Robert
Goodloe Harper (1765–1825),
a Federalist, was a member of
the United
States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in
December of the same year. He also
served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina (1795–1801), and in the Maryland
State Senate. He is best remembered for the phrase,
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" in
connection with the XYZ Affair. The town
of Harper,
Liberia is named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goodloe_Harper Charles Cotesworth Pinckney is also credited
for the phrase "Millions for defense, but not one cent for
tribute."
German
Crown Cake (Frankfurter Kranz) Recipe by Jennifer McGavin The German Frankfurter
kranz has nothing to do with sausages. It is a cake developed by an unknown master
baker in 1735. It symbolizes a crown
with the golden croquant around the outside and the jewel-like cherries as
decoration. Frankfurt was seen as the
crown city of the German Empire for many years, hence the name of this
dessert. Frankfurter
Kranz takes a little time to make, but it's one of the easiest German
cakes for a beginner. Croquant, or krokant in
German, is a nut brittle made with chopped hazelnuts or almonds. It also can be made with any nuts you have on
hand that you like including peanuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, or walnuts. The nuts can be raw or roasted. Usually, they are blanched and the skins
removed. https://www.thespruceeats.com/recipe-for-the-famous-frankfurter-kranz-1446631 See
images of Crown Cakes at https://www.bing.com/discover/crown-cake
interloper noun 1590s, enterloper,
"unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered
companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between"
+ -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer,"
also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those
who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps from a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from
Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to
leap" (see leap (v.)). OED says Dutch enterlooper "a
coasting vessel; a smuggler" is later than the English word and said by
Dutch sources to be from English.
General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/interloper
Vermont was the first state to join the union outside
of the original thirteen colonies,
although in a sense they were always a part of the federal union. The territory of present-day Vermont was
previously divided among the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and
New York. The first newspaper in
Vermont was the “Vermont Gazette, and Green Mountain Post-Boy”
done in Westminster, first published on February 12, 1781. Only one of this issue exists and is in the
Vermont Historical Society. Its first
newspaper began later than all of the other first newspapers of the original 13
states. The weekly newspaper only lasted
until 1783, published by Judah Spooner and Timothy Green, the latter of the
famous family of printers from New England.
It is notable that Vermont’s first newspaper was printed on the famous
“Daye Press”, brought from England by Stephen Daye in 1638 and set up in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. The press came
into the possession of Harvard College in 1656, and in 1714 it became the
property of Timothy Greene, who took it to New London, Conn., later set up in
Norwich, Conn. by Alden Spooner, and in 1781 it was moved to Westminster,
Vermont. The second newspaper in Vermont
was founded on August 7, 1783 titled the “Vermont Journal & the
Universal Advertiser” printed in Windsor by the partnership of
Alden Spooner and George Hough. The
newspaper continued publishing into the 20th century. Other 18th century Vermont titles included “Herald of
Vermont“, Rutland, 1792; “Rutland Herald“,
1794; “Fair Haven Gazette“, 1795; “Farmer’s
Library“, Fair Haven, 1795; “Burlington Mercury“,
1796; and “Federal Galaxy“, Brattleboro, 1797. Tim Hughes
http://blog.rarenewspapers.com/?p=5025
The 16th Paris arrondissement is found on the southwest corner of the city.
The pleasant, mainly residential neighborhoods found here include Passy and
Auteuil and Trocadero. They are the
wealthy areas of Paris. The 16th is the
most posh of Paris arrondissements. If you want to see how well-off
Parisians live, it's worth a Metro ride to Passy. You'll be rewarded with an enclave of narrow
streets with some of the best luxury food shopping in Paris. Its administrative area is very large, since
it also takes in the many hectares of the Bois de Boulogne. Link to a large map of the Paris
arrondissements at https://www.parisinsidersguide.com/16th-arrondissement-paris.html
During the nineteenth century—an expanse of time that saw the
elevation of landscape painting to a point of national pride—Thomas Cole
reigned supreme as the undisputed leader of the Hudson River School of
landscape painters. Cole worked briefly
in Ohio as an itinerant portraitist, but returned to Philadelphia in 1823 at
the age of 22 to pursue art instruction that was then unavailable in Ohio. Two
years later, Cole moved to New York City where he exchanged his aspirations of
painting large-scale historical compositions for the more reasonable artistic
goal of completing landscapes. Cole found quick success in New York
City. In the year of his arrival, 1825, John Trumbull, the patriarch of
American portraiture and history painting, and the president of the American
Academy of Design "discovered" Cole, and the older artist made
it an immediate goal to promote the talented landscape painter. In the
months to follow, Trumbull introduced Cole to many of the wealthy and prominent
men who would become his most influential patrons in the decades to
follow. One such man was Luman Reed, an affluent merchant who, in 1836,
commissioned Cole to paint the five-canvas series The Course of Empire. Cole’s
1836 masterwork, A View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton,
Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, a painting that is
generally known as The Oxbow.
Read much more and see graphics at https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/cole-the-oxbow
Abraham
Lincoln (February 12,
1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 16th president of the
United States from 1861 until his
assassination in April 1865. Lincoln
led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional,
and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal
government, and modernized the economy. See extensive
article and many graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
Culinary biography puts Abraham Lincoln in the kitchen
abraham
lincoln apple bread pudding
How to Eat Like Abe
Lincoln (It Involves a Lot of Dessert)
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2041
February 12, 2019
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