Joy Young Rogers (August 14, 1891–December 10, 1953) was an American suffragist.   She served as an assistant editor of The Suffragist.  On May 1, 1916, she delivered a basket of flowers to President Woodrow Wilson, which also contained a request for a suffrage amendment and pro-suffrage messages from women from the western half of America.  She was arrested on July 4, 1917 with Lucy Burns and others, for protesting in front of the White House.  Rogers was on the staff of The Suffragist and was an organizer for the National Woman's Party.  Her sister, Matilda Young, was also an active suffragist.   See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Young_Rogers

Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves."  The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

Covering an area of 209,256km2--5 times the size of Switzerland and larger than the Alps--the Carpathian Mountains are home to 18 million people.  For centuries, the Carpathians have provided a home to diverse nationalities and ethnic groups--people separated by different languages, dialects and traditions, but bound together by a highland way of life and a sense of shared hardships.  The name for the Carpathians is derived from the ancient Greek ‘Karpat-Heros’ tribes who inhabited the South Carpathians some 2,000 years ago.  Since then, waves of people--Romans, Goths, Avars, Slavs, and Magyars, to name a few--have claimed the land as their own.  The area receives twice the rainfall of surrounding regions and feeds the major rivers, the Danube and Vistula, through to the Black and Baltic Seas.  More than 80% of Romania’s water supply (excluding the Danube), 40% of Ukraine’s supply and one third of the outflow of the Vistula originate directly from the Carpathians.  https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/black_sea_basin/danube_carpathian/our_solutions/wilderness_protected_areas/carpathians/  See also https://rolandia.eu/en/blog/discover-romania/the-carpathian-mountains and https://karniaruthenia.miraheze.org/wiki/Carpathia 

Dušan Simić (born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.  He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963–1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues.  He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simic  

Prospero is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.  Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a "rotten carcass" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins.  Prospero and Miranda had survived and found exile on a small island.  He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters.  Before the play has begun, Prospero has freed the magical spirit Ariel from entrapment within "a cloven pine".  Prospero then takes Ariel as a slave.  Prospero's sorcery is sufficiently powerful to control Ariel and other spirits, as well as to alter weather and even raise the dead.  See uses in popular culture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero  Prospero Books is the bookstore in The Bookshop of Yesterdays.

Normally, singing was an essential ingredient in any recipe.  *  The law’s a profession of the written word.  *  The Bookshop of Yesterdays, a novel by Amy Meyerson. 

In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.  The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875.  The Triple Crown Trophy, commissioned in 1950 but awarded to all previous winners as well as those after 1950, is awarded to a horse who wins all three races and is thereafter designated as a Triple Crown winner.  The races are traditionally run in May and early June of each year, although global events have resulted in schedule adjustments, such as in 1945 and 2020.  The first winner of all three Triple Crown races was Sir Barton in 1919.  Some journalists began using the term Triple Crown to refer to the three races as early as 1923, but it was not until Gallant Fox won the three events in 1930 that Charles Hatton of the Daily Racing Form put the term into common use.  The three Triple Crown races had existed long before the series received its name:  the Belmont Stakes was first run in 1867, the Preakness in 1873, and the Kentucky Derby in 1875.  The term “triple crown” was in use at least by 1923, although Daily Racing Form writer Charles Hatton is commonly credited with originating the term in 1930.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing_(United_States)

In the late 1800s, seeds and offshoots of date palms were imported from Egypt, Algeria and the Persian Gulf to the arid Southwest of the United States.  In 1904, the U.S. Department of Agriculture established a date experimental station in the Coachella Valley.  Different date varieties from both seed and offshoot were tried.  In the following decades, crop production grew exponentially from approximately 100,000 pounds in 1919 to 1 million pounds in 1926, and then by 1955 to 48 million pounds of dates being produced in the Coachella Valley.  Ultimately, some 85 percent of the U.S. date acreage was situation in the Coachella Valley and this tremendous output was derived predominately from the 14,000 offshoots of the Deglet Noor variety of date imported from Algeria.  Tracy Conrad  See pictures at https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2018/05/26/date-industry-has-long-and-tasty-history-palm-springs-area/641782002/ 

