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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • Most folks have visited a Barnes & Noble bookstore somewhere in North America. Do you know the history of the last remaining national bookstore chain? Gilbert Noble was hired as a clerk at a New York City bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company in 1886. Eight years later, the 30-year-old Noble was made a partner and the shop became Hinds & Noble, an arrangement that endured 23 years. In 1917, Noble bought out Hinds and took on a new partner, Williams Barnes, and the stores remained family-owned until 1966. The current owners have grown the company into the largest retailer of books in North America, a Fortune 500 company that operates 640 stores.

• In May of 1939, DC Comics introduced the superhero known as “The Bat-Man,” created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. Underneath the cape, Batman is known as American billionaire and playboy Bruce Wayne. Wayne had witnessed the murder of his parents as a child and vowed to take revenge on all criminals.

Batman has no superpowers, but rather depends on his genius intelligence, physical abilities, and martial arts skills to battle crime. In 1940, DC introduced his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder, a young circus acrobat named Dick Grayson. Grayson’s parents had been murdered by a gangster who sabotaged the trapeze equipment.

Grayson begged Batman to bring the murderers to justice, and Bruce Wayne responded by making the boy his legal ward, training him with the skills necessary to fight crime by the Caped Crusader’s side in Gotham City. ...continued

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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • The term “Siamese twins” had its origins with two brothers Chang and Eng, born in Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. The brothers were joined at the sternum by a very superficial connection of skin tissue, one that could easily be separated by surgery today.

They toured with P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus for several years, after which they purchased a small plantation in North Carolina. Interestingly, these conjoined twins married sisters and shared a large bed built for four in their home. Chang fathered 11 children, and Eng, 10. The number of their descendants is more than 1,500, including Chang’s greatgreat-granddaughter Caroline Shaw, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner and Chang’s great-granddaughter Alex Sink, a former Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and former gubernatorial candidate.

• P.T. Barnum established his showman career with his first traveling show at age 25. In addition to conjoined twins Chang and Eng, he exhibited General

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The two gentlemen operated their circus together for 10 years until Barnum’s death. Following Bailey’s death in 1906, the circus was purchased by the Ringling Brothers. ...continued

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• Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn met on a cruise ship where Seigfried performed magic and Roy was a waiter. Shortly after Siegfried sought Roy’s assistance during a show, they began performing as a duo. Roy had been around exotic animals since he was 10 through a family friend, the founder of the Bremen, Germany, zoo. The pair worked together for more than 40 years, totaling 5,750 shows together, primarily at Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel. In 2003, while working with the show’s trademark white tigers, Roy was bitten on the neck by a 7-yearold male tiger during a show. Siegfried and Roy claim that Roy suffered a stroke during the performance and that the tiger picked him up and moved him to safety. Roy suffered severe blood loss and was partially paralyzed for many months. The Mirage was forced to lay off 267 crew members associated with the show, suffering a loss of $45 million in annual ticket sales.

• Nearly everyone has seen a Christmas card with the image of a Currier and Ives winter scene. Nathaniel Currier was 15 years old in 1828 when he became an apprentice in a Boston lithography shop to learn engraving and printing. Seven years later he had his own company at 1 Wall Street in New York City, where he printed and duplicated pictures, music, architectural plans, and a host of other items. He became the first to provide illustrations for a newspaper, which to that point had no pictures to accompany news stories. At age 39, he hired a new bookkeeper, James Ives, who was also a fine artist. They eventually formed a partnership that produced more than 7,500 different images, and over one million prints using hand-colored lithography.

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• It was the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy who made the following sage observation: "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."

• The earliest known brothel was located in Sumer (now southeastern Iraq), all the way back in 3300 B.C.E. • The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona, at about 3 p.m. on Oct. 26, 1881, is probably the most famous shootout in the history of the Old West. You might be surprised to learn, though, that the gunfight didn't actually happen at the O.K. Corral, or even next to it -- the gunfight took place in an empty lot six doors down.

• A futurist in the 1950s made the following prediction: "There will come a time when every country in the world will have a computer."

• Etymology -- the study of words' history, their origins and how their form and meaning have changed over time -- is fascinating. For example, take the term "shilly-shally," meaning to vacillate. In the 18th century, "shill" was another form of "shall," and people trying to make a difficult decision might ask themselves "Shill I? Shall I?" Over time it was shortened to the form we use today.

