January 24, 2019 As Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted
transition into their new offices, more than $100,000 is being spent to update
signs on the Ohio border that reflect a new motto and the administration
change. The Ohio Department of
Transportation oversees 36 road signs on the state’s borders that feature the
names of the governor and lieutenant governor.
In 2015, TourismOhio launched the “Ohio. find it here” rebranding
campaign, which required an update to the border signs. Four signs were upgraded in 2016 with the new
slogan and names of the then-governor and lieutenant governor, John Kasich and
Mary Taylor. The remaining 32 signs were
scheduled to be replaced after an administration change to avoid doing it
twice, according to ODOT spokesman Matt Bruning. “We opted to do it all at once to avoid
having to change out names on new signs,” Bruning stated in an email. The new signs will cost more than $100,000;
TourismOhio will pay more than half of the cost, with ODOT covering the
remainder, Bruning said. The signs, which
replaced the “Welcome to Ohio” signage, are navy blue and feature an orange
outline of the state. The phrase “find
it here” is printed in lowercase above the executive officers’ names. Opinions on the campaign vary; one Twitter
user wrote, “It’s fantastically awful.”
Multiple users questioned whether it was designed by a child, and many
thought it was a joke. The branding
“reinforces, on an emotional level, the joy, happiness, excitement and shared
connections people experience in Ohio,” according to TourismOhio’s
website. However, the campaign’s
intention was lost to some. “Are we
luring people from around the country to Ohio by swiping their stuff and hiding
it somewhere between Conneaut and Cincinnati so they can Find it Here? Is Ohio the end of a scavenger hunt?” one
person tweeted. Maggie Prosser https://www.limaohio.com/news/338407/about-those-100000-new-signs-at-ohios-borders "Find it Here" is a good slogan for
the Library of Congress. Thank you, Muse
reader! A good slogan for any library.
Fascinating Facts about the Library of Congress The Library
was founded in 1800, making it the oldest federal cultural institution in the
nation. On August 24, 1814, British
troops burned the Capitol building (where the Library was housed) and destroyed
the Library's core collection of 3,000 volumes. On January 30, 1815, Congress approved the
purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library of 6,487 books for $23,950. The Library of Congress is the largest
library in the world with more than 168 million items. The Library receives some 15,000 items each
working day and adds approximately 12,000 items to the collections daily. The majority of the collections are received
through the Copyright registration process, as the Library is home to the U.S.
Copyright Office. Materials are also
acquired through gift, purchase, other government agencies (state, local and federal),
Cataloging in Publication (a pre-publication arrangement with publishers) and
exchange with libraries in the United States and abroad. Items not selected for the collections or
other internal purposes are used in the Library’s national and international
exchange programs. Approximately half of
the Library’s book and serial collections are in languages other than English. The collections contain materials in some 470
languages. The Library’s African and
Middle Eastern Division holds 600,000 volumes in the non-Roman script languages
of the region. The Library's Asian
Division collection holds more than 3 million items, the largest assemblage of
Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials outside of Asia, and one of the largest
Tibetan collections in the world. The
Library holds the largest collection of Russian-language materials in the
United States and the largest outside of Russia (more than 750,000 items). The Library’s Iberian, Latin American and
Caribbean collections, comprising more than 10 million items (books, journals,
newspapers, maps, manuscripts, photographs, posters, recordings, sheet music
and other materials) are the largest and most complete in the world. The Law Library of Congress is the world's
largest law library, with more than 2.9 million volumes, including one of the
world's best rare law book collections and the most complete collection of
foreign legal gazettes in the United States. The Law Library contains United States
congressional publications dating back to the nation's founding. The Library holds the largest rare-book
collection in North America (more than 700,000 volumes), including the largest
collection of 15th-century books in the Western Hemisphere. The collection also includes the first book
printed in what is now the United States, “The Bay Psalm Book” (1640). The Library possesses approximately 100
extremely rare children's books, including “The Children's New Play-Thing”
(Philadelphia, 1763) and “The Children's Bible” (Philadelphia, 1763). The smallest book in the Library of Congress
is “Old King Cole.” It is 1/25” x 1/25”, or about the size of the period at the
end of this sentence. The largest book
in the Library of Congress is a 5-by-7 foot book featuring color images of
Bhutan. One of the oldest examples of
printing in the world--passages from a Buddhist sutra, or discourse, printed in
770 A.D.--is housed in the Library’s Asian Division. The oldest written material in the Library is
a cuneiform tablet dating from 2040 B.C.
Foremost among the Manuscript Division's holdings are the papers of 23
presidents, ranging from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. The Gutenberg Bible, one of the treasures of
the Library of Congress, was purchased in 1930. The 15th-century work is one of three perfect
copies on vellum in the world. The
Library's Prints and Photographs Division contains more than 15 million visual
images, including the most comprehensive international collection of posters in
the world, the most comprehensive visual record of the Civil War, and
pioneering documentation of America's historic architecture. More than 1.2 million images are accessible on
the Prints and Photographs online catalog at www.loc.gov/pictures/. The
facility houses 6 million items, including more than 3.6 million sound
recordings and more than 1.8 million film, television and video items,
representing more than a century of audiovisual production. The Library holds the most comprehensive
collection of American music in the world, more than 22 million items including
8.2 million pieces of sheet music. The
collection includes an extensive assemblage of original manuscripts by
composers of the American musical theater and the largest collection of any one
kind of musical instrument (flute) in the world. With more than 6 million items, the Archive
of Folk Culture in the American Folklife Center is the largest repository of
traditional cultural documentation in the United States and one of the largest
in the world. It contains the largest
collection of American Indian music and spoken word, including the earliest
ethnographic field recordings made anywhere in the world. The American Folklife Center administers the
Veterans History Project, which was established by Congress in 2000 to preserve
the reminiscences of the nation’s war veterans. The American Folklife Center also administers
and preserves the StoryCorps project, a nationwide grassroots initiative to
record the oral histories of ordinary citizens.
