Charles Darrow patented Monopoly in 1935, but he didn’t invent the game. It is a variation of “the Landlord’s
Game” patented by Lizzie Magie in 1904. Lizzie
Magie is the inventor of the rule-set and concept of
the game that became Monopoly (this is proved by patents and other records). Charles Darrow is
responsible for some key aspects of the modern version of Monopoly. Darrow self-marketed the game,
patented it, and then sold it to Parker Brothers.
Johnston McCulley, a popular pulp fiction writer of the 1920-40's, was born on February
21, 1883 in Ottowa, Illinois. He worked
as a police reporter for The Police Gazette and as an Army Public Affairs
Officer during World War I. A history
buff, McCulley began his prolific writing career for the pulp magazines, moving
into novels and later, screenplays. His
stories ranged from crime thrillers to action heroes in Spanish California. McCulley is most remembered for creating
Senor Zorro, the fox, fought for justice behind a mask and masqueraded as the
Spanish caballero, Don Diego Vega.
Zorro's dual identity featured opposing personalities. Zorro was the fearless action hero riding at
night to avenge injustice, while the languid Diego read poetry. Zorro first appeared in All Story Weekly,
as The Curse
of Capistrano in five weekly installments beginning Aug. 9, 1919. Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., made
McCulley's Curse into the screen classic The Mark of Zorro in 1920, setting the
fox on a path of cinematic history that complimented his life in print. McCulley died on Nov. 23, 1958, just as the
popularity of his creation reached a frenzied peak with Guy Williams starring
in Walt Disney's weekly television show, Zorro.
https://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulpfiction/authors/Johnston-McCulley.php
What’s incredibly crunchy, low-carb,
nutritious, and a fantastic vehicle for hummus or vegetable dip?
Sugar Snap Peas! Despite their
name, they’re a refreshing, healthy versatile choice for people with (or
without) diabetes. Each one-cup serving
has two grams of fiber, approximately five grams of carbohydrate, more than
half the daily recommended amount of Vitamin C, plus B-complex vitamins and
niacin. The entire pea is edible,
too--no need for shucking. See suggested
methods for preparation at https://asweetlife.org/7-ways-to-eat-sugar-snap-peas/
Iain
Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a Welsh writer and
filmmaker. His early work was mostly poetry, much of it published
by his own small press, Albion Village Press. He was (and remains) closely connected with
the British avant garde poetry
scene of the 1960s and 1970s--authors such as Edward Dorn, J. H. Prynne, Douglas Oliver, Peter Ackroyd and Brian Catling are often quoted in his
work and even turn up in fictionalized form as characters; later on, taking
over from John Muckle,
Sinclair edited the Paladin Poetry Series and,
in 1996, the Picador anthology Conductors of Chaos. His early books Lud Heat (1975) and Suicide Bridge (1979) were a mixture
of essay, fiction and poetry; they were followed by White Chappell, Scarlet
Tracings (1987), a novel juxtaposing the tale of a disreputable band
of bookdealers on the hunt for a priceless copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet and
the Jack the Ripper murders
(here attributed to the physician William Gull). Sinclair was for some time perhaps best known
for the novel Downriver (1991),
which won the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize and the 1992 Encore Award.
It envisages the UK under the rule of the Widow, a grotesque version
of Margaret Thatcher as
viewed by her harshest critics, who supposedly establishes a one party state in
a fifth term. Radon Daughters formed
the third part of a trilogy with White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings and Downriver.
In an interview with This Week in Science, William Gibson said that Sinclair was his favourite author. See bibliography and filmography at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Sinclair
Iain Sinclair (born 7 October 1976 in Scotland) is
a Scottish former Scotland A international rugby
union player who played for Glasgow
Warriors at the Flanker position. He played 6 matches for Glasgow in the Heineken
Cup in 1997-98 season. Sinclair also played in the Scottish Inter-District
Championship of the 1997-98 season for
Glasgow against Edinburgh Rugby.
