Today in History (April 29th):
1770: James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia.
1863: Birthdays: Publisher William Randolph Hearst.
1864: Ashmun Institute in Pennsylvania, the first college founded solely for African-American students, was officially chartered.
1885: Women were admitted for the first time to examinations at England’s Oxford University.
1899: Birthdays: Bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington.
1901: Birthdays: Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
1913: Gideon Sundbach of Hoboken, N.J., was issued a patent for the zipper.
1917: Birthdays: Actor Celeste Holm.
1918: Birthdays: Pro football Coach George Allen.
1931: Birthdays: English skiffle group leader Lonnie Donegan.
1933: Birthdays: Poet Rod McKuen.
1934: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Luis Aparicio.
1936: Birthdays: Conductor Zubin Mehta.
1938: Birthdays: Financier and Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff.
1945: U.S. troops liberated 32,000 prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany.
1947: Birthdays: Musician Tommy James; Long-distance runner and former U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun, R-Kan.; Golfer and TV analyst Johnny Miller.
1951: Birthdays: Auto racer Dale Earnhardt Sr.
1952: Birthdays: Comedian Nora Dunn.
1954: Birthdays: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
1955: Birthdays: Actor Kate Mulgrew.
1957: Birthdays: Actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
1958: Birthdays: Actor Michelle Pfeiffer; Actor Eve Plumb.
1970: Birthdays: Actor Uma Thurman; Tennis player Andre Agassi.
1978: Birthdays: Tennis doubles specialists (and twin brothers) Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan.
1985: Four gunmen escaped with nearly $8 million in cash stolen from the Wells Fargo armored car company in New York.
1986: An arson fire destroyed more than 1 million books in the Los Angeles Central Library.
1988: The first condor conceived in captivity was born at San Diego Wild Animal Park.
1991: A magnitude-7 earthquake rocked Soviet Georgia, killing more than 100 people and destroying hospitals, schools, factories and 17,000 homes.
1992: Rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquitted four white police officers of nearly all charges in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. Fifty-three people died in three days of protest and violence.
2004: U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney underwent more than 3 hours of questioning about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The final Oldsmobile was manufactured. The brand had been in existence for 107 years.
2009: U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, winding up his fifth term as a Republican stalwart, announced he would seek re-election in 2010 as a Democrat, switching parties because he found himself increasingly at odds with the Republican Party. Congress passed U.S. President Barack Obama’s $3.4 trillion budget resolution for fiscal 2010 on his 100th day in office. Obama got most of his spending priorities in the document but received no Republican support.
2010: For a second consecutive day in China, a knife-wielding man attacked schoolchildren, this time in eastern Jiangsu Province, injuring 28 kindergarteners, five of them critically. The day before, another man injured 16 children and a teacher with a knife at a primary school in south China’s Guangdong Province. U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced a policy change that allows women to serve on submarines.
2011: British Prince William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and college sweetheart Kate Middleton, the new duchess of Cambridge, exchanged wedding rings and vows in a regal ceremony at Westminster Abbey before an estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion people.
2012: A sport utility vehicle veered out of control on an elevated highway, swerved across three lanes, hit a curb, flew over a guardrail and plunged about 60 feet into an unoccupied area of the Bronx Zoo in New York City. The SUV’s seven occupants, spanning three generations of a Bronx family, were killed.
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“A politician will do anything to keep his job — even become a patriot.” – William Randolph Hearst
“Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.” – Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)
Mary Harris (Mother) Jones (1830-1930) American labor agitator:
“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.”
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
“The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.”
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”
“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
“No matter what the fight, don’t be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
atelier
PRONUNCIATION: (at-l-YAY)
MEANING: (noun), A workshop; a studio.
ETYMOLOGY: Atelier comes from French, from Old French astelier, “carpenter’s shop,” from astele, “splinter,” from Late Latin astella, alteration of Latin astula, itself an alteration of assula, “a shaving, a chip,” diminutive of assis, “board.”
USAGE: “Philip’s atelier was the headquarters of a lively little cottage industry in the creation of costume uniforms.”
boondocks
PRONUNCIATION: (BOON-doks)
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MEANING: (noun), Rough country; backwoods.
ETYMOLOGY: From Tagalog bundok (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1944.
USAGE: “No one uses landlines to make or receive a call any more, unless you live in the boondocks, far away from cell phone towers.” – Dilip Bobb; Extinct in Our Time; Financial Express (New Delhi, India); Mar 31, 2013.
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mentor
PRONUNCIATION: (MEN-tohr, -tuhr)
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MEANING:
(noun), A wise and trusted adviser or teacher.
(verb tr., intr.), To serve as an adviser or teacher.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mentor, the name of young Telemachus’s adviser in Homer’s Odyssey. Earliest documented use: 1750.
USAGE: “Just as mentors come in different shapes and sizes, they fill different roles. Ms. Brooks said the common denominator is that they are good and active listeners willing to offer constructive, but blunt, criticism and, at the same time, share stories about their own failures.” – Mark Evans; Age No Barrier; Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Mar 30, 2012.
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