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Sebastopol, CA. ~ Hello Up- beat Times Editor and Staff! My husband George and I just returned from a trip to New Zealand (our first time there!) to attend my nephew’s wed- ding at Lake Tekapo in the South Island of NZ. We had heard that Milford Sound was a must-see scenic


spot of the South Island (it is acclaimed as New Zealand’s most famous tourist destina- tion, and Rudyard Kipling had previously called it the “Eighth Wonder of the World!”). Now we understand why! Attached is a photo we took during a short-cruise at Milford Sound just recently in January, 2017.


We sent two, but we thought we’d let you decide if you’d like to publish either of them in an upcoming issue of the Up- beat Times. Here’s some interesting facts background we learned


and


about Milford Sound: Milford Sound, located at the northern


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If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult’s brain waves.


The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.


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Upbeat in New Zealand! Marcy and George Greeley at Lake Tekapo!


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The largest McDonald’s is in Beijing, China - measur- ing 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.


A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.


There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.


The number of US college students studying Latin is three times the number studying Arabic.


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