The Aarne–Thompson
tale type index is
a multivolume listing designed to help folklorists identify recurring plot patterns in
the narrative structures of traditional folktales, so that folklorists can organize,
classify, and analyze the folktales they research. First developed by Antti Aarne (1867–1925) and published as Verzeichnis
der Märchentypen in
1910, the tale type index was later translated, revised, and enlarged by Stith Thompson (1885–1976)
in 1928 and again in 1961. The
Aarne–Thompson tale type index organizes folktales into broad categories like Animal
Tales, Fairy
Tales, Religious
Tales, etc. Within each category,
folktale types are further subdivided by motif patterns until individual types
are listed. Find the ATU taxonomy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson_classification_system
If you meet Rick Garrett, our country's most fastidious chronicler of the
Indiana breaded pork tenderloin, one may notice similarities between man and
sandwich. Both are nice in a Midwestern
sort of way. Both are plain in a
nonostentatious sort of way. Both are a
bit round in the middle; Garrett — down 80 pounds and counting — still
accommodates a few breaded tenderloins a month for journalistic thoroughness. Garrett is the self-appointed "Tenderloin
Connoisseur," with the credentials to back up that title. Over the last three years, he has traveled to
every corner of the Hoosier State and sampled more than 120 versions of the
sandwich, reviewing each breaded tenderloin on his blog with the critical verve
of a Roger Ebert (breadedtenderloin.wordpress.com). The biggest surprise is that 120-plus
variants of the sandwich exist in Indiana, and that's probably not even the
half of it. Every pub in the state,
Garrett told me, has its own version. It's no surprise that the sandwich has a
following in Indiana, our nation's fifth-largest pork-producing state
(according to the National Pork Producers Council). Also not surprisingly, breaded pork tenderloin
is popular in Iowa, the No. 1 pork-producing state. But through his travels, Garrett said, he has
found differences between the two versions.
"For one, they call it a breaded pork tenderloin in Iowa and
breaded tenderloin in Indiana. That's not
universal, but about 90 percent true," Garrett said. "The ones in Iowa also tend to be pounded
out thinner. Iowa tends to take it to
the extreme, looking like hubcaps. The ones in Indiana are more the thickness
of pork chops." Naturally, Garrett
said he prefers the Indiana version, and it's not just civic allegiance: "When you bite into a thicker sandwich,
you get the crunch of the breading, then the firmness of the pork. It's two distinct textures you're biting into.
The ones pounded so thin, you get one
crunch and that's it." Kevin
Pang http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-trav-0406-indy-pork-tenderloin-20140403,0,3474579.story
The Lewis
and Clark Exposition dollar was a commemorative gold coin struck
in 1904 and 1905 as part of the United States Government's participation in the Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in the latter year in Portland, Oregon. Designed by United States Bureau of
the Mint Chief
Engraver Charles E. Barber, the coin did not sell well
and less than a tenth of the authorized mintage of 250,000 was issued. The Lewis and Clark
Expedition, the first American overland exploring party to reach the
Pacific Coast, was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
Between 1804 and 1806, its members journeyed
from St. Louis to the Oregon coast and back, providing information and
dispelling myths about the large area obtained by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of
1803. The Portland fair commemorated the
centennial of that trip. The coins were,
for the most part, sold to the public by numismatic promoter Farran Zerbe, who had also vended the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition dollar. As
he was unable to sell much of the issue, surplus coins (90% gold, 10% copper) were
melted by the Mint. The coins have
continued to increase in value, and today are worth between hundreds and
thousands of dollars, depending on condition. The Lewis and Clark Exposition dollar is the
only American coin to be "two-headed", with a portrait of one of the
expedition leaders on each side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Exposition_dollar
A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins and marked with a cross on the top,
traditionally eaten on Good Friday in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada, but now popular all year round In the
times of Elizabeth
I of England (1592), the London Clerk of Markets
issued a decree forbidding the sale of hot cross buns and other spiced breads,
except at burials, on Good Friday, or at Christmas. The punishment for transgressing the decree
was forfeiture of all the forbidden product to the poor. As a result of this decree, hot cross buns at
the time were primarily made in home kitchens. Further attempts to suppress the sale of these
items took place during the reign of James I
of England/James
VI of Scotland (1603-1625). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_cross_bun
Hot cross buns song lyrics http://www.songsforteaching.com/nurseryrhymes/hotcrossbuns.php
Anyone can learn to play Hot cross buns: it needs only three notes, the
same three that start out Three blind mice.
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
royal road (ROI-uhl road)
noun An easy way to achieve
something. According to the philosopher
Proclus, when King Ptolemy asked for an easy way to learn, Euclid replied that
there is no royal road to geometry.
Royal Road was a highway in ancient Persia. Earliest documented use: 1793.
sashay (sa-SHAY)
verb. intr. 1. To move, walk, or glide along nonchalantly. 2. To strut or move in a showy manner. From switching of syllables in a
mispronunciation of French chassé (a ballet movement involving gliding steps
with the same foot always leading), past participle of chasser (to chase), from
captare (to try to catch), frequentative of Latin capere (to take). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap-
(to grasp), which also gave us captive, capsule, chassis, cable, occupy,
deceive, behoof, caitiff,
percipient, captious, and gaff. Earliest documented use: 1836.
Feedback to A.Word.A.Day From:
Steve Swift Subject:
royal road My favourite use of the term "royal
road" comes from an example of how to handle inappropriate requests for
loans: "Lending money is the right
royal road to losing friends. Here, have
a fiver."
The Pulitzer Prizes have been slow to change. But
lately, some of the best online news reporting and multimedia storytelling are
being honored. And the Pulitzer board
has had a number of younger, non-newspaper members join it lately, bringing
more experience in digital and multimedia journalism. Last year’s national reporting winners, staffers from the tiny, online
InsideClimate News, show how an upstart news organization can turn great
reporting into a Pulitzer. The site
exposed flawed regulation of the nation’s oil pipelines. And the 2013 prize for feature writingwent to John
Branch of the New York Times for his inventive “Snow Fall” narrative, about
skiers killed in an avalanche, which combined video, audio and interactive
charts in an entirely novel way. How to
pronounce the prizes’ name: It’s
pronounced “pull-it-sir,” not “pew-lit-sir.” Even some winners get it wrong. Roy J. Harris Jr.
The 2014 Pulitzer
winners and finalists http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2014
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1136
April 16, 2014 On this date in 1818,
the Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border
with Canada. In 1908, the Natural
Bridges National Monument was
established in Utah.
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