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‘Tis the season for the display of red and green.

However, this week, Tidbits examines a variety of red and green things not related to the season.

• Red is a primary color, meaning that it is a pigment that cannot be made by combining any two colors. Garnet, scarlet, crimson, vermillion, carmine, rose, brick, cardinal …no matter the shade, they all spell red! We often associate red with love, passion, and romance, but it also symbolizes strength, confidence, and leadership. The red of the American flag represents valor and bravery. But it can also mean hatred, anger, danger, and malice. Pirates flew a red flag above their ship when they meant to show no mercy to their targeted prey. Likewise, during the Middle Ages, armies carrying a red flag signified “mortal warfare,” in which no enemy soldiers would be spared or taken prisoner. A red flag on the racetrack means there is potential danger to drivers.

• In China, the color red denotes happiness and fortune. Brides wear red dresses and walk down a red carpet to the groom, who lifts her red veil. When the couple has children, friends and family give them red eggs. During Chinese New Year, homes are decorated with red, red clothing is worn, and unmarried children are given red envelopes filled with “luck money.”

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7. In what body of water does the island of Barbados lie?

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• Back in 1976, the Mars candy company eliminated red M&Ms from the mix of one of our favorite candies. This was due to the “Red Dye No. 2” scare, when the dye in red food coloring was linked to cancer in a 1971 Russian study. When FDA testing concluded that the colorant caused malignant tumors in female rats, it was banned, and red M&Ms were replaced with orange ones.

We lived without red M&Ms for over a decade, even though Red Dye No. 2 wasn’t even used in them. In 1987, the red ones reappeared, along with the orange ones, which were retained in the bag.

• The red carpet has become synonymous with status, celebrity, and prestige. We roll out the red carpet at awards ceremonies, for royalty, and for leaders. The tradition got its start in Ancient Greece, around 460 BC, when the story was told of a king returning from the Trojan War being welcomed with a red carpet. As time went one, only religious leaders and royalty walked the red carpet. Red dye came from an expensive dye made from cochineal insects, only afforded by those with considerable wealth. In 1821, fifth president, James Monroe, became the first U.S. leader to have the red carpet rolled out. In 1922, the custom migrated to the entertainment world when the stars of “Robin Hood” walked on a red carpet to enter the film’s premiere at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theater. The red carpet at the annual Academy Awards, where stars pause to make their entrance, is 900 feet long and 33 feet wide.

• Rubies and sapphires below to the family of the mineral corundum, a very hard and tough mineral, second only to diamonds in hardness. Rubies get their red color from chromium, and all rubies are red, named as such from the Latin word “ruber” for red.

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• Rubies are made under extreme heat and pressure below the Earth’s surface. Under the pressure, oxygen and aluminum atoms become corundum.

When chromium is present, the red hue is created. The world’s finest rubies are mined in Burma, with a lesser quality mined in Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.

The gift of ruby jewelry symbolizes love, passion, and commitment.

• How many different ways can you say green? How about lime, olive, hunter, avocado, mint, sage, emerald, kelly, celadon, and chartreuse, just to name a few!

• Because it’s the most common color in nature, the color green represents growth and the future. It’s also associated with prosperity, hope, and health.

However, it’s also linked to the negative emotions of envy and jealousy, as the “green-eyed monster rears its head.”

• Just 2% of the world’s population has green eyes.

This compares with 79% of people with brown eyes, 8% with blue, and 5% with hazel eyes.

Green eyes, which often are associated with German or Celtic ancestry, are most common in the Netherlands, Scotland, Iceland, Great Britain, and Scandinavia.

