The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within
the Moorilla winery on
the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in
the Southern Hemisphere. MONA houses ancient, modern and contemporary art from
the David Walsh collection.
The precursor to MONA, the Moorilla Museum of Antiquities, was
founded in 2001 by Tasmanian millionaire David Walsh. It closed on 20 May
2006 to undergo $75 million renovations.
The new museum was officially opened on 21 January 2011, coinciding with
the third MOFO festival. The afternoon opening party was attended by 1,350
invited guests. 2,500 members of the
public were selected by random ballot for the evening event which included
performances by The DC3, True Live, The
Scientists of Modern Music, Wire, Health and The Cruel Sea. The
single-storey MONA building appears at street level to be dominated by its
surroundings, but its interior possesses a spiral staircase that
leads down to three larger levels of labyrinthine display spaces built into the
side of the cliffs around Berriedale peninsula. The decision to build it largely underground
was taken, according to Walsh, to preserve the heritage setting of the
two Roy Grounds houses
on the property. Walsh has also said
that he wanted a building that "could sneak up on visitors rather than
broadcast its presence . . . 'a sense of danger' that would enliven the
experience of viewing art". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art
On the evening of December 12, 1829, American lawyer and politician John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr. left his Manhattan hotel to mail a letter at a dock in New York City, never to be seen again. Lansing was 75 years old and was presumed drowned or perhaps murdered; his body was never recovered. His fate was a major mystery in New York State at the time, rivaled only by the disappearance of William Morgan, the anti-Mason writer, in 1826 in upstate New York. In the last century it has become less publicized since the disappearance of New York State Justice Joseph Force Crater in 1930. Only one major clue to Lansing's disappearance has appeared since his death. In 1882 the memoirs of Thurlow Weed, former Whig and Republican political leader in New York State, were published by Weed's grandson T. W. Barnes. Weed wrote that Lansing was murdered by several prominent political and social figures who found he was in the way of their projects. According to Weed, his unnamed source showed him papers to prove it, but begged Weed not to publish them until all the individuals had died. Weed said they were all dead by 1870, but he did not wish to harm their respected family reputations, so upon advice of two friends he decided not to reveal what he had been told. The town of Lansing in New York was named after John Lansing. Lansing, Michigan, was named by settlers who came from Lansing, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lansing_Jr.
How
to not slice your hand open when cutting an avocado 1. Make sure the knife is sharp. 2. Choose a ripe avocado. 3. Glide the knife, rather
than chop, when cutting an avocado. 4.
Take the pit out by
lightly chopping it and twisting it out slowly.
Julie Garcia https://www.chron.com/lifestyle/renew-houston/nutrition/article/How-to-not-slice-your-hand-open-when-cutting-an-14270024.php
Grilled Cheese With Kimchi J. KENJI LÓPEZ-ALThttps://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/04/print/grilled-cheese-with-kimchi-recipe.html yield:
one sandwich time: 12 minutes
Nonsense literature is one
of the great subsets of English literature, and for many of us a piece of
nonsense verse is our first entry into the world of poetry. This post lists ten of the greatest works of
nonsense poetry as selected by Oliver Tearle.
The list includes ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, ‘I Saw a Peacock’, ‘The Great Panjandrum Himself’,
‘The Owl and the Pussycat’,
‘The Dong with the Luminous
Nose’ and ‘The Crocodile’. https://interestingliterature.com/2019/05/10-of-the-best-nonsense-poems-in-english-literature/
Serendipity is the occurrence of an unplanned fortunate discovery. Serendipity is a common occurrence throughout
the history of product invention and scientific discovery. Serendipity is also seen as a potential
design principle for online activities that would present a wide array of
information and viewpoints, rather than just re-enforcing a user's
opinion. The first noted use of
"serendipity" in the English
language was by Horace
Walpole on 28 January 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had
made about a lost painting of Bianca
Cappello by Giorgio
Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes,
he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents
and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of." The name
comes from Serendip, an old name for Sri
Lanka (Ceylon), hence Sarandib by
Arab traders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
The Mascot Hall of Fame, formally
"The Mascot Hall of Fame Interactive Children's Museum", is a hall of fame for United States sports mascots.
