Wednesday, April 21

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 11AM 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. With just this week plus Weeks 14 and 15 left in the semester (the class is over on Friday, May 7, at noon), it would be good to have your plan in place, especially if you are trying to finish up next week in order to have "dead week" in this class. If you have questions about any of that, just let me know!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. Landon wrote a "Johnny-Cake" story and he found a perfect image to use for that! Here's his story: The Cake That Came to Life. Watch out for those living cakes!


Twitter stream. And here's the epic struggle of Cat versus Godzilla:

Plus a video from one of my favorite Indian writers: Samhita Arni!


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


Plus a beautiful door from Egypt via the Met:


And some beautiful art from Mughal India: animals! (larger view)


And here's a word from India might surprise you: PUNCH. It comes from the word for "five" in Hindi (cognate with Greek penta- as in Pentagon) because, traditionally, there were five ingredients in punch. More about punch.



Plus another food word from mythology: 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.


April 21: Ramanavami. Today is the holiday of Rama-Navami, which marks the birthday of Rama, avatar of the god Vishnu. Here is a Ram Navami greeting card, and you can see lots more at the #RamNavami hashtag at Twitter.


And here's a wonderful video about the Ramayana... in sign language!



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