Hamlet, in full Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, was written about 1599–1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from an unauthorized text, with reference to an earlier play.  The First Folio version was taken from a second quarto of 1604 that was based on Shakespeare’s own papers with some annotations by the bookkeeper.  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamlet-by-Shakespeare

Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.  He is chief counsellor of the play's villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia.  Generally regarded as wrong in every judgment he makes over the course of the play,  Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1 Scene 3 ("Neither a borrower nor a lender be"; "To thine own self be true") and Act 2 Scene 2 ("Brevity is the soul of wit"; and "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") while others have become paraphrased aphorisms ("Clothes make the man"; "Old friends are the best friends").  Also, the line he speaks when he is killed by Hamlet in Act 3 scene 4 ("Oh, I am slain!") has been subject to parody and ridicule due to its obviousness.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonius 

Making white soup from Pride and Prejudice makes you have a real appreciation for the amount of effort that went into cooking in Jane Austen’s era.  See recipe and link to other literary recipes at  https://www.inliterature.net/food-in-literature/main-meals/soup/2017/07/pride-and-prejudice-white-soup.html  recipe adapted from John Farley’s London Art of Cooking (1783) using notes by Julie Sikkink from the website Republic of Pemberley 

A red carpet is traditionally used to mark the route taken by heads of state on ceremonial and formal occasions, and has in recent decades been extended to use by VIPs and celebrities at formal events.  The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC.  When the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his wife Clytemnestra who offers him a red path to walk upon:  Now, dearest husband, come, step from your chariot.  But do not set to earth, my lord, the conquering foot That trod down Troy.  Servants, do as you have been bidden; Make haste, carpet his way with crimson tapestries, Spread silk before your master’s feet; Justice herself Shall lead him to a home he never hoped to see.  Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973  Carpeting in other colors may replace red in some instances to honor a certain cause or for a sponsored event, the sponsor's logo colors, such as a "green carpet" to promote environmental awareness, or for the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, an orange carpet is used instead to go with the network's primary imaging color.  MTV uses a blue colored carpet for their Video Music Awards  The premiere of the film Detective Pikachu used a yellow carpet to match the color of the lead character.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_carpet 

'Get your goat' is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger.  The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:  "Wouldn't that get your goat?  We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again."  The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic.  The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation:  "That had got the chairman's goat!  -  Got his goat?  What expressions they used nowadays!"  https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.html

Food Timeline   Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies?  What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail?  Who invented the potato chip . . . .and why?  Food history presents a fascinating buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts.  Some experts say it's impossible to express this topic in exact timeline format.  They are correct.  Most foods are not invented; they evolve.  Lynne Olver created the Food Timeline in 1999 (see the "about this site" below).  In 2020, Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) collaborated on a plan to offer Virginia Tech as a new home for the physical book collection and the web resource.  Lynne Olver's book collection is joining the more than 5,000 volumes that Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has relating to food and drink history.  We now have more than 7,500 books and 125 manuscripts on aspects of cooking, food, drink, and agricultural history!  https://foodtimeline.org/  See also https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaqindex.html 

It’s been more than 35 years since you published The House on Mango Street.  Why do you think this novel has resonated with so many readers?  I think that I was able to reach non-readers as well as book lovers because it’s a small, slender book.  It doesn’t intimidate non-readers and it’s written in a language that’s very simple.  So even if you grew up in Taipei, Oslo or Chicago, people recognize something of themselves in that story.  It becomes a universal story and that’s what I wanted.  I never say it’s Chicago in the book.  Stephanie Kim  See NPR interview with author Sandra Cisneros at https://www.wbez.org/stories/for-sandra-cisneros-winning-the-prestigious-fuller-award-is-a-reconciliation-with-chicago/7ce43498-2a06-476d-b6fc-1cfc7705fd6a  Sandra Cisneros is the 9th recipient of the Fuller Award, which the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame created to honor the city’s greatest living writers. 

Learn how to make quick pickled red onions in just 30 minutes with just 4 easy ingredients!  posted by Ali  https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/quick-pickled-red-onions/  Thank you, Muse reader! 

Cricket is an illustrated literary magazine for children published in the United States, founded in September 1973 by Marianne Carus whose intent was to create "The New Yorker for children."   Each issue of Cricket is 48 pages.  The magazine is published nine times a year (monthly, with some of the summer months combined) by the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois.  Its target audience is children from 9 to 14 years old.  Cricket publishes original stories, poems, folk tales, articles and illustrations by such notable artists as Trina Schart Hyman, the magazine's art director from 1973 to 1979.  Hyman contributed to the magazine until her death in 2004.  Carus has solicited materials from well-known authors and illustrators, including Lloyd Alexander, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hilary Knight, William Saroyan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric Carle, Stacy Curtis, Wallace Tripp, Charles Ghigna and Paul O. Zelinsky.  Cricket also runs contests and publishes work by its readers.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_(magazine)  Marianne Carus died on March 3, 2121 at the age of 92. 

Capturing panoramas of the Milky Way, the galaxy in which we reside, might seem like a daunting task considering it is, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, about 100,000 light-years across.  But Finnish astrophotographer JP Metsavainio has spent almost 12 years stitching together 234 frames to create a mosaic of 125 degrees of sky.  The panorama, which shows 20 million stars, captures the space between the Taurus and Cygnus constellations and was completed on March 16, 2021.  Eoin McSweeney  See graphics at https://www.cnn.com/style/article/finnish-astrophotographer-milkyway-mosaic-scli-intl/index.html

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