#strahan

[jeanhm]

#the ship that never was #sarah island #strahan

[itsmythang]

Michael Strahan learns of his deep-rooted family history of Shankleville, an East Texas freedom colony, and meets his long-lost cousins as part of the #10MillionNames project.

Freedom Colonies are “historically significant communities” that were settled by formerly enslaved people during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras in Texas following Emancipation (Sitton, 2022). From 1865-1930, African Americans accumulated land and founded 557 historic black settlements.

#freedom colonies #Shankleville Tx #Strahan #Michael Strahan #Youtube

[pickletrip]

Rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up and tag 10 people. Tagged by @yousaygoodbyeandisay and saw @absolutebl post the same.

There are song titles I couldn't type out, so this seemed like a nice way to share my 10 songs on shuffle from my Spotify.

Happy listening!

Not tagging anyone, but feel free to share if you'd like.

#Spotify #glass beach #txt #mokita #the psychedelic furs #ateez #vaundy #jeff satur #peter cat recording #strahan #music #kpop #for the love of all kinds of music

[thewtcho]

Michael Strahan says he’s ‘just being realistic’ after telling fans 'it's time to pivot and move onto the next thing'

Michael Strahan says he’s ‘just being realistic’ after telling fans ‘it’s time to pivot and move onto the next thing’

MICHAEL Strahan has told fans he is “just being realistic” after announcing “it’s time to pivot” in wake of his huge career news. The former footballer shared a dose of Monday motivation with his social media followers following his revelation that he a lost out on a major role. 3 Michael Strahan shared a stirring clip with fans encouraging them to overcome knockbacksCredit:…

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#Fans #hes #Michael #Move #pivot #realistic #Strahan #telling #time

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet on Good Morning America on December 12, 2023. 🎄✨🎄✨🎄

IG credit to goodmorningamerica

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #good morning america #gma #december 12 #Nicole flender #calah lane #michael strahan #wonka #wonka 2023 #wonka promo

[juniperjellyfish]

#ninjago #lego ninjago #lego #nst 2 1-5 #ninjago michael strahan #ninjago cinder #ninjago spoilers

[blackmensuited]

#tony gonzalez #michael strahan #athletes #sports #nfl #football #🏈 #atlanta falcons #new york giants #suit #three piece suit #tie #vest #dress shoes #wingtips #double monk shoes #monk strap #handsome #style #sexy #sharp #suave #men's fashion #phyne #attractive #fine

[blastofsports]

Michael Strahan

#michael strahan #nfl players #nfl football #college athletes #college sports #texas southern university #new york giants #good morning america #tv personality

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

Happy National Dictionary Day!

Although the day was introduced to honor the birthday of American lexicographer Noah Webster, we are more interested in his innovative predecessor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Johnson was an English writer with credits as a poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. In 1746, he was approached by a group of publishers to create an authoritative English dictionary and agreed, boasting he could complete the dictionary within three years. In the end, he single-handedly completed the task within eight years utilizing only clerical assistance. 

Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was first published in London by noted Scottish printer and publisher William Strahan on April 15, 1755. While certainly not the first dictionary, it was groundbreaking in its documentation of the English lexicon providing not only words and their definitions, but examples of their use. Johnson accomplished this by illustrating the meanings of words through literary quotes, often citing Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden. He also introduced lighthearted humor into some of his definitions, most notably describing a lexicographer as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words”. Of equal amusement, oats are defined as “a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”. 

A Dictionary of the English Language was published in two volumes with volume one containing A-K and volume two L-Z. Its pages were 46 cm tall and 51 cm wide, and it is said that outside of a few special editions of the Bible no book of this size and bulk had been set to type and that no bookseller could print it without help. Johnson’s dictionary was the pre-eminent dictionary for over 100 years until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1884. Despite some criticism about his etymology and orthoepic guidelines, Johnson’s dictionary was tremendously influential in its methodology for how dictionaries should be constructed and entries presented, casting a shadow over all future dictionaries and lexicographers. 

