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• In the work world, middle children are teambuilders who exhibit flexibility and independence and don’t need to be micromanaged, nor do they like to micromanage others. Since they think outside the box, they are frequently the ones who come up with new ideas.

• Having spent much of their life waiting their turn, they tend to have a high degree of patience. This, along with always having had to share, and having the ability to see to see things from all sides, also makes them good negotiators and listeners, as well as being fairly flexible, more willing to compromise, and peacemakers by nature. Since many are used to not getting their own way, they become skillful manipulators.

• Middles seem to have a passion for confronting injustice and unfairness, perhaps because they are frequently overshadowed by their siblings. Born between an older sister and a younger brother, Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. met the injustice of racial inequality head-on. Also a middle, Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, instituted a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent rebellion against his country’s unjust racist regime, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Renowned suffragist Susan B. Anthony came from a politically active family that toiled in the movement to abolish slavery. This paved the way for her tireless crusade for women’s rights to vote and own property. Sadly, she had not seen the fruits of her labor by her death in 1906, since the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution wasn’t passed until 1920. ...continued

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• Middle children seem to make excellent life partners because of their ability to get along with a variety of personalities. Having had to share and compromise with siblings helps them to peacefully co-exist with others. Studies indicate that they are more likely to be faithful to their spouse or partner. Yet because they dislike conflict, they might avoid dealing with conflict in marriage or at work. Their trusting and cooperative temperament can also lead to being taken advantage of.

• Risk-taking and a willingness to try new things are characteristic of trailblazing middles. A recent study indicates that 85% of middles are open to new ideas (compared to 50% of firstborns), so it should come as no surprise that Bill Gates was the brother between two sisters. Although his parents wanted him to pursue a law career, after two years of study at Harvard, Gates dropped out in 1975, and launched Microsoft the same year, and registered the trade name with the State of New Mexico the following year. In 1987, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, worth $1.25 billion. Today that number is around $100 billion.

• Two other billionaires are middle children, sharing many similar characteristics with Bill Gates. Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Gates are all sandwiched between two sisters. All are very hard-working, competitive businessmen, all stay out of the way of their upper employees, allowing them to do their jobs without interfering, and all three have pledged to give at least 50% of their wealth to charity.

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• Another risk-taking college dropout was the middle of three sisters. Jennifer Lopez’ older sister was “the pretty one, the younger one was “the singer,” while JLo was known as “the athletic one.” When Jennifer quit college after one semester to pursue an acting career, her mother told her it was “really stupid” and booted Jennifer out of the house. It wasn’t until Jennifer was 22 that she got her first big break, as a backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block. Today her net worth is estimated at $400 million.

• Of all the U.S. Presidents since 1787, 52% were middle children, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Teddy Roosevelt, and Donald Trump, all of whom have exercised that ability to negotiate. Although 31st President Herbert Hoover was a middle child, when he lost both parents by the time he was nine, Hoover and his siblings were split up and raised by different relatives. But this didn’t keep Hoover from becoming a millionaire from working as a mining engineer and consultant before entering the world of government.

• Archie and Olivia Manning raised three sons in the world of football, but the middle boy, Peyton, is the one considered by many to be the sport’s greatest quarterbacks of all time. Peyton Manning retired after the 2015 season after 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and four seasons with the Denver Broncos. He was named the league’s MVP a record five times, played in the Pro Bowl a record 14 times, holds the NFL record for career touchdown passes and career passing yards, and has two Super Bowl wins on his list of achievements.

• In their quest for attention, middles often find interesting ways to grab it, sometimes as a creative artist or being the “jokester.” It’s interesting to note that TV hosts Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, and James Corden were all “stuck in the middle.”

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• On Aug. 17, 1877, though only a teenager, Billy the Kid kills his first victim, an Arizona blacksmith. Just how many men the outlaw killed is uncertain. Billy himself reportedly once claimed he had killed 21 men.

• On Aug. 13, 1902, German engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of a rotary engine, is born in Germany. Wankel reportedly came up with the idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine when he was 17 years old.

• On Aug. 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the temple by a ball pitched by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. He died 12 hours later. It was the only death as the result of a pitched ball in major league history.

• On Aug. 14, 1945, an official announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the Japanese people. Even though Japan's War Council had submitted a formal declaration of surrender on Aug. 10, fighting continued. In fact, two days later, a Japanese submarine sank two American ships.

• On Aug. 12, 1964, British author and journalist Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, the world's most famous fictional spy, dies in England. His novels about the debonair Agent 007 were based in part on Fleming's real-life experiences. The first Bond book, "Casino Royale," was published in 1953.

