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• When in London, Queen Elizabeth stays at Buckingham Palace, the official royal residence since 1837. It’s also the administrative headquarters of the monarchy. The palace has 775 rooms, including 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 188 bedrooms for staff, 92 offices, and 78 bathrooms. It’s the London residence of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, as well as that of the Queen’s youngest son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and his wife Sophie, when they are not at their country home, Bagshot Park. Princes Charles and Andrew were both born in the Palace.

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• Buckingham’s balcony has been the scene of many famous moments, including the first public kiss of Charles and Diana and William and Catherine. Queen Elizabeth stands there for her official birthday celebrations. The first public appearance was in 1851, when Victoria stepped out for the opening celebration of The Great Exhibition, London’s World’s Fair.

• The Queen’s weekend retreat, Windsor Castle, is about an hour from London. It was built by William the Conqueror, and completed in 1086. It’s the world’s oldest and largest occupied castle, and has been inhabited by 39 British monarchs.

William chose the site as a prime location to guard the western approach to London.

• During the 1170s, the original wood walls of Windsor Castle were replaced with stone and additional apartments were added by King Henry II. Huge additions were constructed in the 1360s and 1670s. A tragic fire in 1992 damaged or destroyed one-fifth of Windsor Castle when a spotlight ignited a curtain. More than 1.5 million gallons of water were needed to put out the fire over the course of 15 hours. Over the next five years, $50 million was spent restoring the castle.

• Kensington Palace was Queen Victoria’s birthplace and childhood home. In modern times, it has been the home of Princess Margaret, Charles and Diana, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Princess Eugenie, and various royal cousins.

Princes William and Harry spent their childhood in Kensington. More than a million bouquets of flowers were laid outside the gates following the death of Princess Diana.

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• Kensington Palace was known as Nottingham House when William III purchased it from the Earl of Nottingham in 1689.

• Highgrove House is the country property of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla. Although completed in 1798, it didn’t become royal property until 1980. Charles remodeled the home, which sits on about 900 acres, and is a working farm. The Prince has cultivated 100 acres of spectacular gardens, which receive upwards of 30,000 visitors annually. He has published five books on his project, including his principles of organic gardening.

• When in London, Charles and Camilla reside at Clarence House, a home inhabited by Queen Elizabeth’s mother for more than 50 years, as well as by Elizabeth and Phillip for six years when she was just a princess. The house has always been owned by the royal family, having been completed on the grounds of St. James’s Palace in 1827.

• Henry VIII built St. James’s Palace in 1536, and it was the home to kings and queens until Queen Victoria’s reign. She married Prince Albert in the Palace’s chapel in 1840. It’s home to Princess Anne, and four other princesses.

• Sandringham House sits on 20,000 acres, including 60 acres of gardens. This country retreat was the wedding gift from Queen Victoria to her son Edward in 1862. It’s the royal tradition to spend Christmas at Sandringham.

• Anmer Hall, built in the 18th century, is part of the Sandringham estate and was a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth to William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

• Hillsborough Castle is the British royal family’s home in Northern Ireland, an 18th-century country house, purchased by the British government in 1922. It’s also the official residence of that country’s Secretary of State. ...continued

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• Half a mile south of Windsor is Frogmore House, a 10-bedroom house that was purchased by Queen Charlotte in 1792. Queen Victoria gifted it to her mother in 1840. The estate has been called such since Queen Victoria had breakfast there in 1875, and commented on the “immense number of little frogs,” which she found “quite disgusting.” The estate is located in a low-lying, marshy area near the River Thames where these amphibians are found in abundance. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their wedding reception at Frogmore House, and have recently moved into Frogmore Cottage, a 10-bedroom home on the grounds.

• Scotland is home to two royal residences, Balmoral Castle and the Palace of Holyrood House. If the Queen is on an official visit, she stays at Holyrood, while Balmoral is a private residence. Balmoral Castle, located in Aberdeenshire, was a gift to Queen Victoria from her husband Prince Albert in 1852. An older castle was demolished because it was too small, and the current castle was completed in 1856. It’s a working farm of about 50,000 acres, with herds of deer, cattle, and ponies, along with a private golf course and 150 buildings. The grounds are also home to the Royal Lochnagar Single Malt whiskey distillery. A seven-bedroom stone house, Craigowan Lodge, a mile from the main castle, was a retreat for Charles and Diana during their marriage. Another residence on the property, Birkhall, dating to 1715, is the summer retreat for Charles and Camilla.