• That rubbery character known as Gumby was created by a 32-year-old animator, Art Clokey, in 1953, when the figure appeared in a three-minute animated film. Clokey named his creation Gumby after the muddy clay, or gumbo, found at his grandparents’ farm. Clokey’s wife suggested that Gumby be modeled after the Gingerbread Man, and Clokey colored him green so that he would racially neutral and a symbol of life. Gumby’s slanted head was modeled after Clokey’s father’s hairstyle. “The Gumby Show” ran for 233 episodes from 1956 to 1981, along with a feature-length film. Gumbo and Gumba are Gumby’s parents, and Nopey is his dog, since the pet’s one-word vocabulary is the word “nope.” ...continued

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• Dr. Seuss introduced his green-skinned Grinch in the 1957 book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

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• The Minnesota Valley Canning Company opened in Le Sueur, Minnesota in 1903, using the brand name “Le Sueur Z” for its canned vegetables. In 1925, they first used the brand name “Green Giant,” but it was three years before the company incorporated the figure of a giant into their advertising dressed in a bearskin. Ten years later, the giant’s garb was changed to a leafy suit, he was given a big smile, and became the “Jolly Green Giant.” Television advertising added the familiar “Ho ho, ho” in 1961, and the Giant’s sidekick, Little Green Sprout, debuted in 1972. Sixty miles south of the cannery lies the city of Blue Earth, Minnesota, where in 1978, a 55-foot fiberglass statue of the Jolly Green Giant was erected. When the interstate was routed to bypass Blue Earth, a local radio station owner rallied local business owners to contribute to the construction of the four-ton figure to attract tourists to their community. It took just a week for the $50,000 in necessary funds to be raised. About 10,000 folks visit the statue each year.

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And it was a ceremony. Short speeches were given by those who had never done any of the work, but David, the homeless veteran whose idea Veterans Village had been, gave the shortest speech of all. He merely turned to the two veterans who would now live there and said, "Welcome home."

With input from social services in town, a list of other interested veterans had quickly grown, leaving Sarge and David to wonder just how many homeless veterans there were in town.

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• In Germany, you are allowed to drive your car naked, but not get out of it naked.

• A high-school principal once disciplined a student by making him sit in the basement while reading the U.S. Constitution. The punishment must have taken effect, because said student (who also memorized parts of the document) was Thurgood Marshall, who grew up to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.

• Male orb-weaver spiders give back rubs to their mates so they don't get eaten.

• "Mbuki-mvuki" is a Bantu word for the irresistible urge to strip off your clothes while dancing.

• In 2002, Saddam Hussein's campaign theme song for re-election was Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." • For a single day in August 1998 and another in October 2018, Topeka, Kansas, renamed itself "ToPikachu" to mark the release of different Pokemon games.

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• Are you old enough to remember the Nehru jacket?

This hip-length tailored jacket features a narrow stand-up collar and no lapels. The close-fitted single-breasted garment has one row of buttons up the front. It’s named for the first Prime Minister of India, who became the leader when India achieved independence from Great Britain in 1947. Jawaharial Nehru was pictured on the cover of Vogue magazine in 1964 in his traditional jacket. Once the Beatles adopted the look, a new fashion trend was born.

• Members of several religious orders wear habits as an outward sign of their undertaking of the religious life.

The word has its origins in the Latin word “habitus,” meaning an acquired discipline. There are several parts of the habit, beginning with the coif, a cap-like head covering the hair. The coif is topped by the wimple, • Another Indian ruler, Rao Jodha, founded the city of Jodhpur in northwestern India in 1459. His name which encircles the neck and covers the chin. The white now refers to riding breeches, or jodhpurs, which are guimpe lies on the shoulders and covers the shoulders cut full over the hips and taper from the knees to a and the lower part of the neck. The tunic, a loose pleattight fit at a cuffed ankle. The term also refers to the ed cloak drapes over the torso, flowing to the ground. short riding boots worn by riders.

The long scapular sits on the shoulders and covers the wearer’s front and back down to the knees.

