Jack is a male given name, although in some cases it can be
used as a female given name (a shortened version of "Jacqueline" or
"Jackie", for example), and sometimes as a surname. In English it is traditionally used as the
diminutive form of the name John, though it is also often given as a
proper name in its own right. The name
Jack is unique in the English language for the frequency of its use as a verb
and a noun for many common objects and actions; and also its use in many
compound words and phrases: jack-of-all-trades, jackknife, jackpot, jack tar,
hijack, union jack, jack straw (scarecrow), apple jack, lumberjack, jackhammer,
jackdaw, jack o'lantern and others. The Encyclopædia Britannica
article on the history of the word "jack" linked it directly to the
common name: "Jack, a word with a great variety of meanings and
applications, all traceable to the common use of the word as a by-name of a
man."
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland,
"Jack" was the most frequently used male name for the years 2003–2007. See lists naming Jack in fiction, film, music,
comics, nursery rhymes and video games at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(given_name)
Really Good Books, Part I by David Brooks
Really Good Books, Part II by David Brooks
Dog whistles
have been around since the 19th century. The English polymath Francis Galton is
credited with inventing a high-pitched whistle for testing the auditory ranges of
dogs and other animals back in 1876. Another
English inventor, Archibald Low, described in 1933 how to "make a whistle
that cannot be heard by human beings, but to which a dog answers readily."
And by 1940, Purina was selling
ultrasonic dog whistles. Several decades
later, the "dog whistle" turned into a figure of speech for subtle
messages that not everyone could discern. Lexicographer Grant Barrett traces the usage
back to a 1988 article by Washington Post pollster Richard Morin, in which he
described the "dog whistle effect" in opinion polling: "Respondents hear something in the
question that researchers do not."
Ben Zimmer
Sarah
Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879) was an American writer
and an influential editor. She is the
author of the nursery rhyme "Mary
Had a Little Lamb". Her
advocacy for Thanksgiving as a national holiday began in 1846 and lasted 17
years before it was successful. In support of the proposed national
holiday, Hale wrote letters to five Presidents
of the United States: Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. Her initial letters failed to persuade, but
the letter she wrote to Lincoln convinced him to support legislation
establishing a national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863. The
new national holiday was considered a unifying day after the stress of the American Civil War.
Before
Thanksgiving's addition, the only national holidays celebrated in the United
States were Washington's Birthday and Independence
Day. Hale also worked to
preserve George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, as a symbol of patriotism
that both the Northern and Southern United States could all support. Hale raised $30,000 in Boston for the
completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
When
construction stalled, Hale asked her readers to donate a dollar each and also
organized a week-long craft fair at Quincy Market. The
fair sold handmade jewelry, quilts, baskets, jams, jellies, cakes, pies, and
autographed letters from Washington, James Madison, and the Marquis
de Lafayette. She "made
sure the 221-foot obelisk that commemorates the battle of Bunker Hill got
built."
A prestigious literary
prize, the Sarah Josepha Hale Award, is named for her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale
Nick's Kitchen
506 N. Jefferson, Huntington, Indiana
260.356.6618 nickskitchen.net
Nick Freienstein was born
in Huntington January 22, 1876. Nick was
12 years old when he dropped out of parochial school at SS Peter & Paul to
take a job as a tobacco stripper at Reichard’s cigar Factory on Cherry Street.
In the next 15 years, Nick worked many places around the town – at Joe Hegner’s
Confectionery and the Peter Geizieichter and Stuart Lippman grocery store. In 1904, Nick Freienstein had resigned his
position from Stuart Lippman grocery. The next thing the public knew, Nick made
his appearance on the streets at night selling hamburgers. He had a stand at the corner of the courthouse
square, which consisted of a push cart and a dim lantern. In the course of time, his hamburger trade
was housed in a little ten by ten structure, which occupied a space under a
stairway at the corner of Jefferson and Market streets. There he built a business for Nick’s
hamburgers that provided him with the funds to move in 1908 to the present
location of 506 North Jefferson Street. For the first time, he no longer cooked his
food on a cart but had a kitchen. There
are plenty of items on the menu at Nick’s, but there is one item that is a
local hit. The tenderloin sandwiches are
made with the same recipe Freienstein himself used and there are no plans of
changing it.
Link to menu at https://nickskitchen.net/history/ Nick's recipe includes a long soak in
buttermilk before the cutlets are drenched in crushed cracker crumbs.
Amana Meat Shop & Smoke House sells Iowa products "crafted with pride since
1855." Their pork tenderloins rivals
the Hoosier classic sandwich at Nick's Kitchen of Indiana. The tenderloins come from the leanest part
of the loin, are tenderized twice, then blanketed with a light egg batter and
cracker crumb coating. Order at 800-373-6328 or
Reclusive cartoonist Bill Watterson has emerged from nearly two decades in retirement to
guest-draw a syndicated comic strip that runs in 750 newspapers globally. The Calvin
and Hobbes creator
collaborated with fellow cartoonist Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, on three
strips that were published throughout last week. But it was not until June 6, 2014 that Mr
Pastis revealed the man behind the drawings.
Writing on his blog, Mr Pastis
explained that he had written to Mr Watterson to express his admiration. Not expecting a response, he was shocked when
the cartoon titan not only replied, but also said that he had an idea that he
wanted to run past Mr Pastis. Together
the pair conceived a series of comic strips in which Mr Watterson would appear
under the guise of a 12-year-old girl called Libby, who would mock Mr Pastis'
drawings - in reference to the self-deprecation that characterises his work -
before going on to produce her own cartoons.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-makes-surprise-return-9508343.html
What was fake on the Internet this week: Detached
retinas, doodled passports and a murder caught on Google Streetview See Caitlin Deweys 14th installment in her series at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/06/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-detached-retinas-doodled-passports-and-a-murder-caught-on-google-streetview/?tid=hpModule_d39b60e8-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z10
If you
missed the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes, you can
see Tonalist win during this 2:50 video http://www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing/tonalist-wins-belmont-stakes-california-chrome-fourth
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1159
June 9, 2014 On this date in
1650, the Harvard
Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, was established--the first legal corporation in the Americas. On this date in 1732, James Oglethorpe was
granted a royal charter for
the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
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