It was founded by David Raymond, who was the original Phillie Phanatic from 1978 to 1993. It was founded as an online-only hall, with
an induction ceremony taking place each year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, in September 2014, Raymond's mascot
company signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Whiting, Indiana, to develop a permanent
Mascot Hall of Fame on the south shore of Lake Michigan. The museum opened December 26, 2018. The mission of the Mascot Hall of Fame is to
honor mascot performers, performances, and programs that have positively
affected their communities. The Mascot
Hall of Fame has also partnered with the Boys and
Girls Clubs and holds an online auction contributing to that
cause. The main bulk of the items up for
auction are pieces of signed sports memorabilia donated
by professional sports teams around the nation.
See list of inductees and pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascot_Hall_of_Fame Where: 1851 Front St., Whiting, Indiana Information: 219-354-8814; www.mascothalloffame.com
Sweet
Potato Dessert is a simple baked sweet that uses sweet potatoes, sugar and
butter. It is usually called just “Sweet Potato.” It has been
around over 100 years in Japan. https://www.japanesecooking101.com/sweet-potato-dessert-recipe/ See also https://www.yummly.com/recipes/japanese-sweet-potato
Minatamis Na Kamote Dessert, Filipino
Prep
Time: 10 mins Cook
Time: 50 mins Servings:
6
Ingredients
2 pounds
(about 4 large pieces) Japanese sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch
cubes
2 tablespoons
butter, cubed
1/2
cup brown sugar
1/4
cup orange juice Find instructions and
pictures at https://www.kawalingpinoy.com/minatamis-na-kamote/ Thank you, Muse reader!
The
human body requires a variety of vitamins to function. A healthy diet provides most vitamins that
people need. When diet alone doesn’t
offer enough nutrients, taking vitamin supplements helps to fill in for dietary
shortcomings. Because supplements are
not standardized and regulated as stringently as pharmaceuticals, it can be
difficult to determine the amount of a substance in a specific preparation and
to know an acceptable dosage. Vitamin
supplements may be measured in milligrams, micrograms or international
units. A.P. Mentzer Find how to convert between units at https://sciencing.com/convert-between-iu-mg-mcg-8298314.html
Diana Serra Cary, the child
silent film star known by the nickname Baby Peggy, died February 24,
2020. She was 101. Born on October 29, 1918 as Peggy Jean
Montgomery, Cary began her career in the film industry at the early age of 19
months. During a visit with her mother
and a friend to Century Film Studio in Hollywood, director Fred Fishbach became
impressed with Peggy’s well-mannered behavior that led to her co-starring in
short films. She soon began starring in her own series of films, becoming a
major Hollywood celebrity and appearing in more than 100 shorts. She starred in a short film as Little Red
Riding Hood in 1922 and in Hansel and Gretel in 1923. She starred in five feature-length films
including “Captain January” in 1924 that was later remade as a musical starring
Shirley Temple. Her father, Jack
Montgomery, was a cowboy who worked as a stuntman and an extra in cowboy films.
In 1924, Montgomery got into a pay
dispute with producer Sol Lesser that ended Cary’s contract which also ended
the young actress’ career. Around the
same time her grandfather stole all of the family’s earnings, leaving them
broke. The family gained back their
fortune after touring the country for several years in the late 1920s, but hard
times arose again with the Great Depression.
Several years after returning to Hollywood, Cary changed her name from
Peggy to Diana, after actress Diana Wynyard, and began a career as a magazine
writer and journalist. In 1975, she
began her book-writing career with “The Hollywood Posse,” a novel about the
real cowboys who worked in movies. Her
autobiography, “What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy” was published in 1996 and she
authored her last book, “The Drowning of the Moon,” when she was 99. Klaritza Rico https://variety.com/2020/film/news/baby-peggy-diana-serra-cary-dies-dead-1203514069/
FEBRUARY 26 BIRTHDAYS 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet
and translator (d. 1593), 1584 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1666),
1587 – Stefano Landi,
Italian composer and educator (d. 1639) Wikipedia
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