The Harry
S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential
library and resting place
of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President
of the United States (1945–1953),
located on U.S. Highway 24 in Independence,
Missouri. It was the first presidential
library to be created under the
provisions of the 1955 Presidential
Libraries Act, and is one of thirteen
presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration(NARA). Built
on a hill overlooking the Kansas City skyline, on land donated by the City of
Independence, the Truman Library was dedicated July 6, 1957. Here, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed
the Medicare Act on July 30,
1965. On December 11, 2006, Kofi Annan gave
his final speech as Secretary-General of
the United Nations at the library, where he
encouraged the United States to return to the multilateralist policies
of Truman. Truman actively participated
in the day-to-day operation of the Library, personally training museum docents
and conducting impromptu "press conferences" for visiting school
students. He frequently arrived before
the staff and would often answer the phone to give directions and answer
questions, telling surprised callers that he was the "man
himself." When Truman left the
White House in 1953, he established an office in Room 1107 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at 925 Grand Avenue. When the library opened in 1957, he
transferred his office to the facility and often worked there five or six days
a week. In the office, he wrote articles, letters, and
his book Mr. Citizen. In
2007, the Truman Library Institute announced a $1.6 million preservation and
restoration of his working office to preserve the artifacts it contains and
allow for easier public viewing. The three-stage project completed in
2009 and features an enclosed limestone pavilion for better access and viewing
and an updated climate control system. The office appears today just as it did when
Harry Truman died on December 26, 1972. See
pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_Presidential_Library_and_Museum See also https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit/truman.html
Aristotle called them
"stars with hair.” Before the telescope was
invented, people didn't know what to make of comets. Early astronomers said they were rogue planets,
or the exhalations of gas from the Earth . . .
*
Every winter you can see
Orion chasing the seven daughters of Atlas, the beautiful
Pleiades, across the sky. * Science reveals the beautiful order hidden
within the natural world * Stuck here on our tiny blue-and-white planet,
it's enough to be human * The Night of the Comet, a novel by George Bishop
George Bishop, Jr. graduated with degrees in English
Literature and Communications from Loyola University in New Orleans before
moving to Los Angeles to become an actor.
After eight years of commercials, stage plays, guest starring roles in
TV sitcoms, and the lead in a B-movie called Teen Vamp, he traveled overseas as
a volunteer English teacher to the newly independent Czechoslovakia. He
enjoyed the ex-pat life so much that he stayed on, living and teaching in
Turkey and Indonesia before returning to the States to earn his MFA in Creative
Writing at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where he studied
under Clyde Edgerton, Wendy Brenner, and Rebecca Lee. After several years teaching at UNCW, he
moved back overseas, first on a fellowship with the Open Society Institute in
Azerbaijan, then with the US State Department’s Office of English Language
Programs in India. http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/bishop_g/george_bishop.htm
One of the
most familiar comets, Halley's comet,
played a prominent role in history because of its large nucleus and therefore great
brightness and longevity. In 1066 when
King Harold was overthrown by William the Conquerer at the Battle of Hastings,
the cause of the event seems to have been pegged on a celestial visitor. In 1456, on a return passage, Halley's comet
was excommunicated as an agent of the devil by Pope Calixtus III, but it didn't
do any good--the comet has continued to return.
According to Chambers, G. F. (1909), The Story of the Comets. Simply
Told for General Readers, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, there are only a
handful of comets which may be considered to be "remarkable". Find a list of these 32 comets in the past
1000 years at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/education/psr/History.html
These remarkable comets are
noteworthy for their extended visibility (including daytime visibility), and
their exceptional brightness and spectacular features, which included reddish
colors, multiple tails, jets and haloes.
