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• Several Germans were standing on the observation deck of a submarine during World War I when they suddenly saw the periscope of an enemy sub nearby. Before they could do anything about it, a torpedo was heading their way. It was coming so fast that there was nothing to do but watch, so the men were very surprised to see the torpedo, which had been running on the surface of the water, skip out of the water, bounce off the deck of the sub, then splash down into the ocean on the opposite side and speed harmlessly away.

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• In 1956, Linda Morgan was asleep in her cabin aboard the Andrea Doria when a ship called the Stockholm rammed it. The Stockholm's bow crushed the Andrea Doria directly and when the two ships separated, the Stockholm carried pieces of the Andrea Doria with it— including the bed Linda Morgan was still in. She went to sleep on the Andrea Doria and awoke on the Stockholm.

• In 1868 the USS Wateree was stationed off Peru.

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• On April 8, 563 B.C., Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is thought to have been born in what is now Nepal. Buddhist tradition had placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., until modern scholars determined he was likely born in the 6th century.

• On April 3, 1776, lacking sufficient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers permission to attack all British ships. Any goods captured by the privateer were divided between the ship's owner and the government.

• On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, organizes the Church of Christ. Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by an angel named Moroni who spoke to him of an ancient Hebrew text. Smith translated this text, and in 1830 The Book of Mormon was published.

• On April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, purportedly the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japan's first major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa. It sank after being struck by 19 American aerial torpedoes, drowning 2,498 of its crew.

• On April 5, 1969, some 100,000 antiwar demonstrators march in New York City to demand that the United States withdraw from Vietnam.

The weekend of protests ended with demonstrations and parades in other cities.

• On April 2, 1979, the world's first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia (now Sverdlosk), killing 62 people. The Soviet government blamed tainted meat, but in 1992 the real cause was found: Workers at the weapons plant had failed to replace a crucial filter.

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• Shigeyoshi Morimoto lived in Nagasaki but was working at a job in Hiroshima. He was in a store less than 900 yards from ground zero when the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima in 1945. The collapsed building offered him shelter from the blast. He hurried home to Nagasaki. As he was telling his wife about the terrible bomb, he saw another flash out the window and shoved his family into the cellar in the nick of time.

Morimoto survived two atomic bomb blasts.

• In 1986 a 19-year-old student was sitting on the window ledge of his 9th floor dorm room at the University of California at Berkeley. He lost his balance and fell, crashing through the canvas sunroof of a parked car below him. The seat cushions in the car also softened his fall. He was only bruised.

• Sarah Ann Henley jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in England in 1885. During the 250-foot drop, her skirts and petticoat acted as a parachute and she landed in the river mud, injured but alive.

• Seven Japanese acrobats were in a bus travelling near Tokyo in 1933. The bus went over the side of a cliff, turning over and over as it went down the mountain side. The rolling slowed briefly when the bus hit a large rock. In that instant all seven acrobats hurled themselves through the open windows where they landed in the branches of a tree. None were seriously injured.

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• By 1932 there were 96 competitors on the market, but by the following year only six were left.

When World War II started, working women needing quick solutions in the kitchen used it more than ever. Carl Smith's product still sells in grocery stores across the nation today. It’s called Bisquick.

• Charles was born to a farming family in New Hampshire in 1842. As a young man, he and his father moved to Minneapolis to join his uncle. They pooled their resources and bought a flour mill, naming it after themselves.

• By 1880 they had acquired four more mills, and in 1881 they constructed the biggest flour mill in the world, causing Minneapolis to grow as a flour milling center BEST BAKING YET and spurring growth of railroads throughout the area to • In 1930 a baker in Kentucky named Lively Wilcarry grain and flour. loughby was looking for products to expand his • Charles traveled the world researching new techniques. line. He wanted to invent a pre-made dinner roll By 1889 they were producing 10,000 barrels of flour that ladies could take home and cook themselves. per day. In 1899 they merged with a British firm to beHe tried storing unbaked biscuits inside cardboard come the biggest flour milling corporation in the world. tubes, but they tended to explode.

