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INSIDE Learn how and why Gist Weekly got started Where is the oldest European settlement in North America? Fifty State Fun Facts . . . . . PAGE 4

What famous collection of poems was published 400 years ago this week? This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5

Which famous author would be 150 this week? Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5

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nately, Thomas Kane helped persuade Young to accept Cumming as governor, and the conflict ended with relatively few deaths.

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The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 was the result of a federal tax on liquor. A group of farmers in Pennsylvania opposed the tax, going so far as to burn down the house of a tax inspector. President George Washington sent troops to stop the rebellion. The event is considered one of the • first real tests of the new U.S. government’s power. The Utah War was an armed conflict in the Utah Territory between the United States government and Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) settlers from May of 1857 to July of 1858. The federal government had replaced Mormon leader Brigham Young with non-Mormon Alfred Cumming as governor of the territory. Young and others resisted Cumming’s appointment, leading President James Buchanan to send armed troops to ensure his safety. The settlers saw the military presence as a threat and formed a militia to defend their territory. Fortu-

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By Kane Casolari Memorial Day is this Monday, May 25. Almost everyone knows about the American Revolution, Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the recent wars in the Middle East. While we honor those who lost their lives in these and other conflicts, Gist Weekly takes a look at some of the wars and conflicts in American history that may not be as familiar.

The Utah War was not the first such conflict involving Mormon settlers; the 1838 Missouri Mormon War and the 1844-45 Illinois Mormon War in Navoo, Illinois had also resulted in several casualties, including the death of Mormon leader Joseph Smith. The Honey War was a territorial dispute between Iowa and Missouri in 1839. Despite the “war” in the name, the conflict was bloodless, though there was a tense standoff between militias on each side of the border. The fight over a nine-and-a-half mile wide strip of land lead a Missouri tax collector, unable to collect taxes in the region, to cut down three trees that contained honey bee hives in order to take the honey as payment, giving the conflict its name. A sheriff, also attempting to collect Missouri taxes, was imprisoned by Iowans. The Supreme Court eventually ruled that the land was Iowa’s.

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Joke of the Week Private Johnson’s new job was to tell new recruits about their Army benefits package and to try to get them to buy Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) policies. After a few weeks, Private Johnson’s lieutenant noticed that Johnson was selling more life insurance plans than anyone else. In fact, nearly 100% of those who had listened to Private Johnson’s sales pitch bought a plan, with many of them opting for the most expensive plans. The lieutenant decided to learn how the private could be so effective by sitting in on one of his sales pitches. He listened as Private Johnson explained the benefits of the insurance policy. “If you have SGLI and are killed in battle, the Army has to pay your family up to $400,000. If you die in battle without this policy, they only pay about $12,000.” “Now,” the private said, “who do you think they’re going to send into battle first?”

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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. 1. Lesser-Known Wars (Page 1): Which two countries were involved in the Pastry War of 1838-1839? 2. Fifty State Fun Facts: Florida (Page 4): Which Orlando-born actor, comedian, and singer was a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and host of Don’t Forget the Lyrics! and his own talk show? 3. This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays (Page 5): One of Joe Cocker’s biggest hits was his cover of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends.” Cocker’s version was the opening theme of which late-’80s to early-’90s television series? 4. Historical Birthdays This Week (Page 5): Who wrote Walden while living on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson? 5. By the Numbers: 25 (Page 6): Which one-hit wonder duo sang the 1969 hit “In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)”?

