“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.”
― Stephen King, It
― Stephen King, It
It’s an elegant dance, or a fumbling ungainly stumble through a linguistic waltz. Whether you’re discussing Peter Piper picking a peck of pickled peppers” or the vagaries chirped out by “A quick witted cricket critic”, International Tongue Twister Day encourages you to give your tongue a work out and challenge your friends to the most convoluted and difficult tongue twisters of the year. How many knots will you tie YOUR tongue into this year?
Speaking of that old dastardly pickled pepper picker, it turns out that dear old Peter Piper was actually a real person, someone from our histories who was renowned for his taste in delicious spices and became immortalized as a result. He was quite the character when you all things were taken in, he was French and dastardly, so that paints an image right there. He’s also one-armed, and a horticulturist, which must make planting tricky from time to time. To wrap it all up? His favorite way of getting seeds for planting his spices was at the tip of a sword and the roar of cannonball. Yep, you got it, he was also a pirate. When he got his hands on some nutmeg he got his rhyme “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”
So which tongue twister is the most difficult? In the English language, the Guinness Book of World Records professes that to be “The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.” Trust us, one try at that and you’ll be having your tongue tied up in knots for a week, or at the very least sound like a snake with a lisp. We know, it’s pretty awful.
Well celebrating International Tongue Twister Day is a piece of cake! You just have to spend the day practicing, reciting, and sharing your favorite tongue twisters with friends and family. Maybe you can hold a competition at work to come up with new tongue twisters, or just challenge your friends and family to say them as fast as they can. International Tongue Twister Day comes but once a year, so maybe you can get a jump on the challenge for the year to come. Feeling truly ambitious? Try writing one up to challenge that by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan! There’s a nasty one in the Mikado that will leave your tongue hurting!
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (noun) District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area. | ||
| Synonyms: | border district, march, marchland | ||
| Usage: | The borderland was sparsely populated, and the lawless region saw few visitors. | ||
Idiom of the Day
be in bad with (someone)— To be disliked or out of favor with someone; to be in trouble with someone. |
History
Remains of Explorer Robert Scott and His Men Are Found in Antarctica (1912)
The Scott party reached the South Pole in January 1912 after a grueling two-and-a-half month journey across Antarctica, only to find that another group had beaten them to it weeks earlier. On the return trek, Scott and his entire team died. Seven months later, a search party found their final camp, retrieved Scott's records, and buried the bodies under a cairn of snow. It is now believed that Scott was the last to die.
Juana InΓ©s de la Cruz (1651?)
| Today considered one of the greatest lyric poets of colonial Mexico, Sor Juana abandoned her life as a favorite at the viceroy's court to join a convent at the age of 16. There, she immersed herself in learning. Criticized by her superiors, she penned a passionate defense of women's education that became a classic. Despite having earned wide acclaim as a poet, she ceased writing publicly under pressure from church officials. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was a pioneer in the struggle for women's rights. She helped organize the first women's rights convention, held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. With Susan B. Anthony, they organized the National Woman Suffrage Association, planned suffrage campaigns, and fought for equality for women. Governor Herbert Lehman of New York declared November 12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day in 1941. Her birthday has long been observed by women's rights groups throughout the U.S., particularly the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Gene-Engineered Skin Grafts Save Boy With Rare Disease
The 7-year-old boy was dying. An infection had destroyed most of his skin, he was too weak to eat, and he was in agony. Doctors in Germany were planning to provide palliative care — keeping the child as comfortable as possible while he died.
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1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.
1840 - Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."
1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1915 - Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was to be the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.
1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.
2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.
2013 - A series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon known as Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142.4 million at an auction in New York City.
If You Were Born Today, November 12
You are determined and some might say stubborn. The trick for you is to channel your determination into something constructive—into a life path that suits you well. Otherwise, your tendency to become fixated can lead you down the wrong path, especially if you struggle with self-esteem issues. Your mind is strong, and you possess significant powers of attraction. You have a good eye for form and style. Emotional self-indulgence is a potential downfall for you. You know a good opportunity when you see one, and you are generally not afraid to take a risk. Famous people born today: Stephanie Powers, Tonya Harding, Neil Young, Grace Kelly, Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway.
READERS INFO
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HOME USED IN MOVIE SELLS FOR MILLIONS
A San Francisco home that served as the setting for the popular 1993 movie
"Mrs. Doubtfire," starring Robin Williams, has sold for $4.15 million. The San
Francisco Chronicle reports that the four-bedroom Victorian in the Pacific
Heights neighborhood sold this week after being listed last September for $
4.45 million. It did not identify the buyer.
