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• Then there’s the story of Bavarian concessionaire Anton Feuchtwanger was selling sausages at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. They were hot and greasy so he loaned people white gloves to wear while eating them so they wouldn’t get their fingers dirty. But people kept walking off with the gloves until, in desperation, he asked David Kent his brother-in-law for help. His brother-in-law 2534 17th Ave. S. was a baker and came up with long soft rolls, Grand Forks thus inventing the hot dog bun.

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• Cartoonist Tad Dorgan watched vendors shouting “Get your dachshund sausages while they’re red hot!” which inspired him to draw a cartoon with a barking dachshund neatly nestled in a warm roll. But because he couldn’t spell “dachshund” he simple called it a “hot dog” thus inventing the name.

• The truth is, nobody knows which of these stories is really true or who invented the hot dog. People around the world have been stuffing ground-up meat and spices into casings for centuries.

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• In 1867, Charles Feltman had a wheelwright in Brooklyn named Donovan make him a wagon so that he could carry his fresh homemade pies up and down the strip to the inns and saloons that lined the beaches of Coney Island. The establishments that bought his pies asked him if he could also begin supplying them with hot sandwiches they could serve their customers. Feltman thought a hot sausage sandwich might be just the thing, so he returned to Donovan.

• Donovan built a modified cart with a tin-lined chest that kept the rolls fresh. The wagon was also equipped with a charcoal stove suitable for boiling sausages. In 1871 it became the first hot dog stand in Coney Island. Feltman found that his sausage sandwiches were wildly popular and he sold 3,684 of them during his first year in business.

• Despite rumors that his hot sausage sandwiches were made of dog meat and rendered horses, Feltman continued to sell them hand over fist. He set up a hot dog restaurant and soon had seven huge grills cooking hot dogs by the thousands, selling them at the rate of 40,000 per day in a restaurant that could seat 8,000. In 1923 he had over five million customers. ...continued

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KING OF HOT DOGS • In 1915 young Nathan Handwerker visited Coney Island and spotted a ‘Help Wanted’ sign in Feltman’s hot dog restaurant. He took the job and sliced hot dog buns for a year, earning $11 per week. By living on the cheap, sleeping on the kitchen floor, and eating little besides hot dogs, he managed to save up $300 within a year.

• When singers Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante stopped by Feltman’s for a hot dog, they were shocked and dismayed that Feltman had raised the price of his hot dogs to a dime each. They urged Nathan to start his own hot dog restaurant and undercut the price.

• Nathan had enough money saved to rent a building nearby where he set up a rival hot dog business, offering his hot dogs for a nickel. No one bought his hot dogs, even when he threw in free root beer and a pickle. They still went to Feltman’s and paid a dime. People felt that anything that cheap must be defective. So Nathan hired bums and derelicts to sit at his counter eating free hot dogs but the crowd made a wide berth around the scruffy diners.

• Next a friend of his who was in the theatrical costume business lent Nathan ten white suits and ten stethoscopes. Nathan dressed up ten newly shaven bums as doctors, hired them to sit at his counter eating hot dogs, and put up a big sign saying, “If doctors eat our hot dogs, you know they’re good!” That did the trick and he was soon selling so many hot dogs that police were constantly trying to clear the crowd of customers that blocked the sidewalk in front of his restaurant. He sold an average of 75,000 hot dogs every summer weekend and by 1955 had sold over a million hot dogs.

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• Every 4th of July Nathan’s sponsors a hot dog eating contest. In 2002, Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi of Japan defended his world title by swallowing 50 1/2 franks (with buns) in just 12 minutes, besting his 2001 record of 50 hot dogs.

That’s an average of one hot dog every 14.25 seconds. At a mere 113 lbs., Kobayashi was the lightest of the 20 competitors. However, after the contest he weighed in at 120 lbs. The second place winner downed just 26 hot dogs. Though some claimed Kobayashi won only through use of muscle-relaxing drugs, no evidence supported the claim. Others insisted he be disqualified for burping (regurgitation earns an immediate disqualification) but judges pronounced his win fair and square. For his efforts, Kobayashi won a trophy, a mustard yellow belt, and a year’s supply of hot dogs.

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• Many hot dog experts insist you should not put ketchup on a hot dog because it smothers the taste. In the Dirty Harry movie “Sudden Impact,” Harry and his partner are inspecting a murder scene while Harry’s partner is munching a hot dog. The dialog goes something like this: “That is absolutely sickening!” exclaims Harry. “Yeah, the guy was in the prime of his life, and now look at him,” responds his partner. “No, not him!” says Harry. “You just put ketchup on a hot dog!

Nobody, and I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog!”

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• One method of committing suicide is hanging. Frequently people who hung themselves would stand on a bucket with a rope around their necks. Then they would “kick the bucket.”

• In medieval France it was customary to serve hot roasts to guests. If the guests outstayed their welcome, cold shoulder of mutton was served as a hint: “giving them the cold shoulder.”

