Today in History (November 15th):
1708: Birthdays: British statesman William Pitt (The Elder).
1738: Birthdays: British astronomer William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus.
1791: Georgetown University, in what is now Washington, D.C., opened as the first Roman Catholic college in the United States.
1864: Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began his Civil War march from Atlanta to the sea.
1874: Birthdays: Nobel Prize-winning physiologist August Krogh of Denmark.
1879: Birthdays: Actor Lewis Stone.
1882: Birthdays: Jurist Felix Frankfurter.
1887: Birthdays: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
1891: Birthdays: Diplomat W. Averell Harriman; World War II German Gen. Erwin Rommel.
1905: Birthdays: Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader.
1906: Birthdays: U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay.
1919: Birthdays: TV personality and retired Judge Joseph Wapner.
1920: The first assembly of the League of Nations was called to order in Geneva, Switzerland.
1929: Birthdays: Actor Edward Asner.
1932: Birthdays: Pop singer Petula Clark.
1937: Birthdays: Actor Yaphet Kotto.
1940: Birthdays: Actor Sam Waterston.
1942: Birthdays: Conductor Daniel Barenboim.
1943: Heinrich Himmler ordered gypsies be placed in Nazi concentration camps.
1950: Birthdays: Musician Graham Parker.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Beverly D’Angelo.
1957: Birthdays: Musician Kevin Eubanks.
1960: Deaths: Hollywood king Clark Gable, best remembered as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind, died of a heart attack at the age of 59.
1969: 250,000 people demonstrated in Washington against the Vietnam War.
1981: Birthdays: Golf champion Lorena Ochoa.
1984: 5-week-old Baby Fae died after her body rejected the baboon heart she had lived with for 20 days at California’s Loma Linda University Medical Center.
1987: 27 people were killed when a Continental Airlines DC-9 jet crashed in a snowstorm during takeoff from Denver.
1989: Tornadoes struck six Southern states, killing 17 people and injuring 463, causing at least $100 million in damage in Huntsville, Ala.
1990: Members of the so-called Keating Five — Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.; Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.; John Glenn, D-Ohio; John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Donald Riegle, D-Mich. — were accused of influence peddling on behalf of savings and loan kingpin Charles Keating.
2001: U.S. commandos were on the ground in southern Afghanistan in the search for al-Qaida leaders and more than 250 U.S. and British special force troops landed north of Kabul.
2004: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell submitted his resignation. Facing the possibility of U.N. sanctions, Iran announced it would suspend its uranium enrichment program.
2005: The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina stood at 972 with more bodies found as Louisiana residents returned home more than a month after the search for victims officially ended.
2007: Cyclone Sidr, with winds of more than 150 miles an hour, slammed into the southwestern Bangladesh coast, killing more than 3,400 people. Tens of thousands were injured and 1 million people were homeless.
2009: World leaders meeting in Singapore backed off from a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by roughly half by 2050, eliminating a target date in their preliminary document. A series of snowstorms in northern and central China killed 32 people, stranded thousands and ruined crops worth about $1 billion.
2010: A five-story building in New Delhi that housed migrant workers collapsed, killing at least 42 people with 65 others hurt and many more feared buried in debris. Fire in a high-rise Shanghai apartment building, primarily a home for teachers, killed more than 40 people and injured dozens.
2011: Fifty-one people were reported killed in a clash with Syrian security forces. A Syrian human rights organization put the death toll at more than 70. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in charge for more than three decades, said he intended to step down within 90 days of reaching a transfer of power plan to end the crisis in his country, rocked by a popular revolt for most of the year.
Quotes
“Isn’t it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?” – Rue McClanahan
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
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“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.” – Daniel J Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.” – Jane Austen
“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.” – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) German Field Marshal:
“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”
“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”
“Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.”
“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
“The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.”
fartlek
PRONUNCIATION: (FAH(r)T-lek
MEANING: noun: An athletic training technique developed in Sweden in the 1930s by the Swedish national coach, Gosta Holmer, comprising alternating periods of intense exercise with periods of less strenuous effort or any workout based on this technique.
ETYMOLOGY: Today’s word is actually the Swedish word for “speed play” based on fart “running, speed” + lek “play.” “Fart” is the noun from Swedish fara “go, move,” akin to German fahren “travel, journey” and English “fare” as in “fare thee well” or simply “farewell,” from Old English faran “to journey, travel.” Another derivate of the same root is “ferry” from earlier “ferian.” In Greek, the original root emerged as poros “journey,” seen lurking in “emporium” from Greek emporion “merchant,” someone who did quite a bit of journeying in the days of ancient Greeks. In Latin it emerged in portare “to carry” which we see everywhere in English borrowings: “porter,” “portfolio,” “import,” “deport,” “important,” and many, many more.
USAGE: “Jason, you can’t study in fartleks; you have to work constantly and continuously on your studies if you are to succeed in school.”
kaffeeklatsch
PRONUNCIATION: (KAH-fee-klach)
http://wordsmith.org/words/kaffeeklatsch.mp3
MEANING: noun: An informal social gathering for coffee and conversation.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Kaffeeklatsch, from Kaffee (coffee) + Klatsch (gossip). Earliest documented use: 1888.
NOTES: The word has many spelling variants: kaffeeklatch, kaffee klatch, kaffee klatsch, coffeeklatsch, coffeeklatch, coffee klatsch, coffee klatch.
USAGE: “I can always count on my monthly kaffeeklatsches with my fellow scribes to surface the news items that really matter.” – Ruth Walker; The Real Regular and the New Normal; The Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Jun 8, 2010.
yob
PRONUNCIATION: (yob)
http://wordsmith.org/words/yob.mp3
MEANING: noun: A rude, rowdy youth.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by reversing the spelling of the word boy. Earliest documented use: 1859.
NOTES: There are not a lot of words in the English language that are coined from the backward spelling of another word. Another example is mho, the unit of electrical conductance, coined by reversing ohm, the unit of resistance.Fiction writers sometimes come up with names for their characters by spelling another name or word backwards.
USAGE: “Like a yob who starts a fight in a pub by saying you have spilled his pint, the Russians offered pretexts that both parties knew were ludicrous.” – A.D. Miller; A First-Hand Account of Life in Modern Russia; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 21, 2011.
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wherefore
PRONUNCIATION: (HWAIR-for)
http://wordsmith.org/words/wherefore.mp3
MEANING:
adverb: For what reason?
noun: Reason or purpose.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English, a combination of where + for. The word often appears in the phrase “the whys and wherefores (of something)”, meaning its reasons. First recorded use: c. 1200.
USAGE: “Love is the most dunderheaded of all the passions; it never will listen to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. ‘Love has no wherefore,’ says one of the Latin poets.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Kenelm Chillingly; 1873.
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