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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 16, 2010
Greetings Infomaniacs,
When I was a young girl in school, almost all of the kids
toted around one of those metal lunchboxes that featured
different popular characters. I think my first lunchbox was
a Care Bear one, and sometime later I acquired a Popples
lunchbox. Remember those little Popples? I never knew that
the lunchbox had such a diverse history, but after doing a
little research, I dug up some great facts!
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Education is not preparation for life; education
is life itself."
HINT: (1859-1952), American philosopher, psychologist, and
educational reformer.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The lunch pail, an early ancestor of the lunchbox, was
just a sturdy metal pail with a snug top. Some had originally
been made to hold lard.
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Beginning in the late 1800s some tobacco companies sold
products in tins that were designed to be reused as
lunchboxes. These tins, which might have one or two handles,
came in a variety of colors and sometimes featured elaborate
artwork.
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Manufacturers soon realized that they could sell lunchboxes
made especially for children, and these colorful boxes
debuted around 1900. A number of children's lunchboxes
appeared in the following decades, including a 1935 model
featuring Mickey Mouse.
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Lunchboxes really became popular after World War II when
the Aladdin company in Nashville, Tenn., began making
lunchboxes that featured movie and television heroes. In
1950 Aladdin issued a Hopalong Cassidy lunchbox, which was
available in red or blue and included a matching thermos.
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Roy Rogers teamed up with the Thermos company for a ground-
breaking 1953 lunchbox which featured brilliant colors and
full-color lithography on every side.
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In 1957 Aladdin introduced the "dome-top" box, which offered
more space for lunchbox art and a shape that had creative
potential. Disney's dome-top "Schoolbus" lunchbox became the
best-selling lunchbox of all time. In 1962 Aladdin again made
history when it began making lunchboxes with embossed designs
that gave a three-dimensional effect.
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I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head,
but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how
far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown.
What am I?
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QUOTE: "Education is not preparation for life; education
is life itself."
ANSWER: John Dewey.
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