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THE GREAT DUST BOWL

• The seeds of the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains were planted when the pioneers began turning the prairie sod over to plant crops in place of native grasses. Then came World 701-739-2403 War I. Troops needed food, so land that had 2600 DeMers Ave. previously been grazing land was converted Grand Forks, ND to cropland. A vast number of acres that had never been turned by a plow were now seeded.

• After the war ended, the price of wheat dropped, so livestock were returned to graze these areas. Their sharp hooves pulverized the soil which was no longer protected by native plants. Then came a few years of drought which prevented the return of native grasses.

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• In 1935 the Soil Conservation Service was formed to rehabilitate farmland. Eventually erosion control methods were put into practice. Grass was replanted, crops were rotated, acres were allowed to lie fallow, contour farming was begun, and shelter belts of trees were planted. Things were looking pretty good all across the Great Plains, and then World War II started. Wheat prices soared and the entire Dust Bowl pattern was repeated in large part. By the 1950 the U.S. Government stepped in to subsidize farmers in order to restore vast areas of wheat back to grassland.

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• “Sahara” comes from the Arabic word “sahra” meaning desert. One of the major sources of dust on Earth is the Sahara Desert. Many deserts consist of rocks and gravel with a few touches of sand here and there, but one-fifth of the Sahara is covered with loose sand. That’s an area equal in size to four states of Texas, buried in sand to the height of a five-story building on average. In some places the dunes are 1,000 feet high.

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• It’s estimated that a boxcar’s worth of sand leaves the Sahara to be launched into the atmosphere every four seconds. Once in the atmosphere, the wind carries the sand incredible distances.

Astronauts often report seeing a huge tongue of airborne Sahara sand trailing out from the desert. Even sailors out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean have swept heavy coatings of Sahara dust off their decks.

• Dust researchers went to the Caribbean island of Barbados to collect space dust. Their logic was that the wind, having crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean, would be clean of earth dust by the time it reached Barbados 3,000 miles away. Instead of collecting space dust, what they collected was a great deal of reddish dust from the Sahara Desert. ...continued

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• Barbados, one of the southernmost islands in the Caribbean, is made entirely of white and gray coral. Yet the soil on the island, instead of being white or gray, is actually a reddish orange. Researchers found that the chemical composition of the soil doesn’t have any of the components contained in coral, but it exactly matches the chemical composition of the sand in the Sahara Desert.

Over eons, dust carried high aloft traveled the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean to fall on Barbados, building the soil to a depth of several feet.

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• In some parts of Africa and India, the rock is colored red. This of course makes red dust and red mud. Elephants enjoy taking dust and mud baths to keep cool. The red dirt gives their skin a pink hue. Therefore, it is possible to see pink elephants even when sober.

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• On Jan. 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Gen. Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on Dec. 31, 1775, one of the first generals of the American Revolution to lose his life on the battlefield.

• On Jan. 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson becomes the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, shot at Jackson, but his gun misfired. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane.

• On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven," beginning "Once upon a midnight dreary," is published in the New York Evening Mirror.

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• On Jan. 28, 1855, the Panama Railway, which carried thousands of unruly gold miners to California via the dense jungles of Central America, dispatches its first train across the Isthmus of Panama. The Panama Canal would parallel the railway 50 years later.

• On Jan. 31, 1944, D-Day is postponed until June when several key leaders agreed that there would not be enough ships available by May. D-Day would later be postponed once more, by a single day due to high winds. Finally, on the morning of June 6, the long-awaited invasion of France began.

• On Jan. 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang developed by American auto racer Carroll Shelby, is launched. The sports car featured a 306 horsepower V-8 engine and remained in production through the end of the 1960s.

• On Jan. 26, 1970, U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia.

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• It’s a fact that dust absorbs heat. Consider what happens when dust falls on ice: • In 1980 when Mount Saint Helens erupted, ash fell on Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus in Washington. Researchers scraped the ash off a patch of the glacier that was 10 feet wide and 13 feet long and waited to see what would happen. Within two weeks the surrounding ash-covered ice had melted so much that it was a foot lower than the ash-free ice.

