COMIC STRIP HUMOR  The Invisible Man hates playing the game of Charades.  (Garfield) 

On November 18, 1985, a new comic strip appeared in 35 newspapers across the country.  It quickly became a hit.  Within a year, Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes was syndicated in 250 newspapers across the country; by 1995, when Watterson, still in his 30s, retired, it was appearing regularly in over 2,400.  Millions of fans were heartbroken, and over 25 years later, the strip has remained a cultural touchstone, despite the fact that Watterson has approved almost no merchandise or adaptations related to his work (and probably never will).  Literary Hub  November 14, 2021 

Garum is a fermented fish sauce which was used as a condiment in the cuisines of Phoenicia, ancient Greece, Rome, Carthage and later Byzantium.  Liquamen is a similar preparation, and at times they were synonymous.  Although garum enjoyed its greatest popularity in the Western Mediterranean and the Roman world, it was earlier used by the Greeks.  Like the modern fermented soy product soy sauce, fermented garum is a rich source of umami flavoring due to the presence of glutamates.  When mixed with wine (oenogarum, a popular Byzantine sauce), vinegar, black pepper, or oil, garum enhances the flavor of a wide variety of dishes, including boiled veal and steamed mussels, even pear-and-honey soufflé.  Diluted with water (hydrogarum) it was distributed to Roman legions.  Pliny remarked in his Natural History that it could be diluted to the colour of honey wine and drunk.  Read more and see graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum  The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library is the largest facility in the Memphis Public Library and Information Center system.  Although opened in 2001, the history of Memphis Public began in the 1880s when the city received a $75,000 gift from the estate of merchant Frederick Cossitt to build a public library in honor of the city where he made his fortune.  A section of public land near the Mississippi River was donated by city government which agreed to provide operating expenses for the library.  With the promise of city funds, it was decided that the entire $75,000 would be used for construction of the library building.  As a result of this decision Architect L. B. Wheeler designed an elaborate Romanesque red sandstone building which opened on April 12, 1893.  Thousands of citizens attended the dedication ceremonies and toured the building but there was a problem.  City government did not have enough funds for books and other research materials so the people were treated only to a beautiful, but empty, library building.  Undaunted by this, the citizens of Memphis held fundraising events while the Cossitt family and financier Phillip R. Bohlen donated funds to purchase books.  As the library shelves were being stocked with books the board of directors hired Mell Nunnally to serve as the first director of Cossitt Library.  Serving until 1898, Nunnally oversaw the acquisition of the library’s book collection which expanded circulation to an average of 150 books per day.  https://www.tnla.org/page/336  See also How Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library--you can play the ukulele, learn photography or record a song in a top-flight studio.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/memphis-created-nations-innovative-public-library-180978844/  The official state tree of Ohio, the Ohio buckeye’s name comes from the appearance of its seed, which resembles the eye of a buck deer.  The bitter seeds are poisonous to humans if consumed in large quantities, but not to wildlife including squirrels and deer.  This deciduous native tree is found primarily as a smaller understory tree in western Ohio but is scattered throughout eastern portions of the state, reaching up to 60 feet in height in the open.  See pictures on p. 32 of TREES OF OHIO field guide DIVISION OF WILDLIFE at https://ohiodnr.gov/static/documents/wildlife/backyard-wildlife/Pub%205509%20Trees%20of%20Ohio%20Field%20Guide.pdf Marsha’s Homemade Buckeyes can be purchased in retail establishments such as Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores, Kroger, Giant Eagle, Marc’s, Meijer, GFS Marketplace Stores, and many others.  “For over 30 years we have specialized in manufacturing Peanut Butter and Chocolate Candy Buckeyes.”  You can also order & pick up locally, purchase gift baskets containing Marsha’s Buckeyes, or have them shipped directly to you by ordering through our secure on-line store.  https://www.marshashomemadebuckeyes.com/  Recipe for Buckeyes  https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/buckeyes-3363307 "Send In the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night.  It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life.  Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik, who was deeply in love with her, but whose marriage proposals she had rejected. Meeting him after so long, she realizes she is in love with him and finally ready to marry him, but now it is he who rejects her.  Sondheim wrote the song specifically for Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway.  It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins' version charted in 1975 and 1977.  Subsequently, numerous other artists recorded the song, and it has become a standard.  The "clowns" in the lyric does not specifically refer to circus clowns.  The sense is rather of jesters and fools.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_In_the_Clowns http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2462  November 29, 2021

