Today in History (July 15th)
1606: Birthdays: Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
1779: Birthdays: Poet Clement Clarke Moore, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas).
1799: The Rosetta Stone, which helped decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, was discovered in an Egyptian village by French soldiers, including Pierre-Francois Bouchard.
1806: Zebulon Pike began an expedition to explore the American Southwest.
1850: Birthdays: Roman Catholic nun Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first U.S. citizen to be made a saint.
1858: Birthdays: British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst.
1905: Birthdays: Lyricist Dorothy Fields.
1912: Led by all-round athlete Jim Thorpe, the U.S. team took more medals than any other country at the Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
1913: Birthdays: Country singer Cowboy Copas.
1919: Birthdays: Irish author Iris Murdoch.
1931: Birthdays: Writer Clive Cussler.
1935: Birthdays: Actor and former football star Alex Karras; Actor Ken Kercheval.
1939: Birthdays: Actor Patrick Wayne.
1944: Birthdays: Actor Jan-Michael Vincent.
1945: Italy declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner.
1946: Birthdays: Singer Linda Ronstadt.
1950: Birthdays: Political commentator Arianna Huffington.
1951: Birthdays: Former pro wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
1952: Birthdays: Actor Terry O’Quinn.
1956: Birthdays: Hockey coach and commentator Barry Melrose; Rock musician Marky Ramone.
1960: Birthdays: Supermodel Kim Alexis; Actor Willie Aames.
1961: Birthdays: Actor Lolita Davidovich; Actor Forest Whitaker.
1963: Birthdays: Actor Brigitte Nielsen.
1965: The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passed over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sent the first close-up images of the planet to Earth.
1968: A Soviet Aeroflot jetliner landed at New York’s JFK Airport, marking the beginning of direct commercial flights between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1971: U.S. President Richard Nixon disclosed plans to make an unprecedented visit to the People’s Republic of China. He made the historic trip in February 1972.
1973: Birthdays: Actor Brian Austin Green.
1976: Birthdays: Actor Diane Kruger.
1986: Britain and the Soviet Union settled accounts on $75 million in bonds that were issued under Russia’s czars and defaulted on after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The settlement ended a 60-year financial dispute.
1992: The Democratic National Convention nominated Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton as its candidate for president.
1997: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death in front of his Miami mansion. The prime suspect was Andrew Cunanan, already wanted in four other slayings who was found dead a week later, an apparent suicide.
2002: John Walker Lindh, a 21-year-old American captured by the U.S. military in Afghanistan while with Taliban forces, admitted he had fought as a soldier with them. After cooperating in the investigation of the terrorist network, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2005: Several California utilities said they settled claims against Enron Corp. for overcharges in the state’s 2000-01 energy crisis, including a $47.3 million cash payment.
2006: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on North Korea in response to its launching of nuclear missiles. North Korea said it would continue its nuclear program.
2007: The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to a $600 million settlement with 508 people who said they had been sexually abused by members of the clergy.
2009: Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran bound for Armenia. Officials said 168 people were killed.
2010: BP, the London energy company, announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that had sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico over the previous three months after an offshore drilling rig explosion and fire killed 11 workers and unleashed an unchecked torrent from the depths.
2012: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the drought affecting 61 percent of the country should have only a marginal impact on food prices.
Quotes
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
“Fractures well cured make us more strong.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
“What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.” – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
“Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” – Remy de Gourmont
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” – H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)
“Faith” is a fine invention”
“For gentlemen who see –”
“But microscopes are prudent”
“In an emergency.”
– Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) Irish writer:
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
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“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
“Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.”
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
“He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.”
“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”
tmesis
PRONUNCIATION: (TMEE-sis)
MEANING: (noun), In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, “what place soever” instead of “whatsoever place,” or “abso-bloody-lutely.”
ETYMOLOGY: Tmesis is from Greek tmesis, “a cutting,” from temnein, “to cut.”
USAGE: “…He proceeded to expound upon the intricacies of Eratosthenes’ prose, with its anaphora, asyndeton, synesis and tmesis and other things besides.” – Ross Leckie, ‘Hannibal’
sconce
PRONUNCIATION: (skons)
http://wordsmith.org/words/sconce.mp3
MEANING: (noun)
1. An ornamental bracket for holding candles or lights.
2. The head or skull.
3. Sense or wit.
4. A small fort or defensive earthwork to defend a bridge, castle-gate, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin abscondere (to conceal). Earliest documented use: 1392.
For 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1567.
For 4: From Dutch schans (entrenchment). Earliest documented use: 1587.
USAGE:
“You’ll want to snap photos of wish-list pieces like wall sconces, fireplace grilles, and sculptures.” – Joanne Latimer; Montreal: Griffintown; Chatelaine (Toronto, Canada); May 2013.
“I shaved my head! My noggin, my sconce, my bean.” – Gary J. Whitehead; Shaving Cream on My Pate Became Icing on the Cake; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Aug 19, 2002.
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folderol
PRONUNCIATION: (FOL-duh-rol)
http://wordsmith.org/words/folderol.mp3
MEANING: (noun)
1. Nonsense; foolishness.
2. A trifle; gewgaw.
ETYMOLOGY: From a nonsense refrain in some old songs. The word is also spelled as falderal.
USAGE: “Canonisation is a slow business in the Catholic church: all that folderol about miracles and devil’s advocates.” – John Sutherland; What’s Wrong With Teaching Rap in Schools?; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 5, 2004.
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inselberg
http://wordsmith.org/words/inselberg.mp3
PRONUNCIATION: (IN-suhl-burg, -zuhl-)
MEANING: (noun), An isolated mountain or hill rising abruptly from its surrounding. In the US it’s known as a monadnock.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Insel (island) + Berg (mountain), ultimately from the Indo-European root bhergh- (high) which is also the source of iceberg, belfry, borough, burg, burglar, bourgeois, fortify, and force.
USAGE: “Perhaps the most terrifying storm I have ever been through was on Malawi’s Nyika Plateau, a huge inselberg that rises out of almost nowhere.” – Craig Dodds; Forecasts Say Batten Down the Hatches; Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa); May 15, 2009.
fey
PRONUNCIATION: (fay)
http://wordsmith.org/words/fey.mp3
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Strange; unconventional; otherworldly.
2. Doomed.
3. Able to see the future.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English faege (fated to die). Earliest documented use: Before twelfth century.
USAGE: “At times, the book The Patron Saint of Eels seems a little fey; perhaps the made-up miracle makes its moral point a little too easily.” – Lisa Gorton; The Patron Saint of Eels; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Apr 16, 2005.
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