Adam Lindemann is an American investor, writer, art collector, and art dealer.  In 2012, he founded the gallery Venus Over Manhattan in New York City.  His personal collection has included pieces by blue chip artists including Richard Prince, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and Urs Fischer.  He famously sold a 1982 canvas by Basquiat at Christie’s for $57.3 million in 2016, a high for the artist at auction at that time (Lindemann had bought the painting for $4.5 million in 2004).  In 2007, he sold Koons’s “Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)” at Sotheby’s for $23.5 million (he had bought it for about $1.2 million in 2003).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Lindemann   

Toledo was the first city in Ohio to adopt a One Percent for Art program.  The 1977 ordinance served as a model for Ohio's Percent for Art program, administered by the Ohio Arts Council, which began in 1990.  Founded in 1959 as the City Culture Commission, The Arts Commission compiled the city’s first comprehensive local arts calendar beginning in 1960.  By the end of the decade, the organization was brought under the City’s Division of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry to aid in public art investments at Crosby Gardens (now Toledo Botanical Garden).  Toledo’s One Percent for Art program was the first in Ohio, among the first in the nation, and has since served as the adopted model for other regional agencies.  See pictures at https://theartscommission.org/public-art/about-public-art   

Mayhaws (Crataegus aestivalis, C. rufula, or C. opaca) grow under hardwood timber in the wet floodplain soils along creeks and rivers.  These small trees are of the hawthorne family.  The fruit is small and apple-like and ripens during the late April and early May in East Texas.  They have beautiful white blossoms in the spring and are desirable as ornamentals as well as for wildlife cover and forage.  They ripen over a 10 to 30 day harvest period, but some varieties may have 80% of the fruit ripe at one time.  Marty Baker and George Ray McEachern  https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/fact-sheets/mayhaw/  See also https://ediblelandscaping.com/careguide/Mayhaw/  

Crataegus commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, Mayflower, or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America.  The name "hawthorn" was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the common hawthorn C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland.  The name is now also applied to the entire genus and to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis.  The generic epithet, Crataegus, is derived from the Greek kratos "strength" because of the great strength of the wood and akis "sharp", referring to the thorns of some species.  The name haw, originally an Old English term for hedge (from the Anglo-Saxon term haguthorn, "a fence with thorns"), also applies to the fruit.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus 

The Delaware Tercentenary half dollar (also known as the Swedish Delaware half dollar) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the first successful European settlement in Delaware.  The reverse features the Swedish ship Kalmar Nyckel, which brought early settlers to Delaware, and the obverse depicts Old Swedes Church, which has been described as being the oldest Protestant church in the United States still used as a place of worship.  While the coins are dated "1936" on the obverse and the reverse also has the dual date of "1638" and "1938", the coins were actually struck in 1937.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Tercentenary_half_dollar   

The barcode is turning 50, but who gets the credit for it is up for debate by Dayun Park  Since its invention, the Universal Product Code has become the most prevalent tracking tool for products around the world.  Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland, two graduate students at Drexel University in Philadelphia, received a patent for an early barcode system in 1952; Woodland later said that the pattern was inspired by the Morse code he learned in the Boy Scouts.  The birthday of the barcode is celebrated April 3, 1973 because that’s the day the IBM version, created by senior engineer George Laurer, was approved as the industry standard.  In Laurer’s New York Times obituary of 2019, he is credited as the designer and developer of the barcode, although it notes Laurer received no royalties.  https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/business/barcode-history-50-anniversary/index.html?  Thank you, Muse reader!   

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