Milo Winter was born in Princeton, Illinois, on 7th August 1888.  He was a well-known book illustrator of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ which occurred in Europe and America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.  He studied at Chicago’s ‘School of the Arts Institute’, and published his first illustrated book, Billy Popgun (1912), a year after graduating.  Winter lived in Chicago until the early 1950s, when he moved to New York City.  Arguably best-known for his animal drawings, Winter’s best works were his editions of Gulliver’s Travels (1912), Tanglewood Tales (1913), Arabian Nights (1914), Alice in Wonderland (1916)–for which he was but one of a long line of illustrators, and Aesop’s Fables (1919).  He also provided illustrations for such popular tales as Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.  See illustrations at https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/milo-winter-biography/    

Leucippus (fl. 5th century BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.  He is traditionally credited as the founder of atomism, which he developed with his student Democritus.  Leucippus divided the world into two entities:  atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness that exists between the atoms.  He developed his philosophy as a response to the Eleatics, who believed that all things are one and the void does not exist. Leucippus's ideas were influential in ancient and Renaissance philosophy.  His philosophy was a precursor to modern atomic theory, but the two only superficially resemble one another.  The only records of Leucippus come from Aristotle and Theophrastus, ancient philosophers who lived after him, and little is known of his life.  Most scholars agree that Leucippus existed, but some have questioned this, instead attributing his ideas purely to Democritus. Contemporary philosophers rarely distinguish their respective ideas.  Two works are attributed to Leucippus (The Great World System and On Mind), but all of his writing has been lost with the exception of one sentence.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucippus   

The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana.  They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according to species.  Hazelnuts are used as a snack food, in baking and desserts, and in breakfast cereals such as muesli. In confectionery, they are used to make praline, and also used in combination with chocolate for chocolate truffles and products such as chocolate bars and hazelnut cocoa spreads such as Nutella.  They are also used in Frangelico liqueur.  Hazelnut oil, pressed from hazelnuts, is strongly flavored and high in monounsaturated fat.  It is used as cooking oil and as a salad or vegetable dressing.  Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnuts, accounting for 64% of total production in 2021.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelnut    

syrinx (plural syrinxes or syringes)  noun  (music) A set of panpipes. quotations ▼ (by extension)  (archaeology, Egyptology) Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers. quotations ▼ (neurology, pathology) Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord. quotations ▼ (ornithology, zootomy) The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join. synonym ▲quotations ▼ Synonym: lower larynx  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syrinx#English    

James Patterson has written around 200 books, often with famous co-authors ranging from President Bill Clinton to Dolly Parton.  But his latest collaboration presented the perennial bestseller with a first:  Write with an author who is no longer alive.  Patterson got a call in 2022 asking if he’d finish a manuscript by Michael Crichton, the creative mind behind “Jurassic Park,” “Westworld” and the TV show “ER,” who died from cancer at 66 in 2008.  Patterson’s keen “Yes!” to that question has yielded “Eruption” (out June 3, 2024), a volcanic man versus mother nature page-turner that, according to Patterson and Crichton’s widow, Sherri Crichton, will eventually be coming to a movie theater near you.  Crichton famously is the only writer to have a No. 1 book, movie and TV show at the same time--twice.  For the curious, that would be:  In 1995, “The Lost World,” “Congo” and “ER,” and a year later a repeat with “Airframe,” “Twister” and “ER.”   https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2024/06/03/eruption-michael-crichton-james-patterson-book/73687067007/

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