Q. What singing group is called Legally
Sound? A. Legally Sound is a student-run a cappella singing group at the University of Maryland
School of Law. Other law school choirs are
at Brigham Young University, Howard University, the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis
and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
In the era of e-books and chain
stores,
the publishing industry now lives and dies by blockbusters and franchises. The Franchise Four, according to the July 15,
2013 issue of Forbes, are: E.L. James
(Fifty Shades of Grey), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series), Suzanne Collins
(Hunger Games) and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight).
The buzz is that Samantha Shannon's upcoming novel The Bone Season, the
first of a planned seven-part series, will be a runaway bestseller.
clef noun 1570s in a musical sense, "character on a staff to
indicate its name and pitch," from Middle French clef
(12c.) "key, musical clef, trigger," from a figurative or transferred
use of classical Latin clavis, which had only the
literally sense "key". The
most common is the treble, violin, or G-clef, which crosses on the second line
of the staff, denoting that as the G above middle C on the piano.
roman noun "a
novel," 1765, from French roman, from Old
French romanz (see romance);
roman à clef, novel in which characters represent
real persons, literally "novel with a key" (French), first attested
in English 1893. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=roman+a+clef
Have you ever wondered what was the very first book purchased by the Toledo library system? From 1875 through 1951, accession numbers were
assigned to all items purchased for the collection. Beginning with 0001 these volumes chronicle
the history of a collection that grew to more than one million volumes by the
time accession numbers were no longer tracked in 1951. Still wondering about that first book? Accession number 0001 is assigned to a novel
written by Edmond About
(1828-1885) entitled Man with a Broken Ear.
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Online,
July/August 2013
THE MAN
WITH THE BROKEN EAR TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF EDMOND ABOUT BY HENRY HOLT
NEW YORK HOLT & WILLIAMS 1872
A doughnut or donut is a type of fried dough confectionery
or dessert
food. The doughnut is popular in many
countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade
or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty
outlets. They are usually deep-fried
from a flour dough, and typically
either ring-shaped or without a hole and often filled. Other types of batters
can also be used, and various toppings and flavorings are used for different
types, such as sugar glazing, chocolate glazing, or maple glazing. The two most common types are the toroidal ring
doughnut and the filled doughnut—which is injected with fruit
preserves, cream,
custard, or
other sweet fillings. A small spherical
piece of dough may be cooked as a doughnut hole. Other shapes include rings, balls, and
flattened spheres, as well as ear shapes, twists and other forms. Doughnut varieties are also divided into cake
and risen type doughnuts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut
NOTE that a doughnut may also refer to a
circular skid mark or a small tire for temporary use.
A traditional cruller (or twister) is a fried pastry often made
from a rectangle of dough, with a cut made in the middle that allows it to be
pulled over and through itself producing twists in the sides of the donut. Crullers have been described as resembling "a
small, braided torpedo" and having been "a staple of the New England
diet since the Pilgrims' day". Some
other cruller styles are made of a denser dough somewhat like
that of a cake doughnut
formed in a small loaf or stick shape, but not always twisted. Crullers may be topped with plain powdered
sugar; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon; or icing.
However, a "French cruller" is
a fluted, ring-shaped doughnut made from choux
pastry with a light airy texture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruller
Literary works on mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War
II. Find essay listing works in seven
categories: Early Works,
Memoirs,
Novels by
Japanese Americans,
The Camps as
Experienced or Imagined by Non-Japanese Americans, Anthologies,
Novels
Influenced by Wartime Incarceration, Poetry and
Drama and reference notes called "for more information. http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Literary%20works%20on%20incarceration/
From the above list:
Snow Falling on Cedars went virtually unnoticed when it was released in
hardback. Once it was published in
paperback, however, the book's popularity gained momentum from word of mouth,
and the book became a paperback bestseller. In fact, David Guterson's novel became the
fastest-selling book in Vintage Books' (the publisher that picked up the
novel's paperback rights) history. Overseas,
the novel also enjoyed best-selling status; Snow
Falling on Cedars has been translated into fifteen languages. The success of the book enabled Guterson to
quit his teaching job and focus on writing. In addition, the novel won the Pacific
Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award
for Fiction in 1995. http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2592600022/snow-falling-cedars.html
Not from the above list,
but of possible interest:
Songs My Mother Taught Me, a seminal collection of Wakako
Yamauchi's plays and stories was published in 1994. Yamauchi
is a distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter. Through her creative work, she draws portraits
of people who struggle with their dreams and passions, while facing the
psychological trauma of prejudice, economic depression, and the concentration
camps of World War II. As a young child
and adult, she witnessed the overt racism and harsh labor conditions her
parents endured and later built these and other personal memories into the
details of her work. She was born Wakako
Nakamura on October 24, 1924, in Westmorland, California to immigrant parents
who farmed in the Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border. When Yamauchi was seventeen years old, she
and her family were incarcerated at Poston concentration camp in Arizona
(in barrack apartment 12-1-A—the title of a play she would later write). http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Wakako%20Yamauchi/
July 16, 2013 Thousands
of descendants of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians who the U.S. Army
slaughtered at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado never received the land
and property promised them by treaty, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Homer Flute claims the United
States has treaty obligations to as many as 15,000 descendants of the victims. He and three other named plaintiffs sued the
United States, the Department of the Interior, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
for an accounting of what is owed to each victim's family under the Treaty of
Little Arkansas. The class cites
numerous breaches of federal trust responsibility, failure to account and
violations of the Administrative Procedure Act.
They are represented by David Askman with Hunsucker Goodstein in Denver. Sam Reynolds http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/16/59394.htm
They are represented by David Askman with Hunsucker Goodstein in Denver. Sam Reynolds http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/16/59394.htm
