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| LIFE IN SOLERA | SEPTEMBER 2023 | 15 Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers. Old age is when former classmates are so gray, wrinkled, and bald, they can't recognize you. This & That Submitted by e Solera Ghostwriters Ever wonder why Ever wonder why pencils are yellow? pencils are yellow? Pencils painted yellow were sold as early as 1854, but yellow didn't become the predominant color for pencils until around1890. It was at that time that the L&C Hardtmuth Company of Austria introduced a pencil of such high quality that it became the standard for others to follow. The pencil was named Koh-I-Noor after the famous Indian diamond, and it was painted golden yellow, supposedly because, with its black lead, that made it the color of the Austro-Hungarian flag. This pencil, which was advertised as "the original yellow pencil," was such a huge success that it established yellow as the symbol of quality in pencils. Other pencil manufacturers soon began painting their pencils yellow, and today three out of four pencils sold are that color. Why the bureaucratic process is known as "red tape?" The term "red tape" was made famous in the 1900s by Tomas Carlyle, who charged the English government with "red tapism." He was referring to the government's practice in those days of binding official papers in red ribbon. Since a matter having to go through government channels could be slowed down by the tying and untying of stacks of such bound documents, the process became known, affectionately, as "going through red tape." Not-on-Sunday laws are referred to as "blue laws" In the early 1770s, an Anglian rector named Samuel Peters fled to England after being accused of conspiring against the American colonies. In England, he began to write about things gone wrong in the colonies, and in particular he alleged that, in Connecticut, there were in existence moral laws so strict that they forbade such things as kissing one's own wife on Sunday. Reverend Peters claimed that these laws were contained in a book bound in blue, and this led to these laws — and all subsequent never-on-Sunday laws — being called "blue laws." The ROAR that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. On the lighter side… A comet's tail always points away from the sun. The location of your mailbox shows how far away from your house you can be in your robe before you start looking like a mental patient.