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Here in North America, autumn is defined as “the period between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.” Learn more about this beautiful season and its events as Tidbits examines the month of October.

• The first day of Autumn occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator moving south, either on September 22nd or September 23rd. On that day, the light and dark hours are exactly the same length, hence, the term “equinox.” Autumn ends with the winter solstice, December 21st or 22nd in the Northern Hemisphere.

• The word “autumn” has its origins in the Old French word autompne. “October” takes its name from the Latin, meaning “eighth month.” Under the old Roman calendar, when March was the first month of the year, October was in fact the eighth month.

• We all love to see the leaves change in the Fall. The bright foliage is a byproduct of chemical changes in a tree as it begins to go dormant for the colder weather. Leaves actually have just as much yellow pigment during July as they do in October. But in July, the darker green pigment, chlorophyll, masks the yellow xanthophyll. As sunlight decreases, a tree stops producing chlorophyll, and the other colors begin to show through. Turn the page for more!

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FALL FACTS (continued): • When a period of unseasonably warm weather occurs in October, we call it Indian Summer.

The nights are cool and may bring frost, but the days are sunny and clear with warm temperatures. The National Weather Service defines it as temps above 70 degrees F. (21 C) following a hard frost.

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2. Bob Marley held his last concert in October of what year?

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• The Peanuts comic strip debuted in seven newspapers in October, 1950. It grew in size until it was featured in more than 2,600 papers in 75 countries, translated into 21 languages.

Running continuously until February, 2000, with a total of 17,897 strips in all, it’s considered the most popular and influential comic strip in history.

• The month of October marked the premiere of several familiar television series “back in the day.” I Love Lucy aired for the first time in 1951. Captain Kangaroo and The Mickey Mouse Club debuted in 1955, and Leave It to Beaver came along two years later. Long-time favorite The Andy Griffith Show hit our TV screens in 1960. In more recent years, Saturday Night Live, now in its 38th season, premiered in October, 1975, with George Carlin as the first guest host.

• It took 14 years of grueling labor to carve the busts of four U.S. Presidents into the granite hillside in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Begun in 1927 by sculptor Gutzon Borglum, 60-ft.

(18 m) busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were painstakingly created. The initial objective was to feature carvings from head to waist, but lack of funding abbreviated the project. The task was completed in October of 1941. Unfortunately, Borglum passed away in March of that year, but his son Lincoln brought the project to completion.

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FALL FACTS (continued) • Americans like to think that North America’s first Thanksgiving was in the 1620s in Plymouth, Massachusetts. But the Canadians had their first Thanksgiving in 1578, 42 years before the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower. English explorer Martin Frobisher landed in Newfoundland in 1578 and held a feast of thanks for his safe arrival in the New World. Canada declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1879, but its date changed several times before 1957, when it was officially declared to be the second Monday in October.

• The Chinese thanksgiving celebration is known as the Moon Festival and frequently lands in October. It’s held on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar, during the full moon, in gratitude for the harvest. This Chinese ritual has been observed since the Shang Dynasty, as early as 1200 B.C., and includes evening offerings to the moon, as the ancient Chinese believed the moon was source of rejuvenation.

• In October of 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T to the nation. With a price of $825, over 10,000 were sold that first year. In 1912, the price dropped to $575, and sales skyrocketed. In the first 18 years of production, sales were upwards of 15 million.

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• The final piece of the St. Louis Arch was put into place in October, 1965. It marked the end of twoand-a-half years of construction at a cost of $13 million ($94.7 million in today’s money). The arch was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States. Situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, at 630 feet (192 m), it’s the tallest man-made monument in America and the world’s tallest arch. If you’re interested in climbing to the top, prepare yourself for 1,076 steps.

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FALL FACTS (continued): • Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britain in October of 1951, but it wasn’t his first go-round in that office. He was first elected in 1940 and served through the critical World War II years. He was reelected at age 77, and served another four years. Despite a severe speech impediment, he triumphed in politics, entering that domain at age 26. He’s the only British Prime Minister in history to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1953), and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

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• In October of 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Just 35 years old, his efforts at combating racial inequality earned him the honor. He turned over his prize money of $54,123 for the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

• The Beach Boys released “Good Vibrations” on October 10, 1966, and it quickly became the group’s third number one hit. (“I Get Around” and “Help Me, Rhonda” were the first two.) The single sold over 230,000 copies during the first four days after its released.

Rolling Stone magazine lists the tune as Number Six on their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

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• Rowland Macy opened his “fancy dry goods” store in October, 1858 on New York’s Sixth Avenue. First-day sales totaled $11.08, about $293.47 in 2013 currency. Macy’s became the first department store to have an in-store Santa for the Christmas season in 1862. Today, Macy’s operates 798 locations across the United States.

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• Mildred was a natural-born athlete, playing baseball with the neighborhood boys. Because she hit so many home runs, they gave her the nickname “Babe” after slugger Babe Ruth. There was hardly a sport in which she didn’t excel – baseball, basketball, diving, and track and field. After setting her Olympic goal, Babe practiced hurdles by jumping over hedges in her Texas neighborhood.

• When the 1932 Olympics rolled around, the 21-year-old Babe qualified in five events. Unfortunately, at that time, women were only allowed to compete in three. In her three events, she took the gold medal for javelin and the 80-meter hurdles, both with new world records, and the silver for the high jump.