It is never my custom to use words lightly.  If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die. - Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013) 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2541  July  18. 2022 

Author Louise Erdrich’s name is pronounced er-drik (means rich earth).  See links at https://www.bookbrowse.com/authors/author_pronunciations/detail/index.cfm/author_number/613/louise-erdrich 

People can eat almonds raw or toasted as a snack or add them to sweet or savory dishes.  They are also available sliced, flaked, slivered, as flour, oil, butter, or almond milk.  People call almonds a nut, but they are seeds, rather than a true nut.  Almond trees may have been one of the earliest trees that people cultivated.  In Jordan, archaeologists have found evidence of domesticated almond trees dating back some 5,000 years.  Yvette Brazier  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269468#_noHeaderPrefixedContent  See also https://calisphere.org/item/d8e5e8b608e0ded4950da188e424c77f/

The main definition of the idiom part and parcel is a basic or essential part.  The phrase has been around at least since the 16th century.  Back then, parcel meant an essential component, so part and parcel were roughly synonymous.  The phrase apparently began as legal jargon, where this kind of overemphatic wordiness is common.  Indeed, most early instances of part and parcel are from legal texts, and the phrase didn’t enter broader usage until the 19th century.  https://grammarist.com/usage/part-and-parcel/ 

People will shout anything . . . once you start it up.  The Mirror & the Light, #3 in the trilogy about Thomas Cromwell by Hilary Mantel.  Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are the first two novels in the trilogy.  See also https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/hilary-mantel-thomas-cromwell-mirror-light/606802/ 

The word risible has Latin and French roots, like so many good words we have taken into English.  The definitions on offer include no sense of derisiveness, simply a situation that provokes laughter.  Even a cursory Google search shows that risible coexists with words such as “comic,” “absurd,” and “ridiculous.”  Why use “funny” when each word has its own nuances?  That variety and flexibility remain glories of English, when well employed.  “Risible” sounds more formal, so when one wishes to elevate the diction of a sentence, it outranks “laughable” and gentles the sentiment of something ridiculous.  It’s almost genteel, even when Ponitus Pilate, in Monty Python’s retelling of the story, uses the word to berate a Roman Centurion about a tragically named friend of Pilate’s.  https://blog.richmond.edu/writing/2021/12/10/word-of-the-week-risible/

While most Americans were eating packaged Wonder Bread, Zabar’s offered twenty-five varieties of freshly baked bread—many of them whole grain or prepared without preservatives—that were made by small bakeries in the Bronx, Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.  Zabar’s sold French bread by the foot, flourless soy loaves, black Russian rye bread, German pumpernickel, and Polish rye bread.  And, of course, different varieties of bagels and bialys.  First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy sparked a national interest in sophisticated French cuisine by hiring the French chef René Verdon for the White House kitchen in 1961.  Perhaps the most influential event in the growing fascination with French food was the 1963 debut of Julia Child’s televised cooking show, The French Chef.  My immediate family had never been to France (they’d actually never been anywhere in Europe), and The French Chef was a groundbreaking introduction to a new and exciting cuisine and culture.  Inspired by the series, my mother took a break from chicken baked in mushroom soup and tackled complicated recipes like beef Wellington from Julia Child’s cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which had been published to considerable acclaim in 1961.  By the mid-1960s, Zabar’s had become a fashionable place to shop for both gourmet offerings and traditional Jewish appetizing and delicatessen.  Actors, musicians, and intellectuals who lived and worked nearby, as well as neighborhood residents, congregated at Zabar’s on the weekends to socialize while stocking up for Saturday and Sunday brunch.  Lori Zabar  https://lithub.com/how-zabars-grew-from-a-modest-business-to-a-culinary-icon/  Zabar’s, founded in 1934, is located at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. 

