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• Archaeologists generally divide prehistoric eras into three ages – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age – named such for the mate-rial used for making implements and weapons. During the Stone Age, stone was fashioned with a sharp edge or a point, with the oldest known stone tools excavated from several sites in what is now Ethiopia. The Stone Age is divided into three sub-eras, the Paleolithic era (early), roughly 70,000 to 20,000 B.C., the Mesolithic era (middle), 20,000 to 7000 B.C., and the Neolithic era (new), 7000 to 3000 B.C. The period of the Bronze Age is considered to be from 3000 to 1200 B.C., and ushered in the use of copper and tin with the alloy

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• According to Greek mythology, there are several stages of human existence on Earth. During the Golden Age, the first race of mortals, dubbed the golden race (meaning good and noble), was creat-ed by the gods and held conversations with them. There was an endless abundance of food and no need for agriculture. This age was characterized by peace, harmony, and prosperity. The mortals lived to an old age while maintaining their youth-ful appearance, and eventually died very peaceful deaths. The Silver Age followed, with the mortals described as foolish and immature, who refused to worship the gods and goddesses. According to mythology, this so angered Zeus, he destroyed the silver race. The mortals of the mythological Bronze Age were hardened and tough, caught up in wars. This race was undone by their own vio-lence. The Heroic Age was the period of heroes who fought at Troy. In the Iron Age, pain and evil ran rampant, with humans living in toil and mis-ery, and with no shame over wrongdoing.

• The period of European history from the 5th to the 15th centuries is referred to as the Middle Ages. It began after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the abdication of Romulus Augustus in the year 476. The early Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages, lasting until about 1000, during which time there was a drastic deterioration in cultural development and the economy, as well as an increase in wars. The part of the Middle Ages commonly known as the Medieval Period, began around 1000, and continued until the Renais-sance began in the 16th century. Gothic art and architecture appeared during this era.

• The Age of Discovery started in the early 1400s and continued to the 1600s. Also called the Age of Exploration, it was the time when Europeans began travels in search of new sea trade routes to what they thought were the East Indies. The Por-tuguese and Spanish dominated the exploration – Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Balboa, Cortes, Ponce de Leon, and, of course, Columbus were the lead-ers of the more well-known voyages of discovery.

• When the Earth undergoes a long-term reduction in surface and atmospheric temperatures, glaciers and ice sheets may expand. This is known as an ice age, or more accurately, a glacial age. Experts say there have been at least five major ice ages over the Earth’s history. They are probably the result of an interaction between very small changes in the Earth’s orbit, changes in ocean currents, and changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We can see the effects of glaciers across the continent – the Great Lakes and most of Minnesota’s and Wisconsin’s lakes were carved out by glaciers and filled up with melting water.

• During the 17th and 18th centuries, the world

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• The period between 1750 and 1850 was the Indus-trial Age, when dramatic advances in manufac-turing, transportation, and technology produced powerful changes in the economy and culture. The introduction of steam power and improve-ments in mining created huge advancements. Manufacturing machines allowed mass produc-tion of goods.

• The 1920s, commonly called the Roaring Twen-ties, was a time of economic prosperity and rapid industrial growth. Drastic social changes came along, including the growth of jazz music, which was so popular that the decade became known as the Jazz Age. The sounds of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Benny Goodman dominated popular music. It was a time of breaking with tradition and turning toward modern technology. Young people took joy in shocking the older generation – women bobbed their hair and wore short skirts with silk stocking, taking on the nickname “Flap-pers.” The Jazz Age came tumbling down on Oc-tober 29, 1929, with the crash of the stock market, ushering in the Great Depression.

• We entered the Atomic Age when the first atom-ic bomb was detonated over Japan in 1945. The phrase Atomic Age was invented by a New York Times journalist named William Laurence, who was the official journalist for the U.S. Manhat-tan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons. After witnessing the Japan bombings, he wrote a series of articles supporting the advan-tages of the new weapon.

• Today we are part of the Information (or Digital) Age, characterized by our increases in technology and how we receive our information. We are also in the Social Age, which places more emphasis on people’s needs through various social networks.