“Frankie and Johnny” is a traditional American murder ballad, but you might not know it was
based on a true story. The early versions of
the song were called “Frankie and Allen” or “Frankie and Albert.” According to eyewitness testimony in a lawsuit
decades later, a St. Louis songwriter named Bill Dooley was performing the
song “Frankie Killed Allen” just weeks after the shooting. The song first appeared
in sheet musicin 1904 under the name "He Done Me Wrong,”
credited to Hughie Cannon. That version
had the same tune but different lyrics from the Dooley version. Frank and Bert Leighton published the same
tune, this time named “Frankie and Johnny,” in 1912, with "Albert"
changed to "Johnny" because it flowed better. Likewise, Alice Pryor’s name was changed to
Nelly Bly. Nellie Bly was
a well-known journalist in New York whose only connection to the case was that
her name was easy to rhyme. Over 250
versions of “Frankie and Johnny” have been recorded, with widely
varying lyrics. In some, Frankie ends up
being executed for her crime. In a few,
Johnny (or Allen, or Albert) survives the shooting. Read more and link to
video featuring Elvis Presley at http://mentalfloss.com/article/78308/story-behind-frankie-and-johnny
Bucky and Bunny
by Martha Esbin (sung to tune used for Frankie and Johnny)
Bucky and Bunny are Buckeyes,
born in the Buckeye State
Uprooted and
transplanted and forced to emigrate to Michigan . . . to Michigan
Bunny succumbed as an
infant, Lordy how it does hurt
Bucky
survives and Bucky thrives in the dirt of Michigan . . . of Michigan
(written when two tiny twigs with buckeyes
still attached were pulled from a lawn in Toledo, Ohio, swaddled
in damp paper towels, driven over five hours
to the north, and then planted in
Traverse City, Michigan)
Ohio Buckeye Aesculus glabra The name
"Buckeye" presumably comes from local usage in the early days of
settlement of Ohio. An early botanist
found it on the banks of the Ohio River, and added "Ohio" to the
common name in order to distinguish this species from the related Yellow
Buckeye. The seeds are presumed to be
poisonous to humans, but are eaten by squirrels.
Panera Bread
is buying the cafe restaurant chain that its CEO Ron Shaich co-founded more
than three and half decades ago. Both
chains are fast-casual chains known for their sandwiches, salads, soups and
pastries. Au Bon Pain currently has 304
locations worldwide, including many in hospitals, universities,
transportation hubs and urban office buildings.
The acquisition will enable Panera, a chain that promotes its healthy
offerings, to catapult into new types of retail environments, it
announced November 8, 2017. “With the
acquisition we are announcing today, we are bringing Au Bon Pain and Panera
together again," Shaich said in a statement. St. Louis-based Panera didn't disclose
the terms of the deal. which is expected to close during the fourth
quarter. The Au Bon Pain news came half an hour before Shaich announced
that he's stepping down step down as CEO effective January 1, 2018 but
will remain chairman of Panera’s board of directors. He said he'll continue to work on
strategy, communications and acquisitions for Panera, plus focus on his personal
investments and initiatives for JAB, which acquired Panera in July. Replacing Shaich as CEO is Blaine Hurst,
Panera’s president who joined the company in January 2011 after a
stint as president at Papa John’s.
Zlati Meyer https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/11/08/panera-bread-buying-au-bon-pain-deal-reunites-them/845067001/
The California chapter of the NAACP has called “The
Star-Spangled Banner” a “racist” and “anti-black” song, and says it will call on Congress to remove it as
the national anthem, The Sacramento Bee reported. At issue is a portion of the third verse of “The Star-Spangled Banner”—which is rarely
sung beyond its first verse at major sporting events—that reads: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave
from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.” “It’s racist; it doesn’t represent our
community, it’s anti-black,” Alice Huffman, the organization’s president, told KOVR-TV in Sacramento. “This song is wrong; it shouldn’t have been
there, we didn’t have it ’til 1931, so it won’t kill us if it goes away.” Luis Gomez
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-california-naacp-urges-congress-to-change-national-anthem-20171108-htmlstory.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1797
November 10, 2017 On this date in
1983, Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0.
On this date in 1989, Germans began to tear down the Berlin Wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10
Thought
for Today Use the talents you
possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the
best. - Henry van Dyke, poet (10 Nov 1852-1933)
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