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Celebrate Paperback Book Day
There’s nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.E.A. Bucchianeri
Time was that books were sold bound in heavy wooden covers bound in leather and stitched to a spine, these books are durable and attractive, but they are also very… very… heavy. In the 19th century another technique of improving the printing and publishing of books came about, the paperback novel. These books were easily portable, less expensive to produce, and provided a beautiful way to carry about ones favorite book on their person. Paperback Book Day celebrates the creation of this new form of book, and the people who carry them around every day.
History of Paperback Book Day
One of the things that led to lighter books being developed was the commonality of the railway. The railway was indeed a faster form of travel across vast distances, but one could still easily spend a week or more in a carriage as it covered the great expanses of countryside. While books were a fine way to pass the time, they were dearly expensive and quite large and heavy, making them both risky to carry and inconvenient to read while on the road. So it was that the first paperback books were aimed at railway passengers.
Since that time paperback books have become increasingly popular for both their reduced price, as well as their portability. While modern advances have produced books even lighter yet in the form of digital readers and documents one can pull up on their phone, there’s still just nothing quite as satisfying as holding a book in your arms and curling yourself around it of a quiet evening. Paperback Book Day honors and exalts this practice of comfort and leisurely days.
Since that time paperback books have become increasingly popular for both their reduced price, as well as their portability. While modern advances have produced books even lighter yet in the form of digital readers and documents one can pull up on their phone, there’s still just nothing quite as satisfying as holding a book in your arms and curling yourself around it of a quiet evening. Paperback Book Day honors and exalts this practice of comfort and leisurely days.
Impressive
Word of the Day
filiation
MEANING:
noun:
1. The fact of being descended or derived from someone or something.
2. The act of determining such relationship.
3. Forming of a new branch.
1. The fact of being descended or derived from someone or something.
2. The act of determining such relationship.
3. Forming of a new branch.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin filius (son). Earliest documented use: 1529.
USAGE:
“French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner recently asked the German government to grant citizenship to French war babies who seek it after tracing their filiation.”
Edward Cody; “At Last I Had a Father”; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Dec 12, 2009.
Edward Cody; “At Last I Had a Father”; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Dec 12, 2009.
Faucet issues
Idiom of the Day
Champagne on a beer budget -
Meaning - Wanting expensive things that you can not afford.
Example - She always buys things out of her budget. She has developed a taste for champagne on beer budget.
Dinner with a view
This Day in History
1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
1792 - The French national anthem "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
1898 - "Scientific America" carried the first magazine automobile ad. The ad was for the Winton Motor Car Company of Cleveland, OH.
1932 - Walt Disney's "Flowers and Trees" premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor.
1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy.
1956 - The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year.
1990 - In Spring Hill, TN, the first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.
1991 - In China, construction began on the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower.
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line.
thanks, Mollie
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, July 30
You are highly creative, spontaneous, humorous, entertaining, and likable. Emotionally impulsive, you need to feel inspired in order to truly perform. You have a definite flair for the dramatic. You might frequently make sacrifices for others, and often willingly do so. You are highly perceptive and insightful, and this draws others to you, particularly as you mature. While your good-heartedness may be taken advantage of by less noble individuals, you tend to bounce back quickly and although you toughen up to some degree with life experience, you keep your youthful, loving, and generous spirit alive throughout life. Famous people born today:
1818 Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire (d. 1848)
1863 Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), born in Dearborn Township, Michigan (d. 1947)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American body builder, actor (Terminator) and politician (38th Governor of California), born in Thal, Austria
1961 Laurence Fishburne, American actor (The Matrix, CSI, Apocalypse Now), born in Augusta, Georgia
1963 Lisa Kudrow, American actress (Phoebe Buffay on Friends), born in Los Angeles, California
1974 Hilary Swank, American actress (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln, Nebraska
1981 Hope Solo, American soccer player (US women's national team goalkeeper), born in Richland, Washington
READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Fact of The Day:
Dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport.
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1729 - The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
1956 - The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year.
1990 - In Spring Hill, TN, the first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.
1991 - In China, construction began on the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower.
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line.
DAILY SQU-EEK
1981 Hope Solo, American soccer player (US women's national team goalkeeper), born in Richland, Washington
Dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport.
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TODAY: In 1818, Emily Brontë, probably seen here in a portrait made by her brother Branwell around 1833, is born. (It’s possible this is a portrait of Anne).
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Awesome
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born American-British structural biologist. After graduating with a degree in physics in 1971, he moved to the United States, where he obtained a PhD in physics in 1976. He then spent two years studying biology as a graduate student while making a transition from theoretical physics to biology, beginning work on ribosomes as a postgraduate fellow at Yale University. In 1999, Ramakrishnan's laboratory published a 5.5-angstrom resolution structure of the 30S subun it of the ribosome. The following year, his laboratory determined the complete molecular structure of the 30S subunit and its complexes with several antibiotics. Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". He was elected President of the Royal Society for a term of five years beginning in 2015. Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
AN OLD MAN
I visited to central region of Myanmar last year. When I arrived at Mingun, I found this old man with an oxcart taxi for visitors. He took me around the Mingun area. Finally we arrived at the famous white temple of Mingun. I loved the background so requested to shoot a photo of him in the oxcart. I liked the frame of the oxcart box and lighting on the face.
What's up. Doc?
knit
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knit
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Women's socks knitting patternknit
knit
knit
Going for a walk
Crochet Pattern of the Day: Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
Huh?
crochet
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crochet
thanks, Ruth
crochet
crochet
crochet
Knife skills
RECIPE
thanks, Sandy
Whadda you lookin at?
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Sara
Letting go of my issues
SWEETS
thanks, Patsy
ADULT COLORING
To catch a thief
CRAFTS
thanks, Claire
Our secret handshake
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... crafts
thanks, Renee
PUZZLE
Art imitates life
WORD SEARCH
I sure hope you can read my mind
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
Invisible stairmaster
QUOTE
thanks, Beth
Throw the frisbee already!!!
Didn't get a chance to practice, eh?
CLEVER
100 kids waited all day to see the vintage steam engine roll by
EYE OPENER
YOUR VOTE (NOW) COUNTS!
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. -Emily Bronte, novelist (30 Jul 1818-1848)
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