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PAW’S CORNER BIRDS (cont’d) Q: What do you give a sick bird?
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Last year, pandemic lock- mobbed and dive-bombed by crows, including “Birds are an ecological
downs, job losses and financial instability caused young crows that had not even been born at the litmus paper.”
many families, along with their pets, to experience time of the original experiment. Crows up to
food insecurity. Because groceries are a higher prior- half a mile away also mobbed the “cavemen” -Roger Tory Peterson
ity for families than pet food, many pets got less to though they had not even been in the vicinity
eat or lived off table scraps, which can be unhealthy nine years earlier. IT’S COLD OUTSIDE...
over the long term.
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many pets will go hungry again this year. Can Paw’s and uses it to carry honey home to its nest. 1. MOVIES: What is the name of the department
Corner readers rise to the occasion again this year • A blue jay scrapes ants against its feathers, store where Kris Kringle works in the 1947 “Mira-
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now, but want to help. There are so many choices • Nuthatches use flakes of bark as a lever to pry classically trained pianist?
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Local shelters often do community outreach to help tree trunk, possibly to attract a mate. island of Barbados lie?
feed pets so owners can keep their pets and not sur- • Many birds use twigs, leaf stems, thorns, or 10. LITERATURE: Which famous 19th-century
render them. Contact the nearest pet shelter, either by cactus spines to pry insects from holes too deep novel begins with the line, “Christmas won’t be
email or phone, and ask what type of donations they for their beaks to reach. Christmas without any presents.”
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Comfort & Support for Your Quality of Life! SENIOR HOUSING (cont’d) BIRDS (cont’d)

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resources for locating them? I need to find a place Need Help? miles (70,811 km) every year. If a tern lives
for my elderly mother and could use some help. If you’re not sure what your mom needs, consider hir- 30 years, it flies the equivalent of 3 trips to the
Overwhelmed Daughter ing an aging life care expert (AgingLifeCare.org) who Moon and back.
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Dear Overwhelmed, for a fee – usually between $300 and $800. Or you from homing pigeons brought on ships with Eu-
There’s a wide array of housing options available to can use a senior care advising service like A Place for ropean settlers beginning in the 1600s. Homing
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health and self-sufficient, “independent living commu- circular route inside rotating drums in a sealed
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munity. Typically available to people over age 55, this Even pigeons whose eyes are occluded are able
type of senior housing is usually apartments or town IMMEDIATATE to find their way home.
homes that are fully functional. In addition, many • In 2014, researchers outfitted a flock of
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in a common dining area, housekeeping, transportation study their migration. The birds were fitted with
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meanings, prob- colors sold for more than $5,000 at a

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• Komarov was born in Moscow in 1927. He glass to a usable, raw state. According to the EPA,
in Kansas City, Missouri. The Vendo Model 56 became a test pilot and an aerospace engineer recycling glass only saves about 30 percent
vending machine was designed about 1956 and made before becoming a cosmonaut. In 1964 he of the energy cost of producing new
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sizes 8 ounces to 12 ounces, in up to seven varieties. first spaceflight to carry more than one crew in abundant supply.
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woodgrain, and with woodgrain “decorator doors” to fly in space twice when he was chosen as the LAKE WINDS METALWORKING
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like Coca-Cola or Pepsi sell from about $250 to Soyuz 2. The two spacecraft would rendezvous, Trailer Hitch Supplies
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The Village [email protected] VLADIMIR KOMAROV (cont’d)

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Yuri would die if he took over. In spite of the
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nas failed to open making communication
BASEMENT WATERPROOFING difficult. Navigation was hard. Komarov told
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Solution puzzle on page 8 1. What team selected 17-year- cries of rage as he plummeted to his death.
old Jermaine O’Neal in the • It’s said that when Yuri Gargarin got the
first round of the 1996 NBA chance, he threw his drink in the face of
Draft? Brezhnev.
2. Name the ESPN game show • Today there is a commemorative plaque on
that had contestants taking on the Moon in Vladimir Komarov’s honor.
Answers on page 8 statistician Howie Schwab in a • Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968, a
showdown of sports trivia knowledge. year before Americans reached the Moon.
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7. What short-lived Marvel Comics series, first pub-
lished in 1991, centered on an ex-NFL player who de-
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icals and a nearly indestructible football uniform?

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* On Jan. 4, 1847, Samuel Colt rescues his faltering
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ers. Though never cheap, by the early 1850s, Colt
revolvers were inexpensive enough to be a favorite
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* On Jan. 5, 1945, Japanese pilots receive the first
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plosives and crash them into ships. At Okinawa, they
sank 30 ships and killed almost 5,000 Americans.

* On Jan. 7, 1959, six days after the fall of the Ful-
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protect American interests in Cuba. Less than two
years later, the U.S. severed diplomatic relations and
launched the Bay of Pigs invasion.

* On Jan. 8, 1962, at the National Gallery of Art
in Washington, D.C., Leonardo da Vinci’s master-
piece, the Mona Lisa, is exhibited for the first time in
America.

* On Jan. 3, 1990, Panama’s Gen. Manuel Anto-
nio Noriega, after hiding at the Vatican embassy in
Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face
charges of drug trafficking and is flown to Miami. In
1992, the former dictator was convicted and sentenced
to 40 years in prison.

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