Thousands of buns signed by celebrities, line the walls of Tony Packo's Restaurant in Toledo, and it was Burt Reynolds who signed the first one and started the tradition.  That original bun didn't hold up, but Reynolds returned to sign a couple more longer-lasting foam buns.  Amanda Fay https://www.wtol.com/article/news/tony-packos-remembers-burt-reynolds-who-began-bun-signing-tradition/512-b3c0a4d7-fbc2-4622-877a-99a2fcd1ae12 

Earnshaw’s Infants’ Department in 1918, stated, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls.”  Their reasoning?  “Pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”  From infancy to adulthood, how did pink itself become decidedly feminine?  This seemed to occur around the time of the 1950s when advertisers began to sell everything—from shampoo to kitchen appliances to fashion—specifically to housewives and in the color pink.  Though women fought back against this gendered stereotype in the 1960s, it returned with a vengeance in the 1980s.  Julia Tilford  https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/baby-gender-color/  Thank you, Muse reader! 

higgledy-piggledy  adjective, adverb, noun  In a confused, disordered, or random way. A reduplicated rhyming compound.  The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to pig, since the animals huddle in irregular groups, but notes that the connection is uncertain.  Attested since the late sixteenth century.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/higgledy-piggledy 

Kadupul Flower--The Most Expensive Flower in the World--Why?  Because it’s priceless!  This floral specie is so expensive; it bears no price tag in contrast to other beautiful flowers.  The reason for this is because the moment it is picked, it quite often dies.  Due to its cactus roots, each and every Kadupul flower has an extremely short lifespan and is only able to survive the night, before it fades to nothing at dawn.  Despite this, the Kadupul’s fragrance is celebrated worldwide for its calming qualities.  Often nicknamed the Flower from Heaven, the Queen of the Night or the Dutchman’s pipe, this species of cactus is one of the most cultivated in the genus.  https://www.jigidi.com/jigsaw-puzzle/ksgmup25/kadupul-flower/ 

From:  Henry M. Willis  Mudlarks were mostly boys who scavenged for anything that could be found on the banks of the Thames, among the muck--a term that covers not just mud but anything else that a river that served as London’s sewer for centuries might carry.  There’s a wonderful film from 72 years ago The Mudlark about a mudlark who steals into Windsor Castle.  It’s all a fairytale, of course, but it features Sir Alec Guinness, as Disraeli, delivering a powerful speech on the injustices we are told to accept as simply part of life, as if they were unchangeable.  By all means see the whole movie, but if you can’t find it enjoy this clip (8 min.).  AWADmail issue 1057  

Developer Harry Macklowe recently unveiled one of Manhattan’s latest trophy residential buildings, One Wall Street—and by his side has been Lilla Smith, director of architecture and design at Macklowe Properties, who oversaw nearly every aspect of the $1.5 billion conversion from a landmark Ralph Walker office tower to 565 condo units.  Ms. Smith, who lives in Brooklyn Heights with her family, talked to Mansion Global about steering the largest office-to-condo conversion in New York history, why materials matter and why quiet is the new luxury.  Nadjq Sayej The Wall Street Journal  September 19, 2022  

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.  Flatbush was originally chartered as the Dutch Nieuw Nederland colony town of Midwout (or Midwoud or Medwoud).  The town's former border runs through what is now Brooklyn Botanic Garden.  Before it was incorporated into the City of Brooklyn in 1894, Flatbush described both the Town of Flatbush, incorporating a large swath of central Kings County extending east to the Queens County border, and the Village of Flatbush, formerly the heart of the current community.  The neighborhood was consolidated into the City of Greater New York in 1898.  The name Flatbush is a calque of the Dutch language Vlacke bos (vlacke or vlak, meaning "flat"; "Flatbush" meaning "flat woodland" or "wooded plain"), so named from woods that grew on the flat country.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbush,_Brooklyn 

In 1975, Australian philosopher Peter Singer published Animal Liberation and the terms “animal rights” and “speciesism” became heated topics of discussion.  Slowly, the academic legal community began to take notice.  Jolene Marion, a long time animal activist studying law at Seton Hall Law School, urged the school to introduce a course examining the issue of animal rights from the legal perspective.  As a result, the first animal rights law course was taught at Seton Hall in 1977 by Adjunct Professor Theodore Sager Meth.  https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tischler-1.pdf  As of this writing, more than 160 law schools offer at least once animal law class.

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