Benefits of
reading [infographic] from the National Reading Campaign in Canada See outstanding graphics at http://holykaw.alltop.com/benefits-of-reading-infographic
loggia,
room, hall, gallery, or porch open to the air on one or more sides; it evolved in
the Mediterranean region, where an open sitting room with protection from the
sun was desirable. Ancient Egyptian
houses often had a loggia on their roofs or an interior loggia facing upon a court. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/346169/loggia See also Missing 500-Years of Loggias,
Porticos Described at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112155230.htm
and Loggia
dei Lanzi at http://www.aviewoncities.com/florence/loggiadeilanzi.htm
"The Library of Babel" (Spanish:
La
biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine
author and librarian
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the
form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain
format. The story was originally
published in Spanish in Borges's 1941 collection of stories El Jardín de
senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths). That entire book was, in turn, included within
his much-reprinted Ficciones (1944). Two English-language
translations
appeared approximately simultaneously in 1962, one by James E. Irby in a diverse
collection of Borges's works titled Labyrinths
and the other by Anthony Kerrigan as part of a collaborative translation of the
entirety of Ficciones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
See also The Library of Babel Summary http://www.shmoop.com/library-of-babel/summary.html
and The Library of Babel at http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting
students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills
and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826 Valencia was founded in 2002 by author
Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari. Read more about the history of the organization. Dave Eggers also tells the story about 826′s
inspiration, early beginnings, and ensuing momentum in a 24:30 TED Talks video
(My Wish: Once Upon
a School) at http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html
Link to history of the organization
at https://826valencia.org/about/ 826NYC
is a similar nonprofit organization located in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Site-specific foods
English muffins
During England's Victorian
era, servants settled for these muffins, made from leftover bread and biscuit
dough scraps and mashed potatoes. When
the elite got taste of the bread, they demanded more for themselves. Muffin men became so prominent in the streets
that they gave way to the popular phrase, "Oh, do you know the muffin
man."
Danish They come from Austria originally. In 1950, when some of Denmark's bakers went on
strike, Austrian ones replaced them, and they caused a frenzy when they began
making danishes that swept the nation. Even
after the Danish bakers returned, they were swamped with orders for the sweet
delicacy.
French toast This breakfast dish is older than you might
think, going all the way back to Medieval times, long before France was even
founded. Recipes through the ages refer
to it as both "Spanish Toast" and "German Toast." One popular legend states that the
"French" in the name doesn't refer to the nation, rather to an
innkeeper named Joseph French.
Brazil nuts While the tree, Bertholletia excelsa, that
produces these big nuts can be found in Brazil, it's native to all South
American countries, and it's Bolivia that produces the most of them. The tree grows wild in the Amazon River basin.
How Brazil in particular got attached to
the nuts is anyone's guess.
California roll It was sushi L.A.-based chef Ichiro Mashita
of Tokyo Kaikan who first used avocado to replace a type of tuna that was
unavailable in that region. Many credit
Mashita for also first sticking the rice on the outside of the roll, what would
become typical American-style sushi.
Long Island iced tea Bob "Rosebud" Butt
invented the drink back in the 1970s in the Hamptons in New York, while he was
a bartender. Mr. Butt poured small
selections of different alcoholic drinks together, and he said that the drink
just took off from there. http://www.bigstockphoto.com/blog/how-french-toast-and-8-other-site-specific-foods-got-their-names
Cyril
McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a
British soldier and author. During the First
World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches
with the Royal Engineers.
These were published in the Daily Mail
under the pseudonym Sapper, the nickname of his regiment, and were later
published as collections through Hodder & Stoughton. McNeile also wrote a series of articles titled
The Making of an Officer, which appeared under the initials C. N., in
five issues of The Times between 8 and 14 June 1916; these were also
subsequently collected together and published. During the course of the war, McNeile wrote
more than 80 collected and uncollected stories.
McNeile continued writing after he left the army in 1919, although he
stopped writing war stories and began to publish thrillers.
In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous
hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself,
his idea of an English gentleman and his friend Gerard
Fairlie. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog
Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay. McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with
other novels and story collections, including two characters who appeared as
protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish.
There's one state highway running through Myrtle, Mo. It's a sleepy town in the Ozarks, population
about 300. There's no bank or restaurant
here, but enormous oak and persimmon trees loom over a small stone building
right next to the road. Half of it is a
post office; the other half, a one-room public library. Rachel Reynolds Luster took over this branch
four months ago with the goal of creating a learning hub. She calls herself a curator, not just a
librarian. Her first task? Filtering out some of the favorites of the
previous librarian. "It's been
interesting working this transition with her," Luster says. "She was quite upset that the cooking
magazines were gone. But we recycled
them all, and we kept some holiday cookie editions." Luster scanned her shelves for the one book
she felt every library must have: the
Greek epic The Odyssey. "I looked, and we didn't have one — no
library in our system had one," she says.
While the Myrtle library receives taxpayer money, it gets only $200 a
month for books and supplies. So Luster
has used social media to garner donations from people around the state. She's already secured about 1,000 new books. She's one of thousands of rural librarians
trying to bring a sense of community, learning and connectedness to their
isolated areas. The Institute of Museum
and Library Services estimates that nearly half of America's public libraries
are rural, and many of those are staffed by only one or two people. http://www.npr.org/2013/10/21/235483140/turning-a-page-inside-a-rural-one-room-library?ft=1&f=1008
The Institute
of Museum and Library Services
is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123000 libraries and
17500 museums. The mission of IMLS is to inspire libraries and museums to advance
innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. http://www.imls.gov/
How to get the most out of
library e-books via the right gadget, text to speech, and otherwise by David H. Rothman
October 26, 2013 http://www.llrx.com/features/ebookstools.htm
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