May week 2 class

Earth Soup Education, serves up a …
‘COOPED UP’ COFFEE CLASS –
2nd Week of May!
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Celebrated Days this week
• Mother’s Day 5/9
• Artists: Salvatore Dali 5/11, Georges Braque 5/13
• Minnesota Admitted 5/11
• Limericks and Odometers 5/12
• Dance like a Chicken 5/14
• Nylon Stockings and Straw Hats 5/15
• Countries: Laos, Paraguay
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Anna Jarvis organized the first official Mother’s Day celebration at a
Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908.
Philadelphia department store owner, John Wanamaker backed the ‘day’
financially. Thousands visited the Wanamaker’s Philadelphia retail store
that same day.
Jarvis remained unmarried and childless her whole life but resolved to
see the holiday be added to the national calendar. Arguing that most
holidays were biased towards male achievements, she started a
campaign to spur the adoption of a special day to honor motherhood. By
1912, many states had added the holiday and in 1914 Woodrow Wilson
signed a measure establishing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s
Day.

By 1920, Anna Jarvis became disgusted with how
commercialized the holiday of Mother’s Day had
become.
(Her idea of the holiday was to visit one’s mother,
wear a carnation, go to church)
Once it became a national holiday, florists, card
companies and others capitalized on the day, Jarvis
wanted nothing to do with it!

A surrealist artist renowned for
his technical skill, precise
draftsmanship, and the striking
and bizarre images in his work.

The Persistence of
Memory -1931 Lobster
Telephone The Elephants -
1948

A humorous, sometimes rude nonsensical form of a 5-lined verse.
‘predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of A-A-B-B-
A, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and
fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme’. (anapestic is a
metrical foot used in poetry, trimeter is a verse consisting of 3 metrical
feet)
An example:
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I’ve seen
so seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical. (-
Wikipedia)

There was an Old Man with a
beard
who said, “It is just as I feared!
–
Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks
and a Wren, Have all built their
nests in my beard!”
- Edward Lear

Thomas Savery, an English
military engineer invented an
odometer for ships in 1628.
Benjamin Franklin (the first
postmaster general) created a
simple odom-meter in 1775 to help
measure the mileage for postal
delivery routes. He attached it to
his carriage.

They are revolution counters. Most
work by counting wheel rotations x
(times) the tire circumference. The
consecutive count is usually based on a
standard wheel (tire) size, or it’s
diameter multiplied by Pi (3.1416).
Standard road cars generally have
wheels that are between 14 inch and
19inches in diameter. (luxury, sports
cars, SUV’s and 4x4 vehicles generally
have the larger size wheel).
The current norm is a magnetic
pick-up placed in close proximity
to a toothed wheel in the gearbox
that induces pulses of current.
The Signal is sent from the
sensor to the ECU (Engine
Control Unit), which converts the
pulses to an appropriate voltage
to activate a stepper-motor (for a
mechanical odometer) or a
printed circuit board (for a digital
one)

Dance like a Chicken Day 5/14 (3:02
min.)
https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=I
69QiwI-2a8
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Below:

Violin and
Candlestick -
1910
Viaduct at L’Estaque
1908
The Studio
(Vase before a
Window) 1939

A brimmed hat woven out
of straw.
They have been worn in
Europe and Asia since the
middle ages and have
changed little over the
centuries.
Theodore Roosevelt
popularized the “Panama
Hat” (fedora) when
photo’d at the Panama
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC
BY-NC-ND

Nylon stockings were
manufactured by the DuPont
Company. They were an
immediate hit when first sold in
1939. The first women to try them
were Dupont employees.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor,
the production of nylon was
diverted from stockings to
military use. It was used to make
glider tow ropes, aircraft fuel
tanks, flak jackets, shoelaces,
mosquito netting, hammocks and

Capital: Vientiane
Population: 7,275,560
Currency: New kip
Major Languages: Lao, French, English
Major Exports: electricity, copper (ore and
refined), rubber and gold
Major Imports: refined petro, cars, bovine, iron
structures and steel bars

Capital: Asunción
Population: 7,132,538
Currency: guarani
Major Languages: Spanish, Guarani
Major Exports: soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible
oils,
wood, leather
Major Imports: machinery, petro, chemicals, auto and

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Below:
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lfrcjJ1Wwk&t=52s

Moscato is a sweet Italian wine known for its
fruity notes, there are red and white versions.
Think Asti Spumante. Made from the Muscat
grape, this grape is typically thought to be a
dessert wine with a hint of fizz. It generally has a
pretty low alcohol content, hovering around 5-7
%. (most reds have an alcohol content of around
10-12%)
Muscat grapes grow just about anywhere in the
world, but ‘prefers’ the warmth of the
Mediterranean and grows well in France, Spain,
Italy, Portugal and Australia.

1628 1700’s 1775 1811 1846
1st
Odomete
r for
Ships
Paraguay’s
independen
ce
Benjamin
Franklin’s
Odomete
r
1st
Limerick
s are
Told
Minnesot
a Joins
Union
Edward
Lear’s
Book of
Nonsens
e
1858 1882 1904 1908 1939 1947
George
sBraqu
e is
Born
Salvador
Dali is
Born
Nylon
Stocking
s are
invented
First
“Mother’
s
Day”
event
Laos
becomes
an
Independen
t State

Hope you learned something
interesting this week! (Did you
notice that Paraguay and Laos,
both celebrate their
independence this week, both
have red, white and blue flags
and both are populated with
about 7 million people?)

Serve and Eat: Breakfast: Buttermilk biscuits
Lunch/Dinner: Shrimp dishes (Louis, Scampi, Newburgh) with fruit cocktail
Appetizer: Hummus and pita
Desserts: Apple pie, butterscotch brownies, chocolate chip cookies, fudge
Drink: a glass of Moscato, or grape juice
Make up a Limerick!
Study Art: Surrealism (for Dali) and Cubism (in honor of Georges Braque)
Wear Stockings!
And Dance like a Chicken! ©

toucans
chicken
Straw hat sourced from Bing creative commons
penguins
Mom + son
Flowers in vase sourced from Bing creative
commons
S. Dali
Persistence Painting
Lobster telephone
The Elephants
Minnesota map
Lakes (left)
Lake (right) sourced from Bing creative
commons
Odometer
G. Braque
Violin/candlestick
viaduct
The studio sourced from Bing creative
commons
Man in hat
Nylons for war
Black stockings
Laos flag
Laos map
Paraguay flag
Paraguay map
shrimp
Moscato
biscuits
Apple pie
Fruit cocktail
brownies
Nutty fudge
Choc chip cookies
hummus
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