Pork Chops Supreme  (pork, hot catsup, honey and lemon)  Find recipe at https://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/meat/easy-pork-chops-supreme/  Chicken may be substituted. 

As a successful Indianapolis attorney, Benjamin Harrison purchased a double lot on the west side of North Delaware Street in May 1868.  In 1874, he and his wife Caroline began construction of their 16-room Italianate style house, carriage house, brick drive and landscaping.  The cost was $24,008.59.  Harrison kept a detailed journal during the construction.  Except for the periods 1881 to 1887 when Harrison was in the U.S. Senate and 1889 to 1893, the presidential years.  Benjamin, Caroline and their two children Russell and Mary lived in the Delaware Street home.  After his presidency in 1893, Harrison returned to Indianapolis a widower.  Caroline died in the White House in 1892. Harrison made several changes to the Delaware Street home including the addition of an English-Regency front porch, electricity and updated plumbing.  In 1896, Harrison married his wife’s niece, Mary Lord Dimmick.  He and Mary had a daughter named Elizabeth in 1897.  Harrison died in the home on March 13, 1901.  After Harrison’s death, Mary and Elizabeth lived in the home until 1913 when they moved to New York. rom 1913 to 1937, the house was rented to various families and eventually became a rooming house.  In March of 1937, the Arthur Jordan Foundation purchased the house and furniture.  The Arthur Jordan Foundation used the home as a dormitory for the female students in the Jordan Conservatory of Music housed in a readapted home on a south adjoining lot.  The purchase of the home included a provision that the home would also be considered a memorial for Harrison.  In 1951, the music school moved to Butler University where it continues to be known as Jordan College.  As per their agreement with Mrs. Harrison, the Arthur Jordan Foundation Trustees opened the home to the public.  In 1964, the United States Department of Interior named the home a National Historic Landmark.  In 1966, the Jordan Foundation created the President Benjamin Harrison Foundation to maintain and operate the home in accordance with the statement of purpose.  And in 2003, the museum earned accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM).  In 2010, the Board of Directors changed the name of the Foundation to the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.  The President’s home is part of The Old Northside Neighborhood.  The boundaries of this community are 16th Street on the North; Pennsylvania Street on the West; Interstate I-65 on the South; and Bellefontaine Street on the East.  From the time Harrison purchased the empty lot in 1868 until the last room was painted in 1875, his Northside home had cost $29,000.  With H. Brandt as the architect and Petrie and Cummings as excavators, the 10,000 square-foot-home, complete with 16 rooms, three stories and a basement, was finished in one year.  Two-feet-thick Indiana limestone made up the basement and 380,550 bricks completed the home.  The finest French plate windows were installed along with three conveniences not enjoyed by most Victorians:  running water (in the kitchen, washroom and second-floor bathroom), a coal-fed furnace, 23 working gaslight fixtures and 12-foot ceilings.  See images at https://bhpsite.org/learn/the-house/  

July 9, 2021  A sandcastle in Denmark has entered into Guinness World Records for being the tallest sandcastle in the world.  The triangular-shaped sandcastle has been built in the town of Blokhus in Denmark.  It stands at a height of 21.16 metres (69.4 feet).  This new structure is 3.5m taller than the previous record held by sandcastle measuring 17.66 m in Germany in 2019.  Dutch creator, Wilfred Stijger, was assisted by 30 of the world’s best sand sculptors.  The structure is built in the shape of a triangle to avoid collapsing like many others have.  https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/worlds-tallest-sandcastle-constructed-in-denmark/ 

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.  The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1955.  The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums.  The popularity of the franchise has resulted in Guinness World Records becoming the primary international source for cataloguing and verification of a huge number of world records.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records  

ca​hoot  plural cahoots  informal  PARTNERSHIP, LEAGUE—usually used in plural—usually used in phrase like in cahoots to describe people or groups working together or making plans together in secret.    Cahoot is used almost exclusively in the phrase "in cahoots," which means "in an alliance or partnership."  In most contexts, it describes the conspiring activity of people up to no good.  (There's also the rare idiom go cahoots, meaning "to enter into a partnership," as in "they went cahoots on a new restaurant.")  "Cahoot" may derive from French cahute, meaning "cabin" or "hut," suggesting the notion of two or more people hidden away working together in secret. "Cahute" is believed to have been formed through the combination of two other words for cabins and huts, "cabane" and "hutte."  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cahoot#  

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