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• The Turkish word “baliklava” means “fishing ground” and is the origin of the name of the city Balaklava located on the Crimean peninsula. During the Crimean War, British troops stationed there suffered from the cold. Their wives and girlfriends knitted caps that covered the entire head. The troops called this cap a balaclava, and their popularity was ensured following the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the war.

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• During the Spanish-American War, American marines fighting Filipino guerrillas heard them talking about being in the “bundok” meaning a hill or mountain, and also denoting any remote location. We now call it “the boondocks” or “the boonies.”

• In the 1400s in Hungary, army generals realized that soldiers who got a ride to the front lines would arrive fresher and fight harder than soldiers who had to march to the front lines. They commissioned the construction of many wagons to carry soldiers. Carpenters in the town of Kocs near Budapest built a fleet, calling them “kocszekkers” meaning “Kocs wagon.” After the wars ended, the wagons were used by the citizens for transport. The English started using similar wagons, shortening the name to “kocs” and pronouncing it “kotch” which then became “coach” denoting not only a vehicle that could carry you, but also a tutor who could “transport” you to a sure win.

• Trench foot is caused by standing in cold wet conditions for too long. It first became common during World War I when soldiers were inhabiting trenches for long periods of time with inadequate footwear. Anyone who came down with trench foot was immediately excused from warfare and sent to the hospital to heal. Thus, soldiers who wanted a ticket out of battle would do whatever they could to get trench foot, and then hide the condition until just before a battle started, when they would report to the medical officer and be sent away to heal. This became known as getting “cold feet.”

• In the military, a “field day” is a day set aside for field maneuvers and review, entailing equal amounts of pomposity and celebration. Today a field day is any event when too much fuss is made over a minor thing. ...continued

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• When armies were preparing for battle, they would dig a series of ditches where they could retreat if they needed to regroup. If they found themselves in the final trench, then they needed to make “a last ditch effort” to stand and fight, or die.

• During World War I, to go “over the top” meant to scale the sides of a trench and commence an attack, an ordeal accompanied by much shouting. Today anything that is “over the top” is an over-reaction.

• The word “harbor” is Olde English and means “shelter” or “refuge.” The word “harbinger” springs from that, and denotes someone in the army whose job it was to proceed in advance of an army to secure shelter and supplies for the troops. Upon seeing the harbinger in their town, residents would be filled with dread, knowing that the coming horde of troops were about to eat them out of house and home without leaving anything in return.

• In the 1700s, the quartermaster in the French army was in charge of finding lodging for soldiers on the move. The French word “loger” meaning “lodge” is the root of the term “logistiques” describing the duties of the position, and we now spell it “logistics.”

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• In the days of large horse-drawn artillery, the “limber” referred to the part of the gun carriage that included the wheels, the ammunition chests, and the part that attached to the horses.

This limber needed to be removed to use the guns, and attached to move the guns. The call to “limber up” meant to prepare the guns to be moved to the next location. The more quickly a battery could limber up, the better.

• The English slang word for Prussia was “Pruce” or “Spruce.” The Prussian army was noted for its spit-and-polish approach to every detail of army life, after which “spruce” came to mean anything that was particularly tidy. A type of tree that grows straight and tall while being uniform in appearance was subsequently named spruce.

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• On June 2, 1924, with Congress' passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the United States confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within its territorial limits. Before the Civil War, citizenship was often limited to Native Americans of one-half or less Indian blood.

• On May 31, 1930, actor Clint Eastwood, best known for his role as San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, is born in California. Eastwood got his start playing Rowdy Yates in the popular TV Western series "Rawhide."

• On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic near France, where it fled because it was leaking fuel. The German death toll was more than 2,000. Three days earlier, the Bismarck had sunk the British battlecruiser Hood.

• On May 28, 1957, National League owners vote unanimously to allow the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, on the condition that both teams had to move.

• On June 1, 1968, Helen Keller dies in Connecticut at the age of 87. Blind and deaf from infancy, Keller circumvented her disabilities to become a world-renowned writer and lecturer.

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• Iva’s radio name was “Orphan Annie.” There were many other female Japanese radio DJs, and collec• Iva Toguri was born in Los Angeles in 1916, the daughtively they became known as “Tokyo Rose” among ter of Japanese immigrants. She grew up thoroughly the soldiers.

American, yet she was also steeped in her Japanese • When Japan surrendered in 1945, Iva wanted to get heritage. back to the U.S. but she had no money. Meanwhile, • In 1941, Iva’s parents asked her to travel to Japan to the Hearst media company circulated ads offering care for an elderly aunt. Although the State Department $2,000 cash for an interview with the famous “Toissued the proper travel papers, she did not have a passkyo Rose.” This was equal to a year’s wages, and port. She applied for a passport in Japan, but all efforts Iva responded hoping the money would help her get were foiled by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. back to the U.S. Instead, she was arrested. She Now she was stuck in Japan. spent a year in an American prison in Japan while • Japanese officials tried to convince Iva the FBI tried to find evidence. Charles Cousens to renounce her American citizenship fought on her behalf. but she refused. She was subsequent• Released after a year, Iva petitioned to be able to rely declared to be an enemy alien and turn to the U.S. Her efforts were foiled by radio host was unable to secure a war ration card Walter Winchell, who whipped up anti-Japanese for herself. She got a job as a typist at sentiment against her. She was extradited to San Radio Tokyo. Despite her meager salary, she risked her Francisco where she became the 7th person in U.S. life to smuggle food into a nearby POW camp where history to be charged with treason. The trial was the soldiers were being held. There she became acquainted longest and most expensive in American history at with Australian Army Major Charles Cousens. the time, lasting 13 weeks and costing the equiva• In 1943, the Japanese government asked Radio Tokyo lent of $5 million. She was found guilty of “speakto begin broadcasting war propaganda over the airing into a microphone concerning the loss of ships.” waves. The programming was designed to demoralize She received a $10,000 fine and a ten year prison enemy soldiers who might be listening to the radio. In sentence. She served six years of the sentence, and order to accomplish this, POWs who had experience moved to Chicago when she was released. in broadcasting were coerced into helping produce • Charles Cousens returned to Australia after the war, the programming. Because she was a native English where he also faced charges of treason. Although speaker, Iva was recruited for this position as well. This charges were dropped, he was stripped of his comis how Iva began working side by side with Charles mission. He made his living in broadcasting until Cousens, who had previously worked as a radio broadhis death in 1964. caster in his native Australia.

• Because Iva and Cousens both spoke English and were • President Gerald Ford granted Iva an unconditional pardon on his last day in office in 1977, and restored familiar with the American culture, they were able her to full American citizenship. Iva Toguri lived in to slip inside jokes and cultural references into their Chicago until her death at the age of 90 in 2006. broadcasts that Japanese listeners failed to understand.

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• Donkey: a species descended from the African wild ass, having 62 chromosomes and able to reproduce normally. Mule: offspring of a female horse and a male donkey (a “jack” if male and a “hinny” if female), having 63 chromosomes and is sterile. ...continued

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A cartoon strip character num salts which blocks pores, preventing them named Barney was very popular. Milton chose from releasing sweat.for Deodorant: Barney’s last name the number.kills the bacteria that feed on sweat and cause the odor, but • Kasner announced the new name for the big still allows sweating to occur naturally. number in his next book, altering the spelling.

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Dwarf: Short but not normally proportioned.

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