• Holyrood House got its start as an Edinburgh monastery in 1128. James IV rebuilt it as a palace in 1501 for his bride, the sister of Henry VIII. Mary, Queen of Scots also spent the majority of her life there.

• Prince Charles is also the Duke of Cornwall, which entitles him to the island property, Tamarisk, on the island of St. Mary’s, in the Isles of Scilly off the tip of Cornwall. When in Wales, the Prince stays at Llwynywermod, his 192-acre estate in Carmarthenshire.

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This week marks the anniversary of the first mail-order catalog.

On August 18, 1872, 29-year-old Aaron Montgomery Ward issued his company’s first catalog. Tidbits has the facts on this famous entrepreneur!

• New Jersey-born Aaron Montgomery Ward moved to Michigan with his family at age 9. At 14, he became an apprentice in a barrel stave factory, working at a cutting machine for 25 cents a day. He advanced to stacking bricks in a kiln for 30 cents per day.

• In 1895, Ward experienced his first significant competition when Richard Warren Sears released his general merchandise catalog. Sears had been using printed mailers since 1888, but just to advertise watches and jewelry. In 1895, he added sewing machines, sporting goods, musical instruments, saddles, baby buggies, clothing, eyeglasses, and a host of other products. By 1900, while Ward had total sales of $8.7 million, Sears had rung up $10 million.

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• Ward’s next move was a sales position in a shoe store in a Michigan store. Here, his retail skills were honed and within nine months, he had become the salesman in a country store • Not everyone loved the Wish Book. It was an that offered a salary of $6 per month, plus board. It didn’t object of scorn to rural retailers and was even take long for the ambitious young man to be promoted to burned publicly by small town businesses. manager of the store with his salary raised to $100 a month. • In 1908, Ward moved his company headquarters to a 1.25-million-square-foot building • Shifting to a job as a traveling salesman, Ward sold dry goods to rural Midwestern Americans. It disturbed the young man along the Chicago River, where the company that these folks were being overcharged at the small town stayed until 1974, when they moved to a new building. general stores, usually the only outlet available for merchandise. As a result, he, along with two partners, opened his first • When Montgomery Ward died in 1913, after mail-order house. The men had raised $1,600 for the venture, 41 years of heading up his catalog business, which started up in a small shipping room. annual sales were $40 million. Thirteen years • Ward was able to offer his customers a much greater variety after his death, the company opened its first rethan was available in their communities, and by eliminating tail store, located in Plymouth, Indiana. Withthe “middle man,” was able to cut costs and offer a better in just two years, 244 stores were in operation, price. In 1872, he designed and mailed out his first “catalog,” and a year later, that number was 531. a single sheet 8 in x 12 in price list of 163 items, along with • Montgomery Ward’s place was firmly forged instructions for ordering and pick-up at the nearest train stain history in 1946 when a New York book tion. society exhibited the catalog alongside Web• The next year his partners left him, and Ward continued to ster’s Dictionary as one of the top 100 books expand his offerings and catalog. His brother-in-law joined with the most influence on American life and up shortly afterward. By 1883, the “Wish Book,” as Ward’s culture. Forbes magazine has ranked Aaron catalog was popularly known, was 240 pages featuring Montgomery Ward as the 16th most influential businessman of all time.

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• “I found some really cool curtain tie-backs on a clearance rack. I bought several and mounted them as hooks (I used an extra anchor), and they work perfectly.” — S.L. in Ohio • Mount a tension bar high up in your closet, and you can use shower hooks to hang pocketbooks and small bags, utilizing the dead space and keeping your bags from getting crushed.

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• Would you rather give up TV or your phone? In a Pew Research poll conducted last year in the United States, only 31 percent of those surveyed said it would be "very hard" to give up TV, while 52 percent said the same thing about their cellphone.

