Conquering a Continent:  The Battle of Quebec  The French and Indian War was in its fifth full year, and the tables had turned in Britain’s favor.  As the larger conflict, the Seven Years’ War, raged throughout the globe, in North America, the British were one swift strike away from conquering the continent.   The battle was over in just fifteen minutes as the British swept forward, claiming the field and capturing hundreds of prisoners.  Both sides each lost over 600 men killed and wounded, including both respective commanders.  Five days later, Quebec surrendered.  The French retreated further downstream to Montreal, attacked and failed to retake Quebec the next spring, and surrendered in whole on September 8, 1760, effectively ending all major military operations in North America during the French and Indian War.  The battle for the continent between Britain and France was over.  The French in the Ohio River Valley, Great Lakes region, and Upstate New York had been thrown back on their heels and sent scurrying north into Canada leaving the road open for a British thrust against Montreal and Quebec.  William R. Griffith IV  https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/conquering-continent-battle-quebec   

“Being a parent is a monumental thing.  You shape reality for another person.”  The Confabulist by Steven Galloway  See also https://macleans.ca/culture/books/a-houdini-novel-with-an-ingenious-reveal/ and Harry Houdini:  An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center  https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01275   

The Smithsonian Institution or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge".  Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.  The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson.  It was originally organized as the United States National Museum, but that name ceased to exist administratively in 1967.  Called "the nation's attic" for its eclectic holdings of 154 million items, the institution's 19 museums, 21 libraries, nine research centers, and zoo include historical and architectural landmarks, mostly located in Washington, D.C.  Additional facilities are located in Maryland, New York, and Virginia.  More than 200 institutions and museums in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and Panama are Smithsonian Affiliates.  Institution publications include Smithsonian and Air & Space magazines.  Almost all of the institution's 30 million annual visitors are admitted without charge the exception being Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, which charges an admissions fee.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution#Founding   

Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland wore sequined shoes as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 MGM musical film The Wizard of Oz.  In the original book by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy's magic slippers are silver; for the Technicolor movie, costumers created ruby red shoes to show up more vividly against the yellow-brick road.  One of several pairs used during filming, these size-five shoes are well-worn, suggesting they were Garland's primary pair for dance sequences.  https://www.si.edu/object/dorothys-ruby-slippers%3Anmah_670130    

Legendary cook and teacher Julia Child (1912–2004) had a tremendous impact on food and culinary history in the United States.  Through dozens of books and television series, which spanned forty years, she encouraged people to care about food and cooking.  Her kitchen, which she called the "beating heart and social center of her household," was her favorite room.  Julia’s kitchen from her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home provides both a starting point and a backdrop for this exhibition on changing foods and foodways in the United States since 1950.  It contains tools and equipment from the late 1940s, when Julia Child began her life in food, through to 2001, when she donated this kitchen to the Smithsonian Institution.  https://americanhistory.si.edu/food/julia-childs-kitchen    

e.g.  The adverb is a terser form of ex. gr., both abbreviating Latin exemplī grātiā (“for the sake of an example”); e.g. was also used as an abbreviation in Latin.  The noun is derived from the adverb.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g.#English   

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