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• By July of 1940, the rabbit had a new look and a new name. The first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, “A Wild Hare,” was the first film in which Mel Blanc used a new voice for Bugs, one described as “a mixture of Brooklyn and Bronx accents.”

It was also the first time that Bugs used his famous catchphrase, “What’s up, Doc?” The film’s writer/director Tex Avery said it was a common saying in his Texas hometown, and he thought nothing of adding it to the script. When it became popular, it was added to Bugs’ films from there on out. “A Wild Hare” was such a success that it received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

• Another Academy Award nomination came along in 1941 for “Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt,” in which Mel Blanc voiced all the characters.

• Bugs starred in Merrie Melodies cartoons under the direction of Leon Schlesinger until 1944, when Schlesinger retired and sold his studio to Warner Brothers. The cartoons then became known as “Looney Tunes,” with “Buckaroo Bugs” marking the studio’s debut.

• Bugs Bunny was extremely popular during World War II. Bugs, Porky Pig, and Elmer appeared in a 1942 U.S. two-minute film entitled “Any Bonds Today,” selling war bonds. At the end of 1943’s “Super-Rabbit,” Bugs Bunny appeared in a U.S. Marine dress blue uniform, singing “The Marines’ Hymn,” which resulted in the Marines making the character an honorary Marine Master Sergeant. Bugs was also the official mascot of Kingman, Arizona’s Army Airfield from 1943 to 1946, as well as the mascot for the U.S. Air Force’s 380th Bombardment Group. All of these accolades contributed to Warner Brothers becoming the most profitable cartoon studio in the nation. ...continued

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• Dell Comics featured Bugs in their “Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies” comic books beginning in 1941, and continued using him for 153 issues until 1954. From 1952 to 1983, Bugs was published in 245 issues of his own comic book, and another 81 issues of “Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny” from 1970 to 1983.

• The Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicated the Bugs Bunny comic strip in 1942, and the strip ran for 51 years.

• Bugs appeared in Warner Brothers Cartoon shorts until his last, “False Hare,” in 1964. He had starred in more than 167 shorts.

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• In 1988, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” hit the theaters, a film that combined live action with animated characters. It was the only film in which both Disney and Warner Brothers cartoon characters appeared together. Although the film was produced by Disney, Warner Brothers demanded screen time for Bugs and Daffy Duck equal to that of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Because of that, both sets of characters always appeared in the same frame. The movie was the most expensive film of the 1980s, with a production budget of $70 million. More than 82,000 frames of animation were drawn by the 326 animators who worked full-time on the project. Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film took home three Oscars.

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• Blanc was also the voice of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil, and several other Looney Tunes characters. The only major Warner character he did not voice was Elmer Fudd. Blanc went on to work for Hanna-Barbera, and was the voice behind The Flintstones’ Barney Rubble and The Jetsons’ Mr. Spacely, and the original voice of Universal Pictures’ Woody Woodpecker.

• Mel Blanc died on the 29th birthday of a young man named Jeff Bergman, who was a voice actor at Warner Brothers who had been mentored

by Blanc. Bergman became the voice of Bugs Bunny after Blanc’s death. By then, Bergman had been the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy for four years, a role he continued until 2013.

• Warner Brothers used other voice actors for Bugs, including Billy West who voiced Bugs and Elmer Fudd in the 1996 live-action/animated movie “Space Jam.” Starring basketball great Michael Jordan, the film centered around a basketball match between Jordan’s team of Looney Tunes characters and a group of aliens who wanted to force the cartoon characters to perform in an alien amusement park. Bugs and the gang practiced in a gymnasium known as Leon Schlesinger Gym, a tribute to the man who had produced the first Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. “Space Jam” introduced a brand-new Looney Tunes character, Bugs’ love interest Lola Bunny.

• Bugs Bunny has been in more films than any other cartoon character, and is the 9th mostportrayed film personality in the world. Bugs received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7007 Hollywood Blvd. in 1985, joining several other fictional characters including Tinkerbell, Kermit the Frog, Mickey Mouse, Big Bird, and Winnie the Pooh.

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• On May 9, 1926, according to their claims, American polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole in a triple-engine Fokker monoplane. However, the discovery in 1996 of Byrd's diary suggests they may have turned back short of the pole because of an oil leak.

• On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade of West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.British airlift of supplies to West Berlin's 2 million citizens.

• On May 6, 1954, in Oxford, England, 25-yearold medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field's most notorious barrier: the fourminute mile. Bannister won the mile race with a time of 3:59.4.

• On May 8, 1973, in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement surrender to federal authorities, ending their 71-day siege of Wounded Knee, site of the infamous massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. 7th Cavalry in 1890.

• On May 11, 1988, Kim Philby, a former British intelligence officer and double agent for the Soviet Union, dies in Moscow. Philby was perhaps the most famous of a group of British government officials who spied for Russia from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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• Just before the race began, the wind miraculously ROGER BANNISTER died down. Bannister’s time at the half-mile mark was 1:58. Another runner took the lead, but with May 6 marks the 65th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s 300 yards to go, Bannister passed him, crossing the amazing achievement of running the first four-minute finish line with a time of 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. mile. Join us as Tidbits recounts the story of this remarkable man’s life.

