Upperville is an unincorporated
town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, along U.S. Route 50 fifty
miles from downtown Washington, D.C.. Founded in the 1790s along Pantherskin Creek,
it was originally named Carrstown by first settler Josephus Carr. Through an 1819 Act passed by the Virginia General
Assembly, the name was changed to Upperville. John Updike wrote of Upperville in his sardonic
1961 poem Upon
Learning That a Town Exists Called Upperville. Upperville has
been designated as the Upperville Historic District and is a Virginia Historic Landmark that is listed in
the National Register of Historic Places. See a
picture of the Upperville Library at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upperville,_Virginia
Dull is an unincorporated
community in Van Wert County, Ohio, United States.
Dull is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-southwest of Ohio City.
Dull was originally called McKee, and under the latter name was laid out
in 1879 by J. M. Dull and others. See
location of Dull on Ohio map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull,_Ohio
NOTE that an enterprising Toledo
librarian made a field trip to Dull.
The Brumback Library stands as the first county library
in the United States. Built with funds bequeathed to Van Wert County residents
by John S. Brumback, an early entrepreneur, the building was dedicated in 1901.
The architecture is a combination of
Gothic and Romanesque. With its turreted towers and Ludowici roof, the library
presents a most grand appearance amid the trees of the park where it is located. In 1979, the Brumback Library was listed on the National Register of
Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architecture and because of its
place in the area's history. The library
has been selected by Library
Journal as the number
one library in the state of Ohio and number eight in the United States for
libraries with similar budgets and funding levels. See picture of library at http://visitvanwert.org/historical-attractions.php#Brumback
Restive arrived in the fifteenth century from the French word
now spelled rétif, ultimately from Latin restare, to rest.
In its first incarnation it was spelled restiff and meant a horse that resisted control
and in particular refused to move forwards when commanded. Restiff remained in the language until the
nineteenth century. At the very end of
the sixteenth century a variant form evolved from it in the modern spelling of restive, with a sense of being still or sluggish. This spelling and sense likewise stayed in
the language into the nineteenth century.
To confuse matters, by the middle of the seventeenth century, restive had borrowed the main sense of restiff, a stubborn refusal of a horse to do what it
was told. During the latter part of the
nineteenth century, the skittishness and wild movements that often resulted
from the refusal of a horse to obey caused restive to
acquire the new meaning “fidgety” or “impatient”. This has become our dominant one today. Restive has muscled in on the territory of restless, both of them suggesting a physical
manifestation of internal unease, but for different reasons. Behind restive lie
impatience, irritation, dissatisfaction, or boredom (J B Priestley wrote in
1929 in The Good Companions:
“The audience was growing
restive; there was some stamping of feet at the back”). A thesaurus will put restive with insubordinate, recalcitrant and unmanageable (reflecting
the older sense of an uncooperative horse) as well as fidgety and impatient. Restless, on the other hand, usually implies anxiety
and you can often replace it by edgy, nervous, agitated or tense. To have
a restless night implies that you can’t sleep because you are turning over some
problem in your mind or or are suffering some physical discomfort. Many writers have tried to defend the older
sense of restive against the newer one and to try to
maintain a distinction between it and restless. Sir Ernest Gowers wrote in the 1965 edition
of Fowler’s Modern English Usage: “A horse may be restless when loose in a
field, but can only be restive if it is resisting control. A child can be restless from boredom, but can
only be restive if someone is trying to make him do what he does not want.” This distinction remains, though it is being
eroded by users who consider restive and restless to be exact synonyms. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-res1.htm
NAME CHANGES Blake Lively (born Blake Ellender Brown 1987) Barbara Carroll (born Barbara
Carole Coppersmith 1925) Sting
(born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner 1951)
Annie Oakley (born
Phoebe Ann Moses 1860) Joan Crawford
(born Lucille Fay LeSueur 1905?)
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
A back-formation is a word
formed under the assumption that it must be the parent of an existing
word. For example, the verb “to burgle”
appears to have given birth to its noun, but it’s the other way: burglar came
first. Similarly, we coined the verb “to
typewrite” after the noun “typewriter”.
offing (AW-fing, AWF-ing) Near future (used in the phrase “in the
offing”). In nautical use, offing is the
part of sea visible from the shore, but beyond anchoring ground. From off (away), from of. Earliest documented use: 1600.
The New York Public Library has digitized 100 "how to do it" cards
found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so
practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes. Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular
collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities,
advertisements, and more. Gallaher
cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the
world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to's on their cards, which
ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a
runaway horse). Most of them are
insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that? The entire set of life hacks is now part of
the NYPL's George Arents Collection.
Link to all Gallaher cards at http://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-100-year-old-life-hacks/?cexp_id=2355&cexp_var=2&_f=featured Thank you, Muse reader! See also https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/george-arents-collection and https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/art-from-the-george-arents-collection-on-tobacco#/?tab=navigation
Frequently cited by
journalists, public officials and researchers, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll regularly
surveys residents in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and nationwide about political races, state
and national elections, and issues of public concern, such as schools, taxes,
transportation, municipal services and the environment. Known for its exactness
and thoroughness, the Quinnipiac poll is featured regularly in The New York
Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and on national
network news broadcasts. In 2010,
respected public opinion polling analyst Nate Silver ranked the Quinnipiac
University poll as most accurate among major polls conducting surveys in two
states or more.
How to Pronounce Quinnipiac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6wP5zj9OY
and
The Associated Press Stylebook says it is “opening the
door” to use of the singular they. A new stylebook entry, which was announced March 23,
2107 as part of the AP’s session at the 21st national conference of ACES: The Society for Editing in St. Petersburg,
Fla., for the first time allows use of they as a singular pronoun or gender-neutral
pronoun. “We stress that it’s usually
possible to write around that,” said Paula Froke, lead editor for the AP
Stylebook. “But we offer new advice for
two reasons: recognition that the spoken
language uses they as singular and we also recognize the need for a pronoun for
people who don’t identify as a he or a she.”
The new entry in the stylebook starts: They, them, their In most cases, a
plural pronoun should agree in number with the antecedent: The children
love the books their uncle gave them. They/them/their is
acceptable in limited cases as a singular and-or gender-neutral pronoun, when
alternative wording is overly awkward or clumsy. However, rewording usually is possible and
always is preferable. Clarity is a top
priority; gender-neutral use of a singular they is unfamiliar to many
readers. We do not use other
gender-neutral pronouns such as xe or ze. Gerri Berendzen Read more at http://www.copydesk.org/blog/2017/03/24/ap-style-for-first-time-allows-use-of-they-as-singular-pronoun/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1685
March 29, 2017 On this date in 1806,
construction was authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
On this date in 1638, sachems--the
Lenape name for their leaders--and Swedes hoping to establish a commercial colony
for the New Sweden Company signed an agreement by which the newcomers received
land on the western side of the Delaware River. The settlers
and soldiers built a log house and stockade, which they named after their
Queen, Christina. At its
height in 1655, when New Sweden stretched across southeastern Pennsylvania,
southern New Jersey, and all of Delaware, no more than 500 settlers lived in
New Sweden. http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-24
Word of the Day
fauxtatoes noun A dish of mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by
followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
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