Benjamin Franklin Goodrich was born in 1841 in Ripley, New York, became a doctor and then served on the battlefront of the Civil War as a Union Army surgeon.  After the war he invested heavily in the Hudson River Rubber Company, which failed but led to his creation of the B.F. Goodrich Corporation a few years later.  Goodrich's goal was to improve the rubber in fire hoses so they would not freeze and break in the winter and that success led to the introduction of garden hoses.  However it was not until a few years after his death in 1888 that the company started making tires for automobiles.  In 1908 Henry Ford began putting Goodyear tires on his Model T's and that success led to the development of the first airplane tires and eventually the creation of observation balloons and blimps.  By 1926 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company led the world in rubber production.  Meanwhile, The Goodrich Corporation became one of the biggest tire manufactures in the world before merging with Uniroyal (previously the United States Rubber Company) in 1986.  Goodrich tire production ended in 1988 when they sold the tire division to Michelin.  https://www.antiquecar.com/articles/automobile-tires.php 

Marcus Samuelsson (born Kassahun Tsegie 1971) is an Ethiopian Swedish chef and restaurateur.  He is the head chef of Red Rooster in Harlem, New York.  Kassahun Tsegie was born in Ethiopia.  His father, Tsegie, is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church priest.  His mother died in a tuberculosis epidemic when he was three years old.  As detailed in Samuelsson's appearance on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown  he and his elder sister, Fantaye, were separated from their family during the turmoil of the Ethiopian Civil War, which began in 1974.  Subsequently, the siblings were adopted by Ann Marie and Lennart Samuelsson, a homemaker and a geologist, respectively, who lived in Gothenburg, Sweden. The siblings' names were changed to Marcus and Linda Samuelsson.  They also have an adopted sister, Anna Samuelsson.  His biological father, Tsegie, the father of eight others (the chef's half-siblings) still resides in the Ethiopian village where Samuelsson was born.  After becoming interested in cooking through his maternal grandmother in Sweden, Samuelsson studied at the Culinary Institute in Göteborg (Gothenburg) where he was raised.  He apprenticed in Switzerland and Austria, then came to the United States in 1994 as an apprentice at Restaurant Aquavit. 

In July 2018, Samuelsson premiered a six-part series called No Passport Required on PBS. The series highlights and celebrates immigrant cultures and foods found in the United States. Samuelsson is both the host and executive producer of the series.  In 2019, PBS announced that the series was renewed for a second six-episode season.  Samuelsson has released cookbooks New American Table, The Soul of a New Cuisine, Marcus Off Duty, and The Red Rooster Cookbook.  In 2012, Samuelsson released Yes, Chef, a memoir co-written with journalist Veronica Chambers about Samuelsson's early life and trajectory to becoming a chef.  The book gained favorable reviews and won the James Beard Foundation award for Writing and Literature related to food.  After the success of Yes, Chef, in 2015, Samuelsson published Make it Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life, aimed at young adults.  Samuelsson is married to the model Gate (Maya) Haile.  They reside in Harlem, New York, New York, near the site of his restaurant, Red Rooster.  They welcomed their son, Zion Mandela, on 19 July 2016.  Samuelsson has an adult daughter, Zoe.  Samuelsson serves on the board at City Harvest and serves as co-chair of the board of directors for Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP).  He also has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2000, and is the co-founder, along with his wife Gate, of the Three Goats Organization.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuelsson 

Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.  Schadenfreude is a complex emotion, where rather than feeling sympathy toward someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail.  This emotion is displayed more in children than adults.  However, adults also experience schadenfreude, although generally, they conceal it.  Schadenfreude is borrowed from German.  It is a compound of Schaden, "damage, harm", and Freude, "joy".  The German word was first mentioned in English texts in 1852 and 1867, and first used in English running text in 1895.  In German, it was first attested in the 1740s.  Although common nouns normally are not capitalised in English, schadenfreude sometimes is capitalised following the German convention.  Researchers have found that there are three driving forces behind schadenfreude:  aggression, rivalry, and justice.  Several studies have produced evidence that self-esteem has a negative relationship with the frequency and intensity of schadenfreude experienced by an individual.  This means that the less self-esteem an individual has, the more frequently or more intensely they will experience schadenfreude.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude  See also https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/  The Japanese have a saying:  “The misfortunes of others taste like honey.”  

Margaret French Cresson, daughter of the sculptor Daniel Chester French and herself a sculptor, died October 2, 1973.  She was 84 years old and lived at Chesterwood, the family estate.  Mrs. Cresson, the widow of William Penn Cresson, a writer, diplomat and architect, who died in 1932, collapsed while addressing a dinner meeting at her home of the Council of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which administers Chesterwood as a museum.  Her father designed the seated figure of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the Minute Man at Concord, Mass., and many other noted works.  Mrs. Cresson, who studied under Abastenia St. Leger‐Eberle and George Demetrius as well as her father, did many marble busts, portrait heads and other pieces. Her works are exhibited in Paris, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and in many other museums and private collections.  Mrs. Cresson also wrote threes books on her father.  https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/03/archives/margaret-cresson-sculptor-84-dead.html  See also https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/seeing-chesterwood-through-margaret-french-cresson-eyes,566347 and https://fineartconnoisseur.com/2019/03/margaret-french-cresson/ 

Ruthful, meaning merciful or full of sorrow, can be found back to the 13th century in English.  Ruthless, meaning having no compassion or pity, goes back to the 14th century.  Interestingly, the word "ruth" is related to the very old Germanic verb "rue."  Rue means to affect with sorrow or to grieve.  It's been used in different ways throughout the centuries, but generally when we hear it today, it has to do with looking back on something with regret.  If you take "rue" and tack on the suffix "th," you get ruth.  In this case, the suffix is the same one we see in other verbs that have been transformed into nouns--including growth, health, and truth.  So, that's how we get ruth--a noun meaning mercy or sorrow.  From there, tack on a couple more suffixes, and we get ruthless, meaning without compassion or mercy, and the long forgotten ruthful which means to be filled with compassion or pity.  Rebecca Kruth and Anne Curzan  https://www.michiganradio.org/post/heres-some-ruth-ruthless 

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