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• Francis Scott Key carried with him many letters written by British sailors whose lives had been saved by Dr. Beanes. The British subsequently agreed to release him.

• However, shortly after Francis Scott Key was taken aboard, the British began bombing Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Francis Scott Key and Dr. Beanes were held until the battle was over, lest they reveal the location of the British ships to their American friends.

• Fearing for the safety of American forces, Francis Scott Key was moved to write a poem called “The Defence of Fort M’Henry” which was set to the tune of an old English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” He scrawled the lyrics on the back of a letter.

• When he returned home, he had the song printed up on flyers that he distributed to his friends who had been under attack at Fort McHenry. Two copies of this original printing still survive today.

• The song became popular very quickly. The newspaper in Baltimore printed the lyrics. The proprietor of a music shop printed the sheet music, and he was the first person to call the song “The Star Spangled Banner” rather than “The Defence of Fort M’Henry.”

• During the Civil War, the song became an anthem for Union troops and it steadily increased in popularity through the years. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order stating that the song should be played at all military ceremonies.

• In 1929, the “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” newspaper column pointed out that “Believe it or not, the U.S. has no designated national anthem!” This sparked a push to rectify this problem, led by the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, until it was named the national anthem in 1931. (Cont’d)

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I’m extremely curious about the average lifespan of cats. Years ago my husband found a stray kitten about 6 weeks old. “Skeezix” lived to be 26 years old until he passed away one night after two strokes. We also rescued a stray we named “Sheba,” and we had her for 25 years (the vet couldn’t believe she’d lived so long), so she was at least 26 or 27 when congestive heart failure took her. My two remaining cats, “Mama” and “Baby,” are about 16 and 19 years old, respectively.

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Is there a magic formula to help your cats live longer? No one has that, but there are some things that will improve a cat’s life over the long term, and you have done all of them.

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• The construction of the flag that flew over Fort McHenry was commissioned by Major George Armistead when he arrived in Baltimore to take command of Fort McHenry.

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She billed the government $490 for the work, which is equal to about $5,500 in today’s money.

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That’s equal to one-quarter the size of a basketball court. The stars were two feet in diameter (0.6 m) and each stripe was 2 feet wide. It required a team of eleven men to raise it on a 90 foot (27 m) flagpole. It was designed to be highly visible.

• The weather was stormy while the Battle of Baltimore was raging. The woolen flag would have weighed more than 500 lbs (227 kg) when water-logged, so it was taken down and replaced with a smaller “storm flag.” When the rain cleared, the storm flag was taken down and the big flag was hoisted once again. This is the flag Francis Scott Key would have seen from the ship when dawn broke, not knowing that a substitute stand-in flag actually flew during the ‘perilous night.’ (continued)

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FACTS ABOUT THE FLAG (cont’d) • As years passed, the smaller storm flag was lost and no one knows what became of it.

But the larger flag was handed town to Major Armistead’s family, who rightfully cherished it as an American heirloom.

• Over the years, the Armistead family was bombarded with requests for souvenir scraps of the fabric of the flag. They snipped bits and pieces off, giving them to veterans, government officials, and honored citizens. More than two hundred square feet of the Star-Spangled Banner was eventually given away, including one of the stars.

• In 1873 the flag was attached to a canvas backing in order to be displayed at the Boston Navy Yard.

• In 1907, it was donated to the Smithsonian Institute, who later hired a team of ten seamstresses to remove the canvas backing and replace it with a linen backing. It took them two months to sew 1.7 million interlocking stitches in a mesh that covered and reinforced the flag.

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• The beaver is the largest rodent in North America. An adult can weigh between 40 and 95 lbs. (18-43 kg). They can live about 12 years.

• Beavers eat the inner bark of a tree as high as they can reach and then they chip away at the tree with phenomenal front teeth that never stop growing. They can fell a tree five feet (1.5 m) in diameter. A flap in the back of their mouth keeps them from swallowing splinters.

• When the tree falls, beavers strip the inner bark that was previously out of reach. Branches are chewed off and carried to the water for use in the dam or lodge, or to be stashed as a winter supply of food. They fashion mud roads to their favorite lumbering grounds to make it easier to drag branches. If the trunk is too heavy to be easily moved, a canal may be constructed to float it down to the water. Canals can be 700 feet (213 m) long. Beavers also build canals across peninsulas in the pond.

• Dams are built by dragging trees to the stream and placing them with their big end upstream.

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They can hold their breath underwater for 15 minutes. Beavers work hard to keep their dams in repair— a tough job when you consider that the dams can be several hundred feet in length.

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• They build their lodges by constructing a cone of sticks on the bottom of the pond. Mud serves as plaster, and there’s always a ventilation hole at the top. (continued next page)

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• Beavers have to regulate the water level of the pond in order to keep their lodge from flooding or going dry, so they build locks and spillways.

They build dams upstream and downstream to aid in flood control.

• Beavers also keep themselves busy raising young. A typical beaver family consists of the parents, a bunch of newborns and several oneyear-olds. The young stay with the parents for two years before being driven off to fend for themselves. There are usually 6 to 12 family members in each lodge.