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• The year 1904 was an eventful one for Marie – she was awarded a professorship at the Sorbonne, es-tablished the use of radiation therapy for cancer, and gave birth to her second child. Just two years later, Pierre was run over by a horse-drawn car-riage in Paris and died, leaving Marie a widow at age 37 with two young daughters to raise alone. Shortly afterward, she was awarded Pierre’s de-partment chair position at the Sorbonne, becom-ing the first woman ever to hold a

chair there, and the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. Although she was offered a national pension following Pierre’s death, she declined it.

• Marie’s second Nobel Prize came along in 1911, this time in the field of Chemistry, for her isola-tion of pure radium. This set her apart as the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in two different fields up to that date. This time, Marie donated her prize money toward equipping World War I ambulances with portable X-ray machines, as well as establishing 200 permanent X-ray stations in France and Belgium.

• The laboratories of the Radium Institute at the University of Paris opened in 1914, and the Cu-rie Foundation was established in 1920 to work toward applying radium in medical procedures. Marie’s daughter Irene joined her mother in her research at the Institute.

• Marie Curie certainly passed on her brilliance to the next generation. In 1934, her daughter Irene and her husband discovered artificial radioactiv-ity, an accomplishment for which they received a Nobel Prize in 1935. Unfortunately, Marie did not live to see her daughter’s award. Seemingly unaware of the effects of radioactivity on human health during all her years of research, Marie con-tracted leukemia, most likely due to her prolonged exposure. She died a few months after Irene’s dis-covery. Sadly, Irene developed leukemia as well and died from the effects of radiation exposure. The Curies’ notebooks recording their research remain so radioactive today that they still cannot be handled without protection, and are stored in lead-lined boxes.

• The name Curie is a household word among sci-entists, as it is used as the name of the unit of measure for radioactivity.

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This game was a battle the entire way with no team really gaining an edge. Broomfield fin-ished the 1st period with 14 while Central scored 10. However, Greeley Central put to-gether a better performance in the second, giv-ing them a 1 point lead at the half.

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• During World War I, fully one-third of all men in England between the ages of 17 and 35 were killed.

• The 20th century saw some profound changes in society, and here is one of the more striking ex-amples: Between 1900 and 1990, the lifespan of the average American man increased from less than 47 years to more than 72 years.

• You might be surprised to learn that 20 percent of American families don’t have bank accounts.

• It was in the late 1930s when Harry Reeves, a writer for the Donald Duck cartoon, decided that introducing three nephews would open up a lot of story lines. At a loss for names for the characters, Reeves asked Jim Carmichael, who also worked on the cartoons, for suggestions. Carmichael was busy with his own work, but in glancing down at the newspaper on his desk he noticed Thomas E. Dewey and Huey P. Long were both mentioned in headlines, so he suggested Huey and Dewey. A friend named Louie Schmitt stopped in to say hello at that moment, so he added Louie as the third nephew.

• Jack Nicholson has been nominated for an Acad-emy Award 12 times (more than any other actor in history) and has won the award twice. He also appeared in two episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show.”

• In 1974, a Gallup poll found that the most admired man in America was Henry Kissinger.

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Here’s an experiment in human relations you can do: Walk down the street and as you pass peo-ple, smile at them and attempt to engage their eyes without a greeting. Very few people will actually look at you and acknowledge that you are on the same planet let alone within an arm’s length of each other.

We tend to lock the doors of our lives for the same reason we lock the doors to our homes, to keep us safe from unwanted, unknown intruders. Even though most of us don’t look like axe mur-derers, the strangers we pass by everyday seldom acknowledge us nor do we acknowledge them. We feel safer when we move at a quick pace with our arms crossed about our chest and our eyes cast downward. It’s the natural thing to do, I suppose, to protect our selves. And who’s to criticize, what with all the nightly news reports of kidnappings, mur-ders, and bizarre incidents.

I’m not talking about the acute fear of strangers referred to as Xenophobia; I’m talking about the normal, everyday experience of protecting our-selves from those we don’t know or don’t want to know. Socially healthy people willingly open a door or two of their hearts from time to time.

