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Shepardize  The name derives from a legal service begun by Frank Shepard (1848–1902) in 1873, when Shepard began publishing these lists in a series of books indexed to different jurisdictions. Initially, the product was called Shepard’s Adhesive Annotations.  The citations were printed on gummed, perforated sheets, which could be divided and pasted onto pages of case law.  Known as “stickers,” these were literally torn to bits and stuck to pertinent margins of case reporters.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_Citations

Listerine was named for Joseph Lister, a British surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery.  It was sold unsuccessfully as a floor cleaner and a cure for everything from chapped hands to gonorrhea.  In the 1920's, however, the makers of Listerine hit pay dirt when they pitched it as a remedy for bad breath.  The phrase ‘always a bridesmaid, never a bride’ was popularized by a 1930’s advertisement for Listerine.  Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences  http://libraries.rbhs.rutgers.edu/rwjlbweb/posters/listerine.pdf

sortation  noun  (especially in data processing) the process of sorting or its result.  Origin:  Mid 19th century:  from sort (verb) + -ation  https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/sortation

"A loss often insults before it hurts."  "Virtuosity in Bach delights not so much in answering its own musical questions (like Mozart) but in puzzling out the possible ranges of resolutions."  “There is something of the heavens in it,” wrote Sir Thomas Browne in an epigraph that appears in the Schirmer edition of the Goldberg Variations  . . .  A little detective work reveals that Sir Thomas Browne published the remark in 1642, a century before Bach set the piece to paper . . . it was applied, first, by the American harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick in 1935."  The Variations, a novel by John Donatich 

John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.  He received a BA from New York University in 1982, graduating magna cum laude.  He also got a master's degree from NYU in 1984, graduating summa cum laude.  Donatich worked as director of National Accounts at Putnam Publishing Group from 1989 to 1992.  His writing has appeared in various periodicals including Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and The Village Voice.  He worked at HarperCollins from 1992 to 1996, serving as director of national accounts and then as vice president and director of product and marketing development.  From 1995 to 2003, Donatich served as publisher and vice president of Basic Books.  While there, he started the Art of Mentoring series of books, which would run from 2001 to 2008.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donatich  See also http://readaroundtheworld-sallyb.blogspot.com/2012/04/john-donatich-im-in-love-with-his-words.html

strait  noun  (1)  A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.  in place names ‘the Straits of Gibraltar’  (2)  Used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty.  ‘the economy is in dire straits’  Origin:  Middle English:  shortening of Old French estreit ‘tight, narrow’, from Latin strictus ‘drawn tight’ (see strict).  https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/strait

Largest underwater waterfall:  Denmark Strait cataract  The Denmark Strait, in the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland, is an underground waterfall that tumbles almost 11,500 feet and carries 175 million cubic feet of water per second.  The reason it exists is due to temperature differences in the water on either side of the strait.  Cold water is more dense than warm water.  And the eastern side of the strait is a lot colder than the western side.  So when the waters meet, the cold water sinks below the warmer water, creating a strong downward flow of water—one that can be (and is) considered a waterfall.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/10-spectacular-record-setting-waterfalls/largest-underwater-waterfall-denmark-strait-cataract

From artichokes to tea, how to eat and drink tricky foods  http://emilypost.com/advice/guide-to-food-and-drink/

The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America, and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota, and south to northern Florida and Texas.  It is also cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable.  Before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans cultivated Helianthus tuberosus as a food source.  The tubers persist for years after being planted, so that the species expanded its range from central North America to the eastern and western regions.  Early European colonists learned of this, and sent tubers back to Europe, where it became a popular crop and naturalized there.  It later gradually fell into obscurity in North America, but attempts to market it commercially have been successful in the late 1900s and early 2000s.  The artichoke contains about 2% protein, no oil, and a surprising lack of starch.  It is rich in the carbohydrate inulin (76%), which is a polymer of the monosaccharide fructose.  Tubers stored for any length of time will convert their inulin into its component fructose.  Jerusalem artichokes have an underlying sweet taste because of the fructose, which is about one and a half times as sweet as sucrose.  Read more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke

The globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food.  The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom.  The budding artichoke flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence) together with many bracts, on an edible base.  Once the buds bloom, the structure changes to a coarse, barely edible form.  Another variety of the same species is the cardoon, a perennial plant native to the Mediterranean region.  Both wild forms and cultivated varieties (cultivars) exist.  The artichoke is mentioned as a garden plant in the 8th century BC by Homer and Hesiod.  The naturally occurring variant of the artichoke, the cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), which is native to the Mediterranean area, also has records of use as a food among the ancient Greeks and Romans.  The Dutch introduced artichokes to England, where they grew in Henry VIII's garden at Newhall in 1530.  They were brought to the United States in the 19th century—to Louisiana by French immigrants and to California by Spanish immigrants.  Today, cultivation of the globe artichoke is concentrated in the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin.  The main European producers are Italy, Spain, and France.  In the United States, California provides nearly 100% of the U.S. crop, and about 80% of that is grown in Monterey County; there, Castroville proclaims itself to be "The Artichoke Center of the World", and holds the annual Castroville Artichoke Festival.  Most recently, artichokes have been grown in South Africa in a small town called Parys located along the Vaal River.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

6 Theories on the Origin of the Bullpen by David K. Israel   No one really knows where the term bullpen comes from, and no one theory has enough compelling evidence to support or refute the origin.  No more certain is the debate about when the word bullpen was first used.  OED cites the earliest use dating back to a 1924 Chicago Tribune article, while other sources say the area referring to where pitchers warm up (especially relief pitchers), was first called the bullpen in a Baseball Magazine article published in 1915.  Read about the six theories and see pictures at http://mentalfloss.com/article/23013/6-theories-origin-bullpen

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1734  June 30, 2017  On this date in 1937, the world's first emergency telephone number, 999, was introduced in London.  On this date in 1997, the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.  Thought for Today  Shadow owes its birth to light. - John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732)