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• The first flower known to have appeared on Earth is called Montsechia vidalii. It lived submerged in the shallow waters of Europe’s lakes. Its fossils, found in Spain, have been dated to 130-125 million years ago. Another early flower is called Archaefructus sinensis, whose fossils, found in northeastern China, dated it to 125 million years ago. It resembled the modern water lily. Prior to the evolution of flowering plants, ferns and coniferous trees ruled the plant world.

• A previously extinct Arctic flower called the narrow-leafed campion was resurrected using seeds found in Siberia which had been buried by an ice-age squirrel. The seeds were dated at 32,000 years old and sprouted anyway.

• When Charles Darwin was studying a Madagascar orchid whose flower had a foot-long nectar-filled tube, he hypothesized that there was probably a moth in the vicinity which had a proboscis of the same length in order for the plant to be pollinated. It was an unprecedented guess, as no such moth was known at the time. Not until 21 years after his death was the Turn the page moth species finally discovered. for more!

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• Sunflowers are native to North America and have been cultivated since about 3000 BCE. The sunflower belongs to the daisy family (Asteraceae) which has over 20,000 species. It is the biggest family of flowering plants.

• There are about 70 different species, some of which are dwarf. Sunflowers can even be grown as bonsai plants. A sunflower is actually a cluster of hundreds of flowers.

• The world’s tallest sunflower was grown in 2014 and reached the height of 30 feet, 1 inch.

The widest actual flower measured 3 feet across, grown in 1986. The most number of flowers on an individual stalk was 837 on a plant grown in Michigan in 2001.

• Every part of the sunflower plant is edible, though not necessarily tasty.

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• Each flower head can contain up to 2,000 seeds.

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• Sunflowers can be used to extract toxins such as lead, arsenic, and uranium from contaminated soil. Sunflowers were used to remove toxins from a pond after the Chernobyl disaster and similar 8:12 AM projects took place after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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FLOWERS (continued):

• Broccoli is actually a flower. Broccoli is harvested before the flower buds fully open and eaten as a vegetable. If left to bloom, the flowers are tiny, yellow, and densely packed. The word “broccoli” comes from the Italian words meaning “flowering cabbage.”

• Cauliflower will also bloom similarly. The word “cauliflower” derives from the Latin words “caulis” meaning cabbage and “flōs” meaning flower.

• Artichokes are large flower buds, cut before they bloom. They are a type of thistle. Their name comes from the Arabic phrase meaning “arched stump” regarding their shape. If allowed to flower, blossoms measure up to seven inches wide and are purple. California produces 100% of the U.S. artichoke crop, with Castroville, California calling itself the “Artichoke Center of the World.” Marilyn Monroe was named Castroville, California’s first Artichoke Queen in 1947.

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• The color of the hydrangea is determined by the acidity of the soil it’s planted in. If the soil is alkaline, it will result in pink blooms; if it’s too acidic, the flowers will be blue. Its name comes from Greek “hydro” meaning “water” and “angeion” meaning “vessel” from the cup-like shape of its seed capsule.

• The world’s oldest living rose bush is thought to be around 1,000 years old. It blooms on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany.

Its presence was first documented in 815 A.D. In 1945 allied bombers destroyed the cathedral, yet the bush survived. Its roots remained intact beneath the debris, and soon the bush was growing strong again when the castle was rebuilt.

• The world’s largest rose covers 8,500 square feet. The trunk has a circumference of around 12 feet. It was planted in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1885. ©2020 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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FLOWERS (continued):

• On November 20, 1986, President Ronald Reagan officially made the rose the national flower emblem of the United States. He even did this while standing in the famous White House Rose Garden.

• Water-meal, a type of duckweed, yields the smallest flower in the world. The Latin name is Wolffia globosa and it’s found all over the planet, floating on calm swampy water. The plant itself is about the size of a grain of rice and the flower weighs about as much as two grains of salt. A bouquet of the flowers would fit on the head of a pin.

