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INTERESTING EDIBLESby Sarah Bates

Food nourishes your body just like Tidbits nourishes your brain! Get a double helping with these bits and bites that you might not have known about the things we eat and drink!• Did you know there are over 300 different

varieties of honey in North America alone? Honey, a natural energy restorer, was not only used by ancient cultures but it has been found in ancient Egyptian tombs. There have also been discoveries of 4,500 year old Egyptians carvings which are some of the earliest depictions of bee keeping.

• Do you know what a pluot is? It’s a complex hybrid between a plum and an apricot. It’s traits tend to be more plum-like, with a smooth skin. They are very sweet and intense in flavor and very juicy. They are not to be confused with an aprium, which is also a plum/apricot hybrid that is 1/4th plum and 3/4th apricot. Another plum/apricot hybrid is the plumcot. What’s a plum+apricot+peach? That one’s called a Peacotum.

• The island nation of Grenada in the Caribbean was named for the pomegranate. So was grenadine syrup and the grenade. All come from the Latin root word punica granatum,which means pomegranate.

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TABLE OF CONTENTSISSUE 2009.29

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OFF THE WALL!by Patricia L. Cook

There have been important walls throughout history. Some for protection, some to keep people in or out, many as historical monuments and some just to keep tomatoes warm! • The walls of Jericho had been built and

rebuilt many times when Joshua and the Israelites arrived. According to Joshua 6 in the Bible, the Israelites marched around the city seven times, the priests blew their trumpets, the people shouted and the walls fell. Three major archaeological expeditions have uncovered evidence supporting the event.

• Quebec City is the capital of the province of Quebec, Canada and has the only historic city walls in the Americas north of Mexico. Construction of these walls began in 1694 and, following capture by the British via the “Battle of the Plains of Abraham” in 1759, they were fortified. If you visit and want to stay in the historic area, ask for a hotel “within the walls.”

• Wall Street in New York City really did begin as a wall! In the 1600s, Dutch settlers built a defensive wall to protect themselves from a possible British attack. The wall was later removed and a street was installed and named Wall, which is famous all over the world for its financial markets.

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1.`Is the book of Esther in the Old or New Testament or neither?2. Which of Jesus’ disciples walked on the water with Him?

Andrew, Peter, James, John3. From the Bible, who interpreted the handwriting on the wall?

David, Joseph, Daniel, Belshazzar4. Who was the other man on trial with Jesus that the crowd

freed? Barnabus, Barabbas, Pontius, Caesar5. How many days did Jesus pray in the desert? 3, 10, 20, 406. Where did the Lord tell Jonah to go? Jericho, Ninevah,

Jerusalem, Israel

ANSWERS: 1) Old; 2) Peter; 3) Daniel; 4) Barabbas; 5) 40; 6) Ninevah

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OFF THE WALL! (continued):• Galveston, Texas was a prominent city in the late 1880s with a busy port

for cotton and other exports as well as immigration. It was the “Wall Street of the South.” Its industrial and residential growth changed when a hurricane decimated the area in 1900. From 1902-1904 a massive seawall was constructed. At that time it was 3.3 miles (5.3 km) long. Today it is 10 miles (16 km) long, approximately 17 feet (5.2 m) high and 16 feet (4.9 m) thick at its base. Waves topped the seawall causing extensive damage when Hurricane Ike hit the area on September 12, 2008, forcing the first major repairs to the seawall in its 105 year history. Galveston is now open for business!

• “Wall Street” vs. “Main Street” are terms used to distinguish big business or wealthy interests from small business or middle class.

• Vancouver, BC has a seawall around the city’s first park which is one of its major tourist attractions. Stanley Park is 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of natural bliss. The seawall was started in 1917 for erosion control and it was not until 1980 that it became a fully completed paved loop. The seawall around the park is 5.4 miles (9 km) and part of the seaside path system.

• The Great Wall of China is approximately 5,000 miles (8046 kilometers) long. It consists of many walls that were connected in an attempt to protect China from Mongolian invaders. The longest manmade structure in the world was built over a period of 2,000 years. It was started in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) but most major construction was during the Ming Dynasty (1388-1644 A.D.). Hiking the wall allows you to feel ancient history under your feet!

Scammers Get CreativeScammers never go away. They just get more creative in their methods of getting you to part with your money. Here’s a sampling of current scams to watch out for:Scareware: Scam software that gets into your computer and makes you believe your machine has a virus. You’ll be notified with an urgent popup screen that says you need to download certain anti-virus software immediately or your computer will be in danger. The real danger is that you’ll fall for it and download (and pay for) the suggested software to fix the nonexistent problem.Foreign lotteries: If you get a call saying you’ve won a foreign lottery, hang up. One, you likely didn’t enter the lottery, and two, you surely didn’t give them your phone number. The scam comes in when you’re told that you need to pay fees in advance for various reasons.Charity scams: Anytime there’s a disaster, the scammers will hit you up for donations to help the victims. Many people would genuinely like to help, but beware who you give your dollars to. The more emotional the request for money, the more likely it is to be a scam. Stick with the big names such as the Red Cross or The Salvation Army if you want to respond to a disaster.Auctions: Foreclosed properties and seized cars have big scam potential. The ads make it sound like you can pick up a house for only a few thousand dollars or a vehicle for a few hundred. The scam comes when you’re asked to buy a guide to all the foreclosed properties and seized vehicles in your area. The guides aren’t cheap. If you give them your credit-card number, you’ve given them free license to charge more things to your card. To explore genuine foreclosed properties, start with the government’s Housing and Urban Development Web site at www.hud.gov.Census: The 2010 Census has plenty of opportunities for scams, and some have already surfaced. At this point, census takers are verifying addresses only. If someone appears at your door saying they’re from the Census and asking for information that includes your Social Security number or bank information, it’s a scam. Also beware of e-mail supposedly from the Census: You will not be contacted that way.