• Although Babe was a fine Olympic athlete, as well as achieving All-American status in basketball, she’s probably best known for her achievements in the world of golf. She took up golf the year after her Olympic success, practicing eight to ten hours a day, hitting over a thousand balls daily. She entered ladies’ golf tournaments, but was soon judged a pro because she had given advertising endorsements, and was disqualified. At the time, there was no pro golf tour for women. She entered a particular men’s tournament in 1938, and was paired with a professional wrestler named George Zaharias. He became her husband 11 months later.

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• With the financial security George offered, Babe was able to give up endorsements and re-establish amateur status. In order to do so, she had to play no other sports for three years. Once she was an amateur again, she dominated golf with victory after victory.

She won 17 straight women’s amateur tournaments, a feat yet to be equaled. She became the first American woman to win the British Women’s Amateur Golf Tournament.

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• By 1950, Babe Zaharias had won every golf title available. Her amateur and professional triumphs totaled 82 championships. Just three years later at age 42, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Three months after colostomy surgery, she was back, bravely wearing a colostomy bag on the course. And she continued to win tournaments! However, unbeknownst to Babe, the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes. Her final tournament was the 1955 Peach Blossom Open. The following year, cancer claimed her life at age 45.

• Babe remains the only woman to qualify for the Los Angeles Open, a men’s tournament, in 1938. Sports Illustrated named her the Female Athlete of the 20th Century in individual sports. In 1975, a film based on her life was made, with actress Susan Clark in the lead role and former Detroit Lions football great Alex Karras in the role of George. The couple met during the production and were later married.

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ALL ABOUT WHEAT More farmland is devoted to wheat than any other food crop. What better time than harvest season to learn something new about it?

• Evidence points to the first cultivation of wheat in the Tigris and Euphrates River valley, near present-day Iraq. In the U.S., it was first planted in the early 1600s in Massachusetts. Scottish settlers brought wheat to Canada in 1812, planting their first winter wheat in August of that year.

• Wheat is the most common cereal grain used in food. About 75% of all U.S. grain products are made from wheat flour. Out of the 42 U.S. states that grow wheat, Kansas produces the most, followed closely by North Dakota.

Montana and Oklahoma also rank high in acreage planted.

• In the U.S. over 60 million acres of land are planted in wheat, producing about 2.5 billion bushels. But that’s far from the world’s largest producer. China and India both outrank the U.S. in wheat cultivation.

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• There are six main classes of wheat, based on hardness, color, and time of planting – hard red winter, hard red spring, soft red winter, durum hard white, and soft white.

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• One acre yields an average of 38 bushels.

One bushel of wheat weighs about 60 pounds (27.2 kg), and contains about a million individual kernels. Approximately 42 pounds (19 kg) of white flour can be produced from one bushel or 60 pounds of whole wheat flour. A bushel can also be used to make 42 loaves of white bread or 42 pounds of pasta. If you’d rather eat cereal, one bushel will make about 45 24-oz. (680 g.) boxes of wheat flake cereal.

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• In 2009, a Saudi couple who had spent their honeymoon in Malaysia encountered difficulty on the return flight home.

It seems that the groom felt the bride was taking too long in the airport restroom, so he boarded the flight back to Saudi Arabia before she did.

When he allowed the plane to leave without her, she insisted on an immediate divorce.

• The next time you’ve enjoyed a happy hour out with friends, you might want to consider the virtually unknown adjective “gambrinous,” which means “to be content and happy due to a stomach full of beer.” * * * Thought for the Day: “My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” -- Socrates

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• Many people believe that one should never remove one’s wedding ring. However, one superstition holds that doing so is perfectly acceptable -- as long as the ring is being used to ward off a witch.

• There’s nothing surprising about the fact that upon the death of British novelist, poet and essayist D.H. Lawrence, the author’s body was cremated. What is unusual is that, at Lawrence’s request, his ashes were mixed into the plaster used to build the D.H. Lawrence Ranch in Questa, N.M. • As Halloween approaches, if you live in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Iowa, you might want to keep in mind your state’s tax policy. If you’re buying a pumpkin to carve into a jack-o’-lantern,

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WHEAT (continued):

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Shredded blades of the plows and farmers were accusand puffed breakfast area the primary tomed to using.

While foods repairing broken cirproducts. cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He employed his smith to of fashion the steel • Durum wheat is the skills firmest all wheats and blade into the shape of a plow.

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•• Those With his son Charles managing the company, people suffering from Celiac Disease John found time to pursue philanthropic inare those whose digestive systems cannot tolterests. He co-founded both the First Nationerate the gluten in wheat. When they eat it, al Bank and the First Congregational Church. their immune responds by damaging He was electedsystem the mayor of Moline in 1873, the lining of the small intestine, inhibiting the where one of his first actions – the replaceabsorption of nutrients into the bloodstream. ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer They might experience joint pain, ospipe system – saved countless livesanemia, by reducteoporosis, seizures, depression, or a severe ing the spread of disease.

fromJohn ingesting Pasta is still • skin The rash original Deere wheat. logo, registered in an option for these individuals in thetoform 1876, depicted a deer that was native Afri-of aca. gluten-free made Thirty-sixproduct years later, in from 1912,brown it was rice, recorn, quinoa, potatoes, and soybeans. placed with the image of a North American 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.

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