• The enamel on the teeth of a beaver is orange.

Their eyelids are clear so they can see under water. Their ears and noses have valves that close to keep water out when the beaver is submerged. They also have an interior set of lips that close so the beaver can chew underwater without getting water in their mouths. They mate for life.

• Their favorite trees to cut down include aspen and willow, which re-grow from the roots and become thicker after pruning. As the beaver ponds flood more meadows, more aspen and willows grow in the damp ground. And willow sticks will grow roots and sprout when placed in a beaver dam or lodge, helping to stabilize the area.

• At one time beavers were common in Europe and parts of Asia, but now their territory is limited to parts of the U.S. and Canada. About half a million are trapped each year for their pelts and scent glands. Scent glands are used in perfume. Their under-fur is combined with wool and other animal fibers and compressed under steam in order to form felt.

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• In the late 1800s a magazine called “The Youth’s Companion” was very popular. Editor James Upman promoted education tirelessly and instigated a program of premiums for subscribers. The prizes included such things as patriotic posters, historical books, and especially American flags. He began a concerted campaign encouraging all schools to install American flags, and he sold them the flags.

• In 1892 Upman was preoccupied with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus in the New World. He wanted a nationwide celebration on that day to underscore his belief that the American system of free universal education was the source of the country’s success. He asked Francis Bellamy, who worked for the National Education Association, to help him create a program for schools for the Columbus Day event.

• Bellamy wrote a speech, devised a flagraising ceremony, and penned a simple creed that school children could recite in unison as the flag was raised. The pledge that Bellamy wrote was short so that even the youngest of schoolchildren would be able to memorize it.

These details were published in the September edition of the magazine.

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• Born in Massachusetts in 1859, Katharine Lee Bates grew up to become a professor of English literature at Wellesley College. She was also a prolific writer, authoring many books, articles, poems, and stories.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I have been diagnosed with essential tremor. Propranolol 10 mg has not helped. Sometimes I can write and eat with no shaking, but other times the shaking is so bad that the food falls off the fork or I cannot read my printing or writing. If I drink a beer, it seems to relax me enough that in five minutes I can write or eat quite normally nearly every time. I’ve been told that it doesn’t appear to be Parkinson’s. Any suggestions will be enormously appreciated. -- J.N. ANSWER: Essential tremor, sometimes called benign familial tremor, is common. Often, one has a family history of tremor. It is not Parkinson’s disease; however, it isn’t always “benign” in that, for some people, it can be disabling, preventing a person from not only writing, but, as in your case, activities of daily living such as eating.

Alcohol has long been known to reduce the tremor temporarily, but it must be taken cautiously, since regular use will diminish its effectiveness, requiring higher doses for effectiveness -- and, as I have written many times, excess alcohol is a major cause of many medical problems. Occasional use with meals is reasonable.

Other effective treatments for essential tremor include anti-epilepsy medications such as primidone, gabapentin and topiramate. Unfortunately, all of these can have side effects, so they are best prescribed by an expert, such as a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders.

For serious essential tremor not responsive to medications, deep brain stimulation (via electrodes placed surgically) is effective.

DEAR DR. ROACH: My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, and she is taking Namenda and Aricept to help slow the advancement of the disease. I am writing because she complains of being cold all the time. She and my father keep the temperature in their house at 80 degrees, and my mother wears winter clothes, a coat and a blanket in the house. She sometimes sweats through the clothes, but we can’t persuade her to remove any layers. The house is uncomfortably hot for anyone else, and yet she says she is cold.

Her general practitioner has said that this is part of her disease. Is there anything else you have heard of that could explain this? -- C.L. ANSWER: I have seen a lot of people with dementia of all kinds, but I haven’t personally seen this degree of intolerance to cold. Her doctor may have more experience than I do, but I didn’t find much about it written in the medical literature. Every person is different, and it’s possible this is just part of how the dementia is affecting her.

However, cold intolerance to this degree suggests some alternate possibilities. The most important and likely is low thyroid levels, which can also cause a condition that looks like dementia and would certainly make dementia worse. I bet her doctor has checked for it. If not done recently, she should have her thyroid level checked.

Other, less-common causes include Addison’s disease (inability to make appropriate amounts of steroid hormones), iron deficiency, anemia from any cause and severe malnutrition. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu.

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Peyton Manning. He was on the phone, and I had just snapped a photo of him in the most annoying way possible: I had my trusty Minolta set on the anti-redeye flash setting, the kind where the flash pops over and over again until your subject gets annoyed and stops smiling. And I’ll never forget what he said to me: “Dude ... what are you doing?”

That’s the same day I learned that photographers can’t just walk up to the Colts’ sideline and stick a camera in their quarterback’s face, even with the anti-redeye setting. What can I say? We were both rookies that season. I would later graduate to Kodak, Nikon and Cannon cameras, and Manning would go on to have a pretty decent career, too.

