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Show Page 30 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1982 fef Ale Why HEATHCLIFF I0C3 THE By Art Scnsem LOSER SU6AR mTFAJ5ZO(Sp Unlucky SM Numbers Start at 13 L. Mh5 uuy AJ f V vn hi -- By ARKADY LEOKUM SV "TnL rJJSMM i ir i I -- The idea that the number 13 is unlucky is a superstition. There are many different kinds of superstiPEANUTS tions, based on things in nature, charms, spirits, objects, colors, accidents and so on. LUNCH ISN'T FOR you ) what But there is probably no superstiANOTHER. HOUR VET tion that has as many people observing it, in one way or another all over the world, as the one that 13 is unlucky. Hotels don't have a 13th floor the count goes from 12 to 14. Hotels also don't have a room 13. Many people would never have 13 people at a dinner table. Yet the strange thing is that there is no single accepted explanation for the origin of the superstition about 13. There are many different FRANK AND ERNEST ideas about the origin of it. Some experts say 13 was unpopular from the time when man learned to count. By using his 10 fingers and two feet as units, he came up with the number 12. But 13 was unknown beyond that and frightening to him. Among religious circles, the superstition of 13 is traced back to the Last Supper, at which Christ and 13 the 12 disciples were present in all. Other people go back to the story of the Valhalla banquet in Norse mythology, to which 12 gods were invited. Loki, the spirit of strife and mischief, intruded, making 13. As a result, Balder, the KERRY DRAKE favorite of the eods. was killed. Another strange thing about 13 is Aee Willie dKld CapUifl KEEP 6EARCHIN6, that this number was regarded as a dC, iVl disguise, COW BARRIO! HE'S GOT TO BE IM THIS lucky number by the ancient 0(J 0f . uunese ana Egyptians. (Win an illustrated "Tell My Why" LT. DRAKE, I PONT book, hundreds of questions anTHE KWAPPR SEE swered. 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YOU KNOW FEEL HOW X WILL NOT ARGUE WITH KAREN S RIGHT TO KEEP THE AAAN'S NAME A X WONT EVEN him discuss with me. mrs. WORTH! I ABOUT s under the sign of Scorpio. American poet William Cullen Bryant was born Nov. 3, 1794. On this date in history: In 1783, American independence an established fact after the Revolutionary War, Congress ordered the Continental Army demobilized. In 1917, Americans at home learned of the first World War I deaths of U.S. soldiers in III In 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was elected as the 39th U.S. president, defeat- BETTER ing Republican incumbent Gerby a thin margin. ald Ford iN k3TdZ&$A FATHER! STEVE ROPER ACD MIKE NOMAD m TUIL5V Coy, will S ON TWe 0OCK TMEET HER FRI6NP TWf HOOPT YOU THINK THAT $ WHAT HORN -- IT WOUlO BE THE PiZOOF jtf I i By Saunders & Overgdrd YStol ANP IF fHI RECOCNIle yOU.BlDDVyO'dZi JONNA F6 fEEPlW NCP. J1 IN ' A thought for the day: American novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher said, "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." A thought for the day: British statesman Winston Churchill said, "If we open a quarrel between the past and present, we shall find out that we have lost the future." r NAJ T50METHIN& NO. EVERY- WRON6WITH W THINS FINE W1 By Crocks & Casele CAPTAP EASY WHAT ) y f EXCEPT JERRY! France. I THOUGHT IT MIGHT I SECRET CHAD'S In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected president by the largest majority in history to that date, defeating Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater. j 8iltfS The morning stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this date are rs TT WHAT ARE f POR?f IVTHE" X its last quarter. By Al Vermeer PRICILIA'S POP Press International Today is Wednesday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 1982 with 58 to follow, The moon is moiving toward i N0W,LETSI XI fiFTEZ MILUOMS Of VM?S WIND AMD RAlM REDUCE. 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