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Ever heard of Wallis Blue, Scheele's Green or Mummy Brown? Artist Edward Burne-Jones, once he realized that the paint truly was made from mummies, grabbed his tube and gave it a burial, though mummy brown paint could be bought up until 1964. In 1601, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, vowed not to change her undergarments until the siege of Ostend was over, which lasted three years; another version is that Isabella I of Castile vowed not to remove her undergarments during the eight-month seige of Granada in 1491. It didn't really work, but there was some purple sludge left over, and he patented his new color, originally called aniline purple and sometimes Perkin's purple.

Here are resources that may be helpful when experiencing the difficult emotions that accompany trauma, crisis, anxiety and grief. If you need to talk to someone, the Disaster Distress Helplineopens a new window is available 24/7 at 1-800-985-5990. Here are several resources for how to best help children: • Colorado School Safety Resource Center's The Role for Caring Adults after a Community Tragedy After an Emergency video and Help for Each Other guide Books to read together with kids:

Many know Whitman for his writing, but he was also a famous resident of New York City —born in Brooklyn, he lived on his own in the city from the age of 15. His writing is full of colloquialisms but encompasses many aspects of the human experience, and always conveys his love of being alive and love for humanity. This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men — go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families — re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Pick a favorite summer fruit to discover your next nonfiction books to read next in this very unscientific, just for fun blog. If summer screams for the bright zip of citrus, you like to be surprised and you're often bouncing around from one thing to the next. You're looking to get some time under the starsopens a new window while campingopens a new window this summer, too. If sweet pineapple tops your list for your favorite summer fruit, you always have something fun planned.