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• In 1609, explorer Henry Hudson, employed by the Dutch East India Company, sailed up the North River (now called the Hudson River) to establish Dutch claims in the area of what is now New York. The area was named New Netherland. When the Dutch bought the island of Manhattan from Native Americans in 1626, a settlement dubbed New Amsterdam was established at the southern tip of the island and became the seat of the government of New Netherland. When the British conquered the Dutch in 1664, England renamed the colony New York and changed New Amsterdam to New York City, after the Duke of York, the brother of England’s King Charles II. Following the Revolutionary War, New York was admitted as the 11th state to the Union.

• Three out of five of America’s most-visited landmarks are in New York City. In the #5 position, Grand Central Terminal is visited by 21 million people every year, while the #2 site, Central Park, is visited by 40 million. The most visited landmark in the U.S. is Times Square, with 42 million visitors each year.

Surprisingly, the visitor count at the Statue of Liberty is just 4.25 million.

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• The term New England refers to a region of six states in northeastern United States – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. As English colonists began to migrate to the New World in the early 1600s, English explorer John Smith gave the area its name.

• John Smith also named the state of New Hampshire, honoring Hampshire, England, a county in southeast England on the shores of the English Channel, and a departure point for several parties of colonists headed to North America during the late 1600s.

• New Hampshire, the ninth state to enter the Union, is home to many of the nation’s firsts, including the first free public library, established in 1833 in Peterborough. In 1719, the first potato planted in the colonies was in the dirt of New Hampshire. Notable New Hampshire natives include Levi Hutchins, inventor of the first alarm clock, Luther C. Ladd, the first enlisted soldier to die in the American Civil War, and Sarah J. Hale, the author and journalist who penned “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1830. Christa McAuliffe was a social studies teacher at the high school in Concord, New Hampshire when she was selected as the first teacher in space, and was tragically killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.

• New Haven, Connecticut was one of America’s first planned cities, with eight streets laid out in a four-by-four grid back in 1639. The area was originally known as Quinnipiac, but the town was renamed Newhaven in 1640, meaning “a new port.” It’s a city of firsts, with the first steamboat built there in 1787, followed by the invention of the first cotton gin in 1793. New Haven was home to America’s first telephone directory and public telephone booth. And don’t forget the first lollipop in 1892!

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• New Jersey holds the record of the highest population density in the U.S. It’s the fourth-smallest state, but its density is 13 times the national average, with an average 1,030 people per square mile. In 1664, when the area was under English rule, King Charles II granted a large area of land that would later become New Jersey to a loyalist friend, Sir George Carteret, and the area was named the province of New Jersey, named after the largest of England’s Channel Islands, Jersey.

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• Although we might think of New Jersey as a primarily urban area, there are more than 10,000 farms producing more than 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables, earning the state the nickname of The Garden State. It ranks in the Top Ten producers of squash, bell peppers, tomatoes, blueberries, and cranberries.

• New Jersey’s firsts include the country’s first baseball game (played in Hoboken in 1846), the first drive-in movie theater (which opened in Camden in 1933), and the world’s first boardwalk, built in Atlantic City in 1870, with a distance of 5.5 miles.

• The name of the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia actually translates from the Latin, meaning “New Scotland.” A 1621 Royal Charter granted Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, a Scottish poet, the right to settle lands in the Maritime islands. However, it was French colonists who established the first permanent settlement in Nova Scotia in 1605. The province’s claim to fame is as the world’s largest exporter of Christmas trees, lobster, and wild berries. ...continued

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• The New England Patriots weren’t always called by that name. When the team was founded as a charter member of the American Football League in 1959, they were known as the Boston Patriots.

The team didn’t have a regular home field for 11 years, moving from the field at Boston University to Harvard Stadium to Fenway Park to Boston College. Finally in 1971, following a merger of the NFL and AFL, the team moved to a new stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. This brought a change in the team’s name to the Bay State Patriots. However, it didn’t take long for the NFL to reject the new name, pointing out that the abbreviation for the team would be the B.S. Patriots. In March, 1971, the team officially became the New England Patriots.

• The Patriots went to the Super Bowl for the first time in 1986, where they were defeated by the Chicago Bears. Since that time, the team has had six wins, tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most wins. Five of the Patriots’ Super Bowl appearances have been losses.

• When “The New York Times” was founded in 1851, it sold for a penny, equivalent to about 31 cents today. Although the “Times” has won 130 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, it has never been the nation’s largest newspaper in terms of circulation, and ranks third today. It was a little behind the rest of the news world that started printing in color in 1982. The “Times” was one of the last U.S. newspapers to do so, beginning in 1993. Now famous for its crossword puzzles, when many other papers were publishing them by 1920, the “Times” criticized them as a waste of readers’ time and didn’t feature their first one until 1942.