The horse's mouth as a source of reliable information is from 1921, perhaps originally of racetrack tips, from the fact that a horse's age can be determined accurately by looking at its teeth.  To swap horses while crossing the river (a bad idea) is from the American Civil War and appears to have been originally one of Abe Lincoln's stories.  Horse-and-buggy meaning "old-fashioned" is recorded from 1926 slang, originally in reference to a "young lady out of date, with long hair."  To hold (one's) horses "restrain one's enthusiasm, be patient" is from 1842, American English; the notion is of keeping a tight grip on the reins.  https://www.etymonline.com/word/horse-play 

When people horse around, they're silly and boisterous, fooling around in a physical way.  The phrase doesn't immediately make sense, because you don't usually see horses playing in this way.  Horse around probably comes from horseplay, and it in turn came from the old-fashioned verb horse, which was once used to mean "play crazy jokes on."  Experts aren't sure how it came into use, or what horses have to do with it.  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/horse%20around 

 A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist’s paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said.  The self-portrait was found on the back of Van Gogh’s “Head of a Peasant Woman” when experts at the Edinburgh gallery took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition.  The work is believed to have been hidden for over a century, covered by layers of glue and cardboard when it was framed in the early 20th century.  Van Gogh was known for turning canvases around and painting on the other side to save money.  The portrait shows a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat.  Experts said the subject was instantly recognizable as the artist himself, and is thought to be from his early work.  The left ear is clearly visible and Van Gogh famously cut his off in 1888.  The gallery said experts are evaluating how to remove the glue and cardboard without harming “Head of a Peasant Woman.”  Visitors to an upcoming Impressionist exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh can see an X-ray image of the self-portrait through a lightbox.  “A Taste for Impressionism” runs from Jul. 30 to Nov. 13, 2022.  https://apnews.com/article/hidden-van-gogh-self-portrait-b703b4391c4ec0ba5bcf381ae44a6c3b 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2540  July 15, 2022

Scholars trace the legacy of literary horror back to the British Gothic fictions of the eighteenth century, when castles were haunted, monks were evil, and anywhere beyond the edges of Protestant England was tinged sinister.  Others locate the genre’s origins in a slate of late-Victorian novels and their roster of horror icons.  Dracula, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll--these figures emerged from a culture in crisis, when twin anxieties about masculinity and modernity birthed urban nightmares.  Contemporary readers may look no further than the horror ‘boom’ of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.  It was an era dominated by brand-name authors, with epic sales and matching page-lengths.  Read a list of the “50 best horror books of all time” by Neil McRobert at https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g37676766/scary-horror-books/

On June 4, 2017, nearly 200 people descended on a quiet block in Albuquerque, N.M.  While the Jir Project, a band from Cochiti Pueblo, played in the shade, visitors from across the state poured into Red Planet Books and Comics, which claims to be the only Native comic book store in the world.  Outside, artists exhibited their work and signed books, and inside, comic fans browsed the graphic novels, children’s books, and nonfiction works—mostly by Indigenous creators.  The store’s founder, Lee Francis IV, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, hadn’t expected such a turnout and said that he sold nearly all the books shop had.  The warm, festival-like atmosphere and scores of fans had welcomed the bookstore to the community.  https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/red-planet-comics-new-mexico/ 

All 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm 

The Bill of Rights resulted from compromises between federalist and anti-federalist framers of the Constitution of the United States.  The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was convened to solve the problems related to the weak national government under the Articles of Confederation.  Prominent federalists like James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay advocated for a completely new government under the United States Constitution.  Anti-federalists like Patrick Henry, Melancton Smith, and George Clinton argued that the national government proposed under the Constitution would be too powerful and would infringe on individual liberties.  They thought the Articles of Confederation needed amended, not replaced.  Although the federalists succeeded in passing the Constitution, anti-federalists won compromises and successfully advocated for the addition of the Bill of Rights, which they thought would protect individual freedoms and rights from national power.  Federalists objected to the addition of the Bill of Rights because they believed it was unnecessary given the enumerated powers of the federal government.  Federalists thought the Bill of Rights would undermine the enumerated limits of the government and that the identification of specific rights could give the national government the grounds to destroy rights that were not specifically identified.  The Ninth Amendment was created to mitigate federalist concerns, explicitly stating, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."  https://ballotpedia.org/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_U.S._Constitution 

Illusions:  The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach.  First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment.  Illusions was the author's follow-up to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 