• If your scissors are getting dull, don't waste time and effort with sharpening stones; all you have to do is cut up sheets of sandpaper to hone the cutting edges.

• Those who study such things say that if you added up the body masses of all the people on the planet right now, it would amount to roughly 750 billion pounds. *** Thought for the Day: "In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable and necessary." -- Kathleen Norris © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The fact that a bird hunts and eats meat does not automatically make it a raptor. Raptors have three distinct characteristics that distinguish them from other birds – hooked beaks with sharp edges, feet with sharp, curved claws or talons, and keen eyesight.

• The 446 species of raptors include falcons, osprey, hawks, eagles, vultures, and owls. Most are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day, with all owls being nocturnal, active by night.

• Owls have soft-edged feathers that allow them to fly silently. Their eyes face forward so that they are only able to see what is right in front of them.

In order to see things around them, they use their 14 neck muscles to rotate their heads up to 270 degrees in one direction. The Northern hawk owl’s superb vision enables the bird to detect its prey up to half a mile away.

• Falcons can fly at speeds of more than 100 mph, and peregrine falcons can dive at twice that speed. Peregrines are found on every continent except Antarctica.

• An osprey’s diet is fish, and they build their nests near the water in treetops or platforms on top of man-made poles if there is a shortage of trees in their area. These raptors are excellent fishermen, with the average time spent before making a catch about 12 minutes.

• The most common species of eagles found throughout North America are the bald eagle and the golden eagle. In fact, the bald eagle is found only in North America. Its white head and tail and bright yellow beak do not appear until the raptor is three to four years old. Its wingspan can reach lengths of 7 feet. The bald eagles’ nests can measure up to 6 feet wide and weigh nearly 100 lbs. A nest measuring 9 feet across and 20 feet high was found in Florida, while one found in Ohio weighing over 4,400 lbs. fell to the ground when the tree it was in tumbled in the wind. The nest had been in use for 34 years.

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• On Oct. 14, 1857, engineer and inventor Elwood Haynes is born. Haynes designed one of the first American automobiles, the Haynes "Pioneer." The buggy was an 820-pound, push-start vehicle with chain drive, a steering tiller and 28inch bicycle wheels.

• On Oct. 15, 1930, legendary composer and bandleader Duke Ellington records his first big hit, "Mood Indigo." Ellington claimed he wrote the song in 15 minutes, but its actual genesis was a melody by clarinetists Barney Bigard and Lorenzo Tio, Jr. called "Dreamy Blues."

• On Oct. 12, 1945, PFC Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia, is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive America's highest military award.

• On Oct. 16, 1964, The People's Republic of China conducts a successful nuclear test, becoming the fifth nation with atomic bomb capability.

China joined the U.S., the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France in the exclusive nuclear club.

• On Oct. 10, 1985, the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro reaches an end when U.S. Navy F-14 fighters intercept an Egyptian airliner attempting to fly the Palestinian hijackers to freedom. Four Palestinian terrorists had hijacked the ship three days earlier, killing an elderly Jewish American passenger and taking hundreds more hostage.

• On Oct. 13, 1999, the Colorado grand jury investigating the murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is dismissed, and the Boulder County district attorney announces no indictments will be made due to insufficient evidence.

The murder remains unsolved.

• On Oct. 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts." Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Long Live the King The 1960s era loved majesty. The Kennedy White House was dubbed “Camelot” by the press, Johnny Carson had started his 30-year reign on late-night television, and golf had its very own “king,” Arnold Palmer.

Palmer came from humble beginnings. Born in the steel town of Youngstown, Ohio, his family migrated to Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

It was there, at the Latrobe Country Club, that he began his apprenticeship under the watchful guidance of his father, the club’s groundskeeper turned club pro. He did not immediately seize the crown, opting instead for a college golf scholarship at Wake Forest.

And he didn’t have to seize the crown, the advent of sports television programming coronated him right from the start. He was a lock for the role. Palmer was handsome, welldressed, athletic, humble yet friendly, instantly personable and giving of his time and attention with just about anyone he held court with. And he was golf’s first true modern-day type of superstar. He was the first golfer to sign with an international agent, the game’s first millionaire, the game’s most familiar face. In 1962, the year he won his third of four Masters, he graced more front-page magazine covers than Jim Beatty and Wilt Chamberlain, the guys who broke the four-minute mile and scored 100 points in a basketball game, respectively. James Bond even name

checks him in “Goldfinger.”