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Republic of Ireland.  Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county.  Today, her program spans five countries and gifts over 1 million free books each month to children around the world.  Subscribe to newsletter at https://imaginationlibrary.com/ 

A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

pilcrow  (PIL-kroh)  noun  A symbol (¶) used to indicate paragraph breaks.  Apparently an alteration of the word paragraph, with r changing into l and remodeled along the more familiar words pill and crow. Earliest documented use:  1440.

obelus  (OB-uh-luhs)  noun 1.  A sign (- or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to indicate a spurious or doubtful word or passage.  2.  A sign (†) used to indicate reference marks.  Also known as obelisk or dagger.  From Latin obelus, from Gree obelos (spit).  Earliest documented use:  c. 450.  In typography, an asterisk is used to indicate a footnote as is an obelus aka obelisk.  In Asterix comics, the character Obelix is the best friend of the hero Asterix.

raven messenger  (RAY-vuhn mes-uhn-juhr)  noun  A messenger who does not arrive or return in time.  In the Bible, Noah sends a raven to go scout the scene, but the bird never returns to the ark.  Earliest documented use:  1400.  Also known as a corbie messenger.

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From:  Ian McFadyen  Subject:  dovecote  In Scotland, the word is dookit.  More commonly, these days dookit is used to mean a small cubbyhole, or alcove.  Elementary school children might store their outdoor clothes or backpack in their dookit in the classroom; the teacher might have dookits in which she puts each student’s marked homework.

From:  Steven G. Kellman  Subject:  dovecot  One of the finest short stories in Russian literature is The Story of My Dovecot, Isaac Babel’s 1925 account of how a pogrom in Odessa traumatizes a gifted Jewish boy.

From:  Tom Koehler  Subject:  raven messenger  For me, raven messenger conjures up Odin’s ravens who traveled the world to keep Odin apprised of all that was going on.

From:  Christine De Pedro  Far from being retired, the pilcrow (now I know what it is called!) is essential for those of us who design and lay out text for print.  Show invisibles is always activated to see where authors have inserted pilcrows, instead of line breaks or an extra pilcrow to add a line space between paragraphs.  Both need to be removed and corrected for style sheets to be properly applied.

From:  Joachim van Dijk  In German the word Obolus is well known in the expression “seinen Obolus leisten” meaning “to do or pay one’s share”.  Also, a synonym for a small amount of money used for a tip, fee, donation, or bribe.  It derives from obelus and refers to a small coin (obol) in the form of a small rod.  In ancient Greece the deceased were buried with an obolus in their mouth in order to pay the ferryman for a one-way trip across the Styx River to reach Hades. 

The Yemenite sauce zhug is fresh and bright from herbs, while also having an intensely spicy kick to it.    It's the ideal accompaniment for falafel or sabich sandwiches, but it also goes great with a variety of grilled vegetables, fish, meat, and eggs.  J. Kenji López-Alt  Find recipe at https://www.seriouseats.com/schug-zhug-srug-yemenite-israeli-hot-sauce-recipe 

Famous Writers’ Houses:  A Taxonomy by Emily Temple  See pictures of the Art Deco Beverley Hills mansion of Jackie Collins, “the Proust of Hollywood”.  I’d always wanted the Hockney painting A Bigger Splash,” she told Vanity Fair‘s John Heilpern.  “But I could never get it. So I thought the best alternative was to have my own Hockney pool that looked like the painting.”  Lord Byron lived in an abbey, which even, like all fancy English residences, has a name:  Newstead Abbey.  The poet inherited his ancestral family home at the age of 10, when his great uncle died; though grand, it needed a lot of work, and he rarely lived in the abbey full time.  Edith Wharton also had a named mansion:  The Mount, her gorgeous estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she wrote her novels, looking out at her dog cemetery (dog ghosts have indeed been spotted).  Wharton designed the house, which sits on a hill overlooking 113 acres, with architect Ogden Codman Jr. in 1901.  Toni Morrison’s three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom condo in Tribeca when it went up for sale last year.  There are over 12,000 books in Hanya Yanagihara’s one-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot Soho loft.  Alexander Pushkin only lived in a book-filled St. Petersburg apartment on the Moika River for four months, but since he died there, it is now the Pushkin Memorial Apartment.  Showcasing Pushkin’s wealth, which stemmed from his noble upbringing and profound success, his ground-floor apartment contains 11 lavish, pale-hued rooms, enhanced by elegant classical-style wood moldings and furniture.  Also find pictures of Dylan Thomas’s boathouse in Laugharne, Wales; Robert Frost’s  lovely little 1769 stone Dutch Colonial in South Shaftsbury, Vermont,  the one-room cabin in the woods of Henry David Thoreau; Mark Twain’s rambling 19th century Victorian, which was designed by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter and spans a whopping 11,500 square feet, with 25 rooms; Edgar Allan Poe’s house in Baltimore; and Stephen King’s  19th century Victorian in Bangor, Maine—complete with ironwork bats and spiderwebs—which he is now turning into a writer’s retreat.  https://lithub.com/famous-writers-houses-a-taxonomy/ 