Illusions revolves around two barnstorming pilots who meet in a field in the Midwestern United States.  The two main characters enter into a teacher-student relationship that explains the concept that the world that we inhabit is illusory, as well as the underlying reality behind it.  Donald William Shimoda is a messiah who quits his job after deciding that people value the showbiz-like performance of miracles and want to be entertained by those miracles more than to understand the message behind them.  He meets Richard, a fellow barnstorming pilot.  Both are in the business of providing short rides—for a few dollars each—in vintage biplanes to passengers from farmers' fields they find during their travels.  Donald initially captures Richard's attention when a grandfather and granddaughter arrive at the makeshift airstrip.  Ordinarily it is elders who are cautious and the youngsters who are keen to fly.  In this case, however, the grandfather wants to fly but the granddaughter is afraid of flying.  Donald explains to the granddaughter that her fear of flying comes from a traumatic experience in a past life, and this calms her fears and she is ready to fly. Observing this greatly intrigues Richard, so Donald begins to pass on his knowledge to him, even teaching Richard to perform "miracles" of his own.  The novel features quotes from the Messiah's Handbook, owned by Shimoda, which Richard later takes as his own.  An unusual aspect of this handbook is that it has no page numbers.  The reason for this, as Shimoda explains to Richard, is that the book will open to the page on which the reader may find guidance or the answers to doubts and questions in his mind.  It is not a magical book; Shimoda explains that one can do this with any sort of text.  The Messiah's Handbook was released as its own title by Hampton Roads Publishing Company.  It mimics the one described in Illusions, with new quotes based on the philosophies in the novel.  An adaptation of Illusions was serialized in the comic strip Best Sellers Showcase running June 19 through July 30, 1978.  In 2014, Bach published Illusions II:  The Adventures of a Reluctant Student after surviving a serious plane crash.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_(Bach_novel) 

Ada Limón was named by the Library of Congress as the nation's 24th poet laureate on July 12. 2022.  She will take over in September from Joy Harjo, who has held the position since 2019.   Harjo was only the second poet laureate to be named to a third term; Robert Pinsky also holds that honor.  Limón's latest collection, The Hurting Kind, was published in May, 2022.  Limón has published six poetry collections and is the host of the podcast The Slowdown.  She also teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.  Meghan Collins Sullivan  https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1110804783/ada-limon-named-new-u-s-poet-laureate

 Love is so short and forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (12 Jul 1904-1973)

 http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2539  July 12. 2022 

 

Dark Chocolate Brownies by Ree Drummond  16 servings  https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a11388/dark-chocolate-brownies/

Singer-songwriter James McMurtry, son of two renowned wordsmiths, used the term Blackberry Winter on stage.  The term has its first recorded usage in the 19th century, so it’s new by linguistic standards.  But the idea is old:  a late cold front reportedly can help blackberries “set” on their canes, to insure an abundant harvest.  Joe Essig  https://blog.richmond.edu/writing/  If you want to hear McMurtry sing about Blackberry Winter, watch 4:43 video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKnEV_ICvU 

The Egyptian cotton industry was born from a single American event—the Civil War.  Cotton had been so little known in medieval Europe that it was imagined to be a mixture of plant and animal—a “vegetable lamb,” Sven Beckert, a professor of history at Harvard, writes, in “Empire of Cotton.”  Some people theorized that little sheep grew on plants, bending down at night to drink water; other myths told of sheep held to the ground by low stems.  As late as 1728, an encyclopedia entry describes a vegetable lamb that grows in Tartary—a term for areas of north, central, and east Asia unknown to European geographers.  Cotton had long thrived in parts of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.  In 70 C.E., Pliny the Elder found in Upper Egypt a shrub whose fruit looked like a “nut with a beard, and containing in the inside a silky substance, the down of which is spun into threads.”  Well into the nineteenth century, the Indian subcontinent had a peerless cotton operation.  Cotton-growing and -manufacturing skills moved to southern Europe with the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam.   With the advent of industrialization, cotton attracted opportunists everywhere.  By the mid-nineteenth century, cotton was driving an industrial revolution in England and slavery in the American South.  Before the Civil War, eighty per cent of the cotton used by British textile mills came from the American South.  As the war escalated, cotton prices increased, and British textile manufacturers started looking for alternatives.  Egypt’s production quickly eclipsed that of the U.S., and, by the end of the nineteenth century, Egypt derived ninety-three per cent of its revenue from cotton.  It had become “the major source of income for almost every proprietor in the Delta,” Roger Owen writes, in “Cotton and the Egyptian Economy.”  Cotton-textile production is long, complex, and riddled with opportunities for tampering.  After it is harvested, cotton is ginned, spun, then woven into fabrics at different facilities, often in different countries.  Cheating can start right in the cotton fields, MeiLin Wan, a textile expert at Applied DNA, told me.  “I’ve heard stories of how, in the middle of the night, all of a sudden, bales get switched and high-end cotton bales get mixed with Upland,” a cheaper type of cotton derisively known as “hairy.”  Spinners and weavers can mix different types of cotton together.  “You can see all the weak links upstream in the supply chain,” Wan said.  In 2009, Applied DNA took a survey of apparel and home textiles that claim to be a hundred-per-cent extra-long staple.  Eighty-nine per cent had been mislabelled:  forty-eight per cent were primarily made with basic Upland cotton, and forty-one per cent were a blend.  Yasmine AlSayyad  https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-end-of-egyptian-cotton  

Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly revealing previously private personal information about an individual or organization, usually via the internet.  Methods employed to acquire such information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, social engineering and, through websites such as Grabify, a site specialized in revealing IP addresses through a fake link.  Doxing may be carried out for reasons such as online shaming, extortion, and vigilante aid to law enforcement.  It also may be associated with hacktivism.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing 

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (1893–1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.  Lloyd is considered, alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, one of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era.  Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947.  His films frequently contained "thrill sequences" of extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats.  Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street (in reality a trick shot) in Safety Last! (1923) is considered one of the most enduring images in all of cinema.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd 

Adrian Boswell Is Broccoli Street Art Man   See images in London at https://www.shoreditchstreetarttours.co.uk/adrian-boswell-is-shoreditchs-broccoli-man/  This blog post is based on a longer blogpost on Graffoto in which we examine the whole broccoli crisis in more depth and ponder an unexpected role for government in suppressing evidence of the broccoli crisis. 

Lincoln Logs are an American children's toy consisting of square-notched miniature lightweight logs used to build small forts and buildings.  They were invented around 1916 by John Lloyd Wright, second son of the well-known architect Frank Lloyd Wright.  Lincoln Logs were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1999.  They are named for the eponymous sixteenth president of the United States who once lived in a log cabin.  Starting in 2014, Lincoln Logs were manufactured by K'NEX Industries Inc.  In late 2017, K'NEX, having filed for bankruptcy, was bought out by Basic Fun, Inc., of Florida.  Pride Manufacturing, of Burnham, Maine, manufactures Lincoln Logs for Basic Fun, and the rights to the IP are owned by Hasbro.  The logs measure three quarters of an inch (roughly two centimetres) in diameter.  Like real logs used in a log cabin, Lincoln Logs are notched so that logs may be laid at right angles to each other to form rectangles resembling buildings.  Additional parts of the toy set include roofs, chimneys, windows and doors, which bring a realistic appearance to the final creation.  Later sets included animals and human figures the same scale as the buildings.  The toy sets were originally made of redwood, with varying colors of roof pieces.  In the 1970s the company introduced sets made entirely of plastic, but soon reverted to real wood.  The mold for the toy was based on the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, designed by the inventor's father.  The foundation of the hotel was designed with interlocking log beams, which made the structure "earthquake-proof" and one of the few buildings to remain standing after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that crumbled Tokyo.  When he returned to the U.S, John organized The Red Square Toy Company (named after his father's famous symbol), and marketed the toy in 1918.  Wright was issued U.S. patent 1,351,086 on August 31, 1920, for a "Toy-Cabin Construction".  Soon after, he changed the name to J. L. Wright Manufacturing.  Lincoln Logs are believed to be the first toy to be marketed to both boys and girls and appeal to a "simple" type of creativity.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Logs 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2538  July 11, 2022

By the mid 1930s, airlines began to require that stewardesses remain unmarried.  In 1953, American became the first airline to require that stewardesses retire at age 32.  Airlines defended the age 32 rule, referencing the need to maintain the young, attractive image of the stewardess.  However, union leaders suspected that economics was the underlying reason.  By the 1990s, these work rules, along with the pregnancy and weight restrictions, were gone--all changed with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and years of litigation.  https://www.apfa.org/womens-history-month/

