March 2, 2022 Joel Roberts Poinsett, Sholem Aleichem, Geoffrey Grigson, Ayn Rand, Charles Bessey, By Any Other Name by Simon Morley, and John Irving

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1779 Birth of the physician, botanist, and American statesman, Joel Roberts Poinsett.

In the 1820s, President John Quincy Adams appointed Joel to serve as a US ambassador in Mexico. Joel was introduced to a beautiful plant that the Aztecs called the cuetlaxochitl ("qwet-la-SHO-chee-til"), but today it's better known as the Poinsettia (books about this…