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Travel Back To Italy Hopkins Colony of the Florida Society of Mayflower What Is Stored In A Camel’s Hump?

Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps are not
With The Martin County Descendants in Vero Beach. In December, MCGS Vice filled with water. Instead, these odd protrusions are
mounds of fat which allow camels to travel days through
President David Attride will present stories about famous
Genealogical Society and infamous ancestors of MCGS members. the desert without stopping for a bite to eat. The camel
In addition to its monthly meetings – where local and will use the fat as nourishment when food is scarce. A
Whether or not your family tree has Italian roots, national experts speak about how to explore your family camel can carry up to 80 pounds of fat on its back. When
consider tuning into the Martin County Genealogical tree – MCGS offers a variety of services at the Genealogy a camel consumes the emergency food supply, the hump
Society’s (MCGS) October webinar for tips on how to Room in the Blake Library including an extensive research will become limp and droop down. Refueling and a good
explore your ancestry. Presenting “Italian Genealogy,” local library and access to several genealogy websites. (Due to night’s sleep will return the hump to its normal upright
genealogist Jack Cipriano will share his Italian research the pandemic, the Genealogy Room is currently closed.) position.
expertise including a very thorough handout that walks MCGS members also receive a discount on Vivid-Pix
through the process of tracing Italian ancestry. The free Restore digital software that enables easy restoration of Who Is The Oldest Winner Of An Acting Oscar?
webinar will be from 2 to 3:15 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16. To faded photos, newspaper articles and documents. For more Christopher Plummer’s acting career has spanned
participate go to mcgsfl.org and register before Oct. 15. information about MCGS membership, activities and seven decades. He is known for portraying Captain Georg
Due to the ongoing pandemic, MCGS plans to continue services go to mcgsfl.org or call Lisa Tompson, MCGS von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and has portrayed
meeting via webinar until further notice. November will president, (772) 888-2422. numerous historical figures throughout his career.
celebrate the Mayflower’s 400th anniversary with a Plummer won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
presentation by Kurt Bressner, a member of the Stephen Actor at the age of 82 for Beginners (2010), becoming
the oldest person to ever win an Oscar in a competitive
category. He also received a nomination at the age of 88
for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest
person to be nominated in an acting category.

Who Was The Tallest Man Who Ever Lived?
Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in 1918 and, at the
time of his death at age 22, he was 8 feet, 11.1 inches
tall. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood
were due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which
results in an abnormally high level of human growth
hormone (HGH). Even by the time of his death, there
was no indication that his growth had ended.

Who Holds The Record As The Longest Living
Human?
Jeanne Louise Calment was born in 1875 in France;
she lived to be 122 years, 164 days old. To put it into
perspective, the year after her birth Alexander Graham
Bell patented his telephone. At age 85, she took up
fencing, lived alone until age 110, and quit smoking after
she turned 117. Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles,
southern France, on Aug. 4, 1997.

Which Woman Had The Record For The Longest
Fingernails?
The longest fingernails belonged to Lee Redmond,
who started to grow them in 1979 and carefully
manicured them to reach a combined total length of 28
feet, 4.5 inches back in 2008. The longest nail was on her
right thumb and was 2 feet, 11 inches long. Unfortunately,
an auto accident in 2009 snapped them off.

How Many Streets Are Named After Martin Luther
King, Jr.?
There are more than 900 streets named after the
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. After his assassination
in 1968, cities across the nation began naming and
renaming streets in his honor; even countries such as
Italy and Israel followed suit. Nearly 70 percent of those
streets are in the South. MLK is the only nonpresident to
have a national holiday in his name.

What Was The First Life Savers Flavor?
Originally, Life Savers only came in peppermint
flavor. They were first created in 1912. Just one year after
creating the product, Clarence Crane sold the rights to his
Pep-O-Mint peppermint candy to Edward John Noble for
$2,900. Noble started his own candy company and began
producing and selling the mints known as Pep-O-Mint
Life Savers. The original fruity flavors – lemon, lime,
orange, cherry, and pineapple – were introduced in 1935.

Things I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know. A Swan has
only one partner its whole life; if its partner dies, it
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of learning up to 250 words and gestures; the average
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tongue print. Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an
18 percent tax on alcohol to pay for damages caused by
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title of the rainiest city in the United States, thanks to
Catholic midwife Stanisawa Leszczyñska delivered
ASSISTED LIVING AND 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp
during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. Adolph
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the other on his desk. Had it been necessary for a third
atom bomb, the city targeted would have been Tokyo.
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