Pew put some of its survey questions online, so you can test your Internet knowledge against the average American.
http://qz.com/302847/everybody-knows-who-bill-gates-is-but-nobody-knows-what-www-means
A Garland of Treasures: Masterpieces of Precious Crafts in the Museum Collection
【Washer in the shape of petals with ladies in underglaze blue】Gallery: 205 (Northern Branch)
17th century
文物賞析：
這件作品是十七世紀外銷荷蘭貿易瓷中的一種類型，倒扣之後很像當時流行的絨帽，因此讓荷蘭商人直接以帽子的名稱「klapmuts」稱呼這種器形的瓷器。整件作品有一道寬折沿花邊，從沿邊到器內弧形壁面的裝飾紋樣共分成六等份，三格畫庭園仕女小景，三格畫牡丹花叢，格子之間間飾卍字與尖角帶紋。反面折沿下畫六個帶雙向卷枝的朵花圖案，外周壁同樣分六格，內繪如意雲頭紋，胎骨堅緻潔白。
在造型之外，這種內外弧形壁面的分格作法，類似「卡拉克」瓷的風格，刻意拉長身軀比例的仕女正是十七世紀以來風靡歐洲市場的「修長伊莉莎白」樣貌，反映出皇室收藏中同時包含有貿易瓷的有趣面向。
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http://gotheborg.com/glossary/klapmuts.shtml
Klapmuts
"Klapmuts" is Dutch and basically means a cap or a hat of a particular shape. The klapmuts was the standard 17th century headgear of the Dutch poor. The less expensive was made out of wool while the more expensive was fashioned of beaver felt.
The shape of this hat is the source of the name for the typical Dutch market soup bowl of the late Ming dynasty, typically inKraak decoration.
While Chinese food bowls are typically held in one hand while eating the prepared and cutup food with chopsticks, European etiquette prescribed the use of knife for cutting up the food yourself and a large spoon, for soups. For this reason a new bowl shape with a rim for resting the spoon was needed. This shape was eventually developed into what we know as a deep plate.
The rims are in sources explained as for condiments such as mustard while others mention them as for disposing of bones and similar onto.
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'How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d' - Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope who was born on this day in 1688.
Eloisa to Abelard - Poetry Foundation
www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174158
From Abelard it came,. And Eloisa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,. Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, ...A Top Goldman Sachs Executive Departs Edward C. Forst, co-head of asset management, is retiring - the highest-ranking executive to leave the firm in recent months.
waving banner for flag...
Islam and the West are inadequate banners
The United States may too often have failed to look outside but it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand AmericaMore Joining American Military as Jobs Dwindle
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004.
It's a banner date for new inventions: on this date in 1879, Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb; it lasted 13.5 hours before burning out .
The U.S. government is officially switching gears. In news that almost all the papers banner across the front page, the Treasury Department will be announcing that the U.S. government plans to invest up to $250 billion in the nation's banks in a move that will effectively translate into a partial nationalization of the financial institutions that take federal money. In addition, the government would provide insurance on all deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts and insure certain types of bank debt.
banner
n.
- A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight.
- The flag of a nation, state, or army.
- A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.
- A headline spanning the width of a newspaper page.
- Botany. See standard (sense 9).
Unusually good; outstanding: a banner year for the company.
tr.v. Informal., -nered, -ner·ing, -ners.
To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper.
[Middle English banere, from Old French baniere, from Vulgar Latin *bandāria, from Late Latin bandum, of Germanic origin.]
banner headline noun [C]
a large title of a story in a newspaper that stretches across the top of the front page
bannera large title of a story in a newspaper that stretches across the top of the front page
noun [C]
1 a long piece of cloth, often stretched between two poles, with a sign written on it, usually carried by people taking part in a march:
The demonstrators walked along the street, waving banners and shouting angrily.
2 an idea, principle or belief that is strongly supported by someone:
They won the election under the banner of lower taxes.
depart
(dĭ-pärt')
v., -part·ed, -part·ing, -parts. v.intr.
- To go away; leave.
- To die.
- To vary, as from a regular course; deviate: depart from custom. See synonyms at swerve.
To go away from; leave.
[Middle English departen, from Old French departir, to split, divide : de-, de- + partir, to divide (from Latin partīre , from pars, part-, part; see part).]
vestal
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛst(ə)l/
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