• Back in the first half of the 19th century, ladies wore crinolines under their dresses. These were stiff petti• You may have seen folks wearing Lederhosen at your coats made from “crin,” the French word for “horselocal Oktoberfest festival. Although it may sound like hair” and added “pouf” to their garments. Around stockings, Lederhosen are actually short or knee-length 1850, the horsehair was replaced by a frame of cane breeches, made popular by Alpine men in Bavaria, or whalebone and they were referred to as “caged Austria, and Switzerland. The word comes from the crinolines” or “hoop skirts.” Although all that excess German language, translating into English as “leathfabric was a sign of wealth, hoop skirts were also er breeches.” Traditional Lederhosen are made from dangerous, and their popularity faded out in the late leather because they easier to clean after a day of stren1860s. uous labor.

• During the early days of cattle drives, cowboys needed • What do Dolman, raglan, and gauntlet have in common? These terms all refer to types of sleeves. Dola coat that would protect their clothing from the dust man is very wide at the armhole and tight at the of the trail. The full-length duster was designed with wrist, taking its name from a Turkish robe known a slit up the back to the hip to accommodate riding on as a dolama. A raglan sleeve has a slanted diagonal horseback. Originally made from light-colored canvas, seam from the underarm to the collarbone, such as they were modified to oilcloth or waxed cotton as a you’d find on a baseball jersey. It’s named for Lord safeguard against prairie rainstorms. Dusters became Raglan, a British Army officer who lost his arm in known as part of the uniform for the early Texas Rangthe Battle of Waterloo, and had a coat designed to ers. When open automobiles came along at the turn of give him greater mobility. The gauntlet sleeve is the 20th century, both men and women wore them to pointed in a V shape on the back of the hand, named protect clothing from the dusty dirt roads. for the glove worn as part of medieval armor.

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79% of us want to stay in our communities as we age.

33% of us know we will need modifications to our homes so we can stay in them and be safe as well as independent.

The number of households headed by seniors in the next 20 years is going to rise from 34 million to 48 million. We're going to want smart home devices and bathtub grab bars (and a full bath on the ground floor), as well as voice activated gadgets, wider doorways and easy access through the front door.

We'll also want accessory dwelling units (known as ADUs), such as in-law apartments or additions, so others can be nearby but not living with us. (AARP and Lowe's have announced a collaboration to launch Lowe's Livable Home, which will include services and products to help us create and build what we need so we can stay in our homes. See its website at www.lowes. com.)

Safety also is on our minds, and over half of us would move to another area if it's safer. Nearly half would move if it lowered our expenses.

But we want a nice community, too, with bike trails and fast internet, ideally a small town where stores and services are nearby.

If you want to see the survey questions and compare your own answers, go to www.aarp.org and search for 2021 AARP Home and Community Preferences Survey.

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• Save the peel on oranges and grapefruits. You can toss them on a fire for a nice smell.

• Fold and snip a coffee filter into a paper snowflake. Lay over an iced cookie or cake to sift a sugar design on top.

• “When planning to visit my hometown for the holidays, I set aside a few hours to take the kids to the park or a nice playground. I message all my old friends and classmates with kids (Facebook is great for this) a few weeks ahead of time and let them know when I’ll be there. It’s great to catch up while the kids play, and even if no one shows up, we still have a fun break.” — F.L. in California • “When there are big family jobs to be done (like getting ready for the holidays), we write all the tasks down on slips of paper and put them in a hat.

We take turns choosing tasks until all the paper is divvied out. Sometimes we trade, but we all get a fair chore list.” — V.O. in Oregon • Make a holiday cheese ball simply: Combine a package of cream cheese with a cup of finely shredded cheese (your choice) and 1/3 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt. Form into a ball, roll in coating of your choice (dried fruit pieces, chopped nuts, spices, etc.) and chill. Wrap in a pretty cellophane bag and bring with pita chips, crackers or pretzels as a hostess gift.

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• On Dec. 30, 1803, Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies in New York City at age 90.

Lewis' patriotism came at a high cost: The British army destroyed his Long Island estate and took his wife prisoner in 1776.

• On Jan. 1, 1863, farmer Daniel Freeman submits the first claim under the new Homestead Act for a property in Nebraska. By the 1890s, many homesteaders found that farming 160 acres of such dry land was nearly impossible, and at least half the original claims were abandoned.

