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Who became president by one electoral vote?

Easter is Sunday, April 12. To celebrate, here are some fun facts you might not have known about Easter.

Presidential Trivia . . . . . PAGE 3

Where was the first public library in the United States?

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This Week in History . . . PAGE 5

Which House star turns 30 on Sunday? B i r t h da ys . . . . . . P A G E 5

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

Egg photo by D. B. King (CC BY 2.0, from Flikr)

Fifty State Fun Facts . . . . . PAGE 4

Which sports record was broken 35 years ago this Wednesday?

By the Numbers . . . . . . . PAGE 6 Plus games including: Crossword— PAGE 2 Scavenger Hunt— PAGE 2 Trivia Quiz— PAGE 3 Sudoku— PAGE 6 ...And More!

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You’ve probably noticed that Easter isn’t on the same date every year—or even in the same month. Easter is always on a Sunday, but it can be any date from March 22 to April 25. The reason for the variation is that Easter is on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.

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The President of the United States traditionally holds an Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn on Easter Monday. The word The Egg Roll is a “Easter” comes A decorative egg from the 1998 White race; children push House Easter Egg Roll from Ēostre, an an egg with a long Anglo-Saxon spoon or stick. President Ruthergoddess of spring. The Angloford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy Saxons celebrated a holiday in started the tradition of annual egg honor of Ēostre on the vernal rolls in 1878. (spring) equinox. • The famous Fabergé eggs are The celebration of Ēostre also made of precious metals and gives us some of our Easter tradigems. They were originally Easter tions, including the holiday’s asgifts for the Russian royal family sociation with bunnies and eggs, from jeweler Carl Fabergé starting both of which are fertility symin 1885. bols commonly linked to spring. Painting or otherwise decorating • Easter eggs are not just the coloreggs for spring festivals dates ful eggs that children try to find back at least 2,500 years to the on Easter—the term “Easter egg” Persian celebration of Nowrooz. can also refer to hidden messages or features in computer software, Besides their association with movies, books, or other media. spring, eggs may have another •

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reason for being tied to Easter celebrations: Lenten dietary restrictions. At one time, eggs were a forbidden food during Lent. Since chickens kept laying eggs, something had to be done with all of them. Hard boiling the eggs helped them last longer; they could then be saved and co nsum ed on Easter, when Lent was over.

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FUN AND GAMES Scavenger Hunt

Find the following words in the grid above. They may be forward, backward, up, down, or diagonal. Bunny

Spring

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Flowers

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Holiday

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A man was driving down the highway with his wife, when suddenly the Easter Bunny hopped out into the road. The man was unable to stop in time and hit the bunny, scattering eggs and candy everywhere. “Oh no!” the man said. “I’ve killed the Easter Bunny! What are we going to do?” “Calm down,” said his wife. “I have something that might help.” The wife got out of the car, pulled something out of her purse, and aimed it at the bunny. Within a few seconds, the Easter Bunny was back on his feet. He picked up all of his candy and eggs, waved at the couple, yelled “HAPPY EASTER!” at the top of his lungs, then hopped on down the road. After a hundred feet or so, he turned, waved, and shouted again. He kept doing so about every hundred feet until he was out of sight. “How did you do that?” the husband asked the wife. Without a word, she showed the husband what she had used on the Easter Bunny. It was a bottle labeled “Hare spray. Restores life to dead hare, adding volume and wave.”

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Presidential Trivia: Rutherford B. Hayes

TRIVIA QUIZ Each question below relates to the topic of a feature in this issue of Gist Weekly, but is not answered in it. Answers are on page 8.

3. Fifty State Fun Facts: New Hampshire (Page 4): Which state is sometimes considered New Hampshire’s “twin” due to its proximity to New Hampshire and similar—but rotated— shape? 4. This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays (Page 5): Actress Tricia Helfer turns 35 this week. On Battlestar Galactica, her character (Number Six) belonged to what race of mechanical humanoids? 5. By the Numbers: 19 (Page 6): In the 2002 film K-19: The Widowmaker, what was K-19?

Photos: WC/PD (Hayes, Presidential Seal),, MS (Girl)

1. Easter Trivia (Page 1): What marshmallow candy is, according to its manufacturer, the bestselling brand of non-chocolate Easter candy? 2. Presidential Trivia: Rutherford B. Hayes (Page 3): Before becoming president, Hayes was a Brigadier General during which war?

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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. His term lasted from 1877 to 1881.

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Hayes was elected by the narrowest margin in presidential election history. His opponent, Samuel Tilden, won the popular vote, but the electoral votes of three states—Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina—were in dispute.

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The presidential election was not the first that Hayes won by a narrow margin. Before running for president he had served three terms as Ohio’s governor, win-

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ments to allow only whites to vote. Many such laws remained in effect into the 1960s. These discriminatory laws went against Hayes’s views; during his career as governor he had tried to amend the state constitution to give people of all races the right to vote. •

An Electoral Commission was formed by Congress to determine who should receive the contested votes. The Commission—made up of eight Republicans and seven • Democrats—voted along party lines, giving all of the disputed electoral votes to the Republican candidate, Hayes. Hayes won the election by just one electoral vote, with 185 to Tilden’s 184.