Since 1931, the Library has provided books to the blind in braille and
on sound recordings. The Library's
Geography and Map Division holds more than 5.6 million items, the world's
largest collection of cartographic materials. It has the largest collection of
fire-insurance maps of cities and towns in the United States, providing
unparalleled coverage of the growth of urban America from the late 19th to the
mid-20th centuries. The collection also
includes the 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, known as "America’s
Birth Certificate," the first document on which the name
"America" appears. The
Library’s general collections contain the largest historical collection of U.S.
telephone criss-cross (phone number and address) and city directories in the
world. The Library acquires more than
8,000 volumes a year and holds more than 124,000 telephone books and
microfilmed city directories from 650 U.S. cities and towns. This vast collection includes historical
foreign telephone books and city directories (almost 1,500 per year received
from more than 100 countries). https://www.loc.gov/about/fascinating-facts/
The words amenitize and pedestrianize have been used since at least 2014.
More than 1.5 million
visitors descend upon Washington, DC each year to admire over 3,000-cherry trees.
The National Cherry Blossom
Festival, running from March 20-April 14, 2019, is full of events that
honor both American and Japanese cultures and represents a close bond forged
between the two countries that began with Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki’s gift of the
trees back in 1912. The first
donation of 2,000 trees, received in 1910, was burned on orders from
President William Howard Taft. Insects and disease had infested the gift,
but after hearing about the plight of the first batch, the Japanese mayor sent
another 3,020 trees to DC two years later.
One of the earliest recorded peak blooms occurred on March 15, 1990,
while the latest recorded peak bloom occurred on April 18, 1958. The majority of the cherry blossom trees
around the Tidal Basin are of the Yoshino variety. But another species,
the Kwanzan, usually blooms two weeks after the Yoshino trees, giving visitors
a second chance to catch the blossoms.
In a ceremony on March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda,
wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two of these trees on the north
bank of the Tidal Basin in West
Potomac Park. At the end of the
ceremony, the First Lady presented Viscountess Chinda with a bouquet of 'American Beauty' roses. These two trees still stand at the terminus of
17th Street Southwest, marked by a large plaque. By 1915, the United States
government had responded with a gift of flowering dogwood trees
to the people of Japan. From 1913 to
1920, trees of the Somei-Yoshino variety, which comprised 1800 of the
gift, were planted around the Tidal Basin. Trees of the other 11 cultivars, and the
remaining Yoshinos, were planted in East Potomac Park. In 1927, a group of American school children
re-enacted the initial planting. This
event is recognized as the first D.C. cherry blossom festival. In 1934,
the District of Columbia Commissioners sponsored a three-day celebration of the
flowering cherry trees. The Japanese gave 3,800 more Yoshino trees in 1965,
which were accepted by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. These trees were grown in the
United States and many were planted on the grounds of the Washington Monument. For the
occasion, the First Lady and Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of the Japanese ambassador,
reenacted the 1912 planting. In 1982,
Japanese horticulturalists took cuttings from Yoshino trees in Washington,
D.C., to replace cherry trees that had been destroyed in a flood in Japan. From 1986 to 1988, 676 cherry trees were
planted using $101,000 in private funds
donated to the National Park Service to restore the trees to the number at the
time of the original gift.
On August 24, 1814, an invading British army set fire
to the White House, Capitol, and other public Washington, D.C. buildings in retaliation for an American attack on the Canadian
capital, York, the year prior. President James and
First Lady Dolley
Madison fled the attack, seeking safety in Leesburg, Virginia,
and later Brookeville, Maryland. Upon
their return to Washington a few weeks later, with the White House destroyed,
the First Family needed another place to stay.
The Madisons found the Octagon
House, likely spared from British flames because of the tricolor
flag its resident, French Minister Louis Serrurier, flew. This unique Federalist-style home was
completed in 1800, and was one of the grandest townhouses in the nation at the
time. Although the Madisons were offered use of several homes, the Octagon
House was nearby and met their needs, becoming the temporary White House when
they moved in on September 8, 1814. Presidential
life quickly resumed a normal pace, although wartime anxieties cast a pall over
social gatherings. The Madisons
maintained their living quarters on the second floor, in the southeast suite,
which consisted of a small vestibule, a large bedroom with a fireplace, and a
smaller dressing room. The President
used the adjoining circular tower room as a study and at least some of the time
as a meeting place for his Cabinet. This was where the Treaty of Ghent was
signed on February 17, 1815 before being sent to Congress for ratification,
ending the War of 1812. This masterpiece
of late Federalist architecture features Coade stone decorative
elements imported from England, as well as local construction materials. The Octagon House became the home of the
American Institute of Architects in 1899, and has been in their care ever
since. https://www.nps.gov/places/octagon-house.htm
"There's no such thing as a bad egg." Jacques
Pepin March 24, 2019 op-ed in The
Washington Post Passion for food helped
his family survive hard times during post-world War II France.
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