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• The Wright Brothers are legendary in the field of aviation. Prior to their flight milestone, the pair started their own weekly newspaper, the “West Side News,” in Dayton, Ohio, in 1889.

Three years later, with the trend of bicycle-riding spreading across the country, Orville and Wilbur opened a bike shop, not only repairing, but selling their own hand-built cycles. In their free time, they studied the flight of birds and sought to imitate birds’ techniques. The brothers experimented with gliders for years, using a wind tunnel to test the wings and tails, before adding a system that would enable their invention to fly.

• The brothers’ engine generated about 12 horsepower, the equivalent of two lawn mower engines of today. On December, 17, 1903, the brothers set off for Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where they flew the first controlled flight of a power-driven airplane. The 600-lb. plane was constructed of spruce with muslin surface coverings. There were four flights that day, two by each brother. Orville flew first for a distance of 120 feet in 12 seconds, with a speed of 6.8 mph.

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• The second flight was 175 feet, and third, 200 feet at a height of about 10 feet above the ground. The final flight of the day, piloted by Wilbur, covered a distance of 852 feet, with a flight time of 59 seconds.

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• Although U.S. airmail got its official start with regularly-scheduled deliveries in 1918, pilots had been flying the mail since 1911. Back then, mailbags were dropped from the plane to the ground, where they were picked up by the community’s postmaster. By the mid-1920s, postal pilots were delivering 14 million letters annually. The job was certainly not without its risks – between 1918 and 1927, 34 airmail pilots were killed in crashes.

• In 1919, New York City hotel owner and flight enthusiast Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris. Several jumped into the game and tragically lost their lives. In 1927, a 25-year-old airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh fired up his monoplane and departed from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field. His plane, the “Spirit of St. Louis,” was just under 28 feet long with a wingspan of 46 feet. Half of the plane’s weight consisted of the 450 gallons of fuel in its tank. He took to the air at 7:52 AM on May 20, 1927, and landed at Le Bourget Field outside of Paris 33 hours, 29 minutes, and 30 seconds later, having flown more than 3,600 miles. A crowd of more than 100,000 awaited his arrival at the field.

His fuel tank still contained 85 gallons of gas.

• Before achieving fame, Lindbergh had been raised on a Minnesota farm and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin before dropping out to follow his dream of flying.

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• Lindbergh trained in the U.S. Army as a Reserve pilot, then started a career as the chief pilot for an aircraft corporation that provided airmail service between Chicago and St. Louis. Following the heartbreaking kidnapping and death of his 20-month-old son, Lindbergh and his wife moved to Europe to avoid the relentless media frenzy.

Here, he joined forces with a French surgeon to invent an early prototype of an artificial heart.

Lindbergh later served on the board of directors for Pan-American World Airways.

• Boeing debuted the first modern passenger jet, the 247, in 1933, an airliner that could cruise at 155 mph. Almost immediately, United Air Lines purchased 60 of the airliners, which could seat 10 passengers.

• To compete with Boeing, Douglas Aircraft Company introduced the DC-3 in 1936, with the capability to seat 21.

• Boeing introduced the 747 jetliner in February of 1969. The first of the wide-body planes had a wing span of 195 feet, 8 inches and a length of nearly 232 feet. It was an enlargement of 79 feet in length over the old Boeing 707, could seat 450 passengers and had a cruising speed of over 600 mph.

• In 1947, U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager piloted the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound, reaching Mach 1.07 (700 mph) at an altitude of 45,000 feet. He was flying a rocket engine-powered Bell X-1 aircraft above the Mojave Desert. Yeager went on to become a fighter pilot in Vietnam, flying 127 combat missions, and rising to the rank of Brigadier General.

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• In 1906, while racing a car at 100 mph, Harriet Quimby fell in love with speed, which led her to enroll in New York’s Moisant School of Aviation.

In 1911, she became the first American woman to earn a pilot license. In April of the following year, she set out to complete another first – the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Sadly, less than three months after that accomplishment, while participating in an aviation meet in Massachusetts, her aircraft suddenly malfunctioned, ejecting the 37-year-old Quimby and her passenger from the plane in an abrupt pitch, as the plane continued to glide down, landing in mud.

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• Harriet Quimby wasn’t the first woman to receive a pilot’s license. That honor belongs to Madame Raymonde de Laroche, a gifted engineer, who accomplished this feat in March, 1910. She took honors for a non-stop flight of four hours, followed by a women’s altitude record of 15,700 feet. With hopes of becoming the first female test pilot, she was piloting an experimental aircraft when it crashed on its landing approach, tragically killing the 36-year-old woman.

