September 13, 2019   Researchers uncovered traces of a lost continent that disappeared under what is today Europe about 120 million years ago.  Geologists have seen hints of the continent, dubbed Greater Adria, for years.  But the Mediterranean area is incredibly complicated, so piecing together its history took a decade of academic detective work.  “The Mediterranean region is quite simply a geological mess,” geologist Douwe van Hinsbergen of Utrecht University, first author of the study in Gondwana Research says.  “Everything is curved, broken, and stacked.”  The story that the rocks tell begins on the supercontinent Gondwana, which would eventually split into Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica and India.  Greater Adria broke away from the mother continent about 240 million years ago, beginning a slow drift northward.  Roughly 140 million years ago, it was about the size of Greenland, mostly submerged in a tropical sea, collecting sediment that hardened into rock.  Then, roughly 100 to 120 million years ago, it hit the southern edge of future Europe, spinning counterclockwise and moving at about 3 to 4 centimeters per year.  As Robin George Andrews at National Geographic reports, the destruction of Greater Adria was complex.  It hit several subduction zones, or areas where tectonic plates meet.  In this case, the Greater Adria plate was trumped by the European plate, and most of it dove down into Earth’s mantle.  The overlying plate scraped the top layers of Great Adria off.  That debris eventually formed mountain ranges in Italy, Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and in the Alps.  A few bits of Greater Adria escaped the plunge into the mantle and still exist in Italy and Croatia.  Jason Daley   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-reveals-lost-continent-demolished-europe-180973120/



It’s a simple sheet-pan chicken, joining the many thousands of weeknight recipes that exist in which you cook chicken by roasting it on a sheet pan.  Pour a mixture of olive oil, raw garlic, crushed briny olives and a little bit of water and use a spatula to scrape up all the goods, making a rich, tangy, decidedly schmaltzy sauce to pour over the chicken.  The first time I did this, I wondered if they gave out Pulitzer Prizes for chicken recipes.  Alison Roman  See picture at http://moneyrf.com/do-they-give-out-pulitzers-for-chicken-recipes/
  

Her long German shepherd nose had more than two hundred twenty-five million scent receptors.  This was as many as a beagle, forty-five times more than the man, and was bettered only by a few of her hound cousins.  A full eighth of her brain was devoted to her nose, giving her a sense of smell ten thousand times better than the sleeping man’s, and more sensitive than any scientific device.  *  Air dogs excelled at tracking scents in the air.  Ground dogs like beagles and bloodhounds worked best tracking scents close to or on the ground.  *  Suspect, a novel by Robert Crais



Robert Crais biography  author, born c. 1954, in Louisiana; married Pat (a child therapist); children, one daughter, attended Louisiana State University.  contact:  Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020  e-mail:  robert@robertcrais.com   Although Robert Crais (rhymes with grace) is best known as the author of a series of best-selling mystery novels, he began his career as a writer for television.  While continuing to pen television episodes, as well as the occasional pilot, movie, and miniseries, Crais began writing mystery novels featuring Elvis Cole, a private investigator based in Los Angeles.  By the early 2000s, Crais had branched out into novels such as Demolition Angel and Hostage that featured other characters besides Cole.  His novels have been translated into more than 36 languages.  Christopher Moore of the Press called them "taut, hard-edged, and critically acclaimed thrillers which [have] captured the public's imagination."  Crais was raised as an only child in Baton Rouge where his father worked at an Exxon refinery.  Many members of Crais' extended family worked as police officers and employees of oil refineries.  As a child, he liked to read and draw comic books, and he also made amateur movies with his friends.  When he was 15 years old, Crais' life changed after reading Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister.  Because of this novel, he became interested in being a writer, specifically in crime fiction, and also grew fascinated with Los Angeles.  He told the New Zealand Herald , "I was bowled over by the language, that side of life that Chandler was showing me.  I was from a small town, from a blue-collar working class background, and suddenly I'm reading about LA and the seamy underbelly of life.  And it was a joy to me."  Inspired, Crais soon began writing short fiction.  Over the years, Crais has had multiple offers to turn his Elvis Cole novels into a Hollywood property, such a television series or films.  He was offered total control of the product as well as millions of dollars by various companies.  Crais turned them all down, preferring to keep his most noteworthy creation in the print realm.  He told the Oregonian 's Baker, "I want to encourage reader participation and let people imagine what Elvis looks like.  I've never described his face in any of the books.  Read more and see list of awards  at https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Co-Lh/Crais-Robert.html

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (1770-1831)

                                                                                                                                 

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, often known as G. W. F. Hegel or Georg Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher of the early Modern period.  He was a leading figure in the German Idealism movement in the early 19th Century, although his ideas went far beyond earlier Kantianism, and he founded his own school of Hegelianism.  He has been called the "Aristotle of modern times", and he used his system of dialectics to explain the whole of the history of philosophy, science, art, politics and religion.  Despite charges of obscurantism and "pseudo-philosophy", Hegel is often considered the summit of early 19th Century German thought.  Read much more at https://www.philosophybasics.com/philosophers_hegel.html



Calash, also called calèche, or barouche, (from Czech kolesa: “wheels”), any of various open carriages, with facing passenger seats and an elevated coachman’s seat joined to the front of the shallow body, which somewhat resembled a small boat.  A characteristic falling hood over the rear seat gave the name calash to any folding carriage top.  Most of the vehicles had four wheels, but some had two.  A type used especially in Quebec was two wheeled, with one forward-facing seat, and a driver’s seat on the splashboard.  Other types were almost identical to chaises and victorias.  https://www.britannica.com/technology/calash-carriage



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banco  noun of a coin, note, or unit of value : issued or used by a bank at the time of a depreciated government currency : an announcement by a bettor in certain gambling games (such as baccarat or chemin-de-fer) signifying that the bettor elects to accept alone the entire sum offered by the banker to meet the bets of all bettors—often used interjectionally : a portion of the floodplain or channel of a river cut off and left dry by the shifting of its course  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banco  See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banco and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco



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