Sometimes you need gas.  Sometimes you need a dentist.  Sometimes you need to wash your dog.  Sometimes you need a movie theater.  Sometimes you need a haircut.  Sometimes you need a museum.  Rarely do you need all of these things at once.  But in case you ever do, there is a place for one-stop shopping:  the Iowa 80 World’s Largest Truckstop, otherwise known as “Trucker’s Disneyland.”  Perched on a massive expanse of 225 acres about three hours west of Chicago off of Interstate 80—America’s second-longest highway, which extends 2,900 miles from San Francisco to New Jersey—the sheer size of the truck stop is mind-boggling. You could fit 170 football fields within its grounds.  It's currently six times the size of the Pentagon building, and has expanded dozens of times since opening in 1964.  Jay Gentile  https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/iowa-80-truck-stop-truckers-disneyland   

short twentieth century proper noun ( history, specifically) The period between 1914 and 1991, from the beginning of World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.  short twentieth century noun (history, generally) Any period of years defined by significant historical events falling within the 20th century (1 January 1901 to 31 December 2000).  Wiktionary 

How To Create a Magical Moon Garden in Your Backyard by Sheryl Normandeau   Celebrate moonlit nights by relaxing in your very own Moon Garden, planted specifically to show off the lunar glow!  A Moon Garden is an oasis you create, whose design features plants with white flowers and silver foliage, as well as highly fragrant blossoms, and plants with blooms that open only at night.  Find tips at https://www.farmersalmanac.com/moon-garden

Plantains are a confusing fruit . . . or are they a vegetable?  Well, as Garden Guides reported, this banana look-alike is technically a fruit, but unlike the banana it so closely resembles, the plantain tends to be used in more vegetable-like ways, meaning it is primarily a component of savory dishes.  This is probably because although it looks almost exactly like a banana, the plantain has a very different flavor and isn't nearly as sweet.  Susan Olayinka and Tasting Table staff   cook time 14 minutes, servings 4   https://www.tastingtable.com/658409/easy-fried-plantains-recipe/   

Mar. 4, 2023  Founded in 1838, Green-Wood is the largest and most famous cemetery in Brooklyn.  Its residents include Boss Tweed, Samuel Morse, Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pop Smoke, and more than half a million others.  An increasing number of Green-Wood’s customers are requesting “green” burials, which use biodegradable caskets, or no caskets at all, and no embalming.  To limit equipment and fertilizer use, and to increase the amount of organic matter in the soil, the staff is allowing nearly fifty acres of Green-Wood to turn to meadow.  Eric Lach  https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/greening-the-burial-of-the-dead-in-brooklyn   

In sports, the terms Cinderella, "Cinderella story", and Cinderella team are used to refer to situations in which competitors achieve far greater success than would reasonably have been best expected.  Cinderella stories tend to gain much media and fan attention as they move closer to the tournament final game. The term comes from the well-known European folk tale of Cinderella, which embodies a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward, when the title character's life of poverty is suddenly changed to one of remarkable fortune.  In a sporting context the term has been used at least since 1939, but came into widespread usage in 1950, when the Disney movie was released that year, and in reference to City College of New York, the unexpected winners of the NCAA Men's Basketball championship also that year.  The term was used by Bill Murray in the 1980 movie Caddyshack where he pretends as the announcer to his own golf fantasy:  "Cinderella story.  Outta nowhere.  A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion."  Referring somewhat inaccurately to the plot details of the classic Cinderella story, the media will debate whether the given "Cinderella" team or player will "turn into a pumpkin", i.e. fail to win the prize and then return to its former obscurity.  In the fairy tale, it was the carriage that turned into a pumpkin at midnight, not Cinderella herself.  Another popular term is "strike midnight", when a Cinderella team does finally get beaten.  Prior to the widespread use of Cinderella in this way, the more common term for unexpected and dramatic success was Miracle, as in the "Miracle Braves" of 1914, the "Miracle on Grass" in 1950, the "Miracle of Coogan's Bluff" in 1951, the "Miracle Mets" of 1969, and the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980.  Cinderella teams are also referred to as a surprise package or surprise packet, and their success would be termed a fairy-tale run.  A related concept is the giant-killer, which refers to a lesser competitor who defeats a favorite, reflecting the story of David and Goliath.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(sports)#cite_note-4   

Gordon Earle Moore (1929–March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.  He proposed Moore's law, the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.  In 2009, Moore was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.  He was awarded the 2010 Dan David Prize for his work in the areas of Computers and Telecommunications.  The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty, as are the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech and the Gordon and Betty Moore Materials Research Building at Stanford.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore#Scientific_career

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