I’ve identified seven reasons socially healthy peo-ple open their private heart doors to others. They are: to play, to abate loneliness, to calm fears, to work, to solve problems, to grow, and to love. I will discuss one area each week for the next six weeks. Here’s the first…

The First Time We Open Our Livesto Others is To Play

It was a hot day in August, 1956 in Council Bluffs, Iowa when I saw a moving truck at the big white house across our back yard and on the other side of the street. After the truck left I noticed a kid about my age sitting on the front porch steps. He looked terribly lonely there all by himself. I could almost


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feel him calling me to invite him over. Bravely, I walked through the vacant lot and up to his porch and introduced myself. He was quite happy to have found a new friend in this big town he had just moved to.

As children we actually ache for friendship, so are quite good at welcoming strangers into our lives. We want playmates. We ask our mother if we can go over to our friend’s house to play or if they can come and spend the night with us. As we grow, we let others into our lives to play when we join a club, play team sports, or develop personal friend-ships based on hobbies or other leisure pursuits.

And it’s good for us. When we play we learn about life. We learn to share, to win, to lose, to fight, to make peace, and to compromise. We discover that people are different and that some are nice and some are not. We discover appropriate and inap-propriate behavior.

Through play and friendship we discern the un-written laws of the relational universe. We find out-lets for our aggression, we develop problem solving skills, we find relief from stress, we learn about our own likes and dislikes.

As we age, we become more cautious. As we “grew up” and as we played with others we learned that some people ridicule us, exclude us, ignore us, gossip about us, or find our tender spot and go out of their way to hurt us. So when outside of our com-fort zone of trusted friends and loved ones, we fold our arms across our chest, cast our eyes downward, and pick up our pace.

Only if we could, like innocent children, interact and enjoy each other’s company without suspicion about intentions, uncertainty about the prudence of the connection, or fear of being hurt. Wouldn’t it be grand if we could regain our innocent, childlike interest in others? Our lives would be better and the world would be a better place to live, don’t you think?

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• On Feb. 21, 1828, the first printing press designed to use the newly invented Cherokee alphabet ar-rives at New Echota, Ga. A young Cherokee, Se-quoyah, had invented the written language, con-sisting of 86 characters. Within months, the first Indian language newspaper in history was print-ed. It was called the Cherokee Phoenix.

• On Feb. 24, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis issues a call for help on behalf of Texan troops defending the Alamo, an old Span-ish mission and fortress under attack by the Mex-ican army. Only 32 men from the nearby town of Gonzales responded to Travis’ call for help.

• On Feb. 23, 1885, a 19-year-old man named John Lee is sent to the gallows in Exeter, England, for the murder of a rich older woman. After the noose was put around his neck the lever malfunc-

tioned three times. The authorities, mystified at the gallows’ inexplicable malfunction, decided to ascribe it to an act of God. Lee was sent to prison instead.

• On Feb. 18, 1930, Pluto is discovered at the Low-ell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. In 2006, however, the In-ternational Astronomical Union announced that Pluto would no longer be considered a planet due its relatively small mass, just one-sixth that of Earth’s moon.

• On Feb. 22, 1959, Lee Petty defeats Johnny Beau-champ at the just-opened Daytona International Speedway in Florida to win the first-ever Day-tona 500. The race was so close that B eauchamp was initially named the winner. Three days later, with the as-sistance of news photo-

graphs, Petty was officially named the champ.• On Feb. 19, 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn awaits

reunion with his family after exile from Russia. Publication of “The Gulag Archipelago,” a detailed history of the Soviet prison system, prompted Russia to exile the 55-year-old author.

• On Feb. 20, 1985, in a highly controversial vote, the Irish government defies the powerful Catholic Church and approves the sale of contraceptives. The Irish Supreme Court found that a constitu-tional right to marital privacy covered the use of contraceptives.

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Tidbits of Greeley & West Weld CountyPublished by Handshake Publishing

Ron & Amy RossAll inquiries: 970.475.4829 or 720.934.7677

1813 N. Del Norte Aveune - Loveland CO 80538www.TrustTidbits.com - [email protected]

Harry JohnstonIt’s time for YOU to stop in at the all new Loveland Ford & Lin-coln. Lots of changes have been made but one thing stays the same...those wonderful made-in-America Fords and Lincolns. Stop by today and see for yourself.

General Manager

Greeley Tidbits Issue 867

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