German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake from the United States filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting.  It owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe.  Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today.  Its roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Samuel German developed a type of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker's Chocolate Company.  The brand name of the product, Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, was named in honor of him.  On June 3, 1957, a recipe for "German's Chocolate Cake" appeared as the "Recipe of the Day" in the The Dallas Morning News.  It was created by Mrs. George Clay, a homemaker from 3831 Academy Drive, Dallas, Texas.  This recipe used the baking chocolate introduced 105 years prior and became quite popular.  General Foods, which owned the Baker's brand at the time, took notice and distributed the cake recipe to other newspapers in the country.  Sales of Baker's Chocolate are said to have increased by as much as 73% and the cake would become a national staple.  The possessive form (German's) was dropped in subsequent publications, forming the "German Chocolate Cake" identity.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake

What is hundo?  Hundo means "Hundred (dollars)"

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What is oligo?  Oligo may refer to:  Oligonucleotide as an abbreviation.  OLIGO Primer Analysis Software  Oligo- as a prefix, meaning "few"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligo

Fred Bear (1902–1988) was an American bow hunter, bow manufacturer, author, and television host.  He was born in the town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.  Although he didn't start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely regarded as a pioneer in the bow-hunting community.  Bear was a world traveler, film producer, and the founder of Bear Archery, an outdoor company that still exists.  He died in Gainesville, Florida, and is in the Bowhunters Hall of Fame.  F.B. Bear applied for a Patent on April 21, 1950.  On January 12, 1954, Patent 2,665,678 was issued for the Composite Archery Bow.  (USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database:  US002665678).  Bear has been immortalized in the song "Fred Bear" from the album Spirit of the Wild by hard rock musician Ted Nugent, who was Bear's friend.  Fred Bear was also a popular contributing author for magazines such as Outdoor Life and Archery Magazine.  Grayling, Michigan was home to Fred Bear and Bear Archery Company.  The Fred Bear Museum originated in Grayling, Michigan in 1967.  Eventually the museum's collection represented the largest privately held collection of archery artifacts in the world.  At first the museum remained behind in Grayling, but in 1985 it too was moved to Gainesville, where it found a home in the Bear Archery plant between Archer Road and Williston Road, just off of I-75.  That museum closed in 2003, and the collections were sold to the Bass Pro Shops chain.  Since then, the Fred Bear Museum was displayed at the headquarters store of Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, Missouri.  Exhibits included the story of Fred Bear and bowhunting history, life-size animal mounts, bowhunting artifacts, some of his trophies and memorabilia, and historical bows and arrows used or built by Fred Bear and his company.  The exhibit was temporarily closed due to the construction of an aquarium in the same building.  Artifacts from the Fred Bear Museum have now been incorporated into the Archery Hall of Fame and Museum on the upper floor of the Bass Pro Shop Outdoor World.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Bear

Ai Weiwei, the provocative and politically minded Chinese artist who has two major projects coming soon to New York City, has another big installation to add to his busy year:  the East Coast debut of “Trace” (2014), will be on view from June 28, 2017 through January 1, 2018 at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.  “Trace”—commissioned by the FOR-SITE Foundation, the National Park Service and the Golden Gate Park Conservancy—was created as a site-specific installation at Alcatraz in San Francisco, where it drew nearly one million visitors.  The work comprises 176 portraits made up of thousands of Lego bricks, depicting people whom Mr. Ai considers activists, prisoners of conscience and free-speech advocates.  The installation will cover about 700 feet of the doughnut-shaped museum’s second-floor galleries.  Joshua Barone  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/arts/design/ai-weiweis-lego-portraits-of-activists-head-to-the-hirshhorn-museum.html

Faustian bargain  An agreement, bargain, or deal in which a person sacrifices or abandons his or her moral, ethical, or spiritual values infavor of wealth, power, or other benefits.  A reference to the legend of Faust, who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge and power.  http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Faustian+bargain

Scenes from the Life of Saint Zenobius is a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.  Four panels from the series survive, which are now in three different museums.  Each depicts three or more incidents from the life of Zenobius, an early Bishop of Florence who perhaps died in 417.  The works are all in tempera on wood, and around 66 cm (26 in) high, though their length varies rather more, from about 149 cm to 182 cm (55 to 72 in).  The National Gallery in London has two panels.  One of these, Four Scenes from the Early Life of Saint Zenobius shows (left to right): Zenobius rejects the bride chosen by his parents, then walks away; Zenobius is baptized; his mother is baptized by the bishop of Florence; he is consecrated as Bishop of Florence by Pope Damasus (this in Rome).  The second London panel shows Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a panel with another three miracles, also called by them Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius.  The Gemäldegalerie in Dresden has a panel showing a miracle in three scenes, and the death of the saint.  It is generally agreed that the paintings come from the last phase of Botticelli's career, perhaps c. 1500–1505; some authorities regard them as possibly the artist's latest surviving works.  Read more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_from_the_Life_of_Saint_Zenobius

An old adage states that sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.  This has never been true, and never will be.  See a modern version:  Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can also hurt me.  Sticks and stones break only skin, While words are ghosts that haunt me.  Slant and curved the words-swords fall To pierce and stick inside me, bats and bricks may ache through bones, But words can mortify me.  Pain from words has left its scar On mind and heart that's tender.  Cuts and bruises now have healed, It's words that I remember.  Byrne, Brendan (1994).  http://www.williamsoncentral.org/elementary.cfm?subpage=663926   See also https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-sense/201105/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones-words-will-cut-me-deeply

Words can be used constructively or destructively.  Adults need to speak with civility to set a good example for children.  And adults need to work with children, teaching them that friends who urge them to bully are not friends.  On June 15, 2017, musician Ted Nugent said he will no longer engage in hateful rhetoric.  Let us hope this is true. 

Announcing #SubwayLibrary: Free E-Books for Your Commute by Gwen Glazer, Librarian, Readers Services, New York Public Library    June 8, 2017  We're excited to announce the launch of Subway Library, a new initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provides subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.  As part of the Subway Library celebration, don't miss the specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room!  The train will alternate running on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.  Read more and see pictures  at https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/06/08/subwaylibrary  Thank you, Muse reader!

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1727  June 20, 2017  On this date in 1837, Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne.  On this date in 1863, West Virginia was admitted as the 35th U.S. state.  Thought for Today  The well taught philosophic mind / To all compassion gives; / Casts round the world an equal eye, / And feels for all that lives. - Anna Letitia Barbauld, poet, essayist, and editor (20 Jun 1743-1825)