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02/15/2023

Wishing a happy birthday to one of the greatest Wisconsinites in recent history, Chris Farley 🎂

Comedian Christopher Crosby Farley was born in Madison on Feb. 15, 1964. He graduated from Edgewood High School in Madison in 1982. He attended Marquette University in Milwaukee where he earned a degree in communications and theatre in 1986.

Farley’s career began at the Ark Improv Theater in Madison before he moved to Chicago. While performing at The Second City, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels discovered Farley and brought him to New York for the show’s 1990-1991 season.

Farley was best known for his five years on Saturday Night Live (1990-1995) as well as his roles in “Tommy Boy”, “Black Sheep” and “Beverly Hills Ninja." He was also known for his physical comedy. He did all of his own stunts.

Farley would have turned 59 today.

We have documents and memorabilia from the career of Chris Farley. You can see the collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society’s headquarters building in the reading room.

📸: Farley at his 7th birthday, 1971 | Courtesy of Tom Farley, Jr.

02/10/2023

Looking for a new recipe to try your hand at? The classic French dish, Coquilles St. Jacques, will be our gastronomy experiment this weekend!

Read more at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017099-ina-gartens-make-ahead-coquilles-st-jacques?algo=cooking_surface_bandit_seasonality_geo_popularity&alpha=0.05&fellback=false&imp_id=83288653&pool=seasonal_bandit_pool%2Fseasonality_popularity&req_id=258336025&surface=cooking-web-trending&variant=0_bandit_recipe_geo_seasonality&action=click&module=TrendingCarousel&pgType=front-page®ion=Trending%20Carousel%20Suggestions&rank=3

01/24/2023

A nice break from the grays and chills of winter, this Riverwest gem in Milwaukee Wisconsin is definitely worth the trip.

01/10/2023

Today's Word of the Day is:

Red Queen

attributive and in the possessive. The hypothesis that in order to survive, a species must evolve sufficiently rapidly to counter evolutionary changes in ecologically competing species (e.g. predator or prey); esp. in Red Queen's hypothesis. Also figurative.

Etymology: < the name of the Red Queen, a character in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking-glass (1871), who asserts (ch. ii) that ‘it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place

Read more at https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/269448

01/04/2023

..and we're back!

01/04/2023

NOAH Clinical Laboratory is currently experiencing a power outage, as is much of Milwaukee County - please bare with us as we try to get up and running.

12/15/2022

Today's word of the day is Morass.

What It Means
Morass is used literally to refer to an area of soft, wet ground, especially a marsh or swamp. It is also often used figuratively to mean “a complicated or unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of or to move through.”

// I’m often late getting to work when mud season turns my dirt road into an all but impassable morass.

// Social media can make it difficult to discern the truth of something amid the morass of misinformation.

MORASS in Context
“The tax credits are actually a confusing morass of eligibility requirements and sourcing provisions that may ultimately limit what people purchase.” — Andrew J. Hawkins, TheVerge.com, 17 Aug. 2022

Read more at https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

11/23/2022

On this day in 1718, the infamous pirate, Edward Teach (well known as Blackbeard) met his demise at the hands of a British naval force, receiving 20 sword lacerations and 5 musket-ball wounds.

Read more about the feared pirate at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blackbeard-killed-off-north-carolina

11/11/2022

NOAH Clinical Laboratory would like to thank all members of the armed forces that have served the country, today. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your service and commitment.

11/03/2022

On this day in 1883, the "Gentleman Bandit" Black Bart makes his last stage coach robbery, accidentally leaving behind a handkerchief that leads to his incrimination. Gaining notoriety for never killing anyone, nor robbing any of the stage coach passengers, and occasionally leaving poems behind at the scene of the crime, Black Bart maintains his lore and fame in the outlaw history of the Wild West.

Read more at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/black-bart-makes-his-last-stagecoach-robbery

10/25/2022

Did You Know?

The history of sepulchre is a grave tale. The earliest evidence in our files traces sepulchre (also spelled sepulcher) back to Middle English around the beginning of the 13th century. It was originally spelled sepulcre, as it was in Anglo-French. Like many words borrowed into English from French, sepulchre has roots buried in Latin; in this case the root is sepelire, a verb meaning “to bury.” Sepultus, the past participle of sepelire, gave us—also by way of Anglo-French—the related noun sepulture, a synonym of burial and sepulchre, but one whose contemporary use is much rarer.

Read more about the word of the day at https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

10/18/2022

Today's Word of the Day is:

Obelize

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF OBELIZE?
Obelize, “to mark with a symbol to point out concerning text,” comes from Ancient Greek obelízein, which is equivalent to obelós plus the verb-forming suffix -izein, “-ize.” Obelós means “spit, pointed pillar,” and the latter definition might ring a bell because it is this sense that appears in English obelisk. The term obelós is, unfortunately, of uncertain origin, but despite the common association between obelisks and ancient Egypt, obelós does not appear to be of Egyptian origin. Instead, the substantial variation in the spelling of obelós across multiple dialects of Ancient Greek suggests that the word is of mysterious pre-Greek origin, similar to the recent Words of the Day bibliophile, feijoada, and porphyry. Obelize was first recorded in English circa 1610.