The word “black” doesn’t mean just an object’s color — It has cultural and psychological meanings as well. This week, Tidbits explores a variety of ar-eas where we see both the color and the word.

• Thoseitemsthatareblackdonotreflectanyraysfrom the visible light spectrum. Rather, they ab-sorb the frequencies of all color pigments. The presence of all primary colors creates black. The absence of these results in white.

• Mostofusareawareofthesuperstitionthatifa black cat crosses our path, bad luck is on the way. However, in Great Britain and Ireland, that feline is a symbol of good luck. The Scots even believe that a black cat near their house means prosperity is imminent. The Japanese also look upon it as good luck, and that ladies who own one will have many suitors. The Germans are veryspecificabouttheblackcat’sroute—Ifitcrosses your path from right to left, it’s a bad omen,whilealefttorightcoursesignifiesfuturefavorable times.

• Ifyoudriveablackvehicle,supposedlyyouareempowered and not easily manipulated. You also love elegance!

• TotheJapanese,blackisthesymbolofnobility,age and wisdom. Contrast this with their view of white, which represents serfdom, youth and naïveté. In light of this, they award the black belt in martial arts as a symbol of achievement and seniority, as a sign that the individual has “blended the mind and body into one, into a uni-ty within oneself and with the universe.”

• Black History Month has been officially ob-served since 1976, when President Gerald Ford called on all Americans to recognize February as a time to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

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• On July 31, 1715, a hurricane strikes the east coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships carrying tons of gold and sil-ver coins and killing nearly 1,000 people. About 80 percent of the treasures was re-covered within a year, but the rest remained lost until the 1960s.

• OnAug. 5, 1858, the first telegraph lineacross the Atlantic Ocean is completed. Four British and American vessels met in mid-ocean and successfully laid 2,000 miles of cable, often at a depth of more than 2 miles.

• On Aug. 3, 1861, the last entry of Charles Dickens’ serialized novel “Great Expecta-tions” is published. Dickens’ father was thrown in debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail be-came topics of several of Dickens’ novels.

• On Aug. 2, 1876, “Wild Bill” Hickok, one of the greatest gunfighters of the Ameri-can West, is murdered in Deadwood, S.D. Hickok was playing cards with his back to the saloon door when a young gunslinger namedJackMcCallwalkedintothesaloon,approached Hickok from behind, and shot him in the back of the head.

• On Aug. 4, 1944, Jewish German-born Anne Frank and her family, who had been hiding in German-occupied Holland, are found by the Gestapo and transported to various concentration camps. The young girl’s diary of her time in hiding was found after her death and published in 1947 as “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

• On July 30, 1976, American Bruce Jenner winsgoldinthedecathlonattheMontrealOlympics and sets a world record in the event. After his win, Jenner was voted the 1976APMaleAthleteoftheYear.The1976Olympics was his last decathlon.

• OnAug.1,1981,MTV,theMusicTelevi-sion network, makes its maiden broadcast with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” The roughly 80 different vid-eos thatmadeupthatfirstweek’srotationonMTVprobablyrepresentednearlyeverypromotional music video then available.

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• TheancientAztecsviewedblackasthecolorofwar because black obsidian glass was used to make the cutting edges of their battle swords. Black also represented the institution of religion, because their priests wore only black.

• Traditionally,musiciansintheorchestrapitwearblack attire. This is not only because of the for-mal look, but more so, not to draw attention away from those performers on stage.

• Thewearingofblackclothingwhileinmourningdates back to the Roman Empire in the western world. However, in Japan, the color of mourning is white.

• Inthefieldofastronomy,ablackdwarfisastarthat has burned out, while a black hole is an area in space created from a collapsed giant star thathasrunoutoffuel.Matterandlightcannotescape the intense gravitational pull of a black hole, the weight of which is estimated at a mil-lion times as much as the sun.

• Old-fashionedblacklicoricegetsitsflavorfromthe root of the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, a legume related to beans. But the candy’s color comes from the addition of molasses to the batch, not from the licorice plant’s extract.