• In 1991 an extra-heavy layer of airborne dust from the Sahara Desert fell on a glacier in the Alps, allowing the ice to melt back enough to reveal the remains of the Ice Man, a Copper-Age man who had died and been entombed by ice for over 5,000 years.

• In an experiment in Russia, coal dust was spread over a glacier. The dust absorbed the heat of the sun, increasing the rate at which the ice melted by 55 percent. This produced more drinking water for nearby towns, but the cost of transporting and spreading the coal dust proved to be prohibitively high.

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• Soot holds heat 50 times better than desert dust and 200 times better than volcanic ash. If a nuclear holocaust threw tremendous amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, the dust and soot landing on ice sheets, ice caps, and ice bergs would cause them to melt, raising the level of the oceans. In 1954, the hydrogen bomb dropped on the Bikini Islands as a test spread radioactive dust over 7,000 square miles.

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• In 1816, a volcano named Tambora erupted in Indonesia. The gas and dust circled the globe, causing extreme weather and unusual cold worldwide.

A 19-year-old woman named Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was vacationing in Switzerland that summer. Since it was too cold to go outside to enjoy the mountains, she stayed inside and wrote Frankenstein.

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• To train new operatives during the Cold War, the Soviets built fully functional replicas of American towns. Their residents consisted of retired deepcover operatives who taught the trainees everything they needed to know about blending into American life.

• In 1963, the Bronx Zoo had an exhibit called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." It was a mirror.

• The U.S. Navy has a tradition that no submarine is ever considered lost at sea. Subs that don't return, including 52 lost during World War II, are considered "still on patrol." Every year at Christmas, sailors manning communications hubs send holiday greetings to those listed as still on patrol.

• An outbreak of the common cold occurred at an Antarctic base after 17 weeks of complete isolation.

• In the category of Best Song Titles Ever, country music stars Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty recorded a duet titled "You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly." (Despite which fact, the lyrics make clear that the couple is still in love.)

• After high school senior Allison Closs dressed up a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to go with her to prom, the actor returned the favor by bringing a cardboard cutout of Allison to the set of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

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Art: Unlocking Your Creativity

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Creating art can be emotionally healing and freeing. Who among us can't use a little of that nowadays?

Once you get started, you'll wonder why you didn't begin sooner.

Here are some ideas: Collage Wish Board: Collect pictures of things you miss and hope to have or do again. You'll need a poster board, school glue, scissors and magazines (or print out pictures you find online). If you hope to travel, gather travel magazines and snip out pictures of places you want to go once the ban on travel disappears. Paris?

Add the Eiffel Tower. London? Add Buckingham Palace.

If you plan a garden for next summer, collect gardening magazines or look for pictures on seed catalog sites. Add in a small plan of your garden. A collage wish board can be made for nearly any interest and topic. (Mine is a mixture of all the things that didn't happen this year: the annual music festival, square dance classes and monthly museum exhibits.)

Coloring: There's something very relaxing about taking a handful of fine-point markers and filling in the designs on a page in front of us. Search for "adult coloring books" online and print out the free pages. The topics are endless. (I'm a fan of the Celtic knots and mandalas.)

Crafts: If creating things is more to your liking, search online for "craft kits for adults" and see what appeals to you. Stained glass window art, jewelry-making, macrame, birdhouse kit, origami, wind chimes, mosaics, oil painting or watercolor ... the kits are endless. Look at the website for your local hobby and craft store. Chances are they have curbside pickup. (I'm in the middle of a 1:250 scale model of Notre Dame Cathedral.) (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc. Have fun!

The COVID Vaccine is Coming for Vets

The COVID vaccine is currently being distributed to 37 VA locations around the country. The logistics to move 300 million doses to where they need to be (Operation Warp Speed) are overwhelming, but the Department of Veterans Affairs has plans in hand for us.

