Derrick is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998 starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector (Kriminaloberinspektor) Stephan Derrick, and Fritz Wepper as Detective Sergeant (Kriminalhauptmeister) Harry Klein, his loyal assistant.  They solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with three unsolved cases in total).  It was produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG.  Derrick is considered to be one of the most successful television programmes in German television history, it was also a major international success and the series was sold in over 100 countries.  Tappert is the only German actor who has ever had fan clubs abroad including the Netherlands and France.  The famous phrase "Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen" ("Harry, bring the car 'round"; implying "we're done here") was attributed to Derrick and became part of popular culture in Germany and China as catch phrases.  Actually, this phrase was never spoken in any of the 281 episodes.  See references in popular culture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_%28TV_series%29   Thank you, Muse reader!

"History is not what happened.  History is what was written down."  "There is no place for blame, as blame brings only vengeance."  The Expected One, Book One of the Magdalene Line by Kathleen McGowan 

Kathleen McGowan (born March 22, 1963) is an American author.  Her novel The Expected One sold over a million copies worldwide and has appeared in over fifty languages. The Magdalene Line is a series of novels, featuring both fictitious and historical female characters which the author believes history has either misrepresented or obliterated.  Kathleen McGowan began working on the first novel The Expected One in 1989.  Focusing on the role of Mary Magdalene, it was self-published in 2005, and sold 2,500 copies.  On July 25, 2006, the book was re-published by Simon & Schuster under the Touchstone imprint.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_McGowan   

If you enjoy the idea of travelling in time . . . or imagining an alternate history (in which one or more past events are changed and history is altered) find a list of suggested titles at http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Literature/Genres/Fantasy/TimeTravel/  I read one from the list in September 2018--Before the Cradle Falls by James F. David  

James F. David was born in Minneapolis, lived in Twin Falls, Idaho and then Portland, Oregon.  He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and earned his doctorate in psychology at The Ohio State University.  David currently lives in Tigard Oregon.  David has always been a story teller and  began writing them down after graduate school.  In his first novel, Footprints of Thunder, David used his imagination to bring dinosaurs back to the present and in the process destroying his home town.  https://www.amazon.com/James-F.-David/e/B000APSSS6  See also https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/james-f-david/

Frisée Salad with Bacon Bits, Croûtons and a Maple Syrup Dressing by Alexis Gabriel Aïnouz  The famous 'frisée aux lardons'--now that's a salad with style!  Hot, cold, crunchy, crisp, silky, salty, bitter, sweet.  It ticks all the taste bud boxes in one go.  And, if you add any cooked potatoes that are left over, you'll have a complete meal.  If you can't find frisée, use another type of salad but choose one bitter and crunchy, as it is crucial for getting the balance of the recipe right.  I'd suggest dandelion leaves greens, cos romaine lettuce, or wild chicory endive.  Find recipe serving four at ttps://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/frisee-salad-with-bacon-bits-croutons-and-a-maple-syrup-dressing  Excerpted with permission from Just A French Guy Cooking  published by Quadrille September 2018.

Find a list of U.S. cities (or census-designated areas) named for the state in which they are located.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_named_after_their_state   Cities (including former cities and present ghost towns) no longer functioning are marked with an asterisk.  The Muser became curious about cities named after states when hearing about Delaware City, a few miles from where she taught school for five years but had never heard of.

The Holy Roman Empire was a feudal monarchy that encompassed present-day Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, as well as parts of eastern France, northern Italy, Slovenia, and western Poland at the start of the early modern centuries.  It was created by the coronation of the Frankish king Charlemagne as Roman emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in the year 800, thus restoring in their eyes the western Roman Empire that had been leaderless since 476.  Charlemagne's Frankish successor emperors faltered under political and military challenges, and his inheritance was permanently divided in 887.  After 924 the western empire was again without an emperor until the coronation of Otto I, duke of Saxony, on 2 February 962.  This coronation was seen to transfer the Roman imperial office to the heirs of the East Franks, the Germans.  The position of emperor remained among the Germans until the Holy Roman Empire was abolished in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806.  In 1512 the name "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" (Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation) became the official title of the empire, which spanned central Europe between the kingdom of France to the west and the kingdoms of Hungary and Poland to the east.  In the north it was bounded by the Baltic and North Seas and by the Danish kingdom; in the south, it reached to the Alps.  At no time in its long history did the empire possess clearly defined boundaries; its people, perhaps fifteen million in 1500, spoke a variety of languages and dialects.  COPYRIGHT 2004  The Gale Group Inc. 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/german-history/holy-roman-empire

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library continues its "Libraries are Boring" advertisements with a full-page ad in the November 1, 2018 issue of the local paper, The Blade.  Not effective in my opinion.  You Decide! is in small print towards the bottom of the page.

On October 29, 2018, president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stephanie Meeks, issued the following statement on the passing of William J. Murtagh, one of the pioneers of the modern preservation movement.  “Quite simply, historic preservation in America would not be what it is today without the vision, leadership, and extraordinary contributions of Dr. William J. Murtagh.  In many ways, Dr. Murtagh gave preservation in America itself a history.  His thinking and scholarship informed the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which enshrined preservation into federal law, and, with a steady hand and a deep appreciation for international approaches to saving places, he continued to lead the preservation movement in more than five decades since.  Dr. William J. Murtagh was one of the founding members of the U.S. Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) in 1965 and served on its Board of Trustees from 1980 to 1988.  He served as Executive Secretary of Historic Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, a position informed by his dissertation work on German influences on Moravian architecture, and as president of the Victorian Society.  He was a longtime member of the Board of Preservation Virginia and the Preservation Institute:  Nantucket.  He was named a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London.  He taught historic preservation to students at Columbia, the University of Florida, the University of Maryland, and the University of Hawaii.  His 1985 book, Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America, which explores the roots of preservation in the United States, remains one of the foundational texts in our field.  https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-on-the-passing-of-william-j-murtagh-jr#.W9w67NVKiUk

November 4, 2018 - Daylight Saving Time Ends  2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour to 1:00:00 am local standard time instead.  Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.  https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa  See also California voters will get a say on year-round daylight-saving time at https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-voters-will-get-a-say-on-year-round-13035491.php and What happened to year-round Daylight Savings Time in Florida? at https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20180926/what-happened-to-year-round-daylight-savings-time-in-florida  Rep. Jay Trumbull, who represents Bay County in the Florida House said they’re waiting on Washington for the official go-ahead.  Now the "Sunshine Protection Act" goes to Congress and we have a House member and a Senator introduce the same legislation on a federal level.  Alaska and Arizona do not observe Daylight Savings Time.

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1980  November 2, 2018  306th day of the year  Thought for Today  We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air.  That does not fit my definition of a good tenant.  If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. - Rose Bird, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court (2 Nov 1936-1999)