• Therewas the “Man inBlack” and therewere“Men in Black.” Country music icon JohnnyCash earned his nickname by wearing his trade-mark black clothing, including a long knee-length coat, differing from his country counter-parts who dazzled in rhinestone suits. Cash said hewrotehis1971hit“ManinBlack”onbehalfof the “poor and beaten down” and “the prison-er who has long paid for his crime,” as well as soldierskilledinVietnam,“thelives thatcouldhave been.” But initially, Cash and his band mates wore black shirts because it was the only matchingcolorshirttheyallhad!Thefirst“Menin Black” movie premiered in 1997; it was a sci-encefictioncomedyabouta secret agency thatmonitors alien activity in New York City. Clint Eastwood was chosen to play the lead character, but after he turned it down, Tommy Lee Jones was put in the role opposite Will Smith. Smith didn’t want the role of “J,” but his wife talked him into taking it. A sequel came along in 2002, andMIBIIIopenedinthespringof2012.

• More tea drinkers sip black tea than any othertype; it equals 90 percent of total tea consump-tion. Although black, oolong, green and white teas all come from the same shrub, black tea is more oxidized than the other three. Green tea undergoes minimal oxidation during process-

ing, and white tea is made with no fermentation whatsoever. White tea has the least caffeine, just 1 percent of what a cup of coffee contains. Black tea contains 20 percent of coffee’s caffeine.

• If you’ve been denied a particular privilege orrecognition, you’ve been blacklisted. The term also applies to those who have been rejected from workinacertainfield,oronewhohasbeenos-tracized from elite social circles. The word dates back to the 1600s, when England’s King Charles II compiled a list of 58 judges who had sentenced his father Charles I to death. When Charles II re-gained the throne 11 years later, 13 of those on his “blacklist” were executed, 25 were sentenced to life in prison, and the remainder escaped.

• Some clubs hold secret ballots to determinewhether an individual should be admitted. Those who vote against the person’s admittance “black-ball” him.

• Ifyou’rebittenbyamemberoftheLatrodectusgenus, most likely you won’t die. Although the venom of the black widow spider is quite potent, it usually only results in muscle aches, nausea or difficulty breathing, although it can be fatalto small children. And the spiders generally bite only in self-defense, for example, when a person sits on them. The female, famous for consuming the male after mating, is more than twice the size of her mate and has venom three times more po-tent. She can grow up to about 1.5 inches (37 mm). Not every female will have the trademark red hourglass on the abdomen — Sometimes there are two red spots, sometimes no markings at all. The male can often exhibit the hourglass as well, although its marking is usually yellow or white. F

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Q: My mother-in-law insistson cranking the old manual thermostat all the way to the left on a hot day. She says this will cool the house faster. When it gets too cold inside, she cranks it all the way to the right to turn off the air conditioner. How can I tell her that isn’t the most efficient wayto cool a house? --DamianL., Springfield,Mass.

A: Well, I’m no expert in how to break the news to someone who’s stubbornly insistent on doing things her way. But her method of controlling the air temperature is not only inefficient, it’s a quick way to break thethermostat. In fact, that may already have happened. Your mother-in-law is probably controlling the thermostat this way because she is not getting the comfortable temperature she wants when she sets the thermostat in the typical “comfortable” range of 65 F to 75 F. This may have happened from turning the control gauge too far left or right, or it may

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And a programmable thermostat can remove one chore from her to-do list: It can lower or raise the interior temperature of the house at set times, without her having to manually set the thermostat.

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• Sometimescalledparanutsorcreamnuts,Brazilnuts are grown in tropical South American rain-forests. Their name might be “Brazil,” but most of the world’s supply comes from Bolivia. The huge tree that produces them grows up to 150 feet (45.7 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) in diameter. The nuts form inside a hard pod about the size of a coconut, which holds between 15 and 25 nuts. Because these pods can fall from the tree without warning, harvesters wear wooden hats to protect their heads. Brazil nuts are high in fat, about 65 percent in content, which causes them to spoil more readily than other nuts.

• Wecallthempeanuts,butthey’renotreallynuts— Peanuts are legumes grown underground. Of all the nuts that Americans snack on, peanuts ac-count for two-thirds of the total, about 700 mil-lion pounds (317 million kg) every year. One acre of plants will produce 2,860 pounds (1,297 kg) of peanuts, enough to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches. One 18-ounce (.5 kg) jar of peanut butter requires 850 peanuts. Just over half of the U.S. crop comes from Georgia, with half of Georgia’s crop going to the manufacture of peanut butter. Chocolate manufacturers use about 20 percent of the peanut crop.

