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By Kane Casolari nately, Thomas Kane helped per-
Learn how and why
Memorial Day is this Monday, May suade Young to accept Cumming
Gist Weekly got started
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3 25. Almost everyone as governor, and the conflict

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knows about the ended with relatively few deaths.
Where is the oldest European American Revolution,
settlement in North America? Civil War, both World Wars,
Fifty State Fun Facts . . . . . PAGE 4
the Korean War, Vietnam, and the
What famous collection of recent wars in the Middle East. While
poems was published 400 we honor those who lost their lives in
years ago this week? these and other conflicts, Gist Weekly
This Week in History . . . . . PAGE 5 takes a look at some of the wars
Which famous author and conflicts in American his-
would be 150 this week? tory that may not be as familiar.
Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5 • The Utah War was not the first
• The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
such conflict involving Mormon
How much nickel is was the result of a federal tax on
settlers; the 1838 Missouri Mor-
really in a nickel? liquor. A group of farmers in
mon War and the 1844-45 Illi-
By the Numbers. . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 Pennsylvania opposed the tax,
nois Mormon War in Navoo,
going so far as to burn down the
And more including: Illinois had also resulted in sev-
house of a tax inspector. Presi-
Crossword—PAGE 2 eral casualties, including the death
Trivia Quiz—PAGE 3 dent George Washington sent
of Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
Cectic comic strip—PAGE 5 troops to stop the rebellion. The
Sudoku—PAGE 6 event is considered one of the • The Honey War was a territorial
Classifieds—PAGE 7 first real tests of the new U.S. dispute between Iowa and Mis-
government’s power. souri in 1839. Despite the “war”
in the name, the conflict was
• The Utah War was an armed
bloodless, though there was a
conflict in the Utah Territory be-
tense standoff between militias
tween the United States govern-
on each side of the border. The
ment and Latter-Day Saint
fight over a nine-and-a-half mile
(Mormon) settlers from May of
wide strip of land lead a Missouri
1857 to July of 1858. The federal
tax collector, unable to collect
government had replaced Mor-
taxes in the region, to cut down
mon leader Brigham Young with
three trees that contained honey
non-Mormon Alfred Cumming as
bee hives in order to take the
governor of the territory. Young
honey as payment, giving the
and others resisted Cumming’s
conflict its name. A sheriff, also
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CROSSWORD 37. Causing a mess 14. N i cknam e for t he ri ng