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older.  It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination.  It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older.  Discrimination can occur when the victim and the person who inflicted the discrimination are both over 40.  ADEA refers to employers with 20 or more employees.  https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination 

The first appearance of the word honorificabilitudinitatibus (being able to achieve honors) in a printed English-language work was in the First Quarto of Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (1598).  Wiktionary

A raglan sleeve is a sleeve that extends in one piece fully to the collar, leaving a diagonal seam from underarm to collarbone.  It is named after Lord Raglan, the 1st Baron Raglan, who is said to have worn a coat with this style of sleeve after the loss of his arm in the Battle of Waterloo.  The raglan mid-length sleeve is a popular undergarment (worn under the jersey) for baseball teams in MLB.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raglan_sleeve 

Tempeh is a plant-based protein source that originated in Indonesia. It’s made from fermented soybeans that have been formed into a block, though store bought tempeh often includes additional beans and grains.  posted by Jeanine and Jack  Find recipe and link to others at https://www.loveandlemons.com/tempeh/ 

Ambience is the character and mood of a place.  Ambiance is an alternative spelling of the same word.  https://www.grammarly.com/blog/ambience-ambiance/ 

Jesmyn Ward to Receive 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction  Author of Award-Winning Novels ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ and ‘Salvage the Bones’.  At 45, Ward is the youngest person to receive the Library’s fiction award for her lifetime of work.  Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden selected Ward as this year’s winner based on nominations from more than 60 distinguished literary figures, including former winners of the prize, acclaimed authors and literary critics from around the world.  The virtual prize ceremony will take place at the 2022 National Book Festival on Sept. 3 in Washington, D.C.  Ward is the acclaimed author of the novels “Where the Line Bleeds,” “Salvage the Bones,” winner of the 2011 National Book Award, and “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award.  Her nonfiction work includes the memoir “Men We Reaped,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2020 work “Navigate Your Stars.”  Ward is also the editor of the anthology “The Fire This Time:  A New Generation Speaks About Race.”  Ward is one of only six writers to receive the National Book Award more than once and the only woman and Black American to do so.  The 2022 Library of Congress National Book Festival will take place Sept. 3 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.  “Books Bring Us Together” is the theme for this year’s festival, which is free and open to everyone.  https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/jesmyn-ward-to-receive-2022-library-of-congress-prize-for-american-fiction/s/f137bf47-3880-4a7b-aa82-2bd316fdbb14 

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a stop-motion animated short film about Marcel, an anthropomorphic seashell outfitted with a single googly eye and a pair of miniature shoes.  It is a collaboration between director Dean Fleischer-Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate.  The film premiered theatrically at AFI FEST 2010, where it was awarded Best Animated Short and was an official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.  It won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the New York International Children's Film Festival.  The concept of the film is that Marcel is being interviewed in his home by a documentary filmmaker.  Responding to off-camera questions, Marcel speaks with child-like innocence about his activities, hobbies, hopes, and disappointments.  The film is edited to resemble rough cut footage.  A sequel, "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two", was posted to YouTube on 14 November 2011.  The third film, "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Three", was posted to YouTube on 20 October 2014.  The two sequels were each accompanied by tie-in storybooks featuring Marcel.  Slate and Fleischer-Camp announced in 2014 that they planned to create a longer film about the character.  The feature-length film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2021, and stars Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Isabella Rossellini, and Rosa Salazar.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On_(2010_film) 

Catch Lou Stovall’s Silkscreen Prints at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. this summer 2022.  It has been said that Lou Stovall was responsible for turning silkscreening into an art form.   Born in Athens, Georgia, in 1937, he moved to Washington to earn his BFA from Howard University and never left. That’s where, in 1968, he established his second claim to fame:  Workshop, Inc., a collaboration studio for local creatives that grew into a professional printmaking facility ultimately called the Dupont Center used by the likes of Sam Gilliam and Robert Mangold.  See graphics at  https://interiordesign.net/designwire/catch-lou-stovalls-silkscreen-prints-at-the-phillips-collection-in-washington-d-c-this-summer/  Thank you. Muse Reader! 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2537  July 6, 2022