Joy Young Rogers (August 14, 1891–December 10, 1953) was an American suffragist.   She served as an assistant editor of The Suffragist.  On May 1, 1916, she delivered a basket of flowers to President Woodrow Wilson, which also contained a request for a suffrage amendment and pro-suffrage messages from women from the western half of America.  She was arrested on July 4, 1917 with Lucy Burns and others, for protesting in front of the White House.  Rogers was on the staff of The Suffragist and was an organizer for the National Woman's Party.  Her sister, Matilda Young, was also an active suffragist.   See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Young_Rogers

Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves."  The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

Covering an area of 209,256km2--5 times the size of Switzerland and larger than the Alps--the Carpathian Mountains are home to 18 million people.  For centuries, the Carpathians have provided a home to diverse nationalities and ethnic groups--people separated by different languages, dialects and traditions, but bound together by a highland way of life and a sense of shared hardships.  The name for the Carpathians is derived from the ancient Greek ‘Karpat-Heros’ tribes who inhabited the South Carpathians some 2,000 years ago.  Since then, waves of people--Romans, Goths, Avars, Slavs, and Magyars, to name a few--have claimed the land as their own.  The area receives twice the rainfall of surrounding regions and feeds the major rivers, the Danube and Vistula, through to the Black and Baltic Seas.  More than 80% of Romania’s water supply (excluding the Danube), 40% of Ukraine’s supply and one third of the outflow of the Vistula originate directly from the Carpathians.  https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/black_sea_basin/danube_carpathian/our_solutions/wilderness_protected_areas/carpathians/  See also https://rolandia.eu/en/blog/discover-romania/the-carpathian-mountains and https://karniaruthenia.miraheze.org/wiki/Carpathia 

Dušan Simić (born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.  He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963–1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues.  He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic  

Prospero is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.  Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins.  Prospero and Miranda had survived and found exile on a small island.  He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters.  Before the play has begun, Prospero has freed the magical spirit Ariel from entrapment within "a cloven pine".  Prospero then takes Ariel as a slave.  Prospero's sorcery is sufficiently powerful to control Ariel and other spirits, as well as to alter weather and even raise the dead.  See uses in popular culture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero  Prospero Books is the bookstore in The Bookshop of Yesterdays.

Normally, singing was an essential ingredient in any recipe.  *  The law’s a profession of the written word.  *  The Bookshop of Yesterdays, a novel by Amy Meyerson. 

In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.  The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875.  The Triple Crown Trophy, commissioned in 1950 but awarded to all previous winners as well as those after 1950, is awarded to a horse who wins all three races and is thereafter designated as a Triple Crown winner.  The races are traditionally run in May and early June of each year, although global events have resulted in schedule adjustments, such as in 1945 and 2020.  The first winner of all three Triple Crown races was Sir Barton in 1919.  Some journalists began using the term Triple Crown to refer to the three races as early as 1923, but it was not until Gallant Fox won the three events in 1930 that Charles Hatton of the Daily Racing Form put the term into common use.  The three Triple Crown races had existed long before the series received its name:  the Belmont Stakes was first run in 1867, the Preakness in 1873, and the Kentucky Derby in 1875.  The term “triple crown” was in use at least by 1923, although Daily Racing Form writer Charles Hatton is commonly credited with originating the term in 1930.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing_(United_States)

In the late 1800s, seeds and offshoots of date palms were imported from Egypt, Algeria and the Persian Gulf to the arid Southwest of the United States.  In 1904, the U.S. Department of Agriculture established a date experimental station in the Coachella Valley.  Different date varieties from both seed and offshoot were tried.  In the following decades, crop production grew exponentially from approximately 100,000 pounds in 1919 to 1 million pounds in 1926, and then by 1955 to 48 million pounds of dates being produced in the Coachella Valley.  Ultimately, some 85 percent of the U.S. date acreage was situation in the Coachella Valley and this tremendous output was derived predominately from the 14,000 offshoots of the Deglet Noor variety of date imported from Algeria.  Tracy Conrad  See pictures at https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2018/05/26/date-industry-has-long-and-tasty-history-palm-springs-area/641782002/ 

It is never my custom to use words lightly.  If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die. - Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013) 

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