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• On Nov. 9, 1965, a backup relay on one of the five main transmission lines failed at a station near Toronto. The electrical load shifted to the other four lines, which then became over-loaded and shut down. Within minutes, power plants in Canada, New York, and most of New England were out of service, putting 30 mil-lion people in the dark. In some areas, power was not restored for more than 12 hours. Nine months later, hospitals in the area noted a dis-tinct increase in the number of babies born.

• Janos Pek of Hungary had been confined to a hospital bed for 11 years after an accident left him paralyzed and mute. In 1975, he was lis-tening to the opening game of the soccer season on the radio. When the announcer described the tripping of a player of Pek’s favorite team, Pek shouted, “Penalty!” It was the first word he had spoken in over a decade. Though he remained paralyzed, he spoke normally after-wards. Incidentally, Pek’s team won the game.

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• Owen Rutherford was an attendant at the Lin-coln Park Zoo. One day he drove to the air-port to pick up some snakes being shipped in. It seemed to him that the deadly black mamba snake was dead. So he poked it with his finger. The snake was not dead. Rutherford recovered in a nearby hospital.

• Abie Goldberry was goalie on a Canadian junior ice hockey team in 1930. In the back pocket of his hockey shorts he kept a book of matches and a plastic comb. When a puck from a hard shot struck his back pocket, the friction caused the matches to ignite, melting the comb and setting his pants on fire. He was rushed to the hospital, and his team lost 2 - 0.

• A 1961 game between the San Francisco Gi-ants and the Philadelphia Phillies did not go well for the Giants, who lost 1-0. The Gi-ant’s manager, Alvin Dark, was so angry at the team’s poor performance that he stormed into the clubhouse, grabbed a metal stool, and threw it across the room. Unfortunately, his pinky finger got caught on a rough edge of the metal and the tip of it tore off. He was rushed to the hospital and stitched up, minus the miss-ing tip. His players felt bad, so to make their peace with him they found the tip of his finger, pickled it in alcohol, and presented the jar to him as a gift.

• George Watts of England liked being in the hospital. He liked the free room and board, and he especially liked being cared for by sympa-thetic nurses. So he made a habit of swallowing coins, then admitting himself to various hospi-tals across the country. He would complain of chest pains, doctors would remove the coins, nurses would care for him, and the government would pick up the tab. When the government figured out his scheme, he was sentenced to a year in jail for obtaining hospital care by de-ception.

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• Police officer Timothy Day of Indianapolis made a trip to the hospital after picking up a bag of cocaine to seize it as evidence, and a gust of wind blew the contents into his face.

• In 1970 in Indiana the parents of 15-month-old Rod-ney Brown were informed the child suffered from cys-tic fibrosis and would not live past his mid-teens. For the next decade, Rodney was subjected to all manner of medical procedures. In 1975 Rodney was chosen as Indiana’s cystic fibrosis poster child, and in 1976 he became the national poster child. He even met Pres. Ford. In 1980 the family moved to Maryland and took Rodney to see a new doctor. The new doctor found that Rodney did not have cystic fibrosis after all. He merely suffered from asthma.

• A psychic suffering from persistent headaches had a CT-scan. The dye they used, she said, made her feel like her head was going to explode. Afterwards she found her psychic powers had evaporated. She sued the hospital. Although the jury awarded her nearly $1 million, the judge threw out the verdict.

• In 1984 a 305-pound man in Virginia underwent a stomach-stapling operation to lose weight. He was still in the hospital two days later when he spied a refrigerator. He ate so much he popped the staples and required emergency surgery. He later tried to sue the hospital, saying they were negligent in al-lowing him near the fridge.

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• Nathaniel Lee was an author who suffered from bouts of insanity and was confined to Bedlam Hospital. A friend once visited him there. Lee showed him around, giving him a tour of the hospital. His conversation was so rational that the friend hoped that Lee might have recovered his sanity. His hopes were dashed, however, when they reached the roof of the building. “Let us achieve immortality by leaping down off this roof!” exclaimed Lee. Coolly, the friend replied, “Any man can leap DOWN off a building and there is no im-mortality in that. True immortality would be achieved by going to the pavement below and leaping UP!” Lee rushed quickly down the stairs to see if he could indeed achieve immor-tality this way.