• On Aug. 15, 1979, "Apocalypse Now," the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, opens in theaters. It told the story of an Army captain who is sent into the Cambodian jungle to kill a U.S. Special Forces colonel who has gone AWOL and is thought to be crazy.

• On Aug. 18, 1992, celebrated Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird retires. Bird entered the NBA in 1979 and was named Rookie of the Year after leading the Celtics to a 61-21 record. © 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• The section of New Orleans, Louisiana, where Armstrong was born in August of 1901 was so poor it was nicknamed “The Battlefield.” His father stoked the furnaces in a local turpentine factory, but abandoned the family shortly after Louis’ birth. His mother turned to prostitution, frequently leaving the baby with his grandmother.

• At 17, Armstrong took on the huge responsibility of adopting a three-year-old, the son of his cousin who had died. The toddler had fallen off a porch and received a head injury that left him mentally impaired.

Armstrong would care for the boy for the rest of his life.

• At 18, Armstrong’s abilities landed him a permanent spot in New Orleans’ most popular band, enabling him to quit his manual labor and become a full-time musician. Playing at dances, parties, and on riverboats led him to interactions with jazz legends. He made the move to Chicago in 1922 to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, and his fame began to spread.

His first recorded solo came along the following year.

• The family’s extreme poverty forced Louis to leave school in the fifth grade to contribute to its support. A • His new wife, the pianist from the band, convinced Louis to start his own band, and when he was 23, neighborhood family gave him a job collecting junk Louis Armstrong & the Hot Five was born. Over and delivering coal. On his delivery rounds, he was the next three years, the band made more than 60 exposed to the sounds of the jazz that would shape his records that are considered the most influential relife. cordings in jazz history. In 1926, he added singing • At age 12, during a New Year’s celebration, young to his performances, with his gravelly voice instantly Louis fired his stepfather’s gun into the air, and was recognizable. He made the wordless “scat” style of promptly arrested. He was sent to the Colored Waif’s singing incredibly popular. By 1932, Armstrong had Home for Boys, which could have been the worst added Broadway productions and movie roles to his thing to happen. Yet Armstrong was known to say, achievements. A European tour followed in 1933.

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Even those people who aren’t familiar with Armstrong’s music recognize the still-popular “What a Wonderful World,” recorded in 1967, and a No. 1 hit around the world.

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• After his release 18 months later, Armstrong returned to his junk and coal duties, but began filling in with honky-tonk bands in the area. The great jazz bandleader King Oliver befriended the young boy, tutored him, gifted him with a cornet, and occasionally allowed him to play as a sub in the band.

• The nickname Satchmo came from the term “Satchelmouth,” referring to his wide mouth. A journalist mispronounced it as Satchmo and the name stuck.

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• Yet another use for a microfiber cloth: Keep one in your vehicle to dust the dashboard or remove smudges from your windshield.

• Bring a binder clip and a zip-top plastic bag with you on a flight, and you can put your phone in the bag and clip it up on the seat in front of you for easy viewing. A gallon-size bag, two binder clips and a small bungee work for a tablet.

• “Our family loves to make our own pizza, and we purchase dough from a pizzeria. On pizza nights, I pick up the dough first thing on the way home from work and let it sit in a bowl in the car while I pick up the kids and drive home. It takes about 45 minutes, so it’s risen nicely while we’ve been on the go.” — E.F. in New York • If you have stainless steel appliances, you might want to try a simple furniture polish to get those surfaces shiny and smudge free. You can use most any commercial spray-on polish, applied with a clean, lint-free rag.

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• It was French playwright and actor Louis Verneuil who made the following sage observation: "The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking."

• With only two known to exist, the rarest U.S. postage stamp is an 1868 1-cent Benjamin Franklin Z-Grill, so called because of the shape that was impressed into the stamp. One of the ZGrills is in the collection of the New York Public Library, and the other was sold in 1998 for $935,000. That's not the end of the story, though; in 2005, the same stamp was traded for a block of stamps valued at $3 million.

• The year 1828 was a sad one for winemakers.

For unknown reasons, 80 percent of the bottles of Champagne bottled that year exploded.Ê • There is a law on the books in Maine that prohibits having your shoes untied in public. I assume that one is not much enforced.

• In 2002, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, Ireland decided to try to reduce the use of plastic grocery bags by levying a 15-cent tax on each one. It worked, too -- use of the bags dropped by 95 percent.

