gallivant  "gad about, spend time in frivolous pleasure-seeking, especially with the opposite sex," 1809, of uncertain origin, perhaps a playful elaboration of gallant in an obsolete verbal sense of "play the gallant, flirt, gad about."  https://www.etymonline.com/word/gallivant

If you are not familiar with Camembert, it's a French round cheese that is very similar to Brie but comes in a wooden box.  Baked Camembert is such a popular appetizer to share, whether you go to a fancy restaurant or to the local pub.  The good news is, you can totally make this delicacy at home, and it takes just 20 minutes.  Andrea Soranidis  Find the recipe at https://www.thepetitecook.com/how-to-make-baked-camembert/  Marie Harel, created the original Camembert cheese from raw milk, in Normandy, France, in 1791.  Today, however, a very small percentage of producers make cheese from raw milk with the same process as Marie Harel would have used.  Cheesemakers producing the cheese Harel's method can legally call their cheese Camembert Normandie under the AOC guidelines.  However, the production of Camembert cheese has now transcended the AOC designation.  Very good varieties of Camembert cheese made from pasteurised milk can be found in Normandy today.  https://www.cheese.com/camembert-de-normandie/   

Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico is the oldest library in the Americas.  The origins of Palafoxiana Library date to 1646 when a personal collection of approximately 5,000 volumes was contributed to the Colegio de San Juan y San Pedro by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.   In 1773, Bishop Don Francisco Fabián y Fuero ordered the construction of the Palafoxiana Library in the historic center of the city of Puebla to house Bishop Juan’s donation.  The walls of the 43-meter-long library were fitted with two tiers of bookshelves made of ayacahuite pine, cedar, and coloyote wood.  The western wall displays the mid-14th century retable of the Madonna of Trapana, painted by Nino Pisano.  Throughout the colonial period, large quantities of prints and manuscripts were donated by other bishops, different religious institutions, and private individuals, and the library grew to rival the finest libraries of 18th-century Europe.  The library’s collection grew to over 41,000 volumes in the 19th century, requiring a third tier of bookshelves.  The added weight of these bookshelves contributed to the damage sustained during the 1999 earthquakes, as the older lower levels had weakened due to insect damage.  These conditions, combined with the weight of the third tier, made the bookcases more susceptible to damage during the earthquakes.  The baroque cloistered building still has many architectural and decorative elements, including the original 18th century wooden bookcases.  Following the 1999 earthquakes, World Monuments Fund (WMF) headquartered in New York City, participated in a restoration project to consolidate the building structure and annexes of the library, restore the building, and renovate the interior.  The earthquakes had caused large cracks in the vaults and walls, especially over the window bays, and further damage was caused by heavy rainfall.  WMF supported the restoration of the wooden bookcases, restructuring them using cantilevered joists anchored in the wall, rather than in the stacks below, to reduce the weight of the third tier of shelves on the lower stacks so they would stand up to further seismic activity.  The project also focused on the restoration of the Virgin of Trapana altar, the sculpture of Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, and the main door.  Palafoxiana Library reopened in 2003.  In 2008, WMF supported the conservation of the historic tile floor, which was originally made from clay and talavera and had deteriorated from dust and other residues over time.  The libraries of the religious orders of Mexico were located in Puebla, Morelia and Oaxaca.  https://www.wmf.org/project/palafoxiana-library   

Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and for his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters”.  (November 5, 1930)  Literary Hub  Oct. 30, 2022   

Attorney work product privilege permits attorneys to withhold from production documents and other tangible things prepared in anticipation of litigation by or for another party or its representative.  See:  Fed. R. Civ. P. § 26(b)(3).  As with attorney-client privilege, work product privilege does not protect underlying facts.  See also:  Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495 (1947).  However, work product privilege may be overcome if there is a substantial need for materials to prepare the case and the opposing party cannot reasonably obtain their substantial equivalent by other means.  For instance, if there is no contemporaneous record and no witnesses to interview, the court may not provide work product privilege.  Work product privilege may be waived when an attorney discloses the work product to a third party in a way that creates a significant likelihood that an adversary or potential adversary in the anticipated litigation will obtain it.  See U.S. v. Stewart, 433 F.3d 273 (2d Cir. 2006).  This is based on the idea that opposing counsel should not be able to prepare a case on borrowed wits, and only disclosures of work product that are inconsistent with the adversarial system of litigation are contrary to the purposes for which work-product is granted.  https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/attorney_work_product_privilege   

curiouser and curiouser  phrase  (idiomatic)  Used to describe or react to an increasingly mysterious or peculiar situation. Wiktionary   Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from which the term originates, was published November 2, 1865.   

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