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Monday January 25, 2010 |
| New York City's Empire State Building's world famous tower lights are turned off every night at midnight with the exception of New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and St. Patrick's Day, when they are illuminated until 3 a.m. |
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| In the sport's early days, baseball umpires were unpaid volunteers. They were often a spectator and, sometimes, a player, chosen by the home team with the consent of the rival team’s captain. In 1878, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, organized two years earlier, mandated that home baseball teams pay umpires $5 per game. |
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| When Diane Sawyer competed in the America's Junior Miss Pageant, several judges considered her too serious and sophisticated to serve as a teen titleholder. During rehearsals, nearsighted Diane walked headfirst into a metal post in front of the judges and dissolved into girlish giggles. Charmed by Sawyer's silly side, several judges changed their votes in her favor and she was named 1963 America's Junior Miss. |
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| Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray or lotion blocks the mosquito's sensors; however, they will seek out unprotected areas of skin. |
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| Starting from his farm near Philadelphia during the 1700s, John Bartram traveled north to Lake Ontario, south to Florida, and west to the Ohio River in search of plants and natural history specimens for his own botanic garden and for collectors at home and abroad. He and his son William are credited with identifying and introducing into cultivation more than 200 of America's native plants. By 1765, Bartram’s international reputation earned him the notice of King George III who honored him as Royal Botanist, a position he held until his death in 1777. The Historic Bartram Garden is America's oldest living botanical garden. |
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| With the new school year starting, parents can use a good laugh to start the day. The New Yorker Parenting Cartoons ezine has just what you need!
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