The City provides public assistance as a safety net for individuals and families, including help with homelessness prevention, food, rent, utilities, medical coverage and prescriptions, job training and placement assistance, and much more.
While there were probably settlers in the Alexandria area at mid-century (and a temporary fort in the 1670s), the first permanent settlement was established by Simon Pearson on Daingerfield Island (current location of the Washington Sailing Marina, north of Alexandria) in 1696. Indians still inhabited the area at the end of the century. Coarse English earthenwares dating to the last quarter of the seventeenth century, however, have been discovered by Alexandria Archaeology under lower Cameron Street.
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Alexandria only slowly recovered from the trauma of the Civil War. By the 1870s, the town saw signs of resurgence, but judged relative to progress elsewhere, it seemed to be slipping further behind. The local paper was filled with boosterish optimism: "everything now has an animated and business aspect. There are more people on the streets; the stores and places of business present a 'live' appearance, all indicating growing prosperity. Dwelling houses for small families...are in demand. The prospect at present is brighter for the future of Alexandria than at any time within the past ten years..." [Alexandria Gazette 4/3/1871] "With railroad connections, North, East, South and West, with water connections to the principal cities North and South, and a daily increasing business by the developing of the varied industries of our State, what is to prevent our old city from taking the lead among the cities of the South?" [Alexandria Gazette 4/28/1873]
The Cowardly Lion:Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?
boxing day - the day after Christmas - from the custom in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of servants receiving gratuities from their masters, collected in boxes in Christmas day, sometimes in churches, and distributed the day after.
narcissism/narcissistic - (in the most common psychological context, narcissism means) very selfish, self-admiring and craving admiration of others - The Oxford English dictionary says of the psychological context: "Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type." In fact the term is applied far more widely than this, depending on context, from reference to severe mental disorder, ranging through many informal social interpretations typically referring to elitism and arrogance, and at the opposite end of the scale, to a healthy interest in one's own mind and wellbeing, related to feelings of high emotional security - the opposite of insecurity and inadequacy. More traditionally and technically narcissism means "excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance" (OED). The origins are from Latin and ultimately Greek mythology, mainly based on the recounting of an ancient story in Roman poet Ovid's 15-book series Metamorphoses (8AD) of Narcissus and Echo. Ovid's version of the story tells of a beautiful self-admiring selfish young man and hunter called Narcissus (originally Narkissos, thought to be originally from Greek narke, meaning sleep, numbness) who rejected the advances of a nymph called Echo and instead fell in love with his own reflection in a forest pool, where he stayed unable to move and eventually died. Echo by then had faded away to nothing except a voice, hence the word 'echo' today. The name Narcissus was adopted into psychology theory first by English sexologist Havelock Ellis in 1898, referring to 'narcissus-like' tendencies towards masturbation and sexualizing oneself as an object of desire. Psychologists/psychoanalysts including Otto Rank and Sigmund Freud extended and reinforced the terminology in the early 1900s and by the mid-late 1900s it had become commonly recognised and widely applied. The condition is increasing in social significance apparently - it has been reported (related to articles by European Psychiatry and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers) that narcissism (in the generally negative/selfish/self-admiring psychological sense of the word) has been increasing steadily since 2000 among US respondents of psychometric tests used to detect narcissistic tendencies. Also reported, is that Facebook and other social networking websites are a causal factor in the trend.
shop - retail premises (and the verb to visit and buy from retail premises)/(and separately the slang) betray someone, or inform an authority of someone's wrong-doing - the word shop is from Old English, recorded c.1050 as 'scoppa', meaning a booth or shed where goods were made. This is from the older Germanic words 'schoppe', meaning shed, and 'scopf', meaning porch or shed, in turn from the even older (i.e., anything between 4,000-10,000 years ago) Indo-European root 'skeub', thought very first to refer to a roof thatched with straw. Later in English, in the 1300s, scoppa became 'sshope' and then 'shoppe', which referred generally to a place of work, and also by logical extension was used as slang for a prison, because prisoners were almost always put to work making things. Later still these words specifically came to refer, as today, to retail premises (you may have seen 'Ye Olde Shoppe' in films and picture-books featuring old English cobbled high streets, etc). Interestingly, hundreds of years ago, retailing (selling goods to customers) was commonly done by the manufacturers of the goods concerned: i.e., independent (manufacturing) shops made and sold their goods from the same premises to local customers, so the meaning of shop building naturally covered both making and selling goods. The combined making/retailing business model persists (rarely) today in trades such as bakery, furniture, pottery, tailoring, millinery (hats), etc. The slang 'to shop someone', meaning betray a person to the authorities evolved from the slang of shop meaning a prison (a prison workshop as we would describe it today), and also from the late 1500s verb meaning of shop - to shut someone up in prison. The 'inform' or 'betray' meaning of shop (i.e., cause someone to be sent to prison) also encouraged extension of the shop slang to refer to the mouth, (e.g., 'shut your shop'). The original general 'premises for making goods' meaning of shop was eventually replaced by the term 'workshop', no doubt to differentiate from newer and more widely used meanings of shop in retailing, which increasingly implied a place where goods were sold rather than made. In this respect the word shop is a fascinating reflection of work/society, and we might predict that in the future its meaning will alter further to mean selling to customers effectively regardless of premises, as happens online. It is amazing how language changes: from 'skeub', a straw roof thousands of years ago, to a virtual shop on a website today.
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