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Editorial: Why I Started Gist Weekly By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari Since I started this paper late last year, damage, I’m a fairly smart guy—in several people have asked me why fact, I graduated from college at the and how I got it started. This is the top of my class—but there are a lot of first in a multi-part series (the exact things I have trouble with. If you’ve number is yet to be determined) of ever known someone who has had a articles taking you behind the scenes stroke, it’s a bit like that. Some things of Gist Weekly. This week, I’ll are relatively unaffected, others take a concentrate on the personal side of lot more work, and still others are starting this paper, telling you a bit nearly impossible. about the person who writes, edits, For me, a lot of jobs have at least and delivers Gist Weekly each week. some aspects that fall into the “very difficult” to “nearly impossible” range. It might be remembering I started Gist Weekly just months after certain types of information, tasks graduating from college. (More on that require fine motor skills or spatial how I started it is planned for a future processing, understanding what article.) Part of the reason that I people are saying, adjusting to started this paper rather than pursue a changes in routine, or things that I more traditional career is that I have just don’t think of. brain damage that makes some kinds of careers impractical for me. I have a Working from home and working for subarachnoid cyst on my right myself lets me get around some of my temporal lobe that is actually in place difficulties. I can set my own hours of where part of my brain should be. and do tasks more or less when I feel It has been there all or almost all my up to doing them. If I am having a life. (The latest the doctors say it can mental block, I can do something that have formed was when I was six doesn’t require as much thinking or months old—I had a hemorrhage in creativity, like looking up the my brain then, and it’s not completely birthdays. If I don’t feel up to clear if the bleed caused the cyst or interacting with other people, I can vice-versa.) Despite having brain skip trying to sell ads that day and try

to write instead. If one day is a complete waste, I can try to make up for it by working more on the weekend. If I have trouble writing one kind of article (say, the front page), I can try working on a different category of article, such as “By the Numbers.” If a topic isn’t working for me, I can change it. I can also (mostly) avoid distractions, which is necessary because it’s very difficult for me to write or do any other kind of creative work when there is a lot of noise around me. Overall, running Gist Weekly has been a good experience for me so far. I have had some difficulty selling advertising space, partly due to the economy and probably in part because of my inexperience in that area. Like many businesses in their first year of operation, Gist Weekly has not made a profit yet. I hope that it will soon get enough advertisers to cover printing costs and provide an income for me so that Gist Weekly can keep entertaining and informing readers for many years to come.

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Florida’s name means “flowery” or “flowered” in Spanish. It got its name from its discovery during the Pascua Florida (“Flowery Easter”) season and for its native flowers.

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Florida became the 27th U.S. state on March 3, 1845.

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“Florida” is the oldest European name still in use of any U.S. state or town. Spanish conquistador • Juan Ponce de León gave the state its name on April 2, 1513.

1965 to keep the school’s football team hydrated. Florida has two separate rivers with the same name, the Withlacoochee River. One starts in southern Georgia and ends in northwestern Florida; the other is in central Florida. The names of the rivers come from a Creek phrase meaning “little river” or “little big water.”

On average, Florida receives Florida’s state flag more precipitation per year than any other state. It also has the most tornadoes per Florida produces roughly threesquare mile per year, though the quarters of the citrus fruit grown tornadoes tend to be of lower in the United States. intensity than those in the Midwest and Plains states. Saint Augustine, Florida is the oldest European settlement in not • Due to its long coastline on tropionly the United States, but all of cal and subtropical waters, Florida North America. is hit by more hurricanes than any other state. Four hit in 2004, the Cape Canaveral, Florida is home most of any single calendar year. to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and John F. Kennedy Space • About ⅔ of Major League BaseCenter, both of which are NASA ball teams have spring training in launch facilities. The Cape was Florida’s “Grapefruit League,” named Cape Kennedy from 1963 with other teams participating in to 1973 before being changed Arizona’s “Cactus League.” back to the name it had had for roughly 400 years. • Daytona Beach, Florida is home to the Daytona International The sports drink Gatorade got its Speedway, the site of NASCAR’s name from the University of Daytona 500, often considered Florida Gators, whose team docthe most important NASCAR tor helped invent the drink in race. •

MATCH UP For Memorial Day, match each battle on the left to its associated war/conflict on the right. (Answers on page 8.)

