Make your own Easter egg dye  (For hard-boiled eggs, bring eggs and water to a full boil.  Turn off the heat.  Cover the pan and let the eggs soak for 14-17 minutes.  Cool the eggs with cold water.) 

• Orange — Add 2 tablespoons of annatto seeds to a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar.  Let simmer for 10 minutes.  Strain the seeds. 

• Faint pink — Add a can of sliced beets to 2 cups of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar. Let simmer for 10 minutes.  Strain the beets. 

• Blue — Add a cup of blueberries to 2 cups of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar.  Let simmer for 10 minutes.  Strain the blueberries. 

• Brown — Add a teaspoon of vinegar to a cup of hot coffee.  The stronger the coffee, the darker the dye. 

• Purple -- Add a teaspoon of vinegar to a cup of boiling grape juice.

• Light green — Add 2 tablespoons of green tea powder to a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar.  Let simmer for 10 minutes.
• Light orange — Add a tablespoon of paprika powder to a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar.
• Bright yellow — Add a tablespoon of turmeric powder to a cup of boiling water with a teaspoon of vinegar.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/23/artificial-food-dye-alternatives/1979881/

Annatto, sometimes called roucou or achiote, is derived from the seeds of the achiote trees of tropical and subtropical regions around the world.  The seeds are sourced to produce a carotenoid-based yellow to orange food coloring and flavor.  Its scent is described as "slightly peppery with a hint of nutmeg" and flavor as "slightly nutty, sweet and peppery".  In commercial processing, annatto coloring is extracted from the reddish pericarp which surrounds the seed of the achiote (Bixa orellana L.).  Historically, it has been used as coloring in many cheeses (e.g., Cheddar, Gloucester, Red Leicester), cheese products (e.g. American cheese, Velveeta), and dairy spreads (e.g. butter, margarine).  Annatto can also be used to color a number of non-dairy foods such as rice, custard powder, baked goods, seasonings, processed potatoes, snack foods, breakfast cereals and smoked fish.  It has been linked to cases of food-related allergies.  Annatto is commonly used in Latin American and Caribbean cuisines as both a coloring and flavoring agent.  Central and South American natives use the seeds to make body paint and lipstick.  For this reason, the achiote is sometimes called the "lipstick-tree".  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annatto

The Vegetale Cathedral of Giuliano Mauri, has the size of a real gothic cathedral:  she comprises three aisles formed by twelve meters high and one meter in diameter eighty columns of twisted branches, within each column is planted a young hornbeam.  These plants will grow by around 50 centimeters every year.  With the cuts and the pruning she will be adapted to form a real Vegetale Cattedrale.  The structure has a square base of 82 meters for 15, the height of 12 meters and covers an area of 1,230 square meters.  Over the years, the built to accompany the growth of the plants support-columns, will rot and will leave the place to the hornbeams.  See pictures of the organic cathedral at:  http://www.papaissue.com/2010/10/giuiano-mauri/

Misquotes

"Blood, Sweat, and Tears" – Winston Churchill
Correct quote:  "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."  The quote appeared in the book Metropolis, written by Thea von Harbou (wife of Metropolis director Fritz Lang), first published in 1926.  The text, describing Freder Fredersen who has just finished his first day working to keep the machines of Metropolis alive, states, "He tasted a salty taste on his lips, and did not know if it was from blood, sweat, or tears."  Notes:  A similar quote from Winston Churchill can be found in a recorded speech he gave to the House of Commons where he says " I have never promised anything but blood, sweat and tears, now however we have a new experience.  We have victory. a..a remarkable victory.  A bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts."
"Music hath/has charms to soothe the savage beast."

A misquotation of William Congreve's play, The Mourning Bride, (1697).

Actual quote:  "Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast.  To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
"The rest is science"
Correct quote:  "The rest is silence" – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"To gild the lily"

Correct quote:  "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" – William Shakespeare (The Life and Death of King John, Act IV, Scene II, line 13)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

"This is the kind of tedious [sometimes "pedantic"] nonsense up with which I will not put!" 
—Alleged marginal note by Churchill, 27 February 1944, to a priggish civil servant's memo objecting to the ending of a sentences with prepositions.  The New York Timesversion reported that the Prime Minister underscored “up” heavily.  The source are a cable reports by The New York Times and Chicago Tribune, 28 February 1944. The Yale Book of Quotations quotes The Wall Street Journal of 30 September 1942 which in turn quoted an undated article in The Strand Magazine:  "When a memorandum passed round a certain Government department, one young pedant scribbled a postscript drawing attention to the fact that the sentence ended with a preposition, which caused the original writer to circulate another memorandum complaining that the anonymous postscript was 'offensive impertinence, up with which I will not put.'"   Verdict: An invented phrase put in Churchill’s mouth.  http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations 

You start with the stone, aquamarine, a word that means “seawater,” but not the deep-ocean blue that is the sea’s homage to the sky, nor the gray-green swells crashing on a shore, but the soft blue-green of a lagoon on a clear tropical morning.  Chemically, it is almost identical to an emerald.  What makes a stone one or the other is a handful of atoms scattered among the crystalline ranks: chromium for emerald, iron for aquamarine.  Then you must have light.  Aquamarine comes to life under the blues and cyans of daylight, as a ruby does near firelight.  Next, consider the object itself, an obelisk of a little more than 10,000 carats, shot through with radiant starbursts of astonishing intricacy and precision.  Thus you have described the latest addition to the Smithsonian’s National Gem and Mineral Collection, the Dom Pedro Aquamarine, one of the few objects in the world that can hold its own in a display case just 30 feet from the Hope Diamond.  Sometime in the 1980s, prospectors found the stone in a mine in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.  Originally three feet long and weighing nearly 100 pounds, it was dropped by the prospectors, breaking into three pieces—two of which were sold by the mine owner to be cut into anonymous stones for jewelry.  The largest piece escaped that fate; it was named the Dom Pedro, after the first emperor of Brazil, in the 19th century, and his son of the same name, who was the last.  The stone traced a circuitous path to the German workshop of gem artist Bernd Munsteiner who, in the early 1990s, was moving toward using crystals as the raw material of sculpture, rather than for rings and pendants.   Read more and see picture at:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Introducing-the-Dom-Pedro-Aquamarine-192099841.html