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Whoa! It’s time for you to slow down and check out these facts on some of history’s famous horses.

• There was only one living creature from the U.S. 7th Cavalry that survived the 1876 Battle of the Big Horn. It was a gelding named Comanche, the horse of Captain Myles Keogh.

Comanche was found severely wounded on the battlefield two days after General George Custer’s defeat on the Montana countryside.

Comanche was transported by steamer to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, 950 miles away, and spent a year recovering from his injuries. A military order declared that Comanche would never be ridden or required to work again.

When the horse died 15 years after the battle, he received a military funeral with full military honors. He was preserved, was shown at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, and remains on display at the University of Kansas Museum in Lawrence, Kansas.

• Queen Elizabeth’s favorite ceremonial horse was a gift to her in 1969 from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The black mare named Burmese, born in Saskatchewan, was ridden by the Queen for the British infantry ceremony, Trooping the Colours, for 18 years before retiring in 1986. Burmese was put out to pasture in the park at Windsor Castle, where she died in 1990.

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FAMOUS HORSES (continued):

• George Washington rode two different horses during the American Revolutionary War. A gray horse with Arabian roots named Blueskin is the one we see in portraits of Washington, because of its striking color. Blueskin was given to Washington by the husband of one of Washington’s wards. Although Washington rode Blueskin during long marches, during battle his mount of choice was a chestnut gelding, Nelson, who was less skittish around gunfire and cannon blasts than Blueskin.

• The beautiful light gray horse ridden by General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War was sired by a famous racehorse of the era, and was an award-winning show horse. Although Lee called him Traveller, the horse was originally named Jeff Davis, which was then changed to Greenbrier after Greenbrier County, Virginia where he was born. His owner, an Army Captain, offered the five-year-old horse as a gift to Lee in 1862, but Lee insisted on paying him $190.

Lee called him Traveller because of his ability to walk at a fast pace. After the War, Traveller grazed on the lawn of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, the college where Lee served as president during his final years. When Lee died in 1870, Traveller walked behind the hearse. The horse stepped on a nail in 1871, contracted tetanus, and was euthanized as a result.

• It’s believed that a red roan Belgian horse is the heaviest horse in history. Brooklyn Supreme, born in 1928 on a Minnesota farm, weighed 3,200 lbs. and stood 6 ft., 6 inches tall, with a girth of 10 ft., 2 in. Brookie was a Grand Champion of his breed at several state fairs, and was exhibited throughout the United States, with spectators charged 10 cents to view him. ...continued

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2. On Sept. 14, 2008, Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter in Milwaukee’s Miller Park against what team? (Hint: It wasn’t the Brewers.)

3. What year did the Boston Celtics last win an NBA Championship?

4. What American snowboarder won Olympic gold medals in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2018 PyeongChang and 2022 Beijing Winter Games?

5. Name the Basketball Hall of Famer who was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the 1983 NBA Draft and was named NBA Rookie of the Year in 1984.

6. What NBA team has won the most championships since 2000?

FAMOUS HORSES (continued):

• The Thoroughbred horse Winning Brew doesn’t have a long list of races won, but the horse does hold another honor – the fastest horse in the world.

In 2008, at the Penn National Race Course, Winning Brew covered the quarter-mile race in 20.57 seconds, reaching a record-breaking speed of 43.97 miles per hour, a Guinness World Record.

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• The Triple Crown of horseracing consists of three races – the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. In its history, only 13 horses have captured the Crown, the first in 1919, Sir Barton, and the most recent, Justify in 2018. Born in 1916, Sir Barton was sold in 1918 for $10,000 and his training began. Following his racing career, he spent the remainder of his life on a Douglas, Wyoming farm. His remains are interred in that community’s city park.

• The stallion Seabiscuit was the racing hero of the Great Depression. His career didn’t start out well, winning just 25% of his first 40 races. He won his first race on his 18th start. His owner paid a monumental $8,000 for the horse in the mid-1930s.

In 1937, Seabiscuit won 11 out of 15, and began to gain significance in the racing world. His career spanned 89 races, with 33 wins, 15 second places, and 13 thirds, with record-setting earnings, $437,730 – over $8 million in today’s dollars.

• Seabiscuit’s grandsire was Man O’ War, named the Outstanding Horse of the 20th Century. The chestnut horse’s career was just 1919 – 1920, but he won 20 of his 21 starts, with record-breaking earnings. When the popular horse died in 1947 at age 30, his funeral was broadcast on the radio. Man O’ War’s descendants also include Secretariat and War Admiral, the fourth winner of the Triple Crown. ...continued

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• The Triple Crown winner in 1948 was Citation, the eighth Crown winner, who also won 16 consecutive stakes races and became the first horse in history to win $1 million.

