30 Famous People With Law Degrees by Stacy Conradt Find
the list divided by authors, actors/celebrities, entrepreneurs, leaders,
artists, sports figures, musicians, and puzzle makers at http://mentalfloss.com/article/30760/30-famous-people-law-degrees
Politicians and lawyers, particularly trial
lawyers, are actors as part of their jobs.
This is a powerful way they can get their views across.
ArtPrize 2015, to be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan from Sept. 23-Oct. 11, 2015, will
have a little more art and a lot more by artists from overseas in the seventh
annual exhibition. ArtPrize Seven will
welcome 1,554 entries submitted by 1,649 artists from 42 U.S. states and 48
countries. A total of 137 international
artists, a 21 percent increase over last year, will travel to Michigan for the
$500,000 competition. A total of 27
entries have Japanese connections, than any other foreign country. ArtPrize defines international artists as
artists who were born or currently live outside of the United States. Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2015/06/artprize_2015_has_a_little_more_art_but_a_lot_more_international_artists.html
See the chronicles of Toledo stone
sculptor, stone artist and stone mason Calvin Babich and his 2015 ArtPrize submission
"Balancing Act" at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand
Rapids, Michigan at https://www.facebook.com/CalvinBabichBalancingActArtPrize2015?_rdr=p See also https://www.artprize.org/calvin-babich
where you find three of Calvin's links:
Twitter, Facebook and his Website.
Basil belongs
to the genus Ocimum and is a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae). The genus includes over sixty species of
annuals, non-woody perennials and shrubs native to Africa and other tropical
and subtropical regions of the Old and New World. There are other plants outside the Ocimum
genus with the common name of basil, including basil thyme (Acinos arvensis)
and wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare).
Physically, basils are characterized by square, branching stems, opposite
leaves, brown or black seeds (also called nutlets) and flower spikes, but
flower color and the size, shape, and texture of the leaves vary by
species. Leaf textures range from smooth
and shiny to curled and hairy, and flowers are white to lavender/purple. Leaf color can also vary, from green to
blue/purple, and plants can grow to from 1 to 10 feet in height, depending on
the species. Most people are familiar
with sweet basil, the common culinary basil, but the world of basils offers a
wide array of plants with a great diversity of flavors, scents, and uses. Some of the more popular basils include
sweet, specialty fragrant (cinnamon, lemon and Thai/anise), purple-leaved,
bush, and miniature or dwarf. Basil has
a long and interesting history steeped in legend. Probably originating in Asia and Africa (73),
it is thought to have been brought to ancient Greece by Alexander the Great
(356-323 B.C.E.), to have made its way to England from India in the mid 1500s
and arrived in the U.S in the early 1600s.
Basil’s folklore is as complex as its flavor and aromas. In terms of its legend and symbolism, basil
has been both loved and feared. Its
associations include such polar opposites as love and hate, danger and
protection, and life and death. The
generic name, Ocimum, derives from the ancient Greek word, okimon, meaning
smell which suggests the impressive nature of basil’s fragrance. The specific epithet, basilicum, is Latin for
basilikon, which means kingly/royal in Greek.
Find references in literature and art at http://www.herbsociety.org/factsheets/Basil%20Guide.pdf
Bee balm, (also
known as Bergamot, Oswego tea, and Scarlet monarda) is a member of the mint
family that comes in shades of scarlet, white, pink, purple and blue. The flowers attract bees, hummingbirds and
beneficial insects. The Oswego indians
introduced this native New York herb to the colonists. Find planting and maintenance tiips at http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/scene13fe.html
The common linnet (Linaria cannabina) is a small passerine bird of the finch family,
Fringillidae. It derives its scientific
name from its fondness for hemp and its English name from its liking for seeds of flax, from which linen is
made. The bird was a popular pet
in the late Victorian and Edwardian
eras. Tennyson mentions "the linnet born within
the cage" in part 27 of the poem In
Memoriam A.H.H, the same section that contains the famous lines "'Tis
better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." A "cock linnet" features in the
classic British music hall song of that period My Old Man, and as a character in Oscar
Wilde's children's story The Devoted Friend. Wilde also mentions how the call of the
linnet awakens The Selfish Giant to the one tree where it is springtime
in his garden. William Butler Yeats evokes the image of the
common linnet in The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1890) in line 8: "And evening full of the linnet's
wings." In the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles
Dickens, the heroine Nell keeps "only a poor linnet" in a cage,
which she leaves for Kit as a sign of her gratefulness to him. William Blake invokes "the linnet's
song" in one of the poems entitled "Song" in his "Poetical
Sketches." The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 entry for the Netherlands The Common Linnets is a direct reference to the
bird. William Wordsworth argued that the song of the common
linnet provides more wisdom than books in the third verse of The Tables Turned: "Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his
music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it." But the fellow English poet Robert
Bridges used the common
linnet instead to express the limitations of poetry - concentrating on the
difficulty in poetry of conveying the beauty of a bird's song. He wrote in the first verse: "I heard a linnet courting His lady in
the spring . . . The musical Sweeney Todd features the song "Green Finch
and Linnet Bird," in which a young lady confined to her room wonders why
caged birds sing.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he’s a getting;
The sooner will his Race
be run, And neerer he’s to Setting.
The "Sun" is
personified here. Personification gives
human characteristics to non-human things and is a form of figurative
language, or is also referred to as a figure of speech.
The Sun is described as running "his Race," referring to the
sun's passage through the sky throughout the daylight hours. A person runs; the sun cannot. "Lamp of Heaven, the Sun" is a
metaphor comparing two dissimilar things that share the same characteristics.
Find the name
of the poem and the poet at http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/definition-element-gloriuos-lamp-heaven-sun-428986
"Drink to me only with thine eyes" comes from the poem Song to Celia II by British poet,
playwright and critic Ben Johnson (1572-1637). http://allpoetry.com/Song-to-Celia-II Read Song to Celia I at http://www.poetiv.com/jonson-ben/song-to-celia-i.html
Response to
article
on The 100 Best Poems of
All Time
"Also good: Best-Loved
Poems of the American People and A Treasury of the Familiar." Thank
you, Muse reader!
In astronomy, blue moon is defined as either the third full moon of a season with four full moons--or the second
full moon in a calendar month. The
latter use was popularized due to a miscalculation published in a 1946 article
in Sky and Telescope magazine. Such blue moons occur rather frequently--at
least once every two or three years. Blue-colored moons do rarely occur when dust or smoke
particles in the air are of a specific size. Such particles help create a blue-colored moon
by scattering blue light. Red moon,
which can be caused by other sizes of dust particles or lunar
eclipses, are much more common than blue moons. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/blue-moon-science.html
A
blue moon occurs July 31, 2015 at 10:43 am UTC.
"With books as friends, the fun never ends" "You belong at your library" "Reading is mind-bending" "Reading is always in season"
Quotes from American Library Association
posters
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1331
July 31, 2015 On this date in
1498, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher
Columbus became the
first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
On this date in 1790, the first U.S. patent was
issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
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