Chief justice john marshall6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The justices, when they met, were in the Old City Hall in Philadelphia and then the Capitol building’s basement in Washington. The early days of the Court were certainly low-key. The Act set the intial number of Supreme Court justices at six: one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. ![]() According to Article III, “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The details of the Court’s composition and that of the lower courts were left to Congress, which debated the Judiciary Act for several months and passed the final measure on September 24, 1789. The Supreme Court itself was established as part of the Constitution. It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included the Supreme Court and other federal courts. ![]()
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Six crimson cranes book 26/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Terrified of her powers being discovered, she runs after it and ends up jumping into a lake. But Shiori herself has magic in her and as she is walking towards the hall for the ceremony, a paper (origami) bird, Kiki, she has breathed life into suddenly escapes. She is deeply attached to her brothers and wishes (not unreasonably for she is little more than a child) life would remain unchanged. Magic is abhorred in the kingdom and anyone discovered to possess it is exiled or even executed.Īs our story opens, Shiori is heading to her betrothal ceremony, something she is dreading for her chosen husband is from the north, where she believes only barbarians reside. The children’s mother, beloved by the Emperor is dead, and the Emperor is now married to the beautiful, yet cold Raikama, who has snakes for pets. The first of (I think) a duology, it takes us to the kingdom of Kiata where the Emperor has six sons and a daughter, our ‘heroine’ Shiori. Six Crimson Cranes is a retelling of the Wild Swans fairy tale but set in (fantasy) East Asia and with its own spin. My thanks to Hodder and Stoughton and NetGalley for a review copy of this book. ![]() Wild Rose, Silent Snow by Angel Martinez6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This project aims to document the lives of U.S. In the chaos, COVID casualties might otherwise get overlooked. Many hospitals have been overwhelmed and workers sometimes have lacked protective equipment or suffer from underlying health conditions that make them vulnerable to the highly infectious virus. Our team contacts family members, employers and medical examiners to independently confirm each death. We have published profiles for 164 workers whose deaths have been confirmed by our reporters. “Lost on the Frontline,” a collaboration between KHN and The Guardian, has identified 922 such workers who likely died of COVID-19 after helping patients during the pandemic. Others at risk work in nursing homes or are employed as home health aides. ![]() They tend to patients in hospitals, treating them, serving them food and cleaning their rooms. In some states, medical personnel account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. 10, 2020, all updates to Lost on the Frontline are available at /lost-on-the-frontline.Īmerica’s health care workers are dying. ![]() Eight cousins6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."Īt age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences."įor Louisa, writing was an early passion. ![]() ![]() Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside"). ![]() She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)Ī Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995) ![]() ![]() However, this is the first of a projected series, so it will be interesting to see if some of these vague points are resolved. ![]() Many aspects of the book are not fully thought out, making it less compelling than it might be. The story is marred by some predictability, and the role of the endowed in this otherwise contemporary, unmagical society is not clear. ![]() The writing is deft, most of the characters are intriguing, and Charlie Bone is an appealing boy. While the parallels with Harry Potter are obvious, this fantasy has its own charms, chief among them being the endoweds'' often-odd magical abilities. Charlie, his friend Benjamin, and other allies try to unlock the secrets of a mysterious case that could get the girl back, while the sinister Bloors and Charlie''s ghastly relatives who are endowed try to thwart them. ![]() Charlie hears one conversation that sets him on a search for a girl who has been missing for years, and when he begins attending Bloor''s Academy, an elite boarding school for the rich and the endowed (as the Red King''s descendants are called), his life becomes full of intrigue and danger. When he is 10 years old, Charlie discovers that he is able to look at photographs and hear conversations and even thoughts that were taking place at the time the photo was taken, a legacy of his ancestor the Red King, whose descendants all have different magical abilities. ![]() ![]() I called him about something completely different, to ask him to participate in a sort of seminar listening session for an arts commission that I'm associated with. LITHGOW: It's funny, Joe and I had been out of touch for a good year or two. ![]() Trump and his entire administration, and it's so delicious writing satirical comedy about these people because they are larger than life comic figures - if they weren't such figures from a horror show. ![]() I'm the least likely Bull satirist in the world, but this really captured my imagination. They were so primed for a little piece of Trump satire. I've never heard a public theater audience laugh and cheer so hard. ![]() What inspired me was I gave this performance for the public theater at a gala in New York City where they asked me to sing the "Major-General" song from The Pirates of Penzance, and I rewrote the third verse and performed it all in the character of Michael T. The first one was more lighthearted, but I started the second one, and immediately we had impeachment proceedings, and we had a coronavirus epidemic, and we had Black Lives