The first thing to remember is that you likely won't be first in line to get the vaccine. Until you get the two shots (spaced weeks apart), your job is to stay healthy.

Just because you get the first shot doesn't mean you're in the clear. And depending how things are going in your area, you'll likely need to keep wearing a mask and doing social distancing, even after you've had both doses.

The order of vaccination is still being organized, but it will likely start with medical staff and residents of longterm care facilities, and those with high-risk medical conditions.

Once they move down the list, the vaccines will be available to all veterans who get VA health care. The fine print says they'll contact you when it's available, but it can't hurt to check with your health team to make sure they have your info. If you're not signed up for VA health care, you can apply online with VA form 10-10EZ. Other tidbits: If they come out with multiple vaccines, no, you won't be able to pick which one you get, at least not initially when there are shortages.

If you haven't had a flu shot but plan to get one, do it now. You likely will not be able to take the COVID vaccine too soon after getting a flu shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still deciding about this.

For more info on the vaccines and VA, go to www. va.gov/health-care/covid-19-vaccine. Scroll down for lots of information and resources.

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• For the past 800,000 years or so, there was a large shallow lake located in east-central California.

Called Lake Owens, it was up to 18 miles long and ten miles wide, covering about 110 square miles to a depth of between 20 and 50 feet deep depending on how much water was coming down Owens River. It was one of California’s biggest lakes, with a surface area about as large as Lake Tahoe.

• When people started moving to California, they needed water, and much of it came from the Owens River. By 1913 much water was being diverted from the river to feed L.A. and by 1926 Owens Lake was completely dry. And that’s when the dust storms started.

• The hot California winds, sweeping over the desiccated alkali lake bed, whip up enormous amounts of dust. Up to nine million tons of dust every year are blown off the dry lake bed. Residents in area are bombarded with unhealthy levels of dust an average of 25 days a year, and the air carries 23 times more dust than allowed by national health standards. Keeler, CA, earned the title “Dust Storm Capital of the U.S.” and suffers from the worst particulate air pollution in the country.

• It affects the health of residents not only because the particles are so small but also because the dust is loaded with arsenic and cadmium. Dust clouds from dry Owens Lake reduce visibility in nearby national parks including the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and Sequoia. All in all, about 40,000 people in the area are affected by the dust.

• In 1999 the EPA announced plans to cover the dry lake bed with water, gravel, and vegetation.

Today work continues in an effort to relieve the problem of dust, yet it still remains one of the biggest sources of dust pollution in the U.S. ...cont'd

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DUST MITES

• Dust mites are microscopic insects related to spiders that live in carpets, furniture, bedding, and clothing. As many as 18,000 mites live in a single teaspoon of dust. They eat flakes of skin, plant fibers, yeast cells, bacteria, and fungus spores. Insulated homes with carpeting and upholstery offer dust mites the perfect living conditions.

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• Dust mites don’t bite, but many people are allergic to the waste products they give off, or to their decaying bodies. Slap your couch cushions or make your bed while the sunlight streams through a window and many of the specks you see floating in the beam of light are the fecal pellets of dust mites. This allergy may manifest itself with just a sniffle, or it may trigger asthma or other allergic reactions.

• A study showed that children whose homes had high levels of dust mites were 4.8 times more likely to develop asthma in later years.

• To cut down the number of mites, researchers recommend removing dust-collecting fabrics, encasing mattresses and pillows in plastic, and frequent washing of bedding.

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• Inhale a single puff of smoke from a cigarette and you draw in an estimated four billion particles of dust. There are over 4,000 different chemicals in tobacco smoke, 50 of which are known carcinogens. Compounding the problem is the fact that chemicals in the smoke affect the movement of mucous in the respiratory tract.

Normally the mucous acts like a conveyor belt, ushering trapped foreign particles into the digestive tract and out of the body. But chemicals in smoke slow the movement of the conveyor belt, meaning dangerous dust particles remain in the body far longer than normal. Cigarette dust kills nearly half a million smokers in the U.S. annually.

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