Wednesday, November 18

Today is Wednesday of Week 13. Here is a link to Week 13, plus Week 14 if you are working ahead and/or mixing-and-matching as you finish up the class. And yes, any combination of assignments you want to use to finish the class is good! All the points go into the same total in Canvas. Details about that here. 

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in a project before 3PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I got your project.

Finishing-up plan. Especially as we get ready for the Thanksgiving break next week, it would be good to have your plan in place based on whether you are trying to finish up now in Week 13 (which stretches out over Thanksgiving break), or if you are going to finish up after the break. If you have any questions about any of that, just let me know!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. I'm always curious to see what people do for Wikipedia Trails, and here's one from Siddharth: from Rameswaram to Hastinapur.


Twitter stream. I am such a fan of old books, and here's something via Project Gutenberg: The magnificent early age of book covers.


And a beautiful door from Egypt via the Met: 


And some beautiful art from Mughal India: animals!


Storybook. Plus a wonderful Storybook about animals and reincarnation: Life as Animals of the Epics.


100-Word Stories. And here's an animal story from India: Turtle, Deer, Mouse, and Crow.


You might partake of some party punch this holiday season, so you should know that PUNCH is a word from India that is now part of English: it means "five" in Hindi (cognate with Greek penta- as in Pentagon) for the five ingredients in punch. More about punch.


And another word from mythology for the holidays: CORNUCOPIA, the horn-of-plenty in Latin, which is connected to both Greek and Roman mythology. More about cornucopia.


And here's a fun Crash Course video: Mythical Caves and Gardens.


November 18: Caxton. On this day 1477, William Caxton produced the first printed book in England! You can read more about William Caxton's life and career in this Wikipedia article. The image below shows an image of Aesop from the Caxton edition of the fables; each of the objects around Aesop suggests an incident from Aesop's life:


And here's a BBC radio show about Caxton:



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