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• The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima. It was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.

• The Greek name for the mosquito is "anopheles," which means "good for nothing."

• The earliest written record that mentions the practice of medicine is Hammurabi's Code from the 18th century BC in Mesopotamia, which includes information for physicians about payments for successful treatments and punishments for medical failures. For example, payment was better for curing the wealthy, but failing to do so could result in the loss of a hand.

• Live next door to a lottery winner? You might want to use caution while shopping: A 2016 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that you're more likely to go bankrupt thanks to trying to keep up with your neighbor's new spending habits.

• Charlton Heston was cast as Moses in the 1956 blockbuster movie "The Ten Commandments" partly because he resembled Michelangelo's famous statue of Moses.

• Calvin Graham was just 12 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He won a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart before the Navy found out how old he was (courtesy of his mother) and discharged him two days before his 13th birthday.

• Rocky Road ice cream was originally marketed during the Great Depression as a metaphor for coping with the economic crash.

• The term "coccyx" (more familiarly known as your tailbone) is derived from the Greek word kokkux, or "cuckoo," because its curved shape resembles the bird's beak.

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Grand Forks Health Department has identified West Nile Virus (WNV) in the region. WNV is a serious disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes.

Most people infected with this disease will have no symptoms or mild symptoms but this is a serious disease and can be fatal. The Grand Forks Public Health Department urges citizens to take personal precautions to avoid mosquito bites. The type of mosquito most common for transmitting WNV is present in our area and is most active from dusk until dawn.

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How do people get infected with WNV? Most people get infected with WNV by an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to humans and other animals. In a very small number of cases, West Nile virus has been spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants, and from mother to baby during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding.

Can I get West Nile virus directly from birds?

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Why do some states and local areas stop collecting dead birds to test for West Nile virus?

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Who is at risk for serious illness if infected with WNV? Serious illness can occur in people of any age. However, people over 50 years of age are at the greatest risk for severe disease. People with certain medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and people who have received organ transplants, are also at greater risk for serious illness.

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• The Italian word for “hunter” is “cacciatore,” and foods with that name mean they are prepared “hunter-style,” with onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, herbs, and frequently wine.

• A Southern or Creole menu might offer chitterlings for your dining pleasure. Expect a plate of the small intestines of pigs, either simmered until tender or batter-dipped and fried. If you choose jambalaya, you’ll be served a dish of meat and vegetables.

The meat will typically be smoked andouille sausage, along with pork, chicken, crawfish, shrimp, or even turtle. All jambalaya contains onion, celery, and green bell pepper, while some cooks add okra, carrots, tomatoes, and chilies. The word jambalaya comes from the French word “jambalaya,” which translates “mish-mash” or “mix-up.” Some chefs claim that the word is a contraction of “jambon a la yaya,” meaning “ham with rice.”

• There’s no shortage of sausage at the German restaurant, everything from bierwurst, a garlicky red sausage, to bockwurst, made from ground veal, parsley, and chives, to bratwurst, made from spiced pork and veal. You might find weisswurst, from the German for “white sausage,” a mixture of mild veal, cream, and eggs.

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• A French restaurant might feature “coquilles,” which are sea scallops, but ordering “fruits de mer” will give you a combination of seafood, usually served on a bed of ice with an array of dipping sauces. A side of “haricots verts” will be green beans on your plate. Some restaurants might add a little goat cheese as a topping on the beans.

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• What’s in the bread basket? At an Indian eatery, you’ll find poppadam, a crunchy thin bread created from lentil flour, or paratha, a flaky bread fried on a griddle.

The French will serve baguettes, a long, thin loaf with a crispy crust and a chewy middle. The word baguette means “wand, baton, or stick.” Kosher Jewish breads include challah, a yeast bread rich with eggs, and matzoh, a thin, unleavened bread made simply from water and flour that is served during Passover. A German menu might include stollen, a sweet yeast bread stuffed with dried fruits.

• The Lebanese appetizer baba ganoush is concocted from mashed eggplant, olive oil, lemon juice, and tahini, a condiment made from toasted ground sesame. The word “tahini” actually translates “to grind.” Baba ganoush has its origins in the Arabic language, with an odd literal translation – “pampered daddy.” If you’re looking for a spicier version of baba ganoush, try mutabbai, from the Arabic for “spiced.”

