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MOMENTS IN TIME • On Aug. 19, 1812, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerrière in an engagement off the coast of Nova Scotia. The British shot merely bounced off the Constitution's sides, as if the ship were made of iron rather than wood. The bolts fastening the timbers and copper sheathing on "Old Ironsides" were provided by Paul Revere. • On Aug. 23, 1904, Harold D. Weed of Canastota, New York, is issued U.S. Patent No. 768,495 for his "Grip-Tread for Pneumatic Tires," a tire chain to be used on automobiles to increase traction on roads slick with mud, snow or ice. • On Aug. 20, 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world to determine how fast a commercial message could be sent. After it traveled more than 28,000 miles, relayed by 16 different operators, the reply was received by the same operator 16 1/2 minutes later. • On Aug. 21, 1920, Daphne Milne, wife of writer A.A. Milne, gives birth to a son the couple names Christopher Robin Milne. Christopher Robin was immortalized in A.A.

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• Scientists consider a volcano to be active if it has erupted within the last 10,000 years. There are about 1,500 worldwide that meet this criteria, with most along the Pacific Ring of Fire. About 50 erupt each year. More than 160 volcanoes in the United States fit in the active category, the majority of those in the Cascade Range, stretching from southern British Columbia to northern California. • Indonesia has 130 active volcanoes, including Mount Tambora, responsible for the most violent eruption in recorded history, In 1815, Tambora’s eruption resulted in an estimated 71,000 deaths in an explosion heard more than 1,200 miles away. It produced such climate-changing effects that 1816 was known as “the year without a summer.” Indonesia’s Mt. Krakatoa erupted in 1883, killing 36,000 and destroying two-thirds of the island. It has erupted as recently as 2008. • Geologists consider Mt. Rainier “potentially the most dangerous” mainland U.S. volcano, with 3.2 million people living in its vicinity, although it hasn’t erupted since the 1840s. Also within the Cascade Range, Mt. St. Helen’s 1980 eruption was one of the U.S.’s worst, killing 57. It reawakened in 2004 with four explosions sending steam and ash 10,000 feet above its crater. • There are five active volcanoes in Hawaii. Kilauea is one of the world’s most frequently active volcanoes, having erupted 62 times in 245 years. It has been erupting continuously since 1983. Mauna Loa has erupted 15 times since 1900, most recently in 1984.

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• Sutherland had his first role in a 1963 British film, and after several other small parts, he landed a major role in 1967. After another actor had dropped out of the filming of The Dirty Dozen, Sutherland was offered the part in the popular film which was the fifth highest grossing film of the year. Two years later, he was once again a soldier in both the smash hit M*A*S*H (as Hawkeye Pierce) and Kelly’s Heroes, along with Clint Eastwood. His career received another boost in 1971 with his role as a private detective opposite Jane Fonda in Klute, and as a grieving father in the Oscar-winning Ordinary People in 1980.

• Sutherland has paid tribute to his favorite directors by naming his sons after them. Kiefer is named after Warren Kiefer who directed Sutherland in his first feature film. His son Roeg takes his name from director Nicolas Roeg, while Rossif is named after French director Frederic Rossif. The middle name of Sutherland’s son Angus is Redford after Robert Redford.

• Sutherland made an error in judgment in 1978 when picked to star as Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon’s Animal House. He was offered the choice of a salary of $40,000 up front or a percentage of the film’s income. Because he doubted the success factor of the movie, he chose the $40,000, and Animal House went on to gross $141,600,000.

• Sutherland has remained a Canadian citizen and maintains a home in Quebec. He was one of the flagbearers at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He is an officer in the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor.

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August 10 is the date set aside to honor Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack of legend. Is this giant fact or fiction? We’ll probably never know! • Several places have laid claim as the birthplace of Paul Bunyan, including Michigan, Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and St. Eustache, Canada. Some tales are entirely imaginary, such as the myth that it took five storks to bring Bunyan to the world, and that he was nearly 8 feet tall (2.4 m) with a stride of 7 feet (2.1 m). One of the more logical tales tells of the role of lumberjacks in Canada’s 1837 Papineau Rebellion. When French Canadians in the St. Lawrence River region rebelled against their new ruler, the Queen of England, many loggers armed with axes stepped up to battle English troops. A tall, bearded, bellowing man amongst the loggers, became famous for his part in the battle.

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• Tales of Bunyan’s heroics were told around loggers’ campfires for years to come, each one being embellished a bit more. By the 1880s, there wasn’t a logging camp that didn’t know the story of the giant. In 1910, writer James MacGillvray, who had worked in a Michigan camp, put the accounts on paper in the Detroit News Tribune. In 1914, the Red River Lumber Company of Minneapolis used the image of a giant lumberjack and created a colossal blue ox as his companion in an advertising pamphlet. Over 100,000 of the brochures were distributed and Bunyan’s popularity grew. A 1924 collection of tales by Esther Shephard and another anthology the following year by James Stevens fueled the fire of the legend. Famed poet Carl Sandburg wrote that Bunyan lived “around the hot stoves of winter, among socks and mittens drying, in the smell of tobacco smoke and the roar of laughter mocking the outside weather.”

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PAUL BUNYAN (continued): • According to folklore, Bunyan formed the DEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): Great Lakes out of a need for a large enough • It was while living in Illinois that John nowatering hole for Babe the Blue Ox to drink ticed the problems that farmers faced when from. He supposedly cleared North Dakota of attempting to till soil. Because the area had itsformerly forests and beenMinnesota’s woodland, 10,000 the soillakes was were rich reportedly formed by his and Babe’s footprints with hummus, which clumped and clung to asthethey stumbled through a huge blades of the plows farmers wereblizzard. accusWhen fellow loggers to dinner tomedhetocalled using.his While repairing a broken cir-in the camp, did sostumbled by blowing cular saw,heDeere uponthrough an idea.a holHe low tree or his bellowing loudly enoughthe to cause employed smith skills to fashion steel bladetointo shape a plow. He affixed limbs fall the from trees.ofHis monumental logtwo wooden spokes, then hitched the device ging camp was on the fictional Big Onion to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil River. like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened • There more than 200run roadside statuesputof to be are observing the test immediately Paul Bunyan across the United States in an order for his own John Deere plow. and Canada, from California to Oregon to British • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith Columbia to Idaho, Oklahoma, North Dakota, shop and focused on making plows. The Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and company grew steadily and added many emNew York. Perhaps the tallest is in Klamath, ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the California, towering 49 feet Illinois. above that town’s entire operation to Moline, Ashamed Trees of Mystery attraction. A 35-ft.-tall of his own lack of education, John sentBabe his stands beside him. children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles • Oscoda, Michigan, has declared itself Bunearned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s yan’s official home because James MacGilliCommercial College in Chicago. vray’s early documents came from there. But • they With his son Charles the company, need to get in linemanaging behind Bemidji, MinJohn found time to pursue philanthropic innesota, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Bangor, terests. He co-founded both the First NationMaine. al Bank and the First Congregational Church. • The of Maine claimsofit Moline has a birth cerHe state was elected the mayor in 1873, tificate. Hackensack, Minnesota maintains where one of his first actions – the replacement of the city’s open drains withhails a sewer that Bunyan’s sweetheart Lucette from pipe system – saved countless lives by reducthat community and they have constructed a ing the disease. statue of spread her andoftheir son, Paul, Jr. in a downTwoJohn places contend are home • town The park. original Deere logo, they registered in to1876, Bunyan’s grave – Kelliher, and depicted a deer that wasMinnesota, native to Africa. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was reWausau, Wisconsin. placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the for now-familiar “outline” logo took Thanks 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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