Broiled asparagus Heat
broiler. On a baking sheet, toss the asparagus with oil and ¼ teaspoon
each salt and pepper. Arrange the
asparagus in a single layer and broil, shaking the baking sheet occasionally,
until tender and slightly charred, 6 to 8 minutes. Christopher Baker https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/broiled-asparagus
Etymological Peculiarities of Poetonyms in “The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe” by C.S.Lewis by Yulya
Ivanenko The term ‘poetonym’ was
suggested by a famous Ukrainian linguist Prof. Kalinkin (2008) to indicate
proper names that function in literary works.
Peter is a
principal character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. His name appears 148 times in the
text. As the eldest brother, he tries
his best to protect his other siblings and to act like a responsible young
adult. The name Peter comes from Latin Petrus which means
"stone, rock” which proves that his personal traits fully correspond to
his name. The next character Susan is the elder sister and the second
eldest child (115 examples of usage).
The name Susan is a form
of Susanna,
deriving originally from Middle Egyptian sšn
– “lotus flower”. The name of the second brother, Edmund is of Old English origin and its meaning is
"wealthy protector". The youngest sister Lucy (derived from the Latin noun Lux,
meaning "light". The origin of the
name Narnia is uncertain. According to
Paul Ford's Companion to Narnia, there is no indication that Lewis was alluding
to the ancient Umbrian city Nequinium, renamed Narnia by the conquering Romans
in 299 BC after the river Nar, a tributary of the Tiber .
However, since Lewis studied classics at
Oxford
Since 2018 is the one hundredth anniversary of the end
of WWI, the American Guild of
Organists has chosen to commemorate this
date. One hundred years ago, at the
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, World War I
ended. The largest, deadliest, and most
brutal conflict the world had ever seen had ravaged the entire globe for four
years, leaving tens of millions dead and tens of millions more homeless,
starving, and alone. The inspiration for the AGO's response comes from Leonard Bernstein: "This will be our reply to
violence: to make music more intensely,
more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Kansas City is the home to the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Additionally, the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, is
running a special exhibit through December on Truman's experiences in WWI and
the formative effect they had on him.
Hola friends! Late last night I flew back home from my
vacation in Mexico and I couldn’t wait to get into the kitchen today. One of my wonderful readers suggested Sopa de Fideo to me a couple weeks ago
and I thought this would be an appropriate time to give it a try (kind of like
a final celebration of all the wonderful things I saw and experienced in Mexico). This incredibly simple soup is easy to
make, full of flavor, and (of course) inexpensive. What makes it special is the toasted
vermicelli noodles that add a little extra depth of flavor compared to your
every day noodle soup. There are a
million ways to make Sopa de Fideo, so I put my own spin on it with a
little cumin, lime juice, and fresh cilantro (because I LOVE lime in
soup). If you want to make this soup a little heartier, you can add
some shredded chicken, or store bought rotisserie
chicken. If you want to have fun with
toppings, try a few chunks of avocado, some crumbled queso fresco, or even a few tortilla chips. I ate mine plain and simple and loved every
spoonful! Find recipe by Beth at https://www.budgetbytes.com/sopa-de-fideo/
Air Force One
is technically not the name of a plane, but rather the callsign used by air
traffic controllers to refer to whatever aircraft is carrying the President. Popularly, though, it is the name given to the
presidential plane, a modified Boeing model 747-200B, which under Air Force
designation is known as a VC-25A. There
are two of them, so that at least one is ready at all times. They're mostly identical except for their tail
codes: SAM 28000 and SAM 29000 (SAM
stands for Special Air Mission). The
callsign was adopted in 1953,
after the plane carrying President Eisenhower and a commercial airliner, both
with the tail code 8610, dangerously entered the same airspace. The president's aircraft at that time was a
prop plane--a Lockheed C-121 Constellations nicknamed Columbine II--but it was
again Eisenhower who flew on the first presidential jet, a modified Boeing 707
that entered service in 1959. At that
time, the planes were still full-fledged military aircraft and they sported a
red, orange and black color scheme designed by the Air Force. The radical
redesign that still survives today debuted on a brand new Boeing 707 (or C-137
Stratoliner as the Air Force called it) with tail code SAM 26000. It entered service in October of 1962. "It evolved from an interesting
interaction between JFK, Jackie Kennedy and Raymond Loewy, who was a famed
industrial designer," said Air Force One historian and former Smithsonian
curator Von Hardesty in a phone interview.
Although one of
Loewy's initial
sketches included some red, the
final design did not. The dominant blue
paint job came at JFK's request. "The seafoam blue and silver on the lower
half was a stroke of genius to make the plane seem more horizontal and
sleek," said designer and former president of the American Institute of
Graphic Arts Sean Adams in an email interview.
Jacopo Prisco, Read more and
see many pictures at https://www.cnn.com/style/article/air-force-one-trump-design-history/index.html
Presidential sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver started the Special Olympics in 1968 with the hope of
transforming the lives of people with intellectual disabilities through sports. She was inspired by her sister Rosemary, who
spent most of her life in a mental institution.
The first Special Olympics games, a one-day event on July 20, 1968, were
fairly small: About one thousand
athletes from the United States and Canada competed at Soldier Park in Chicago
in more than 400 events. Now, fifty
years later, more than five million athletes from 172 countries compete. Kennedy Shriver died in 2009, but her son Tim
Shriver is carrying on the legacy. He
said the games have evolved since their first conception. "I think the reason we're in 172
countries is that people in all of those countries are hungry to participate in
something bigger," Shriver said. "They're
hungry to be reawakened to the power of compassion and encounter. They're hungry for gentleness, a little bit of
kindness and that's the story that needs telling." This year in honor of the Games’ 50th
anniversary, a special unified program is being held, where athletes with and
without intellectual disabilities will participate in events together. Katie Reimchen and Abby Grisez Read more and see pictures at https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/special-olympics-turns-50-celebrating-half-century-power-compassion-encounter-n893271
July 20, 2018 It is
unusual for the world to become aware of an entire body of important work by a
major artist after that artist’s death. So give the case of Jack Whitten and his
sculpture a moment’s consideration. When Whitten died this year, little more
than a year after being presented with the National Medal of Arts by President
Barack Obama, almost no one knew about the half-century of sculpture he had
under his belt. That’s partly because
the sculptures were made, and remained, mostly in his home in a small village
on the Greek island of Crete, where he had spent almost every summer since
1969. It’s also because Whitten’s
painting wasn’t yet as well known to the general public as it deserved to be. It still isn’t—although over the past decade that
has certainly begun to change. It’s
common today to find Whitten’s commanding, technically audacious, subtly
buzzing and politically charged abstract paintings hanging in major museums
around the country. Odyssey: Jack Whitten sculpture,
1963-2017 Through July
29 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore artbma.org. The exhibition then moves to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., New York. metmuseum.org, Sept. 6-Dec. 2. Sebastian Smee Read much more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/after-death-major-works-by-artist-jack-whitten-discovered/2018/07/20/28aeb024-86bb-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html?utm_term=.5dc9bb6ca3ae
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1922
July 23, 2018 Word of the Day maverick noun An unbranded range animal.
Anything dishonestly obtained. One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. One
who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.
A person in the military who became
an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person. A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. Texas lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick, whose name is the source
of the word, was born on this day 215 years ago in 1803. Wiktionary
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