Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family of the suborder Nautilina.  Cephalopods generally are divided into three subclasses:  Ammonoidea (extinct ammonoids), Coleoidea (octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, extinct belemites), and Nautiloidea.  The nautilus is the only extant (living) representatives of the subclass Nautiloidea, a once diverse and abundant group that originated in the Cambrian period 500 million years ago (mya) and flourished during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.  Nautiluses typically have more tentacles and arms than other cephalopods, up to 90, whereas octopuses have eight arms but no tentacles, and squids and the squid-like cuttlefishes have eight arms and two tentacles.  Nautiluses are only found in the Indo-Pacific.  The Nautilus not only plays a role in food chains—using its strong "beak" to consume shrimp, crabs, and fish, and in turn being eaten by fish, sea mammals, octopuses, and so forth—but they also provide aesthetic value for humans.  Their captivating spiral shells, which grow logarithmically, have been featured as decoration and jewelry, and the chambered nautilus is a focal point of works of art and literature, such as a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes and a painting by Andrew Wyeth.  https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nautilus 

The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!  Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,  Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

Read entire poem at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

Does your vote count?  The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer  Ted-Ed  Nov 1, 2012  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468&list=PLmmFnKflufW7J3uy-Bl_Ym2RFg4QZEaCS  

Electoral College - Schoolhouse Rock  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyIFqf3XH24  3:15 

15 Things You Might Not Know About Christina’s World  by Kristy Puchko   Who is the woman in Andrew Wyeth's striking painting Christina's World, and why is she sprawled in a field, looking longingly toward a far-off farmhouse?  For decades, these questions have drawn in viewers, but the true story behind Christina's World makes the 1948 painting even more intriguing.  The 31-year-old Wyeth modeled the painting's frail-looking brunette after his neighbor in South Cushing, Maine.  Anna Christina Olson suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder that prevented her from walking.  Rather than using a wheelchair, Olson crawled around her home and the surrounding grounds, as seen in Christina's World.  Olson's spirit inspired Wyeth's most popular piece.  The neighbors first met in 1939 when Wyeth was just 22 and courting 17-year-old Betsy James, who would later become his wife and muse.  It was James who introduced to Wyeth to the 45-year-old Olson, kicking off a friendship that would last the rest of their lives.  The sight of Olson picking blueberries while crawling through her fields “like a crab on a New England shore” inspired Wyeth to paint Christina’s World.  The concept, title, pink dress, and slim limbs were modeled after Olson, who was in her mid-50s when Christina's World was created.  But Wyeth asked his then 26-year-old wife to sit in as a model for the head and torso.   She was a recurring muse and model for Wyeth, captured in paintings like Miss Olson, Christina Olson, and Anna Christina.  The Olson house has won comparisons to Monet's garden at Giverny because of the plethora of paintings and sketches it inspired.  In the 30 years from their first meeting to Christina's death, Wyeth created over 300 works at the Olson house, thanks to the Olsons allowing him to use their home as his studio.  Explaining the house's hold on him, Wyeth said, "In the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul almost.  To me, each window is a different part of Christina's life."  As part of the Farnsworth Museum, the Olson House was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011.  Down the hill from the Olson house lies a cemetery, where Andrew Wyeth's grave can be found in the family plot of Alvaro and Anna Christina Olson.  Wyeth's tombstone faces up toward the house at an angle that closely resembles that of Christina's World.  According to his surviving family, it was his final wish "to be with Christina."  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64001/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-christinas-world 