• The slowest-flowering plant is the rare species of giant bromeliad called Puya raimondii, discovered at a height of 12,992 ft. in the Bolivian mountains in 1870. The flower cluster emerges after about 80 to 150 years of the plant’s life.

It produces a huge stalk bearing hundreds of blooms. Once it has blossomed, the plant dies.

• In ancient Rome, a scientist was struck by a flower’s resemblance to the swords gladiators used in battle. He named the bloom “gladiolus” after the Latin word for sword, “gladius.”

• The daisy got its name because the yellow center resembled the sun. It was commonly known as the “day’s eye” and over time, was eventually called daisy.

• The chrysanthemum was named after the Greek words for “gold flower.”

• Some plants such as orchids do not need soil to grow because they get all of their nutrients from the air or from water that drips down from other plants.

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• Lotuses are popular hang-outs for beetles because the flowers stay at a constant 86° to 95°F even during cold nights. Beetles trapped when the petals on these bowl-shaped blooms close up for the night spend the night mating and feeding.

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• On Oct. 27, 1659, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs. The colony had banned Quakers under penalty of death.

• On Nov. 1, 1765, despite widespread opposition in the American colonies, Parliament enacts the Stamp Act, designed to raise revenue for British military in America. The Stamp Act was designed to force colonists to use special stamped paper in the printing of newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs and playing cards.

• On Oct. 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicates The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France, in New York Harbor. Originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World," the statue was to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution.

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• On Oct. 30, 1890, Oakland, California, enacts a law against opium, morphine and cocaine. It allowed only doctors to prescribe these drugs, which had been legal for cures or pain relief.

• On Oct. 31, 1957, Toyota hopes to saturate the American market with its inexpensive Toyopet Crown sedans. It was a flop: The car could barely meet California's roadworthiness standards, guzzled extraordinary amounts of gas and oil, and tended to shake violently, overheat and stall.

• On Oct. 29, 1971, Duane Allman, leader of the Allman Brothers Band, is killed when he loses control of his motorcycle and hits a flatbed truck in Macon, Georgia. He was 24. One year later, the band's bassist Berry Oakley died in a very similar motorcycle accident just a few blocks away.

• On Oct. 26, 1984, at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, Dr. Leonard Bailey performs the first baboon-to-human heart transplant, replacing a 14-day-old infant girl's defective heart. "Baby Fae" survived the operation, but died of heart failure after 20 days.

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• Two journalists invented Trivial Pursuit in 45 minutes after being shocked at the price of a Scrabble set.

• One person in 20 has an extra rib, and they are most often men.

• Fearing that someone would murder him in the recreation yard at Alcatraz prison, gangster Al Capone received permission to spend rec time practicing his banjo in the shower room.

• A Chinese millionaire sold canned air to people on the streets to raise awareness of air pollution.

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• Female cats are mostly right-pawed, while male cats are more frequently left-pawed.

• The universe has a color -- but it's not what you might think. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University took the average of light from over 200,000 galaxies and discovered that the universe is actually kind of beige. They dubbed the hue "cosmic latte."

• A centuries-old Japanese tradition holds that if a sumo wrestler can make your baby cry, the baby will live a healthy life! During a special ceremony, parents hand their infants to wrestlers who not only bounce the babies up and down but sometimes even roar in their faces to start the waterworks. As one mom, Mae Shige, remarked of her son at a 2014 event: "He's not a baby that cries much, but today he cried a lot for us and we are very happy about it."

• Daisies aren't just for picking or playing "He loves me, he loves me not." They're also an excellent source of vitamin C and have been said to slow bleeding, relieve indigestion, and soothe coughs.