Palmer’s reign was undisputed between the years of 1960-63, when he won 29 tournaments. Though guys like Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player soon would take over the trophy cases, they never took away his mantle as the game’s most popular player, which lasted well into the next century.

He was a king who had many clubs. He was a Freemason. He owned 10,000 golf clubs, but was known best for the Dyna-powered Fluid Field Wilson one-iron that he famously wielded, a club that most people leave out of their bags and their lives, for that matter. He bought his father’s club in Latrobe and designed 200 other golf courses of his own.

He was a king who had his own army. Throngs of fans, “Arnie’s Army,” traipsed after their hero, hole after hole. He was a man of the people. It has been said that he lost more than a few championships on the last hole by losing concentration after saying hello to an old friend in the gallery. And he was a benevolent king, signing his full name on autographs, lending his name to charities and benefits the world over. He has a delicious beverage named after him. No other golfer, no other athlete (unless you count Shirley Temple’s tap dancing as a sport), has that honor. You go into a bar and try to order a Sam Snead or Ben Hogan, and see what you get in return.

Louis L’amour once said, “Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.” Well, Arnold Palmer wasn’t a good king — he was a great king, and it’s very sad to see him go.

Long live the king.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. © 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

TACOS In honor of National Taco Day on October 4, Tidbits dishes the facts on one of our favorite foods.

• Americans consume about 4.5 billion tacos a year, with a total weight equaling that of two Empire State Buildings! There are an estimated 31,000 Mexican food restaurants in the U.S.

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NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE Siskel and Ebert became a film critic team in 1975, hosting a weekly film review television show, "Sneak Previews."

Gene Siskel had been a reviewer for the Chicago Tribune, while Roger Ebert did the same for the Chicago Sun-Times.

They established their famous "thumbs-up, thumbsdown" system as a method of their reviews, and even trademarked the phrase "Two Thumbs Up."

• When explorer Hernando Cortez landed in the New World in 1519, he found the Aztecs making flat corn breads. The Aztec word for these little breads was tlaxcalli, but the Spanish gave them the name “tortilla,” (although today we usually refer to the flour version as a tortilla). Some anthropologists claim there is evidence indicating dwellers of the Valley of Mexico ate tacos filled with fish long before the 16th century. Some areas added small live insects, ants, locusts, and snails to their filling.

• The first written record in the U.S. of a taco is in a 1905 Los Angeles newspaper. At a time when migrant workers were crossing over from Mexico to work in the mines and on the railroads, a group of women called the Chili Queens ran a street vendor business there.

• In 1914, a cookbook called the California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book featured a taco recipe, made by putting “chopped, cooked beef and chili sauce in a tortilla made of meal and flour, folded, edges sealed together with egg; fried in deep fat, chili sauce served over it.”

• The 1929 cookbook Ramona’s Spanish-Mexican Cookery contained six taco and tacquito recipes with various ingredients including pork snout, ears, jowls, kidneys, and livers. Also featured were cream cheese tacos, egg tacos, and Mexican tacos.

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• Hard shells as we know them came along in 1947, because corn tortillas didn’t stay fresh very long.

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Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 he was asked to come up with a name for a • Californian Glen Bell with a hot very large number: the started numeralout one, followed by stand a hundred zeros.

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• They indecided a name that • Tacos Mexicothey are needed considerably different reflected how many websites the search from what North Americans eat. A favorite engine was searching. They took the name in northern Mexico is Tacos de Cabeza, made of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only from the brain, ittongue, and lips of a they misspelled slightly,eyes, so it ended up being cow’s which overspelledhead, exactly thehave samebeen waysteamed the cartoon night.

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(Answer at bottom Another popular Mexican variety COMPUTER FACTS is the Taco al Pastor, which means shepherd’s style taco.

• In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory Itsought ingredients are spiced pork that has been to be enough for anybody.” roasted over an open flame, then cut into sliv• Moore’s Law states that computer performance ers.

Taquitos, as they are doubles everyor18flautas to 24 months, and sometimes ever since called because of their 1971, this has been true. flute shape, are filled with shredded chicken or beef, rolled into a • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all tube, andindeep-fried started garages. until crispy.

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