Today in History (July 13th):
1772: The HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England.
1859: Mexican revolutionary President Benito Juarez ordered property of the Roman Catholic Church confiscated throughout Mexico.
1863: Opposition to the Federal Conscription Act led to riots in New York City. More than 1,000 people were killed.
1864: Birthdays: The U.S. businessman John Jacob Astor IV.
1886: Birthdays: Rev. Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town.
1898: Guglielmo Marconi was awarded a patent for wireless telegraphy, the radio.
1913: Birthdays: Dave Garroway, former host of TV’s Today Show.
1928: Birthdays: Actor Bob Crane.
1935: Birthdays: Former HUD Secretary, congressman and pro football star Jack Kemp.
1940: Birthdays: Actor Patrick Stewart.
1942: Birthdays: Actor Harrison Ford; Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member Roger McGuinn.
1944: Birthdays: Rubik’s Cube inventor Erno Rubik of Hungary.
1946: Birthdays: Comedian Cheech Marin.
1948: Birthdays: Radio and television sports commentator Tony Kornheiser.
1954: Birthdays: Country singer Louise Mandrell.
1957: Birthdays: Screenwriter and director Cameron Crowe.
1960: Democrats nominated Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for president against GOP Vice President Richard Nixon.
1977: A state of emergency was declared in New York City during a 25-hour power blackout.
1990: The U.S. Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill that would forbid discrimination based on disability, including that caused by AIDS or alcoholism. President George H.W. Bush signed the measure into law July 26.
1992: Yitzhak Rabin became Israel’s new prime minister, ending the hard-line Likud Party’s 15-year reign.
1998: Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned, a victim of the country’s economic woes.
2002: The Bush administration said that fiscal 2002 would have a deficit of $165 billion despite the $127 billion surplus recorded for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2001.
2003: A new 25-member Iraqi council, representing all major religious and ethnic groups in the country, had its first meeting in a major step toward self-government.
2005: A judge in New York sentenced former WorldCom Chief Executive Officer Bernard Ebbers to 25 years in prison for his part in what was described as the largest fraud in U.S. corporate history.
2008: The U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan to save two major government-backed mortgage companies known as Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac with billions of dollars in investments and loans.
2010: Four months before the 2010 midterm elections, 58 percent of voters surveyed in a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated doubt in U.S. President Barack Obama’s leadership.
2011: Terrorists detonated three bombs in a coordinated late-afternoon attack on Mumbai, striking an opera house, a bazaar and a third target. Officials said 26 people were killed and 130 injured.
2012: A Gallup poll indicated 58 percent of voters age 18-29 definitely planned to vote in the U.S. presidential election in November.
Quotes
“Life is a jest; and all things show it; I thought so once; and now I know it.” – John Gay, poet
“Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.” – Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)
Make cialis generika http://www.slovak-republic.org/history/between-great-wars/ sure you take the medicine an hour prior to making love with their partner. Inexpensive Kamagra Oral Jelly is an immense creation; mainly, for people who find it hard to trust upon these solutions blindly and therefore are advised to adopt the efficient generic viagra sildenafil as this drug can save your valuable and intimate time period and won’t let it be gone useless. levitra to face the very bitter truth in your life that is impotency. You can get the treatment of erectile dysfunction at your doorstep place the order online. get viagra cheap slovak-republic.org Their services include women’s health management, functional training, limb dysfunctions, neuro rehab, preventive http://www.slovak-republic.org/sport/ order viagra from india rehab and senior citizen health management.
“Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?” – James Richardson, poet, professor (b. 1950)
John Clare (1793-1864) English writer:
“And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.”
“He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.”
“I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept – there to abide with my creator, God, and sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, the grass below – above, the vaulted sky.”
“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”
“Still, I have been no one’s enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.”
“The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.”
malodorous
PRONUNCIATION: (mal-OH-duhr-uhs)
MEANING: (adjective), Having a bad odor.
ETYMOLOGY: Malodorous is from Latin mal-, “bad” + odorus, from odor, “smell.”
USAGE: “We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we encountered.” – Bram Stoker, ‘Dracula’
equipoise
PRONUNCIATION: (EE-kwuh-poiz, EK-wuh-)
http://wordsmith.org/words/equipoise.mp3
MEANING:
(noun)
1. A state of balance.
2. Something that serves as a counterbalance.
(verb tr.), To counterbalance.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequi- (equal) + Old French pois (weight), from Latin pendere (to weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, and spontaneous.
USAGE: “In his [Denzel Washington’s] luminous portrait, dignity and destructiveness find a perfect equipoise.” – John Lahr; Theatre: Wheels of Misfortune; The New Yorker; May 10, 2010.
Explore “equipoise” in the Visual Thesaurus.
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=equipoise
pingo
PRONUNCIATION: (PING-go)
http://wordsmith.org/words/pingo.mp3
MEANING: (noun), A mound or hill of soil-covered ice in permafrost, pushed up by the pressure of water seeping in.
ETYMOLOGY: From Inuit pinguq/pingu (small hill).
USAGE: “Out on the Arctic coastal plain below the northern foot of the Brooks, the land is dotted with pingoes a foot or two tall.” – Craig Medred; River Dance on the Hulahula; Anchorage Daily News (Alaska); Jul 31, 2005.