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The more doors you have to a building, the more access you have to the rooms inside. The same thing is true regarding information. The more ways to access knowledge, the easier it is to get to it and vice-versa.
The more doors you have to a building, the more access you have to the rooms inside. The same thing is true regarding information. The more ways to access knowledge, the easier it is to get to it and vice-versa.
When having difficulty, sometimes searching for knowledge is kind of like
approaching a building, and seeing a door frame on the building wall. You hack
your way through the brush, the undergrowth and maybe the overgrowth, only to
get to that doorway and find it’s all bricked in. So then you have to fight
your way out and go around and find another, maybe easier way to enter. We don't want that to be the case.
The easier we make it to find information, the
easier it will be on the searcher. The avenues of Social Media are just such an
example. It is a grass-roots-up method which means some every day Joe discovers
a great find and wants to tell all his friends about it. This creates another way to access information easily.
Well guess what? Pinterest comes to the fore once
again. If you are trying to find Vital Records for your ancestor, try typing
‘vital records’ (without the quotes) into the search field on Pinterest. There is a growing collection of websites and blogs that cover this very thing. This just may be the path of least resistance for which you have been looking. If you are a member you can also add more pins of places that fit the category, which will in turn help other people.
When you can’t find something, try to think of every
conceivable way to hunt it down. Pinterest is yet another option in that
search.
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Today in History
March 31
March 31
1282
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The great massacre of the French in Sicily The Sicilian
Vespers comes to an end.
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1547
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In France, Francis–king since 1515–dies and is succeeded
by his son Henry II.
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1776
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Abigail Adams writes to husband John that women are
"determined to foment a rebellion" if the new Declaration of
Independence fails to guarantee their rights.
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1779
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Russia and Turkey sign a treaty by which they promise to
take no military action in the Crimea.
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1790
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In Paris, France, Maximilien Robespierre is elected president
of the Jacobin Club.
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1836
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The first monthly installment of The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens is published in London.
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1862
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Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces takes place at
Island 10 on the Mississippi River.
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1880
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The first electric street lights ever installed by a
municipality are turned on in Wabash, Indiana.
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1889
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens on the Left
Bank as part of the Exhibition of 1889.
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1916
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General John Pershing and his army rout Pancho Villa's
army in Mexico.
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1917
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The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from
Denmark for $25 million.
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1918
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Daylight Savings Time goes into effect throughout the
United States for the first time.
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1921
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Great Britain declares a state of emergency because of the
thousands of coal miners on strike.
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1933
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To relieve rampant unemployment, Congress authorizes the
Civilian Conservation Corps .
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1939
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Britain and France agree to support Poland if Germany
threatens to invade.
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1940
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La Guardia airport in New York officially opens to the
public.
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1941
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Germany begins a counter offensive in North Africa.
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1945
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The United States and Britain bar a Soviet supported
provisional regime in Warsaw from entering the U.N. meeting in San Francisco.
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1948
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The Soviet Union begins controlling the Western trains
headed toward Berlin.
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1949
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Winston Churchill declares that the A-bomb was the only
thing that kept the Soviet Union from taking over Europe.
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1954
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The siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last French outpost in
Vietnam, begins after the Viet Minh realize it cannot be taken by direct
assault.
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1960
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The South African government declares a state of emergency
after demonstrations lead to the deaths of more than 50 Africans.
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1966
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An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New
York City.
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1967
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty, the
first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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1970
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U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, the first since
September 1968.
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1980
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President Jimmy Carter deregulates the banking industry.
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1991
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Albania offers a multi-party election for the first time
in 50 years.
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1596
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René Descartes, French philosopher and scientist.
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1621
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Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician.
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1693
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John Harrison, Englishman who invented the chronometer.
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1732
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Franz Joseph Haydn,
Austrian composer.
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1809
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Edward Fitzgerald, American writer.
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1809
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Nikolai V. Gogol, Russian writer (The Inspector General,
Dead Souls).
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1811
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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist, inventor of the Bunsen
burner.
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1854
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Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the two-stroke motorcycle
engine.
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1878
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Jack Johnson, first Africa-American boxer to become the
world heavyweight champion.
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1914
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Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and Nobel Prize-winning
writer.
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1915
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Henry Morgan,
comedian, radio performer.
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1926
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John Fowles, English novelist (The Collector, The
French Lieutenant's Woman).
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1936
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Marge Piercy, poet and novelist.
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1948
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Al Gore, Vice President to President William J. Clinton
(1993-2001).
