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Benjamin Harri-son was born onAugust 20, 1833 inNorth Bend, Ohio.He was the secondof 8 children. Hewas also thegrandson of Presi-dent William HenryHarrison and thegreat grandson ofr e v o l u t i o n a r yleader and formerVirginia governorBenjamin Harrison. His early school-

ing took place in aone room school-

house near his home. After graduating from Miami University inOxford, Ohio, he took up the study of law in the Cincinnati law of-fice of Storer and Gwynne. Before completing his law studies, hemarried Caroline Lavinia Scott, who was the daughter of a Pres-byterian minister in 1853. During their married life, they had twochildren, Russell and Mary (known as Mamie). He was admittedto the bar and began practicing law.He joined the Republican Party shortly after it’s formation in

1856. He supported Abraham Lincoln for President. In 1862, hejoined the Seventeenth Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers dur-ing the Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier General.After the war, he ran for Governor of Indiana. He lost that race buthe became influential with the new Republican party. In 1880, hewas named to the United States Senate by the Indiana State Leg-islature. Note: Senators were not elected by popular vote until1913. During this time he championed pensions for Civil War Vet-erans, high protective tariffs, a modernized Navy and conserva-

Benjamin Harrison23rd President of the United States

1889 - 1893tion of Western lands. Harrison won the 1888 Presidential election by carrying the Elec-toral College. Harrison advocated the conservation of forest re-serves and he embarked on an adventurous foreign policy thatincluded U.S. expansion in the Pacific and the building of a canalacross Central America. He also supported the landmark Sher-man Antitrust Act, the first bill ever to attempt to limit the power ofAmerica’s giant corporations. In the area of Civil Rights for AfricanAmericans, Harrison endorsed two bills designed to prevent South-ern states from denying African Americans the vote, and he ap-pointed the great and eloquent former slave Frederick Douglassas minister to Haiti.On the international front, he convened the first Pan-American

Conference in 1889. He negotiated an American protectorate overthe Samoan Islands, attempted to annex Hawaii and continued thework of modernizing and expanding the United States Navy. Mostimportantly, he saw trade as an essential part of the nation’s foreignpolicy and negotiated a number of important reciprocal tradeagreements that set the pattern for American trade policy.In 1892, he lost his bid for re-election for President and during thistime, his wife Carolinehad passed away. Hereturned home to Indi-anapolis after leavingthe White House in1893. After someyears, he marriedagain. Her name wasMary Lord. Together,they had a daughter,Elizabeth. He re-mained active in publiclife until his death frompneumonia in 1901. The Harrison’s home in

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Brownie Ice Cream Cones4 ounces sweet chocolate1/4 cup butter3/4 cup sugar2 eggs1/2 cup flour1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)1 teaspoon vanilla24 cake ice cream cones24 scoops of ice creamSprinkles

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Everyone has their favorite food they LOVE to eat! Have youever wondered how you can taste your favorite food? Tastingyour food has everything to do with your taste buds!Taste buds are sensory organs found on your tongue. These or-gans allow you to taste the four basic tastes which are sweet,salty, sour and bitter.If you stick out your tongue and look into the mirror, you will see

bumps on it. They are called papillae. Most of these contain tastebuds which have a very sensitive microscopic hair called microvilliin them. These tiny hairs send messages to the brain about whatyou are tasting, so you will know if it is sweet, salty, sour, or bitter.The average person has around 10,000 taste buds in their

mouth. They are replaced every two weeks or so. There are twothings that reduce the number of taste buds in your mouth. Thefirst one is smoking. Smoking can reduce the amount of tastebuds you have. The second reason is age. An older person hasreduced working taste buds. As a result, younger people have astronger sense of taste.Your nose plays an important part in this also. In the upper part

of your nose, there are Olfactory Receptors that have special cellswhich help you smell. These receptors send messages to thebrain too. While you’re chewing food, the food releases chemicalsthat travel up into your nose, triggering the receptors. Togetherwith the taste buds, they send a message to your brain. In thisway, you learn the true flavor of the food you are eating. Whenyou have a cold and your nose is stuffy, you will notice that yourfood doesn’t have much taste because your Olfactory Receptorscan’t receive the chemicals from the food!

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Land Birds With The Largest Wingspan!The Marabou Stork

The Marabou Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family. It lives in Africa, south of theSahara, in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation.A massive bird, large specimens are thought to reach a height of 60 inches or 5 feet, a weight

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The Andean CondorThe Andean Condor is a species of South American Bird in the New World vulture family

Cathartidae. Found in the Andes Mountains and adjacent Pacific coasts of Western SouthAmerica, it is the largest flying land bird in the Western Hemisphere.The average wingspan ranges from 9 to 10 feet and males weigh up to 33 pounds! It is a

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The accordion was invented in the early 1800’s in Europe (drawing fromthe concept of older Chinese instruments). It took its shape in its mod-ern form later in that century. At that time, it was able to make a loudsound as amplification hadn’t been around yet. So, it became quite pop-ular for dance music.It is believed that most accordions came to America with traveling Ger-

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