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In honor of Mother Goose Day on May 1, Tidbits revisits those whimsical little rhymes we grew up on, as well as providing history on their origin.

• A common image that comes to mind when Mother Goose is mentioned is that of an elderly lady in a bonnet and glasses reading to children in front of a fire. Sometimes she is depicted as riding an enormous white goose, while other drawings show an actual goose wearing a tall hat.

• The origins of Mother Goose differ among sources. The most reliable is that she may have evolved from an 8th-century noblewoman named Bertrada II of Laon, wife of France’s King Robert II and the mother of Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. She was known as “Goosefoot Bertha” and “Queen Goosefoot” due to a malformation of her foot, and was well-known as one who told many stories to children.

• Other sources maintain that Mother Goose was Elizabeth Foster Goose, a Massachusetts woman who married Isaac Goose in 1692.

They had a blended family of 16 children, to whom Elizabeth told stories and sang rhymes.

Claims have been made that she authored a collection of her stories, published in 1719, but no evidence of its existence has been found.

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• The earliest recorded comment about Mother Goose is 1650, prior to Elizabeth Goose ’s birth.

But that hasn’t stopped the City of Boston from making her gravesite a tourist attraction.

• The term “Mother Goose” was a common one in the mid-1600s in France, and referred to a woman who enthralled children with charming tales.

A 1697 volume by Charles Perrault was entitled “Tales from my Mother Goose.” In 1729, these were translated into English by British writer Robert Samber, who called the collection “Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose.” The volume came to America in 1786, printed by Isaiah Thomas, who called his edition Mother Goose’s Melody: Sonnets for the Cradle, a book that included old favorites such as Jack and Jill and Little Tommy Tucker.

• In the first printed version of Jack and Jill in the 18th century, the rhyme was actually named Jack and Gill, and the accompanying woodcut illustration showed two boys rather than a boy and a girl as we know it today. Jack is the most common name used in English nursery rhymes, including “Jack Be Nimble,” “Jack Sprat,” “Jack A Nory,” “Jack, Come Give Me Your Fiddle,” and “Little Jack Horner.”

• “Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,” but what exactly is a tuffet? The definition differs depending on the source, with the 16th version leaning toward a tuft, as in a “bunch of something,” such as hairs or fur. In the 17th century, the word denoted a grassy hill or knoll. Later sources suggest a small footstool. And what were the “curds and whey” she was eating? The closest thing we have in modern times is cottage cheese! ...continued

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• How do you picture Humpty Dumpty in your mind? As an egg? If you read through the rhyme, you’ll notice that it never mentions that Humpty is an egg. Although the rhyme dates back to 1797, it wasn’t until Lewis Carroll’s 1872 book Through the Looking-Glass that he was described as an egg. In the original nursery rhyme, the last lines read: “Fourscore men and fourscore more could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.” In the 1600s, “humpty dumpty” was a hot drink of brandy boiled with ale, while in the 1700s, the term referred to a short and clumsy person. It’s believed that the 1797 rhyme was really a riddle for children, with the answer “an egg,” which could explain why he is always represented as such.

• Is there more to “Little Jack Horner” than meets the eye? Legend has it that in the 1800s, Thomas Horner, steward to the Abbot of Glastonbury under Henry VIII, was sent to London carrying a huge Christmas pie, in which were hidden deeds to several English manors as a gift to Henry. It was the Abbot’s hope that he could convince the King not to nationalize lands that belonged to the Church. It’s said that Horner opened the pie and took the deed to one of the manors for himself. “He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum” perhaps might refer to the lead mines contained on that property, a play on words for the Latin word “plumbum,” meaning lead. Records show that Horner did indeed become the owner of the property, but his descendants strongly asserted that he came by the title lawfully.

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• On May 13, 1958, anti-American demonstrators pelt then-Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine with rocks in Caracas, Venezuela. Despite warnings not to send Nixon to Venezuela, where anti-American sentiment ran particularly high, he went anyway.

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• “Georgy Porgy” also seems to have historic roots, with the title character believed to be George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, who had a romance with Anne of Austria (the Queen of France and wife of King Louis XIII). It might also be related to the 1666 Great Fire of London, which consumed 13,200 homes. The fire started in Pudding Lane and finished at Pye Corner, coinciding with the nursery rhyme’s verse “Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie.” “When the boys came out to play” could refer to the firefighters, with Georgy depicted as the arsonist.

• In the nursery rhyme, Little Bo Peep lost her sheep, but in the 16th century there was a child’s game known as “bo-peep,” similar to the game of “peek-a-boo,” and one that was even mentioned by Shakespeare in his play “King Lear.” In the 1300s, the meaning wasn’t nearly as sweet. “Playing bo-peep” referred to punishment similar to the stocks.

