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Kelly, emerald, olive, lime, chartreuse, sage or forest … No matter how you say it, the color is green! This week, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Tidbits brings you facts about all things green. • Located on the color spectrum at a wavelength of about 520 to 470 nanometers, the color green is cre-ated from a mixture of yellow and blue. Celadon is a shade of green that is a pale tint of spring green, while chartreuse is a pale apple green. Viridian is a dark blue-green color, whose chemical name is hydrated chromium oxide. The facility belonging to comic ac-tion heroes the X-Men is colored viridian. • Beginning in 1903, Crayola offered one green crayon, simply called “green.” Sea green, spring green and olive green were made available in 1949, and in 1958, the company introduced forest green. Ultra-green came along in 1972, and since then, the compa-ny’s more creative green names have included electric lime, jungle green, magic mint, asparagus, Caribbean green, fern green, Granny Smith apple, inch worm, mountain meadow and tropical rainforest. • The waiting room for performers or speakers sched-uled to appear on stage is called the Green Room. Al-though historically painted green, most modern Green Rooms are not.
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GREEN THINGS (continued):• If a company is guilty of green-washing, they are misleading consumers by proclaiming that they im-plement positive environmental practices that don’t exist or can’t be substantiated. The company might falsely claim that they use recycled content in their product, or advertise one small truth to distract con-sumers from a larger falsehood. • The word green has found its way into many terms in the English language. If you’re a green-horn, you’re an inexperienced beginner. When the green-eyed monster rears its ugly head, it represents jealousy; similarly, an individual can be green with envy. Those who have the ability to make anything grow are said to have a green thumb. If you have a roll of greenbacks, your pocket is full of U.S. cur-rency. Not feeling well? You might be described as green around the gills. • Members of the Green Party focus on the envi-ronment, equal opportunity, social justice and non-violence. It is their platform that, “every human be-ing deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives.” The party does not accept corporate dona-tions, shunning corporations’ influence and control over government and the media. Probably the most famous Green Party member is Ralph Nader. • The blue-green color of teal was named for the Common Teal, also known as the Eurasian Teal, a common breed of duck, which is the smallest “dab-bling” duck. This means it feeds at the surface of the water rather than by diving. The Teal’s green eye patch dominates the bird’s otherwise chestnut-colored head. • The myrtle plant is the source of the green color by the same name, a very dark shade, darker than spinach. Plants in the same family as the myrtle in-clude the clove, guava, allspice and eucalyptus. • Most people won’t recognize the name of Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum, but baby boomers will remem-ber him as the overall-wearing sidekick of chil-dren’s television’s Captain Kangaroo. Aptly named Mr. Green Jeans, Brannum appeared as the handy-man at the Treasure House from 1955 to 1984.
• We know the Trifolium repens by another name — the white clover, but more commonly, the sham-rock. Taken from the Irish word, seamrog, mean-ing “little clover,” this white-flowered perennial was regarded by early Celts as a charm against evil spirits. Legend has it that St. Patrick used the little three-leafed plant to illustrate the doctrine of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — to the Irish people, demonstrating how each leaf was separate yet joined together in a single stem. Most Irish brides include shamrocks in their bridal bou-quet as well as in the groom’s boutonniere.
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Bees, wasps, spider, ants, centipedes, and most creepy/crawlies have stings, venom and make a poor meal. Cats are attracted to motion and the thrill of the hunt.
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On behalf of the participants, staff and board of directors of the Sky Cliff Adult Day Care and Stroke Center I thank you and all the individuals that participated in and/or donated to the Helping Hands Work Project. The work completed is truly beyond words of appreciation, but is reflected in the smiles and hearts of our participants and staff. The Sky Cliff Center was blessed by the outpouring of support from the Douglas Elbert REALTOR® Association.
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For thousands of years the ruby has been consid-ered the undisputed ruler in the world of gems with many hailing it the “King of Gemstones”! It has beautiful color, exceptional hardness, and a brilliance fit for a king’s crown making it one of the most valuable gemstones on earth, able to bring as much or more than a diamond of comparable size. The most important feature of a ruby is its color with its transparency being of secondary importance. Inclusions, the solid, liquid, or gaseous foreign bodies enclosed within in a ruby, will not prejudice the quality of a ruby unless they diminish its transparency or are located right in the center of its table. Inclusions can even increase the value of a ruby because it is consid-ered a fingerprint of the stone providing evidence of individuality and giving proof that it is of natural origin. The most important ruby deposits in the world are found in the small town of Mong Hsu in the North-East of Myanmar (Southeast Asia). Deposits are also found in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Tanzania with minor deposits in other places around the world including Montana and North Carolina. Beware of many imitations on the market, especially glass imitations and doublets (counterfeit gems made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass). If you find the perfect ruby, may I suggest you buy it! It will cost you a small fortune but will bring you great pleasure, and will be an investment well worth keeping.
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• The color green is considered sacred in the Islam religion as a symbol of vegetation and new life. Folklore states that Muhammad was especially fond of the color and wore a green cloak and tur-ban. According to the Koran, inhabitants of Para-dise will dress in fine garments of green silk. Sev-eral Islamic nations incorporate the color into their flags; in fact, the flag of Libya is simply a green field, with no other colors, designs or details.