Glasgow won the match 36-20. In
1997, Sinclair played in the Scottish Thistles, a Scotland Development XV which
toured New Zealand. For the 1998-99
season onwards, Sinclair played for Edinburgh
Rugby. He played a further 10 times in the Heineken
Cup for Edinburgh between 1998 and 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Sinclair_(rugby_union)
On July 3, 2018 one of
this country's most recognizable landmarks will be reintroduced to the world
with a new name, a new museum and a substantial redesign of its urban
landscape. A half century after Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch was
inaugurated in 1968, it has been reconnected to the city of St. Louis, with a
sleek underground entrance facing the city, an expanded and redesigned visitor
center and museum, a cleaner landscape and an elevated and more elegant
waterfront along the Mississippi River. An
old parking garage has been removed and a parklike pedestrian platform over
Interstate 44 allows visitors from downtown St. Louis to visit the city's most
popular attraction without having to brave traffic lanes. But it is the new name that encapsulates the
larger cultural changes to the National Park Service site, which has been give
a $380 million renovation and redesign. What
was once known as the Jefferson National Expansion Park has been recast as the
Gateway Arch National Park. The arch
grounds now flow seamlessly into the plaza that fronts the courthouse and lead
visitors to the sunken, glass-walled entrance to the museum. Before the design changes, there was nothing
to indicate that the arch park had anything in it other than an arch, and
visitors encountered the underground museum as a sideshow to the main
attraction, which was a ride in the cramped and clanking elevator cars that
deliver people to the observation room atop the 630-foot tall structure. Now, visitors are greeted by a semicircular
and embracing entrance, from which they descend into the museum via a large,
open atrium with a terrazzo map of North America on the mezzanine floor,
showing the main migration routes during the era of westward expansion. Giant video screens project images of buffalo
running, and wagon trains moving through a backdrop of mountains and open
range. The new exhibitions, created by
Haley Sharpe Design, are more substantial, extending the story of westward
migration back to the colonial days of St. Louis, and grappling with the
fundamental questions posed by the historical narrative. Phillip Kennicott Read more at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-50-years-st-louis-arch-name-expansion-20180626-story.html
By age sixteen, Washington had copied
out by hand, 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and
Conversation. They are based on a set of rules composed by
French Jesuits in 1595. Presumably they
were copied out as part of an exercise in penmanship assigned by young
Washington's schoolmaster. Today many,
if not all of these rules, sound a little fussy if not downright silly. It would be easy to dismiss them as outdated
and appropriate to a time of powdered wigs and quills, but they reflect a focus
that is increasingly difficult to find. The rules have in common a focus on
other people rather than the narrow focus of our own self-interests that we
find so prevalent today. Richard
Brookhiser, in his book on Washington wrote that "all modern manners in
the western world were originally aristocratic. Courtesy meant
behavior appropriate to a court; chivalry comes from chevalier--a
knight. Read the rules at http://www.foundationsmag.com/civility.html
Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press
Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from
the Russian Empire,
and was the last of seven pieces performed as an accompaniment to a tableau
depicting episodes from Finnish history.
The premiere was on 2 July 1900 in Helsinki with the Helsinki
Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. A typical performance
takes between 7½ and 9 minutes. In order
to avoid Russian censorship, Finlandia had to be performed
under alternative names at various musical concerts. Titles under which the piece masqueraded were
numerous—famous examples include Happy Feelings at the awakening of
Finnish Spring, and A Scandinavian Choral March. Often incorrectly cited as a traditional
folk melody, the Hymn section is of Sibelius's own creation. Although he initially composed it for
orchestra, in 1900 Sibelius arranged the work for solo piano. Sibelius later reworked the Finlandia
Hymn into a stand-alone piece. This
hymn, with words written in 1941 by Veikko Antero
Koskenniemi, is one of the most important national songs of Finland. With different words, it is also sung as
a Christian hymn (Be
Still, My Soul, Hail, Festal Day, in Italian evangelical
churches: Veglia al mattino), and was
the national anthem of
the short-lived African state of Biafra (Land of the Rising Sun).
In Wales the
tune is used for Lewis Valentine's
patriotic hymn Gweddi Dros Gymru (A Prayer for Wales) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandia
America Has a 1.39 Billion-Pound Cheese Surplus. How Did That Happen? by Emily Petsco
America is drowning in American cheese—and cheddar, Swiss, and other
varieties, too. The country’s cheese surplus just hit 1.39 billion pounds, or as Vox puts it, enough to "arm" every man, woman,
and child in the U.S. with 4.6 pounds apiece.
In 2014, dairy farmers started scaling up their operations in response
to high demand for powdered milk from China’s growing middle class. When China’s economy started to slow a couple
years later, American dairy producers were left with too many cows and too much
milk. On top of that, the European Union made it more difficult for U.S. cheese
producers to do business there. By 2016,
the U.S. had 1.2 billion pounds of extra cheese on its hands, and since then,
stockpiles have only grown. The problem
is compounded by the fact that greater surpluses of milk and cheese tend to be
seen in the summer, when demand is lower, and high-yielding cows (a product of
genetic improvements) produce more milk in the springtime. In the past, the Department of Agriculture has
bailed out dairy producers by buying up millions of dollars of excess cheese
and distributing it to food banks. Whether
the department is once again willing to drop that much cheddar remains to be
seen. http://mentalfloss.com/article/549724/america-has-139-billion-pound-cheese-surplus-how-did-happen
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