Books We Are Thankful For New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/11/03/books-we-are-thankful-for
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Global temperature change, 1850-2016 Click on graphic to begin
animation at http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2016/spiralling-global-temperatures/#more-4330
By the Numbers: ALA’s 140th Anniversary by Terra Dankowski 103: Number of librarians who attended the “Convention of Librarians” during the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876—what is considered the birth of the American Library Association. Of these founders, 90 were men and 13 were women. 60,301: Number of active ALA members, as of March 2016. Today, women account for about 85% of all librarians in the US. 1905 and 1907: Years that Booklist and what is today known as American Libraries began publishing, respectively. 119,487: Number of public, academic, school, special, armed forces, and government libraries located in the US. 1982: Year that ALA Council endorsed the National Library Symbol. The image, originally designed by Ralph E. DeVore for use in the Western Maryland Public Libraries, was featured on the cover of AL (Sept. 1982) and adopted three years later by the Federal Highway Administration for inclusion in its manual. Find a picture of Justin Winsor, ALA's first president, 1876-1885, and a picture of the library symbol at
Aqua vitae (Latin for
"water of life") or aqua vita is
an archaic name for a concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol.
The term was in wide use during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, although its origin is likely
much earlier. This Latin term appears in
a wide array of dialectical forms throughout all lands and people conquered by
ancient Rome. Generally, the term is a
generic name for all types of distillates, and eventually came to refer
specifically to distillates of alcoholic beverages (liquors).
Aqua vitae was typically prepared by distilling wine;
it was sometimes called "spirits of wine" in English texts, a name
for brandy that had been repeatedly
distilled. Aqua vitae was
often an etymological source of terms applied to important
locally produced distilled spirits. Examples include whiskey (from the Gaelic uisce
beatha), eau de vie in
France, acquavite in
Italy, and akvavit in Scandinavia, okowita in
Poland, оковита (okovyta) in Ukraine, акавіта (akavita) in
Belarus, and яковита (yakovita) in southern Russian dialects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_vitae
hurricane hole
noun A port of refuge from
powerful Atlantic storms, a safe haven.
Read more, including definitions of other nautical terms at http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&uid=default&FirstLetter=h&sb=Term&view_records=View&nh=6
Carla Neggers has been spinning stories ever since
she climbed a tree with pad and pen at age eleven. Now she is the New York Times bestselling
author of almost 70 novels, with millions of books sold in over 30 countries.
Her popular Sharpe & Donovan romantic suspense series featuring FBI agents
Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan launched with Saint’s Gate in 2011. In 2012, her Swift River Valley series
debuted with Secrets of the Lost Summer, which garnered a starred review from
Booklist and a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews and shot onto the New York Times, USA
Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/156523.Carla_Neggers
An antonym is a word that is the opposite meaning of another. It comes from the Greek words “anti” for
opposite and “onym” for name. Since
language is complex, people may at times, disagree on what words are truly opposite in meaning to other words. Learn the steps to take when doing antonym
research at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-antonyms.html
The word not has no real antonym. However, you can use
so or is. You can also achieve its
opposite by omitting the word not.
Sholapith or Shola Pith (also
referred to as shola and Indian cork) is a dried milky-white
spongy plant matter which can be pressed and shaped into delicate and beautiful
objects of art. Shola grows wild in
marshy waterlogged areas. The biological
name of shola is Aeschynomene aspera of the bean family. It is an herbaceous plant, which grows
particularly in the marshy areas of Bengal, Assam, Orissa and the
Deccan. The shola (sola)-style pith helmet—also
known as the sun helmet, topee, shola topee, salacot or topi, is a lightweight
helmet made of shola pith, with a cloth cover and a particular design and
thickness designed to shade and insulate the wearer’s head from the sun. See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholapith
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. in 1942) died on June 3, 2016. Ali was known for being an inspiring,
controversial and polarizing figure both inside and outside the boxing ring. He is one of the most recognized
sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman
of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC. He also wrote several best-selling
books about his career, including The Greatest: My
Own Story and The Soul of a
Butterfly. Find more,
including his professional boxing record, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
See video
and "SI's 100 greatest photos of Ali" at http://www.si.com/boxing/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-death-obit
President Obama signed the
Agricultural Act of 2014, or the
2014 Farm Bill, which featured Section 7606 allowing for universities and state
departments of agriculture to begin cultivating industrial hemp for limited
purposes. Specifically, the law allows
universities and state departments of agriculture to grow or cultivate
industrial hemp if: “(1) the industrial
hemp is grown or cultivated for purposes of research conducted under an
agricultural pilot program or other agricultural or academic research; and (2)
the growing or cultivating of industrial hemp is allowed under the laws of the
State in which such institution of higher education or State department of
agriculture is located and such research occurs.” The law also requires that the grow sites be
certified by—and registered with—their state.
In 2015, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Industrial
Hemp Farming Act of 2015 which would allow American farmers to produce and
cultivate industrial hemp. The bill
would remove hemp from the controlled substances list as long as it contained
no more than 0.3 percent THC. Find map
of state laws related to industrial hemp at http://www.ncsl.org/research/agriculture-and-rural-development/state-industrial-hemp-statutes.aspx#map
Carlos
Santana and Cindy Blackman performed the
"Star-Spangled Banner" at Oracle Arena ahead of Game 2 of the
NBA finals on June 5, 2016. Link to the
1:58 performance at
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7393613/carlos-santana-cindy-blackman-nba-national-anthem The national anthem was played in 4/4 time
rather than the usual 3/4 time. What a
surprise.
June 4, 2016 At
first glance they appear to be ordinary planks of wood marked with random
scratches. But archeologists say they're
some of the oldest handwritten documents ever found in Britain--and they
include the first known reference to "London." More than 400 ancient writing tablets were
discovered during the excavation of a London building site, with the findings
published by the Museum of London Archeology.
The central London site will soon be home to Bloomberg's new European
headquarters, but the construction phase has revealed a treasure trove of Roman
relics. Along with hundreds of writing
tablets, archaeologists have also found evidence of more than 50 Roman
buildings and 15,000 other artifacts at the site. Sheena McKenzie http://kutv.com/news/nation-world/ancient-roman-writing-tablets-discovered-at-london-building-site
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1480
June 6, 2016 On this date in 1933,
the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. On this date in 1978, Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer, was born.
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