• Catherine Yasinchuk came to the U.S. be-fore World War I at the age of 15. She spoke only her native Ukrainian. She married, had a child— and was devastated when they both died. She wandered the streets weeping. The police found her, but she only babbled incoher-ently. The police sent her to a mental hospital. She was 23 at the time. She lived there for the next 48 years, where everyone assumed she was insane because she was unable to com-municate. In 1968 a new director reviewed her case. An employee who spoke Ukrainian discovered she could communicate after all. She was released from the institute and went to live with the daughter of the woman in the personnel department. She died in 1983, hav-ing spent half her life in an institute because she spoke a different language.

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• Her appetite for knowledge was insatiable. She attended lectures and read widely. She studied literature, history and the natural sciences with a special emphasis on botany and astronomy. She had an aptitude for writing and produced a number of successful books.

• In 1841 she began teaching Sunday school at a women’s prison in Massachusetts, where she was horrified by the appalling treatment the prisoners were subjected to – especially the inmates who suffered from mental illnesses. It upset her that the mentally ill were housed alongside felons, which she felt was unfair. The prison had no heat and she immediately went to court in order to secure heat for the prison. This kicked off a life-long devotion to social reform.

• Following this experience, she set about to con-duct a statewide examination of how the state of Massachusetts cared for poor people who were also insane. Most towns simply hired lo-cal individuals to care for people with mental disorders. Because the system was unregulated and underfunded, there was widespread abuse. Dorothea presented a scathing report to the state legislature, pointing to numerous instanc-es where people had been chained, beaten, and starved. As a result of her lobbying, the mental hospital in Worcester, MA was expanded.

• Next Dorothea traveled to other states, work-ing tirelessly to instigate social reform for the mentally ill. She documented conditions, pub-lished papers, met with politicians, and worked with committees to draft new laws.

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direct result of her efforts. The institute that was built in Raleigh, North Carolina was named in her honor. Pennsylvania followed suit shortly afterwards and opened an asylum in Harrisburg.

• In 1854 she guided the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane through the United States Congress, which provided funds to build more asylums across the country. Although it was passed with broad support from both houses of Congress, the bill was vetoed by President Franklin Pierce, who felt that the federal gov-ernment should not be involved in social wel-fare, which was the responsibility of the states.

• Angry over the rejection of the bill, Dorothea traveled to Scotland and then to Nova Scotia where she continued her work. She mercilessly exposed the enormous disparity between pub-lic and private hospitals. After visiting with Pope Pius IX, he was moved to order the con-struction of a new hospital for the mentally ill.

• Dix returned to the United States in 1856. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, she volunteered her services and was named su-perintendent of nurses. She was responsible for setting up field hospitals and first-aid sta-tions, recruiting nurses, managing supplies, and setting up training programs.

• In 1881, Dix moved into the New Jersey State Hospital, which she had founded 40 years ear-lier. The state legislature designated a suite for her private use as long as she lived. She died on July 17, 1887.

• All in all, her tireless efforts over the course of 40 years directly led to the construction of 32 institutions for the care of the mentally ill in the U.S. and resulted in a major change in the way the mentally ill are treated.

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tion of one of his books. It was customary to have a brief summary included on the dust jacket of such books, along with a picture of an attractive woman. Burgess followed this custom with a twist. On the cover of his piece was an image of a woman with her hand held to her mouth, as if shouting. The caption for this image was “Belinda Blurb, in the act of blurbing,” and bold letters at the top of the dust jacket declared, “Yes, this is a Blurb!” The name stuck.• On an average day in the United States, there will be 10 reported UFO sightings. • It seems that artist Leon-ardo da Vinci pioneered the paint-by-numbers style of art. He would sketch a piece, then number certain sections for his assistants to paint. * * *Thought for the Day: “People demand freedom of speech to make up for the free-dom of thought which they avoid.” -- Soren Kierkegaard

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• Oatmeal has more protein than whole wheat. Samuel Johnson said oats are “a grain which is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.” A Scot replied, “That is why in England you have such fine horses and in Scotland we have such fine men.”

• Grape Nuts is one of the few cereals with no added sugar. It has nothing to do with grapes or nuts, being made out of wheat and barley. Charles Post named it Grape-Nuts because it tasted nutty and he thought its taste came from dextrose, called grape sugar at the time.

