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America is a culture that loves good food. The proliferation of successful cooking shows on TV like “Master Chef” and “Chopped” has given rise to the “celebrity chef.” Yet perhaps the most beloved chef since the advent of television isn’t on TV anymore. That’s Julia Child.

• Shewasbornin1912inPasadena,California.Her father Johnwas a graduate of Princetonand a California real estate investor, andher mother, also named Julia, was a paper-company heiress.

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feed, fuel and industrial products; 2) popcorn; 3) food-grade corn, used for numerous food products like corn bread and tortillas; 4) sweet corn, the best to eat; and 5) seed corn, grown for ker-nels to be used for the next year’s crop. • Most things in nature that have rows or lines tend to grow in even num-bers. This comes about with cell division; one cell dividing into two and continu-ing evenly. Corn kernels always grow in an even number of rows. An average ear of corn has 800 kernels in 16 rows.• One of the primary uses of field corn is animal feed. Approximate-ly 40 percent of the U. S. corn crop is used as livestock and poultry feed. • Included in this 40 percent is the production of distiller’s grain, a co-product from ethanol production that is a great supplement for animal feed.• Another use of field corn is etha-nol production. In 2010, 36.5 percent of the U.S. corn crop was used to pro-duce ethanol. Ethanol is a clean alterna-tive fuel that is blended with 70 percent of the gasoline produced in the United States and comprises about 4.6 per-cent of total U.S. gasoline consumption.• Lastly, field corn is used for a variety of industrial products, includ-ing bioplastics, fabrics, crayons, com-postable tableware and food containers.• Popcorn has been part of Ameri-can cuisine since before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. In fact, research indicates that likely an-cestors of Native Americans enjoyed popcorn before the birth of Christ.• Nutritionally, popcorn is a good source of fiber and complex carbohy-drates yet low in fat and calories, mak-ing it a great between-meal snack. Air-popped popcorn contains 31 calories per cup, oil-popped popcorn contains 55 calories per cup, and lightly but-tered popcorn contains 133 calories per cup. Three cups of popped popcorn equals one serving from the grain group.• Reports in March 2012 from a study

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conducted at the University of Scranton indicated that the crunchy hull of popcorn is rich in polyphenols. Polyphenols are antioxidants that prevent damage to cells and may have disease-fighting properties.• By the way, when popcorn pops, it forms two basic shapes: snowflake and mushroom. Movie theater and ball-park popcorn are snowflake-shaped because this form looks and pops big-ger. Mushroom popcorn is used more for candy because it doesn’t crumble. • Sweet corn differs from other corn varieties in that it is genetically distinct and accumulates twice the amount of sugar as field corn. The sought-after taste of sweet corn is best experienced by eat-ing it directly off the cob. The Papoon variety of sweet corn, the first variety acquired by European settlers in North America, can be traced back to the Iro-quois tribe of Native Americans in 1779.• Constantine, Michigan, pro-claims itself the “Seed Corn Capi-tal of the World.” Reportedly, 20 per-cent of the seed corn production in the United States occurs in greater Con-stantine and the surrounding counties.• Food-grade corn comes generally as either white corn or yellow corn. Yellow corn is more prevalent, but with

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• On Aug. 28, 1774, Elizabeth Ann Bayley is born in New York City. She went on to found the first Catho-lic school and the first female apostolic community in the United States. She also was the first American-born saint beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

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• On Aug. 27, 1883, the most powerful volcanic erup-tion in recorded history occurs on Krakatau (also called Krakatoa), a small island located in Indonesia. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw 5 cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air and created 120-foot tsunamis.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: For many years, I had heartburn, and I lived with it by taking things like Tums. Finally, I consulted a doctor, who referred me to a gastroenterologist because he was alarmed at the length of time I’d had it. The gastroenterologist gave me a scope exam of my esophagus and stomach. It turns out I have GERD and something called Barrett’s esophagus, which turns into cancer. Naturally, I am nervous. I’ve never heard of heartburn-caused cancer. How often does that happen? -- A.S.

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the swelling Latino population in the United States and the fact that white corn is preferred for Latino recipes (for ex-ample, Mexican tortillas), the demand for food-grade white corn is increasing.• Corn is one of the most pervasive food ingredients in the world today. Con-sider this list of corn-containing foods that is significant but far from complete: bak-ing mixes, baking powders, cornbread, corn flakes, Fritos, grits, hominy, marga-rine, popcorn, tortillas. Consider also the many non-food items that contain corn: aspirin, cough syrups, envelopes, gela-tin capsules, powders, stamps, starched clothing, talcums, toothpaste, soaps and vitamins. Corn is actually an ingredi-ent in more than 3,000 grocery products!• There are many corn festivals across the United States, mostly in August and September. There are even some corn festivals in Canada. Probably one of the biggest and longest-running annual festi-vals is the Mendota Sweet Corn Festival in Mendota, Illinois. In its 65th year, the fes-tival serves free corn that has been cooked “with the help of a vintage steam engine.”

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1. Is the book of Merab in the Old or New Testament or neither?2. Who does Paul call “our dear friend, the doctor” in Colossians 4? Jesus, Mark, Luke, Asa3. Jesus was about how much younger than John the Baptist? 12 days, 6 months, 1 year, 3 years4. David captured the fortress associat-ed with which mountain? Zion, Nepal, Rahab, Carmel5. James and John were called Boan-erges, meaning “Sons of” what? Israel, Bethel, Thunder, Hadad

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As part of the Jefferson National Ex-pansion Memorial in St. Louis, Mis-souri, the Gateway Arch is the tall-est national monument in the United States. At 630 feet (192 m), the arch is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. • The base width is also 630 feet (192 m). The foundations for the arch were sunk 60 feet (18 m) into the ground. It is built to withstand earth-quakes and to sway up to 18 inches (46 cm) in 150 mph (241 km/hr) winds. • Opened in 1965, the striking stainless steel structure offers spec-tacular views from the observation room at the top. Eero Saarinen, an ar-chitect from Detroit who had emmi-grated from Finland with his family at the age of 12, won the competition for the honor to design the monument to westward movement. Thomas Jeffer-son’s vision to spread freedom and de-mocracy from “sea to shining sea” was the inspiration for Saarinen’s design.• The city of St. Louis was quite significant in the westward movement, considered the “Gateway to the West.” The Jefferson National Expansion Me-morial is a memorial to Jefferson’s role in expanding the country to the west. The park consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expan-sion and St. Louis’ Old Courthouse. • Construction of the Arch oc-curred from February 12, 1963, until the last section was put in place on October 28, 1965. The cost was $13 million.• More stainless steel was used to build the Arch than for any oth-er project in history: Nine hundred tons (900,000 kg). The Gateway Arch weighs 17,246 tons (17,240,000 kg).

1. Jeff Bagwell, in 1991.2. Bill McKechnie (Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati).3. Ron Yary in 1968 (Minnesota) and O.J. Simpson in 1969 (Buffalo).4. Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki did it in the 2000-01 season.5. Jaromir Jagr, with 16.6. It was the 2000 Summer Olympics.7. Mike Reid, in the 1976 U.S. Open.

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