Thursday, March 8, 2012

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Grant Achatz (rhymes with jackets) is a Chicago -based chef. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203918304577241751742269214.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Satek Winery in Fremont, Indiana rhymes with attic. http://www.satekwinery.com/
Riedel (wine glasses) rhymes with needle. http://vinumvita.com/wine/riedel-wine-glass-seminar/

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents (in order from left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2)[2] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level. South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. They settled on the Mount Rushmore location, the tallest mountain in the region, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Borglum also decided the sculpture should have a more national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain. After securing federal funding, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Although the initial concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding forced construction to end in late October 1941. The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still under construction, and manages the memorial to the present day. It attracts approximately two million people annually. See images at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore See images and descriptions of Mount Rushmore in popular culture at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_in_popular_culture

Tektites are small, hard, glassy rocks that vary in shape and may be black, clear, yellow or green. The surfaces of tektites may be smooth or marked and dented. A few types of tektites are translucent, but the majority of these stones are virtually opaque. One form of tektite, known as Moldavite, is sometimes used in jewelry. Tektites either come from the earth or from another source outside of the earth's atmosphere. In the mid-20th century, it was generally thought that tektites came from the moon and developed their unusual shape and form while traveling through the earth's atmosphere at high speeds and striking the earth with great force. Today, however, it is thought that tektites are formed from soil and rock material on the earth when it has been thrown into the air during an impact involving great heat and pressure such as a meteorite crash. The tektites are created as the material travels into the atmosphere and back down to the earth's surface. http://www.ehow.com/info_8273660_tektites.html

Moldavites are green, brownish-green or brown natural glasses (Mohs scale 5.5 - 6.6), in all probability formed by a meteorite (perhaps 1.5 km in diameter) impact in southern Germany (Bavaria). Moldavite got its name from the main strewnfield (of a meteorite impact) in Bohemia, traversed by the river Vltava (German: Moldau).
See images at: http://www.realgems.org/list_of_gemstones/moldavite_info.html

strewn field
1. An area on Earth where tektites are found. The largest strewn field covers the whole of southern Australia and Tasmania (the australites). Other major strewn fields are found in the Czech Republic (the moldavites), Africa (the Libyan Desert glass and Ivory Coast tektites), the USA (the bediasites, georgiaites, and Martha's Vineyard tektites), across Southeast Asia (the billitonites, indochinites, javanites, malaysianites, philippinites, and rizalites), and in central Russia (the irghizites).
2. The area over which pieces of a fragmented meteorite are scattered, also known as a scatter ellipse. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-strewnfield.html

The original meaning of military tattoo was a military drum performance, but subsequently it came to mean army displays more generally. It dates from the 17th century when the British Army was fighting in the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands). Drummers from the garrison were sent out into the towns at 21:30 hrs (9:30PM) each evening to inform the soldiers that it was time to return to barracks. The process was known as doe den tap toe (Dutch for "turn off the tap"), an instruction to innkeepers to stop serving beer and send the soldiers home for the night. The drummers continued to play until the curfew at 22:00 hrs (10:00PM). Tattoo, earlier tap-too and taptoo, are alterations of the Dutch words tap toe which have the same meaning. One of the best known Tattoos is held on the Esplanade in front of Edinburgh Castle each August and forms the centrepiece of the annual Edinburgh Festival. The Edinburgh Military Tattoo was first staged in 1950. Another leading UK Tattoo is the Birmingham Tattoo held annually at the National Indoor Arena in November which has been attracting audiences to Birmingham since 1989. In 2008, the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo was launched, held in the private grounds of Windsor Castle by permission of HM The Queen. The event was held again in 2009. The Norwegian Military Tattoo is internationally famous for its quality and streamlined production. It has been held every second year since 1994 in the capital of Norway, Oslo. The indoor Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is the largest annual indoor tattoo, featuring in 2007 over 2000 performers from around the world, including Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway. There is another military tattoo in Canada: The Quebec City Military Tattoo. The largest tattoo in the United States is the Virginia International Tattoo, held every year in Norfolk, Virginia. The Air Force's largest tattoo is held the last Friday of June each year at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tattoo The Cleveland International Tattoo will be held May 19 at 7:30 p.m. Find more information and purchase tickets at http://tattoocleveland.com/ or call 216-630-0044.

Bob Sherman, half the songwriting team that wrote "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and other Disney movie musicals of the 1960s, died March 5 in London at age 86. He collaborated for more than half a century with his brother Dick Sherman on songs for films and shows including "Tom Sawyer," "Charlotte's Web," "Snoopy Come Home" and many others. The Shermans learned about music from their father, Al Sherman, a songwriter in Tin Pan Alley, the New York crucible of American popular music. "Our dad had a saying," Bob Sherman told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. "There are three S's: simplicity, sincerity and sound." The brothers wrote what is often credited as the most-played song on earth, "It's a Small World (After All)," which was created for the 1964 World's Fair in New York and still plays nonstop at Disney theme parks. If their music was so catchy that it could be hard to get it out of your head, their wordplay was memorable, too. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" gave the world such lyrics as: From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success. Dick would sit at the piano as Bob suggested melodies and both played with lyrics, they said, producing classic numbers like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," from "Mary Poppins": Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! For "Mary Poppins," they wrote "Chim Chim Cher-ee," which won an Oscar for best original song. "Feed the Birds," also from "Mary Poppins," was Walt Disney's favorite song, Mr. Sherman said in interviews. Stephen Miller http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577265341508392920.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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