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• Athena wove a tapestry that depicted all the gods in all their glory, but the peasant girl produced a tapestry that depicted all of the gods in their behind-the-scenes trysts and deceits. Athena saw that the work was superior, but was so angered by the choice of subject matter that she destroyed the tapestry and the loom. The peasant girl was so shamed that she ran off and hanged herself.

• Chagrined, Athena cut the girl down and brought her back to life transformed as a spider, and the rope she hanged herself with was turned into the spider’s silk. Ever since then, the peasant girl’s descendants have been wandering the world, weaving their webs with exceptional skill.

• Today the taxonomical word for the class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks springs from the peasant girl’s name.

What is it?

A TALKATIVE NYMPH

• Zeus was a philandering god, which his wife Hera hated. Hera was constantly trying to catch him in the act. There was one particular nymph who was in love with the sound of her own voice, and she talked constantly, chattering up a storm. ...continued

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• A Greek peasant had a daughter who grew up to be a talented weaver. She was so skilled that she became boastful and claimed to be a better weaver than Athena, the Greek goddess of craftsmanship. Upon hearing these rumors, Athena disguised herself as an old woman and warned the girl against angering the gods, but the girl scoffed, and demanded a weaving contest with Athena so she could prove her skill. At this, Athena dropped her disguise and the contest was on.

Answer: Arachne, which gives us Arachnid.

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TALKATIVE NYMPH (cont.)

• One day Zeus asked the talkative nymph to go have a chat with Hera, knowing she would talk up a storm, allowing him to enjoy a tryst with another nymph while Hera was distracted. She agreed, and entertained Hera at length with stories and flattery.

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• When Hera discovered this deception, it made her so angry she put a curse on the talkative nymph, condemning her forever to repeat the words of others. She still had her lovely voice, but no way to use it except to repeat what was said to her.

• This cursed nymph later fell in love with the beautiful youth named Narcissus, following him through the woods. When he called out, “Who’s there?” all she could say back was, “Who’s there?” When she showed herself to him, he told her, “Go away!” and all she could say was, “Go away!” Heartbroken, she hid in caves, canyons, and other lonely places until eventually her body faded away and only her voice remained, forever repeating the words of others. What was her name?

Answer: Echo

A BIG JERK

• The Greek god of shepherds and their flocks was dubbed with a name that sprang from the Greek word meaning “to pasture.” Half man and half goat, he ruled hunting and music.

• Once, while lustfully pursuing a nymph, the nymph prayed to be turned into a clump of reeds.

Her prayer was granted, but the pursuing god plucked the reeds and turned them into a musical instrument.

• One of his favorite pastimes was to frighten travelers who passed through his forest. He would crouch in the bushes and gently rustle the branches, scaring the approaching person, who would subsequently pick up their pace. ...continued

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• This devious god would hurry through the forest, lying in wait to terrify hapless travelers with whatever tricks he could come up with simply to amuse himself by laughing at their terror.

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• Thus, this Greek god subsequently had his name associated with uncontrollable fear. What’s the name of this god?

Answer: Pan, as in panic (and pan pipes).

AN EVIL FEAST

• Zeus and a nymph had a child together. When that child grew up, he had a son named Pelops. One day the father invited all of the gods to a feast at his house, but at the last minute, he discovered he didn’t have enough food. To remedy the situation, he murdered his son Pelops and served him in a stew.

• The all-knowing gods refused to eat the stew, except for Demeter (goddess of the harvest) who was distracted due to the recent kidnapping of her daughter Persephone. She ate Pelops’ shoulder before the others stopped her.

• Zeus was unhappy about being fed his grandson in a stew, and the gods agreed that something needed to be done. First they brought Pelops back to life and replaced his shoulder with ivory. Then they banished Pelops’ father to the underworld, sentencing him to spend eternity standing in a lake with beautiful fruit hanging over his head.

Every time he bent to drink, the water drained away. Each time he reached for fruit, the wind blew the branches away. Thus he is condemned to spend eternity hungry and thirsty while surrounded by food and drink. His name entered our language meaning “to be tempted by something unattainable or forbidden.” What was his name?

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Some 626,000 veterans got the first and (and sometimes) second dose. Over 400,000 went to VA employees. But 1,200 doses went to "federal partners."

Nowhere, in much research across the Internet, could I find just who those partners were.

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• On March 20, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln'sons, Willie and Tad, are diagnosed with the measles. The boys recovered, but in 1862 Willie contracted typhoid fever and died.

Tad died at age 18 in 1871. Of Lincoln's four boys, only the first child, Robert, lived to an advanced age; he passed away at age 82 in 1926.

• On March 18, 1911, Irving Berlin copyrights the biggest pop song of the early 20th century, "Alexander's Ragtime Band."

The song was easier to play than Joplin's "The Entertainer," which encouraged sheet music sales. Those topped 1.5 million copies in the first 18 months after publication.

• On March 19, 1953, for the first time, audiences are able to watch from their living rooms as the movie world's most prestigious honors, the Academy Awards, are given out at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California.

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• On March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard successfully launches the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts. The 10-foottall rocket traveled for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away.

• On March 15, 1968, construction starts on the north tunnel of the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel on I-70 in Colorado west of Denver. At more than 11,000 feet, the project became the world's highest vehicular tunnel when it was completed in 1979.

• On March 21, 1971, "The Andromeda Strain," the first movie to use computer animation, opens. Based on a Michael Crichton book, the sci-fi thriller featured scientists racing against time and an alien virus.

