Béarnaise sauce is a sauce made
of clarified
butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a "child" of
the mother Hollandaise
sauce, one of the five mother sauces in the French haute
cuisine repertoire. The difference is only in the flavoring: Béarnaise uses shallot, chervil, peppercorns, and tarragon in a reduction of vinegar and wine, while Hollandaise is more
stripped down, using a reduction of lemon juice or
white wine. The sauce was accidentally invented by the chef Jean-Louis Françoise-Collinet, the accidental inventor of puffed potatoes (pommes de terre soufflées), and
served at the 1836 opening of Le Pavillon Henri IV, a restaurant
at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, not far from Paris. This
assumption is supported by the fact that the restaurant was in the former
residence of Henry IV of France, a gourmet himself, who was from Béarn, a former province now in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in southwestern France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9arnaise_sauce
Names talk. Every baby name choice speaks of parents’
values and dreams. Every personal name
tells a miniature story of culture and identity. And naming patterns, across time and around
the world, speak even louder. They’re a
candid window on society: a fossil record of culture. Namerology.com is the home for name
enthusiasts, and anyone with a naming question that they’d like answered with
an analytical mindset and a positive attitude.
Namerology founder Laura Wattenberg is the author of the Baby
Name Wizard books and the original founder of
BabyNameWizard.com. Her research-based
approach to names, and groundbreaking tools like the NameVoyager grapher and
MatchMaker name finder, have helped change the way the world views baby
names. Namerology, founded in March
2019, is still in its infancy. It will
grow to include new tools and new ways of exploring names. https://namerology.com/about/ See also “Naming a Kid for a Fictional Character Is High Stakes; the Jolenes
and Daeneryses of the world have some baggage to contend with” by Julie Beck at
Mathematics illuminates
the patterns that shape the world around us. Visit the National Museum of
Mathematics and discover a side of math you’ve never seen before. The Museum is located at 11 East 26th Street
in Manhattan and is open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a week, 364 days
a year (MoMath is closed on Thanksgiving Day). MoMath closes early the
first Wednesday of every month, at 2:30 pm.
https://momath.org/visit/ Explore the connection between math and
music; discover how a bicycle with square wheels rides smoothly over a rough
surface; ponder why a pentagon-shaped bathroom sink is more efficient than a
square one; and play with algorithms that make lights change color when you
move your body. You might even discover
the mathematics of language, such as iambic pentameter, the math-structured
pattern of much of our favorite poetry, including rap. Which means there
is a strong math connection to the hit
Broadway show Hamilton.
Opened in 2012, this museum, also known as MoMath, surprisingly
is the only museum in North America dedicated to math. https://www.nyconthecheap.com/2015/08/best-nyc-museums-momath/ This
description of MoMath is excerpted from the article “The Best NYC Museums You
Never Heard Of” written by NYC on the Cheap editor Evelyn Kanter, published in
the May/June 2015 issue of AAA World.
Jonathan Pryce was born on
June 1, 1947 in Holywell, Wales. He is a
two-time Tony and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor of the stage and a
Golden Globe and two-time Emmy-nominated screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his TV role as
The High Sparrow in HBO’s hit series “Game of
Thrones,” as Cardinal Wolsey on the BBC/PBS series “Wolf Hall,” for his film roles in the likes
of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Evita,” “Tomorrow
Never Dies,” “The Wife,” and Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, and for
originating the role of The Engineer in Miss
Saigon in London’s West End and on Broadway. In his early years, John Price (his birth
name) attended Holywell Grammar School in Wales and would eventually begin
training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College in Lancashire, England. After appearing in a college production, his
tutor applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on his behalf and he was awarded
a scholarship. He changed his
professional name to Jonathan Pryce to become a member of Equity (as the name
John Price was already taken) and began his professional career on the British
stage, working at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company (where he would
ultimately become Artistic Director), as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company
and the Nottingham Playhouse.
In
2019, Fraunces Tavern the
oldest standing structure in Manhattan, celebrated its 300th birthday. Built
by the De Lancey family in 1719, 54 Pearl Street has been a private residence,
hotel, and one of the most important taverns of the Revolutionary War. The island of Manhattan was originally
inhabited by the Lenape people. This
matrilineal tribe-like society occupied the lower Hudson River Valley and the
Delaware Valley. The Lenape were skilled
hunters but maintained an agricultural society, planting mostly beans, squash,
and corn. The first contact with
Europeans was in 1524 when Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano
(1485-1528), in the service of the King Francis I of France, explored North
America. The canoeing Lenape encountered
Verrazzano’s ship, La Dauphine, in Lower New York Bay. While investigating the Bay, Verrazzano
documented what he believed to be a lake, which was actually the entrance to
the Hudson River. In 1609, English
explorer Henry Hudson (1560s/70s), was sailing for the Dutch East India
Company, looking for easterly passage to Asia and spent ten days
ascending the River that now bears his name.
