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A: Rachel, 30, most recently starred in the Lifetime original movie “Holiday High School Reunion,” which aired in November (check your local listings for possible re-airings). As I type this, Rachel is shooting something else for Lifetime -- this time it’s a pilot for a new show, which will air this summer if the network decides to pick it up for a full-season run. It’s called “Witches of East End,” and Rachel told me about the show when I spoke with her recently.“I am working with such an amazing group of women! Julia Ormond plays my mom and Jenna Dewan-Tatum plays my sister. When we were born, our mom cast a spell so we wouldn’t know we are witches. Through a chain of events, we discover who we are and how we can help pro-tect each other and our town.”

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WINTRY FACTS (continued):rado received 63 inches (1.6 meters) in one day. Canada’s record is much newer – 57 inches (1.45 meters) fell in Tahtsa Lake West, British Colum-bia in 1999. January of 1911 was a record-setting month in Tamarack, California – 390 inches (9.9 meters) of snow in a single month! Valdez, Alas-ka is the snowiest place in the U.S., averaging 326 inches (8.3 meters) a year.• Bethel, Maine’s claim to fame is tall snow creatures! In 1999, the community planned for five months and labored 15 days to create An-gus, a 113’ 7” (34.63 meter) tall snowman, the world’s tallest, overtaking the previous record set by the citizens of Yamagata, Japan, of 96’ 7”. Nine years later, Bethel rivaled their own record with the world’s tallest snow woman, a 122’ 1” (37 meters) creation named Olympia. Olympia sported eyelashes made from skis and lips fash-ioned from bright red painted tires. Her arms were crafted from pine trees. • Canadians are experts at making snow angels. In 2004, students, parents, and teachers from 60 schools in the London, Ontario district hit the ground to create 15,851 snow angels simultane-ously. In 2011, 22,022 folks in 130 separate locations in Nova Scotia produced the most angels in multiple locations. • Chamonix, France hosted the first Winter Olympics for 11 days in early 1924. Sixteen na-tions sent a total of 258 athletes to “The Interna-tional Winter Sports Week” to participate in 16 different events. Finland and Norway took the majority of the 43 medals, Norway with 17 and Finland, 11. The United States took home four medals, and Canada took home one, the gold for hockey, the first of a streak. Out of the first seven Olympic winter games, Canada took the gold medal in hockey six times. • Squaw Valley, California was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, and the skiers were more than a little nervous as the competition approached. The reason? There was no snow! A local Native American tribe, the Piute, were recruited to do a “snow dance,” and a miracu-lous storm produced the snow needed to save the Games. • More than 150 people are killed in the world’s avalanches each year. Although many are small slides of dry powdery snow that don’t create much damage, when large slabs of snow loosen from a mountainside, they can advance down a slope at speeds of 80 mph (130 km/hr) within five seconds. About 93% of those caught in an ava-lanche can survive if rescued within 15 minutes. Just 30 minutes later, that survival rate drops to 20%-30%. After two hours, the rate is almost nil.

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Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is home to the ancient ruins of the most famous Mayan city, Chichen Itza. Here are some enlightening facts about this site, named as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. • One of the largest Mayan cities, Chichen Itza covered an area of at least 1.9 square miles (5 sq. km). It was an active urban center of the Mayan empire from 750 to 1200 A.D.• The ancient Mayan civilization displayed bril-liant mathematical and astronomical skills. They were keen observers of the sun, moon, planets, and stars, even predicting solar eclipses from their state-of-the-art observatory, El Caracol, which still stands at the site today. • The most familiar structure at Chichen Itza is the Kukulkan Pyramid, also known as El Cas-tillo. This 98-foot (30-m) tall ceremonial temple is a specimen of this civilization’s development of the 365-day calendar. It has 365 steps rising to the top, with each of its four sides containing 91 steps and the top platform making the 365th. Enormous sculptures of a serpents’ heads are at the base of the pyramid on the northern staircase, the principal sacred path to the top. The temple is geographically positioned so that twice a year, on the spring and autumn equinoxes, at sunset, a shadow falls on the pyramid that makes it ap-pear that the serpent Kukulkan is making its way down the stairway. Seven interlocking triangles form a serrated line that resembles the serpent’s tail. • El Castillo was not the first temple to occupy the site. Built sometime between 1000 and 1200 A.D., it was constructed on the foundation of previous temples. Archaeological digs in the 1930s uncovered another staircase under the north side of the pyramid, and continuing the dig, found another temple buried below. • Near the pyramid is a large ball court, 554 feet (168 meters) long and 231 feet (70 meters) wide.