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May 20, 1609: All 154 of William Shakespeare’s sonnets are published, most of them for the first time. May 21, 1924: University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold, Jr. (19) and Richard Loeb (18)—better known as just Leopold and Loeb— kidnap and murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in an effort to commi t a “perfect crime.” Both are later imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

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This Week’s Celebrity Birthdays Singer Joe Cocker (“With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Up Where We Belong” [with Jennifer Warnes]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 20, 1944 Actor and director Nick Cassavetes (John Q, The Notebook) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 1959 Actor Mark Christopher Lawrence (Chuck) . . . . . . . . . May 22, 1964 Singer Jewel (“Foolish Games,” “You Were Meant for Me”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 23, 1974 Singer Patti LaBelle (“Lady Marmalade,” “On My Own” [with Michael McDonald]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 24, 1944 Puppeteer, actor, and director Frank Oz, puppeteer and voice of Star Wars’ Yoda and multiple Muppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 1944 Musician Lenny Kravitz (“Fly Away,” “Are You Gonna Go My Way”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 26, 1964 Clipart: MS

Historic Birthdays This Week Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow; the famous outlaws were gunned down 75 years ago this Saturday.

May 22, 1964: President Lyndon Johnson announces his goals for the Great Society initiative in a commencement speech at the University of Michigan in Ann • Arbor. May 23, 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed and killed without warning by a group of police led by Frank Hamer on Highway 154 in Louisiana. May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse officially opens the first longdistance telegraph line, sending a • message from Washington, DC to

Baltimore, Maryland. The message is a quote from Numbers 23:23 reading, “What hath God wrought.” May 25, 1914: The British House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act of 1914, intended to grant Ireland “home rule,” a degree of self-government while still remaining part of the United Kingdom. Eight years later, the Irish Free State becomes an independent country, with Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK. May 26, 1864: Montana becomes a U.S. territory.

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Comic book writer Gardner Fox, co-creator of the original Flash and the Justice Society of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 20, 1911 Jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller (“Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Honeysuckle Rose”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 1904 Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 1859 Physician/hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer, whose name is the origin of the word “mesmerize” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 23, 1734 Inventor and thermometer maker Gabriel Fahrenheit . . . . . May 24, 1686 Essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Self-Reliance,” “Nature”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 1803 Actor Peter Cushing (Star Wars: A New Hope, Dr. Who and the Daleks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 26, 1913

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are also divisible by 400. Since 2000—the last year of the 20th century—was divisible by 400, it was a leap year. By federal law, depictions of U.S. currency must be at least 25% smaller than life-sized or at least 50% bigger than life.

Arkansas became the 25th U.S. state on June 15, 1836.

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The crown of the Statue of Lib- • erty has 25 windows.

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In darts, 25 points are awarded for ring surrounding the bull’seye, called the “outer,” “outer bull,” or “iris.”

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The 25th President of the United • States was William McKinley, who was in office from 1897 to 1901. McKinley’s inauguration was the first to be filmed.

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The 25th wedding anniversary is traditionally the silver anniversary.

The medical definition of overweight is a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 30, with anything higher being classified as obese. BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of the person’s height in meters.

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To serve in the U.S. House of • Representatives, a person must be at least 25 years old.

The first minimum wage in the United State, established in 1938, was 25 cents per hour.

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A popular meme on the social • networking site Facebook is “25 Random Things About Me,” in which a person writes a note listing 25 things that their friends might not know about them and often tag 25 friends in the note.

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One inch is 25.4 millimeters.

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The 20th century had 25 leap years rather that the more-common 24. That is because years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they

May 25 this year is Memorial Day since it is the last Monday of May. Every May 25 is also “Towel Day,” a holiday celebrated by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. The first towel day was held on May 25, 2001, two weeks after Adams’ death. The reason for the name of the day is that Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says that a towel “is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”

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A current U.S. nickel contains just 25% nickel. The other 75% is copper. Quarters and dimes are made of the same metals, but with different proportions—both • have just 8.33% nickel.

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The Phase Alternating Line (PAL) analog broadcast television standard uses 25 frames per second of film. PAL is used in most of Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia, as well as parts of North and South America.

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—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS— A. B. C. D. E. F.

—MATCH UP— Answers Battle of Antietam—American Civil War

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—TRIVIA QUIZ— Answers 1. France and Mexico 2. Wayne Brady

Battle of the Bulge—World War II

3. The Wonder Years

Battle of Bunker Hill—American Revolution

4. Henry David Thoreau 5. Zager and Evans

Battle of Verdun—World War I

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—SUDOKU— Solution

—NONOGRAM— Solution