Matter and economic collapse that you can't be lighthearted about. ![]() JOHN LITHGOW: Things are getting darker by the day. ![]() Macaulay castle6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() David also wrote the book Cathedral and we read that book already. Five of these titles have been made into popular PBS television programs. ![]() From the pyramids of Egypt to the skyscrapers of New York City, the human race’s great architectural and engineering accomplishments have been demystified through Macaulay's elaborate show-and-tells. Following in this tradition, Macaulay created other books-including City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Unbuilding, and Mosque-that have provided the explanations of the how and the why in a way that is both accessible and entertaining. He published his first book, Cathedral, in 1973. After working as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and a teacher at RISD, Macaulay began to experiment with creating books. After spending his fifth year at RISD in Rome on the European Honors Program, he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and vowed never to practice. During this time he began to draw seriously, and after graduating from high school he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He found himself having to adjust from an idyllic English childhood to life in a fast paced American city. David Macaulay, born in 1946, was eleven when his parents moved from England to Bloomfield, New Jersey. ![]() War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame? My dear, then I will serve. George Herbert, in the conclusion of his poetic tome, The Temple, wrote, “Love took my hand, and smiling did reply Who made the eyes but I? Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame Go where it doth deserve. ![]() “or smiles from reason flow/To brute denied, and are of love the food/Love, not the lowest end of human life,” wrote Milton in Paradise Lost. Love, and the struggle for love, runs replete through the great poetry of the ages. Given that the birth of literature is tied to lyric verse, and that the great works of ancient literature-being chiefly lyric poetry-were sung, it is unsurprising that the greatest works of literature have love as their central focus. The Bible obsessively concerns itself with love the high point being the poetic works, namely the Psalms, and the wisdom literature, especially Sirach and the Song of Songs. ![]() The works of Homer run replete with the theme of love. The oldest work of extent literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh, wrestles with love. Love has been tied with literature from the beginning. It is the theme of all great philosophy, from Plato to Augustine to Schelling. As Prince Andrei lay dying beside Natasha and his sister, Princess Marya, he reflects inward, “Love? What is love?” Love is the theme of all great literature, from Homer and Dante to Milton, Herbert, and Tennyson. ![]() Mr wuffles book6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s cover juxtaposes the exclamation point in the rainbow-colored lettering of the title with a. ![]() Wiesner once again produces a fantasy adventure that isn’t like anything else around. One of his children’s friends had a cat called Mr. Wuffles-yes, humans aren’t even a factor in this story of extraterrestrial first contact. The aliens succeed in befriending the insects that live within the walls of the house, and together they concoct a plan to outwit Mr. Wuffles plays a little too roughly with the toy ship, the aliens must venture into the cats territory to make. Wuffles ignores all his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small green aliens, and when Mr. Though the artwork, done in watercolor and India ink, is superbly colored and composed, the most inventive aspect of the story may be the hieroglyphic language the three-time Caldecott Medalist has invented for his aliens: this is a nearly wordless book full of dialogue no one (excepting maybe Wiesner) will know how to speak aloud. This book was released on 2013 with total page 37 pages. (Picture book ages 4 to 8) In this brilliant book, Wiesner (Flotsam, Tuesday) unleashes the. Wiesner constructs his story in a mix of full spreads and comics-style panels. WUFFLES Written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Wuffles bats their spaceship about playfully, damaging it, and in a daring move, the aliens break for safety under the radiator. But he homes in on a metal object (imagine two doll-size colanders soldered shut), imperiling the tiny green aliens inside. Wuffles, a handsome black cat with white paws and an arrogant air, couldn’t care less about the many toys purchased for his amusement. ![]() Gene yang american born chinese6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout the story, The Monkey King is unhappy with himself as a monkey and continually tries to become another version of himself. Yang replaces the Buddha from the original story with a Christian influenced deity Tze-Yo-Tzuh. The first storyline is Yang's contemporary rendition of the Chinese story of a Kung Fu practicing Monkey King of Flower-Fruit Mountain, The Monkey King, a character from the classic 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The story of American Born Chinese consists of three seemingly separate tales, which are tied together at the end of the book. It was colored by cartoonist Lark Pien, who received the 2007 Harvey Award for Best Colorist for her work on the book. It also made the Booklist Top Ten Graphic Novel for Youth, the NPR Holiday Pick, and Time Top Ten Comic of the Year. ![]() Printz Award, the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, the Publishers Weekly Comics Week Best Comic of the Year, the San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, the 2006/2007 Best Book Award from The Chinese American Librarians Association, and Best Graphic Novel/Comic of the Year. Released in 2006 by First Second Books, it was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. Print (paperback & hardback collector's edition)Īmerican Born Chinese is a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. ![]() |