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Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet: It's National Underwear Day!

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Wednesday, August 05, 2015. It's National Underwear Day! Back when I was a kid, we referred to my Polish grandmother's underwear as "gitchy-gotches."* I always thought it was a nonsense, made-up, family word. Not so! It seems that "gitch gotch" (or "gitch gonch") is a widely known Canadian term for underwear! Even more research led me to finding that "gotch" may have its roots in a Ukrainian word gatky. Today, August 5th is National Underwear Day. In case you're wondering why my grandmother's underwear w...

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Kurious K's Kwotes: Ignorance Is Curable!

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Saturday, August 1, 2015. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Please note: Kurious K's Kwotes is a personal website and solely reflects my interests and opinions, whereas Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet is a function of my employment and is used to promote library use and reader education.

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Kurious K's Kwotes: Sharks

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy Library of Congress. Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Random Noodling is a personal website devoted to haiku and other poetry. Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader.

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Kurious K's Kwotes: 75 Years Old This Year!

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. 75 Years Old This Year! Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Please note: Kurious K's Kwotes is a personal website and solely reflects my interests and opinions, whereas Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet is a function of my employment and is used to promote library use and reader education. Random Noodling is a personal website devoted to haiku and other poetry. Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader.

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Kurious K's Kwotes: Young People--Wake Up!

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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Young People- Wake Up! What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Random Noodling is a personal website devoted to haiku and other poetry. Enter your email address:.

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Kurious K's Kwotes: Poetry Friday

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Friday, August 7, 2015. The book is part of the poem. Because you have little trees in the paper that are holding the poem up, and little rivers going through the paper, encouraging the poem to flow. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Random Noodling is a personal website devoted to haiku and other poetry. Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader. Can't Get Enough Cats?

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Kurious K's Kwotes: Sunday's Kat Kwote

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Sunday, August 9, 2015. Narrow your eyelids to entreat the beast;. Make soft your glances; never show surprise. Discovering the lion in his eyes-. Elinor Wylie from "The Persian Kitten". Illustration by John Tenniel. Posted by Diane Mayr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit My Other Blogs. Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet. Random Noodling is a personal website devoted to haiku and other poetry. Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader. Can't Get Enough Cats? Other Places to Get Quotes.

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Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet: Not a Day For Celebration

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Thursday, August 06, 2015. Not a Day For Celebration. The surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced on August 15. The war ended, but the costs of using the atomic bomb were immeasurable. More than 200,000 of the cities' civilians were killed instantly or died as a result. The destruction was total. These before and after photos of Nagasaki, say it all:. Source: http:/ www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/AtomicEffects/img/AtomicEffects-p10a.jpg. Posted by KURIOUS KITTY. Who Is Kurious Kitty? Neither K...

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Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet: February 2015

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Thursday, February 26, 2015. Poetry Friday- Happy Birthday, Mr. Longfellow! On this day in 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. He lived a good portion of his life in a big yellow house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The site, now a national park, is known as Longfellow House- Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. His poems told stories that held their readers and listeners enthralled. "Paul Revere's Ride" begins with these lines:. Listen, my children, and you shall hear.