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Answer Man - How Do Eskimo Women Make Stiff Deerskin Leather Into Soft Moccanins
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Answer Man - How Do Eskimo Women Make Stiff Deerskin Leather Into Soft Moccanins
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
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The Answer Man
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird.
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The Answer Man's Assistant
What is this, your first date?
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways.
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Liberty Mutual Spokesperson
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The Answer Man
Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. The Answer Man Would you like to know how thick the earth's crust is? Or who was Adam's wife before Eve? Would you like to know the answers to many other interesting questions? The Answer man will tell you. And here he is to answer your questions.
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The Answer Man's Assistant
The Answer man hello everyone, and may we have the questions?
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The Answer Man
Certainly. Let's begin with this one from a Pittsfield, Massachusetts listener. How do Eskimo women make stiff deer skin leather in into such nice, soft mock moccasins?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Why, just by chewing on the leather for two or three days.
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The Answer Man
And a Coolidge, Arizona listener asks, just what is the thickness of the earth's crust?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Generally speaking, the earth's crust, which is mostly solid crystalline rock, is 30 to 60 miles thick.
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The Answer Man
And a list of living in Pendleton, Oregon, writes, does or does not the female hornbill bird of the Pacific sit on the nest after she lays her eggs?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
She does. She has to. For just before the female hornbill lays her eggs, the male hornbill walls her into the nest with mud so that she can't get out. But he does leave a small hole through which he regularly gives her food until the young hornbills are hatched.
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The Answer Man
Next, a Carding, New York sports fan asks, has an end on a football team or any backfield player ever been elected All American who did not score a touchdown during his college career?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Yes, it's happened. It's very unusual for thing to happen, of course, but Jim Larson, who was an end and Captain of the 1924 Stanford Rose bowl team and an All American that year, scored not a single touchdown throughout his entire college football career.
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The Answer Man
Here's a question from a Yanceyville, North Carolina woman. Did the custom of boys and girls bundling originate in New England?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
No. The old courting custom of bundling came to America from Holland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and other North European countries. Young unmarried couples there, as here in early America, had nowhere they could go out for an evening, and so except in the girl's home. And then there was no place that was warm or that would give them privacy away from the girl's family, and so they bundled up in coats and blankets and spent the evening in her bedroom for propriety. However, many old beds had a center bore running down the middle and most girls doors had a peephole so mama or papa could keep an eye on what was going on, which is more than they can do today with the kids going out for the evening in the family car.
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The Answer Man
Before the next question, here's a special
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The Answer Man's Assistant
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The Answer Man
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The Answer Man's Assistant
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The Answer Man
So get your free catalog. Just send your name and address to the answerman, Mutual Broadcasting System, New York 18. Next, a Woodcliff, Georgia movie fan inquires, what's the length of film used for the average feature motion picture?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
About a mile and a half.
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The Answer Man
And a Zurich, Montana, listener asks, can you train a chimpanzee to eat at a table with human beings?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Oh, yes, and he'll enjoy it. However, the chimpanzee just can't learn the niceties of etiquette. You can never tell when he'll get it into his head to put his feet on the table.
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The Answer Man
Here's a question from a youngster living in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Did the American Indians have a God of magic?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Yes, Papa Kiwis. This Indian God was supposed to be quite a mischievous magician who was chased from earth by Hiawatha. During the chase, Papa Kiwis went through a series of transformations, finally changing himself into an eagle. Then he found he liked being an eagle, and he stayed an eagle ever after.
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The Answer Man
Next day, Stone City, Iowa listener asks, is the horse the main beast of Burton? All over the world?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
No. In the deserts of North Africa and southwestern Asia, the main beast of burden is the camel, and the dog is a beast of burden in countries where larger animals cannot be caught and domesticated. In the Arctic, the main working animal is the reindeer, and in the mountainous countries of western South America, it's the alpaca and the llama, while in the warmer countries of the Far east, it's the water buffalo.
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The Answer Man
Next, a woman writes from Fairchild, Wisconsin to ask, how does that old nursery rhyme go about washing on every day of the week?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
They that wash on Monday have all the week to dry. They that wash on Tuesday are not so much awry. They that wash on Wednesday are not so much to blame. But they that wash on Thursday wash for shame. They that wash on Friday wash in need, and they that wash on Saturday
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The Answer Man
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The Answer Man's Assistant
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The Answer Man
So get your free Hudson catalog. Just put your name and address on a postcard and send it to the answer man, Mutual Broadcasting System, New York 18. Let's name an address on a postcard to the answer man, Mutual Broadcasting System, New York 18. Next, a Camden, New Jersey man asks, if I could look at a whole dime under one of those high powered electron microscopes, how big would the dime seem to be?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
The dime would appear to be 2 miles in diameter.
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The Answer Man
And an Idaho Falls, Idaho listener inquires, do you need a license to grow poppies?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
No, you need no license to grow them. Although if you grow large quantities, the police may become curious.
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The Answer Man
Note from a Boulder, Colorado listener reads, how do people reconcile the story of the creation of mankind in Genesis 1, which says that man and woman were created simultaneously with the story of Genesis 2, which says that Eve was created out of Adam's rib?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Well, the easiest way to reconcile them is to accept as true the ancient legend among the Israelites that Adam had another wife named Lilith before the creation of Eve. Lilith could then be the wife created at the same time as Adam. But this legend states that Lilith refused to submit to Adam, and she left paradise for a region of the air, and then Eve was created. Lilith, it said, still haunts the night as a specter, and she's very hostile to newborn infants.