38. Leopold and ___* surrounding a bull’s-eye*
39. 50s political monogram 17. ___ Canaveral*
40. Main artery 23. Diving bird
41. Extent 24. Find the sum of
42. Clyde’s partner in crime* 25. In ___ way
44. Medieval weapon 26. Dressed
45. Lollygag 27. Thought
47. Donald Duck, to his nephews 28. Class of Indian society
48. Mil. school 29. Tabula ___
49. Snare 30. Chase scene maneuver, slangily
52. Something that is lost 32. When repeated, a vitamin B
56. Diminutive suffix deficiency
57. Interchangeable 34. Prefix with phone
59. Alcoholic beverage 35. Mountain goat
60. Crude group? 37. Back-to-work time: abbr.
61. Early computer 38. Space cadet’s place
62. Probability 40. Some
63. Application datum: abbr. 41. Fabled bird
64. Proficient 43. Commands
44. French tire
DOWN 45. Modern workout system
1. Jazzman Waller* 46. Behaved
ACROSS 20. Assisted 2. Monetary unit of Italy 47. Gomer Pyle’s org.
1. DC Comics superhero created by 21. “Put ___ on it!” 3. Make ___ of 49. Sgts. and cpls.
Gardner Fox* 22. Last call? 4. Golf hazard 50. Exclamation of mild dismay
6. Short trader? 24. Author of The Hitchhikers’ Guide 5. Alts. 51. Augury
9. Billing abbr. to the Galaxy* 6. Sour 53. Off-Broadway theater award
13. Draw a bead on 25. Accumulate over time 7. Broccoli ___ (leafy vegetable) 54. Smack
14. Suffix with poet 28. Less refined 8. Ran 55. Denomination
15. Acting part 31. Desolate 9. Area with coin-operated games 58. Twinings product
16. Make a written copy 32. Bleated 10. The clavicle
18. Family 33. Meas. of physical fitness* 11. Assert as a fact *Starred clues have answers that can be
found elsewhere in this issue
19. Bank deposit 36. Modern Maturity grp. 12. Waits on Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8
ISSUE #25
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 in-
volved 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 Any-
way?, and host of Don’t Forget the
Lyrics! and his own talk show?
3. This Week’s Celebrity Birth-
days (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 open-
ing 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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By Gist Weekly editor Kane Casolari
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several people have asked me why fact, I graduated from college at the complete waste, I can try to make up
and how I got it started. This is the top of my class—but there are a lot of for it by working more on the
first in a multi-part series (the exact things I have trouble with. If you’ve weekend. If I have trouble writing
number is yet to be determined) of ever known someone who has had a one kind of article (say, the front
articles taking you behind the scenes stroke, it’s a bit like that. Some things page), I can try working on a different
of Gist Weekly. This week, I’ll are relatively unaffected, others take a category of article, such as “By the
concentrate on the personal side of lot more work, and still others are Numbers.” If a topic isn’t working
starting this paper, telling you a bit nearly impossible. for me, I can change it. I can also
about the person who writes, edits, (mostly) avoid distractions, which is
For me, a lot of jobs have at least
and delivers Gist Weekly each week. necessary because it’s very difficult
some aspects that fall into the “very
for me to write or do any other kind
difficult” to “nearly impossible”
of creative work when there is a lot of
range. It might be remembering
I started Gist Weekly just months after noise around me.
certain types of information, tasks
graduating from college. (More on
that require fine motor skills or spatial Overall, running Gist Weekly has been
how I started it is planned for a future
processing, understanding what a good experience for me so far. I
article.) Part of the reason that I
people are saying, adjusting to have had some difficulty selling
started this paper rather than pursue a
changes in routine, or things that I advertising space, partly due to the
more traditional career is that I have
just don’t think of. economy and probably in part
brain damage that makes some kinds
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subarachnoid cyst on my right myself lets me get around some of my
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Florida

• “Florida” is the oldest European 1965 to keep the school’s football

name still in use of any U.S. state team hydrated.
or town. Spanish conquistador
• Florida has two separate rivers
Juan Ponce de León gave the
with the same name, the Withla-
state its name on April 2, 1513.
coochee River. One starts in
• Florida’s name means “flowery” southern Georgia and ends in
or “flowered” in Spanish. It got northwestern Florida; the other is
its name from its discovery during in central Florida. The names of
the Pascua Flor- the rivers come
ida (“Flowery from a Creek
Easter”) season phrase meaning
and for its na- “little river” or
tive flowers. “little big water.”

• Florida became • On average,

the 27th U.S. Florida receives
Florida’s state flag
state on March more precipitation
3, 1845. per year than any other state. It
also has the most tornadoes per
• Florida produces roughly three-
square 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 Mid-
• Saint Augustine, Florida is the west and Plains states.
oldest European settlement in not
• Due to its long coastline on tropi-
only the United States, but all of
cal and subtropical waters, Florida
North America.
is hit by more hurricanes than any
• Cape Canaveral, Florida is home other state. Four hit in 2004, the
to Cape Canaveral Air Force Sta- most of any single calendar year.
tion and John F. Kennedy Space
• About ⅔ of Major League Base-
Center, 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 doc-
the most important NASCAR
tor helped invent the drink in
race.
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This Week in History This Week’s

