(Universal Press Syndicate) Three trained dolphins escaped from their performing pen at a resort in Key Largo, Fla. They were discovered several days later in a lagoon off Key Biscayne, some 55 miles distant. At 10am, 2pm and 4pm they performed tricks, apparently hopping to be fed on their Key Largo show schedule.

The Sun-Sentinel reported that passing boaters were only too happy to oblige and feed the talented performers.

With the rise of the American cop dramas in the 1990s came an interesting trickle down (or should we say trickle "over" effect) on foreign cultures across the Pond. "American TV crime dramas such as "Law & Order" and NYPD Blue" are taking a toll in France," reports Gail Russell Chaddock in THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:

According to pollsters, the French began thinking that a judge in a courtroom should be addressed as "Your Honor"--rather than the traditionally acceptable "Mr. President." And many routinely began demanding to see a warrant when police wanted to search their homes--something that isn't always required in that country. * "It's a cultural catastrophe! French citizens don't even understand their own legal system anymore," said a top official.

*"In France the police have extensive powers of search and seizure in the case of flagrant offense and when a crime is being committed or has just been committed …" (per Britannica.com).

In his autobiography, Malcolm X, the outspoken Black Civil Rights activist of the 1950s and 60s, spoke of the impact the written word had on his life.  While serving a prison sentence for firearms and larceny charges, he became frustrated by his inability to articulately express himself. He borrowed a dictionary from the prison library and began to copy it entry by entry. 

“With every succeeding page, I … learned of people and places and events from history. Actually, the dictionary is like a miniature encyclopedia. … Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened up. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk.  You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge.  Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned.  In fact, up to then, I had never been so truly free in my life.” – Malcolm X

[Malcolm X (1925-1965) was an outspoken civil rights activist and controversial leader of the Black Muslim movement.  He spent many years as a member of the Nation of Islam and was a vocal proponent of “Black Supremacy.” Later he left the “Nation,” became a Sunni Muslim, and disavowed racism. He continued his civil activism until his assassination in 1965.]