Andrew Wyeth was the youngest of the five children of illustrator and artist N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth and his wife, Carolyn Bockius Wyeth.  He was born July 12, 1917, on the 100th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth.  Due to N.C.'s fond appreciation of Henry David Thoreau, he found this both coincidental and exciting.  N.C. was an attentive father, fostering each of the children's interests and talents.  The family was close, spending time reading together, taking walks, fostering "a closeness with nature" and developing a feeling for Wyeth family history.  Andrew was home-tutored because of his frail health.  Like his father, the young Wyeth read and appreciated the poetry of Robert Frost and the writings of Henry David Thoreau and studied their relationships with nature.  Music and movies also heightened his artistic sensitivity.  One major influence, discussed at length by Wyeth himself, was King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925).  He claimed to have seen the film, which depicted family dynamics similar to his own, "a hundred-and-eighty-times" and believed it had the greatest influence on his work.  Vidor later made a documentary, Metaphor, where he and Wyeth discuss the influence of the film on his paintings, including Winter 1946, Snow Flurries, Portrait of Ralph Kline and Afternoon Flight of a Boy up a Tree.  Wyeth's father was the only teacher that he had.  Due to being schooled at home, he led both a sheltered life and one that was "obsessively focused".  Wyeth recalled of that time:  "Pa kept me almost in a jail, just kept me to himself in my own world, and he wouldn't let anyone in on it.  I was almost made to stay in Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest with Maid Marion and the rebels."  N.C. Wyeth was an illustrator known for his work in magazines, posters and advertisements.  He created illustrations for books such as Treasure Island and The Last of the Mohicans.  By the 1920s, Wyeth senior had become a celebrity, and the family often had celebrities as guests, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mary Pickford.  The home bustled with creative activity and competition.  N.C. and Carolyn's five children were all talented.  Henriette Wyeth Hurd, the eldest, became a painter of portraits and still lifes.  Carolyn, the second child, was also a painter.  Nathaniel Wyeth, the third child, was a successful inventor.  Ann was a musician at a young age and became a composer as an adult.  Andrew was the youngest child.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth 

Browse the U.S. Code at https://uscode.house.gov/browse/prelim@title52&edition=prelim  Voting and Elections are in Title 52.  Postal Service is Title 39.  Social Security is in Chapter 7, Title 42.   Find table of contents and index to the Social Security Act at https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/ssact-toc.htm 

LET US CELEBRATE the tenacity of our grandmothers and other fearless women who agitated for the right to vote.  August 18, 2020 is the 100^th anniversary of the adoption of the 19^th Amendment, granting women’s right to vote.  Pay tribute to them by voting in the 2020 election.  THINK BACK to your grandmothers or great-grandmothers.  Were they born before or after August 18, 1920?  VOTE in November 2020 when—if women turn out in great numbers—they should determine the outcome of the presidential election.  

As has been the case in the last five midterm elections dating back to 1998, women turned out to vote at slightly higher rates than men.  Over half of women (55%) who were eligible to vote cast ballots in the 2018 midterms in November, as did 51.8% of men, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.  The 3.2 percentage point gender gap in turnout is similar to the gap in the 2014 (2.2 points), and slightly bigger than the gap in 2010 (less than 1 point).  In 2018, women made up about the same share of the electorate as they did in the previous five midterms; 53% were women and 47% were men.  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/03/in-year-of-record-midterm-turnout-women-continued-to-vote-at-higher-rates-than-men/ 

The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote.  Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation.  Beginning in the mid-19th century, woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered radical change.  Between 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women worked tirelessly, but their strategies varied.  Some tried to pass suffrage acts in each state—nine western states adopted woman suffrage legislation by 1912.  Others challenged male-only voting laws in the courts.  More public tactics included parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes.  Supporters were heckled, jailed, and sometimes physically abused.  By 1916, most of the major suffrage organizations united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment.  When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917, and President Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift.  On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and two weeks later, the Senate followed.  When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment was adopted.  While decades of struggle to include African Americans and other minority women in the promise of voting rights remained, the face of the American electorate had changed forever.  https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/amendment-19 

Congratulate the winners of the 2020 Caty Armstrong Memorial Law Day Essay Contest sponsored by the Toledo Bar Association.  The year's theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our Democracy:  The 19th Amendment at 100.”  First place winners in each division will have their essays published in The Blade and all winners receive a cash prize.  Find names at http://www.findglocal.com/US/Toledo/129790180389277/Toledo-Bar-Association 

Americans across the U.S. sing national anthem to kick off 2020 Democratic National Convention  August 17, 2020  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9oijBHCBv0  2:32

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2244  August 18, 2020