• In the language known as Ewe, spoken by some natives of West Africa, the concepts of "yesterday" and "tomorrow" are expressed by the same word. If you were to translate that word literally into English, you'd come up with "not now."

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• According to the Crayola Company, you can eat 3,500 of their crayons a day and still not reach the level of toxicity found in an ordinary glass of drinking water. They don't mention how -- or why -- anyone would consume that many crayons in a lifetime, let alone a single day.

• Those who study such things say that Niagara Falls will only last another 2,400 years.

• Historians say that Mary, Queen of Scots was informed of the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, in 1567 while she was playing golf. She must have been quite a dedicated sportswoman (or an indifferent wife) because they also say that she completed the round. *** Thought for the Day: "I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." -- H.L. Mencken

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• On Aug. 30, 1776, Gen. George Washington rejects British Gen. William Howe's second letter of reconciliation. Howe had failed to use Washington's title of "general" when addressing the letter.

• On Sept. 1, 1864, renowned Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns off the North Carolina coast when her craft capsizes while fleeing a Union gunboat. Greenhow was carrying Confederate dispatches and $2,000 in gold sewn into her underclothes. The weight of the gold pulled her under.

• On Aug. 28, 1917, 10 women suffragists are arrested as they picket the White House to demand that President Woodrow Wilson support a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. After the jailed women went on a hunger strike and had to be force fed for months, Wilson finally agreed to a suffrage amendment.

• On Aug. 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in New York. The video coverage was somewhat crude. There were only two stationary camera angles.

• On Aug. 31, 1955, William Cobb of General Motors demonstrates his 15-inch-long "Sunmobile," the world's first solar-powered automobile, at an auto show in Chicago.

• On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead of an accidental drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home. In 1962, Epstein was hired in a deal that gave him 25 percent of the band's gross earnings for five years.

• On Aug. 29, 2004, Brazilian distance runner Vanderlei de Lima is attacked and dragged off the course by a spectator while running the marathon in the Summer Olympics. The spectator was a defrocked Irish priest dressed in orange and green. De Lima, who held a 30-second lead when he was attacked, finished in third place. © 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• This week was an eventful one in the history of the Beatles. On August 18, 1960, the group gave their first public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, where they were required to play six or seven hours a night, seven days a week. On the same day in 1964, they arrived in San Francisco for their second visit to America. The Fab Four released “She Loves You” in the UK on August 23, 1963, and on August 19, 1967, “All You Need Is Love” became the Number One hit in the U.S. Tension was building in the band by 1968, and on August 22 of that year, Ringo quit the Beatles, walking off during a recording session. The drummer borrowed a friend’s yacht and for the next 13 days, did some resting and song-writing. His absence was not reported to the press, and during those days, Paul McCartney filled in on the drums, enabling the group to finishing recording “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and “Dear Prudence.” They sent Ringo a telegram, lauding his abilities and asking him to return, which he did on September 4.

• In other Beatles’ news, on August 23, 1974, John Lennon reported seeing a UFO in New York City, and on August 24, seven years later, Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon’s murder.

• Jimi Hendrix and his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows closed out the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on August 18, 1969, the final musician to perform during the four-day concert. Held in New York state on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, the event was attended by 400,000 people. Woodstock was the scene of Hendrix’s now-famous rendition of the U.S. national anthem. In 1969, Hendrix was the world’s highest-paid rock musician. In September of 1970, he was dead at age 27. ...continued

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• August 18, 1962 marked the day that the American folk group Peter, Paul, & Mary released their first hit “If I Had a Hammer.” Their debut Answer: Dell. album, which included that song, along with A VERY LARGE NUMBER “Lemon Tree,” “500 Miles,” and “Where Have •All Edward Kasner was a mathematician.

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He was overresulted in a better weight and in such poor health that on August • They decided they needed a name that 20, after five shows in three days, his act was reflected how many websites the search cancelled.

Hissearching. life was on a downward engine was They took the spiral, name and on August 16, 1977, he died Memphis at of Edward Kasner’s very large innumber, only age 42.misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being they spelled exactlybythe the 42 cartoon • “My Sharonna” thesame Knackway enjoyed days character Barney spelled his last name.

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