• After a 25-year drought with no Triple Crown winners, a huge reddish-brown thoroughbred with three white “socks” named Secretariat achieved record-breaking victories in 1973. Nicknamed Big Red, Secretariat set a record at the Kentucky Derby that still stands, completing the race in 1 minute, 59.4 seconds. His time at the Preakness also remains a record at 1:53, as does his Belmont Stakes time of 2:24. At Belmont, he beat his closest competitor by an unbelievable 31 lengths. During his 16-month racing career, Secretariat earned $1.316 million. Retired at Kentucky’s Claiborne Farm, Secretariat sired 582 offspring. His death in 1989 was due to an incurable hoof condition known as laminitis. A veterinarian’s post-death examination revealed that the horse’s heart weighed nearly 22 lbs., which accounted for his tremendous power.

• When ESPN named the “50 greatest athletes of the 20th century” in 1999, Secretariat was the only non-human on the list. He also was on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated, something that hadn’t happened before, or since.

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• In 1977, Seattle Slew was the tenth winner of the Triple Crown. In 1984, his son Swale won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Another son won the Belmont in 1992. In 2014, Slew’s great-great-grandson, California Chrome won both the Derby and the Preakness. Chrome was prevented from winning the Triple Crown by losing the Belmont to another great-grandson of Seattle Slew, Tonalist. The 13th Triple Crown winner, Justify in 2018, was also a descendant of Slew. After retiring with 14 wins in 17 races and career earnings exceeding $1.2 million, Seattle Slew sired 1,103 foals, of which 537 were winners.

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The Local Food Bank Needs Your Help

If you're on the other side of the fence -- able to donate to the food bank rather than visiting to use its services -- your local pantry can surely use your help. Running them is more complicated and expensive than it might seem!

The food bank in my town gets most of its food from the main supplier in the state, which gets its support from philanthropists, business partners, manufacturers, producers, farmers and donors of both food and money. It then distributes food and supplies to the local food banks.

The local food bank has to pay for what it receives, of course, with its own supply of cash donors and town support. In addition, there are local businesses that donate leftover breads and bakery items, farmers that bring in fresh produce and frozen meat, and folks in town who donate both cash and food.

What food banks typically need: canned vegetables, fruit, soup, stews and beans; pasta, peanut butter and jelly; tuna, cereals and personal-care items like toothpaste and soap. But there are specialty items they need as well, things that are hard for the food banks to get: pet food and lactose-free milk, for example, that are very important to those who need them. (I've made it my goal to try to provide some of these items to the food bank each month.)

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LEO THE LION

Not many constellations are highly recognizable as resembling their namesake. However, Leo the Lion actually looks like a crouching lion! Tidbits helps you learn more about this, the 12th largest constellation in the heavens.

• According to Greek mythology, Leo is the Nemean Lion, a creature that terrorized the people of Nemea, located in southern Greece. Legend has it he was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, the father and mother of all monsters. The lion captured women, imprisoning them in its lair in a cave, luring warriors to save them. When the warriors sought to rescue a woman, she would turn into a lion and kill them. The hide of the lion was impenetrable, and could not be punctured by iron, bronze, or stone, rendering the warriors’ weapons useless.

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• Along with 47 other constellations, Leo was first catalogued by the astronomer • The legend states that King Eurystheus assigned Herand mathematician cules the monumental task of slaying the lion. HerPtolemy in the seccules knew he would have to conquer the creature ond century in his with his bare hands. He snuck into the cave and when astronomy textbook. the lion pounced, Hercules caught it by grabbing its The Persians called forelegs in one hand and its hind legs in the other, it Shir, while the Turks referred to it as Artan. The Syreventually strangling the beast. Hercules tried to reians used the word Aryo, the Jewish, Arye, the Indimove its pelt, but his knife was worthless for the task. ans named it Simha, and the Romans used Leo. Yet all He finally used the lion’s claws to cut off the pelt, these different words translate to the same word – lion. and wore it as a cloak, including the lion’s head as • Leo is easy to find – the “pointer stars” of the Big Dipa covering. Zeus, the mythological king of the gods, per point to Leo. It lies between Cancer to the west and memorialized the event by placing the lion in the sky.

Virgo to the east.

• Twelve constellations make up the sky’s zodiac, di• There are 13 officially-named stars in the constellation. viding it into 12 sections, of which Leo is the fifth.

The brightest is Regulus, or Alpha Leonis, the “little According to astrologists, those born between July 23 king,” located 77.5 light years from Earth. That works and August 22 fall under the sign of Leo the Lion, out to nearly 455.6 trillion miles. Regulus is the 21st and exhibit strong characteristics of leadership, courbrightest star in the sky. age, and confidence. These individuals need a lot of • The back of Leo’s head, mane, and shoulders form a attention, and love being center stage, with many drasickle-shaped group of six stars appropriately called matic and artistic people born during that timeline.

“The Sickle,” which resemble a backwards question Astrologists claim that these folks are firmly fixed mark. A triangle of stars forms the haunches, the brightin their opinions and proudly defend them, even if est of which is Denebola, meaning “tail of the lion,” a they’re wrong. Consequently, they might find it difstar with 75% more mass than our Sun, and 12 times ficult to admit hasty words and actions. more luminous.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs creates numerous programs to deal with homeless veteran populations -- and this is all well and good. But it's the individual homeless vet who can fall through the cracks.

