The
Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy
film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. Eschewing
regional politics in the years leading up to World War II, the film is about
two employees at a gift shop in Budapest who
can barely stand each another, not realizing they're falling in love as
anonymous correspondents through their letters.
The Shop Around the Corner is ranked #28 on AFI's
100 Years... 100 Passions, and is
listed in Time's All-Time
100 Movies. In 1999,
the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant." The
supporting cast included Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart,
and William Tracy.
The film spawned a musical remake, In the Good Old Summertime (1949), which stars Judy
Garland and Van Johnson. The plot element of two people who dislike
each other while developing an anonymous romance by correspondence is used in
the film You've
Got Mail (1998) with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, in
which one of the protagonists owns a bookstore named "The Shop Around The
Corner." Screen credit is given to Miklós László for Parfumerie. The Broadway musical She Loves
Me was also inspired by
the film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner
There are 67
confirmed moons of Jupiter. This gives it the largest retinue of moons with reasonably secure orbits of any
planet in the Solar System. The
most massive of them, the four Galilean moons, were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and
were the first objects found
to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun. From the end of the 19th century, dozens of
much smaller Jovian moons have been discovered. Eight of Jupiter's moons are regular satellites, with prograde and nearly circular orbits that are
not greatly inclined with respect to Jupiter's equatorial
plane. The Galilean satellites are ellipsoidal in
shape, due to having planetary mass, and so would be considered dwarf planets if
they were in direct orbit about the Sun.
The other four regular satellites are much smaller and closer to
Jupiter; these serve as sources of the dust that makes up Jupiter's rings. The
remainder of Jupiter's moons are irregular satellites, whose prograde and retrograde orbits are
much farther from Jupiter and have high inclinations and eccentricities. These moons were probably captured by Jupiter
from solar orbits. There are 17 recently
discovered irregular satellites that have not yet been named.
Find more information and
see graphics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter
Regions of the United States The
smallest region is the Northeast, and that contains New England and Mid-Atlantic
states. Geographers don’t always agree
on which states belong to which region or subregion—for example, whether
Delaware is a Mid-Atlantic or South
Atlantic state. Look closely and find eight panhandles.
panhandle
(n.) "something
resembling the handle of a pan," 1851, from pan + handle. Especially in reference to geography,
originally American English, from 1856, in reference to Virginia (now West
Virginia); "an act of begging"
is attested from 1849, perhaps from notion of arm stuck out like a panhandle,
or of one who handles a (beggar's) pan.
panhandle
(v.) "to beg," 1888,
from panhandle (n.) in the begging sense.
The
tradition of Philadelphia Mummery
started in the late 17th century as a continuation of the Old World customs of ushering in the
New Year. The Swedes were Philadelphia’s
first settlers. When they came to
Tinicum, just outside of Philadelphia, they brought their custom of visiting
friends on “Second Day Christmas”, December 26th. Later they extended their period of
celebration to include New Year’s Day, and welcomed the New Year with
masquerades and parades of noisy revelers. Masqueraders paraded the through the streets
of Philadelphia. Some of the earliest mummers date back to early Egypt. Mummers would lead the burial procession of
the Pharaohs in extravagant costumes, playing finger cymbals, tambourines and
other rhythm instruments. Tracing back
through the mazes of history that led to England, Wale, Scotland, Germany,
ancient France, and pagan Rome and Greece, we find mummery has influenced
customs and perpetuated many interesting traditions. Every nation had its festivals at one time or
another, each marked by parades and displays of fanciful costumes. As early as 400 BC, Roman laborers observed
the feast of the Saturnalia in honor of their god, Saturn, and the reaping of
the harvest. They made calls on friends,
they exchanged gifts and it was customary for some of the gifts to bear
greetings for a Happy New Year. http://fralinger.org/about/mummers-history/
The Tournament of Roses Parade was founded in 1890, staged and
sponsored by Pasadena's recently-formed Valley Hunt Club. Before long, this small rose-themed festival
expanded to include motorized floats that awed parade watchers, as well as
equestrians and local school and community-based marching bands. Games were held in the town park and the
whole city turned out for the event. The
event's popularity resulted in the formation of a new Tournament of Roses
Association in 1895, the same organization that still handles the organization
of the parade today. A football game was
added in 1902, the first being played by Stanford and the University of
Michigan. When Stanford suffered a
crushing loss in that initial game, the football portion of the day's
activities were cancelled but eventually returned in 1916. A new stadium for the event was built 7 years
later and quickly earned the nickname "The Rose Bowl." http://www.latourist.com/index.php?page=rose-parade-history
Lithuania is an EU member state which
joined the eurozone by
adopting the euro on
1 January 2015. This
made it the last of the three Baltic States to
adopt the euro, after Estonia (2011) and Latvia (2014). All
members of the European
Union, except Denmark and the UK, are required by treaty to join the euro once
certain economic criteria have
been met. Read more and see
graphics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_and_the_euro
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1238
January 2, 2015 On this date in 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to
ratify the United States Constitution. On this date in 1920, Isaac
Asimov, American chemist and author, was born.
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