• On Dec. 27, 1944, during World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt gives orders to seize properties belonging to the Montgomery Ward company because it refused to comply with a labor collective bargaining agreement.

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• On Dec. 29, 1956, the New York Times leaks news that the United States is preparing a major policy statement on the Middle East. The Eisenhower Doctrine would proclaim that the U.S. would use force in the Middle East to contain Soviet aggression.

• On Dec. 31, 1968, the Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic airliner makes its first flight, months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde. In 1965, the French had arrested Sergei Pavlov, head of the Paris office of the Soviet airliner Aeroflot, for illegally obtaining classified information about France's supersonic project.

• On Dec. 28, 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "literary investigation" of the police-state system in the Soviet Union, "The Gulag Archipelago, 19181956," is published in Paris. On Feb. 12, 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his citizenship and deported.

• On Jan. 2, 1980, in response to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty. Carter feared that the Soviet invasion could lead to its gaining control over much of the world's oil supplies.

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Get a clue! National Crossword Day is December 21, and Tidbits is across and down with these facts.

• A New York City journalist, Arthur Wynne, is credited with the first true crossword puzzle, published in the “New York World” in December, 1913. Previous word puzzles with a square grid had been printed in an Italian magazine over 20 years earlier, but not in the familiar horizontal and vertical line pattern, introduced by Wynne. Wynne debuted his puzzle under the name “Word-Cross,” but a few weeks later, a typesetting error resulted in the puzzle being called a “Cross-Word,” and the name stuck.

• Puzzle fans know that the “New York Times” is perhaps the most famous crossword. Yet the wellknown newspaper was the last to join the pack of puzzle publishers. In fact, one of their writers derided crosswords in his column, calling them a “sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words” and “a primitive form of mental exercise…irrelevant to mental development.” Although most New York papers joined in publishing puzzles by 1920, the “Times” continued to call it a “colossal waste of time and nothing but a fad.”

• It took the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor to change the opinion of the “New York Times.” The Sunday editor insisted that a crossword would help Americans relax and take their minds off the tragedy, and maintained that readers might need an activity to busy themselves during blackouts.

In February, 1942, the “Times” published its first crossword puzzle.

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• The daily “Times” puzzle measures 15 squares x 15 squares. The Sunday is larger at 21 x 21.

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• In 1996, Mr. Stanley Newman set a record for solving a “New York Times” crossword, completing it in 2 minutes, 14 seconds.

• In 1924, a brand-new publishing company, Simon & Schuster, released the first crossword puzzle book, and continues to lead the pack in the U.S. for similar books. Crosswords became so popular that architect Alfred Mosher Butt created the crossword board game Scrabble in 1930.

• Englishman Roger Squires holds the record for designing the most crossword puzzles, well over 70,000. After completing grammar school at age 15, Squires joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman. He remained in the Navy until 1963, when he was 31, and began publishing crosswords. Squires also holds the record for the longest word in a crossword, the 58-letter word Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which is a Welsh town.

• There’s a special name for crossword devotees – cruciverbalists. There’s also a term for those who create them – enigmatologists. Will Shortz, the editor of the “New York Times” puzzle since 1993, claims he’s the only person with a college degree in enigmatology. Captivated by crossword puzzles at a young age, Shortz sold his first one at age 14. He convinced Indiana University to allow him to create a degree because no other school offered that field.

Although Shortz also has a law degree from the University of Virginia, he prefers his first love.

He’s also the founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament that began in 1978.

• The Guinness Book of Records hails the largest crossword puzzle as measuring 7 ft. x 7 ft., with 91,000 squares and 28,000 clues, with no repeats. Available for purchase, it has its own accompanying 100-page clue book, and folds for those who enjoy working the puzzle in their lap.

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1. William Shakespeare 2. Pokey 3. July 4. Max 5. Eddie Murphy

6. Hemoglobin 7. Caribbean Sea 8. Macy’s 9. Because he has a shiny red nose.

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