Arson and the Science of Fire by Ken Strutin published on November 12, 2012 http://www.llrx.com/features/arsonsciencefire.htm
Muenster is a cheese
from the United States, not to be confused with the French variety, Munster.
The name Muenster is derived from
an English transliteration of Münster, a
city in Germany. The original name of
the French cheese comes from Alsatian abbey of Munster in the Vosgian mountains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muenster_(cheese)
The Pillars of Hercules was the phrase that was applied in Antiquity to the promontories
that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar is the Rock
of Gibraltar in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. A corresponding North African peak not being
predominant, the identity of the southern Pillar has been disputed through
history, with the two most likely candidates being Monte Hacho
in Ceuta and Jebel Musa in Morocco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules
Snakes and Ladders (or Chutes and Ladders) is an ancient Indian board game
regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played between two or more players
on a gameboard having numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and
"snakes" (or "chutes") are pictured on the board, each
connecting two specific board squares. The
object of the game is to navigate one's game piece from the start (bottom
square) to the finish (top square), helped or hindered by ladders and snakes,
respectively. The historic version had
root in morality lessons, where a player's progression up the board represented
a life journey complicated by virtues (ladders) and vices (snakes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders
Mel Angst was looking for an inspired way to
tile the floor of the Garfield, Pa. tattoo gallery, Artisan, which she runs
with her husband, tattoo artist Jason Angst. “My floor
is made out of about 250,000 pennies,” Angst told ABC Pittsburgh
affiliate WTAE. “Amazingly
enough, it’s a lot cheaper to glue money to your floor than to actually buy
tile. It’s about $3 a square foot.” Angst said that after she found the appropriate adhesive to affix the
pennies to the floor of her shop, she then found people via Facebook to log the
man hours. She bartered tiling labor for
$10 off per hour on tattoo work, she told ABCNews.com. “Some days it was just me,” she said. “I think the most we ever had was 7, but on
average, (we have) 3 or 4 people a day for about 10 to 16 hours a day for about
three weeks straight, gluing these down … People are just shocked that we did
it because it took about 300 man hours, which was crazy.” In total there will be approximately 800
square feet of Lincoln profiles. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/tattoo-shop-owner-tiles-floor-with-250000-pennies/
Thomas Jefferson's muffin recipe, developed from the original recipe by Monticello staff
members Susan McCrary and Katherine G. Revell, would have produced "English muffins."
Thomas' brand English
muffins were introduced to New York City in the late 19th century:
"Although tea muffins
that were once popular in England resembled the American "English
muffin," there is no single muffin in Britain by this specific name...Most
of the store-bought varieties [of English muffin] derive from those made by the
S. B. Thomas Company of New York, whose founder, Samuel Bath Thomas, emigrated
from England in 1875 with his mother's recipe and began making muffins at his
Ninth Avenue bakery in 1880. The name
was first printed in 1925." ---Encyclopedia
of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman: New York]
1999 (p. 123) http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq2.html
Cloud is a metaphor for a global
network, first used
in reference to the telephone network and now commonly used to represent the
Internet. See other cloud computing
terms and definitions at: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/mini-glossary-cloud-computing-terms-you-should-know/2308
Nether=lower or under.
The Netherlands is a low-lying country,
with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level. Holland may refer to the whole country (as
people tend to say England for United Kingdom) because it is populous and early
explorers were likely to be from Holland.
From the 10th century to the 16th century, Holland was a unified
political region. Today we have the two
provinces of North Holland and South Holland.
The spire-like cypress tree of the Mediterranean is named for Cyparissus, a youth
beloved of Apollo who lived in Greek mythology on the Aegean island of Chios. Read the story and why the cypress tree came
to be associated with mourning at: http://www.mceades.com/jerusalem2/cypress.html
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54
Through Feb. 10 New York
If Charles Dickens had lived to finish "The Mystery of Edwin
Drood," it might have ended up becoming one of his best-remembered books,
though not so much for its literary quality as its subject matter. Imagine, if you dare, a novel about an
outwardly respectable choirmaster who is secretly addicted to opium and who
strangles his nephew in a fit of passion (or does he?) because they're both in
love with the same woman. Who could
resist a yarn like that? It's got
everything but serial murder. Alas,
Dickens died of a stroke in 1870 before he could pen the final chapters, and
the unfinished manuscript became a half-forgotten curiosity known only to
Dickens buffs and scholars of Victorian literature—until Rupert Holmes came
along. Mr. Holmes, a multitalented
singer-songwriter who topped the pop charts in 1979 with "Escape (The Piña
Colada Song)," had the uncommonly clever idea to turn "Drood"
into a Broadway musical in which the audience is invited to vote on the ending.
Is Edwin Drood really dead? If so, did John Jasper, the mad choirmaster,
kill him—or was he murdered by one of the other characters. The
killer gets to sing an extra song in the last scene. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578116812583424922.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5
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