• At the time, millers would customarily mark their best • Through experimentation, Willoughby controlled flour with three X’s to denote the finest flour. Charles the explosive factor and discovered that if he began to mark his best with four X’s to show it was wrapped the dough in tin foil before placing it in even better. The company grew into one of the largest the tubes, and then sealed the ends of the tubes with food conglomerates in the nation: Pillsbury. metal lids, the dough would stay fresh for quite a long time in the refrigerator. When baked, the bisEVEN BETTER BAKING cuits were deliciously similar to homemade rolls.

• Carl Smith was an executive for General Mills when he took a train trip in 1930. While en route, he went into • After patenting the pressurized foil sleeve, he teamed up with a local flour company called Balthe dining car after the dinner hour and was surprised lard & Ballard. For the next 20 years their brand of when the chef served him fresh hot biscuits along with biscuits-in-a-can sold well throughout the Amerihis meal within just a few minutes. After eating, he can South, where biscuits were a staple of the local went to ask the chef how he had been able to make fresh diet. Housewives loved the time-saving measure. biscuits on such short notice.

• The chef explained that he always kept lard, flour, bak- • In 1951 Pillsbury bought out Ballard & Ballard, acquired the rights to the method of making bising powder, and salt blended in an ice chest. Then all he cuits in a can, and the new biscuit went nationhad to do was pull out some dough and pop it into the wide. In 1965 an advertising mascot with an infecoven. tious giggle made his debut on national television • Intrigued, Smith asked the research division of General to promote the product. The biscuits are called Mills to come up with a way to package such a mixture Poppin’ Fresh, with the Poppin’ Fresh Dough Boy in a box, designed so that it would not go rancid in the as their mascot. cupboard.

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• A professional golf course designer named Mackensie came from Scotland to plan the architecture and landscaping. Work was begun in Answer: Dell.

1931. Each of the holes is named after one of A VERY LARGE NUMBER the shrubs, flowers, or trees that grow on the •course: Edward Kasner was a mathematician.

In 1938 Pink Dogwood, Juniper, Firethorn, and he was asked to come up with a name for a so on. Bobby hit thousands of test shots as the very large number: the numeral one, followed course was in progress. wanted three apby a hundred zeros. He He asked his two young proaches eachname hole:they the would safe route, the hard nephewstowhat suggest. route, and the crazy route. The grand opening • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name was outinof1933. the funnies. A cartoon strip character Barney was very course popular.that Milton • Itnamed was such a beautiful the chose U.S. Barney’s last name for the number.

Golf Association approached Bobby with the of holding a tournament Bobby •idea Kasner announced the new there. name for the debig number in his next book, altering the spelling. clined, feeling that if there were to be a touron hislater, course, should the host.

•nament Sixty years LarryhePage and be Sergey Brin developed a new internet engine.

His first tournament took search place in 1934,Other and search engines webpage and Jones named it thesearched Augusta each National Invitation ranked them according to how many times Tournament. Roberts wanted it to be called thea specificTournament, term appeared them,Jones but Page and Masters buton Bobby thought Brin designed their search engine to search for that title was a bit presumptuous. the specific term and then find out how many • People came were from 38 to watch thatpage, first links there thatstates led back to that which resulted a better search tournament, andinevery hotel roomengine. in the town of Augusta, population 60,000, was full. The • They decided they needed a name that purse was $1,500.

Everyone beganthecalling it reflected how many websites search engine was insearching.

They tookprotests. the name the Masters spite of Bobby’s In of Edward Kasner’s largeofnumber, only 1939, he relented andvery the title the tournatheywas misspelled it slightly, so It’s it ended up being ment officially changed. the only maspelled exactly the same way the cartoon jor golf tournament to return to the same site character Barney spelled his last name. What’s every year, although the tournament was susit called? (Answer at bottom of page) pended during World War II, while turkeys and COMPUTER FACTS to help with cows were raised on the grounds •the Inwar 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory effort. ought to be enough for anybody.”

• Bobby Jones played in the first 12 tourna• Moore’s Law states that computer performance ments, but never won. His best finish was a doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since tie1971, for 13th place, which this has been true. happened at the very first tournament. He never broke par. He only • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all participated because his name was a big draw started in garages. and he wanted the best turnout possible. Bobby Answer: Google, from googol.

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