The previous owner of the home was a plastic surgeon who bought it in 1997
for about $1.4 million. Last year, a disgruntled former patient set two small fires
that didn’t cause much damage to the home.
 The iconic "Mrs. Doubtfire" house served as a temporary shrine to
Williams after his suicide in 2014.
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The National Library of Greece is a library situated near the center of Athens that holds material produced in or related to Greece. It was founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, and its holdings include 4,500 Greek manuscripts. The building was designed by the Danish architect Theophil Hansen, as part of his "Trilogy" of neo-classical buildings, and was opened in 1903.
SHY LITTLE COWRY
Calpurnus verrucosus Little Cowry eating soft coral, Pulau Weh, Indonesia
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CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Happy rainbow lunching!
Rainbow Grilled Cheese Instructions
raisingmemories
Last week, we made rainbow grilled cheese and I thought
it was such a fun idea that could be used any time you want
to make lunch more fun! I had a few people ask how to
make it, so I wanted to share the instructions here.
All you need to create this colorful meal is bread, butter,
white cheese, and food coloring.
Start by grating your cheese (we used havarti mixed with
Start by grating your cheese (we used havarti mixed with
mozzarella) and separate into four bowls.
Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl and mix.
(It won't color your cheese shreds perfectly but that's okay)
Butter the outsides of your bread and place your cheese
Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl and mix.
(It won't color your cheese shreds perfectly but that's okay)
Butter the outsides of your bread and place your cheese
on the inside of the bread, lined up in rainbow stripes.
Grill your sandwich on a frying pan (if you use a sandwich
Grill your sandwich on a frying pan (if you use a sandwich
maker that pinches the middle of your sandwich, you won't
get as nice of a view of your rainbow cheese when your
sandwich is in half).
Speaking of breaking your sandwich in half, I don't have a
Speaking of breaking your sandwich in half, I don't have a
photo of a nice stringy cheese effect because I broke our
sandwiches with my spatula- if you break your sandwich
with a knife or anything like it, you'll get what we got. If you
want a stringy cheese rainbow, just tear your sandwich
instead. ;)
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PHOTOS FROM HISTORY
1. The US Capitol Building is painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint, before being painted white again.
This image from 1959 shows the US Capitol Building being painted with a layer of red anti-rust paint. This was to protect the building from inevitable wear and tear, and hopefully elongate its life. It was followed by white paint, turning it into the building we are familiar with today.
2. An elephant is used to load supplies onto an American plane.
This photo from 1945 shows an elephant being used to load supplies onto an American plane. Planes flew over India into China regularly during the second World War. The area of the Himalayan Mountains pilots were required to fly over was commonly referred to as “The Hump.”
3. ‘Powder Monkey’ on the USS New Hampshire (1864)
This photograph from the Civil War shows a young man or boy leaning against a cannon on board the USS New Hampshire. The ship was off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. Not much is known about the subject of the photo, including his age.
4. ‘The moment a dragon is slain’ Puppet Show (Paris 1963)
This photo depicts children in Paris in 1963 watching a puppet production of Saint George and the Dragon. It was being performed at an outdoor puppet theater, and the children are reaction to the moment the dragon is slain in the story.
5. (COLORIZED) Lt. Custer and Union Troops (1862)
This colorized photograph from 1862 depicts Lieutenant Custer and his Union troops posing together. The photo is a great snapshot of style and life during the Civil War.
6. First picture ever taken in space (1946)
In 1946, eleven years before Sputnik was even launched, this photo was taken from space. American military engineers and scientists worked together to use a Nazi rocket to take the photo, making history.
7. A vac sealed sachet of one of the astronauts children during Apollo 16
Charles M. Duke Jr., the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, left behind a photo of his family while exploring the surface of the moon.
8. Bombs dropped on Kobe, Japan (1945)
During bombing raids, incendiary munition cluster bombs were dropped en masse on areas such as this shipping yard. The goal was to destroy as much area as possible, rather than pinpoint exact targets.
9. Disney brothers with their wives and mother on the day they opened their studio in 1923
In 1923, Walt and Roy Disney started The Walt Disney Company in the back of a realty office in Los Angeles. They started with short films, paying $10 a month in rent. Within four months they had to move to a large facility, which is shown above, as the first studio to actually have the name Disney on it. Five years later, Mickey Mouse was born.
10. Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender of Japan (1945)
This photograph was taken on board the USS Missouri, a battleship that had seen much action in the Pacific theater. The ceremony was held on September 2nd, and at 9am, Japan officially surrendered. Japan, the United States, China, Britain, the USSR, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand all signed the document, signifying the end of World War II.
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