The first time I really started paying attention to Manning’s career was during his tenure at Tennessee. It’s funny to hear people knock his arm-strength now, because while he was in college, he was a straight-up gunslinger of a quarterback. I remember Steve Spurrier taunting him before big games. Nowadays, we all know not to overly criticize college players, ostensibly for the reason that they are kids and amateurs.

Over the years, at Indianapolis and Denver, we’ve had the distinct pleasure of watching Manning all but dominate the league. He wasn’t invincible, as his two Super Bowl losses proclaim, but he was the best in the game. He holds every record that matters: wins (200), yards from scrimmage, touchdowns and MVPs. He was the funniest athlete ever to host “Saturday Night Live”; he’s made “Omaha” the replacement term for “hike” in backyards across the country; and he gave the chicken parm sandwich its own, longoverdue jingle. That, right there, is worthy of considerable praise (and consideration for dinner tonight).

After winning the Super Bowl, his gratuitous beer name-dropping aside (no, he wasn’t paid to say that, but he does own a share of the brand’s beer distributorship in Louisiana, and one surmises he made his money back), his not stating the obvious ... that he was retiring ... was a class move. In doing so (or by not doing so) he kept the focus, rightly, on his team’s victory.

Should Manning retire? Of course he should. He is playing the most violent game in the world (next to fighting and hurling).

He has nothing left to prove, and he leaves as the world recognized as the best ever at his position. Granted, I would still pick Joe Montana to lead my team if my life depended on it, but I think Manning catches my drift.

You don’t get chances like this in life -- to leave on top -- you earn them. If he were to come back next year, rest assured, I’d break out the old Minolta. But this time I’d be the one asking what he was doing, dude.

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Pick out your favorites from this list of 10 boredom busters. Jot them down on your family calendar, and adapt them to the projects or birthday celebrations that your family has already inked in.

FUNSTUFF FOR FAMILIES: 1. There are more than 7,000 recognized living languages in the world today. Learn how to say “hello” in one that interests you.

Greet each other at the breakfast table in the language.

2. Go together to your public library and check out the latest happenings for kids. While you are at it, check out several storybooks, too. Set aside a special “library book” basket to store them at home between visits.

3. Draw a picture of an outdoor winter scene where you live. Scan and email it, or help your child address a big envelope to send the drawing via U.S. mail to someone special.

4. At lunchtime, name the foods on your plate and talk about where they came from.

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5. Draw eyes, a nose and mouth on your fingers with non-toxic washable markers to create finger puppets. Tell a story.

6. Citrus fruits evoke images of sunny beaches and warm places. For a healthy midday beverage, squeeze the sweet juice from oranges. Or, think “summertime” and squeeze some lemons for a pitcher of homemade lemonade.

7. Pop popcorn for an after-school snack.

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8. Make a dollhouse out of a cardboard box using supplies from your craft box and periodicals and clean containers from the recycle bin.

9. Pick a destination close to your home and walk, bike, skate or ski to get there. When you return, make hot chocolate and top with a dollop of whipping cream and a dash of cinnamon for an extra treat.

10. Shop together for the ingredients for sub sandwiches. At dinnertime, let the family build their subs assembly-line fashion. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday. com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2016 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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1/2 cup dry white wine 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour Kosher salt and pepper 4 medium carrots 2 stalk celery 1 onion 1 1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 sheet frozen puff pastry 1 egg 1 cup frozen peas 3 tablespoons fresh dill sprigs 1. In a 5- to 6-qt slow cooker, whisk together the wine, flour, 1/2 cup water, and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper.

2. Add carrots, celery, onion and chicken, and toss to combine. Cook, covered, until chicken is cooked through and easily pulls apart, 6 to 7 hours on low or 4 to 5 hours on high.

3. When the chicken has 30 minutes left to cook, heat oven to 400 F. Cut puff pastry into 8 rectangles and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush with the egg and bake until puffed and golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

4. Gently fold peas and dill into the chicken and vegetables and cook, covered, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Spoon into bowls, sprinkle with additional dill if desired, and top with the puff pastry. Serves 4.

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Called “Supportive Services Demonstration for Elderly Households in HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing,” it would work like this: Existing HUD-assisted senior developments can apply for three-year grants if they agree to provide services for aging in place, transitions to institutional care, housing stability, well-being monitoring and utilization of healthcare, such as emergency-room visits. The goal would be to avoid institutional care, the need for skilled nursing and expensive trips to the emergency room.

Developments will be required to have a fulltime, onsite service coordinator and a part-time, onsite wellness nurse to make assessments and coordinate care and support services.

The program would be a test to see if initial plans work and to evaluate the outcomes of the demonstration.

A model program was started in Vermont a few years ago, and there are many success stories to show the effectiveness: An isolated senior who missed doctor appointments can now get rides and has learned to get around independently; another with physical disabilities has been given referrals to physical therapists; a depressed senior was recruited as a volunteer and has become more social, and so much more.

These are the types of services we need if we’re to stay in our homes. Those development owners who want to apply have until April 18 to do so. See www.grants.gov, and look for FR5900-N-22. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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