The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātum "seeded".  Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons.  This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from an unrelated Arabic word.  Garnet derives from Old French grenat by metathesis, from Medieval Latin granatum as used in a different meaning "of a dark red color".  This derivation may have originated from pomum granatum, describing the color of pomegranate pulp, or from granum, referring to "red dye, cochineal".  The modern French term for pomegranate, grenade, has given its name to the military grenade.  Pomegranates were colloquially called 'wineapples' or 'wine-apples' in Ireland, although this term has somewhat fallen out of use lately.  It still persists however amongst the fruit & vegetable stalls at the famous Moore Street open-air market, in central Dublin.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate   

A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer is a tricky tongue twister due to its many consonant clusters.  https://www.waywordradio.org/biscuit-tongue-twister/   

Muskeg is a nutrient-poor peatland characterized by acidic, saturated peat, and scattered or clumped, stunted conifer trees set in a matrix of sphagnum mosses and ericaceous shrubs.  Black spruce and tamarack are typically the most prevalent tree species.  The community primarily occurs in large depressions on glacial outwash and sandy glacial lakeplains.  Fire occurs naturally during periods of drought and can alter the hydrology, mat surface, and floristic composition of muskegs.  https://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/description/10678/muskeg   

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) describes the happy life intended for man by nature as one lived in accordance with virtue, and, in his Politics, he describes the role that politics and the political community must play in bringing about the virtuous life in the citizenry.  Aristotle’s life was primarily that of a scholar.  However, like the other ancient philosophers, it was not the stereotypical ivory tower existence.  His father was court physician to Amyntas III of Macedon, so Aristotle grew up in a royal household.  Aristotle also knew Philip of Macedon (son of Amyntas III) and there is a tradition that says Aristotle tutored Philip’s son Alexander, who would later be called “the Great” after expanding the Macedonian Empire all the way to what is now India.  Aristotle studied under Plato at Plato’s Academy in Athens, and eventually opened a school of his own (the Lyceum) there.  As a scholar, Aristotle had a wide range of interests.  He wrote about meteorology, biology, physics, poetry, logic, rhetoric, and politics and ethics, among other subjects.  His writings on many of these interests remained definitive for almost two millennia.  For example, in order to understand political phenomena, he had his students collect information on the political organization and history of 158 different cities.  https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-politics/    

ARISTOTLE QUOTES 

“Those who know, do.  Those that understand, teach.”  “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”   “What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”  “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”  “Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”   https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2192.Aristotle   

My Breathing Earth by Paul Many, illus. by Tisha Lee.  Yeehoo, $18.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-953458-62-9  Paul Many (Dinomorphosis) sustains interest in air’s movement with vibrant free verse that follows a child narrator over a 24-hour period.  On the first morning, “Full of the smell of rain/ that tapped on our roof all night,/ Earth’s breath/ balloons our curtains.”  In quiltlike scenes, digitally finished gouache paintings by Tisha Lee (Love Grows Everywhere) show the curtains in the spacious bedroom of two siblings portrayed with light brown skin; brick city buildings are visible through the windows.  The interracial family’s doll-like forms are next seen sitting down to breakfast (“The air turns/ the corners of Daddy’s newspaper”), then driving to Nana’s for caretaking (the wind “plays with people in the street, twirling their clothes into ice-cream swirls”).  At Nana’s, alliterative and assonant phrasings (“Earth’s breath bounces our bubbles like little boats bobbing”) lead to breezy drama in the form of a slammed door and tipped-over plants before the day winds down (“I feel Earth’s breath rise and fall under me”).  Active verbs animate the largely invisible phenomenon of the earth’s moving air, bringing its sudden changes and subtle power into readers’ awareness via thoughtful observations.  Ages 4–8  August, 2023  https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781953458629   

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