The Duns Scotus Library at
Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio is named after a 13th century
Franciscan scholar. It has a
collection of over 60,000 volumes. Lourdes University is a member of the
OPAL/OhioLINK, a consortium of universities sharing their
library resources electronically. Students
are encouraged to use the library for individual study and quiet research.
Four study rooms are available
and may be reserved by contacting the library. Laptop computers are available for check
out and can be used on campus. The
second floor of the library contains The Center for Nursing Scholarship. Search books, journals and more by keyword,
title and author. Start your search now. https://www.lourdes.edu/academics/library/ The Duns Scotus Library, completed in 1950,
home to over 60,000 volumes and over 350 paintings and sculptures, is located
on the Franciscan campus, 6832 Convent Blvd, Sylvania, Ohio.
The terms libel and slander mean a false statement made by
one person about another. In libel, the
statement is made in writing. In
slander, the statement is made verbally.
Libel and slander are types of defamation, meaning
a statement that damages the reputation of a person or organization. To qualify as libel or slander, the false
statement must be hurtful and cause harm to the other party. Marianne Bonner https://www.thebalancesmb.com/defamation-libel-and-slander-462650 Slander has to be spoken. Each of these words start with s which is a memory aid.
The Key West Literary
Seminar is a writers' conference and festival held each
January in Key West, Florida. It draws an international audience for
readings, panel discussions, and workshops.
The Seminar was founded in 1983 by
David Kaufelt and his wife Lynn Kaufelt, as a program operated by the Council
for Florida Libraries. The inaugural
event, known as the Key West Literary Tour and Seminar, consisted of readings,
panel discussions, literary walking tours, and cocktail parties. This basic format remains unchanged. In its early years, the Seminar focused on the
literary history of Key West, a small
subtropical town which has been home to Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Tennessee Williams,
among others. Subsequent Seminars have
been devoted to broader genres or literary themes. In 1987, the Seminar incorporated as a 501(c)
(3) tax-exempt corporation, run by a board of directors. Many well-known authors have served on the
Seminar's board of directors, including Judy Blume, Harry Mathews, James Gleick, William Wright, Richard Wilbur, and John Malcolm Brinnin.
An honorary board of directors has
included popular singer Jimmy Buffett, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and writers Annie Dillard, Robert Stone, Alison Lurie, and Joy Williams. The Seminar
was formerly held at the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center at Florida Keys
Community College on Stock Island. Since 1993, events have been held on Duval Street at the San Carlos Institute,
a historic building whose construction was partly funded by the Republic of
Cuba during the 1920s. The seminar
begins each year with the John Hersey Memorial Address and features a series of
receptions at notable Key West locations.
Through their website, the Seminar offers audio recordings of past
events, biographies of past and forthcoming speakers, and information about Key
West's literary history. Find Key West Literary Seminar themes by year beginning in
1983 at
The
prefix (proto-) means before, primary, first, primitive, or original. It is
derived from the Greek prôtos meaning
first. Find examples at https://www.thoughtco.com/biology-prefixes-and-suffixes-proto-373789
True blue, meaning faithful and steadfast, comes from the
color of a fabric manufactured in Coventry, England during the Middle Ages. The cloth had a reputation for having a
durable blue dye which resisted fading. Blue
ribbon originally referred to the ribbon worn below the left knee of a
fourteenth-century British knight who had been admitted into the Most Noble
Order of the Garter. Read more and see
graphics at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/8/4/1116727/-Origins-of-English-Blue
Lydia Davis: Ten of My
Recommendations for Good Writing Habits Adapted
from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One. The following are just my personal pieces of
advice. They won’t be the same as
someone else’s, and they may not fit your life or practice, but maybe you’ll
pick up something useful. Take notes
regularly, observe, revise. Find more
ideas at https://lithub.com/lydia-davis-ten-of-my-recommendations-for-good-writing-habits/
Perhaps, in the far
distant back of times, man in his need to somewhat quantify what he had collected
to survive (animals or plants or fruits), needed to count, and his own fingers
and toes became a good first instrument always available, so that easily got to
20 units. Obviously a true digital
devise, the abacus (plural abaci or abacuses) is a counting frame tool that was
used in Europe, China, and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written
numeral system. Its exact origin is
unknown. Today, it is more of a toy or a
curiosity adorning perhaps a furniture in a living room. Several eminent figures in science
contributed to the creation or invention of the slide rule, including Galileo
Galilei (1564–1642), condemned by the church of those times. John Napier de Merchiston (1550–1617), a
Scottish mathematician recognized for being the first in defining logarithms,
produced the essential concept backing up the slide rule. Sir Isaac Newton
(1643–1727) and other prominent scientists, such as Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
(1777–1885), mathematician, physicist, and astronomer; James Watt (1736–1819),
Scottish engineer; and Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), were part of the group,
too. Max Valentinuzzi https://pulse.embs.org/may-2019/the-slide-rule/
mutograph noun A device for taking a series of photographs of successive positions
of a moving object, the results being viewed by means of a mutoscope. Origin: Late 19th century; earliest
use found in Scientific American. From
muto- + -graph https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/mutograph
Indigenous
people believe that volcanoes are living organisms, and with their help the
earth communicates with us, showing us their approval (or vice versa). It so happened that 15 June 2017 year, on the
opening day of "Vulcanarium Volcanoes Museum in Kamchatka",
several Kamchatka volcanoes revived at once. At first Shiveluch threw the ash column at a
height of 9000 meters, apparently giving his consent and taking a new volcano
into his big family. Following him, on
the same day, he threw out the ashes of the Klyuchevskaya volcano, and the next
day--the Nameless Volcano. Two not
indifferent, creative people, enthusiasts, lovers of Kamchatka--Samoilenko
Sergey Borisovich and Alena Alexandrovna--made great efforts to do something
similar and close to real volcanoes. Sergey
Borisovich--the founder of the Museum, was born and raised in Kamchatka. There are two museums in Kamchatka that tell
in detail about volcanoes: KGBU
Kamchatka Regional Joint Museum (Local History) and the Scientific Museum of
the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. The Scientific
Museum of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is a laboratory, a unit
that holds a unique volcanological collection, invaluable to scientists, but
which can share it only with a small number of people. https://www.eastrussia.ru/en/material/vulkanarium-na-kamchatke/
WORD OF THE DAY for
December 10 gylany noun A social system based
on equality of women and men. December 10 is Human
Rights Day, recognized by the United
Nations to emphasize the importance of human
rights and to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the first global enunciation of such rights, on this day in
1948. Wiktionary
Merriam-Webster: Non-binary pronoun 'they' is word of year The US dictionary also recently added a new
definition of "they", reflecting its use as a singular personal
pronoun for non-binary people. Searches
for "they" on Merriam-Webster's website were 313% higher this year
than they were in 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50735371
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