An unexpected person has spoken up or arrived on the scene, as in Jane's cousin from California decided to contest the will—another county heard from.  This idiom originally alluded to the counting of returns on election night; it appears in that context in Clifford Odets's play, Awake and Sing (1931).  However, it may echo the much older phrase, another Richmond in the field, alluding to Henry of Richmond (later Henry VII of England), chronicled in Shakespeare's Richard III (5:4):  “I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today.”  Whatever the origin, today it simply refers to an unforeseen participant or attender.  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/another-county-heard-from  See also http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=6416 

Ruby C. Williams, a self-taught artist, minister and farmer whose playful but edgy paintings have hung in galleries across the country, died August 29, 2022.  She began painting signs to sell produce at a small stand off Highway 60, but sometimes painted recurring characters and fanciful creatures.  In the early 1990s, Rodney Hard, a Lakeland-based folk artist and collector, stopped and asked if she'd sell him a painting.  Word spread as art collectors flocked to rural Florida to scoop up paintings with curious quips like "piano playing cow I give better buttermilk" or "I am a sophisticated person."  No matter how famous she got, Williams kept selling cucumbers, watermelon and strawberries.  "You can eat the fruit, but you can't eat the art," she once told a reporter.  Ben Montgomery  https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2022/08/12/ruby-c-williams-death  See also https://www.jtfolkart.com/ruby-c-williams-1 and https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/2022/08/22/farmer-and-folk-artist-ruby-c-williams-ministered-through-her-art/ 

Tolkien is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford.  It is about the early life of English professor J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as notable academic works.  The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, and Derek Jacobi.  Tolkien was released in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2019, and in the United States on May 10, 2019, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and was the first feature film released after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_(film)  See also https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Main_Page   

The Chioggia beet (pronounced kee-OH-gee-uh), also known as the candy cane or candy stripe beet, hails from Chioggia, a town in Northern Italy, and became popular in the 19th century.  This heirloom beet is most notable for its striking deep pink and white spirals, and the beet adds a beautiful pop of color to salads and soups.  https://parade.com/232768/linzlowe/what-the-heck-is-a-chioggia-beet/ 

The whole nine yards  Meaning:  “To do everything you possibly can”  In World War II, fighter pilots were rationed nine yards of ammunition.  If you ran out, it meant you had tried your very best to fight off the target--you used the whole nine yards.  Heard through the grapevine  Meaning:  “To get information indirectly”  The first telegraph stations in the U.S. had twisting, bundling wires that often draped in random patterns around the station.  Both operators and bystanders thought the tangled webs looked like grapevines, giving rise to the common expression.  It was then commemorated in the famous song by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, "Heard It Through the Grapevine."  Find other idioms at https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/the-origin-of-waiting-for-other-shoe-to-drop-15-other-common-idioms.html  

From:  Paul Glover  Subject:  lemmings  For 15 years we raised our family in a homestead in the wilderness of northwest British Columbia, Canada.  Our water was carried by pail from a swift mountain river.  One fall day while fetching water I noticed a small, furry object on the bottom of the stream.  It looked like a mouse. Soon another nearby caught my eye.  Then to my surprise I realized that there were dozens of them within sight.  Walking upstream and downstream revealed hundreds more within a short distance.  Closer examination showed they were lemmings.  The range of brown lemmings (Lemmus trimucronatus) extends down through the mountainous regions of British Columbia.  While lemmings don’t commit mass suicide by leaping from cliffs, they are prompted by population pressure to embark on a mass migration.  When they come to a river or other body of water, they crawl in.  Migrations like this are reported to occur every few years but they vary in size.  AWADmail Issue 1050   

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology).  Classical philology studies classical languages.  Classical philology principally originated from the Library of Pergamum and the Library of Alexandria around the fourth century BCE, continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman/Byzantine Empire.  In the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, the main character, Elwin Ransom, is a philologist–as was Lewis' close friend J. R. R. Tolkien.  Dr. Edward Morbius, one of the main characters in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet, is a philologist.  Philip, the main character of Christopher Hampton's 'bourgeois comedy' The Philanthropist, is a professor of philology in an English university town.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology   

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