David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King

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• Pick up an old spice rack at a garage sale and use it to store art supplies. The ones that spin are really cool and can hold many different items.

• “If you’re thinking about sewing a Halloween costume, start looking through the remnant section of your fabric store for good deals. This is especially true if you have little ones to sew for. You can find small but valuable pieces of good, fun fabrics at a great price cut.” -- W.E. in Missouri

• Here’s another tip from M.W. in Saskatchewan, Canada: “Moth balls repel bees and wasps, cats, mice, skunks, raccoons and deer.” Too true!

• “My son loves to bring his little cars with him, but he has a habit of mixing them with other kids’ cars. We used a bright color of nail polish to make a mark on the underside of each of his cars. Now there’s no argument -- he knows which are his.” -- P.L. in Connecticut

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• Wall Drug is not a historic or defensive wall… but is historical in its own rite! More than 2.2 million visitors a year stop at the gigantic shopping experience on Interstate 90 in Wall, South Dakota. It is 77,000 square feet (app. 7153 square meters) and claims its impetus for growth was signs offering free ice water.

• Have you heard of the “Green Monster?” It is the nickname for the 37 foot 2 inch tall (11.3 meters) left field wall at Boston’s Fenway Park. Baseball fans are surely aware of this famous landmark. In early days it was called “The Wall.”

• Following a 1995 mudslide onto the town of La Conchita, California, Ventura County spent $450,000 to construct a retaining wall for protection against future mudslides. A second mudslide in 2005 proved the wall to be insufficient as cascading mud and rock overcame it. La Conchita is in a beautiful area near Santa Barbara, but may be a little too precarious for most of us!

• At the first Battle of Bull Run, in the U.S. Civil War, on July 21, 1861, General Thomas J. Jackson was nicknamed “Stonewall.” General Bernard E. Bee declared, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.”

• The Western Wall in Jerusalem is also called the “Wailing” Wall. It is considered the holiest shrine of the Jewish world. It is part of the retaining wall supporting the original temple built by King Herod in 20 B.C. There were times in early history as well as from 1948-1967 that Jews were not permitted to visit the wall. In 1967, the Six-Day War gave new access to the wall. Written prayers are placed in cracks in the wall.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Three years ago, my husband had a pacemaker put in his chest. Since then he has anchored himself to his easy chair. He’s afraid to do anything that requires even slight exertion. He gets up, eats breakfast, reads the paper in his chair, comes to lunch, eats again, takes a nap, watches TV, eats dinner and goes back to his chair for the evening. This is living?Will you talk some sense into him? -- T.R. ANSWER: Unless his doctor has told him not to do anything physical -- and that would be most unusual advice -- your husband’s inactivity harms his heart. He needs daily exercise, and a pacemaker isn’t a reason not to exercise. He can have his doctor verify this. Physical activity is one of the cornerstones of heart health and is as important as cholesterol control.

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• For 28 years, from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier between East and West Berlin. It separated the Soviet-controlled communist East from the democratic West. The wall divided families and caused people to lose jobs when they couldn’t cross either way. Today, the Haus Am Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin is full of information about the split and the unification. Now, Germany is one democratic country where the citizens elect leaders, have freedom of speech, and freedom to come and go. A few sections of the wall remain as memorials as well as 12 miles (20 km) marked with a red line or cobblestones where the wall once stood.

• The Vietnam Memorial, in Washington, DC is often referred to as “The Wall.” It consists of two black granite walls 246 feet 9 inches (75 m) long. One wall points toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Memorial.

• The Chinese glued rice paper on walls as early as 200 B.C. However, Jean-Michel Papillon, a French engraver, is considered to be the inventor of wallpaper in 1675. He made block designs of continuously matching patterns.

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A Difficult Year for Harvick, RCRFor Kevin Harvick, it’s been a rough year. For Harvick’s team, Richard Childress Racing, it’s been a rough year.Harvick and his teammates -- Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton and Casey Mears -- are all trapped outside the Chase for the Sprint Cup, hoping that a victory will earn some attention in a setting where the 12 contenders make everyone else seem irrelevant by comparison.Notwithstanding a recent runner-up finish at Atlanta, Harvick and his No. 29 Shell/Pennzoil Chevrolet have been significantly off their game. A 32nd-place finish in New Hampshire left Harvick 22nd in the Sprint Cup point standings. He’s finished in the top five only three times all year, and his top-10 finishes number only five.A year ago, all three RCR Chevys (a fourth was added before this season) made the Chase. Harvick, who is from Bakersfield, Calif., finished fourth in the final point standings, but he hasn’t actually won since the 2007 Daytona 500.

