Today in History (July 28th)
1794: Robespierre was sent to the guillotine as punishment for doing the same to thousands of others before him.
1866: Birthdays: Beatrix Potter, British author and illustrator of the Peter Rabbit stories.
1868: The ratified 14th Amendment was adopted into the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizenship and all its privileges to African-Americans.
1887: Birthdays: French surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp.
1891: Birthdays: Comedian Joe E. Brown.
1901: Birthdays: Singer/actor/band leader Rudy Vallee.
1907: Birthdays: Tupperware founder Earl Tupper.
1914: Austria declared war on Serbia, leading to World War I. Birthdays: Conductor Carmen Dragon.
1929: Birthdays: Former U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
1937: Birthdays: Pianist and bandleader Peter Duchin.
1938: Birthdays: Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.
1943: Birthdays: Former U.S. Senator and basketball Hall of Fame member Bill Bradley; Rock musician Mike Bloomfield.
1945: The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations. Birthdays: Garfield creator Jim Davis.
1946: Birthdays: Singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards; Actor Linda Kelsey.
1948: Birthdays: Actor Sally Struthers; Actor Georgia Engel.
1958: Birthdays: Activist Terry Fox, who ran across Canada after his right leg was amputated because of cancer.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Lori Loughlin.
1976: An earthquake struck China’s Tangshan Province, killing an estimated 1 million people.
1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan opened the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. A Soviet-led bloc of 15 nations, as well as Iran, Libya, Albania and Bolivia, boycotted the games.
1990: The collision of a freighter and two barges spilled 500,000 gallons of oil in the Houston Ship Channel near Galveston, Texas.
1998: In return for immunity, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky agreed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a possible relationship between her and President Bill Clinton.
2003: J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup, the two largest U.S. banks, agreed to pay nearly $300 million in fines and penalties to settle charges they had aided Enron in deceiving investors.
2004: Democrats nominated Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to oppose Republic incumbent George W. Bush in the November presidential election.
2005: The Irish Republic Army said it was ending violence as a political tactic against Great Britain in Northern Ireland after a 36-year campaign. The IRA promised to disarm and cease terrorist activity.
2008: Iraqi authorities said suicide bombers, including three females, killed 61 people and injured 249 others in ethnic violence in Kirkuk and Baghdad.
2009: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, on trial at The Hague for war crimes, denied he had ordered cannibalism during a savage civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.
2010: A plane flying in intense fog and rain to Islamabad, Pakistan, crashed in the Himalayan foothills near its destination, killing all 152 aboard.
2011: A federal judge in Washington threw out a lawsuit seeking to end the Obama administration’s funding of embryonic stem cell research into possible cures for deadly diseases.
2012: Flooding from the Yellow River forced nearly 41,000 people in two Chinese provinces to evacuate their homes.
Quotes
“You do not have to be a poet but you are obliged to be a citizen.” – Nikolai Nekrasov
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.” – Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist (1876-1958)
“The man’s desire is for the woman but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet (1772-1834)
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“All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.” – Michael Carr
Beatrix Potter (18566-1943) English writer:
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.”
“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
“I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”
“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”
fulsome
PRONUNCIATION: (FUL-suhm)
http://wordsmith.org/words/fulsome.mp3
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Effusive; lavish.
2. Excessive to the point of being offensive.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of the words full and -some (having a particular quality).
NOTES: Does the word fulsome have a positive connotation or negative? Depends on whom you ask. The word started out in mid 13th century as a straightforward, unambiguous word to describe abundance. By the 17th century, it had acquired a deprecatory sense, as in the second sense listed above. Then, again, it went around the bend and in the 20th century the positive sense of the word become more common. Language purists continue to stick with the second sense, while others use the word in its first sense. What to do? Avoid it, unless context is clear, as in the two usage examples below.
USAGE:
“Dacres offered Hull fulsome compliments on the courage and performance of his men.” – Ian W. Toll; Blood Brothers; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 4, 2006.
“One tires of the fulsome endorsement, the blizzard of exclamation points, the arch locutions.” – Daniel Aaron; Belle du Jour; The New Republic (Washington, DC); Feb 2, 1998.
Explore “fulsome” in the Visual Thesaurus.
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=fulsome
eurybathic
PRONUNCIATION: (yoor-uh-BATH-ik)
http://wordsmith.org/words/eurybathic.mp3
MEANING: (adjective), Capable of living in a wide range of depths in water.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eury- (wide) + bathos (depth). The opposite is stenobathic.
USAGE: “Eurybathic species are abundant over most of the depth range down to 600-700 m.” – Guido di Prisco and Eva Pisano; Fishes of Antarctica; Springer; 1998.
croupier
PRONUNCIATION: (KROO-pee-uhr, -pee-ay)
http://wordsmith.org/words/croupier.mp3
MEANING: (noun), An attendant at a gaming table at a casino who collects and pays bets, deals the cards, spins the roulette, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, literally one who sits behind another on horseback, from croup (rump). The term arose because originally such a person stood behind a gambler to offer advice.
USAGE: “With a hotel and casino building boom under way since Macao ended a four-decade gambling monopoly six years ago, the city zoomed past Las Vegas in terms of gambling revenue in 2006. Some analysts estimate Macao will need 50,000 croupiers in the next couple of years, a tenth of the population.” – Dominic Whiting; Penny Drops For Slot Makers; Reuters; Jun 5, 2008.