• There are eight times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean. *** Thought for the Day: "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." -- Marcus Aurelius © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter was famously played

by Tim Curry, and it launched his career. The monster he created, Rocky Horror, was played by underwear model Peter Hinwood. Hinwood had no acting experience and had a horrible singing voice so all his • In 1973, writer and actor Richard O’Brien wrote a stage lines were scrapped and his voice was dubbed in the play called “The Rocky Horror Show” out of sheer bore- songs. dom during down time between projects. He gathered a group of friends to help him stage the play in London. It • Tim Curry modelled Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s voice afwas a hit, and kept moving to larger and larger venues to ter Queen Elizabeth II and his mother’s “telephone accommodate the crowds who came to see it. Because of voice.” its popularity, O’Brien re-wrote the play as a movie, and • Dancer Nell Campbell was asked to be in the stage renamed it “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” a couple play after director Jim Sharman saw her busking on of years later. the streets of London with her tap dancing. Part of • The entire cast of the play reprised their roles in the the reason the song “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again” movie, with the exception of the lead roles of Brad and was written was to give her an excuse to show off her Janet, the hapless couple who stumble into the world of tap-dancing skills.

Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s castle on a stormy night. Producers • Pierre La Roche, a former personal stylist for David felt that American actors were needed for those roles to Bowie, created the movie’s make-up styles, particuappeal to an American audience. The parts went to Barry larly the signature look for Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Bostwick and Susan Sarandon. Richard O’Brien himself appeared in the film in the role of Riff Raff, the spooky • Singer and occasional actor Meat Loaf has a memorable part as Eddie, the delivery boy and partial brain servant to Frank-N-Furter.

• The movie had a lukewarm reception when it was re- donor to Rocky Horror. Eddie gets a fun entrance, leased in 1975. The film’s budget was $1.2 million, and bursting out of a freezer on a motorcycle. Meat it didn’t even make half of that during the original run. Loaf let a stunt man handle that part. Writer Richard But it gained a cult following due to its “audience par- O'Brien was concerned that Meat Loaf might not be ticipation” showings, usually on Halloween at midnight. able to handle the song, “Hot Patootie - Bless My Roger Ebert once wrote that it was less a movie and more Soul.” O’Brien brought out the music and handed it to him, saying “It's okay to flub a few lines. No one of a “social phenomenon.”

• It has been shown continuously in movie theaters since in the London cast has ever sung the whole thing 1975, making it the longest theatrical run in history. The correctly anyway.” Meat Loaf looked it over, replied Museum Lichtspiele cinema in Muenchen, Germany has “What's the problem?” and then sang the whole thing screened the movie every week since June 24, 1977, of- without skipping a beat or missing a single note. fering special “RHPS-Kits” to enable celebrations dur- • The budget for the costumes was $1,600, far more ing the show. The kits contain a biscuit (for the toast), than the stage production budget. The entire movie rice (for the wedding), a whistle, a candle (for “There's a took only three months to film at a real castle in LonLight”), and a sheet of paper with instructions for danc- don. ing the Time Warp.

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• “I find it helpful to set calendar reminders on my phone for working out and meal prepping. I have to treat it like a job so that I’ll do it. Thought that might help other people who struggle.” — S.O. in Wyoming • “Those hide-a-key rocks can be a little obvious — at least they are to me.

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Who's Hording the Mini Blinds?

It's a bit unnerving to walk through a store and see so many empty shelves. I haven't been to the local big box store very often lately, but I wanted to see if what I suspected was true.

I'd been unable to order a number of items for curbside delivery and had been told that lots of things were actually in the store but couldn't be purchased except inside in person. That made no sense. I suspected that, instead, those items just weren't there.

So, in I went, mask on face, miniature hand sanitizer bottle in purse.

I was stunned to see so many empty shelves. It wasn't like the first month of the pandemic when people were hoarding and taking as much bread, sanitizers and canned goods as they could carry out, until limits were put on purchases. Instead, there were shelves empty of items you wouldn't normally associate with hoarding, like mini blinds.

Who hoards mini blinds?

I could (maybe) understand the lack of packs of lined school paper and pencils, for the kids doing remote learning, or toys because the kids are home all the time.

I could see where we'd still be missing a variety of paper towels. And I could almost understand the few choices for shampoo and bath soap.

But what about dishes and light bulbs? Unless one was in the market for square red dinner dishes or 40watt bulbs, there were none to be had.

Certain shortages we can understand. But what has happened to the supply line when we can't get a simple 100-watt bulb?

With winter coming, we might do well to reconsider our supplies and add a few light bulbs to our stash.