His voyage was used to establish Dutch claims to the region. In 1625, New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island
became the capital of New Netherland.
The trading Hudson did with the Lenape people would be the start of the
prosperous fur trade that existed well into the 1800s. Fraunces
Tavern® Museum | Women of the
Revolutionary War Special
Guided Tour (every Saturday and Sunday in March at
1:00pm Explore the incredible,
often overlooked stories of women who played a pivotal role in the
Revolution, including patriotic women fighting for independence, loyalist
women fighting to suppress the rebellion, and African American and Native
American women whose future and security were caught in the cross fire. https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/ The Fraunces Tavern Museum was established in
1907. Samuel Fraunces was born
around 1722. He is first documented in
New York City in 1755 when he registered with the City as a “freeman” and
“innholder.” Fraunces Tavern®
Museum | 54 Pearl Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10004 | 212-425-1778 Monday-Friday 12:00-5:00pm | Saturday &
Sunday 11:00am-5:00pm https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/history
Jason
Segel's Dispatches From Elsewhere Is Based On a Secretive
Real-World Adventure Game by Gabrielle Bruney
Ten years ago,
thousands took to the streets of San Francisco as part of an immersive
alternate reality game. Now, it's the
basis for a new AMC series. But AMC’s
new show, Dispatches From Elsewhere,
doesn’t sound like one of them. It tells
the story of four very different strangers, played by Sally Field, André
Benjamin, newcomer Eve Lindley, and showrunner Jason Segel, who are all thrown
together via a secret scavenger hunt-like game.
In this world, the Jejune Institute, a sort of love child of the DHARMA Initiative and
the Church of Scientology, promises to expand human potential through its
astounding technological advances, like a camera that can take pictures of the
past. Opposing Jejune and its mysterious
leader, Octavio Coleman, Esq. (played by Richard E. Grant), is the Elsewhere
Society, an Occupy-style outsider movement.
The show’s characters are drawn into the world of these dueling and
deeply strange organizations, both of which are on the hunt for long-missing
young woman named Eva. In 2008, flyers very like the ones Peter notices in Dispatches’ premier began popping up around San
Francisco. Whether they advertised a “personal human force field” or a “memory to
media center” able to “render moving video images from your active memory,” all
directed readers to call the Jejune Institute‘s telephone number or visit its
website. Those who did were given
instructions to visit an office building, where they were inducted into the
game via a video featuring a man who claimed to be Jejune founder Octavio
Coleman. From there, participants
embarked on a treasure-hunt like adventure that brought them deep into the
story. It was all part of an elaborate
alternate reality adventure called Games of
Nonchalance, which was created by
Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull. In the
2013 documentary about
the project, The Institute, co-producer
Uriah Finley, described it as, “a game that you play by going out into the city
and doing things, and as you do that you become part of the story that is
unfolding.” Hull said that he wanted the
project to encourage “spontaneity and play into our civic spaces.” To pull off the complicated endeavor, its
creators recruited actors and also involved regular people and
businesses, and hid clues in everyday
objects like street signs, bricks, and pay phones. Before the game ended its three-year run in
2011, more than 7,000 people participated.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a31159284/jason-segel-dispatches-from-elsewhere-jejune-institute-true-story-game/ Principal
photography for the series commenced in the Philadelphia, Upper Darby
Township, Pennsylvania area
in July 2019, with filming also expected to take place in Radnor Township,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Some scenes were shot in the tunnels under Girard
College. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatches_from_Elsewhere
Beginning March 12-20, all
households will begin receiving official Census Bureau mail with detailed
information on how to respond to the 2020 Census. Every person living in the U.S. is required to
complete the census--which can be done by phone, email, traditional mail or in
person. Toledo-Lucas County Public
Library
census noun 1610s, in reference to registration and
taxation in Roman history, from Latin census "the
enrollment of the names and property assessments of all Roman citizens,"
originally past participle of censere "to
assess" (see censor ). The modern use of census as
"official enumeration of the inhabitants of a country or state, with
details" begins in the U.S. (1790), and Revolutionary France (1791). Property for taxation was the primary purpose
in Rome, hence Latin census also was used for
"one's wealth, one's worth, wealthiness." https://www.etymonline.com/word/census
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