• On March 17, 2000, Julia Roberts becomes the first actress ever to command $20 million per movie when "Erin Brockovich" is released.

At the time, $20 million was the standard paycheck for Hollywood's male stars.

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• If your pooch doesn’t like to poop in the snow, here’s a great trick to secure a patch of grass (even if frozen). Lay a square of plywood down on the ground, with a rope secured as a handle. After a snow, pull up the wood to reveal the ground underneath.

• Use mismatched socks to protect glass items when transporting them from place to place, or even in storage.

• Refillable spray bottles work best for cleaners. Refills can be economical, they put less waste in the system, and here’s one more reason: less propellants used, which can be a serious irritant to lungs. Purchase an attractive bottle, and then look up some recipes for eco-friendly cleaners. You might be surprised how well they work and how great they smell!

• “Add some nuts to your morning cereal or smoothie for a nutritious boost. It’s not just for oatmeal or granola. I like to crush a handful of walnuts and sprinkle them across my waffles.” — J.E. in Maine • Get rid of the smell of burned popcorn in your microwave by setting a bowl of coffee grounds in it overnight.

Somehow, when you remove it in the morning, it smells of neither popcorn nor coffee!

• Before removing a splinter, ice the area. There’s less fussing and a wooden splinter might absorb some liquid, causing it to swell enough to pop out a bit more.

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• Ladies, before you put a ring on it, you might want to consider that a survey of 17,000 people across 28 countries found that the amount of time a man spends doing chores on a weekly basis decreases significantly after he marries.

• The name for the shape of a Pringles potato chip is "hyperbolic paraboloid."

• In 1862, the King of Siam offered Abraham Lincoln many elephants on the grounds that a "country as great as the United States should not be without elephants." President Lincoln politely declined.

• The stage before frostbite is called -- wait for it -- frostnip.

• Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals in a fashion similar to humans. The process is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution, or SPUDS. • "Digging a hole to China" is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.

• The first roller coaster was used to transport coal down a hill. After people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 mph, tourists started asking to ride on it for a few cents.

• A flower that smells like chocolate? Yep, but you'll have to limit your enjoyment of this darkred Mexican native to sniffing, as the "cosmos atrosanguineus," or "chocolate cosmos," isn't edible.

• In 2014, a missing woman on vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself!

• Donkey Kong got his curious moniker because his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, believed "donkey" meant "stupid" in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a "stupid ape." *** Thought for the Day: "By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!"

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• In the late 1800s when ostrich feathers were all the rage on ladies’ hats, a man named Charles Sketchley arrived in America with 22 ostriches.

He announced that he was going to set up an ostrich farm in America in order to avoid having to pay high import fees and shipping charges for the feathers. He took on a partner and set up an ostrich ranch in California. They made almost as much money from charging visitors 50¢ each to view the birds as they did from selling feathers.

• However, tourists regularly tried to pull feathers off birds, broke locks on their pens, tried to steal eggs, and scared the birds with their dogs. Ostriches, attracted to bright shiny objects, nearly instigated several law suits by snatching jewelry, watches, chains, and stickpins. Finally the admission price was raised to $25 per person, and things calmed down.

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• Each ostrich yielded a pound and a half of feathers annually, and they sold for $20 per pound.

Breeding chicks sold for $800 a pair to other people interested in raising ostriches. By 1911, there were over 6,000 breeding ostriches in the U.S. and they were still unable to keep up with demand for feathers.

• One ostrich rancher bought 100 birds in Arizona and hired 6 cowboys to herd them to their new home in California. No one told him ostriches completely lack the herding instinct present in most livestock. Once they hit the open desert, the birds bolted and were never seen again.

• The bottom dropped out of the market around the start of World War I, leaving ostrich farmers with many hungry birds and no market. Some people blame the change of fashion on the advent of the automobile. It’s hard to keep feathers ...continued looking nice in a windy car.

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• The ostrich is the largest bird in the world at 8 feet tall weighing up to 350 lbs. The bee hummingbird is the smallest. One ostrich weighs as much as 48,000 bee hummingbirds.

• Three to five female ostriches will share a single mate and a single nest. They all lay their eggs in a big nest, which is then protected by the dominant hen during the day and the male at night.

An ostrich can only incubate about 20 eggs at a time. All the surplus eggs are pushed out of the nest, where they perish. But an ostrich never, ever pushes her own eggs out of the nest.

• Ostriches have a strange habit of kidnapping other ostrich’s chicks and raising them as their own. Any time they have the opportunity, an ostrich will run another ostrich off from the nest, then hustle all the chicks over to its own nest.

The brood may be stolen back by the original ostrich, or a third party may make off with the batch. This chick-napping goes on and on until a dominant ostrich is caring for a huge brood of chicks, with its own chicks mixed into the bunch. They may do this to provide protection for their own chicks: if a predator kills some chicks, their own offspring are more likely to survive if they are surrounded by other chicks.

• Ostrich eggs weigh 3 lbs., which was a factor leading to the decimation of their numbers.

• Chicks can run as fast as an adult by the age of one month.

• Most birds hop while on the ground, but ostriches run, with 15-foot strides. An ostrich can run faster than some birds can fly, 50 mph.

• They don’t cheep and chirp like most birds do.

They roar loudly with a strange hissing noise mixed in.

• Ostriches can live for 70 years.

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