• Doyouhaveaphobiaaboutpeanutbutterstick-ing to the roof of your mouth? You suffer from arachibutyrophobia.

• What’sthedifferencebetweenafilbertandaha-zelnut? Nothing! They are one and the same. St. Philibert was a 7th century abbot who founded a French monastery. His feast day is August 22, thedayfilbertsripeninEngland,andhisaccom-plishments are commemorated by a nut bearing his name. French settlers introduced the tree to Oregon, where they are widely grown, making themthatstate’sofficialnut.

• WalnutsmusthavebeenapopularsnackinPom-peii. Archaeologists have found uneaten walnuts in the remains of the city, buried by the 79 A.D. eruptionofthevolcanoMt.Vesuvius.Awalnuttree can produce for nearly 100 years.

• Twovarieties of nuts arementioned in theBi-ble, almonds and pistachios. The almond is not a true nut, but rather a drupe, related to other stone fruits, such as peaches, plums, apricots and cher-ries. California is the world’s top producer of al-monds, although they are also grown in Spain, Syria, Iran andMorocco.These nutritious nutsareanexcellentsourceofprotein,potassium,Vi-tamin E and magnesium, and have been shown tohelp lowercholesterol.Twenty-fivealmondscontain only 160 calories, with one gram of satu-rated fat. Pistachios, mentioned in Genesis 43:11, comefromoneoftheoldestfloweringnuttrees,harvested for at least 9,000 years. A member of the cashew family, the pistachio is one of the lowest calorie nuts — about 100 calories for 30 nuts. They are also a good source of antioxidants, scoring higher than a cup of green tea.

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Situated near the banks of the River Jumna in northern India sits the world’s most stunning mau-soleum, visited by close to four million sightseers every year. This week, Tidbits has gathered some interesting information about theTajMahal, oneman’s monument to his beloved wife.

• The emperor Shah Jahanmet his future wifewhen he was just 15 years old and declared it wasloveatfirstsight.Althoughthecoupledidnotmarryforanotherfiveyears,theywerein-separable during the interim. Upon their mar-riage,hetitledhisbrideMumtazMahal,mean-ing “Chosen One of the Palace,” and he began construction of a luxurious royal home.

• In1631,theShahsetoutwithhisarmiestopac-ify an uprising. His wife chose to accompany him, which was not an unusual occurrence, ex-cept that she was advanced in pregnancy. After experiencing complications, Mumtaz Mahal,age 38, died shortly after the birth of her 14th child. With her dying breath, she asked her hus-band to promise to honor their love by building the world’s most beautiful mausoleum.

• Constructionof theTajMahalbegan in1632,and an estimated 20,000 laborers worked on the edificeoverthecourseofmorethan21years.A9.3-mile- (15-km) long ramp was built for drag-ging materials to the site. Teams of 30 oxen as well as 1,000 elephants pulled marble blocks to the sophisticated pulley system that raised the blocks into position.

• A huge gateway and arch welcome visitorsto the area, symbolic of the gateway through whichMohammedenteredParadise.Themar-ble portal of the main entrance is inscribed with the “promise of Allah,” which reads, “O thou soul at peace, return thou unto thy Lord. These are the Gardens of Eden, enter them and live forever.”

• Aminaretstandsateachofthefourcornersofthe pedestal platform on which the tomb rests. Each stands 130 feet (40 m) tall, the traditional components of mosques.

• Thereare42acresofgroundsinthecomplex,divided by four channels of water, which rep-resent the four rivers of Paradise mentioned in thesacredKoran.Colossalsunkenflowerbeds,trees, pools and fountains complete the magnif-icent landscape. The large white marble monu-ment with its distinctive onion dome appears pinkish in the mornings, a milky white during the evening, and golden in the moonlight.

• The interior is octagon-shaped, and thewhitemarble walls are inlaid with 35 different types of precious and semi-precious stones, includ-ing jade, jasper, turquoise, sapphires, pearls and lapis lazuli. Delicate motifs of flowers, vinesand fruits were meticulously crafted from the stones.

