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SECRET WARS (continued): EARLIER WARS • A captured slave was brought to General Lysander, leader of the Spartan forces around 400 B.C. A message the slave was carrying was handed to the General. There were many hostilities going on, so Lysander suspected the message would bear important information. However, it did not. Then he noticed the slave’s belt was decorated with a series of letters that made no sense. He took the belt and wrapped it around a thin rod. There, down the side of the rod, was a perfectly legible message. It said that the Persians— who were supposed to be allies of the Spartans— were planning to take over. Thus forewarned, Lysander rushed his forces back to Sparta and ruined the plot. • Around 300 B.C. Histiaeos was the governor of the ancient Greek city Miletus. He was being held under guard and couldn’t get any messages out— but it was imperative that he inform his people behind enemy lines that he planned to overthrow Darius, the king of Persia. He shaved the head of his servant and tattooed the message on his scalp. After the hair grew back, he sent the servant out on an errand. The message was delivered. • During the Revolutionary War, messages were sent via Anna Strong’s clothesline. She signaled an American spy whenever a boatman was ready to carry secret messages across Long Island Sound. A black petticoat hung out to dry meant that the boatman was waiting. The number of hankies next to it indicated which cove he was hiding in. • Paul Bernard was a French spy in World War I who sent his secret messages home by writing the essential information in the top right-hand corner of postcards, and then putting postage stamps over the writing. • Thomas Jefferson invented a coding instrument called the wheel cipher that is still used by the U.S. Navy today.

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SACAJAWEA (continued): • After months of grueling travel, the explorers reached the head of the Missouri river in August of 1805, and began looking for Indians who could provide them with horses. Sacajawea recognized the area they were in, as it was very close to the place where she had been born. In an incredible stroke of luck, the first Indian scouting party they met was led by none other than Sacajawea’s own brother, who had not seen her since she had been kidnapped years before. It was an emotional reunion, which was made much harder when her brother was forced to tell her that their parents had died while she was away. Of course, Lewis and Clark and all their men were treated like family, loaded with provisions, and sold all the horses they needed to make the difficult crossing. • Sacajawea, Charbonneau, and Jean Baptist remained with Lewis and Clark for the duration of their two-year journey, and eventually even moved to St. Louis at the request of Clark. Clark even adopted Jean Baptist as his own son, making sure the boy received the best possible education and ensuring he was given many opportunities to travel the world. Jean Baptist died at the age of 61. • What became of Sacajawea is uncertain. It’s known that she gave birth to a baby daughter while she lived in St. Louis, who died as a child. Some claim Sacajawea died of a fever at the age of 25; others say she died an old woman in 1884. • It is sad to reflect that if Sacajawea died in 1884, she would have lived long enough to see the genocide and subjugation of the Indian nation by the very nation of people she had assisted by leading them across the wilderness as a young woman.

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SILLY PUTTY (continued): • Today, Binney & Smith, owners of Crayola, DEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): own the rights to Silly Putty. It comes in 16 dif•ferent It was while living inglow-in-the-dark, Illinois that Johnglitter, nocolors including ticed the problems farmerscolors. faced There’s when metallic gold, and hot that flourescent attempting to till soil. Because the area hadon also Silly Putty that changes color depending formerly been woodland, the soil was rich the temperature of your hands. You can even buy with hummus, which clumped and clung to a five-pound block of Silly Putty for only $79. the blades of the plows farmers were accus• Intomed 2001 to Silly Putty wasrepairing inducteda into thecirNausing. While broken tional Fame located Salem, cular Toy saw, Hall Deereofstumbled upon an in idea. He Oregon. In his addition, one ofto the original Silly employed smith skills fashion the steel Putty onshape display the Smithsonian’s bladeeggs intoisthe of at a plow. He affixed National Museum of American History. two wooden spokes, then hitched the device to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois • Binny & Smith sponsored a contest asking soil peolike charm.their In fact, a farmer happened ple to asubmit silliest uses who for Silly Putty. to be observing the test run itimmediately put The winner suggested using to replace your in an order for his own John Deere plow. stockbroker by throwing a ball of it at the stock •page In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith in the newspaper and investing in whatshopstock and itfocused on the making plows.Second The ever lifts from newsprint. company grew steadily and added many emplace went to the woman who said it could be ployees. In the lateswollen 1840s, John theof used to form a fake glandrelocated to get out operation anentire unwanted date.to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his • What exactly is Silly Putty made of? Mostly it’s children to the state’s finest schools. One of dimethyl siloxane, hydroxy-terminated plymers his proudest days occurred when son Charles with boricthe acid. Add in aof little ST,Bell’s a dash earned equivalent an thixotrol MBA from ofCommercial polydimethylsiloxane, a pinch of decamethyl College in Chicago. cyclopentasiloxane, and top it off with titanium • With his son Charles managing the company, dioxide, and that’s about all there is to it. John found time to pursue philanthropic in• You can He make your ownboth sort-of silly Nationputty at terests. co-founded the First home by and mixing twoCongregational tablespoons of Borax al Bank the First Church. and it to one of of water, mixing well. Headding was elected the cup mayor Moline in 1873, Seperately a cupactions of water to half a cup where oneadd of half his first – the replaceofment whiteofglue. Next add a cup of your Bothe city’s openhalf drains with a sewer pipe systemto–the saved lives by reducrax solution gluecountless and water mixture. Mix ingand the spread well store inofa disease. plastic bag. original John Deereslowly logo, registered in • •It’sThe flammable and burns with a bright 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afriwhite light. Microwaved for a few minutes, it beca. Thirty-six years later, 1912,toititswas recomes excessively sticky but in reverts original placed the image of horrible a Northwhen American form whenwith it cools. It smells baked. white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks for Reading Tidbits! over as the symbol of the John Deere brand. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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