cheshirization  noun  From Cheshire (cat) (“fictional cat which disappeared leaving only its smile, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by the English author Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)”) +‎ -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), coined by the American linguist James Matisoff (born 1937) in a 1991 book chapter entitled “Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammatization in Lahu”.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cheshirization#English  The English author Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which introduced the Cheshire cat, a fictional feline which disappeared leaving only its smile, was published November 26,1865. 

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Literally “cheese and pepper,” this minimalist cacio e pepe recipe is like a stripped-down mac and cheese.  https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe 

emporium (plural emporiums or emporia) noun  Borrowed from Latin emporium (“trading station; business district in a city; market town”), from Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον (empórion, “factory, trading station; market”), from ἔμπορος (émporos, “merchant, trader; traveller”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). ἔμπορος is derived from ἐμ- (em-) (variant of ἐν- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + πόρος (póros, “journey; passageway”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth”)), modelled after ἐν πόρῳ (en pórōi, “at sea; en route”).  Sense 4 (“the brain”) alludes to the organ as the place where many nerves or nerve impulses meet.   (also figuratively)  A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. quotations ▼  (also figuratively) A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. quotations ▼   (historical) A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). quotations ▼ (by extension, obsolete) The brain.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emporium 

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.  As such, it is regarded as the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions: smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans but larger than the Arctic Ocean.  Over the past 30 years, the Southern Ocean has been subject to rapid climate change, which has led to changes in the marine ecosystem.  By way of his voyages in the 1770s, James Cook proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe.  Since then, geographers have disagreed on the Southern Ocean's northern boundary or even existence, considering the waters as various parts of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, instead.  However, according to Commodore John Leech of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), recent oceanographic research has discovered the importance of Southern Circulation, and the term Southern Ocean has been used to define the body of water which lies south of the northern limit of that circulation.  This remains the current official policy of the IHO, since a 2000 revision of its definitions including the Southern Ocean as the waters south of the 60th parallel has not yet been adopted.  Others regard the seasonally-fluctuating Antarctic Convergence as the natural boundary.  This oceanic zone is where cold, northward flowing waters from the Antarctic mix with warmer Subantarctic waters.  See many graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean 

Erik Pauze, the head gardener for Rockefeller Center has for the past three decades, been instrumental in the scouting, nurturing, and transporting of the Norway Spruce that transforms into the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.  Though he’s long been at the helm of this process, upon reflection he says not much has changed about the way things are done—fitting, as the tradition of the Tree has looked the same for about as long, save for the Swarovski-encrusted star that has sat atop the Tree since its induction in 2004.  Fun fact:  The latest star introduced in 2018 features over 3 million crystals as well as LED lights.  In 2021 the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is the first to come from Maryland.  The Norway Spruce is great for the scale it can achieve, it can hold the lights on its branches, and it stands there nice and proud as the tree should.  We found the 2021 tree back in March.  From then until May, we checked in on it to see how it fared coming out of the winter . . . then we started to tend to it, watering and feeding it, as well as thinking about the logistics of moving it to Rockefeller Center.  The Tree is 79 feet tall and 46 feet wide.  Noah Silverstein  https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/who-picks-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-every-year/ 

Maritime Academy Toledo educates students in grades 6-12 (ages 11-18) not only in the normal courses of study for primary and secondary school, but also in 4 (four) courses of study in the maritime industry:  Shiphandling and navigation, Marine engineering, Culinary arts, and Marine environmental science.  Before purchasing NAUTIS simulators 2012, the school taught the maritime-oriented classes mostly from a theoretical perspective, although they had 2 boats to give the students some practical experience.  Unfortunately, this truly practical experience, while beneficial, is only available on a seasonal basis and comes with the high costs of fuel, maintenance, and storage.  In purchasing the NAUTIS simulator, they have the opportunity to give their cadets hands-on experience with navigation, ship-handling, locking/docking, and emergency ship-handling all in a cost-effective and completely safe environment.  The ultimate goal at the Maritime Academy is to educate their students, with the help of the NAUTIS simulators, to enter the maritime industry immediately upon graduation from the institution or to give them a solid foundation to continue their education to finally achieve a license.  https://www.ogv.energy/news-item/maritime-academy-toledo-achieves-advanced-training-goals-with-nautis-simulators   