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Franz Joseph Haydn |
Henry Morgan |
A
school principal may not behave in an autocratic manner, but he or she is a
prince or princess, etymologically speaking. Both have descended from the same
parents: Latin prime (first) + capere (to take).
The antiquated custom of royalty, with inherited offices, divine rights, and privy purses is thankfully becoming rare. Yet they live on in the language. Things royal are big, such as a royal pain. In chemistry, we have aqua regia (literally, royal water), a highly corrosive liquid. A king's ransom is a very large sum of money. A royalty was a right granted by a king to a person or corporation, especially the right to mine an area. From there the term extended to payments made to authors, composers, etc.
This week we'll regale you with five other words tracing their lineage to royalty.
PS: If you see someone confusing the words principal and principle, cut them a little slack. The two words differ by only a letter and have the same (princely) heritage.
The antiquated custom of royalty, with inherited offices, divine rights, and privy purses is thankfully becoming rare. Yet they live on in the language. Things royal are big, such as a royal pain. In chemistry, we have aqua regia (literally, royal water), a highly corrosive liquid. A king's ransom is a very large sum of money. A royalty was a right granted by a king to a person or corporation, especially the right to mine an area. From there the term extended to payments made to authors, composers, etc.
This week we'll regale you with five other words tracing their lineage to royalty.
PS: If you see someone confusing the words principal and principle, cut them a little slack. The two words differ by only a letter and have the same (princely) heritage.
interregnum
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-tuhr-REG-nuhm)
MEANING:
noun: The period
between the end of a reign and the beginning of the next; a time when there is
no ruler.
ETYMOLOGY:
From
Latin, from inter- (between) + regnum (reign). Ultimately from the
Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave
us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, prorogue, arrogate, abrogate, regent, and supererogatory.
Earliest documented use: 1579.
USAGE:
"Janet
Yellen was acting chairwoman during the weekend interregnum."
Binyamin Appelbaum; Bernanke Starts New Role as Yellen Takes Fed Helm; The New York Times; Feb 3, 2014.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Binyamin Appelbaum; Bernanke Starts New Role as Yellen Takes Fed Helm; The New York Times; Feb 3, 2014.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Whenever
anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot
reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
Today’s
Recipe
March -
Breakfast Foods
Ingredients
1 pound lasagna noodles
8 eggs
1 cup mozzarella
1 cup cheddar
1 cup ricotta
SAUCE
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1 pound raw loose breakfast
sausage
1 onion
1 (14 oz) can Muir Glen diced
tomatoes
Directions
- 1 Make
the sauce: Brown up the sausage and remove from the pan. In the same pan,
cook the onions to lightly brown. Add in the butter and flour and stirr
well, cooking for about 2 minutes. Whisk in the milk and bring to a
simmer. Remove from heat and add the sausage back in. Strain the diced
tomatoes and stir into the sauce.
- 2 Cook
the noodles in a pot of boiling water until tender.
- 3 In
a small bowl, crack and whisk two eggs. Prepare a frying pan to cook the
eggs that is the same size as your round baking dishes.
- 4 In
the baking dish, start with a thin layer of sauce, followed by the first
layer of noodles, then some more sauce and all three cheeses. Cook the
first egg round for only a few minutes without flipping until it has just
barely set on top. Transfer the egg to the top of the noodles then repeat
with another layer of everything.
- 5 Top
with a final pasta layer and a little more cheese and sauce and bake at
400 for about 15 minutes.
- 6 If
you want to save this in the fridge or freezer, that's fine, but I would
suggest boiling the pasta a little less and baking it for a bit longer
before serving.
- 7 Recipe
makes enough for two 8-inch baking rounds.
March Recipes – Breakfast Foods
Mar 4th Corned Beef Hash
Mar 5th Sunday Morning Muffins
Mar 6th Breakfast Pizza
Mar 10th Baked Fruit
– 3 ways
Mar 11th French
Toast Sticks – Kid Friendly
Mar 12th Mini
Quiche
Mar 13th Red
Velvet Waffles, with cream cheese gravy – (I didn’t say they would be
healthy!)
Mar 14th Triple
Berry Smoothie – not just for breakfast any more.
Mar 17th Homemade
oatmeal, 9 ways
Healthy recipes:
Mar 19th Baked
Apple-Cinnamon French Toast
Mar 20th Cranberry
Muesli
Mar 22nd Eggs
Italiano
Mar 24th Golden
Polenta and Egg, w/ mustard sauce (looks like it would be good for supper,
too.)
Other recipes
Mar 26th Raspberry
and cream cheese muffins
Mar 28th Ham
and Swiss Egg sandwiches
Mar 31st Breakfast
Lasagna
ENJOY!
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