betweenity  noun  The state of lying in the interval separating two conditions, qualities, extremes, etc.  From Old English betweonum (between), from be- (by) + tweon (two each).  Earliest documented use:  1760.  The word was coined by the novelist Horace Walpole who also gave us serendipity.  Both words were coined in letters to friends.  Describing a house, he wrote, “The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity, that intervened when Gothic declined and Palladian was creeping in.” 

cosplay  noun  The act or practice of dressing up a character from a work of fiction; the act of, or an instance of, pretending to be someone in a deceptive manner.  verb  To dress up as a fictional character; to pretend to be someone in a deceptive manner; to take part in cosplay.  English words costume + play were borrowed into Japanese as kosuchūmupurē in 1983.  Eventually, the term became shortened to kosupure.  Then it was borrowed back into English as cosplay in 1993.  A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg 

Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, colored glass.  Developed in the United States in 1900, it was widely used around the world in the first half of the 20th century in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings.  It also found use as a material for signs, tables, and areas requiring a hygienic surface.  Over time, the trademarked name "vitrolite" became a generic term for the glass.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigmented_structural_glass  

Edna Ann Proulx (born 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.  She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.  She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards.  Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name.  Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.  Starting as a journalist, her first published work of fiction is "The Customs Lounge", a science fiction story published in the September 1963 issue of If, under the byline "E.A. Proulx".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Proulx  See also https://lithub.com/a-passion-for-living-in-the-present-a-conversation-with-yuko-tsushima-and-annie-ernaux

Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx release date:  June 1, 1996  Proulx's third novel, and first since the spectacular success of her Pulitzer—winning The Shipping News (1993), is a panoramic mosaic of the immigrant experience in 20th century America that confirms her oft-noted similarity to Steinbeck—and offers the most comprehensive survey of working-class life since Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy.  It begins in 1890 with the passage to "La Merica" of a Sicilian accordion maker and his small son, and their ordeal in New Orleans, where the (nameless) father finds work on the docks and meets a violent fate that will become the pattern engulfing virtually all of the story's successive characters. Proulx then telescopes the lives of those into whose hands the Sicilian's button accordion passes—whether it's given, sold, or stolen—through the next hundred years.  https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/e-annie-proulx/accordion-crimes/ 

noun  Jedi mind trick (plural Jedi mind tricks) (idiomatic) A mental feat such as apparently inducing someone to act a certain way or reading someone's mind, achieved as if by magic or telepathy. quotations ▼  Wiktionary  

May the Fourth—oops, the Force—be with you!  May 4 is observed as Star Wars Day by fans of the franchise  interior Mexican  adjective (US, chiefly Austin, Texas)  Especially of cuisine:  of or pertaining to the country Mexico itself, in contrast to Tex-Mex (“a mix of Texan and Mexican”).  quotations ▼synonym, antonyms ▲ Synonym: Mex-Mex  Antonyms:  Tex-Mex, Tex-Mexican   Wiktionary

May 5 is Cinco de Mayo (“Fifth of May”), which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.  

Anhingas, water birds with snakelike necks, have turned up in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and far upstate, a sign of shifting ranges for birds from the South.  One devil bird in Brooklyn is surprising.  22 anhingas hanging out in a canal 180 miles northwest of New York City is stunning.  See picture at https://headtopics.com/us/the-devil-bird-lands-in-new-york-with-more-likely-to-come-38774385 

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