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SHOES (continued): • Stiletto comes from the Italian word stilo meaning 'dagger' or 'stylus.' The contemporary stiletto was invented in the 1950s by Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo, who made his first pair for Marilyn Monroe using alligator hide. The styles back then were tame by today's standards, with heels no taller than about 3 inches. • The word "sneaker" is often attributed to an advertising agent who, in 1917, coined the term because the rubber sole made the shoe stealthy. The name "sneakers" referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy hard leather-soled dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could "sneak up" on you while someone wearing standard shoes could not. • Australian fashion lore has it that Ugg really does stand for "ugly." The sheepskin boots have been used by outdoorsy Australians for decades, but they were designed to be utilitarian rather than fashionable. • Sandals were first worn in warm climates where the soles of the feet needed protection but the top of the feet needed to be cooler. • Before the 19th century there was no left or right shoe, they were both identical. • "Schubert" and "Schumann" both mean shoemaker. IF THE SHOE FITS • 88% of women wear shoes that are one or two sizes too small, usually because they were once that size but haven't been properly measured in years.

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MORE SHOE FACTS • Because of stringent new environmental laws in Europe, the chemical composition of Barbie dolls changed to a softer plastic that doesn't produce as many toxic gases when burned. To show that the new plastic was non-toxic to children who might swallow pieces of Barbie, they tied plastic Barbie shoes to tethers and fed them to pigs. The shoes were retrieved at various points in the digestive process and weighed to show that there was no absorption. • In the 1950s DuPont decided leather was no good for shoes because leather wears out. DuPont invented an imitation leather that they claimed would never wear out. They called it Corfam. Not only did Corfam never wear out, it also never broke in. Shoes would not mold themselves to fit the wearer's foot like leather does. Instead, the shoes "wore like armor plate," according to "Time" magazine. Corfam did not breathe like leather, resulting in hot sweaty feet, and it was also more expensive than leather. DuPont lost over a quarter million dollars on Corfam shoes. BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW • Some islanders used to use the skin of sea cucumbers to make shoes. • Up until the 1700s, both men and women wore high heels. • The world's largest shoe size was 37AA worn by Robert Wadlow back in 1940. Wadlow was the tallest man in the world at 8 ft. 11 inches. • The average American woman buys about five pairs of shoes each year, and the average man, about two pairs. • Cowboy boots have heels to help a rider's feet stay in the stirrups. • The inside of a banana peel is a great shoe polisher for patent leather. • There are about a quarter million sweat glands in an average pair of feet.

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SHOES IN SPORTS • Bobby Jones was golfing in the Southern Amateur Tournament in New Orleans in 1920 when his ball landed inside an old shoe that was sitting on top of a wheelbarrow. Jones decided not to take the penalty for dropping the ball out of the shoe, and instead he played the shoe. He whacked it as hard as he could. The ball flew out and kept rolling, landing a few feet from the green. Jones made par. • During a 1967 soccer game in Bulgaria, the referee got down on one knee and bowed his head. Members of both teams assumed he was praying, so they also got down on their knees to pray. The spectators joined in the moment of reverent silence. Then the referee finished tying his shoelace. • John McEnroe tied his shoelaces seven times during a single Wimbledon match in 1979 in an effort to stall for time. • Writer and prankster Wilson Mizner was playing poker when an opponent took out his wallet and tossed it into the pot saying, "I call you." Mizner replied by removing his shoe and placing it on the table as well. He announced, "If we're playing for leather, I raise!" FAMOUS SHOE OWNERS • Darlene Flynn owns 7,765 shoe-related items, including a replica of the Disney Cinderella glass slipper, leather moccasins, cloth shoes, cast iron boots, a red-stiletto shoe phone, and even a shoe made from the ash collected at Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption. • Imelda Marcos owned over 1,000 pairs of shoes, which, if laid heel-to-toe, would equal almost the length of the Eiffel Tower. Some people estimate that she actually had between 3,000 and 7,500 pairs of shoes, but some were stolen or destroyed when her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, was deposed. She also had 15 mink coats, 508 gowns, and over 1,000 handbags.

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• William Scholl was born in LaPorte, Indiana in 1882 as one of 13 children. Even as a boy on a mid-western farm, William was interested in feet and shoes. As a teen he learned to make shoes, and then was apprenticed to a cobbler. • When he moved to Chicago to set up his own shop, he noticed how many people had trouble with corns, bunions, and fallen arches, and he was appalled. So he worked as a shoe salesman by day and put himself through medical school by night, becoming a podiatrist in 1904 at the age of 22. • That same year he patented an arch support which he peddled to other shoe salesmen, and its popularity gave him the capital he needed to invent more products for the feet, including remedies for corns, bunions, warts, calluses, foot odor, ingrown toenails, athlete’s foot, and many other foot-related ailments. • He established a correspondence course to teach basic podiatry to shoe store clerks and sent a team of trained sales representatives around the country to deliver public lectures on proper foot care. • In 1916 William Scholl sponsored the national Cinderella Foot Contest to find the most beautiful feet in the U.S. Ladies flocked to shoe stores by the thousands to have their feet measured and scrutinized, and pictures of the prize-winning feet were published in magazines and newspapers nationwide. Then the ladies flocked to drugstores by the thousands to buy Scholl's products in order to make their feet look more beautiful. • By the time he died in Chicago in 1968, William Scholl's line of foot care products eventually expanded to include over a thousand different items. He left the company to his nephews, and it still flourishes today.