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¥ On Dec. 13, 1621, under the care of Robert Cushman, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England aboard the Fortune. During the crossing, the Fortune was captured by the French, and its valuable cargo of furs was taken. Cushman was detained on the Ile d’Dieu before being returned to England.

¥ On Dec. 14, 1799, George Washington, the first U.S. presi-dent, dies at age 67. Two days earlier, he rode out into a freezing sleet to survey business affairs on his estate. He returned home late for a dinner engagement and refused to take the time to change out of his wet clothes. The next day, Washington developed a severe respiratory infection and died the following day. His last words were “’Tis well.”

¥ On Dec. 16, 1811, the greatest series of earthquakes in U.S. history begins in the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Mo., when a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude slams the region. The earthquake raised and lowered parts of the Mississippi Valley by as much as 15 feet and changed the course of the Mississippi River.

¥ On Dec. 10, 1915, the one-millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line at the River Rouge plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford sold more than 15 million Model Ts in all; they initially cost $850 (about $20,000 in today’s dol-lars).

¥ On Dec. 11, 1946, the United Nations votes to establish the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to provide relief and support to children. Only two countries have failed to ratify the treaty -- Somalia and the United States.

¥ On Dec. 15, 1973, Sandy Hawley becomes the first jockey to win 500 races in a single year. Hawley achieved his his-toric win aboard Charlie Jr., in the third race at Maryland’s Laurel Park race track.

¥ On Dec. 12, 1989, hotel magnate Leona Helmsley receives a four-year prison sentence, 750 hours of community ser-vice and a $7.1 million tax fraud fine in New York. Helms-ley became the object of loathing and disgust when she quipped that “only the little people pay taxes.”

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America is a culture that loves good food. The proliferation of successful cooking shows on TV like “Master Chef” and “Chopped” has given rise to the “celebrity chef.” Yet perhaps the most beloved chef since the advent of television isn’t on TV anymore. That’s Julia Child.

• Shewasbornin1912inPasadena,California.Her father Johnwas a graduate of Princetonand a California real estate investor, andher mother, also named Julia, was a paper-company heiress.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: What advice can you give to senior citizens with type 2 diabetes? -- W.S.

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CHICHEN ITZA (continued): It was here that Mayan men played pok ta pok, a game in which players hit or threw a 12-lb.5.4-kg) rubber ball through a hoop mounted high on the wall, 23 feet (7 meters) above the ground. Archaeologists believe the losers were put to death. • Nearly everyone has heard the Mayan prophe-cy of the end of the world occurring in December of 2012. The prediction is that the great warrior serpent Kukulkan will rise from the ground un-der the ball court and end the world on the 22nd of the month. • Very large gatherings were held at the Temple of the Warriors, an enormous complex with a large stepped pyramid, four platforms, and 200 carved columns. Thousands of artifacts have been recovered from the area, including gold, carved jade, pottery, obsidian, rubber, flint, and human skeletons. • It’s evident that human sacrifices were part of the culture. Chichen Itza, which translates “mouth of the well,” was settled around two wells, one a sacred place, and the other for everyday use. Large quantities of bones and ceremonial objects have been recovered from the sacred well during excavation. • About 1.2 million tourists visit Chichen Itza every year. Until 2006, visitors were allowed to walk through the buildings’ ruins and climb the pyramids. However, after a woman fell to her death from El Castillo that year, people are no longer permitted on the structures.

1. Where is Tim Wakefield on the list of most career victories by a Boston Red Sox pitcher?2. In 2012, Toronto and Cleveland played the longest Opening Day game in history (16 innings). Which

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“Yes, I really think so,” the older woman answered. Since she was a teenager, Jane had wanted to open a bookstore and serve coffee & tea -with homemade desserts – when she had time to make them. The desire began after Jr. College. It abated when she married Tom and had Amy, and she put it aside for a real estate license after Tom died in Iraq 3 years ago. She’d managed to support herself and her daughter by selling homes, but it was a sporadic income. She’d hoped to be able to buy property: a house or condo, but the downturn scotched that. Jane & Amy were still living in the rented apartment they had when she & Tom first married. She had $2,342 dollars in Blue Haven Savings & Loan, not much to start a business. “He owns the building doesn’t he?” “Like al ost everything else in town.” Jane added. “It’s kind of big for my needs, Golly.” “Janey, it was a house before it was an office. Couldn’t you and Amy live there?” “I guess we could,” Jane said. The realty office was a 2 bedroom house originally. If she kept the 2 front rooms for business like Marston, that would leave only one bedroom for her and Amy; and there would be no privacy at all with the one bathroom for home & office. But Golly’s idea had given Jane one of her own. (To be continued).

