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Language Trivia
By Kane Casolari
The United Nations Educational, Sci-
entific, and Cultural Organization—
better known as UNESCO—has pro-
claimed February 21 International
Mother Language Day. In honor of
this celebration, Gist Weekly has
found some interesting information
about languages.
• Many languages
t hroughout t he
world are in danger
of becoming ex-
tinct, with only a
few living speakers.
Language experts
estimate that of the
roughly 7,000 lan-
guages spoken in
The Rosetta Stone, the key
the world today, helped language experts decipher that
about 2,000 of them Egyptian hieroglyphics
will no longer have
any speakers a century from now.
• The Sami or Saami group of lan-
guages spoken in some of the
northern portions of Scandinavia
are endangered—a few of the
languages in that group have al-
ready gone extinct. Despite their
rarity and limited contact with
• Some languages have been suc-
English, the Sami language family
has contributed at least one word
to the English language: “tundra.”
• After a language dies, it may be
gone forever, especially if the lan-
guage does not have a written
form. Even written languages can
be extremely difficulty to deci-
pher once dead. Egyptian hiero-
glyphics were unreadable from
about the fourth century until the
discovery of the Rosetta Stone by
Napoleon’s troops in 1799. The
stone contained translations of a
text in Ancient Greek, hiero-
glyphics, and Demotic (another
Egyptian language), helping trans-
lators understand hi-
eroglyphics.
• In North America,
many Native American
languages are dying
with their last elderly
speakers. Siletz Dee-ni,
for example, is only
spoken by one person
living in the Siletz Res-
ervation in Oregon.
• Manx Gaelic, spo-
ken on the Isle of Man
(located between Ireland and
Great Britain), lost its last native
speaker, Ned Maddrell in 1974.
Some language enthusiasts have
begun an effort to revive it, and
today, about 100 people speak
Manx.
cessfully revived after going ex-
tinct. One of the most notable
examples of language revival is
Hebrew. After being a “dead lan-
guage” for roughly two millennia,
it began to be used again in the
19 th century, with some European
newspapers printed in the lan-
guage. When Israel was created in
1947, the country chose Hebrew
as its official language.
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18. Electrical units 36. A kind of mollusk 10. Stimulate found elsewhere in this issue
19. No ifs, ___ ... 37. Lincoln was the first president to 11. Toward the port side Solutions to all puzzles are on page 8
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TRIVIA QUIZ
Each question below relates to the
Presidential Trivia:
topic of a feature in this issue of
Gist Weekly, but is not answered in Abraham Lincoln
it. Answers are on page 8.
“Honest Abe” recently celebrated his Darwin, the scientist best known
1. Languages (Page 1): What lan- 200 th birthday. You probably learned for describing the principles of
guage did L. L. Zamenhof in- about most of the important facts of evolution and natural selection.
vent in the late 1800s in the
hopes that it would serve as a his life—the Civil War, Gettysburg
• The 1860 election had four major
universal second language? Address, Emancipation Proclamation,
candidates—Republican Abraham
and his assassination, for instance—in
2. International Info: Argentina Lincoln, Whig John Bell, North-
(Page 4): Which islands were at school, but you might not have
ern Democrat Stephen Douglas
the center of a conflict between learned these less-important but still
(to whom Lincoln had previously
Argentina and the United King- interesting details about one of the
dom in 1982? lost a Senate election), and South-
most respected U.S. presidents ever.
ern Democrat John C. Breckin-
3. Presidential Trivia: Abraham • Abraham Lincoln was the first ridge. While Lincoln won a large
Lincoln (Page 5): What Tom
Taylor-penned comedic play U.S. president to be born outside majority of the electoral college
was Lincoln watching when he of the original thirteen states. He votes, he got just under 40 per-
was assassinated? was born in Kentucky. (Lincoln cent of the popular vote, the sec-
4. By the Numbers: 12 (Page 6): moved to Illinois in his twenties.) ond-lowest percentage (after John
two-faced, would I be wearing
Is noon 12 AM or 12 PM? Quincy Adams) of any winning
• Quick: What was Lincoln’s mid- this one?”
presidential candidate in history.
5. This Week in History (Page dle name? Give up? It’s a trick
7): Pittsburgh began vaccinating • Some stories about presidents—
question: Lincoln, like most of • Lincoln was the first President of
children against polio 55 years such as the one about Washing-
the presidents before him, didn’t the United States to be assassi-
ago this Wednesday. Who in- ton and the cherry tree—are just
have a middle name. nated and only the third to die
vented the polio vaccine? myths told to illustrate character
while in office (after William
6. This Week’s Celebrity Birth- • Lincoln was the first president to traits. Many of the stories about
Henry Harrison and Zachary Tay-
days (Page 7): Jennifer Love have a beard. Lincoln are true, though; he really
Hewitt turns 30 this Saturday. lor’s deaths of natural causes). A
was born in a log cabin and did
On which 1990s television • Lincoln was not considered a previous assassination plot had
work as a rail splitter and country
drama did she play the si ster of handsome man, though he was a been foiled by intelligence officer
lawyer before entering politics.
characters played by Matthew witty one. When a political oppo- All an Pi nk erton, who l ater
Fox (Lost) and Neve Campbell nent called him two-faced, he is • Lincoln’s shares his birthdate— founded the famous Pinkerton
(Scream)?
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This Week in History This Week’s