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ning each of those elections by less than one percent. Hayes helped heal some of the Civil War’s wounds by removing federal troops that had been in the South for over a decade. This officially ended the period of Re• construction. When he withdrew troops, Hayes also promised that he wouldn’t interfere with Southern elections. Unfortunately, less federal involvement in the South made it easier for state and local govern-

Hayes was a man of few—if any—vices. He never smoked, gambled, or drank alcohol. His wife, Lucy, was similarly inclined, earni ng her the ni cknam e “Lemonade Lucy” for her refusal to serve alcohol in the White House. Lucy Hayes also started the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn that continues to this day, as detailed on page one. During his 1876 campaign, Hayes pledged that he wouldn’t run for a second term. He kept that pledge and retired from politics when his first term ended. He served on Ohio State University’s Board of Trustees until his death of a heart attack in 1893.

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New Hampshire was the first colony in the Americas to declare its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, doing so in January of 1776.

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The motto of New Hampshire is • The state of New Hampshire has “Live Free or Die.” The quote also been the birthplace of several comes from Revolutionary War other famous people, including General John The Da Vinci Code Stark in 1809, a u t hor Dan though it was Brown, Saturday likely inspired Night Live star Seth by earlier Myers, Olympic speakers, such skier Bode Miller, as P at ri c k s i ng er /a c tr e ss Henry’s faMandy Moore, New Hampshire’s state flag m ous l i ne, and comedienne “Give me liberty or give me Sarah Silverman. death!” • New Hampshire gets its name New Hampshire was the ninth from the county of Hampshire in state to ratify the Constitution. England. New Hampshire’s ratification • The first free public library in the gave the Constitution the reUnited States was established in quired number of states’ approval Dublin, New Hampshire in 1822. for the new government to go into effect. • New Hampshire plays an important role in the presidential primaThe state of New Hampshire is ries as the first state to hold its the only one in the U.S. not to primary each election year. have either a general state sales tax or a state income tax. • One of New Hampshire’s most famous landmarks was the “Old New Hampshire has been the Man of the Mountain,” a granite birthplace of one U.S. president, cliff resembling the profile of a Franklin Pierce. It was also the face. The Old Man of the Mounhome state of at least one fictain is pictured on the New tional president, Josiah Bartlet of Hampshire state quarter. It colThe West Wing (played by Martin lapsed in 2003. Sheen). • New Hampshire leads the nation Alan Shepard, the first American in per capita alcohol sales. in space, was a New Hampshire

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native. New Hampshire was also the birthplace of the first civilian chosen to go into space, Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

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April 8, 1974: Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714. Aaron finishes his career with a total of 755 home runs, a record that stands until 2007, when it is broken by Barry Bonds. April 9, 1959: NASA announces The Mercury Seven, introduced to the public the selection of its first group of 50 years ago this Thursday astronauts for its Mercury proPuerto Rico. gram. The group, dubbed “the Mercury Seven,” is comprised of • April 12, 1934: A wind gust of Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, 231 miles per hour is observed on John Glenn, Gus Grissom, WalMount Washington in New ter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Hampshire. It is the highest surDeke Slayton. face wind speed ever officially recorded in the world. April 10, 1874: The first Arbor Day is observed with a celebra- • April 13, 1974: Westar 1, the first tion organized by Julius Sterling American commercial geosynMorton in Nebraska City, Nechronous communications satelbraska. Due to his political and lite, goes into space. It is launched agricultural activities, Morton by Western Union and NASA later becomes Secretary of Agriafter being built by Hughes Airculture under President Grover craft Company. Cleveland. • April 14, 1894: In New York City, April 11, 1899: The peace treaty the Holland Brothers open the between the United States and first commercial motion picture Spain comes into effect following house to the public. It uses the the Spanish-American War. The Kinetoscope, a precursor to the treaty gives the U.S. control of video camera invented by ThoGuam, the Philippines, and mas Edison.

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Indiana became the 19th state on December 11, 1816.

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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.

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The Kellogg’s cereal Product 19 got its name because it was the 19th product the company worked on that year.

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The statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC is 19 feet tall. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial is just a bit taller, at 19 feet, 9 inches.

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The ancient board game of Go is played on a 19 × 19 grid.

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The 19th President of the United States was Rutherford B. Hayes, who won by just one electoral vote. Learn more on page three.

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The flags of Indiana and Minnesota both have 19 stars on them. The stars signify that Indiana was the 19th state and that Minnesota was the 19th after the original 13 (32nd overall).

Nineteen is the atomic number of potassium, an mineral important for brain, nerve, muscle, and cellular function in humans and other animals. It is also one of the three major nutrients (along with nitrogen and phosphorous) in plant fertilizers. The 1966 Rolling Stones song “19 th Nervous Breakdown” reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the BBC Pick of the Pops chart in the United Kingdom. It was also one of three songs— along with “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “As Tears Go By”—that the band performed during their first appearance on color television in the U.S., one of their six appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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