A longstanding theory suggests that artichokes actually originated in
Sicily. That would be a unique
distinction in a land whose culture and cuisine is an amalgamation of foreign
ones. In any event, we know that the
globe artichoke, cynara scolymus,
cultivated in some fifty varieties, evolved in the western or central
Mediterranean. The purplish wild spiny
artichoke, featuring tough leaves ending in thorns, is the most popular form in
Sicily, where one town, Cerda (in Palermo province) has erected a tall
sculptural monument to this most singular vegetable in the main square. They're not the foundation of any diet, but
artichokes are a good source of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), niacin, magnesium,
potassium, iron, copper, phosphorus, calcium and fiber. An artichoke liqueur bearing the trade name
Cynar is made in Sicily. Most of the
world's artichokes are produced in Italy, where Sardinia rivals Sicily for
quantity. http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art86.htm
Selection of favorite quotes about writing by Maria V. Snyder
Talent is long patience. Gustave Flaubert
If you want to be a
writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
There's no way around these two things that I'm aware off, no shortcut.
Stephen King, On Writing
Writing a novel is like
driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can
make the whole trip that way. E.L.
Doctorow
Sir Henry Tate
(1819-1899) was an English merchant and founder of the National Gallery of
British Art (Tate Gallery).ire, in 1819.
He became a prosperous sugar broker, and about 1874 removed to London,
where he greatly increased the operations of his firm and made "Tate's
Cube Sugar" known all over the world. He had early in his career begun to devote
large sums of money to philanthropic and educational purposes. He gave £42,000 to the Liverpool University
College, founded in 1881; and a still larger sum to the Liverpool hospitals. Then, when he came to London, he presented
four free public libraries to the parish of Lambeth. His interest in art came with later years. He was at first merely a regular buyer of
pictures, for which he built a large private gallery in his house at Streatham.
Gradually his gallery came to contain
one of the best private collections of modern pictures in England, and the
owner naturally began to consider what should be done with it after his death. A new gallery, controlled by the Trustees of
the National Gallery, was built on the site of Millbank Prison. The gallery was
opened on 21st July 1897, and a large addition to it was completed just before
the donor died. It contained sixty-five
pictures presented by him; nearly all the English pictures from the National
Gallery painted within the previous eighty years; the pictures purchased by the
Royal Academy under the Chantrey Bequest, which had previously hung in South
Kensington Museum; and seventeen large works given to the nation by Mr. G. F.
Watts, R.A. http://www.nndb.com/people/449/000098155/
Sugar cube sculptures http://www.brendanjamison.com/sugarcube.html
Tate sold its Australian sugar
business, Bundaberg, in 2000 and its US sugar refineries to American Sugar in 2001.
Chief executive Javed Ahmed handed the keys to Tate's famous
Thames Refinery in East London to American Sugar Refining in 2012, after trying to get out of sugar for 15 years. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7866374/Tate-and-Lyle-cuts-its-ties-with-the-sugar-cube-its-founder-brought-to-Britain.html
The Alterran Legacy Series (Colony Earth, Khamlok, Resurrection, Redemption) is
Regina Joseph's first work of fiction.
As a practicing attorney in Toledo, Ohio, she has published legal
articles on securities law and mergers and acquisition topics.
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Paperback: 346 pages
Publisher: Colony Earth
(October 18, 2012)
Language: English ISBN-10: 0615659969 ISBN-13: 978-0615659961
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Review by Martha Esbin
The Alterran Legacy
Series, Book 1: Colony Earth by Regina
M. Joseph
Alterrans travel through
the skies to planet Earth, establishing
a colony for research and mining.
Alterrans have sensors implanted at birth, and their arranged lives mean
a choiceless destiny. Obedience and
discipline are required to maintain harmony and stability. "No one can be disconnected" in
their world and learning, some of it misleading, is provided depending on
status. Rejuvenation chambers mean no
permanent death. Control is evident
everywhere: animals hunt by command; Alterrans
wear self-cleaning clothes that can change shape when protection is
needed. Colony Earth is a compelling
story of survival and conflicting codes of conduct. An extraordinary plot and a page-turner.
Clarion ForeWord Review by Emily Asad (extract) FANTASY
Colony Earth: Book 1 of the Alterran Legacy Series by
Regina M. Joseph
Four Stars (out of Five)
Anne MacCaffrey’s Dragonriders
of Pern details the effects of an advanced civilization that loses its
technological edge due to nature’s unstoppable force. Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear offers rich details of the Upper
Paleolithic era. In Colony Earth,
Regina M. Joseph blends the two worlds of science fiction and anthropology in
an enjoyable tale that attempts to explain how humankind exploded in knowledge
after the last Ice Age. Lil has been
groomed for centuries to become the next supreme leader of Alterran society. As part of his training—and his punishment—he
is sent to the far colony of Earth.
Inculcated with the strict rules and regulations of “the Party of
Harmony and Stability,” he is almost too proper to make the necessary changes
that will allow his band of men to survive on primitive Earth after Alterra
collapses. What begins as a minor crisis
turns into a major disaster, however, after
a comet destroys their technology and forces them to turn to the Earth for
survival. Colony Earth is a
worthwhile read for anyone who enjoys thinking about the challenges to be faced
in rebuilding a new society.
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