Today in History (June 20th):
1214: The University of Oxford in England received its charter.
1893: A jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzy Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
1898: The U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, during the Spanish-American War. The people of Guam were granted U.S. citizenship in 1950.
1900: In response to widespread foreign encroachment upon China’s national affairs, Chinese nationalists launched the so-called Boxer Rebellion in Beijing.
1905: Birthdays: Author-playwright Lillian Hellman.
1909: Birthdays: Actor Errol Flynn.
1924: Birthdays: Actor, World War II hero Audie Murphy, winner of the Medal of Honor.
1925: Birthdays: Musician Chet Atkins.
1928: Birthdays: Actor Martin Landau.
1931: Birthdays: Actor Olympia Dukakis; Actor James Tolkan.
1933: Birthdays: Actor Danny Aiello.
1935: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Len Dawson.
1940: Birthdays: Actor John Mahoney.
1942: Birthdays: Songwriter Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
1945: Birthdays: Singer Anne Murray.
1946: Birthdays: TV handyman Bob Vila; Concert pianist Andre Watts.
1949: Birthdays: Singer Lionel Richie.
1950: Birthdays: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
1952: Birthdays: Actor John Goodman.
1954: Birthdays: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Michael Anthony (Van Halen).
1963: The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to establish a hot line communications link between Washington and Moscow.
1965: Birthdays: Actor Michael Landon Jr.
1967: The American Independent Party was formed to back George Wallace of Alabama for president. Birthdays: Actor Nicole Kidman.
1977: Oil began to flow through the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Alaska pipeline.
1991: The German Parliament voted to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin.
1994: O.J. Simpson pleaded 100 percent not guilty to charges he killed his ex-wife and her friend.
1997: Four major U.S. tobacco companies and several state attorneys general, after months of negotiations, agreed to a $368.5 billion settlement to recover the costs of smoking-related illnesses.
1999: NATO formally ended its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia as Serb forces completed their withdrawal from Kosovo.
2004: Pakistan and India reached agreement on banning nuclear testing.
2006: Former White House official David Safavian was convicted on four counts of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice in dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
2007: U.S. President George W. Bush blocked legislation to permit expanded federal funding for stem cell studies. He vetoed a new proposal to lift restrictions on funding for the research.
2009: Iraqi insurgents, striking in a series of attacks as U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq as planned, set off a truck bomb near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 82 people and injuring 250.
2010: Juan Manuel Santos easily defeated former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus to become Colombia’s president.
2011: The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a class-action lawsuit against Walmart that alleged sex discrimination against up to 1.5 million women.
2012: A motorcyclist set off a bomb that killed at least 29 people, including three U.S. soldiers, in eastern Afghanistan.
Quotes
“What is to give light must endure burning.” – Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)
“Character is simply habit long continued.” – Plutarch
“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.” – Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)
“All men — whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans — have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.” – Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist and professor (1915-1990)
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“Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.”
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
“Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”
“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody’s mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
prepotency
PRONUNCIATION: (pree-POTE-n-see
MEANING: (noun)
1. The quality or condition of having superior power, influence, or force; predominance.
2. (Biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
ETYMOLOGY: Prepotency is from Latin praepotentia, from prae-, “before” + potentia, “power,” from potens, “able, powerful,” present participle of posse, “to be able.”
USAGE: “The prepotency of a Lepage stud is such that three of five colts are born blue roan. Of those three, two will have a star on the forehead; but the third will be the total blue of the orignial mustang.” — Robert Kroetsch, ‘The Studhorse Man’
otorhinolaryngology
PRONUNCIATION: (oh-toh-ry-no-lar-ing-GOL-uh-jee)
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MEANING: (noun), The branch of medicine dealing with the ear, nose, and throat. Also known as otolaryngology.
ETYMOLOGY: The word is coined so that one is forced to use all three — ear, nose, and throat — to be able to pronounce it. Either that, or it’s from Greek oto- (ear) + rhino- (nose) + laryngo- (larynx) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1900. Also see, rhinorrhea.
USAGE: “Pete Colangelo, chief of otorhinolaryngology, hunched in front of Ellen Sandler, peering through the center hole of his head mirror at a hyperilluminated spot far within her left nostril.” – Michael Palmer; Side Effects; Bantam; 1985.
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esthesia or aesthesia
PRONUNCIATION: (es-THEES-zhuh)
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MEANING: (noun), The capacity for sensation.
ETYMOLOGY: Back formation from anesthesia (loss of sensation), from Greekan- (not) + aisthesis (sensation). Earliest documented use: 1829; anesthesia is from 1721.
USAGE: “Choo began to experience a dearth of aesthesia.” – Martin Dec Haynes; Anything Goes; Xlibris; 2011.
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weathercock
PRONUNCIATION: (WETH-uhr kok)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. A weathervane, especially one with the figure of a rooster on it.
2. One who changes readily or often.
ETYMOLOGY: From weather + cock.
NOTES: The words weathercock/weathervane are especially suitable for politicians who change according to prevailing winds. Quebec’s legislature has gone so far as to impose a ban on their use.
USAGE: “William was such a weathercock, how could one be sure?” – Barbara W. Tuchman; The Guns of August; Random House; 1962.
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