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• The coconut palm, which grows throughout the tropics and subtropics can reach a height of 98 feet, with leaf fronds nearly 20 feet long. A tall coconut palm tree might yield up to 75 fruits a pear, provided it is grown under proper conditions. It takes six to ten years for a palm to produce its first fruit, and the tree doesn’t reach peak production for at least 15 years. The palm is grown in more than 80 countries, with the Philippines, Indonesia, and India leading the pack in production.

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• In the 1500s, Portuguese sailors aboard the ship of explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the fruit and thought the three small holes on the shell looked like a human face. As a result, they named it “coco,” meaning “grinning face.” Much later, the word “nut” was tacked on to the end.

• The fruit is not really a nut at all, but rather a drupe, from the same family as peaches, plums, and cherries. A full-sized coconut weighs about 3.2 lbs. The white fleshy part of the fruit is called the meat, which is rich in manganese, potassium, and copper. It’s the meat that’s used in sweet treats such as macaroons. Dried coconut meat is known as copra, which is often processed to produce oil, soaps, and cosmetics.

• Coconut water is a refreshing drink, full of fiber, protein, antioxidants, sugars, vitamins, and minerals. It’s also been used as a short-term substitute for human blood plasma, and as an IV for severely dehydrated individuals. Coconut milk isn’t the same as coconut water.

It’s lower in sugar and its fat content is upwards of 20%.

Just like cow’s milk, coconut cream will rise to the top, separating from the milk.

• In Malaysia and Thailand, a certain primate, the pigtailed macaques, has been trained for 400 years to harvest coconuts. A single macaque can pick 800 to 1,000 coconuts per day, and is even trained to tell the difference between ripe and unripe fruits.

• It’s estimated that about 150 people are killed every year from falling coconuts.

• Coconuts aren’t just for eating! The fiber of the husk, known as coir, is used in the manufacture of ropes, brushes, sacks, mattresses, and can also be used to buff floors. The leaves are used in broom-making, the weaving of baskets and mats, and as thatch for roofs. The wood from the tree trunk makes for an outstanding building material for bridges, houses, and boats, due to its straightness, strength, and salt resistance. In fact, in 1978, Philippines Ferdinand Marcos commissioned the construction of the Coconut Palace, a guest house with seven bedrooms, for the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines. The structure, built of 70% coconut lumber, cost $10 million to erect.

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Former and longtime Deputy Sheriff & K9 handler, Mike Lee, announces that he will seek out election as Grand Forks County Sheriff in 2018.

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Mike Lee accomplishments and agenda items: • 18 years of law enforcement experience and is highly decorated.

• Grand Forks Sheriff’s Department’s first ever to receive a lifesaving award after responding to an active shooter situation where a man was shot in the chest.

• Received the “Beyond the Traffic Stop” award from the North Dakota DOT for criminal interdiction.

• Mike and his K9 partners have won numerous K9 competitions for drug detection, as well as the Iron Dog competition.

• Received numerous traffic safety awards.

• Will focus on making the department proactive rather than reactive.

• Another item on Mike Lee’s agenda is the high recidivism (repeat offenders) rate at the jail.

• Will take an active role in curbing the drug epidemic, as well as work with the community in tackling the opioid problems we are facing.

• Believes the Sheriff should be a leader in creating a solution to these issues.

• Mike has a plan that would reduce the County budget by more $400,000.00 annually.

“Effective leadership only happens when great leaders are willing to do uncomfortable things.”

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• Thomas Jefferson was an inventor as well as a statesman, but he refused to take out patents on any of his ideas. He believed that inventions should benefit all of humanity, not just himself.

• Many people know American counterculture figure Ken Kesey as the author of the 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which presents a disturbing portrait of life in a mental institution. It's less well known, though, that Kesey got an inside view of the system when he worked as a janitor in a mental hospital before he became famous.

• Those who study such things say that a typical newspaper contains just 30 percent editorial content -- 70 percent of the paper you buy is taken up by advertising.

• The last country in the world to get telephones was the South Asian nation of Bhutan, and both television and the Internet were banned there until 1999. Incidentally, Bhutan also is the only nation in the world in which the well-being of the citizens is so important that the government measures the country's Gross National Happiness.

• The Beatles was not the first band in which John Lennon played. Those previous groups obviously didn't work out, though; in fact, at one point Lennon broke a washboard over a bandmate's head during a dispute. After the Beatles' success, though, Lennon apologized in style: He bought the poor guy a supermarket.

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• During the 17th century, the first “fire engines” came on the scene, which were merely tubs carried on runners or wheels, which served as Answer: Dell. a reservoir for water. The tub also contained a A VERY LARGE NUMBER hand-operated pump that pushed water through •a Edward Kasner was aUnfortunately, mathematician.

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Fire trucks •hose Sixty years later, Larryfire Page and Sergey Brin developed a new internet search engine.

Other became motorized in the 20th century with the search engines searched each webpage and invention of the internal-combustion engine. ranked them according to how many times a • Benjamin Franklin is usually credited as and the specific term appeared on them, but Page originator of America’s first volunteer fire deBrin designed their search engine to search for partment, launched in Philadelphia 1736.

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