Monoculars and binoculars are both optical instruments that allow you to magnify and view distant objects.  Although they both share the same telescopic technology, and you can for use them for the same purpose, they have different features.  The most obvious differences between monoculars and binoculars are the way they look and the way you use them.  Monoculars look like small telescopes.  They have a single lens that you hold up to one eye--you choose which eye to use.  Binoculars have two lenses, and you need to hold the device in front of both eyes to look at objects.  If used for long periods, you may find that binoculars are easier on your eyes compared to monoculars because they don't put a strain on just one eye.  Monoculars are typically much smaller and lighter than binoculars--the smallest can be thumb-sized.

Carol Finch  https://www.techwalla.com/articles/monoculars-vs-binoculars

The three-point turn (sometimes called a Y-turn, K-turn, or broken U-turn) is the standard method of turning a vehicle around to face the opposite direction in a limited space, using forward and reverse gears.  This is typically done when the road is too narrow for a U-turn.  See graphic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_turn

Briefly soaking meat in a solution of baking soda and water raises the pH on the meat’s surface, making it more difficult for the proteins to bond excessively, which keeps the meat tender and moist when it’s cooked.  Our recipes typically call for a 15- to 20-minute treatment, but what if your dinner prep is interrupted and that time is doubled or even tripled?  To find out if a soak longer than 15 to 20 minutes would do more harm than good, we treated 12 ounces each of ground beef, sliced chicken breast, and sliced pork with baking soda—¼ teaspoon for the beef and 1 teaspoon for the sliced meats—for different lengths of time before cooking them.  We were surprised to find that samples that were treated for 45 minutes were identical to those treated for only 15 minutes.  Here’s why:  The acid/base reaction happens very quickly and does not build much over time.  In fact, when we weighed the samples of treated ground beef before and after cooking, we found that the sample that had been treated for 45 minutes retained a mere 3 percent more moisture when cooked than meat that was treated for only 15 minutes.

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6707-tenderizing-meat-with-a-baking-soda-solution

Bibliography of Published Baseball Music and Songs in the Collections of the Music Division at the Library of Congress contains a listing of over 400 musical works and songs related to baseball.  The paths of baseball and musical composition have crossed several times in their respective evolutions.  For example, from 1895 to 1920, a time marked by the American heyday of the parlor piano and the  prominence of the popular music publishing industry called "Tin Pan Alley," it was common for family and friends to gather around the piano for an evening's entertainment.  This national pastime began to decline in the 1920's with the rise of the broadcasting and recording industries.  Coincident with this unique musical era, baseball, THE national pastime, experienced what some writers call its "Silver Age:" a time when dual major league status was re-established, when the World Series was instituted, and when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth became the heroes that composers rhapsodized about!  Indeed, it was the songwriters who first designated baseball as "America's National Game."  https://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/baseballbib.html  Brooklyn is mentioned 21 times in the bibliography, including BROOKLYN BASEBALL CANTATA:  A HUMOROUS CANTATA.  Kleinsinger, George (m); Stratton, Michael (w). New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1949. 

The Shot Heard Round the World   On Oct. 3, 1951, one of Major League Baseball's greatest moments took place.  In the bottom of the 9th inning, the New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League Pennant.  Batter Bobby Thomson's three-run homer became legendary.  It was the first nationally televised sporting event.  The two teams:  longtime New York rivals, the Giants and the Dodgers.  Big shots from the movies, TV, the underworld were there; authors from Steinbeck to Don DeLillo have immortalized the event.  The game ended with a homerun hit by Bobby Thomson off Ralph Branca known as the shot heard 'round the world.  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6186829  See also http://www.thisgreatgame.com/1951-baseball-history.html

The Sanford Underground Research Facility is in the former gold mine in the town of Lead (pronounced "leed" not "led"), South Dakota.  More than 200 international institutions conduct research at the lab, shielded by one mile of solid rock.  The name of Lead City was chosen because of the large number of "leads" or outcroppings of ore in the area.

Lead has been called the richest 100 square miles on Earth.  Over a period of 126 years, miners pulled more than 41 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver from the Homestake Mine, the largest mine in the western hemisphere.  Prospectors began arriving in the Black Hills in the mid-1870s.  In the early mining years, miners hammered the rock with picks, their way lit with candlelight, and mushed mules pulling carts filled with ore.  In later generations, miners broke the rock with pneumatic drills and powerful explosives, producing a seemingly limitless stream of riches.  In December 2001, however, that limit arrived.  Homestake mined its final ore and left behind more than 370 miles of tunnels from the surface to the 8,000-foot level.  Today, those caverns house world-leading research that seeks to understand the riches of the universe.  http://sanfordlabhomestake.com/history

The story of the famous Black Hills Gold Rush has been told and retold.  These accounts include countless history books, numerous fictional novels and most recently HBO’s loosely historical series, Deadwood.  The times of “fabulous fortunes” were sensational, wild, perhaps wicked and short lived.  The actual Deadwood/Lead gold rush began in 1875 and ended in 1877.  Yet gold was to play a huge role in the area’s history, economy and development for many, many years to come.  Toward the end of the big Black Hills gold rush, mining magnate, George Hearst arranged to purchase one of the most promising claims in the Lead/Deadwood area for $70,000 and incorporated it as the Homestake Mining Company.  That was the beginning of a story with a list of accomplishments, both technological and civic that is over 126 years.  Uncover the fascinating story of the Homestake Gold Mine at the Homestake Visitor Center at 160 West Main Street, Lead SD.  http://www.homestakevisitorcenter.com/

Card money is a type of fiat money printed on plain cardboard or playing cards, which was used at times as currency in several colonies and countries (including Dutch Guiana, New France, and France) from the 17th century to the early 19th century.  Where introduced, it was often followed by high rates of inflation.  Read more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_money

PSEUDONYMS   John le Carré  (David John Moore Cornwell born 1931);  Jon Trace (Michael Morley born 1957); John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. born 1943)  Mr. Atomic (twins Mark and Michael Kersey)  http://www.mratomic.com/about/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1542  October 26, 2016  On this date in 1825, the Erie Canal opened from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.  On this date in 1936, the first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.