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Celebrate Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day

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Grilled cheese sandwiches are a delicious, toasted delight popular all across the world. They even have their own holiday, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, when it’s practically your duty to indulge in them.

Melting cheese on top of bread is a culinary concept that has been around since the time of the Romans, but grilled cheese sandwiches as we know them didn’t become popular until the 1920s. Due to the ready availability of cheese and sliced bread, they became an American staple, but also spread around the world.

Naturally, the best way to celebrate Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day is to make and eat a grilled cheese sandwich. All you need is bread, cheese and butter, although you can experiment by adding more ingredients of your choice. You butter the outside of each piece of bread, and grill the sandwich while the cheese melts on top. Delicious!

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Word of the Day

bareboned

MEANING:

adjective: Lean; spare; gaunt.

ETYMOLOGY:

From bare-bone (a lean person), from Old English baer (bare) + ban (bone). Earliest documented use: 1600.

USAGE:

“It’s possible that we are witnessing a transition of communication, an evolution of the English language from a complex system of grammatical structure to a more basic, bareboned approach to writing.”
Mike Cottrill; Proper Communications Skills a Key to Success; Waterloo Region Record (Kitchener, Canada); Apr 16, 2012.

thanks for the pics, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

Idiom of the Day

Sail through something -

Meaning - Being successful in doing something without difficulty.

Example - The presentation at the national conference was extremely important for the company. We sailed through it.

This Day in History

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.

1799 - Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine.

1833 - Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.

1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.

1934 - F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender Is the Night" was first published.

1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.

1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."

1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.

1969 - Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip "Peanuts" made the cover of "Saturday Review."

1983 - Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.

1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL.

1988 - Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.

1988 - Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs, CA.

1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.

1999 - Shania Twain became the first female artist in music history to sell at least 10 million units with back to back releases.

2000 - It was announced that Tony Bennett would have a selection of his paintings exhibited at a London gallery from May 16 until June 16. The title of the exhibition is "What My Heart Has Seen."

2002 - A first edition version of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" sold for $64,780 at Sotheby's. A signed first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" sold for $66,630. A copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," signed by J.K. Rowling sold for $16,660. A 250-piece collection of rare works by Charles Dickens sold for $512,650.

2002 - It was announced that the South African version of "Sesame Street" would be introducing a character that was HIV-positive.

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, April 12

You are a very bright and interesting person. Your thoroughly unique spin on life is generally appreciated by others. You possess a certain amount of poise that earns respect, but you can also be very humorous and playful when the mood grabs you - and in fact, you can be quite moody and sometimes difficult to truly get close to. You are capable of making great sacrifices, and you recover quickly from reversals of fortune. Famous people born today:

1777 Henry Clay, American politician known as "the Great Compromiser", born in Hanover County, Virginia (d. 1852)

1940 Herbie Hancock, American pianist (I Thought it Was You), born in Chicago, Illinois

1947 David Letterman, American comedian (Late Night), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

1960 Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster(Hockey Night in Canada), born in Zweibrücken, Germany

1971 Shannen Doherty, American actress (Little House, Beverly Hills 90210), born in Memphis, Tennessee

1979 Claire Danes, American actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet), born in NYC, New York

READERS INFO

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1945 -

--On April 12: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died due to a cerebral hemorrhage while serving his fourth term as president. On that same day, Vice President Harry Truman took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and became the 33rd president of the United States. President Roosevelt died just before the end of World War II. Among Roosevelt's many accomplishments was the creation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which is now known as the March of Dimes). The foundation originally began in 1938 in order to fight polio, and it generated millions of dollars for polio research.

In 1948, Dr. Jonas Salk began gathering a team to research polio through funding from the foundation. Salk began testing a killed virus vaccine in 1952. During 1954, 1.8 million children participated in the vaccines tests and were known as "Polio Pioneers," receiving certificates to commemorate their participation. On April 12, 1955, exactly a decade after President Roosevelt's death, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. announced that Dr. Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." The vaccine was a momentous medical advancement. A dedicated medical researcher, Salk continued to conduct research into other diseases. After the decline of polio thanks to Salk's vaccine, the March of Dimes changed its focus to the prevention of birth defects.

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Black Web Fest 2019

Apr 13, 2019 | New York, NY

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The Black Web Fest is an international event series that celebrates Black media makers and digital content. Our core themes are media, discovery, education, and technology.

further information: BLACK WEB FEST 2019

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University of Pittsburgh CLAS Latin American & Caribbean Festival 2019

Apr 13, 2019 | Pittsburgh, PA

Wesley W. Posvar Hall Galleria, First Floor|230 S Bouquet St,

Pittsburgh is known as the “City of Bridges” with 446 bridges in total. You can say that Pittsburgh is connecting the world together with all those bridges, and coming from the south side is the CLAS Latin American & Caribbean Festival. Guests will walk into a colorful environment surrounded by hot, sizzling food, vibrant song and dance performances, children’s activities and spectacular art.

further information: CLAS Latin American & Caribbean Festival | Center for Latin American Studies

Pictures of the day

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils is a 1785 self-portrait painting by French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. It depicts the artist with two of her pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie-Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond. Born in Paris on 11 April 1749, Labille-Guiard grew up in a neighborhood of artists and, on her own initiative, began painting and receiving training from them. She began to take students of her own in 1780. They were all female and she was an advocate for women's involvement in painting. Labille-Guiard spent considerable time planning Self-Portrait with Two Pupils—she produced a chalk study during this period in which she was investigating the closeness and the effect of the light on the students' heads. The finished painting is almost life-size and it has been speculated that the artist and one of the pupils are looking at a mirror. In this case Labille-Guiard is actually painting the very painting the observer sees. The painting is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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ROBIN and NEST DISHCLOTH

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Sloper as a linen V-neck

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Slip On & Go Skirt

Knit Pattern of the Day: Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

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EASTER EGG ANIMAL COVERS

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RECIPE

thanks, Sylvia

Currywurst Ketchup

served on German street food since 1949

Ingredients

1 T. olive oil

1/2 c. chopped yellow onion

1 small clove garlic

1 1/2 T. curry powder

1 T. sweet paprika

1/8 t. ground cloves

1/8 t. ground cinnamon

1 c. ketchup

1 T. tomato paste

5 T. vegetable or chicken broth

1 T. apple cider vinegar

1 T. honey

1 t. Worcestershire sauce

1 t. sugar

1/4 t. prepared mustard

1/2 t. salt

1/8 t. freshly ground black pepper

pinch of cayenne pepper

Cook onions in oil until soft. Add powders and cook 30 seconds, then everything else. Simmer 15 minutes.

Serve over German bratwursts, grilling sausages or hot dogs, on hot dog buns. I slice up and fry kielbasa for a quick sandwich with this sauce, and brush this on chicken and roasting potatoes.

Will keep in the fridge up to a month.