• How about the first cow to fly in an airplane? In 1930, Elm Farm Ollie settled in for a 72-mile flight from Bismarck, Missouri to St. Louis during an air exposition. This Guernsey was not only the first cow to fly, she was the first one milked in flight, producing 24 quarts of milk along the way.

The milk was parachuted to the ground, where a glass was consumed by Charles Lindbergh.

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• The rarest shape for a human nose is the bulbous type, exemplified by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

• Smuggling a cat out of ancient Egypt was punishable by death.

• A variety of corn grown in Peru has kernels so large that they're eaten individually.

• After impressionist painter Claude Monet developed cataracts, he agreed to have surgery on his right eye only. It is believed that afterwards he could see and paint a wide spectrum of colors usually not seen by the human eye.

• Dinosaurs often swallowed large rocks, which stayed in their stomachs and helped them grind up food.

• One in 23 million people have an allergy to water.

• In 1631, royal printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas published a Bible containing the typo "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery." As if that weren't embarrassing enough, another misprint, in Deuteronomy, substituted the word "greatnesse" with "great-asse."

Barker and Lucas were fined 300 pounds and lost their printing license. Less than a dozen copies of what came to be known as the "Wicked," "Sinful" and "Adulterous" Bible are known to exist today and are highly prized by collectors.

• On average, a person's eyes make 15 to 30 gallons of tears a year.

• A rainbow's arc is relative to the position of the person observing it, so it is impossible for two people to actually see the exact same one.

• The air around a lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

• While rare, there have been enough reported cases of strokes triggered by spa massage treatments that the medical community has nicknamed the phenomenon "beauty parlor stroke syndrome."

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What did we really accomplish this past year? We've had time, certainly, with all these lockdown days, weeks and months, to do any number of things.

After reviewing my year of COVID, I realize that I could have done so much more, had I only known just how long "flattening the curve" was actually going to take.

By my calculations, I could have accomplished the following: * Painted every room of the house three times. Yet here I sit with color swatches still taped to the wall where I put them last spring when I thought that interior painting would be a good summer project. * Written 1.25 novels, judging by how long it took to produce the others I never started. Too many other things to do, too many fun events coming up, I thought. Had I known just how much free, quiet and solitary time there was going to be, I would have started on Day One. * Become fluent in French with Duolingo free online lessons.

I misjudged the coronavirus, seriously misjudged just how long it would be with us. I was certain that it would be gone by June. Then by September. And here we are, 15 months later, still wearing masks and staying home.

I'm determined not to let another year go by with so little to show for it. I've picked an interior paint color.

Now I'll order the paint and go collect it curbside at the hardware store. The first file of a new novel is ready, with "Chapter 1" and a first paragraph. It's a start. My Duolingo account is still there, holding my place where I left off long ago.

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• ‘Strengths’ is the longest word with only one vowel. • Makrama is the Turkish word meaning a fringed nap‘Latchstring’ has six consonants in a row. Beijing, Fiji, kin and gives us macrame. and hijinks have the most dots in a row. ‘Set’ has the • In the South Seas the word tattaw means to knock or most different meanings, with ‘run’ running a close to strike and gave us the word tattoo. second.

• The chess term checkmate comes from the Persian • George Bernard Shaw, who tried unsuccessfully to will shah mat meaning "the king is dead." his fortune to anyone who could invent a better alphabet, declared it was possible to spell fish ‘ghoti’ by us- • When Bradley, Voorhees, and Day formed an uning gh as in enough; o as in women; and ti as in nation. derwear company in 1876, they called their product But there are many ways to spell fish. For instance: BVDs. Phusi- as in physics / busy / pension. FFess- as in off / • The Hollywood stereotype of an Indian saying "How!" pretty / issue. Ughyce- as in augh / hymn / ocean. The is based on the traditional Indian A-Hau meaning "Peace with you" or "All is well." list is endless.

• ‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’ is the longest word in the • The ancient Greeks used a resin called ‘mumia’ or Oxford English Dictionary. The word is unusual not ‘momie’ to preserve bodies, giving us mummies. only because it dates back to 1741; not only because it • The word tip is an abbreviation for "to insure prompthas 29 letters with 9 i's and no e's, but also because it ness." means to classify something as worthless or trivial.

