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with a sturdy knot. After starting Goodyear he continued creating new inventions and gained 19 more patents to his credit.

• This was a busy week in 1931 for baseball great Lou Gehrig. On September 1, he hit his third grand slam in four days, and his sixth home run in that same period. Earlier in the week, he had wrapped up knocking in runs in ten consecutive games, a total of 27 RBIs. The following year, he became the first player to hit four home runs in the same game.

• Gehrig continued to play for the Yankees through the 1938 season, but in June of 1939 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on his 36th birthday. He retired two days later after a record-breaking 2,130 consecutive games. The team retired his uniform number “4,” the first player in baseball history to receive that honor. Gehrig lived with his condition nearly two more years, passing away 17 days before his 38th birthday.

• Also on September 1, 1985, and after 73 years of resting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard finally discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. The huge sunken vessel lay in two main sections 12,415 feet below the surface and more than 13 miles from the location given by the ship’s radio operators on the fateful night of April 15, 1912. The two sections were more than a third of a mile apart, 370 miles south of Newfoundland. Ballard used an unmanned submersible craft fitted with cameras to locate the shipwreck.

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The following year there were just two Edsel models and sales had dropped to a level that ultimately caused Ford to abandon the Edsel altogether in November of 1959.

• While few people wanted to own an Edsel back in the 50s, the story is quite different today.

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* It’s not unusual to cry at weddings, but in certain parts of China, weeping is a required part of preparation for the big day. A month before they tie the knot, Tujia brides will cry for one hour each day. Ten days in, they’re joined by their mothers; ten days after that, grandmothers, and eventually other female family members. The practice is said to date to China’s Warring States era when the mother of a Zhao princess broke down in tears at her wedding. * The Chinese soft-shelled turtle urinates from its mouth. * Kite flying is an official sport in Thailand. * Too much sunlight can damage the algae that live inside shallow-water coral and are the main source of its sustenance.

To protect this algae, the corals fluoresce, creating proteins that essentially serve as a sunscreen. * The Greek national anthem consists of 158 verses. * We all know hiccups can be annoying, but at least they tend to pass quickly -- unless you were Charles Osborne, who began hiccupping in 1922 after a fall while attempting to weigh a hog before slaughtering it, and continued doing so for a total of 68 years. That’s an estimated 430 million hiccups! * Leeches have a brain in each of their 32 body segments. * Looking to expand your ice-cream palate? Masiwa, a cafe chain in South Korea, offers a black-hued, squid ink-flavored version, served in glasses with an octopus mascot. *** Thought for the Day: “The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of ‘whoop-ass,’ justifiably, when one’s button is pushed.” -- T. F. Hodge (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Typically, dorm rooms are not spacious.

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Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. First on the to-do list: Rid your house of those rawhides! It’s not going to hurt Rowdy to go without rawhides until he learns to let go of them, and you are likely to get hurt if you don’t cut off his supply.

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“Rowdy is a wonderful, loving and friendly dog … 99 percent of the time. When we try to take his rawhide from him, he growls and lunges and tries to bite if reprimanded. And when we put him in his crate for a timeout, he growls and darts into a corner. When we calmly try to get him out of the corner to go to the crate, he growls and barks and bares his teeth and will lunge at us before running into his crate. Once in his crate, if we look at him or talk to him, he bares his teeth, barks, growls, snaps, lunges and snarls. We have never hit him or punished him in any way other than time out in his crate.

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Anyway, there’s really nothing that you, as a consumer of SSA services, can do about that. But what you can do is follow the mantra I’ve preached over and over again in this column: ALWAYS INSIST ON FILING A CLAIM FOR BENEFITS. If you think you are due benefits, but an SSA rep says no, you have every right to still file a claim. That way you will get a formal and legal decision about your eligibility, and not just some SSA rep’s opinion on the matter. Here are some examples of what I’m talking about.

Neither of us has remarried. We are both 62 years old. Based on something you wrote in a past column, I figured I could start getting spousal benefits now on his record even though my ex-husband plans to wait until he is 70 to file for his Social Security. I called my local Social Security office and talked to a really kind person. She explained to me as politely as possible that the law said I cannot get benefits on his record until he is claiming benefits himself. Was this good information?

Q: My 78-year-old husband recently died. He waited until 70 to file for benefits. He was getting $3,555 per month. I took benefits at 66. I am getting $2,810 per month. I called SSA to ask about widow’s benefits. The agent told me I am only due his age 66 rate, which he said was $2,740. And because my own retirement check is more, he said I was due no widow’s benefits. I would like your take on this.

A: No, it was bad information. The agent you talked to might have been really kind. But she wasn’t really well-trained. While it is true that a woman who is still married to her husband can’t get benefits on his account until he signs up for Social Security himself, it is conversely true that a divorced woman can claim spousal benefits even if her ex hasn’t yet applied for Social Security. He has to be old enough to get benefits, meaning he has to be at least 62 years old. But he doesn’t need to be getting checks himself. So you need to reconnect with SSA and insist on filing a claim.

A bit of a follow-up. In this case, the woman did just that. But she was still given a little grief.

I think the “kind person” used these words: “Who are you going to trust? A trained SSA representative? Or some old guy who writes a newspaper column?”

Anyway, I told her to go back to the agent and tell her to look in SSA’s instruction manual using the term: “independently-entitled divorced spouse.” That’s what the rulebook calls a divorced woman who can collect benefits from her ex’s Social Security record independent of his entitlement to benefits.

These are the columns I hate to write. Columns that are critical of some of my former colleagues at the Social Security Administration. But doggone it. Almost every day, I hear from readers who have been misled by an SSA representative.

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Q: I just reached my full retirement age of 66 and two months. I’m still working full time. I called SSA to file for widow’s benefits. (My husband died several years ago.) I wanted to take those benefits now, and then at 70, switch to my own Social Security with the bonus for delayed retirement. But the agent I talked to, a really nice young man, said this special loophole in the law was no longer available to me. Is this true?

A: Well, just like the last questioner, you got a “nice young man,” but sadly, not a fully trained young man. He is mixing an apple and an orange.

The loophole he referred to affected people getting Social Security retirement benefits. If they turned 66 before Jan. 2, 2020, they could claim dependent benefits on a spouse’s record and save their own retirement benefits until age 70. So unless you were born before Jan. 2, 1954, that loophole is indeed closed.

But a similar loophole has always been available to widows, and it remains available to them still today. So call Social Security back and tell them you want to file for widow’s benefits now, and at 70, you plan to switch to your own augmented retirement benefits.

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