHEDDAR MAN

• The British village of Cheddar is famous not only for its cheese but also for Cheddar Gorge, a limestone canyon that sports an extensive set of caves.

The caves offer the perfect environment for culturing cheese. It turns out that the atmosphere in the cave is also perfect for preserving skeletons.

• The caves show signs of human use dating back to the end of the last ice age nearly 15,000 years ago. Cheddar Gorge and the network of over a hundred caves found there are Britain’s prime site for Paleolithic human remains.

• In 1903, workmen digging a trench to drain water from a cave discovered a complete human skeleton. Many human remains had been found in the cave previously, but this skeleton turned out to be the oldest and most complete skeleton ever found in Britain.

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• Researchers found that the bones belonged to a young adult man, around age 23 at time of death.

The skull showed signs of bone infection. More alarmingly, the man’s head had been bashed in, though it’s impossible to tell what caused the wound. Carbon dating shows that he lived about 9,000 years ago, around the year 7150 B.C. He was dubbed “Cheddar Man” and put on display at the Natural History Museum in London.

• In 1996, Bryan Sykes of Oxford University extracted a piece of DNA from Cheddar Man’s molar and had it sequenced. He then went to the nearby town of Cheddar in search of DNA samples of twenty residents whose ancestors had lived the longest in the immediate area. The town council gave him the names of half a dozen families who had lived in the village for more than 200 years. Sykes asked them for cheek swabs so their DNA could be compared to the Cheddar Man. ...continued

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• When a team showed up at the local school to collect DNA samples, some of the children were hesitant, fearing it might hurt. One of Answer: Dell. their teachers stepped up and volunteered to VERY LARGE have his A cheek swabbed toNUMBER calm their fears.

• Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 • Ninety and 300 generations after he was centuries asked to come up with a name for a Cheddar Man died, Bryan Sykes found a direct very large number: the numeral one, followed descendant living justHe half a mile from by a hundred zeros. asked his away two young the cave: the teacher, named Adrian Targett, is nephews what name they would suggest. direct descendant of Britain’s oldesta known •aNine-year-old Milton suggested name resident.

This set a record for the world’s most out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character distant confirmed relative. named Barney was very popular. Milton chose Barney’s lastborn name in for Bristol, the number.

• Targett was just 15 miles •away Kasner announced newbeen name biga from the cave.the "I've in for the the cave number in his next book, altering the spelling. few times, but I never realized it was home," quipped informed theSergey news. Brin ''I'm •he Sixty years when later, Larry Pageofand developed new internet engine. thinking of awriting to thesearch Marquess of Other Bath, search engines eachsaying, webpage who owns these searched caves, and I'd and like ranked them according to how many times a my cave back.” Targett added, “I'm a history specific term appeared on them, but Page and teacher. But I teach modern history, so ChedBrin designed search engine Itohave search for dar Man's a bit their out of my period. to adthe specific term and then find out how many mit that I know next to nothing about him." links there were that led back to that page, • Bryan believes there are probably whichSykes resulted in a better search engine. a lot of Cheddar descendants out there.

He and • They decided they needed a name thata team at Oxford making a geneticthe mapsearch of all reflected howaremany websites ofengine Europewas andsearching. they estimate about perThey took1 to the1.5name of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only cent of Britain's population is likely to share they misspelled it slightly, so itmarkings ended up found being the same mitochondrial DNA exactly the Mr. same way the cartoon inspelled Cheddar Man and Targett. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s • When Cheddar Man died, humans it called?

(Answer at bottom of page)were still hunter-gatherers. It would be another thousand COMPUTER FACTS years before farming was invented. Targett, by •contrast, In 1981 sings Bill Gates “640 kb ofplays memory in thesaid, town’s choir, basought to be enough for anybody.” soon in the school orchestra, likes his steaks •rare, Moore’s computer and Law is a states steamthat engine buff.performance He doesn’t doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since hunt and rarely gathers.

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• ''The point is that we've all got 9,000-year-old • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all ancestors,'' he said. ''I just happen to know who started in garages. mine was.''

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