• If you’re at an English pub, you’ll see bubble and squeak on the menu, a mixture of mashed potatoes and boiled cabbage fried until brown. Yorkshire pudding might sound like dessert, but it’s a popover made from a batter of eggs, flour, and milk baked in meat drippings, often served with onion gravy. If you’re looking for dessert, order the spotted dog, a steamed bread pudding loaded with cinnamon, currants, and raisins, and served with cream and warm syrup.

• Mexican flautas take their name from the flute, since these corn tortillas are shaped like the instrument, filled with a meat, fruit, or dessert filling and deep-fried.

• What’s on the dessert cart? The French restaurant will have gateau, or cake, while at the Creole establishment, you’ll see beignets, a fritter generously sprinkled with powdered sugar. Over at the Greek eatery, you’ll see baklava, a layered dessert made from phyllo pastry, filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey.

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• On Aug. 22, 1776, the British arrive at Long Island, between Gravesend and New Utrecht, with 24,000 men. They captured New York City on Sept. 15. It would remain in British hands until the end of the war.

• On Aug. 20, 1804, Sgt. Charles Floyd, quartermaster of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies near present-day Sioux City, Iowa, becoming the first U.S. soldier to die west of the Mississippi. Floyd likely died from acute appendicitis.

• On Aug. 16, 1841, President John Tyler vetoes a second attempt by Congress to re-establish the Bank of the United States. In response, angry supporters of the bank, many from his own party, the Whigs, burned an effigy of Tyler outside the White House.

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• On Aug. 18, 1920, a dramatic battle in the Tennessee House of Representatives ends with ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The decisive vote was cast by a 24-yearold representative, who changed his vote after receiving a note from his mother.

• On Aug. 17, 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair ends after three days of peace, love and rock 'n' roll in rural New York. Promoters expected no more than 200,000 people, but almost half a million showed up, with most getting in free when the gates had to be opened.

• On Aug. 19, 1953, the Iranian military, with U.S assistance, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. As thanks, the Shah signed over 40% of Iran's oil fields to U.S. companies. The Shah was toppled from power in 1979.

• On Aug. 21, 2004, American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his eighth medal of the Athens Olympics, six gold and two bronze, tying him with Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin for the most individual medals won at a single Olympic Games.

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• If you’ve lost a zipper pull, you can create a temporary one with a paperclip.

• Remove all of the air from a plastic storage bag with a drinking straw.

Slip the straw into the bag and close as much as possible. Then suck any air out through the straw, and quickly pull out and close in a single motion. Your leftovers will stay fresh longer, and foods may stack better in the freezer.

• And speaking of straws, did you know you can use them to curl your hair? Wind sections of damp hair around a plastic straw and secure the ends with a bobby pin. Dry in the sun or use a hair dryer on low heat.

Remove and spritz with hair spray.

• Here’s an oldie but a goodie! Iced coffee is at its best when brewed with twice the usual amount of ground coffee, because the coffee is diluted by the melting ice cubes. Or use regular-strength brewed ice coffee and serve over coffee ice cubes. They’re easy to prepare: Pour cool brewed coffee into ice-cube trays and freeze.

• Lemon juice can bring out the flavor of mushrooms. I keep a little spray bottle to keep lemon juice accessible in the kitchen. I find it’s good for all kinds of things, like avocadoes and apples. I spray the cut side to keep them from browning. It’s also great for salad greens. — T.T. in New Jersey • Make your own camping lamp: Strap a headlamp to a full gallon jug of water. It fills the tent with a soft light, and you can still drink the water!

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With the price of everything going up, we need to save our dollars every place we can. Here are two ideas: PHONE PLANS -- If you want to save money on your cellphone plan or the cost of a new phone, there are a dozen or so providers that offer reduced-rate plans for seniors. Some offer a new phone, some will let you use your existing phone and many will let you keep your current phone number. Most offer unlimited talk and text, but prices will vary based on download speeds and data caps. Most also don't require a contract, but if part of the deal is to buy a new phone from them, you might run into a penalty if you cancel before the phone is paid for.

Call around to the phone service providers in your area and ask about senior plans. Be sure to look at their websites to check out the phones. You might need larger buttons or other special features. Better yet, if they have a store near you, go look at the phones in person.

Don't let yourself be talked into a long contract that you don't want.

PRICE MATCHING -- This is a good way to get deals on things you want if you hunt for bargains.

Some stores make it their policy to match lower prices found elsewhere. You'll need to have proof, however, meaning they'll need to see the current price on the competitor's website. Your best bet is to call and ask whether they'll look online right from their store, or if it's enough for you to print out the competitor's online ad. It's mostly the bigger chains that have these policies, but even a local store might be willing to price match just to get your business.

