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TIDBITS® EXPLORES SCHOOLS

by Rick Dandes

With the hazy, crazy early days of August approach-ing, can school be far away? Sorry kids, but this is the time of year when your parents are already start-ing to think about sending you back to class, whether it’s college, elementary school or high school. So to make it a little easier on you all, Tidbits makes the grade this week with trivia about all kinds of schools. Enjoy. • Did you know that the prestigious schools of the Ivy League were mostly founded before the Revolu-tionary War and funded by lotteries? It’s true. Har-vard, Yale, Princeton, Kings College (Columbia), Dartmouth and Brown Universities were all partially funded, back in the 1700s, by private lotteries. • The oldest university _in Canada is generally thought to be the University of New Brunswick, Fred-ericton, founded in 1785_as the Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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“Crumb” (Criterion Collection) (Unrated) -- Direc-tor Terry Zwigoff’s documentary of underground comics legend Robert Crumb is like a geek’s “Grey Gardens.” Not only is this a brilliantly loving portrait of a man who almost singlehandly created the underground comics movement, it is also a moving insight into Crumb’s bizarre and troubled family.Special features include nearly an hour of deleted footage and two commentary tracks: A new track with Terry Zwigoff, and a commentary track from 2006 with Roger Ebert and Zwigoff.It’s worth mentioning that one of Crumb’s closest friends, comics artist Harvey Pekar died on July 12 and also was the subject of the magnificent documentary/biopic: “American Splendor,” which stars Paul Giamatti as Pekar. Even if you aren’t a comics fan, you simply must watch these films. They are more than just a rundown of the artists’ works, they are great movies in their own right.

“Max Headroom: The Complete Series” (Un-rated) -- Finally! The ground-breaking, cult cyberpunk series from the 1980s is now on DVD. Both seasons, all 14 episodes, digitally remastered. Matt Frewer stars as Edison Carter, an investigative journalist in a dystopi-an near-future where television networks con-trol every aspect of civilization -- including the government. While investigating a network’s subversive scheme to control society using Blipverts (1-second commercials), Carter’s consciousness is uploaded to a computer, creating the manic, rogue element known as Max Headroom.

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Top 10 Video Rentals1. Hot Tub Time Machine (NR) John Cusack2. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Light-ning Thief (PG) Pierce Brosnan3. Book of Eli (R) Denzel Washington4. Green Zone (R) Matt Damon5. The Crazies (R) Timothy Olyphant6. She’s Out of My League (R) Jay Baruchel7. When In Rome (PG-13) Kristen Bell8. Shutter Island (R) Leonardo DiCaprio9. Alice in Wonderland (PG) Johnny Depp10. Remember Me (PG-13) Robert Pattinson

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Light-ning Thief (PG) (20th Century Fox)2. Hot Tub Time Machine (NR) (20th Century Fox)3. The Crazies (R) (Anchor Bay)4. Alice in Wonderland (PG) (Buena Vista)5. The Book of Eli (R) (Warner)6. Green Zone (R) (Universal)7. Avatar (PG-13) (20th Century Fox)8. The Twilight Saga: New Moon (PG-13) (Summit)9. Remember Me (PG-13) (Summit)10. Toy Story 2 (G) (Buena Vista)

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SCHOOLS (continued):• For those who wonder why it’s Johns Hopkins University (in Baltimore, Maryland) instead of John Hopkins, the explanation goes way back to the founder of the school. Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) was named after his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns Hopkins. Hopkins was a lifelong bachelor, and when he died, he left most of a huge fortune to found the University and Medical School that now have his name.• During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Cana-dian families remained the unrivalled setting for education in that country; few children in what was then British North America received formal instruc-tion either from tutors or in schools.• Although Thomas Jefferson had supported the concept of free public education, elementary schooling was only available to America’s wealthy until the 1840s. That’s when reformers like Horace Mann of Massachusetts and Henry Barnard of Con-necticut began to push for tax-funded schools with the belief that universal education would produce good citizens, unite society, prevent crime and end poverty.• Until the 1930s, most Americans only complet-ed eight years of school. High School only be-came popular during the Great Depression, when job-strapped communities saw benefits to keep-ing teenagers in class and out of the workforce where they’d only serve as low-cost competition to adults.• Founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron, the University of Western Ontario is one of Canada’s oldest and best universities. The first students graduated in arts and medicine in 1883.• Remember James Meredith? The University of Mississippi gained national attention when it de-nied admission to James Meredith, an African American, who applied in 1961. He took the case to court, won, and started classes at Ole Miss in 1963. What many people don’t know is that he suc-cessfully graduated in 1964 and has been a sup-porter of Ole Miss ever since.• 74.9 million: That’s the number of people enrolled in school throughout the United States — from nursery school to college. To put this in perspec-tive, this amounts to more than one-fourth of the U.S. population age 3 and older.• The average number of children participating each month in the United States’ national school lunch program in 2009 was 31.3 million. That’s a lot of milk.

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¥ It was American actress and comedian Lily Tomlin who made the following sage observation: “Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”

¥ According to Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the abdominal thrust technique known as the Heim-lich Maneuver, the food upon which people most commonly choke is peanut butter straight out of the jar.