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1. Is the book of Micah in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. What perfectly square “new” city is described as having walls made of Jasper? Jerusalem, Jericho, Paphos, Gibeon3. From 1 Samuel, what Philistine soldier was slain by a boy? Joab, Abishai, Dan, Goliath4. On which “Mount” did Jesus deliver his final dis-course? Zion, Olives, Carmel, Pisgah5. In what book is the phrase, “Could eat a horse” found? None, Acts, Ruth, Ephesians6. What friend of Jesus was buried in a cave? Sisera, Joshua, Lazarus, Arioch

¥ It was British biologist and author Richard Dawkins who made the following sage observation: “When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie ex-actly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

¥ If you’re like 20 percent of American women, you think your feet are too big.

¥ Did you ever wonder why we say, “I smell a rat” when we sense that something is amiss? The phrase dates back to a time before effective means of pest control, when it was not uncommon for a home to be infested by rodents. If a rat died inside a wall, the residents wouldn’t be aware of it until the smell of the decaying body became noticeable.

¥ If you’d like to have a festive New Year’s Eve but don’t want to deal with the crowds in New York City for the iconic ball drop, consider heading to Mount Olive, N.C. Every year the town hosts a celebration in which a 3-foot lighted pickle is dropped into a barrel at midnight.

¥ Ancient Romans believed that a sneeze was the body’s way of expelling evil spirits that caused dis-ease. Thus, if one tried to suppress a sneeze, it was regarded as an invitation to illness and death.

¥ The 14-foot model of the Starship Enterprise that was used during shooting of the original “Star Trek” series is now displayed in the Smithsonian.

¥ If you are over the age of 40, you’ve lived longer than the average gorilla.

¥ The first woman to appear on the cover of Busi-ness Week magazine, in 1954, was Brownie Wise, the originator of the Tupperware Party.***Thought for the Day: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -- Lewis Car-roll

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DECEMBER HISTORY• December 2, 1939 marked the opening day of New York City’s La Guardia Airport. Prior to being converted to an airfield, the land was the site of the Gala Amusement Park, owned by the Steinway piano fam-ily. The airport’s first title was the Glenn H. Curtiss airport, named for an early aviation pioneer, and didn’t become La Guardia un-til 1953, when the name was changed to honor former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The site is 680 acres and sits on the shores of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay in Queens. It employs about 8,000 and ser-viced about 25 million travelers last year. • Cape Town, outh Africa’s Groote Schuur Hospital was the site of a groundbreaking procedure on December 3, 1967. It was here that Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant. Dr. Barnard had experimented for many years with animal heart transplants. The 45-year-old surgeon, assisted by his heart surgeon brother Marius and a team of 30 people, transplanted the heart of a 25-year-old woman into Louis Washkansky over a nine-hour period. Washkansky perished 18 days later, not from the malfunction of the heart, but rather from pneumonia brought on by reduced immunity. The recipient of a heart in Barnard’s second transplant, just one month later, survived for 19 months. • The world’s first Burger King opened in Mi-ami, Florida on December 4, 1954. However, the “King” wasn’t their trademark figure until the following year, and the Whopper sandwich wasn’t introduced until 1957. Today, more than 11 million people dine at the 12,400 Burger Kings located in 73 countries around the world. •More than 2,300 Americans were killed when Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the “date which will live in infamy.” Twelve ships sank or were beached, includ-ing the U.S.S. Oklahoma, which capsized, and the U.S.S. Arizona, which was com-pletely destroyed with a death toll of 1,177. In addition, more than 160 aircraft were demolished, with another 150 damaged. Six Japanese aircraft carriers launched 353 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes in an attack that began at 7:48 AM and ended 90 minutes later. The United States entered World War II on December 8, when Congress declared war against Japan. Soon afterward, Japan’s allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the U.S.

1. Third with 186 victories, behind Cy Young and Roger Clemens (192 each).2. Cleveland and Detroit (1960) and Washington and Philadelphia (1926) each played 15 innings. 3. LaDainian Tomlinson (2001-08, with San Diego).4. Leonard Hamilton (Big East: 1995, ‘99; ACC: 2009, ‘12).5. Forty-five times.6. Jim Ryun won the silver medal in 1968.7. Eight times.

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