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• The first pennies were hand-engraved with the image of Lady Liberty with long flowing hair on the front side, and a chain of 15 links on the reverse, denoting the states in the Union.

Technology advanced quickly in minting, and by late 1793, a punch was used for Lady Liberty’s head, making for faster production along with a uniform appearance.

• In 1808, Miss Liberty’s appearance changed to that of curly hair, tied with a headband inscribed with the word “Liberty,” surrounded by 13 stars. The reverse simply stated “ONE CENT”, within a wreath, along with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By this time, the stamping dies had been improved so that 300,000 impressions could be made per die.

• In 1815, due to the War of 1812, there was a shortage of copper discs needed for production, and no one-cent coins were minted, the only year in history that U.S. coins were not made.

• Beginning in 1816, Liberty’s hair was held with a coronet, a design that was used until 1839. During that time, thanks to the introduction of the steam-powered coin press, the U.S. Mint produced more than 51.7 million onecent pieces.

• The last of the large cent pieces was known as the Braided Hair Cent, the result of another hairstyle change for Lady Liberty. Production began in 1839 and continued until 1857, when the large copper cents were discontinued, considered too awkward and weighty, as well as uneconomical to produce.

• A new smaller penny was unveiled in 1856, the Flying Eagle Cent. The weight of the coin was reduced from 10.89 grams to 4.67 grams. The larger pennies had been 100% copper, but the new design was 88% copper and 12% nickel. ...continued

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• Because nickel contributed to a brighter look, these new coins began to be called “white cents.”

Produced from 1856 to 1858, it was about the same size as today’s pennies and featured a flying eagle on one side, and a wreath on the reverse. If you’re a coin collector, you can score a Flying Eagle Cent for as little as $30.

• The Indian Head cent replaced the Flying Eagle in 1859, and its design endured through 1909. An Indian princess graced the front of the coin, and there are differing stories as to her inspiration.

Some claim that designer and chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, James Longacre, found his daughter playing with a toy Indian headdress and quickly sketched her image for the coin’s new design.

However, this story is debunked since daughter Sarah was about 30 years old at the time. Others say that a visiting native chief lent his headdress to Sarah so she could pose as the model. But Longacre himself claimed that he based the image on a Greco-Roman statue on loan from the Vatican, Crouching Venus, exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. • Toward the end of the Civil War, in 1864, due to a shortage of nickel, the Indian Head penny’s composition was once again changed, this time to 95% copper and 5% zinc.

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• For 48 of the 50 years the Indian Head penny was minted, they were made at the Philadelphia Mint, but the San Francisco mint produced them in 1908 and 1909. Total production of these onecent coins was nearly 1.85 billion pieces.

• In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt conceived the idea of honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.

He enlisted the help of a friend, Lithuanian immigrant Victor David Brenner, who was a skilled engraver. This was the first American coin with the likeness of an actual person. ...continued

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• From 1909 to 1958, the reverse side of the coin featured two stalks of wheat, earning this penny the nickname of the Lincoln Wheat Cent.

Brenner added his initials VBD, to the bottom under the wheat. The public didn’t care for the addition of the initials, finding it tasteless and controversial. Millions of the pennies had already been produced in Philadelphia when the decision was made to remove the initials for subsequent mintings. Only 484,000 had been struck in San Francisco, and today, the “VBD Penny” minted in San Francisco is one of the rarest U.S. coins. In 1918, the initials were restored to the coin, although much smaller.

• In 1943, during World War II, when copper was needed to make munitions for the military, copper was removed from pennies and replaced with steel coins coated with zinc. It was the only coin issued by the U.S. that contained no copper. The pennies rusted and deteriorated quickly, as the zinc coating turned dark gray, sometimes completely wearing off. They were discontinued after 1943, and replaced with a 95% copper, 5% zinc combination.

• On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, February 12, 1959, the penny received a new reverse design featuring the image of the Lincoln Memorial, right down to the tiny statue inside the building.

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• Released in March, 1965, The Sound of Music quickly became the number one box office movie, going on to become the highest-grossing film of the year. By November of the following year, The Sound of Music surpassed 1939’s Gone with the Wind as the highestgrossing film of all time, holding the honor for five years, and still ranks in the Top Ten today. The film received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

• The family landed in New York in September, 1938, The movie’s 83 scenes took five months to film. and began an eight-month concert tour. The tenth von • The film has its roots in the memoir of Maria von Trapp child was born the next January. In 1941, they Trapp, who published “The Story of the Trapp Fambought a large Vermont farm, which operated as a ily” in 1949, which was to promote the family’s singski lodge and venue for music festivals. The family ing group following her husband’s death in 1947. It’s toured together until 1955. the story of Maria Kutschera, a 21-year-old novice at

