At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier.  The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 60 working days, including seven Saturdays.  A day earlier, Senate whips Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), the bill's floor managers, concluded they had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate.  The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.  As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber.  With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.  Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition.  Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence.  Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come."  He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment.  It will not be stayed or denied.  It is here!"  Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill.  And only five times in the 47 years since the cloture rule was established had the Senate agreed to cloture for any measure.  https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/civil-rights-filibuster-ended.htm  

The record-long filibuster is the 1957 talkfest by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.  He lasted for 24 hours, 18 minutes.  There is an argument to be made, Constitution Daily says, that Thurmond isn't the true record holder.  Later, Thurmond would switch to the Republican Party.  In 1953, Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse (then a Republican) lasted 22 hours, 26 minutes.  https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173736882/how-did-strom-thurmond-last-through-his-24-hour-filibuster 

All beers, no matter how great or small, are made from a basic combination of water, malts, hops, and yeast.  So then what really distinguishes an ale from a lager?  The difference is yeast.  Not whether or not it’s used, but the specific type.  Here’s what you can expect when it comes to drinking these two classic brews.  Ales are brewed with a top-fermenting yeast that thrives at mid-range room temperatures.  For this reason, ales are typically stored between 60° and 75° Fahrenheit during the fermentation stage.  This type of yeast and the fermentation temperature tend to give ales a fruitier and spicier flavor than lagers.  In general, ales are more robust and complex.  Common styles of ale include pale ale, India pale ale, amber ale, porters, and stouts.  By contrast, lagers are made with bottom-fermenting yeast that work best at cooler temperatures, between 35° and 55° Fahrenheit.  Fermentation happens more slowly and the beer is more stable, so it can be stored (or “lagered”) for longer than ales.  This yeast tends to have less presence in the finished beer.  As compared to ales, lagers have a cleaner and crisper quality with emphasis on the hops and malt flavors.  The lager family includes pilsners, bocks, and dunkels.  Emma Christensen  https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-ale-vs-la-131805  

Googie architecture is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age.  It originated in Southern California with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular nationwide from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s.  Googie-themed architecture was popular among motels, coffee houses and gas stations.  The term Googie comes from the now-defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood designed by John Lautner.  Similar architectural styles are also referred to as Populuxe or Doo Wop.   Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon.  Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs symbolic of motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, diagrammatic atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif.  These stylistic conventions represented American society's fascination with Space Age themes and marketing emphasis on futuristic designs.  As with the Art Deco style of the 1910s–1930s, Googie became less valued as time passed, and many buildings in this style have been destroyed.  Some examples have been preserved, though, such as the oldest McDonald's stand (located in Downey, California).  The origin of the name Googie dates to 1949, when architect John Lautner designed the Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood, which had distinct architectural characteristics.  The name "Googie" had been a family nickname of Lillian K. Burton, the wife of the restaurant's original owner, Mortimer C. Burton.  Googies was located at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles but was demolished in 1989.  The name Googie became a rubric for the architectural style when editor Douglas Haskell of House and Home magazine and architectural photographer Julius Shulman were driving through Los Angeles one day.  Haskell insisted on stopping the car upon seeing Googies and proclaimed "This is Googie architecture.”  He popularized the name after an article he wrote appeared in a 1952 edition of House and Home magazine.  See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture

HOW ELIZABETH’S BIG HOUSES LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR IRISH DOMESTIC NOIR by Sarah Stewart Taylor   “After the Bentley murder, Rose Hill stood empty two years.”  I read the first line of the great Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen’s 1934 short story The Cat Jumps late one January night almost exactly sixty years after it was written, lying on my stomach on the floor of the University College Dublin library.  I was working as a live-in au pair for a family who lived nearby—an American raised on Long Island, I had moved to Dublin somewhat impulsively the previous summer—and many evenings, after I was off duty, I’d walk to the library and pull books at random off the shelves, flopping in a corner to inhale as many words as I could before I had to walk home.  I’d just graduated from college at home in the States and after four years of curriculum reading for my English Literature major, I reveled in reading exactly what I wanted, finishing or not finishing a book as my whim took me:  Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale, Cormac McCarthy, Roddy Doyle, Frank O’Connor, Steinbeck, John Irving, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen.  I obsessively re-read Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.  And I discovered Elizabeth Bowen.  Rose Hill, the English countryside house at the center of The Cat Jumps, was, we learn, the site of a terrible murder, the details kept tantalizingly vague.   Bowen was a lifelong fan of detective fiction.  As a child, she loved H. Rider Haggard’s She, Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, and E. Nesbit’s books for children, which contain both mystery and supernatural elements.  In the 1946 essay Out of a Book, she writes that “books introduced me to, and magnified, desire and danger.  They represented life, with a conclusiveness I had no reason to challenge, as an affair of mysteries and attractions, in which each object or place or face was in itself a volume of promises and deceptions, and in which nothing was impossible.”   https://crimereads.com/elizabeth-bowen-irish-domestic-noir/

Find the criteria for being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a list of 34 new locations at https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/unesco-world-heritage-list-2021/index.html  Francesca Street  See also https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ 

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