Do we need weapons to fight wars?  Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? - Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)   

Word of the Day for November 24  betrim  verb  (transitive, dated)  To trim (“decorate”); to adorn, deck, or embellish.  Wiktionary   

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Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (1904–1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972.  During World War II, Day-Lewis worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information for the UK government, and also served in the Musbury branch of the British Home Guard.  In his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), Day-Lewis wrote, "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname--a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results".   Day-Lewis fathered four children.  His first two children, with Constance Mary King, were Sean Day-Lewis, a TV critic and writer, and Nicholas Day-Lewis, who became an engineer.  His children with Jill Balcon were Tamasin Day-Lewis, a television chef and food critic, and Daniel Day-Lewis, who became an award-winning actor.  Sean Day-Lewis published a biography of his father, C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life (1980).  Daniel Day-Lewis donated his father's archive to the Bodleian Library.  In 1935, Day-Lewis decided to increase his income from poetry by writing a detective novel, A Question of Proof under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake.  He created Nigel Strangeways, an amateur investigator and gentleman detective who, as the nephew of an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, has the same access to, and good relations with, official crime investigation bodies as those enjoyed by other fictional sleuths such as Ellery Queen, Philo Vance and Lord Peter Wimsey.  He published nineteen more crime novels.  (In the first Nigel Strangeways novel, the detective is modelled on W. H. Auden, but Day-Lewis developed the character as a far less extravagant and more serious figure in later novels.)  From the mid-1930s Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing.  Four of the Blake novels--A Tangled Web, Penknife in My Heart, The Deadly Joker, The Private Wound--do not feature Strangeways.  Minute for Murder is set against the background of Day-Lewis's Second World War experiences in the Ministry of Information.  Head of a Traveller features as a principal character a well-known poet, frustrated and suffering writer's block, whose best poetic days are long behind him.  Readers and critics have speculated whether the author is describing himself or one of his colleagues, or has entirely invented the character.  See list of selected works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Day-Lewis 

Cecil Day-Lewis died in 1972 and was buried near the grave of Thomas Hardy.  On his grave are inscribed his own words:  Shall I be gone long?  Forever and a day.  To whom there belong?  Ask the stone to say,  Ask the song.  Link to poetry readings at https://poetryarchive.org/poet/c-day-lewis/ 

Asafetida (pronounced phonetically, found online or at Indian grocers) is the most simultaneously misunderstood and sublime ingredient in Indian cuisine.  It is essentially a gum extracted from a ferula, an herb in the celery family.  It is usually available as a coarse yellow powder and smells like boiled eggs.  But don’t be put off by the pungency.  When used properly, a pinch of asafetida supercharges every other spice in the pan, like salt but in a funkier way (and without any sodium).  I don’t know how else to put it except to say that to me, it makes Indian food taste more Indian.  Priya Krishna https://www.bonappetit.com/story/asafetida-indian-spice 

“An injured lion still wants to roar.”  “ . . . when there’s an elephant in the room, introduce it.”  “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”  “It’s easy to look smart when you’re parroting smart people.”  “Time must be explicitly managed, like money.”  “Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.”  The Last Lecture, a 2008 book co-authored by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow  

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture."  Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.  And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question:  What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance?  If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?  When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying.  It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think").  It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe.  It was about living.  https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/book/  

Gemelli, which means “twins” in Italian, is a short, corkscrew-shaped pasta made up of two thick strands twisted together.  Penne and fusilli are good substitutes.  Boil in abundant well-salted water until tender.  Link to recipes at https://www.finecooking.com/ingredient/gemelli-pasta   

Alice is an innovative block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D.  Unlike many of the puzzle-based coding applications Alice motivates learning through creative exploration.  Alice is designed to teach logical and computational thinking skills, fundamental principles of programming and to be a first exposure to object-oriented programming.  Link to resources at https://www.alice.org/ 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? - George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-22 Dec 1880)

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, was born November 22 in 1428. Kingmaker was originally an epithet given to him for his role in deposing and appointing kings Henry VI and Edward IV.  Wiktionary 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2459  November 22, 2021

