Glossary of Circus Slang & Lingo  https://filmwaterforelephants.wordpress.com/bigtop/circus-lingo/

Salted Ta-honey Pie by Annie Rigg  serves 8  This recipe is inspired by the now famous Salty Honey Pie served at Four and Twenty Blackbirds in New York City.  Find recipe (excerpted with permission Pies & Tarts: For All Seasons  published by Quadrille October 2018 and adapted with chocolate and tahini added) at https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/salted-ta-honey-pie

  

"If your name is James, you go by Jim.  If your name is Christopher, you go by Kit."  That's how calypso singer Socrates explains the name of his island, St. Kitts.  Technically, the island's proper name is St. Christopher.  Unfortunately for Socrates, most of the tourists he ferries around the island in his part-time gig as a tour guide are from the United States, where a kid named Christopher is more likely to be nicknamed Chris than Kit.  But this rose of an island, no matter the name, always smells sweet.  St Kitts and its sister island Nevis are both gorgeous, lush and full of cultural experiences.  The capital of Basseterre is small and easily navigable.  Basseterre means "lowland" in French, and is not to be confused with a different Caribbean capita--Basse-terre, Guadeloupe, which is distinguished by its hyphen.  The nation of St. Kitts and Nevis was a British colony (and, before that, a French one) before gaining its independence in 1983, so there are still some glimpses of that colonial history around.  Lilit Marcus  https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/things-to-do-st-kitts/index.html

There is evidence of human settlement in Taiwan dating as far back as 30, 000–40, 000 years ago.  Taiwan was settled by people of Malay-Polynesian descent and named "Pakan."  By the early 1500s there were three groups of people on the island:  Hakka, Fujianese and the aboriginal tribes.  The Portuguese "discover" Taiwan.  The Portuguese named Taiwan Ilha Formosa, meaning ‘beautiful island’.  Taiwan was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century.  Spain invaded Taiwan in 1626 and took control of a large portion of the coast line.  They tried to compete with the Dutch trade, but failed because of natural disasters and trouble with the aborigine people.  After Spain retreated the Dutch took control of Keelung in 1642.  In 1894 war broke out between Japan and China over the Japanese invasion of Korea.  China’s untrained and weak navy could not beat Japan’s modern fleet, and in 1895 China was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Shimonoseki which ceded the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa), Taiwan and the Penghu Archipelago to Japan.  Japan ruled from 1896-1945.  The Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek established their government in 1949 after the mainland fell to the Communists.  Chiang served as president until his death in 1975.  Lee Teng-hui became Taiwan's first native-born president in January 1988.  Read much more at https://www.preceden.com/timelines/36327-the-history-of-taiwan-timeline

Kabocha squash or Japanese pumpkin is delicious and packs impressive health benefits.  Like pumpkin, kabocha’s bright orange flesh is high in the anti-oxidant beta-carotene, which translates to vision-protecting Vitamin A.  The skin is also an excellent source of fiber.   Additionally, using kabocha squash in any dish boosts the sweetness without adding extra sugar.   Try swapping it into recipes that call for pumpkin, butternut squash, or acorn squash.  Elizabeth Laseter  Find tips for cooking or grating at https://www.cookinglight.com/food/in-season/what-is-kabocha-squash

The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time.  Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.  Weather includes sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains from a cold front or warm front, excessive heat, heat waves and more.  When scientists talk about climate, they're looking at averages of precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind velocity, phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms, and other measures of the weather that occur over a long period in a particular place.  Read more and see graphics at https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html

Bourekas were brought to Israel from the Ottoman Empire by Sephardi Jews who lived in Turkey and the Balkan countries.  The Sephardi were likely responsible for adding a final “s” to the Turkish borek to make it into a plural in Ladino, thus creating the word used today in modern Hebrew.  The original Turkish borek is made with phyllo or yufka dough--hand-made phyllo, soft and layered, and stretched until the dough is transparent and folded with oil.  Comparing this homemade delicacy to the frozen, paper-tasting phyllo you’ll find in the supermarket freezer is like comparing a fresh Brooklyn bagel spread generously with cream cheese to the piece of paper that wraps it.  It’s just not the same.  Bourekas are best served with pickles, tahini sauce, haminados (overnight hard-boiled eggs), Israeli chopped salad and a cold yogurt drink.  Buy the best butter-based puff pastry you can find; it will make a big difference in the final result.  See recipe with pictures at https://www.haaretz.com/food/1.5382150

A.Word.A. Day with Anu Garg

trompe l’oeil  (tromp loi)  noun  1.  A style of painting in which objects are rendered in extremely realistic detail, giving an illusion of reality.  2.  A painting, mural, etc., made in this style.  From French, literally “fools the eye”, from tromper (to deceive) + le (the) + oeil (eye).  Earliest documented use:  1889.

red-eye  (RED-eye)  noun  1.  The phenomenon of a person’s eyes appearing red in a photograph taken with a flash.  2.  A late-night flight or overnight flight.  An airplane flight that takes place in the night is called a red-eye because it deprives travelers of a full-night’s sleep and as a result may cause bloodshot eyes.  Earliest documented use, for 1:  1966, for 2:  1964.

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From:  Kathy Root   Thanks for the great idea to feature words about the eye this week and also for your introductory paragraphs on eyesight and organ donation.  Here in Ohio, when one renews one’s license plates or driver’s license in person at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the clerk will always ask if $1 can be added to the renewal fee to give to Save Our Sight.  This program provides eyeglasses to children whose families cannot afford them (Medicaid recipients, etc.).  I ALWAYS say “yes” and gladly pay the extra $1 because, as a professional photographer and daughter of a seven-time cornea transplant recipient, I know just how important perfect eyesight (even with corrective lenses) is to every one of us.
From:  SarahRose Werner   Subject:  Trompe l’oeil  It doesn’t exist anymore, but Portland, Maine, used to have a lovely trompe l’oeil mural of the city hall half a block down Exchange Street from the actual city hall.  I was living in Portland and my brother came to visit me.  We were walking up Exchange  Street.  As a joke, I indicated the mural and said, “That’s our city hall.”  We continued to walk and were almost abreast of the mural when my brother did a double-take, obviously realizing only then that the “building” I had indicated was a painting.
From:  Iain Calder   Subject:  trompe l’oeil  My favourite trompe l’oeil is the unique and awe-inspiring Italian Chapel on the Orkney Islands.  During WWII, Italian prisoners were transported to the Orkneys to build the Churchill Barriers, designed to prevent German submarines from entering the key British naval base of Scapa Flow.  However, the workers needed a chapel, so two Nissen huts were joined end-to-end to provide the tructure.  Among the prisoners was an artist, Domenico Chiocchetti, who transformed the interior from bare plasterboard into what you would swear was a building full of beautiful Italian porcelain tiling.
From:  Doreen Munroe  Subject:  red-eye  Here in Guernsey, red-eye refers to the first flights out in the morning--to Manchester at 6.50 and Gatwick at 7.00.  You have to get up early to check in at 6.00--hence the red-eye.
From:  Michael Winter  Subject:  red-eye  A red eye also refers to a drip coffee with a shot of espresso.

From:  Wes Reynolds  Subject:  red-eye  When I was a kid (I’m 73 now), we used to visit my father’s parents in southern Illinois and at family dinners we would be served red-eye gravy.  My British wife scorns this and makes her gravy the way her mother did and I quite like it.  But red-eye gravy brings back great memories.  

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