The VA Office of Inspector General reports about a veteran (I'll assume here it was a guy) who had multiple physical conditions on top of severe cognitive impairment.

Years ago, he was given housing assistance and an evaluation and made part of a program. Eventually, he was booted out of the housing and thus booted out of the help program.

In the space of seven months, he took himself to the emergency room at a VA hospital a dozen times for various medical conditions, most a result of living outside or in a car. They admitted him for 33 days while he got evaluated for his cognitive functioning and had his medical conditions cared for. They discharged him and sent him off in a cab to a non-VA shelter.

For whatever reason, an hour later, he showed up at the ER again. They gave him a bus ticket to the shelter. The trip involved changes of buses, not an easy trick for someone with severe cognitive impairment. An hour later, he again showed up at the ER. Once more, they gave him a bus ticket and a printed list of instructions, telling him to go to the shelter.

The next day, a social worker discovered that he never made it to the shelter, and the following day, the family filed a missing person report.

Three days later, he was found at the shelter.

A reading of the OIG report shows one misstep after the other, with staffers putting a cognitively impaired veteran on a bus and not using one of the donated Uber gift cards and having him delivered right to the door of the shelter.

Better yet, they could have told family members that he was being discharged.

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• On July 3, 1863, the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end. Exhausted, both armies held their positions until the night of July 4, when Lee withdrew.

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• On June 29, 1967, actress Jayne Mansfield is killed instantly when the car she's riding in strikes the rear of a trailer truck on I-90 east of New Orleans. Her three children, asleep on the back seat, survived.

• On June 30, 1971, the three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world's first space station die when their spacecraft depressurizes during re-entry and a critical valve opens.

• On June 27, 1985, after 59 years, the iconic 2,200mile Route 66 is decertified when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials votes to remove all its highway signs. Most of the original Route 66 followed a path through the wilderness forged in 1857 by U.S. Navy Lt. Edward Beale at the head of a caravan of camels.

• On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule in a ceremony attended by numerous Chinese, British and international dignitaries. A policy based on the concept of "one country, two systems" was designed to preserve Hong Kong's role as a principal capitalist center in Asia.

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• “Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!” The beautiful white stallion on television’s “The Lone Ranger” was played by White Cloud from 1949 to 1954. He was described as “a fiery horse with the speed of light.” There was also a stand-in stunt horse named Traveler, who was used in scenes when the Ranger jumped from his horse. White Cloud was later replaced by another white horse, Tarzen’s White Banner, later renamed Hi-Yo Silver by his owner.

• “No one can talk to a horse, of course, unless the horse is Mr. Ed.” So went the theme song of the CBS series, “Mr. Ed,” which aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966. The talking palomino was played by Bamboo Harvester and voiced by a Western film actor named Allan Lane. Mr. Ed was owned by character Wilbur Post and his wife Connie in California’s San Fernando Valley. The 143 episodes, all filmed in black and white, were sponsored for several years by Studebaker, and in the series, the Posts drove a 1962 Studebaker Lark convertible.

• Movie star cowboy Roy Rogers rode a beautiful palomino stallion named Trigger, a horse that appeared in all of Rogers’ 90 films and 101 television episodes. Rogers purchased the horse in 1943 for $2,500 and equipped him with a $5,000 gold and silver saddle. Trigger learned 150 tricks and was able to walk 50 feet on his hind legs. Rogers took Trigger with him to hospitals to visit sick children, walking him up four flights of stairs. When the horse died of old age at 33 in 1965, Rogers couldn’t bear to bury him, instead having Trigger mounted in a rearing position and displayed at the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri. In 2010, Trigger was sold at auction for $266,000. ...continued

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• Elizabeth Taylor was just 12 years old when she starred in the film “National Velvet.” She played Velvet Brown, an adolescent girl from Sussex, England, who won a horse in a raffle, and because the horse was known for jumping pasture fences, decided to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She was aided in her attempt by a former jockey, played by Mickey Rooney. Although Velvet named the horse “The Pie,” (short for piebald, a spotted horse) in real life, the horse was King Charles, a first cousin of the champion Seabiscuit and grandson of Man O’ War. MGM bought the horse in 1944 for $800, about $12,100 in today’s money. During the filming of the movie’s racing scene, Elizabeth Taylor fell from the horse and broke her back. When the filming was complete, the horse was gifted to Elizabeth Taylor as her 13th birthday present. Taylor kept King Charles until he died when Taylor was 24.

• Two different buckskin geldings played the horse Cisco in the 1991 winner of the Best Picture Academy Award, “Dances with Wolves.”

One of the horses was named Buck, and, following the movie, spent his days in the 1880s Town, a tourist attraction in Murdo, South Dakota, where a number of artifacts and props from the film were housed. Buck lived to the old age of 33. The other buckskin horse was named Plain Justin Bar, and was owned by a horse farm in Pilot Point, Texas.

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