• The German word frau means wife. It is a contrac• Amaze your friends by dropping these words into the tion of two German words, froh meaning joy, and weh conversation: Foozle: a bungling golf stroke. Groak: meaning woe. to stare hopefully at other's food. Schizocarps: the pin• The word potpourri originally meant a stew. In French wheels that grow on maple trees. Vomer: the slender it literally means "putrid pot." bone separating the nostrils.

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• We heard from J.D. in Northern Colorado about a recent tip on egg carton use. He wanted to remind me that while Styrofoam egg cartons may be easily recyclable in some places (I take them to my local grocery store), that’s not true for all states. Thanks for the reminder, J.D., and for being a reader.

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• On May 30, 1431, in Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Her most serious crime was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. She was 19 years old.

• On May 26, 1897, the first copies of the classic vampire novel "Dracula," by Irish writer Bram Stoker, appear in London bookshops. Stoker had originally named the vampire "Count Wampyr."

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• On May 24, 1935, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in Major League Baseball's first-ever night game, played under recently installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The game drew 25,000 fans as President Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, D.C. • On May 27, 1943, a B-24 carrying U.S. airman and former Olympic runner Louis Zamperini crashes into the Pacific Ocean. After surviving the crash, Zamperini floated on a raft in shark-infested waters before being picked up by the Japanese and spending two years in brutal prison camps. His story of survival was featured in the 2010 book "Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand.

• On May 28, 1961, the British newspaper The London Observer publishes British lawyer Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners," launching a movement that later became Amnesty International.

• On May 25, 1994, the ashes of 71-year-old George Swanson are buried in Pennsylvania in the driver's seat of his 1984 white Corvette. Swanson, a U.S. Army sergeant during World War II, had acquired 12 cemetery burial plots so his beloved Corvette would fit in his grave with him.

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• The Irish prefixes O’, Fitz-, Mc-, and Mac- preceeding a name mean “descendent of.” The Dutch Van- (as in VanGogh) means “from,” and Vander(as in Vanderbuilt) means “from the.” The German version is Von (VonTrapp). The French dualso means “of” or “from.” DuPont means “of the bridge”; DuBois means “from the woods.”

• A man with brown hair, brown eyes, or a brown complexion might be named Brown in England; Bruno in Italy; Dun or Dunne in Ireland; or Braun in Germany.

• The German name Schuster meant shoemaker; Spangler meant tinsmith; Zimmerman was a carpenter; and Schwarz meant black.

• In old England, Kellogg was a person who killed hogs, Clark was a clerk, Coleman used charcoal, and Mr. Peck lived on a peak.

• The person in charge of the food and drink in the great hall of a castle might be named Hall. The dispenser of provisions at an estate was often named Spencer.

• Roosevelt meant rose field, and Rockefeller is a corruption of the German Roggenfelder, meaning rye field.

• The Welch words Ap Rhys, meaning son of Rhys, was shortened and Americanized to Price.

Leo Tolstoy’s last name meant “fat” in Russian.

Mr. Sinclair may have had an ancestor from the French town of St. Clair.

• When the majority of the population was illiterate, shopkeepers relied on signboards with pictures on them to tell people what business they were in. Many names came from the signs, including the German Rothschild, meaning “red signboard” and Weintraub, meaning “grape.”

• Shakespeare’s name was spelled 83 different ways in his time. ...continued

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• Studies have shown that people with odd or unusual names are more prone to psychosis and criminal behavior. Kids with common names (such as Michael or Jennifer) tend to be more popular and do better in school than those with undesirable names or names that are hard to spell or pronounce.

• In another study, school teachers were given essays to grade and were told they were written by students. Popular and unpopular names were randomly assigned as being the authors of the essays. The essays that were supposedly written by David, Mike, Lisa, and Karen received higher grades than identical essays “written” by Elmer, Hubert, or Bertha.

• History’s most popular and enduring names have been Mary, meaning “star of the sea,” and John, meaning “gift of God.” • In England, the hundred most common boys’ names account for 94% of all boys’ names; and the most popular 100 girls’ names make up for 83% of the total. In some countries such as the West Indies and parts of Africa, people emphasize giving a child a name that no one has ever had before.

• The birth records of Pennsylvania showed that 160,000 children born in a recent year were given 12,774 different names.

• In the 1600s Puritans liked to pick inspirational names like Faint-Not, Stand-Fast, and Lord-IsNigh. Some popular names with these Puritan roots are Faith, Hope, Charity, Joy, Patience, and Prudence.

• David Carradine and his wife Barbara Hershey named their son Free. Free changed his name to Tom. • There are about 2 million Toms worldwide.

• The name Ann is used ten times more often as a middle name than as a first name.

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