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Fun Facts about the Olympics Curling is one of four winter Olympic sports contested indoors. The other three are hockey, figure skating and speed skating. German luge master Georg Hackl will attempt to add to his legend and win a medal in his sixth straight games at Turin. Hackl is already the only athlete to medal in the same event in five straight games. Nordic combined is one of three current Olympic Winter Games events in which the United States has never won a medal. Biathlon and curling are the others. Ice hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. The first Winter Olympics did not take place until 1924. American skier and Turin gold medal threat, Lindsey Kildow, was awarded a cow by some local dairy farmers for her World Cup win in Val D’lsere France in 2005. She had a choice between the cow or an additional $1,200 in prize money. She went with the cow. It has been 18 years since the Jamaican bobsled team made its debut at the Olympics.

The 2006 Winter Olym pics are at Turin but some of the media prefer the Italian name, Turino.

Habitat for Humanity is changing lives. Working in partnership with low-income families to build decent homes they can afford to buy, Habitat helps to break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. Millions of Americans face a housing crisis; 5.1 million American families have

Pocahontas & Marketing Pocahontas is said to have stopped her father from executing John Smith in 1607. The truth of this story cannot be verified. Whatever really happened, a friendly relationship with Smith and the colony of Jamestown, Virginia was initiated. In 1612, Pocahontas was captured and held hostage by the Jamestown colonists, in the hope that they could ransom her for the release of some of their own people held in captivity by Pocahontas' tribe. During this time, she learned English. After her baptism, she married John Rolfe on April 5, 1614, and her name was changed to Rebecca Rolfe. They lived together at Rolfe's plantation, Varina Farms. Their marriage was unsuccessful in winning the captives back, but it did create a climate of peace between the Jamestown colonists and Powhatan's tribes for several years. The Virginia colony's sponsors found it difficult to lure new colonists to Jamestown, and to find investors for such ventures. They used Pocahontas as a marketing ploy to convince people back in Europe that the New World's natives could be tamed, and the colony made safe. She was promoted as an

NIE as we know it began at The New York Times in the 1930s when teachers in the New York City schools asked the newspaper to deliver bundles to schools for current events activities. Then, as now, the content of textbooks is already five years old the day the textbooks are delivered to schools. Over the decades, the NIE concept spread among newspapers across the country. In the late 1970s, the concept even spread to prisons, adult literacy centers, and hospital-based learning programs — far beyond the traditional classroom setting. Our philosophy is simple: We believe that using the newspaper as a tool to educate our students inspires learning and contributes to their success. Newspapers are springboards to knowledge for everyone

Jane Addams Social Worker, Reformer, Pacifist In 1931, Jane Addams was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. According to Addams, intelligent middle-class women of the late nineteenth century were educated, but society often dictated a life of uselessness. Searching for an outlet for her skills and spirit, she visited England and found Toynbee Hall, a famous settlement house. Addams decided to bring the ideas discovered in London home to Chicago. In one of Chicago’s worst slums, she started Hull House. It was designed originally for young middle-class women wanting more than a homemaker’s life. But Hull House soon developed into a center for the poor people of the neighborhood, giving them an introduction to different cultures. It became a home for working girls, a boys’ club and provided numerous other services. Thousands visited it. Hull House was the motivation for many similar settlement houses in other cities. The success of Hull House thrust Addams into the national spotlight. She spoke and wrote on numerous reform issues from women’s suffrage to pacifism. She received honorary degrees from many universities and was an adviser to several presidents.

Early years of the South Bend Tribune Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett (a descendent of Davy Crockett) co-founded the South Bend Tribune. Both men were natives of South Bend who served in the American Civil War. They worked together at the St. Joseph County Register, a now defunct newspaper that served the St. Joseph County area. Miller learned the newspaper business from his father, a newspaper publisher in Ohio and was a writer for the Register. He was the first editor of the South Bend Tribune. Crockett had attended Northern Indiana College at South Bend. He was a printing foreman at the Register. The first Tribune offices was located at 127 W. Washington. On March 9, 1872, the first edition of the Tribune was printed. For fourteen months, the four-page Tribune was printed weekly. In 1873, the Tribune became a daily newspaper. Today the Tribune is printed every day of the year. To help meet the expenses of starting a newspaper, Miller and Elmer co-founded The Tribune Store located at 127 W. Washington Street, South Bend. It opened the day after Thanksgiving Day 1873. Besides selling wallpaper, jewelry, and Christmas toys, this side-business also included a bookbindery. The store was sold when the newspaper moved to its new (and current) location at Colfax and Lafayette.

The Chicago River,156 miles long, flows through downtown Chicago, Illinois. The river is not particularly long, but is notable for a 19th-century civil engineering feat which directed its flow south, away from the city (and Lake Michigan) and towards the Mississippi River basin for sanitation purposes. City pollution-control workers use dyes to trace illegal sewage discharges into the river routinely. In 1961, Stephen Bailey saw a plumber who was wearing white coveralls dyed a perfect Irish shade of green. When Stephen Bailey learned that the dye used to detect leaks into the river was responsible for the green overalls, a Chicago tradition was born. That year, they released 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the river—enough to keep it green for a week! Today, in order to minimize environmental damage, only forty pounds of dye are used, making the river green for only several hours. Mike Butler and his crew claim to have a little help from a leprechaun. Initially, the dye is orange. After a moment or two it turns emerald green. Butler attributes the change to leprechaun magic. Stephen Bailey said that the road from Chicago to Ireland is marked in green. From the Chicago River to the Illinois River, then to the Mississippi, up the Gulf Stream and across the Atlantic you can see the beautiful green enter the Irish Sea, clearly marking the way from Chicago to Ireland.

Famous April Fool’s Hoaxes April Fool's Day is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Some examples The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the