Edward Waters headed for trial for unrecognizing union

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The Nationwide Labor Relations Board has filed a grievance towards Edward Waters College, a traditionally Black college in Florida, after the college stopped recognizing its school union, The Tributary reported. The case goes to trial in November. Leaders on the college, which is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, withdrew recognition of its chapter of…

The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77)

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Because the Vic­to­ri­an period, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for gen­er­a­tion upon gen­er­a­tion within the Eng­lish-speak­ing world, the sort of poem that one sim­ply is aware of, whether or not one remem­bers actu­al­ly hav­ing learn it or not. As with most such works that seep so per­ma­nent­ly into the cul­ture, it…