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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monarch Butterflies
Just like birds, monarchs migrate south for the winter, traveling between 1,200 and 2,800 miles (at a rate of about 50 miles a day) to their wintering spot in central Mexico. It's thought that they use an internal sun compass to find the way.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Vernors is a flavored golden ginger ale aged for four years in oak barrels before bottling. It was the first U.S. soft drink, originating in 1866, although it was modelled on imported Irish ginger beers. In Detroit, Michigan, a drink made with vanilla ice cream and Vernors ginger ale is called a Boston cooler. The name is not taken from Boston, Massachusetts, where this combination is unknown, but from an establishment on Boston Boulevard in Detroit where it is said to have been invented.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Love Poems of Marichiko
The Love Poems of Marichiko were originally published as if they had been written by a young Japanese woman and Rexroth had merely translated them. In reality there was no such person as Marichiko — the poems were all written by Rexroth himself, projecting himself into a feminine persona, during the same period that he was translating several volumes of Chinese and Japanese women poets.
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