Celebrity
Birthdays
Actor John Travolta (B olt, Pulp Fiction) . . . . . . . February 18, 1954
Singer Seal (“Fly Like an Eagle,” “Kiss from a Rose”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 19, 1963
Actor French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun, Hercules) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Sahara Desert: Believe it or not, there was snow here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 20, 1964
Ji-Elle/WC (PD)
(briefly) 30 years ago this Wednesday. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer, I Know What You Did Last
• February 18, 1979: Snow falls on ard Trevit hick and Andrew Summer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 21, 1979
the Sahara Desert for the first— Viaian, makes its first trip on the Actor Kyle MacLachlan (Desperate Housewives, Twin Peaks) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 22, 1959
and, to date, only—time in re- Merthyr Tydfil tramroad in South
Actress Da kota Fanning (Coraline, I Am Sam) . . . February 23, 1994
corded history. The snowstorm, Wales.
Comedian and actor Bill Bailey (Hot Fuzz, Black Books) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
in southern Algeria, lasts only
• February 22, 1924: Calvin Coo- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 24, 1964
about half an hour and all of the
lidge delivers a radio broadcast Clipart: MS
snow melts within hours.

• February 19, 1674: As part of a

treaty ending the Third Anglo-
• February 23, 1954: The first
Dutch War, the Dutch transfer
the colony of New Amsterdam to
the English, who rename it New
York.
• February 20, 1909: Italian poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti pub-
lishes the Futurist Manifesto in
the French journal Le Figaro. The
Manifesto launches the art move-
• February 24, 1909: Eight Detroit
ment known as Futurism.
• February 21, 1804: The first full-
scale, working steam locomotive,
a nameless vehicle built by Rich-
from the White House, becoming
the first U.S. President to do so.
mass vaccination of children
against polio begins in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Within 25 years,
polio is wiped out in the United
States. By 2009, after 55 years of
vaccinations, polio is endemic in
just four countries: Afghanistan,
India, Nigeria, and Pakistan.
businessmen found the Hudson
Motor Car Company. It later be-
comes part of the American Mo-
tors Corporation (AMC).
Historic
Birthdays This
Week
England’s Queen Mary I, aka “Bloody Mary” . . . . . February 18, 1516
Actor Lee Marvin (Gorky Park, Cat Ball ou) . . . . . February 19, 1924
Actress Amanda Blake, best known as Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 20, 1929
Humorist Erma Bombeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 21, 1927
President George Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 22, 1732
Naval administ rator and di ari st Samuel Pepys . . February 23, 1633
Shortstop Honus Wagner, one of the first five people inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 24, 1874

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—WORD SEARCH— —MAZE— —CROSSWORD PUZZLE—
Solution Solution Solution

—SCAVENGER HUNT LOCATIONS—

A. Page 7 (Classifieds)
B. Page 1 (Nimee Auto Sales/Giovanni’s Auto Repair ad)
C. Page 6 (Nonogram instructions)
D. Page 5 (Presidential seal)
E. Page 8 (Mi Margarita ad)
F. Page 4 (On Argentina’s flag)

—SUDOKU — —NONOGRAM—
—MATCH UP— —TRIVIA QUIZ—
Solution Solution
Answers Answers
1. Esperanto
Augusto Pinochet—Chile 2. The Falkland Islands
Francisco Franco—Spain 3. Our American Cousin
4. 12 PM
Manuel Noriega—Panama 5. Jonas Salk
Mobutu Sese Seko—Zaire 6. Party of Five

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