“Well, our cars have run fairly well for the last seven, eight weeks,” said Harvick, 33. “We just wind up wrecked or something stupid happening for the last little while. Seems like everything that’s been happening has just kind of piled on.“You know, any momentum is in a good ... in a good direction is a positive thing for us. It lets us know that we do remember how to race, just overcome a lot of things and hopefully keep it going.”Harvick made those remarks after the second-place finish on Sept. 6 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Since then, he’s finished ninth at Richmond and 32nd at New Hampshire.Childress, a former driver who enjoyed his greatest success while the late Dale Earnhardt was winning six of his seven championships in his cars, has had to face a cutback in support from General Motors. He said recently that he expects to field four Chevrolets again next year.“Who knows what will happen? There are a lot of things moving forward, you know. I look around the garage, and there’s some of the press and some of the other companies that were in here that have made cutbacks, too,” said Childress. “We’ve all just got to adjust for these times, and racing is no different.“Were in the greatest country in the world, and we will survive this.”

Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette since 1993. He was named writer of the year by the National Motorsports Press Association in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week (http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing, roots music and life on the road. E-mail Monte at [email protected]. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.


TIDBITS ALL OVER THE WORLD:

CHINAThe People’s Republic of China is the fourth largest country in the world by area but number one in population. The estimated population in mid-2008 was 1,330,044,544.

• In 1979, Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping established the “one child policy” to limit population growth. Although called a temporary measure, the policy is still enforced today.

• Most people outside of China don’t realize that the policy is not all-encompassing. It is for the Han Chinese in urban areas and does not apply to those living in rural areas and ethnic minorities.

• Han Chinese are 92% of the population of China. Fifty-five minority ethnic groups make up the remaining 8%. Within those groups the language variations are baffling! For example, among the Yi minority group there are seven million people and six distinct languages with many dialects.

• Most Yi live in mountainous areas of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. Only about one-third are literate, most without a written language.

• Zhongdian, a small township in Yunnan in southwestern China, had its name officially changed to Shangri-La in 2002. The name “Shangri-La” was made famous in the 1933 novel, The Lost Horizon, by James Hilton.

• In June, 2007, Potatso National Park, China’s first national park, opened in Shangri-La. In contrast, Yellowstone was the world’s first national park and opened in 1872. There are 9,800 national parks around the world.

• Like to hike? A fantastic spot for those who love the outdoors is Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province. It is one of the world’s deepest river canyons.

• Communist forces took over Beijing (Beiping at the time) on January 31, 1949 without a fight. Mao Zedong raised the new flag over Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949.

• Tiananmen Square is the largest public square in the world, at 99 acres (40 hectares).

• Tourism in China was almost non-existent between 1949 and 1974. In 1978 there were only 230,000 foreign tourists. By the mid-1980s, two hundred and fifty cities had been opened for tourism.

• In 2008 China became the 22nd country to host the Olympics. With the publicity boost from the Beijing Olympics, the World Tourist Organization is predicting China will become the hottest tourist destination in the world by 2010 estimating that 137 million tourists will visit China.

• China uses the same time zone for the entire country even though the official time zone map shows that it should have five zones. It was Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming, in 1878, who proposed dividing the globe into 24 time zones.

• The Chinese put a lot of credence into the importance of numbers. Eight is associated with prosperity, so the Beijing Olympics began on 08-08-2008 at 8:08 PM.

• Number nine, the largest single digit, was historically associated with the Emperor. At the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace and many other ancient sites, the number nine is evident in the buildings, bridges, etc.

• Chinese dictionaries list about 56,000 characters, but knowledge of the 3,000 most used will allow you to read about 99% of newspapers and magazines.

• It was actor, senator and erstwhile presidential candidate Fred Thompson who made the following observation: “After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.”

• With an area of less than 1,000 square miles, the tiny Western European nation of Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in the world, and it is the world’s only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy. Considering the country’s longstanding adherence to tradition, it is perhaps unsurprising that the national motto is “We want to remain what we are.”

• When you recycle an aluminum can, it’s possible for that can to be processed, reused and back on the shelf within 60 days.

• The skateboard was invented in California in the 1950s by surfers who wanted to continue their favorite activity even when they weren’t in the water.

• The decadence of France under Napoleon’s rule is legendary, and the luxury wasn’t reserved solely for people. It was not uncommon for pet dogs of the wealthy nobility to have their fur waxed and styled with hot rollers in imitation of Princess Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III.

• Statistics show that more babies are born during the waning moon than during the waxing moon.

• Those who study such things say that the average office desk carries 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

• When creating its cocoon, the silkworm spins a continuous thread more than a thousand yards long, or 12,000 times the length of its own body. To accomplish a comparable feat, a 6-foot-tall man would have to spin a thread that stretched unbroken for 15 miles.

• You may be surprised to learn that the onion is actually a lily, botanically speaking.

Thought for the Day: “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -- Roald Dahl

(c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.

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