Carole Anne Meehan was the ceremonial tapper at Temples Sugar Bush on March 5th- The new work by a woman being staged this next season at the Metropolitan Opera is ‘L’Amour de Loin’ by Finnish composer Kaija Saaranaho. It is only the second opera by a woman that the Met has ever staged. The first one was Der Wald presented twice in 1903, and composed by English suffragette Ethel Smyth.
- There are 24 time zones on earth. There are 40 if one goes by country division.
- Although ghoti is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, it was actually around for a long time before he existed. It is considered anonymous. Gh as in lau’gh’; ‘o’ as in w’o’men and ‘ti’ as in na’ti’on.
- Boris Karloff narrated ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’.
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