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Coffee Shop Vets Are One Man Short

I didn't know if they'd be there, what with the weather snapping cold like it has, but there they were, the elderly veteran crew, arrayed in a wide half circle on the sidewalk outside the coffee shop.

Or at least most of them were. I did a head count after I placed my coffee order at the pickup window. One appeared to be missing, and it seemed that I'd arrived in the middle of a conversation.

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Coughing, but no fever."

"Can't be the virus if there's no fever."

"It could be the virus with no symptoms whatsoever." The retired sergeant, in charge of physical spacing, tapped his 6-foot measuring stick on the pavement. "You need to keep up."

They batted it back and forth, taking bets about which of them might have had it without knowing, citing questionable statistics and claims. A cellphone rang, and the sergeant's hand went up, calling for silence.

He listened and hung up, sliding the phone back in his fatigue jacket pocket. "It's not the virus," he said. "Common cold. But the grandkid tested positive, so now the whole house is in lockdown. Our good buddy has to go elsewhere."

"Bet he's not happy about that."

"His other daughter is coming from upstate. Plans to take him with her tomorrow."

"He'll be even less happy about that. Poor guy. He's a news junkie. She lives in a cabin on a lake, no cable. Just basic channels."

By the time I finished my coffee, hovering at the edge of the group, the general consensus was that their pal, to be trapped for a few weeks in a lakeside cabin in the woods with no cable television, was actually the lucky one. As long as he remembered his fishing pole.

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• The name “dandelion” comes from the French “dent de lion” meaning “lion’s tooth” referring to the serrated edges of the leaves, which resemble a lion’s dentistry.

• There are about 100 species of dandelion.

• The plant is native to Europe and eastern Asia but is now one of the most widespread plants across the planet.

• The dandelion is a perennial plant, meaning it returns year after year.

• Dandelions can grow under a wide variety of conditions, whether wet or dry, sunny or shady.

They are among the first plants to colonize disturbed areas, such as after a fire or following construction. The more disturbed an area is, the more seeds they produce, giving them an edge over other plants.

• The main taproot of a dandelion can reach 3 feet deep into the earth to find water, which helps it survive droughts. The longest tap roots ever found reached a length of 15 feet. The stalks can reach heights of 2 feet, helping loft the seeds into the breeze. The seeds are capable of being carried 5 miles on the wind before landing. The more you mow it, the shorter the stalks get. The leaves can reach lengths of 14 inches.

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• Every part of the dandelion is edible, both raw and cooked.

• Dandelions grow only from seed, but a single dandelion can produce seeds without benefit of cross-pollination from a different dandelion plant, meaning a single plant can spread clones of itself over a wide area without any other dandelions being in the vicinity.

• Individual plants can grow for 5-10 years and reach a considerable size, up to 20 inches across.

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• Depending on its size and health there can be anywhere from 54 to 172 seeds per dandelion head.

• A single plant can produce 2,000 individual seeds each season.

• Dandelion pollen cannot cause allergies because the grains are too large to be bothersome.

• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s tallest dandelion was grown in Ontario, Canada and topped out at a whopping 70 inches.

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• A cup of dandelion greens contains about 112 per cent of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A and 535 per cent of the recommended daily amount of vitamin K, as well as calcium, iron and magnesium. Dandelion greens have 50 per cent more vitamin C than tomatoes, twice as much protein as eggplant, and double the fiber of asparagus. They have as much iron as spinach and more potassium than bananas.

• The leaves, if picked before the plant flowers, are often incorporated into salads with other greens.

• Dandelion roots can be dried and ground and used as a substitute for coffee.

• Fossils of dandelions found in Eurasia indicate the plant evolved around 30 million years ago.

• Seeds were brought to North America by pilgrims on the “Mayflower” because the dandelion had medicinal uses. Other settlers and explorers brought dandelion seeds to California, Canada and Mexico.

• Vineland, N.J., is known as the Dandelion Capital of the World due to the fact that the dandelion is a cash crop in the region. The first National Dandelion Festival was held in Vineland in 1973.

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