Think Tarzan and the Golden Lion needed a different ending?  Perhaps you want to adapt Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet into a graphic novel.  Maybe you want to incorporate Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" into a virtual choir piece, as composer Eric Whitacre once did before encountering a copyright snag that killed the project.  Well, the chance to dust off these three—and countless other works originally copyrighted in 1923—has arrived.  A large body of films, music, and books from that year entered the public domain on Jan. 1, 2019, the first time that's happened in 20 years.  And that means they can be used according to the will of new creators who wish to adopt or adapt them.  The list includes films like Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, songs like Jelly Roll Morton's "Grandpa's Spells" and poetry collections like e.e. cummings' Tulips and Chimneys.  All these works were originally set to enter the public domain in 1999, but then Congress extended the copyright term by an additional 20 years for works between 1923 and 1977—leading to that 20-year hiatus.  Milton Guevara  Link to Duke Law's entire list of works that entered the public domain in 2019.  The data, compiled by Balfour Smith, is from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.  https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/682314361/freed-from-copyright-these-classic-works-are-yours-to-adapt

Compound Words That Used to Make a Lot More Sense--How 'cob' met 'web.'  How 'jack' met 'pot.'  How 'wed' met 'lock.'  The source of cob in the compound cobweb is coppe, a Middle English word for "spider."  That word derives from the Old English name ātorcoppe.  Ātor meant "poison" and coppewas a derivative of either cop, meaning "top" or "head," or copp, "cup" or "vessel."  In either case, ātorcoppe was formed in reference to the supposedly venomous head of the spider.  "They in the kitchen, for jest, poured hogwash on her head," says an early written record of hogwash in English.  This wasn't much of a joke, since hogwash was the common term for the garbage or slops that were mixed with water, or skimmed or sour milk, and fed to pigs.  The second element of hogwash refers to kitchen swill or brewery refuse used as food for swine—a very different meaning from the more familiar senses of wash.  Hogwash in its literal sense has been in use since at least the middle of the 15th century.  Early 17th-century evidence shows that an extended use had developed in which the word was depreciatingly applied to weak inferior liquor or any worthless stuff.  Read about the origins of compound words and see pictures at https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-origin-compound-words/hogwash

Philip Johnson was a friend and supporter of both Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman--the influence of both seems evident in the non-Euclidean form of Da Monsta.  However, Johnson claimed that his original inspiration for Da Monsta came from the design for a museum in Dresden by artist and friend Frank Stella.  In fact, when Johnson first made a  model of this structure, he named it “Dresden Zwei,” or “Dresden Two,” and presented it to Stella.  Always steeped in history, Johnson also cited the work of German Expressionist Hermann Finsterlin as a source of inspiration.  Finsterlin was known for fantastic designs that stretched the limits of architectural form. German Expressionism, an early twentieth-century movement, had influenced Johnson’s thinking on the architecture of the past.  In particular, he claimed his Crystal Cathedral in Southern California was also the outgrowth of re-examining Finsterlin.  This building, constructed of modified gunnite, is the closest to Johnson’s thinking about sculpture and form at the end of his life--what he called the “structured warp.”  The name of the building is an adaptation of the “monster,” a phrase for the building that resulted from a conversation with architecture critic Herbert Muschamp.  http://theglasshouse.org/explore/da-monsta/

A protractor helped Frank Stella create the semi-circular forms in his Protractor series of paintings.  Stella drew small-scale versions of his designs, then transferred them to much larger canvases.  He began the series in 1967, creating three design variations on 31 canvas formats for 93 paintings total--and named them after circular cities he visited in the Middle East in 1963.  Preservation Magazine  Fall 2018

Ginny Dye  Virginia E. Dye is the founder and CEO of Together We Can Change The World and My Power Mall.  Founder and CEO, Shop For Charity Day.  Owner, Fly To Your Dreams Productions. 
Author of 26 books (10 under a nom de plume).  Motivational speaker    Sales and Marketing executive for 20 years.  Youth Worker/Counselor for 18 years.  Facilitated a six-month choir tour of Ugandan orphans (2008) to raise funds for schools and orphanages in Africa.  Find list of published books at http://wikibin.org/articles/ginny-dye.html  Thank you, Muse reader! 

Bregdan is a Gaelic term for weaving.  Braiding.  Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life.  It takes every person's story to create history.  Your life will determine the course of history.  You may think you don't have much of an impact.  You do.  Every action you take will reflect in someone else's life.  Someone else's decision.  Someone else's future.  Both good and bad.  That is The Bregdan Principle.  Ginny Dye  http://www.flytoyourdreams.org/BregdanChronicles-Home.html

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library January 2019 news  As long as you return materials, you no longer accrue fines.  Talk to us about returning materials and clearing your old fines.  Join us for Authors! with Dr. Michael Roizen, Tuesday, January 22, 7 p.m. at Bowsher High School.  His book What to Eat When guides readers on what and when to eat during a 24-hour cycle.  Friends Book Sale (movies, music, puzzles, too), is November 24-26. 

Christmas in Serbia is celebrated on 25 December in the Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to 7 January in the Gregorian calendar.  The Serbian name for Christmas is Božić, which is the diminutive form of the word bog ("god"), and can be translated as "young god".  Christmas is celebrated for three consecutive days, starting with Christmas Day, which the Serbs call the first day of Christmas.  See picture showing a typical Serbian Christmas meal with grilled pork, Olivier salad (also called Russian salad), dzadziki salad, red wine and Bajadera sweets at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Serbian_Christmas_meal.jpg  Photograph by Petar Milošević

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  January 7, 2019  Issue 2017