Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from "Northern Little Italy", is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Nolita is situated in Lower Manhattan, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west by Lafayette Street. It lies east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown. The neighborhood was long regarded as part of Little Italy, but has lost its recognizable Italian character in recent decades because of rapidly rising rents. The Feast of San Gennaro, dedicated to Saint Januarius ("Pope of Naples"), is held in the neighborhood every year following Labor Day, on Mulberry Street between Houston and Grand Streets. The feast, as recreated on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Houston Streets, was featured in the film The Godfather Part II. In the second half of the 1990s, the neighborhood saw an influx of yuppies and an explosion of expensive retail boutiques and restaurants and bars. After unsuccessful tries to pitch it as part of SoHo, real estate promoters and others came up with several different names for consideration for this newly upscale neighborhood. The name that stuck, as documented in an article on May 5, 1996, in the New York Times city section debating various monikers for the newly trendy area, was Nolita, an abbreviation for North of Little Italy. This name follows the pattern started by SoHo (South of Houston Street) and TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal Street). The neighborhood includes St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, at the intersection of Mulberry, Mott, and Prince Streets, which opened in 1815 and was rebuilt in 1868 after a fire. The cornerstone was laid on June 8, 1809. This building served as New York City's Roman Catholic cathedral until the new St. Patrick's Cathedral was opened on Fifth Avenue in Midtown in 1879. St. Patrick's Old Cathedral is now a parish church. In 2010, St. Patrick's Old Cathedral was honored and became The Basilica at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. The Puck Building, a nine-story-high ornate structure built in 1885 on the corner of Houston and Lafayette Streets, originally housed the headquarters of the now-defunct Puck Magazine. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged in Nolita on Mulberry Street and Mott Street. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolita
Mum's the word is a popular English idiom. It is related to an expression used by William Shakespeare, in Henry
VI, Part 2. The
word "mum" is an alteration of momme, which was used between 1350 and
1400 in Middle English with very close to the same meaning, "be silent; do
not reveal". "Mum's the
word" means to keep silent or quiet.
Mum is a Middle
English word
meaning 'silent', and may be derived from the mummer who acts
without speaking. Note the similar English word "mime" (Old
English "mīma",
Latin "mimus") meaning silent
actor or
imitator. The origins of the phrase can
be traced back to the fourteenth century and William
Langland's narrative
poem, Piers Plowman.
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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC–AD 17/18),
known in English as Ovid was
a Roman poet who lived
during the reign of Augustus. He was a
younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he
is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets
of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered
him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity
during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled
him to Tomis, the capital of
the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black
Sea,
where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a
"poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has
resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous
mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac
couplets such
as Ars Amatoria ("The
Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late
Antiquity and
the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western
art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains
one of the most important sources of classical mythology today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid
“If you would be loved, be lovable” ― “Nothing is stronger than habit.” ―
“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are” ― “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” ―
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