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The Answer Man
Here's a note from a Triangle, Virginia boy that reads, Elephants are very useful on rubber plantations, aren't they?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Well, the tame elephants are. However, a great deal of damage is caused down the rubber plantations of Malaya by wild elephants who destroy young rubber trees by pulling them up by the roots.
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The Answer Man
This question comes from a Raymond City, West Virginia man. Have you ever heard of such a thing as fireball lightning?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Yes, it's a rare form of concentrated lightning that looks just like a large ball of fire, though we don't know exactly why. Fireballs are usually attracted towards closed spaces such as houses, which they enter through open windows or doors, sometimes even through small cracks. Then, after circling around the room several times, hissing all the while, the fireball leaves, usually exploding violently as soon as it gets outside, leaving behind the smell of ozone. Fireball lightning is not dangerous to human beings. Even when it appears in the middle of a group of them, it seems to want to avoid people for which those who have observed this phenomenon close to are inclined to give thanks.
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The Answer Man
Before the next question, a special message. Do you want your child to earn a good living when grown up? Wait, that's not as foolish a question as it seems, because it's a fact that people with good educations earn more money and have a better chance for promotions. Let's make sure that our children get the education they deserve. You see, America's population has grown so fast in the last few years that the schools have had a hard time keeping up. Classrooms are seriously overcrowded, there's a tremendous shortage of teachers, and the population keeps increasing all the time. This isn't a hopeless situation, of course. There's plenty that you or your neighbors can do about it. For instance, join your neighborhood group working for better schools. Help make sure that your neighbors know exactly what local school needs are and what might be done to meet those needs. Remember this better schools start with the personal interest of people like you. This message is brought to you as a public service. Next, a Cheyenne, Wyoming youngster inquires, is Robert E. Lee's face really carved on the back of the head of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Oh, no, definitely not.
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The Answer Man
And a Tacoma, Washington listener writes, I know we have solved the mystery of where the Atlantic eel spawns, but where do the Pacific eels spawn?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Nobody knows. Indeed, most of the life story of the Pacific eel is an absolute complete mystery.
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The Answer Man
Next day, Baltimore, Maryland, man inquires, are there any estimates as to what the population of the world will be in 50 years from now.
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Yes, it's been estimated that in another 50 years we'll have added another billion people to the world's population.
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The Answer Man
And a carson city, nevada, student wants to know which signer of the declaration of independence later went to jail.
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The Answer Man's Assistant
Robert Morris, who was also a member of the continental congress, superintendent of finance during the revolutionary war, and United States senator after the war. Although Morris was a wealthy man before and during the revolution, he gradually disposed of his large mercantile establishments and banking interests to purchase extensive tracts of western land. But the western land developed so slowly that he was finally driven into bankruptcy in 1798. And so, for three years, Robert Morris, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, was confined in a debtor's prison.
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The Answer Man
Next, a clearwater, florida, man asks, what is the legendary reason that dogwood trees grow small and crooked?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
The legend is that wood from the dogwood tree was used to make the cross upon which Christ was crucified. But the tree felt such sorrow over being used for this purpose that before he died, Christ promised the dogwood it should never again grow large and straight enough to be used for a cross. And ever after, the dogwood tree has been small and stunted with gnarled branches, as promised by Christ on the cross.
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The Answer Man
Before the next question, a special message. Are you thinking about your future these days? Well, the United States coast guard offers a variety of programs to fill the need of every young man considering military service. For the young man or the veteran considering a career, there is the regular coast guard. Here he can find training in the field of his choice, good pay in a job not subject to the ups and downs of economic life, allowances and benefits that mean security and the prospect of a dignified and satisfactory retirement. The coast guard is a small service where men are men and not merely service numbers. Opportunity is for everyone in a military service of long history and tradition, A service that combines material benefits with travel, adventure and excitement. In a lifetime of action and promoting respect for our laws and saving life and property on land, sea and air, A career in the coast guard is a career of service and honor. See your local coast guard recruiter. This message is brought to you as a public service. Next, a New York city boy asks, do the Russians like to eat watermelons?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
They do indeed, and so they grow a lot of them in their south.
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The Answer Man
And a macon, georgia, lister inquires, how, according to the superstition, did human beings once change themselves into werewolves?
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The Answer Man's Assistant
They rubbed a magic salve on themselves and. And then they put on a girdle of wolf skin.
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The Answer Man
A letter from a New Orleans man reads, I wonder if you could dig up for me that verse by John Bangs I knew some 20 years ago in which he said he'd never be old until he stopped noticing all the good things about him.
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The Answer Man's Assistant
With pleasure, the verse goes, I'll not be old until that day comes by when I shall fail to feel the fresh surprise that all the splendors of the morning sky reveal unto my soul through waking eyes. I'll not be old until I cease to hear the music and the whispers of the breeze, and listen with a dull, unheeding ear to nature's so abundant harmonies. I'll not be old until the soul of me ceases to joy in faith and hope and truth. For though a hundred years my span shall be. With these to guide, I'll always hold to youth.
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The Answer Man
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