¥ Astronauts on the International Space Station see the sun rise every 90 minutes. ¥ You’ve probably heard that Eskimos have 50 words for different types of snow, but you might not realize that their language doesn’t have a word for just plain snow. ¥ You might recall Glenn Ford, an actor from Hol-lywood’s Golden Era, from such films as “3:10 to Yuma,” “Blackboard Jungle” and “The Big Heat.” You probably didn’t know, though, that when he was born in Quebec he was named Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford. The inspiration for his stage name was the town of Glenford, Canada. ¥ Those who study such things say that every day in the world, 62 square miles of land becomes desert. ¥ When groups of shrimp end up with too few males to sustain the population, some of the fe-males turn into males. ¥ Michael Crichton is best known as an author and screenwriter, and most of his fans are aware of the fact that he was a medical doctor, as well. It’s interesting to note, however, that as an under-graduate student he majored in anthropology. ¥ If you’re like 80 percent of Americans, you will experience some kind of back trouble at least once in your lifetime. ¥ Businesswoman Mary Kay Ash, before she founded the Mary Kay Cosmetics empire, sold encyclopedias door-to-door.

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Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, Bob Dylan is per-haps the best known and best loved of all American singer-songwriters. • Robert Allen Zimmerman’s birth date is thought to be May 24, 1941. But a passport issued to Robert Dylan in 1974 says his birth date is May 11, 1941. So which is it Bob? • Dylan was scheduled to appear on “The Ed Sul-livan Show” on May 12, 1963. He was going to sing “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues.” But during the dress rehearsal, he was told that “John Birch” was deemed too contro-versial by network censors, and program producer Bob Precht, whose idea it was to invite Dylan on the show, asked him to sing another song. Dylan declined and did not appear.• In August 1969, Dylan made his first paid public performance since July 26, 1966, when he broke his neck in the crash of his Triumph 500 motor-cycle. Backed by the Band, he performed in front of 200,000 people at England’s Isle of Wight fes-tival. He was paid $75,000 for a 70-minute perfor-mance.• In 1967, while recuperating from his motorcycle accident, Dylan signed with MGM Records, home of the Righteous Brothers, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Connie Francis and the late Hank Williams. MGM withdrew the contract, and Dylan signed with Co-lumbia.• Dylan won his first Grammy in 1980 for best rock vocal performance for the religious-oriented “Gotta Serve Somebody.”• Dylan’s reputation as a songwriter is larger than his record sales. His best-selling album is “Great-est Hits” (1967), which sold between 2 million and 3 million copies. The runner-up is “Greatest Hits - Vol. II” (1971), selling one million copies. Columbia Records doesn’t release sales figures, but a press release said Vol. II is nearing double-platinum sta-tus. The next bestsellers are “Desire” (‘76) and “Blood on the Tracks” (‘75).• Dylan was not a big hit-maker either. None of his singles ever reached No. 1 on Billboard’s pop chart. “Like a Rolling Stone” (‘65) peaked at No. 2, as did “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (‘66).• Three Dylan songs begin with nearly the same line, “Early in the morning.” The songs are “Obvi-ously Five Believers,” “Pledging My Time” and “Tangled Up in Blue” (which actually starts “early one morning”).• Dylan’s harmonica is heard on records by Harry Belafonte, George Harrison, Steve Goodman, Rog-er McGuinn, Booker T. and Priscilla Jones, Doug Sahm, Carolyn Hester, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Sly & Robbie.• Dylan had a rule that he only recorded music at night. He would show up to the studio around 9 p.m. and work until the early hours of morning Oc-casionally his band would record music pieces dur-ing the day and try to get Dylan to listen to them. • The Minnesota Historical Society lists 97 Dylan items in its reference library. Included are a 1987 Ph.D. thesis by a Purdue University student, five fanzines, 17 books and articles published in Ger-many, one children’s book and Dylan’s original, hand-written lyric sheet for “Temporary Like Achil-les,” a 1966 song on the album “Blonde on Blonde.” The most interesting title in the society’s collection is “Mysteriously Saved: An Astrological Investiga-tion into Bob Dylan’s Conversion to American Fun-damentalism,” by John Ledbury.

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1. Sparky Anderson was the first manager to win a World Series with both an A.L. and an N.L. team. Name the teams and the years.2. In 2008, Mike Mussina became the oldest major-league pitcher to win 20 games in a sea-son for the first time. How old was he?3. Who is the only two-time winner of The As-sociated Press’ NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award?4. Which two teams hold the NCAA mark in men’s basketball for consecutive conference victories? 5. When was the last time before the 2009-10 NHL season that the Chicago Blackhawks won a division title? 6. Name two of the three drivers to be in both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day.7. Entering 2010, who held the ATP record for most wins by a doubles combination?

Answers1. The Cincinnati Reds (1975, ‘76) and the De-troit Tigers (‘84).2. He was 39.3. Quarterback Chad Pennington (2006, 2008).4. Kentucky (1945-50) and Memphis (2006-10), both with 64.5. The Blackhawks won the Norris Division crown in the 1992-93 season.6. John Andretti, Robby Gordon and Tony Stew-art.7. Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, with 61.

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and dubbed him Robin, the Boy Wonder.• Cherilyn Sarkisian dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actress. At 17, she met Sonny Bono at Aldo’s Coffee Shop. Bono worked for music producer Phil Spector and was able to get Cher, as he called her, work as a background vocalist. A songwriter at heart, Sonny had peddled his tunes without much success. But when he and Cher became romantically involved, the pair recorded his tune “I Got You, Babe,” which hit number one on the pop chart and made stars of Sonny and Cher.

• One day in 1881, Dr. John Watson happened to rent a room at a lodging house at 221B Baker Street in London, England. His roommate was a mysterious chap named Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was quite secretive about what he did for a living, but eventually confessed that he was a private detective, which (at the time) was a rather rare profession. Fascinated by Holmes’ tales and the way he employed logical deduction to

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