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• On Feb. 27, 1964, the Italian government begins accepting suggestions on how to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapse. The top of the 180-foot tower was hanging 17 feet south of the base. The tower's lean is caused by the remains of an ancient river estuary under the building.

• On Feb. 23, 1980, speedskater Eric Heiden captures the 10,000-meter race at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, in world record time to win an unprecedented fifth individual gold medal. Heiden had overslept and rushed to the rink after eating just a few slices of bread.

• On Feb. 28, 1993, in Waco, Texas, federal agents launch an unsuccessful raid against the Branch Davidian compound as part of an investigation into illegal possession of firearms and explosives by the Christian cult. On April 18, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved a tear-gas grenade assault on the compound. A fire erupted and at least 80 people died.

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• Baked beans aren't baked. They're stewed.

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• Researchers have found that there are 19 different types of smiles, but only six occur when we're having a good time. The rest happen when we're in pain, embarrassed, uncomfortable, horrified or even miserable!

• Genoan sailors were known colloquially as "Genes" and wore cotton pants, which is where we get the word "jeans."

• A singing birthday card has more computer power than the entire Allied Army of World War II. • There is a spacecraft graveyard in the Pacific Ocean. Known as "Point Nemo," it is the farthest place on Earth from land and is home to over 300 spacecraft and associated space debris, including the Russian MIR space station, the first object assembled in planetary orbit.

• Horrormeister Stephen King has triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and won't stop writing if he's on the page number is 13 or a multiple of it.

• OMG, the popular acronym for "Oh my God," was first used in writing in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, by John Arbuthnot Fisher, a retired Admiral of the British Navy, who said, "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis, O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)." *** Thought for the Day: "Most heroes live quiet, unassuming existences. They lend a hand and help, without any expectation of gratitude or fanfare."

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• Kinsey Millhone is in her mid-30s, twice divorced with no kids. She rents a garage apartment from an elderly lady and she’s friends with a barmaid at the neighborhood hangout. She owns one dress, and it’s black. She drives a beat-up VW bug. She’s an ex-cop who makes her living as a P.I. for an insurance company in California.

Kinsey is fearless without being reckless. She is spunky, pragmatic, and stubborn. She’s been described as “Nancy Drew with attitude.” Kinsey Millhone is entirely fictitious.

• Sue Grafton, who is fact rather than fiction, grew up in Kentucky where she was constantly encouraged to read. Her father enjoyed writing mysteries though he never made much money at it. His first was entitled “The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope” and his second was “The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher.” His third, never completed, was “The Butcher Began to Kill the Ox.” Grafton liked the way his books linked together.

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• She graduated from the University of Louisville in 1961 and in 1967 won a writing contest which led to a contract to publish her first novel “Kezia Dane.” Her next book, “The Lolly-Madonna War” came out in 1969. MGM made that book into a movie, propelling Grafton into the Hollywood script-writing scene for the next 15 years.

• Dissatisfied, she turned to writing mysteries to extricate herself from Tinseltown. During a nasty custody dispute with an ex-husband, Grafton grew so angry that she fantasized about committing murder. The plot she dreamed up for offing him formed the basis of her first mystery. She studied police procedure and forensics, interviewed attorneys and coroners, and visited jails and prisons. She pored over crime stories in the newspapers looking for ideas. ...continued

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SUE GRAFTON (cont.)

• Grafton wondered why all the hard-boiled detectives were male. Why not have a female detective? Thus Kinsey Millhone was born. Her name was taken from the birth announcements in the newspaper. Her hometown of Santa Teresa is a thinly disguised version of Grafton’s home of Santa Barbara. Looking through an Edward Gorey cartoon book gave her the idea for serializing her mysteries after reading his alphabetized rhymes: “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs; B is for Basil, eaten by bears…”

It reminded her of her father’s books.

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• Grafton’s first Kinsey Millhone mystery, “A is for Alibi,” was published in 1982. 7,500 copies were printed. “B is for Burglar” followed. By the time “F is for Fugitive” was published, the first press run was up to 100,000 copies. “K is for Killer” sold half a million copies. She died in 2017 before completing the final book, for the letter Z. • Grafton tried not to follow a formula. In “J is for Judgement” the body doesn’t even show up until the epilogue. She avoided flashy high-tech murders, serial killers, and international espionage, sticking to basic garden-variety murder.

Grafton identified strongly with her central character and even boasted that she owned two of Kinsey’s handguns. “I don’t like the movies and the books in which the woman hears a sound at night and goes out with a little candle in her nightie into the howling abyss,” she said. In a way, the author and the character are good friends. “She and I have many things in common,” Grafton admitted in an interview.

“Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Would Kinsey put up with this?’ and if the answer is no, then I know it’s time for me to speak up. I’ve always said the smartest thing I ever did was to invent somebody who now supports me.”

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