• Bannister’s record only lasted 46 days, and was broken by Australian John Landy, who, on June 21, • Long before his four-minute mile feat, Roger Bannister set the record at 3:58 at a race in loved running. However, his running started out as the Finland. On August 7, a race took result of fear – running from bullies and running when place in front of 35,000 spectators air-raid sirens went off during World War II’s Battle of and became known as the “Mile of Britain. “I imagined bombs and machine guns raining on the Century.” Both Bannister and me if I didn’t go my fastest,” he later wrote in his memoir.

Landy broke four minutes, with • In 1946, at age 17, Bannister entered Oxford UniBannister taking the race with versity. Competing on the track team, he discovered 3:58.8 and Landy with 3:59.6. spiked shoes and ran his first competitive mile in 4:53.

By 1951, he had won the British championships in the • Bannister won the British and Empire championships that year, but at the end of the year, at the event. The following year he was his country’s leading height of his career, retired from competition to fohope for a gold medal at the Helsinki Olympics. When a cus on his medical career, graduating from Oxford last-minute extra race was added between the qualifying as a research and clinical neurologist. heat and the finals of the 1500-meter race, Bannister’s strength was drained, leading to a fourth-place finish • In addition to his medical duties, he became director and loss of the Olympic slot. In 1953, he was once again of London’s National Hospital for Nervous Diseasthe British champion as well as the European champ. es, chairman of the British Sports Council, and the head of Pembroke College at Oxford. Bannister did • Bannister was a medical student at London’s St. Mary’s not consider the 4-minute mile his great achieveHospital in 1954, while he was training for that year’s ment, but rather his neurological research of the season. It was his goal to break the mile race world renervous system, publishing more than 80 papers. cord of 4 minutes, 1.3 seconds, set in 1945 by Swede Gunder Hagg.

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• The current world record for the mile is 3:43.13, set in 1999. Considering the weight of Bannister’s • On May 6, Bannister stepped to the starting line in Oxleather shoes and spikes compared to the thin runford, England. He had already worked the morning shift ning shoes of today, his record is indeed remarkable. at St. Mary’s Hospital before boarding the train to Oxford. It was his first meet in eight months, although he • That week in 1954 was memorable for Bannister in had been vigorously training for six. The day was windy another important way. He met his future wife the and rainy, with a crosswind blowing across the track. day before the race, and they married the following About 1,200 had gathered to watch the meet despite the year. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975. dampness of the day.

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Who knew there was a special week set aside for those pesky insects known as bed bugs? April 21 – 27 has been set aside to heighten awareness, so Tidbits says, “Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite” with these fascinating facts.

• The size of a bed bug, known as “cimex lectularious,” ranges between 1 mm and 7 mm. They are flat, round, reddish-brown creatures that feed exclusively on blood, usually dining at night.

• It’s a common misconception that bed bug infestation is due to a lack of personal hygiene.

The bugs find their way into dark locations, such as mattress seams, cracks in the wall, behind electrical switch plates, in picture frames, and behind wallpaper.

• Bed bugs can’t fly or jump and can only move by crawling, and can crawl more than 100 feet in a single night. They find their way into homes through clothing, luggage, furniture, or bedding, and a clean home has just as much of a chance to have bed bugs as a dirty one. Even the top luxury hotels can have bed bugs. Homeless shelters, dormitories, movie theaters, and hotels are more susceptible, not because of cleanliness, but because of the larger amount of humans. The insects are attracted to a host mainly by carbon dioxide, followed by warmth, so more people mean more of both those factors. The bed bug population is three times higher in urban areas over rural locations. One extermination expert estimates that 5% of all hotel rooms have bed bugs.

• The optimal temperature for bed bugs is between 70 and 80 degrees F. ...continued

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A cartoon strip character you might not even realize you’ve been bitten named Barney was very popular. Milton chose atBarney’s the time. because the bug’s saliva lastThis nameisfor the number. contains an anesthetic substance that increas• Kasner announced the new name for the big esnumber blood in flow thebook, site of the bite. can his at next altering the Folks spelling. wake up the following morning to a skin rash, • Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin blisters, itchiness, fatigue, or fever, depending developed a new internet search engine. Other on the body’s reaction to the bite.webpage Althoughand it’s search engines searched each highly annoying, bed bugs are not known ranked them according to how many times ato transmit specific any terminfectious appeared diseases. on them, but Page and Brin designed their search engine search for • To avoid bringing these pests intotoyour home, the specific term and then find out how many while your raised links traveling, there wereput that led suitcase back to on thata page, rack to resulted hinder the from crawling which in abugs better search engine.in. Putting the suitcase in the tub is another • They decided they needed a nameoption. that Hotel guests leave clothes on the reflected howshouldn’t many websites the search floor. engine was searching. They took the name of Edward your Kasner’s large number, only • Vacuuming homevery mattress once a month they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being is recommended by exterminators. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • The best way to get rid ofhis bed is through character Barney spelled lastbugs name.

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