Today in History (December 4th):
1110: The Crusaders conquered Sidon in the First Crusade.
1795: Birthdays: Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle.
1835: Birthdays: English novelist Samuel Butler.
1861: Birthdays: Actor/singer Lillian Russell.
1881: The Los Angeles Times published its first edition.
1892: Birthdays: Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
1912: Birthdays: U.S. Marines fighter ace Gregory Pappy Boyington.
1921: Birthdays: Actor Deanna Durbin.
1934: Birthdays: Game show host Wink Martindale.
1937: Birthdays: Actor Max Baer Jr.
1942: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered liquidation of the Works Progress Administration, created during the Great Depression to provide work for the unemployed.
1944: Birthdays: Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member Dennis Wilson (the Beach Boys); Rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame member Chris Hillman (the Byrds).
1949: Birthdays: Actor Jeff Bridges.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Patricia Wettig.
1954: The first Burger King fast-food restaurant opened in Miami.
1963: Birthdays: Olympic gold medal pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Marisa Tomei.
1966: Birthdays: News commentator Suzanne Malveaux.
1969: Birthdays: Rapper Jay-Z, born Shawn Corey Carter.
1971: India joined East Pakistan in its war for independence from West Pakistan. East Pakistan became the republic of Bangladesh.
1973: Birthdays: Model Tyra Banks.
1991: American Terry Anderson was freed by his pro-Iranian captors after six years. He was the last U.S. hostage held in the Middle East.
1992: U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia.
1995: Officials of the United Auto Workers union called an end to a largely unsuccessful 17-month strike against Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill.
1997: Top health officials in Europe voted to ban most forms of advertising of tobacco beginning in four to five years.
2002: A Roman Catholic priest was indicted on seven counts in a seven-month investigation of sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Nine others faced charges in the case.
2003: An especially virulent strain of the flu hit the United States, mostly in the West at first, with Colorado reporting more than 6,300 cases with the deaths of five children.
2004: Colombia extradited to the United States the most notorious drug cartel kingpin in its custody, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a co-founder of the Cali cartel.
2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin urged Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return but many were reported skeptical about what they would find there. The remains of at least 20 people were found in a grave in east Lebanon near a former Syrian-run prison where many Lebanese detainees were held.
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2007: Six students were killed and four others hurt when a bomb went off at an Islamic school in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
2009: The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November, down from its peak of 10.2 percent in October and employers shed 11,000 jobs. Analysts called the jobs report the strongest since the recession began two years earlier.
2010: Two teenage brothers from an Israeli Druze village were charged with starting a wildfire that killed 42 people in northern Israel. Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in for another term in defiance of a U.N. determination that his opponent, Alassane Quattara, who also was sworn in, had won the runoff election with absolute certainty. Italy said it would go ahead with its plan to ban plastic shopping bags effective Jan. 1.
2011: An Iranian military official said his army shot down an unmanned U.S drone after it entered the country’s airspace from neighboring Afghanistan. International and local monitors branded the Russian Parliamentary election as fraudulent, citing alleged ballot box stuffing and other voting irregularities while throngs of voters staged massive protests against the election outcome. Vladimir Putin’s party led the way with nearly 50 percent of the vote.
Quotes
“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.” – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian
“That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.” – Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291)
hebdomad
PRONUNCIATION: (HEB-duh-mad)
http://wordsmith.org/words/hebdomad.mp3
MEANING: (noun)
1. A group of seven.
2. A period of seven days; a week.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin hebdomas, from Greek hepta (seven). Earliest documented use: 1545.
USAGE: “As a string quartet, the excellent Brooklyn Rider is all about the number four. But on their new album, Seven Steps, its members circle around the mysterious — and some might even say spiritual — power of the hebdomad.” – Anastasia Tsioulcas; Brooklyn Rider, ‘Seven Steps’; National Public Radio (Washington, DC); Feb 5, 2012.
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fadge
PRONUNCIATION: (FAEJ)
MEANING: (verb), To work (out), to suffice or fit; to fit with what is expected.
ETYMOLOGY: Today’s word is not to be confused with fidge “to fidget” but confusing it with fudge “to cheat ever so slightly” doesn’t matter as much since “fadge” is the origin of “fudge” in this sense. We would expect it to be related to the Germanic root fag- from which we get German fugen “add, conform.” This stem, however, turns up in English as fay “join, fit together” so how it could acquire the form of today’s word is unclear. The noun fadge “short fat person” may well have come from a regional affixed form based on “fat” since we also find “podge,” from which we get the “pudge” in “pudgy,” that is probably related to the “pot” of “pot-belly” in the same, admittedly odd, way.
USAGE: “I don’t think opening the bottle of wine with the screw-driver will quite fadge; better wait for a cork-screw.”
baldachin
PRONUNCIATION: (BAL-duh-kin, BOL-)
Also, baldacchino, baldachino (bal-duh-KEE-noh)
http://wordsmith.org/words/baldachin.mp3
MEANING: (noun)
1. A rich embroidered fabric of silk and gold.
2. A canopy.
ETYMOLOGY: English baldachin is derived from Italian baldacchino which is from Baldacco, the Italian name for Baghdad. The city was once known for this fabric and earlier canopies were made of it. Earliest documented use: 1598.
USAGE: “A rabbi married the couple a few weeks later, under a baldachin made of four brooms and an old blanket.” – Henryk M. Broder; Holocaust Survivor Becomes YouTube Star; Der Spiegel(Germany); Aug 12, 2010.
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