The Załuski Library was established in Warsaw in 1747 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops, was a public library nationalized and renamed upon its founders' death into the Załuski Library of the Commonwealth which existed until the final demise of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.  The library was the first Polish public library, the largest library in Poland, and one of the earliest public libraries in Europe.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%C5%82uski_Library   

rhyme or reason (uncountable)  noun   (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative)  Logic; common sense.  Almost always used in a negative form, particularly with no and, adverbially, without.  May also occur as rhyme nor reason, e.g. after neither. 

Alternative form  rhyme nor reason

Calque of Middle French n'y avoir ryme ne raison (Eustache Deschamps), attributed to the poet Edmund Spenser in a conversation with Queen Elizabeth I.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhyme_or_reason    

Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft.  Based on the GPT-4 series of large language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft's primary replacement for the discontinued Cortana.  The service was introduced in February 2023 under the name Bing Chat, as a built-in feature for Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Edge. Over the course of 2023, Microsoft began to unify the Copilot branding across its various chatbot products, cementing the "copilot" analogy.  At its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft announced its plans to integrate Copilot into Windows 11, allowing users to access it directly through the taskbar.  In January 2024, a dedicated Copilot key was announced for Windows keyboards.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot   

In 1883, U.S. and Canadian railroads adopted a four-zone system to govern their operations and reduce the confusion resulting from some 100 conflicting locally established “sun times” observed in terminals across the country.  States and municipalities then adopted one of the four zones, which were the eastern, central, mountain, and Pacific Time zones.  Local decisions on which time zone to adopt were usually influenced by the time used by the railroads.  Federal oversight of time zones began in 1918 with the enactment of the Standard Time Act, which vested the Interstate Commerce Commission with the responsibility for establishing boundaries between the standard time zones in the continental United States.  This responsibility was transferred from the Interstate Commerce Commission to DOT when Congress created DOT in 1966.  Today, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. §§ 260-64) establishes a system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout the Nation and its possessions, and provides that either Congress or the Secretary of Transportation can change a time-zone boundary.  The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) oversees the Nation's time zones.  The oversight of time zones was assigned to DOT because time standards are important for many modes of transportation.  DOT regulations at 49 CFR part 71 contain the official listing of the Nation's time zones.  DOT also oversees the Nation's uniform observance of Daylight Saving Time; however, DOT does not have the power to repeal or change Daylight Saving Time.  Nor does DOT have any role to play in a State's determination whether to observe Daylight Saving Time.  If a State chooses to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must begin and end on federally mandated dates.  Under the Uniform Time Act, States may choose to exempt themselves from observing Daylight Saving Time by State law.  States do not have the authority to choose to be on permanent Daylight Saving Time.  https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/time-act    

coddle (also Dublin coddle, Irish coddle) noun  an Irish dish made with sausages, bacon, sliced potatoes, and sliced onions cooked slowly together in liquid

coddle verb  to protect someone or something too much 

coddle verb  to cook food, especially eggs, in water just below boiling temperature  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/coddle     

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