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• Chinese legend says that looking at high-flying kites will preserve good eyesight. They also maintain that tilting the head back to gaze at a kite, while opening the mouth slightly gives the body a healthy yin-yang balance.

• Kites are even used in religious ceremonies.

Some cultures made kites resembling humans to send prayers to the gods, while others used kites to send thanksgiving offerings to the gods for good harvest, fertility, and prosperity.

• In June, 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William stepped out into a Philadelphia thunderstorm to conduct an experiment. He carried a kite made from a large silk handkerchief, a hemp string, a silk string, a house key, a length of wire to serve as a lightning rod, and a Leyden jar, which was a device that could store an electrical charge.

While some folks believe that Franklin “discovered electricity” during his experiment, that was not the case at all, since scientists had already been working at great length with static electricity for years. Franklin sought to prove that lightning was an electrical discharge. The hemp string was wet from the rain and conducted an electrical charge, while the dry silk string held by Franklin under cover did not. When the lightning struck, Franklin felt a definite electric spark, but was not struck by lightning, as some believe. Using the Leyden jar, he collected the electricity for discharge at another time. His further work with electricity led to the perfection of a lightning rod invention.

• Kites were vital to the development of aircraft, with the first powered aircraft consisting of a large box kite with a motor fitted to it. In 1899, the Wright Brothers designed an experimental kite with a 5-foot wingspan that would aid them in their study of wind’s lift and drag effects on control of a biplane. By the following year, the brothers had designed a full-size glider based on their kite’s plans.

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• In 1749, the first experiments to study the weather using kites were launched. The early tests used a kite to carry a thermometer to measure temperatures at high altitudes. By the 19th century, the U.S. Weather Bureau had established 17 kite observation stations, with kites transporting all sorts of meteorological instruments upwards of 8,000 feet to record air pressure, temperature, and humidity. The kites were a box type, constructed of spruce and a thin cotton cloth, with piano wire used for the strings.

• Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell had a great zeal for aeronautics and kites, and experimented for many years with man-carrying kites. His creations consisted of a variety of geometric shapes, such as hexagons and tetrahedrons. In the early 1900s, Bell designed an enormous kite made of 1,300 four-sided cells covered in maroon silk, which was able to life a man 30 feet off the ground.

• Kites have been used for military operations for centuries. In ancient China, kites carrying gunpowder, along with a fuse and a burning stick of incense were used as weapons. In the 1600s, during a war in India, the line on a large kite was replaced with rope, enabling troops to scale the wall of a fort and overtake the guards. In 1855, the Russians used 12-ft. kites to tow torpedoes to a target. During the American Civil War, kites were used to deliver letters, newspapers, and other communications. Man-lifting kites were used during the Spanish-American War for enemy observation. Kites have proven valuable for delivering munitions and signaling troops. ...continued

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• A kite proved beneficial in bridge construction in 1847. With plans underway to build the first bridge across the Niagara Gorge between Canada and the U.S., a contest was held to pull a cable across the gorge, a distance of 700 feet. The winner, American teenager Homan Walsh, attached a lightweight rope to his kite, which pulled a heavier rope, then another one and another until a steel cable reached the other side. Homan received a $10.00 prize for his efforts.

• Englishman Samuel F. Cody patented a manlifting kite system in 1901, and became the first man to cross the English Channel towed by kites in 1903. He pitched his kites to the British Army, who purchased Cody’s “War Kites.” He followed up on this achievement by piloting a large box kite fitted with an engine. Tragically, in 1913, while testing a new design, the Cody Floatplane, the aircraft broke apart at 200 feet, and Cody was killed.

• During the Cold War, East Germany banned the use of large kites, fearing that people would be lifted over the Berlin Wall.

• The record for the most kites flown on a single line belongs to Japanese kitemaker. In 1990, 73-year-old Satao Harada launched 11,284 kites made of bamboo and polyethylene. It took three hours to launch them all, and the kites remained in the air for 18 minutes.