• Sir Christopher Wren, who designed the famous London landmark St. Paul's Cathedral, was an astronomer, not an architect. His other achievements included developing a method for calculating eclipses and devising a way to measure the rings of Saturn.

• Back in 1935, the owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team predicted that night games were "just a fad." He wasn't much of a prognosticator, it seems.

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Did you know there is a special day set aside to celebrate your breath? August 6 is National Fresh Breath Day, and Tidbits is investigating the causes of all those things that cause halitosis!

• People have been concerned about bad breath since ancient Egypt. An Egyptian papyrus from 1550 BC details recipes for the condition, listing a mixture of incense, cinnamon, myrrh, and honey as a cure. Fifth-century Greek medicine recommended a mouthwash of red wine and spices.

Ancient Chinese emperors demanded that everyone in their presence chew a clove for fresh breath. The Chinese were also the first to utilize a toothbrush to deal with the problem, introducing hogs’-hair bristle brushes in the 15th century.

• In the 1850s, Europeans and North Americans carried tins of breath fresheners concocted from cardamom, ambergris, musk, essence of violet and rose, licorice, and cinnamon oil. The word “halitosis” was coined by a physician named Joseph Howe, and detailed in his 1874 book “The Breath, and the Diseases which Give It a Fetid Odor.” The word had its origins in the Latin word “halitus,” which means “breath.”

• In 1879, a Missouri doctor introduced Listerine, marketed as an antiseptic and remedy for dandruff, diphtheria, dysentery, and small pox, and even as a floor cleaner. It wasn’t until the 1920s that Listerine was heralded as the answer for “chronic halitosis.” The company’s annual sales leaped from $115,000 to more than $8 million in seven years once Listerine became a “mouthwash.”

• The underlying causes of bad breath are many.

The food we eat is a major contributor, as the particles around the teeth increase sulfur-producing bacteria and cause an odor. ...continued

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• Onions, garlic, and certain spices are a major culprit, since after they are digested, they enter the bloodstream, and are carried to the lungs.

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Without regular brushing and flossing, those A VERY LARGE NUMBER food particles remain in the mouth around the •teeth Edward was a mathematician. In 1938 and Kasner on the tongue. he was asked to come up with a name for a • Dry is another of one, halitosis.

Beverymouth large number: thesource numeral followed cause saliva helps cleanse the mouth by removby a hundred zeros. He asked his two young ing food particles, when production nephews what name theythe would suggest.of saliva is low, bad breath is worsened.

That’s why • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name we have “morning breath,” since saliva producout of the funnies. A cartoon strip character tion while we sleep very low. Any condition named Barney was isvery popular.

Milton chose that causes postnasal drip also produces odor, as Barney’s last name for the number. as tooth decay or tonsils ail•well Kasner announced thegum newdisease, name for the big ments, and wounds following tooth extraction. number in his next book, altering the spelling.

• Diseases canlater, also Larry triggerPage halitosis as well as • Sixty years and Sergey Brin the medications used to treat them, when the developed a new internet search engine. Other chemicals in them are released in the bloodsearch engines searched each webpage and ranked Antidepressants, them according tohigh howblood many pressure times a stream. specific term on them, but Pagesaliva and medicine, and appeared antihistamines all reduce Brin designed their search engine to search for production, contributing to bad breath. Studies the specific term and then find out how many indicate that about 10% of halitosis cases are links there that led backcancer, to thatchronic page, the result of were illness, including which resulted in a better search engine. reflux, diabetes, liver and kidney disease, and •pneumonia.

They decided they needed a name that reflected how many websites the search • For nearly 100searching. years, mouthwashes contained engine was They took the name alcohol, which defeated the large purpose of treating of Edward Kasner’s very number, only bad breath, sinceitalcohol a drying that they misspelled slightly,isso it endedagent up being contributed to dry mouth. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon character spelled his have last name.

What’s • About oneBarney in three people halitosis on it called? (Answer at bottom of page) a regular basis, contributing to the $1 billion COMPUTER spent by consumers everyFACTS year on mouth rins•es, Inmints, 1981 and Bill other Gatesbad said, “640remedies. kb of memory breath About ought to be enough for anybody.”

90% of halitosis can be traced to the mouth, the tongue as the common source, •with Moore’s Law states thatmost computer performance followed by the tonsils. doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has been1990s, true. a portable monitor • Introduced in the •known HP, Google, Microsoft, Apple all as a halimeter can and be used to were measure started in garages. the levels of hydrogen sulfide generated by Answer: from googol. bacteria Google, in the mouth.

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