• BecauseMuslimtraditionforbidstheelaboratedecoration of graves, the actual tombs hold-ing the bodies of the Shah and his wife are in a much simpler crypt below the inner chamber. Their faces are turned towardMecca, Islam’sholycity.InscribedalongthesidesofMumtazMahal’stombare“The99NamesofGod,”in-cludingNoble,Magnificent,Majestic, Eternaland Glorious.

• ThereignofShahJahancametoanunfortunateend when his son plotted to overthrow him, im-prisoning his father in a tower and taking over the throne. From his window in his prison, Shah Jahan was able to view his beautiful monument. Upon his death, the son buried him next to his beloved wife. F

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• It was German-American painter and lithog-rapher Herm Albright who made the follow-ing sage observation: “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”

• It’s well-known that there were shortages of many items during World War II -- and caffeine was one. It was such a problem, in fact, that the chemists at Coca-Cola tried to findasubstitute,evenexperimentingwithaderivative of bat guano. The idea was nixed by an executive who was afraid of the public backlash if the truth ever came out.

• Justasagroupofbirds iscalledaflock,agroup of frogs is called an army.

• Ever wonder why a barber pole has red and white stripes? It’s a rather grisly tale. At one time barbers did more than cut hair; they sometimes performed marriages and bap-tisms, served as dentists and even performed surgery. When engaged in the medical work, any excess blood was soaked up by white towels, which were often hung up on a pole outside to dry. As the wind wrapped the tow-el around the pole, it created a design of red and white stripes.

• The1982film“Gandhi,”whichwasaward-ed eight Oscars, including the one for best picture, used a whopping 300,000 extras.

• ToiletpaperwasfirstintroducedintheUnit-ed States in 1857, but the idea didn’t take off -- the paper being offered was evidently too much like the paper in the Sears catalog, which is what most people used at the time.

• The most popular perfume in the world is Chanel No. 5.

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HOLLYWOOD -- Tom Cruise, who must have

been shocked by the failure of “Rock of Ages” (though he got good notices) and his recent marriage break-up, was stuck on location in Iceland, working on his lat-estfilm,“Oblivion,”andcouldn’tgo toNewYork toconfrontKatieHolmes.Thefilm,budgetedat$130mil-lionandco-starringMorganFreeman,ismorealongthelinesofhis“Mission:Impossible”franchise.It’saboutaveteran soldier sent to a far-off planet to destroy the re-mains of an alien race. It’s set for an April 2013 release. Meanwhile,noonewillconfirmifCruisewillplayop-posite Beyonce in “A Star Is Born.” Did “Rock of Ages” help, or hurt, his chances for that role?

Brad Pitt is before the cameras shooting “Twelve Years as aSlave”withMichaelFassbender,BenedictCumberbatch, Paul Giamatti and Alfre Woodard. The film,shootinginLouisiana,isaboutafreeblackmanliving in New York who is kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Pitt also is one of the producersofthefilmbeingdirectedbySteveMcQueen.ThenPittwillstaroppositeMichaelFassbender(again)and Oscar-winner Javier Bardem in “The Counselor” for Ridley Scott, who gave him his breakthrough role in l991’s “Thelma and Louise.”

People keep asking me what Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler were doing together at a recent Lakers

game. They don’t make the same kind of movies ... or do they? Actually, Jack has a small role in Sandler’s animated3Dfilm“HotelTransylvania,”due out Sept. 28. Sandler plays Dracula, and Nichol-son joins Selena Gomez (Justin Bieber’s girlfriend), Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Jon Lovitz,CeeLoGreen,SteveBuscemi,MollyShan-nonandDavidSpade.Dracula,whoownsafive-starresort catering to the world’s most famous monsters, invites his monster friends to celebrate his daughter Mavis’(Gomez)118thbirthdayparty.

Big Hollywood question: What went wrong with the recent film “Wanderlust”? Produced for$35millionbyJuddApatowandPaulRudd,amongothers, and starring Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Justin TherouxandAlanAlda,itonlymade$21,450,353attheworldwideboxoffice.WhileAnistonhitthebulls-eye with her over-the-top boss in “Horrible Bosses,” she must have thought this was a funny script about a married couple who accidentally wind upinahippiecommunehotel.Inthefilmshehasa sexual encounter with Justin Theroux’s character. They must have liked rehearsing a lot because, ac-cording to the tabloids, they probably will get mar-ried. Which only proves ... you don’t have to wander too far when the lust is that good!

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