• That pigment in plants and algae that makes them green is known as chlorophyll, and it is necessary for the process of photosynthesis. Chlorophyll ab-sorbs sunlight and uses that energy to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water. Leaves change color in the fall because the chloro-phyll in the leaves begins to decay. • A gentleman in China who wants to express his love for his sweetheart will give her a gift of jade. In this culture, this gemstone indicates eternity, and is given to convey deep eternal love, similar to the symbol of gold and diamonds in the Western world.
• At the end of the yellow brick road in the Land of Oz is the Emerald City, home of the famous Wizard. In L. Frank Baum’s legendary novel, all those entering the Emerald City were made to wear green-tinted eyeglasses that made everything look green, although the City was “no more green than any other city.” • Can you imagine the Wicked Witch of the West without her trademark green makeup in the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz”? The makeup, which took two hours every day to apply, achieved its distinctive color from a dangerous chemical, cop-per oxide, and actress Margaret Hamilton had to exercise extreme caution when eating meals while wearing it, so as not to ingest any. It became even more dangerous when Hamilton was making her spectacular exit from Munchkinland via an eleva-tor in a trap door on the set. When the burst of real fire came up, her makeup ignited, causing painful burns that required six weeks to heal. • The mineral beryl, which is actually beryllium aluminum silicate, is a colorless crystal. But add a couple of impurities to the mineral, specifically chromium and vanadium, and the beryl crystal be-comes a beautiful green color. The new stone is called an emerald! Although emeralds are mined primarily in Colombia, they can also be found in Australia, Canada, India, Italy, France, Germany and Nigeria, among several other places. They have also been found in the U.S. states of Connect-icut, Montana, Nevada and the Carolinas.
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practicing there with his brothers, using wooden kitchen spoons as hockey sticks and bottle caps as pucks. It only made sense for their father to pour a rink on the front lawn shortly afterward. • When Lemieux was drafted by the Penguins in 1984, the team was in deep financial trouble and the relocation rumors were flying. Ten years prior, the team had declared bankruptcy, and by the time of Lemieux’ first season, was drawing less than 7,000 fans per game and seemed unable to fill its arena to even half-capacity. • During his rookie season, Lemieux not only played in the NHL All-Star game, he was named that game’s MVP, the first rookie to achieve this distinction. With his help, Pittsburgh won the Stan-ley Cup in 1991 and 1992, and Lemieux was the NHL’s MVP three times, and the league’s leading scorer six times.
• With the 1990 season came back surgery for a her-niated disc and agonizing back pain. But it didn’t keep Lemieux from his first Stanley Cup and earning MVP of the playoffs. In early 1993 came the unbe-lievable announcement that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He immediately be-gan aggressive radiation treatments. After only two months, on the day of his final treatment, he made the trip to Philadelphia to play in the Penguins-Fly-ers game. • Four months later, Lemieux was once again in sur-gery, this time for a herniated muscle in his back. At the end of the season, he was forced to take a leave of absence to recover from the fatigue of can-cer treatments. • Lemieux was back in full force for the beginning of the 1995 season, scoring his 500th career goal in October. During the following season came his 600th.
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1. Name the band that released “All Day and All of the Night,” “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” and “Mister Pleasant.”2. Where did Depeche Mode get its name?3. “Black Water” and “What a Fool Believes” were No. 1 U.S. hits for which band?4. Which Beatles song has been covered the most by other artists?5. Which artist released “Pilot of the Airwaves”?6. Which singer released “This Time,” “Girl After Girl,” “Tears From an Angel” and “Island In the Sky?”7. Who wrote and released “Batdance,” and when?
Answers1. The Kinks, in 1964, 1966 and 1967.2. Translated it means “hurry fashion” or “fashion update.” While Depeche Mode had a few singles reach No. 1 in the U.S., they were on the dance charts, not pop.3. The Doobie Brothers, in 1974 and 1979.4. “Yesterday,” placing fourth on the Top 100 list.5. Charlie Dore, in 1980. It was the very last song played on pirate station Radio Caroline, transmit-ting from offshore in the waters off England.6. Troy Shondell, back in the ‘60s. The group Tommy James and the Shondells was named after him, although he was never in that band.7. Prince, in 1989. “Batdance” made it onto the soundtrack for the “Batman” film.
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¥ On March 21, 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley be-gins his famous search through Africa for missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. When Stanley found him on Oct. 27, he stepped forward and stretched out his hand: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
¥ On March 25, 1911, flames engulf the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City, killing 145 workers. Only one elevator was operational in the 10-story building. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside. The inside fire hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut.
¥ On March 26, 1941, Italy attacks the British fleet at Suda Bay, Crete, using manned torpedoes to sink a Brit-ish cruiser. Known as the “Chariot,” the manned torpedo was ridden by “pilots” to “drive” them to their targets in the harbor.
¥ On March 23, 1962, Pakistan’s governor, Ayub Khan, gives first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy a horse she nicknames “Black Jack.” Jackie chose “Black Jack” to serve as the ceremonial riderless horse during Pres. Kennedy’s funeral.
¥ On March 27, 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in “The Godfather” as a protest against Hollywood’s por-trayal of Native Americans in film. The first performer to turn down a Best Actor Oscar was George C. Scott, who declined to accept his award for “Patton” in 1971.
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