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• If all the shredded wheat biscuits consumed by Americans in a single year were placed end-to-end, they would circle the globe twice.

• After winning the Olympic decathlon in 1976, Bruce Jenner was signed up to sell Wheaties. On the air, Jenner claimed he had eaten Wheaties all his life. The assistant dis-trict attorney in San Francisco brought suit against General Mills, claiming consumer fraud. They felt that Jenner hadn’t really eat-en Wheaties all his life. Jenner challenged the DA to ask his mother. The suit was dropped.

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Reich would last for a thousand years, but Nazi Germany collapsed just 11 years later.

• On Aug. 1, 1943, a Japanese de-stroyer rams an American PT (patrol torpedo) boat, No. 109, slicing it in two. The destruction is so massive that other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead. Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kenne-dy, who would later become president.

• On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Ameri-cans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony, former President Harry Truman was enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card.

• On July 31, 1975, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing in Detroit. He was last seen alive in a parking lot outside the Ma-chus Red Fox restaurant the previous afternoon. Authorities have never been able to confirm what really hap-pened to Hoffa. He was declared le-gally dead in 1982.

• On Aug. 3, 1492, from the Span-ish port of Palos, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail in command of three ships -- the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria -- on a journey to find a western sea route to China, India and Asia. In October, Columbus sighted Cuba, which he thought was mainland China.

• On July 29, 1909, the newly formed General Motors Corporation acquires the country’s leading luxury automak-er, the Cadillac Automobile Company, for $4.5 million. Cadillac was founded out of the ruins of automotive pioneer Henry Ford’s second failed company. His third effort, the Ford Motor Com-pany, finally succeeded.

• On Aug. 4, 1914, as World War I erupts in Europe, President Wood-row Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States. How-ever, by June 1915, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France to begin training for combat.

• On Aug. 2, 1934, Chancellor Ad-olf Hitler becomes absolute dicta-tor of Germany under the title of Fuhrer, or “Leader.” The Fuhrerassured his people that the Third

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ticed the problems that farmers faced when attempting to till soil. Because the area had formerly been woodland, the soil was rich with hummus, which clumped and clung to the blades of the plows farmers were accus-tomed to using. While repairing a broken cir-cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He employed his smith skills to fashion the steel blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened to be observing the test run immediately put in an order for his own John Deere plow.

• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith shop and focused on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many em-ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago.

• With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic in-terests. He co-founded both the First Nation-al Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replace-ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reduc-ing the spread of disease.

• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri-ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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• The Trix rabbit is always trying to sneak a bowl of Trix cereal, but the kids constantly take it away from him, saying “Trix is for kids!” During the 1976 presidential elections, Gen-eral Mills worried that this might be teaching kids a bad thing: try as you might, you’ll never reach your goal. So they put it to the vote. By sending in box-top ballots, kids were asked to vote on whether or not the rabbit would get his Trix. 99% voted yes. Amidst great fanfare, the rabbit got to eat a whole bowl on the next commercial. Then, like Oliver Twist, he held out his empty bowl and asked for more— only to be told he had to wait for the next election.

• In 1964 both Kelloggs and Post introduced cereal that had freeze-dried fruit in it. They thought the fruit would absorb moisture from the milk and be reconstituted in the bowl. Un-fortunately it took so long for the fruit to rehy-drate that the cereal was hopelessly soggy by the time the fruit was edible.

• Indians brought popcorn to the first Thanks-giving dinner with the Pilgrims, and the Pil-grims liked it so much they later poured milk on it and ate it like cereal.

• Kellogg’s makes four out of the five most pop-ular cereals in America: Frosted Flakes, Corn Flakes, Raisin Bran, and Rice Krispies. Gen-eral Mills’ Cheerios is the fifth.

• Cheerios spend more on advertising than any other single food product.

• High sugar cereals are stored at the kid’s eye level whereas nutritious brands are placed at the adult eye level. Children’s cereals have an average of 44% sugar but adults have 10% sugar. An ice cream bar is 20% sugar, but Sug-ar Smack cereal is 61% sugar.

• 46% of Frosted Flakes are consumed by adults.

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