Today in History (March 5th):
1512: Birthdays: Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator.
1595: Birthdays: The Rev. William Blackstone, the first settler in what is now Boston.
1658: Birthdays: Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1770: British troops killed five colonials in the so-called Boston Massacre, one of the events that led to the American Revolution five years later.
1824: Birthdays: Poet Lucy Larcom; Lithographer James Ives, partner of Nathaniel Currier.
1870: Birthdays: Author Frank Norris.
1893: Birthdays: Water treatment pioneer Emmett J. Culligan.
1908: Birthdays: Actor Rex Harrison.
1927: Birthdays: Actor Jack Cassidy.
1933: In German elections, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party won nearly half the seats in the Reichstag, the German Parliament.
1935: Birthdays: Actor Paul Sand.
1936: Birthdays: Actor Dean Stockwell.
1939: Birthdays: Actor Samantha Eggar.
1946: Winston Churchill, speaking in Fulton, Mo., established the Cold War boundary during his famed Iron Curtain speech. Birthdays: Actor Michael Warren.
1953: The Soviet Union announced that dictator Josef Stalin had died at age 73.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Marsha Warfield.
1955: Birthdays: Magician Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller.
1957: Birthdays: Journalist Ray Suarez.
1958: Birthdays: Singer Andy Gibb.
1963: Birthdays: Televangelist Joel Osteen.
1966: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Michael Irvin.
1974: Birthdays: Actor Eva Mendes.
1984: The Standard Oil Co. of California, also known as Chevron, bought Gulf Corp. for more than $13 billion in the largest business merger in U.S. history at the time.
1991: Rebellions against Saddam Hussein were reported in southeastern Iraq. U.S. military officials predicted the unrest probably would lead to his downfall.
1993: Canada’s Ben Johnson, once called the world’s fastest human, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and was banned for life from track competition.
1997: Switzerland announced plans to establish a $4.7 billion government-financed fund, using interest from its gold reserves, to compensate survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and their descendants.
1998: NASA announced that ice had been found at the moon’s north and south poles.
2006: Iran threatened to launch full-scale uranium enrichment if its nuclear program was referred to the U.N. Security Council for sanctions.
2011: New Zealand rescue teams completed their search of the earthquake-devastated Christchurch cathedral and reported no further bodies, leaving the unofficial death toll from the Feb. 22 magnitude-6.3 temblor at 180. Archeologists renovating the Rio de Janeiro harbor for the 2016 Olympics reported uncovering the remains of a 19th-century port where thousands of people arrived from Africa and sold into slavery.
2012: Meeting in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama urged the Israeli prime minister to give diplomacy and European oil sanctions a chance before taking military action against Iran.
Quotes
“The problem with quotes on the internet is that it’s nearly impossible to verify who actually said them” – Abe Lincoln
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.” – John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” – Winston Churchill
“Excuse for Republicans driving sports cars that cost more than their fathers ever made in a year: It’s cheaper than marrying a woman half my age.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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“The first week of March is National Procrastination week, though most people put it off and celebrate it the following week.” – Anonymous
“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller, 1891-1980
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton, 1885-1945
“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)
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) German revolutionary:
“The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.”
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.”
polylemma
PRONUNCIATION: (pol-ee-LEM-uh)
http://wordsmith.org/words/polylemma.mp3
MEANING: (noun), A choice involving multiple undesirable options.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + dilemma, from lemma (proposition). Earliest documented use: 1856. Also see trilemma, Hobson’s choice, and Buridan’s ass.
USAGE: “Today’s ‘medical consumers’ are confronted not by a mere dilemma but by a polylemma: a vast number of possibilities, each with advantages and assurances, disadvantages, and dangers.” – Morton Hunt; A Common-Sense Guide to Health Insurance; The New York Times; May 3, 1987.
bijou
PRONUNCIATION: (BEE-zhoo, bee-ZHOO)
plural bijoux (-zhoo, -zhooz)
MEANING: (noun), A small, exquisitely wrought trinket.
ETYMOLOGY: French, from Breton bizou, jeweled ring, from biz, finger.
USAGE: “Billy’s bank account was so barren that he couldn’t afford a bijou from Bulgari in a hundred years.”
goo-goo
PRONUNCIATION: (goo-goo)
http://wordsmith.org/words/goo-goo.mp3
MEANING:
(adjective), Amorous.
(noun), A naive advocate of a political reform.
ETYMOLOGY:
For adjective: Perhaps from goggle (to stare with bulging eyes). Earliest documented use: 1900.
For noun: Shortening of “good government”. Earliest documented use: 1912.
USAGE:
“Of course former rivals morph into allies all the time. John McCain now makes goo-goo eyes at Romney.” – Frank Bruni; Embracing the Pretzel; The New York Times; Jan 16, 2012.
“His once frequent talk of changing Washington helped create the impressionthat Obama was a goo-goo, a dreamer, when he is in fact more of a realist than a radical.” – Jon Meacham; What Happened to Obama’s Armageddon?; Newsweek (New York);May 14, 2010.
pied-a-terre
PRONUNCIATION: (pee-ay-duh-TARE)
plural pieds-a-terre (pee-ay-duh-TARE)
http://wordsmith.org/words/pied-a-terre.mp3
MEANING: (noun), A place of lodging for temporary or secondary use.
ETYMOLOGY: From French pied-à-terre (foot on the ground).
USAGE: “These days [Arthur Miller] divides his time between his ample farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut and the pied-a-terre in New York.” – Deborah Solomon; Goodbye (Again), Norma Jean; The New York Times; Sep 19, 2004.