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• The movie altered the timeline of the family considerably. While the film depicts Maria’s • It’s hard to imagine anyone but Julie Andrews as Maria, but the studio really wanted Grace Kelly or Domarriage to Georg as taking place in 1938, just prior ris Day for the role. And Christopher Plummer was to the Nazi invasion, the couple was actually married far from the first choice, with Sean Connery, Bing in 1927 when George was 47 and Maria was 22. In adCrosby, and Richard Burton some of the frontrunners. dition to the seven von Trapp children of the film, the Plummer was not a fan of the movie, and feared it couple had had two additional children together and would damage his reputation as a respectable Shakewere expecting a third when they fled Austria. spearean actor. The Sound of Music was not the origi• None of the children’s names were kept the same for nal title of movie – it was changed from the initial the movie, and they were not all young children at that The Singing Heart. time. In fact, the eldest child Rupert was already a practicing physician in 1938.

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• On Feb. 16, 1878, supported by Western mining interests and farmers, the Bland-Allison Act, which provided for a return to the minting of silver coins, becomes law. It required the U.S. Treasury to resume purchasing silver and minting silver dollars as legal tender.

• On Feb. 13, 1915, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded to "assure that music creators are fairly compensated for the public performance of their works, and that their rights are properly protected."

• On Feb. 10, 1957, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the best-selling "Little House" series of children's novels, dies at age 90 in Missouri. In 1932, Wilder, then in her 60s, published her first novel, "Little House in the Big Woods."

• On Feb. 15, 1961, the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team is killed in a plane crash in Belgium. The team was on its way to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague.

U.S. women's figure skating champion Laurence Owen, 16, was featured on the Feb. 13, 1961, cover of Sports Illustrated.

• On Feb. 12, 1972, the release of American POWs begins in Hanoi as part of the Paris peace settlement. The first 20 of 591 U.S. POWs arrived to a hero's welcome at Travis AFB in California.

• On Feb. 14, 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," and his publishers.

Booksellers the world over refused to sell the novel for fear of retribution. Many who did sell it were bombed.

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It’s time to jump back to your high school chemistry days as Tidbits celebrates February 7 as National Periodic Table Day! • Most of us know that the periodic table of elements is how the chemical elements are organized. But is there a method to this madness? The elements are arranged according to their chemical properties and atomic number, which is the number of protons in the nucleus of a particular atom.

• In 1829, a German chemist named Johann Dobereiner created the first attempt to classify elements in a periodic table. He based his table on the atomic weight of each element, which is the ratio of the element’s mass to a standard. He arranged the elements into groups of three, with each having related properties. He called his groups “triads,” and his table was known as the Law of Triads.

• The next table came along in 1865, the brainstorm of English chemist John Newlands, who called his table the Law of Octaves, due to his discovery that chemical properties are repeated after an interval of eight when graded in increasing atomic weight.

• A much better table was developed by Russian professor Dmitri Mendeleev, arranging elements in order of increasing atomic weight. Today’s modern table is much like Mendeleev’s, except it orders by increasing atomic number. Mendeleev had the foresight to leave several cells of the table empty, in anticipation of future discoveries.

• Uranium was first discovered in 1789 by a German chemist, but, not being recognized as radioactive, it was used to color glass and ceramics, to give decorative glassware a yellow-green color.

Its radioactive properties were discovered by Marie Curie in 1896, who went on to discover another new element, radium, in 1898. By 1900, four radioactive elements had been identified, and were placed at the bottom of the table because of their greater atomic weights. ...continued

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• By 1912, nearly 50 radioactive elements had been discovered. All elements with an atomic number of 84 and above are radioactive.

• On the modern table, the horizontal rows are called “periods,” with the period number being the highest unexcited energy level for an electron. The vertical columns are called “groups,” and include elements with the same electronic configuration in the outer shell of their atoms and show similar properties.

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• There are 118 elements in the periodic table, 94 of which were discovered naturally on the surface of the Earth. The remainder were discovered in laboratory experiments and are human-made. Most of the elements on the table are metals.

• The first element to be discovered was phosphorus, around the year 1670. The first element to be made artificially was technetium, in 1937, at Sicily’s University of Palermo. It’s a silverygray radioactive metal, and is useful in inhibiting the corrosion of steel.

• You might think that gold is the most expensive element, but you’d be wrong! Although the price of gold is about $1,500 an ounce, or $50 per gram, the element francium sells for about $1 billion per gram. That’s, of course, if you can hold on to it that long! With a half-life of 22 minutes, this extremely radioactive element is the second-rarest naturally-occurring element and vaporizes with minutes.

• Many elements are extremely dangerous and can result in immediate death. Plutonium, the element used in nuclear weapons, is considered the most deadly element. The second most deadly is polonium, with just one gram having the capability to kill 10 million people. Arsenic, mercury, beryllium, fluorine, and chromium are also among toxic and lethal elements.

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