• Born in Germany in 1900, Adolf Dassler, who went by the nickname of Adi, loved tap dancing. He began creating his own tap shoes and got a lot of advice from his father, who worked in a shoe factory, manufacturing cleats for athletes. After he returned from service during World War I, he set up a cobbler's shop in his mother's laundry. Adi decided to go into the dance shoe business, and his brother joined him in the venture, which they called the Dassler Brothers Shoe Company. • At the World Tap Dancing Competition in 1928, Adi outfitted a number of the top competitors, and sales of his shoes climbed. During World War II, Adi was drafted into producing boots for soldiers. • After the war, Adi and his brother split up and his brother started a sports shoe company called Puma. Adi renamed his own company, combining several letters from both his first and last names. He designed his company’s three-striped logo. He branched out and soon was making 30 different types of shoes for 11 different sports. • Much of his success was due to his close contact with the athletes who wore his shoes, and his persistent presence at sporting events. Sales skyrocketed after Germany won the World Soccer Cup in 1954 with every member of the team wearing his shoes. He got many famous athletes to use his footwear including Jesse Owens and Muhammad Ali. • Aggressive marketing was a cornerstone of his business, and he expanded into many different sporting goods. When Adi died in 1978, his son took over the business. Today the shoe company Adi founded is the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. Can you name it?

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• On July 16, 1863, the draft riots enter their fourth day in New York City in response to the Enrollment Act, which allowed wealthier citizens to pay $300 to avoid military duty. More than 1,000 people died in the violence, which was only contained by the arrival of Union troops from the battlefield at Gettysburg. • On July 19, 1879, Doc Holliday kills a man for shooting up his saloon. Despite his reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday engaged in just eight shootouts and killed only two men. The second was at the O.K. Corral in 1881. • On July 17, 1944, an ammunition ship explodes while being loaded in Port Chicago, California, killing 332 people. Poor procedures and lack of training led to the disaster. The blasts were felt as far away as Nevada. • On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon stuns the nation by announcing that he will visit communist China. Since the Communists came to power in China in 1949, Nixon had been one of its most vociferous critics. • On July 13, 1985, in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert to raise money for the relief of faminestricken Africans. The 16-hour concert was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 countries. • On July 14, 1995, the MP3 file compression format is born, allowing music files small enough to be stored in bulk. • On July 18, 1999, New York Yankee David Cone pitches the 16th perfect game in majorleague history with a no-hit, no-walk victory over the Montreal Expos. Cone needed only 88 pitches, 68 of them strikes, to set down 27 Expos in a row. © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

• It was Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco who made the following sage observation: "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them." • Iconic American rock band the Grateful Dead were originally known as the Warlocks. • It takes an average of 45 seconds in a microwave to make a Twinkie explode. • Dedicated experts at the University of Connecticut Alcohol Center conducted a study in which it was determined that light beer is more likely to cause a hangover than dark beer is. Evidently, lighter beers tend to be more highly carbonated, which causes the alcohol to go through the system faster. • It's been reported that the Department of Defense has contracted a private lab to come up with a smell that's so bad, it can be used to control unruly crowds. • The 1942 film "Casablanca" is consistently considered to be one of the best movies ever made. However, executives at Warner Brothers didn't expect much from the film and gave the producers an extremely small budget. In fact, they were so strapped for cash that the plane used in the movie's iconic final scene was no more than a cardboard cutout. • The original American Express card was not green, but purple. The now almost-ubiquitous green wasn't introduced until 1969. • Those who study such things say that if you have bad breath, you're more likely to be bitten by a bat. • In the 1970s, there was an epidemic of teenagers sniffing airplane glue to get high. In order to discourage this practice, the glue manufacturers began adding an intense oil of mustard to the formula. *** Thought for the Day: "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." -- Ingrid Bergman © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Risk factors for West Nile virus: • Time of year – The majority of WNV cases occur from July – September. • Geographic region – The Dakotas have reported some of the highest cases per capita in the United States. • Time spent outdoors not wearing protective clothing and mosquito repellent – If you work or spend a lot of time outdoors (golfing, gardening, hunting, etc.), you’re at a higher risk of being bitten by mosquitoes. • Proximity – If you live in an area where WNV has already been identified or near mosquito larval habitat. • If you have a weakened immune system. The best way to prevent West Nile virus infection is to avoid mosquito bites. • Use mosquito-repellant products containing DEET. • Wear long sleeves and pants. • Eliminate any standing water from your property, such as trash bins, plant saucers, rain gutters, buckets, etc. The mosquito most common for transmitting this disease generally stays close to the site it hatched from. Don’t let it be a container or rain gutter from your own property.

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