We had the advantage of having the Folger Shakepeare Library in Washington, DC... fascinating place.
view of stage and boxes
Exterior, neo-classic hodge podge offering no clue as to the lush surprises inside.
Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.)
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system."
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The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I’m sure there are plenty of other sights. And sites. One hears that Wales is scenic. My mother has been there.
We had the advantage of having the Folger Shakepeare Library in Washington, DC... fascinating place.
view of stage and boxes
Exterior, neo-classic hodge podge offering no clue as to the lush surprises inside.
Neat! The oranges came from the Mediterranean, I expect. Spain and stuff.
Wot? Just expoxy the little brick back, the thing is lying on the ground in plain view, unless forensics or some footballer nabbed it. Have to admit, some traffic cones would have set the arch off nicely... crime scene and all. Welsh garden gnomes, ehh? ;>)
Aren’t all Welsh gnomes?
This week’s camping outing - DP, Sally, Patrick - has departed. I expected them back within 10 minutes for something they’ve forgotten.
I could drink all the wine while they’re gone, but I’d rather be thin.
For a long time, the Foger was a quiet unheralded scholarly place with a short theater season, circa 1950 and early 60’s.
That all changed when museums became Entertainment! with virtual neon signs.
I won’t even attempt to date American architecture, but lovely looking building. Guess: 1920s ?
Gnomes, keep clear of Gnomes. You just never know what they are thinking.
A Gnome attacked my thread this morning. Boom post1 ,gone!
Gotta get funding from somewhere.
close....1932, early depression year, built with Folger’s Standard Oil wealth...damned good thing.
from the Folger site:
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s founders, Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger, established the Folger in 1932 as a gift to the American people. Emily Folger later wrote of Henry Folger’s belief that “the poet is one of our best sources, one of the wells from which we Americans draw our national thought, our faith and our hope.” This belief in the deep connection between Shakespeare and America is the reason the Folger is located in the nation’s capital. Throughout a long career in the oil industry, Henry Folger, with his wife’s assistance, built the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare materials. Together, Henry and Emily Folger then planned the library that would house their collection.
After it opened in 1932, the Folger steadily expanded its holdings to become a world-class research center on the early modern age in the West, while remaining the premier center for Shakespeare studies and resources outside of England. Its public outreach programs, beginning in the library’s early decades with exhibitions, lectures, and publications, have also grown over time. Today they include Folger Theatre productions, early-music concerts by the Folger Consort, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, fiction readings through the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library editions in their various forms, and a lively array of education offerings for teachers, students, and families.
Sounds like a fun place. Maybe I’ll go there if I ever get to D.C. again.
They had a rather large source from Folge Library published paperback books of Shakespeare’s work. Best choice for annotations and background. All of our school study work required them. Had a nice small collection of them until a deluge in NJ flooded the in-laws basement.
Some of our secondhand collection of Shakespeare plays are Folger Library editions. They do have a lot of commentary.
I think I’ll just have another cup of coffee.
more at link below.
My Buddies and I Turned 50. This was our present to ourselves. https://imgur.com/gallery/Rd2UJ
That’s what I intended when I set my cup on the garden table, turned my back and...
Just in case you’d forgotten that the universe is out to get us.
Now that is what I call a birthday treat!
A quartet of Merlins or Griffins, add horse power to taste, providing the musical accompaniment to a flight around the county.
Small inside,aren’t they? :)
Either 22Sqn Raf or 419 Rcaf.
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