Several of the words in Johnson's dictionary were painstakingly defined. "Take" has 134 definitions running 8,000 words over 5 pages.

Woodcut tailpieces adorn the dictionary interspersed between letters.

Special Collections holds a facsimile reproduction of Johnson's dictionary, published in 1967 by AMS Press of New York.

View other Milestone Monday posts.

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#Milestone Monday #milestones #national dictionary day #holidays #a dictionary of the english language #samuel johnson #w. strahan #William Strahan #milestonemonday #lexicographers #woodcuts #AMS Press #tailpieces #dictionaries #English dictionaries #lexicography

[chrisquartet]

☀️☕️💐✨

#chris pine #GMA #michael strahan

[jeanhm]

#west coast tasmania #strahan #police station

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #steve harvey #family feud #tik tok #denzel washington #idris elba #jamie foxx #cedric the entertainer #samual l jackson #lorenz tate #kevin hart #mike epps #will smith #kenan thompson #eddie murphy #chris rock #michael strahan

[shannendoherty-fans]

December 6, 2023 - Shannen at the "Good Morning America" TV programme, talking about her new podcast and her cancer journey.

From The 90s Shando on instagram - thank you!

#shannen doherty #Michael Strahan #Good Morning America #tv program #2023 #2023 shannen doherty #2023 events #video #2020s #2020s shannen doherty #events #2020s events #Instagram

[semper-legens]

16. The Book of Witches, ed. by Jonathan Strahan

Owned: No, library Page count: 474 My summary: Double, double, toil and trouble - the witch is a familiar figure across the world, from the wart-faced women stirring their cauldrons to New Age witches dancing skyclad in a field to children running around on Halloween. But these witches are not like anything you have ever seen before. They're young, old, trans, queer, gay, disabled, brown. They're futuristic, historic, contemporary. They're everyone and no-one; they're in your home, they're in your community. And their stories are here. My rating: 5/5 My commentary:

Of course I was going to pick up a book called The Book of Witches. Do I even need to explain that stories of witchcraft fascinate me anymore? They do, and I was particularly interested in this when it came into work - a compilation of short stories featuring witches, written by a diverse group of writers and spotlighting unusual takes on the idea of witchcraft. The stories themselves are easy to digest in one sitting, and are wide-ranging in their scope. Some are more fantastical, some are contemporary, some are historical, and some are futuristic. The cultures on display span the world; stereotypical European witches, yes, but also Asian and African and American witches. Some perform magic and spells, some are blessed, some are cursed, some are technology-based, and others blend all of these things and more. Some are straight, gay, trans, nonbinary, and everything betwixt and between. There's a lot of witches, you see - as many as there are tales about them.

I'm not going to discuss individual stories here, more the general atmosphere of the collection and the larger takeaways I got from the collection at large. None of these stories are what one might expect from a tale about witches. Even those which draw from familiar folkloric motifs have some sort of twist to them. Many are devoid of any sort of magic at all, instead using the idea of a witch as some greater metaphoric idea. To say that these stories are interesting I feel makes them sound a lot more academic and dry than they are, but that's the best word that comes to mind. They held my interest because they were different, distinct, no two like each other. And as you can tell from the page count, there's quite a few stories in this collection! A few thematic threads nonetheless appeared; befitting a collection about witches, the treatment of the marginalised was a heady theme, as was the idea of power and what a person does with the power that they have, rightly or wrongly. I think this is the kind of book better read in stages, imbibed in shorter sips than is usually my proclivity when reading. But that's a me problem. It's a really good read, and I very much enjoyed it!

Next, life in a school for the deaf.

#The Book of Witches #Jonathan Strahan #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #5

[chalamet-chalamet]

"I was just having fun. I had no idea I would be able to act in big movies and theater. I had no idea that video would haunt me." -Timothée Chalamet

IG credit to goodmorningamerica

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #GMA #good morning america #december 12 #michael strahan

[landonsgrove]

Landon at the after party for the Indie Film Awards via Andrew Jenkins on ig

#landon liboiron #Charles Baker Strahan #indie film awards