• May 20, 1609: All Celebrity
154 of William Birthdays
Shakespeare’s son-
nets are published, Singer Joe Cocker (“With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Up Where We
most of them for Belong” [with Jennifer Warnes]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 20, 1944
the first time. Actor and director Nick Cassavetes (John Q, The Notebook) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 1959
• May 21, 1924: Uni- Actor Mark Christopher Lawrence (Chuck) . . . . . . . . . May 22, 1964
versity of Chicago Singer Jewel (“Foolish Games,” “You Were Meant for Me”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
students Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 23, 1974
Leopold, Jr. (19) Singer Patti LaBelle (“Lady Marmalade,” “On My Own” [with Michael
McDonald]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 24, 1944
and Richard Loeb Puppeteer, actor, and director Frank Oz, puppeteer and voice of Star Wars’
(18)—better Yoda and multiple Muppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 1944
known as just Leo- Musician Lenny Kravitz (“Fly Away,” “Are You Gonna Go My Way”) . . . . .
pold and Loeb— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 26, 1964
kidnap and murder Clipart: MS
14-year-old Bobby
Franks in an effort
Historic
to commi t a Birthdays This
“perfect crime.”
Both are later im-
Week
prisoned for the Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow; the famous outlaws were Comic book writer Gardner Fox, co-creator of the original Flash and the
rest of their lives. gunned down 75 years ago this Saturday. Justice Society of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 20, 1911
Jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller (“Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Honeysuckle
• May 22, 1964: President Lyndon Baltimore, Maryland. The mes-
Rose”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 1904
Johnson announces his goals for sage is a quote from Numbers Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . .
the Great Society initiative in a 23:23 reading, “What hath God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 1859
commencement speech at the wrought.” Physician/hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer, whose name is the origin of the
University of Michigan in Ann word “mesmerize” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 23, 1734
• May 25, 1914: The British House Inventor and thermometer maker Gabriel Fahrenheit . . . . . May 24, 1686
Arbor.
of Commons passes the Home Essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Self-Reliance,”
• May 23, 1934: Bank robbers Rule Act of 1914, intended to “Nature”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 1803
Actor Peter Cushing (Star Wars: A New Hope, Dr. Who and the Daleks) . . . . . .
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow grant Ireland “home rule,” a de-
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 26, 1913
are ambushed and killed without gree of self-government while still
warning by a group of police led remaining part of the United
by Frank Hamer on Highway 154 Kingdom. Eight years later, the
in Louisiana. Irish Free State becomes an inde-
pendent country, with Northern
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Next Week
in Gist Weekly:
• Next Tuesday is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of
Ken Jennings’ record 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy!,
which earned him over $3 million. In recognition of this
anniversary, Gist Weekly has some interesting facts about
Jeopardy! and other Game Shows past and present.
• Where did reggae and ska get their start? Find out in In-
ternational Info.
• By the Numbers features Boxing Day, Boggs, and the
Boston Marathon in trivia related to the number 26.
• This Week in History takes a look at the 20th anniversary
This space available for just of a famous protest and other events that took place be-
tween May 27 and June 2.
$43/week or $1,500/year—a • In Birthdays, a Scrubs star turns 45 and a famous musician
would be 100.
savings of 33%. • Plus the usual assortment of puzzles and games, including
a crossword, sudoku, scavenger hunt, and more.

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Game and Quiz Answers

—WORD SEARCH— —MAZE— —CROSSWORD PUZZLE—
Solution Solution Solution

—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS—

A. Page 7 (Classifieds)
B. Page 4 (“Fifty State Fun Facts: Florida”)
C. Page 6 (“By the Numbers”)
D. Page 5 (Cectic comic strip)
E. Page 8 (Metropolis ad)
F. Page 1 (Advertiser map notice)

—MATCH UP— —TRIVIA QUIZ— —SUDOKU— —NONOGRAM—

Answers Answers Solution Solution
Battle of Antietam—American Civil 1. France and Mexico
War 2. Wayne Brady
Battle of the Bulge—World War II 3. The Wonder Years
Battle of Bunker Hill—American 4. Henry David Thoreau
Revolution 5. Zager and Evans
Battle of Verdun—World War I

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