Today in History (July 16th)
1723: Birthdays: English painter Joshua Reynolds.
1769: Father Junipero Serra founded first Roman Catholic mission, Mission San Diego de Alcala, in California.
1790: The U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government.
1821: Birthdays: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church.
1862: Birthdays: Rights activist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett.
1872: Birthdays: Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
1887: Birthdays: Baseball great and Black Sox scandal figure Shoeless Joe Jackson.
1888: Birthdays: Actor Percy Kilbride (Pa Kettle).
1891: Birthdays: Vaudeville star Blossom Seeley.
1896: Birthdays: First U.N. Secretary-General Trygva Lie.
1907: Birthdays: Popcorn tycoon Orville Redenbacher; Actor Barbara Stanwyck.
1911: Birthdays: Actor/dancer Ginger Rogers.
1915: Birthdays: Actor Barnard Hughes.
1918: Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed by Bolsheviks who had held them captive for two months.
1924: Birthdays: Bess Myerson, 1945’s Miss America and TV personality.
1935: The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City.
1939: Birthdays: Actor Corin Redgrave.
1942: Birthdays: Tennis Hall of Fame member Margaret Court.
1943: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Jimmy Johnson.
1945: The first test of the atom bomb was conducted at a secret base near Alamogordo, N.M.
1948: Birthdays: Singer/actor Ruben Blades; Violinist Pinchas Zukerman.
1951: J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was published.
1952: Birthdays: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Stewart Copeland.
1956: Birthdays: Playwright Tony Kushner.
1959: Billie Holiday, considered one of the greatest jazz singers despite a tragic life, died of cardiac failure at age 44.
1963: Birthdays: Actor Phoebe Cates.
1964: Birthdays: Cyclist Miguel Indurain.
1967: Birthdays: Actor Will Ferrell.
1968: Birthdays: Football Hall of Fame member Barry Sanders.
1969: Apollo 11, the first moon-landing mission, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Birthdays: Actor Rain Pryor.
1971: Birthdays: Actor Corey Feldman.
1980: Ronald Reagan was unanimously nominated as the Republican candidate for president at the GOP National Convention in Detroit. He chose George H.W. Bush as his running mate after former U.S. President Gerald Ford declined to join the ticket.
1990: Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev dropped his objections to a unified Germany in NATO.
1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister were killed in the crash of a single-engine plane in the Atlantic Ocean off the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. The son of former U.S. President John Kennedy was 39.
2004: TV personality and businesswoman Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest after being found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding and making false statements to federal investigators.
2008: Taliban militants attacked a U.S. base in Afghanistan, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding at least 50 NATO troops in the most deadly assault against U.S. troops in three years.
2010: Pope Benedict XVI approved tougher Roman Catholic Church laws dealing with sexual-abuse charges against church officials in an effort to quell a scandal involving alleged pedophile priests.
2012: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States and Israel are on the same page when it comes to Iran and its nuclear program.
Quotes
“For blocks are better cleft with wedges, / Than tools of sharp or subtle edges, / And dullest nonsense has been found / By some to be the most profound.” – Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
“The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.” – Ogden Nash
“Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less.” – Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Patrick Henry, 1736-1799
“Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.” – John C. Geikie, 1824-1898
“The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” – Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931
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Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) US evangelist, founder of Christian Science:
“A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.”
“Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.”
“Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”
“Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.”
“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”
“Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?”
“Reject hatred without hating.”
“Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.”
“Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.”
fortuitous
PRONUNCIATION: (for-TOO-uh-tuhs; -TYOO-)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Happening by chance; coming or occurring by accident, or without any known cause.
2. Happening by a fortunate or lucky chance.
3. Fortunate or lucky.
ETYMOLOGY: Fortuitous comes from Latin fortuitus, “accidental,” from fors, “chance, luck.”
USAGE: “All agreed that the arrival of the off-duty emergency medical technicians just as Frank fell over from a heart attack was a fortuitous event.”
mortify
PRONUNCIATION: (MOR-tuh-fy)
http://wordsmith.org/words/mortify.mp3
MEANING:
(verb tr.)
1. To humiliate, shame, or embarrass.
2. To discipline (one’s body) by self-denial, self-inflicted suffering, etc.
(verb intr.)
1. To endure self-denial, self-inflicted pain, etc.
2. To become gangrened or necrosed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mortificare (to kill). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mer- (to rub away or to harm) that is also the source of morse, premorse, mordant, morbid, mortal, mortgage, nightmare, amaranth, and ambrosia. Earliest documented use: 1382.
USAGE:
“Kate Bannan is mortified by her son’s conviction for drink-driving.” – Keith McLeod; Barry Bannan’s Mum; Daily Record (Glasgow); Dec 23, 2011.
“You can only understand why he mortified himself and renounced all pleasures if you have lived a long time.” – Fanny Howe; Outremer; Poetry (Chicago); Sep 2011.
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karst
PRONUNCIATION: (karst)
http://wordsmith.org/words/karst.mp3
MEANING: (noun), An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinks, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From German, after the Karst, a limestone plateau near Trieste, Slovenia.
USAGE: “Traveling east into the wooded hills and finally to the elevated, rolling plain above the bluffs, the tour group enters the realm of karst, the ultimate geologic destination of this tour and primary scientific focus of the day’s adventure.” – Joseph G. Maty; Magical Geological Tour is a Trip; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri); May 12, 1997
coze or cose
PRONUNCIATION: (kohz)
http://wordsmith.org/words/coze.mp3
MEANING:
(verb intr.), To converse in a friendly manner.
(noun), A friendly talk.
ETYMOLOGY: From French causer (to chat), from Latin causari (to plead, discuss), from causa (case, cause). Earliest documented use: 1814.
USAGE: “She darted a look to the two women cozing over tea.” – Patricia Rice; The Wicked Wyckerly; Signet; 2010.