Saxey again, offering very little coherence, but many wonders, this Friday!

First, a library founded by a woman is rebuilt by a woman. I'm made very weepy by destroyed libraries, so this is a treat.

Growing up in Fez, Chaouni would often visit her great-uncle’s workshop at the coppersmiths’ quarter just a stone’s throw away from the library, and would be confronted by its immense closed door at the entrance, and wonder what lay beyond. Once she was in charge of restoring it, she wanted to do more than just fix the broken tiles. “It has to continue to live,” she says.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/19/books-world-oldest-library-fez-morocco 

 

Individuals on the 2013, 2014, and 2015 lists were not eligible for the 2016 list. Yes, Ellen DeGeneres is stylish… year after year…after year. But, we wanted to reserve room for other people in our community.

http://www.dapperq.com/2016/06/100-stylish-dapperqs-2016/

 

The people of the Blazing World, as her universe was called, came in colors ranging from green to scarlet, and had what we might now call alien technology. Cavendish writes that “though they had no knowledge of the Load-stone, or Needle or pendulous Watches,” Blazing World inhabitants were able to measure the depth of the sea from afar, technology that wouldn’t be invented until nearly 250 years after the book came out.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-books-was-written-in-the-1600s-by-a-duchess