The North American cranberry industry has a long and
distinguished history. Native peoples used cranberries as food, in
ceremonies and medicinally.
Revolutionary War veteran Henry Hall planted the first commercial cranberry
beds in Dennis Massachusetts in 1816. https://www.cranberryinstitute.org/about_cran/_aboutcranberries.html
akimbo
(adv., adj.) "with the hands on the
hips and the elbows bent outward at sharp angles," c. 1400, in kenebowe, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle
English phrase in keen bow "at
a sharp angle" (with keen in
its Middle English sense of "sharp" + bow "arch"),
or from a Scandinavian word akin to Icelandic kengboginn "bow-bent,"
but this seems not to have been used in this exact sense. Middle English Dictionary compares Old
French chane/kane/quenne "can, pot, jug." Many languages use a teapot metaphor for
this, such as Modern French faire le pot a deux
anses "to play the pot with two handles." https://www.etymonline.com/word/akimbo
The 'arms akimbo' stance generally indicates that combination of
impatience and defiance which is these days called 'attitude'. That is well
exemplified in this design for a statue of the US politician Barbara
Jordan https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/arms-akimbo.html
Fearless Girl is
a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal, commissioned by State Street
Global Advisors (SSGA) via McCann New York. The statue was originally installed on March
7, 2017, at Bowling Green in
the Financial
District of Manhattan, New York City.
It depicts a girl who, as originally installed, faced the Charging Bull (or Wall Street Bull) statue. Fearless Girl was commissioned to
advertise for an index fund that
comprises gender-diverse companies that have a relatively high percentage of
women among their senior leadership. The
plaque below the statue states:
"Know the power of women in leadership. SHE makes a difference," with
"SHE" being both a descriptive pronoun and the fund's NASDAQ ticker symbol.
It was removed in November 2018 in preparation for relocation to a site
in front of the New York Stock
Exchange. A plaque with
footprints was placed on the original site of Fearless Girl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Girl
The National Comedy Center
in Jamestown, NY was designated the "Official
National Comedy Center of the United States" on March 12, 2019. The Center also operates the Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz Museum, which explores the lives, careers and legacy of the “First
Couple of Comedy,” and the incredible impact they had on the world. For over 25 years, the organization has produced
the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, with performers including Jerry Seinfeld, Amy
Schumer, Jay Leno, Lewis Black, Trevor Noah, Joan Rivers, Ellen DeGeneres, Jim
Gaffigan, Paula Poundstone, Ray Romano, Bob Newhart, and the Smothers
Brothers. The 28th annual Lucille
Ball Comedy Festival in August 2019 will be headlined by Sebastian Maniscalco
and John Mulaney. https://comedycenter.org/national-designation/
Knossos (pronounced Kuh-nuh-SOS) is the ancient Minoan palace and
surrounding city on the island of Crete, sung of by Homer in his Odyssey:
“Among their cities is the great city
of Cnosus, where Minos reigned when nine years old, he that held converse with
great Zeus.” King Minos,
famous for his wisdom and, later, one of the three judges of the dead in the
underworld, would give his name to the people of Knossos and, by extension, the
ancient civilization of Crete:
Minoan. The settlement was
established well before 2000 BCE and was destroyed, most likely by fire (though
some claim a tsunami) c. 1700 BCE.
Knossos has been identified with Plato’s mythical Atlantis from
his dialogues of the Timaeus and Critias
and is also known in myth most famously through the story of Theseus and
the Minotaur. It should be
noted that King Minos’ character in the story, as the king who demands human
sacrifice from Athens, is at odds with other accounts of him as a king of
wisdom and justice who, further, built the first navy and rid the Aegean sea of
pirates. According to the myths
surrounding the early city, King Minos hired the Athenian architect,
mathematician, and inventor Daedelus to design his palace and so cleverly was
it constructed that no one who entered could find their way back out without a
guide. In other versions of this same
story it was not the palace itself which was designed in this way but the labyrinth within
the palace which was built to house the half-man/half-bull the Minotaur. In order to keep Daedelus from telling the
secrets of the palace, Minos locked him and his son Icarus in a high tower at
Knossos and kept them prisoner. Daedelus
fashioned wings made of wax and bird's feathers for himself and his son,
however, and escaped their prison but Icarus, flying too close to the sun,
melted his wings and fell to his death. Joshua J. Mark https://www.ancient.eu/knossos/
British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941), best known for his excavation and
reconstruction of the Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete, spent a
considerable amount of his life in Oxford, England, where he was Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum (which now houses his archive and a collection of finds from
Knossos). Evans built a large house,
called Youlbury which no longer exists.
Much of the former grounds is now a Scout Camp. The public can still visit Jam Mound Wild
Garden. Anna P. Judson https://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/arthur-evans-gardens/ Find a picture of Youlbury House at http://johnevans.ashmolean.org/evans/arthur-evans.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2090
May 1, 2019
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