“One needs contact with others to stay young.”  Trick of the Eye, a novel by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born Jane Johnston Crowley 1946) is a New York Times bestselling American author, playwright, and screenwriter.  She has written several plays but is known mostly for her mystery novels Trick of the Eye, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff--her sixth novel that pays tribute to her passion for poker--and the winner of the 2019 Hammett Prize.  Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.  Hitchcock wrote a screenplay (under the name Jane C. Stanton) for the 1974 film Our Time, directed by Peter Hyams.  The film was set in 1955 at an all-girls boarding school in Massachusetts and dealt with the issue of abortion in a privileged setting.  In 1977, Paramount released First Love, a film written by Hitchcock who shared credit with David Freeman, and was directed by Joan Darling.  In 1981, The American Place Theatre produced Hitchcock's play Grace under the direction of Peter Thompson.  The Off-Broadway play was Hitchcock's "first professional New York production."  In 1983, another play by Hitchcock, a farce entitled Bhutan, was staged at the South Street Theater in Manhattan.  Hitchcock's theatrical adaptation titled The Custom of the Country, based on Edith Wharton's novel by the same name, was staged by Shakespeare & Company at The Mount, Wharton's former home in Lenox, Massachusetts.  In September 1985, the play was staged by the Second Stage Theatre under the direction of Daniel Gerroll.  In 1990, Hitchcock's Vanilla, a play directed by Harold Pinter, was staged at London's Lyric Theatre.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Stanton_Hitchcock and https://janestantonhitchcock.com/ 

“You can’t pour from an empty cup—take care of yourself.”  “Every day is a gift.”  Slogans from puzzles on jigidi.com

Lupin or lupini beans are the yellow legume seeds of the genus Lupinus.  They are traditionally eaten as a pickled snack food, primarily in the Mediterranean basin (L. albus), Latin America (L. mutabilis) and North Africa (L. angustifolius).  The most ancient evidence of lupin is from ancient Egypt, dating back to the 22nd century BCE.  The bitter variety of the beans are high in alkaloids and are extremely bitter unless rinsed methodically.  Low alkaloid cultivars called sweet lupins have been bred, and are increasingly planted.  Lupin beans are growing in use as a plant-based protein source around the world.  The earliest archaeological reports on lupins are referred to the Twelfth Dynasty of Egyptian Pharaohs.  In their tombs, seeds of Lupinus digitatus Forsk., already domesticated in those times, were discovered.  Seven seeds of this species were also retrieved in the tombs of this dynasty dated back to the 22nd century BCE.  They are the most ancient evidence of lupin in the Mediterranean.  Lupin is very popular in Egypt (known by the name "termes") and is eaten by the Egyptians as a main snack during the Sham el-Nessim festival, which is a national festival in Egypt whose history goes back to ancient Egyptian times.  Lupini were popular with the Romans, who spread their cultivation throughout the Roman Empire.  Today, lupini are most commonly found in Mediterranean countries and their former colonies, especially in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Brazil, and across the Middle East.  The Andean American variety of this bean, Lupinus mutabilis, was domesticated by pre-Incan inhabitants of present-day Peru.  Rock imprints of seeds and leaves, dated around 6th and 7th century BCE, are exhibited in the National Museum of Lima.  It was a food widespread during the Incan Empire.  Lupins were also used by Native Americans in North America, e.g. the Yavapai people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_bean  In Italy, lupini beans are mixed with olives to be served as snacks at Christmas time.  They are also added to hot and cold salads.  The beans are also used in making lupini flour, and even tofu!  posted by Diana  Find recipe and pictures at https://littlesunnykitchen.com/lupini-beans/ 

Sir William Gerald Golding (1911–1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.  Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.  In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.  As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988.  He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".   Link to works, including those unpublished, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding  See also https://william-golding.co.uk/books/the-paper-men 

North Carolina writer Jason Mott has won the National Book Foundation’s 2021 prize for fiction, for his novel Hell of a Book.  The US foundation’s 72nd annual awards, presented online only due to Covid-19, were announced on November 18, 2021.  Mott is best known for his 2013 bestselling debut novel The Returned, about the reappearance of dead residents in a Missouri town, which was later adapted into the US TV series Resurrection.  Kelly Burke  Find list of additional winners at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/18/national-book-awards-jason-mott-wins-us-literary-prize-for-masterful-novel-hell-of-a-book 

four score and seven years ago (not comparable)  adverb  (idiomatic, often humorous) Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago. This phrase begins the Gettysburg Address, which was made by United States President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863.   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ago#English 

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