Home Sweet Home Wins Nation's Favorite Song Poll
NEA Service and The News announce that Home Sweet Home is America's top tune based on a national reader poll conducted with the National Committee on Peoples Songs. Readers voted for popular classics like America and Star Spangled Banner, while experts noted community singing favorites such as Old Folks at Home.
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Hearing Research by Prof. Gildemeister Reveals Age Effects
Prof Martin Gildemeister reports new hearing studies using a broad subject group aged six to forty seven. Results show age, not ear dominance, drives high tone hearing, with peak in youth and gradual decline into older age. Bone versus air conduction shows no overall superiority, and day to day and health factors cause small variations. Occupation like telephoning influences upper hearing limits.
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Leap Year History and Leap Day Traditions Across Europe
The piece traces leap year origins from Julius Caesar to calendar reforms and explains why February 29 was added every four years. It notes intercalary days in European calendars and cites 1288 Scotland law granting women the right to woo men in leap years, with penalties for refusals.
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Short Law Terms and Golf Pun in Fifteenth Century Echoes
A fragment notes parallel laws in France Genoa and Florence during the fifteenth century. It then shifts to a golf cartoon where a short sighted man asks the caddie how far to the next hole. The caddie retorts you've played the putt first and now you're in the group.
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