Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.  The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era.  The word potassium is derived from potash.  Canada is the largest producer, mostly for use in fertilizer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash   

Imogen Taylor is a British literary translator.  She translates works from German to English, and has previously won the Goethe-Institut Prize for her work.  Her notable translations include Sasha Marianna Salzmann's novel, Beside Myself, Melanie Raabe's The Trap, as well as Florian Huber's Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945; and Sascha Arango's novel, The Truth and Other Lies.  Her work has been shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and Helen and Kurt Wolff's Translator Prize.  Taylor completed her undergraduate education at New College, Oxford where she studied French and German.  She completed her doctorate at the Humboldt University, in Berlin, where she studied bilingual couples in 18th century French novels.  She has lived in Berlin since 2001.  In 2015, Taylor published a translation of Sascha Arango's novel, The Truth and Other Lies (Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen).  Her translation was listed as The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2015.  In 2016, Taylor won the Goethe-Institut award for an excerpt of her translation Momente der Klarheit by Jackie Thomae (Hanser Berlin).  In the same year, the Seattle Times's critic Adam Woog listed her translation of Melanie Raabe's The Trap as one of the 10 best mysteries of the year.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Taylor   

The Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.  It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".  The award is named after Alan Turing, who was a British mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester.  Turing is often credited as being the founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, and a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of the Enigma cipher during World War II.  From 2007 to 2013, the award was accompanied by a prize of US$250,000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google.  Since 2014, the award has been accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, with financial support provided by Google.  The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University.  The youngest recipient was Donald Knuth who won in 1974, at the age of 36, while the oldest recipient was Alfred Aho who won in 2020, at the age of 79.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award   

Pickling cucumbers, as the name suggests, are specifically cultivated for the purpose of pickling.  These cucumbers are typically smaller in size, ranging from 3 to 6 inches in length.  They have a firm texture and thin skin, which makes them ideal for absorbing the pickling brine and retaining crunchiness after the pickling process.  The most common varieties of pickling cucumbers include Kirby cucumbers and Persian cucumbers.  Regular cucumbers, also known as slicing cucumbers, are the cucumbers that you commonly find in grocery stores.  These cucumbers are larger in size, usually around 6 to 9 inches in length.  They have a thicker skin and more seeds compared to pickling cucumbers.  Regular cucumbers are often enjoyed fresh in salads, sandwiches, or as a crunchy snack.  See more at https://recipes.net/articles/what-is-the-difference-between-pickling-cucumbers-vs-regular-cucumbers/  Thank you, Muse reader!    

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron, novelist (11 Jun 1925-2006)   

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