• Kite flying is not without its hazards, with an average of 12 people killed each year in kiting accidents. Wet kite lines pose a hazard, acting as a conductor for static electricity and lightning.

Large kites have been known to lift the flier off the ground as well as dragging them into objects.

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• When Rick’s former flame, Ilsa, (played by Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman) entered the club, accompanied by her husband, a fugitive Czech Resistance leader, Rick fought to overcome his bitterness toward her, because she had abruptly left him in Paris with no explanation. When Ilsa explained that she had thought her husband had been killed, Rick realized that he must try to get the couple out of Morocco.

• The original play was entitled Everybody Comes to Rick’s, but was changed to Casablanca for the movie. It was coauthored by a high school teacher who was on summer vacation.

• Casablanca contained many now well-known quotes, including “Here’s looking at you, kid,” and “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” One of the most familiar misquotes is “Play it again, Sam,” which was never spoken in the film. When Ilsa entered Rick’s club, she asked the piano player to, “Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake. Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’”

• Due to heightened security during World War II, filming was not allowed at an airport after dark.

Only one scene, that of the Nazi villain arriving in Casablanca, was shot at an airport, the Van Nuys, California Airport. The remainder of the movie was filmed in the studio, using a sound stage with a cardboard cutout airplane. The arched hanger at the airport was built in 1928, and was rescued from the wrecking ball in 2007. The façade sat in a hotel parking lot for several years, but plans are in place to restore it and incorporate it into a Moroccan-themed restaurant at the airport.

• Release of the film was scheduled for early 1943, but the debut was moved up to November, 1942 to correspond with the Allied Forces’ capture of Casablanca the second week of November.

• Casablanca cost $950,000 to film, about $100,000 over budget. The film won three Oscars – for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. The famous song “As Time Goes By” had been composed in 1931, so it was declared ineligible for the Best Song of the Year.

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• Actor Humphrey Bogart was 42 years old when he took on the role of Rick Blaine, an American who owned a swanky nightclub and gambling establishment, Rick’s Café Americain, in Casablanca, Morocco. The club was known in the underground as a place to obtain papers that helped refugees escape German-occupied Europe.

• The studio took out a $100,000 insurance policy on Humphrey Bogart in the event that he would die during filming. Following the film’s success, Bogart moved from fourth place to first place in the studio’s roster of stars, and within three years, he was the world’s highest-paid actor. Because he was shorter than co-star Bergman, Bogart had to wear platform shoes during the filming of Casablanca to bring him up to her height.

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• The role of Sam was played by Dooley Wilson, who was actually a drummer, who had to fake playing the piano. In 2012, Sam’s piano sold for upwards of $600,000 at a New York auction.

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• Each kidney contains between 1 million and 2 million nephrons, tiny little filters that filter the blood and eliminate waste. Contrast this with a mouse kidney that contains just 12,500 nephrons. If all the nephrons in both human kidneys were placed end to end, they would cover a distance of nearly 10 miles. Each nephron separates water, acid, ions, and molecules from the blood, filters out wastes and toxins, and returns essential molecules to the blood. About half a cup of blood is filtered every minute.

• If one kidney fails, the other steps up to handle the load. The nephrons have the capability of enlarging to keep things working through a process known as hypertrophy. ...continued

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• Some people, especially those who are obese or take calcium supplements, are at a higher risk of kidney stones. The stones occur when a solid piece of material develops in the urinary tract, causing severe pain in the lower back or abdomen. Other contributors include a diet high in animal protein, sodium, refined sugars, milk, grapefruit and apple juices, and the excessive use of antacids.

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• About 1.5 million people go through kidney dialysis or a transplant every year. Dialysis removes excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in those whose kidneys cannot perform these functions. The first kidney transplant was performed in 1933 by Ukranian surgeon Yuri Voronv. Although the patient died within two days, Voronov’s work was an important milestone in the world of medicine. The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray, who transplanted the kidney of one identical twin into another at a Massachusetts hospital.

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