In celebration of Coronation Big Lunches taking place over the Coronation weekend, Their Majesties have shared a recipe for a Coronation Quiche, a deep quiche with a crisp, light pastry case and delicate flavours of spinach, broad beans and fresh tarragon.  Eat hot or cold with a green salad and boiled new potatoes.  Serves 6  Find recipe at https://www.royal.uk/coronation-quiche-0  King Charles III's coronation will take place on Saturday 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London.   

Canterbury or canterbury  (KAN-tuhr-ber-ee)  noun  A rack with open top and slatted partitions for magazines, sheet music, documents, etc.  After Canterbury, UK.  It’s said that a bishop of Canterbury first ordered this piece of furniture. Earliest documented use:  1803.  Some other words with Canterbury connections are canter and Canterbury tale.  A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg  See pictures at https://antiquesworld.co.uk/antique-canterbury/  

From:  Sam Long  Subject:  Canterbury  Other pieces of furniture or similar items have got their names from their original places of manufacture or designers: ottoman, davenport, Windsor chair, chesterfield, Hoosier cabinet, etc.  Many horse-drawn vehicles and their motorized successor have been similarly named:  laundau, coach, sedan, hackney, brougham, limousine, stanhope, surrey (with or without fringe on top), conestoga.  (Motor vehicles often have brand names of this sort, such as Chevrolet Monte Carlo.) There are others.  AWADmail Issue 1082   

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's law of conduction are also named in his honour.  Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier  

The Computer Museum was founded by Ken Olsen and Gordon and Gwen Bell in 1975 as the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Museum Project.  The first exhibit was in a converted closet at DEC’s building in Maynard, Massachusetts.  In 1979 it officially became the Digital Computer Museum (DCM), an exhibition site funded and operated by DEC out of its Marlborough headquarter building’s lobby. In 1982 it received non-profit charitable foundation status from the IRS and changed its name to The Computer Museum, and in 1984 it opened to the wider public with a move to downtown Boston where it was co-located with the Children’s Museum on Museum Wharf.  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8kw5n9j/   

The Miami and Erie Canal was a 274-mile (441 km) canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie.  Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a cost to the state government of $8,062,680.07.  At its peak, it included 19 aqueducts, three guard locks, 103 canal locks, multiple feeder canals, and a few man-made water reservoirs.  The canal climbed 395 feet (120 m) above Lake Erie and 513 feet (156 m) above the Ohio River to reach a topographical peak called the Loramie Summit, which extended 19 miles (31 km) between New Bremen, Ohio to lock 1-S in Lockington, north of Piqua, Ohio.  Boats up to 80 feet long were towed along the canal by mules, horses, or oxen walking on a prepared towpath along the bank, at a rate of four to five miles per hour.  Due to competition from railroads, which began to be built in the area in the 1850s, the commercial use of the canal gradually declined during the late 19th century.  It was permanently abandoned for commercial use in 1913 after a historic flood in Ohio severely damaged it.  Only a small fraction of the canal survives today, along with its towpath and locks.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_and_Erie_Canal   

The Erie Canal Song was written in 1905 under the title Low Bridge, Everybody Down about life on the Erie Canal.  In addition to the The Erie Canal Song and Low Bridge, Everybody Down titles, the song has also been referred to by the following names over the years:  Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal, Mule Named Sal and Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.  Around 1905 mule powered barge traffic had converted to steam power and diesel power was about to take over.  The Erie Canal Song was written to commemorate the history of nearly 100 years of life along the Erie Canal.  The Erie Canal Song is the most recognised of all the Erie Canal folksongs.  A PDF of the song with notes for guitar and piano can be found here.  It’s interesting to note that the cover depicts a boy riding a mule leaned down to fit under a bridge, but in actuality the song is about the people in the boats.  Travelers would typically ride on the roof of boats when the conditions allowed, but the low bridges along the route would require that they either duck down or get off the roof to fit under bridges.  https://www.eriecanalsong.com/  View many renditions of the song on YouTube.   

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