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USA Gymnastics Championships
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Fort Worth, Texas, is playing host to over 900 of America’s top gymnasts in the USA Gymnastics Championships. The event kicked off on Thursday, June 3rd, and will wrap up today. Simone Biles, Jade Carey, and Sinusa Lee are some of the top contenders in the women’s field. The men’s field is led by Sam Mikulak and Yul Moldauer. Events include trampoline, rhythmic gymnastics, and acrobatic gymnastics.
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This competition plays a major role in determining which athletes advance to the Olympic Team Trials later this month in St. Louis, and ultimately who will represent the U.S. in Tokyo at the 2021 Olympics later this summer!
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MENSA is an organization for people who score in the upper 2% on an approved intelligence test, they have members all around the world who range in age from 2 to 100, though most are between 20 and 60 years old. Recently, California toddler Kashe West became the youngest member in the U.S. after a MENSA test showed she had an IQ of 146.
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At around 17-months old Kashe was able to recognize the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes. Her parents noticed that her memory recall was great, and she was really interested in learning. Now the two-year-old Mensan is learning Spanish, knows the 50 states by name and location, and can list all the elements on the periodic table! Despite her intelligence, Kashe’s parents say she still has her normal two-year-old moments with tantrums and negotiations, and that is ok with them. They want Kashe to have a normal childhood and stay youthful as long as possible.
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U.S. Mint’s Newest Quarters
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Next year the U.S. Mint will begin circulating new coins issued under the American Women Quarters Program. Recently they announced the names of the first two women who will be honored on the quarters – writer Maya Angelou and astronaut Dr. Sally Ride. Coins with designs “emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions” of these women will enter circulation in January of 2022.
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Each year from 2022 through 2025 the Mint will issue up to five different designs of prominent American women. Public law requires that no living person be featured on a coin, so the women honored will be deceased, and will come from a wide range of fields such as civil rights, government, suffrage, humanities, science, space, and art. The public is welcome to submit recommendations for women to be honored through the National Women’s History Museum. The Secretary of the Treasury will select the women to be honored after consulting with the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Initiative, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus.
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Workers at the new Ford “office building of the future” in Detroit made an exciting discovery when they came across an old Stroh’s Brewing Company bottle that had a message hidden inside! The bottle was hidden high on a wall behind a cornice and was stamped with the date 7-19-1913, which is when the building was originally constructed before being abandoned in 1988.
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The message was written on a rolled-up paper and read, “Dan Hogan and Leo Smith stuck this greeting of Chicago July 1913.” The bottle is not the only artifact found during the recent construction, over 200 have been found, but it is the only one that contained a written message. One other item recovered is a clock that had been stolen off the vacant property nearly 20 years before. After Ford purchased the property the thief sent an anonymous message that said, “I only have the clock. No other material. I left it leaning against a burned-out building on Lawton. It is between Warren and Buchanan. The building is between the train tracks and 4470 Lawton. Please send two men and a truck immediately. It has been missing for over 20 years and is ready to go home. Thank you so much." The clock will be restored and displayed in the new building.
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