Remember to ask for your senior discount everywhere you go!

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VA Grants to Help Homeless Veterans More than 260 non-profit community programs across the country received portions of $418 million in grants for the Support Services for Veteran Families program.

Last year alone the Department of Veterans Affairs served 77,590 veterans and their 19,919 children in the program.

The SSVF program runs in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, District of Columbia and Guam. Its main focus is homelessness and getting veterans and their families into permanent housing. The SSVF partners with community programs with all manner of help: case management, VA benefits, health care, child care, daily living services, legal assistance, transportation, financial planning, counseling and much more. In some cases, there are time-limited payments to landlords, utilities and moving companies if that helps a veteran and family to stay in or get to permanent housing.

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To learn more about the SSVF program, go online to www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf. There's a list of SSVF providers by state for programs all across the country, plus contact information and phone numbers. You also can call the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at 1-877-4AIDVET (1-877-424-3838).

The best website is www.va.gov/homeless, where you can click on Community Resource and Referral Centers (CRRCs). That page also has a chat link. If you're in crisis, call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Additionally, you can call your closest VA medical center. If you have no other options (no phone, no internet, are homeless or are at imminent risk for it), just go. Just show up at the medical center. If you are not yet homeless, contact them in advance, due to COVID restrictions.

One thing to keep in mind: These grants given to community programs are not bottomless buckets. Funding can and does run out, and there isn't more until the next disbursement. If you need help, apply now. Make your calls, get put on lists. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Louisiana’s largest city and major port New Orleans was founded in 1718 under the name La Nouvelle-Orleans. The city was named after Phillipe II, the Duke of Orleans, France’s head of state and regent at that time, whose title came from the French city of Orleans. French and Spanish colonists and African slaves comprised the majority of the early population, with their languages all contributing to the Louisiana Creole language, a combination of the dialects.

• New Orleans is considered the birthplace of jazz and Dixieland music, and was home to jazz legend Louis Armstrong, who was born there in 1901.

Other nicknames include Crescent City, referring to the course of the Mississippi River around and throughout the city, and The Big Easy, perhaps because early-20th-century musicians found work very easily there. Since the 1930s, it’s also been called The City that Care Forgot, indicating the easy-going, carefree temperament of the locals.

• Due to New Orleans’ high water table -- it averages about 6 feet below sea level – the city’s 42 cemeteries, called Cities of the Dead, are filled with coffins contained in above-ground vaults dating back to 1804. Actor Nicolas Cage has already purchased his final resting place in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, a unique pyramid tomb Cage purchased for $2.5 million.

• New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street was named after the House of Bourbon, France’s royal rulers at the time the city’s streets were laid out in 1718.

The street, which runs for 13 blocks, is crammed with an assortment of clubs, restaurants, and boutiques, and receives upwards of 18 million visitors annually.

• The French Quarter is the city’s oldest neighborhood. Originally named “Vieux Carre,” translating “Old Square,” the city developed around the central square per the designs of a royal engineer ...continued beginning in 1721.

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• The term Mardi Gras translates to “Fat Tuesday,” with “Mardi” the French word for Tuesday, and “gras,” meaning “fat.” In France, it was the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, but in current times, Mardi Gras has grown into a week-long festival. French explorers first celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1699, and by the 1730s, it was a regular carnival. The first recorded parade there occurred in 1837.

• The city began constructing levees in 1717 in an attempt to control the flooding by the Mississippi River. A levee breach in 1859 flooded 200 city blocks. The levees were further damaged by military action during the Civil War. During the Great Flood of 1927, the Mississippi River poured over levees at 145 sites, flooding 27,000 sq. miles from Illinois to Louisiana, to depths of up to 30 feet. The Army Corps of Engineers was then given authority and funds to construct a system of locks, dams, and levees to control the flooding.

• When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August, 2005, 80% of the city was flooded when the levees protecting the city catastrophically failed in more than 50 places, leaving some parts of the city under 15 feet of water.

More than 25,000 residents fled to the Superdome for refuge, even though two large holes had been ripped in the roof by the storm. When the leaks made the stadium unsafe, those people were evacuated to Houston. Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, causing more than $160 billion in damages, with estimated fatalities exceeding 1,800.

• There are several different pronunciations of the city’s name. Some say “New Or-leens,” while others use “New Or-lee-inz.” Still others pronounce it “New Or-linz.” Many use “N’awlins,” but many natives say that’s the least correct pronunciation.

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