Answers to Outside the Box Puzzles from page 54 1. Keep up with the times 2. Whistling in the dark 3. Practice makes perfect 4. Neither here nor there 5. Hole in one 6. Ice cream Fast Facts Seems like only Yesterday!! Here are a few 2019 anniversaries that may surprise you. ▶ e famous O.J. Simpson police chase turns 25. ▶“ e Cosby Show” turns 35. ▶Rock musician, Kurt Cobain, died 25 years ago. ▶“SpongeBob SquarePants” turns 20. ▶“ e Simpsons” turns 30 in December. ▶Facebook and Gmail turn 15. ▶Michael Jackson died 10 years ago. ▶“Seinfeld” and “Friends” turn 30 and 25, respectively. ▶ e rst moon landing was 50 years ago. ▶ e 100th anniversary of the birth of American pianist, Liberace. Moonstruck e ‘harvest moon’ and ‘hunter’s moon’ are traditional names for the full moons that occur in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer and early autumn, usually in September and October, respectively. Over time, full moons in general have been the subject of myths and legends, being blamed for everything from werewolves to lunacy. In fact, lunar lore overall is lled with many ‘out there’ beliefs. Here are but a few blame-it-on-the-moon examples. ▶Aliens inhabit the moon. ▶ e moon is a hollow spacecra . ▶ e Nazis had a base there. ▶Epilepsy and madness are caused by the moon. ▶ e moon controls fertility. ▶Some believe that there was never a real American moon landing. ▶Surgery is not safe during a full moon. ▶Moon cycles are connected to insomnia and mood changes. ▶Crime spikes during a full moon. ▶Certain ancient Greeks believed that the moon was the home of the dead. ▶Early Hindus believed that the souls of the dead waited on the moon for their rebirth. Ponder these beliefs when you gaze at the 2019 autumn full moons: Sept. 14/Harvest Moon and Oct. 13/Hunter’s Moon. AStar Was Born Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, born a century ago on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia, was the American professional baseball player who became the rst African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball colour line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at rst base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed him, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, won the Rookie of the Year award in 1947 and was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1949. Robinson died in 1972 and was posthumously awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1997, MLB retired Robinson’s uniform number 42 across all major league teams. He was the rst pro athlete in any sport to be so honoured. “A” is for Apple Nothing speaks to autumn like the annual fall crop of apples. ere’s plenty of interesting stu to know about this quintessential fruit that promises ‘one a day keeps the doctor away’. ▶Apples are part of the rose family. ▶More than 7,500 varieties are grown throughout the world. ▶On average, Canadians eat 86 apples a year. ▶ e science of apple-growing is called pomology. ▶Fresh apples oat because they are 25% air. ▶It takes four apples to make a glass of pure apple juice. ▶ e apple tree originated in Central Asia. ▶ e only variety native to North America is the crabapple. ▶It takes four to ve years for an apple tree to produce its rst fruit. ▶Most of the fruit’s nutrients are in the skin. ▶Apples are said to symbolize health, love and fertility. ▶ e theory persists that Sir Isaac Newton came up with his law of gravity when an apple fell on his head. ▶Apple trees can live to be about 100 years old. ▶Cold climates are best for apple-growing. 62 | www.snowbirds.org
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