Today in History (February 16th):
1698: Birthdays: French mathematician Pierre Bouguer.
1838: Birthdays: Historian Henry Brooks Adams.
1901: Birthdays: Orchestra leader Wayne King (The Waltz King); Actor Chester Morris.
1903: Birthdays: Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.
1909: Birthdays: Actor Hugh Beaumont.
1918: Birthdays: Singer Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters.
1921: Birthdays: Actor Vera-Ellen.
1923: Archaeologists opened the treasure-laden tomb of Tutankhamen, King Tut, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
1933: A patent for the synthetic fiber nylon was awarded to the DuPont Co.
1935: Birthdays: U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono, R-Calif. (also part of the comedy/song team Sonny and Cher).
1940: 299 British prisoners were freed from the German tanker Altmark by soldiers from the HMS Cossack.
1941: Birthdays: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
1944: Birthdays: Writer Richard Ford.
1951: Birthdays: Actor William Katt.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Margaux Hemingway (granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway).
1957: Birthdays: Actor/director LeVar Burton.
1958: Birthdays: Actor and rapper Ice-T, born Tracy Marrow.
1959: Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuba’s leader and set up a Communist regime. Birthdays: Tennis star John McEnroe.
1986: Mario Soares was elected Portugal’s first civilian head of state in 60 years.
1990: Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan provided videotaped testimony for the Iran-Contra trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter.
1992: The chief of the Iranian-financed Hezbollah and two family members were killed in a bombing raid by Israel in an apparent retaliation for attacks against its soldiers.
1999: Germany announced that $1.7 billion would be set aside to compensate victims of the Holocaust. Northern Ireland’s legislature approved the structure for a new executive government in the strife-torn province — a major step toward implementing the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
2003: A massive storm hit the Northeastern United States resulting in record snowfall in several locations, including Boston, which caught 27.5 inches.
2004: A draft survey indicated U.S. children accused more than 4,000 Roman Catholic priests of sexual abuse from 1950-2002.
2005: The National Hockey League canceled its entire season after a five-month lockout. A survey said China had become the world’s biggest consumer of agricultural and industrial goods, except for oil, in which the United States still had the lead.
2006: Former Haitian President Rene Preval was declared winner of the Feb. 7 presidential election in Haiti.
2008: U.S. President George W. Bush flew to Benin on the first stop of a five-nation trip to some of the poorest countries in Africa. Bush highlighted his record of fighting the AIDS pandemic.
2009: Japan reported its domestic product fell at a 12.7 percent annual rate in the last quarter of 2008, plunging the country into what experts say was its worst financial crisis since World War II.
2010: Pakistani and U.S. forces reported they had arrested Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the top Taliban military commander, in Karachi, Pakistan.
2011: Borders, the 40-year-old retail book superstore chain that began as a used book shop in Ann Arbor, Mich., and rapidly expanded in the 1990s with 650 locations and 19,500 employees, filed for bankruptcy. Mexican researchers predicted the violence-plagued border city of Juarez would be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year.
2012: U.S. President Barack Obama’s approval rating climbed to 50 percent for the first time in eight months, a CNN poll indicated. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a North Carolina county that was forced to stop opening public meetings with Christian prayers. The justices were told such a practice makes non-Christians feel like second-class citizens.
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“I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.” – Anonymous
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” – Max Forrester Eastman
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” – Thomas Jefferson
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson
Henry Adams (1838-1918) American Writer, Historian, Teacher:
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.”
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
“All experience is an arch to build upon.”
“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
“As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it’s a bore.”
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
“Friends are born, not made.”
“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
“In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
“It is always good men who do the most harm in the world”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.”
“Morality is a private and costly luxury.”
dotty
PRONUNCIATION: (DOT-ee)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Mentally unbalanced; crazy. Amusingly eccentric or unconventional. Ridiculous or absurd.
2. Having a feeble or unsteady gait; shaky.
3. Obsessively infatuated or enamored.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably alteration of Scots dottle, silly, from Middle English doten, to dote.
USAGE: “When Roy retired from his business to play golf full-time in Florida there were those in the company who considered him dotty, while others thought him crazy like a fox.”
Apollonian
PRONUNCIATION: (ap-uh-LOH-nee-uhn)
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MEANING: adjective: Serene; harmonious; disciplined; well-balanced.
ETYMOLOGY: After Apollo, the god of music, poetry, prophecy, healing, and more in Greek and Roman mythologies. He is considered the opposite of his brother, Dionysus. Earliest documented use: 1664.
USAGE: “The end result was that the once-Dionysian Jagger became trapped in the crisp, precise Apollonian realm and was no longer capable of producing lyrics that matched Richards’s thunderous, blues-based inventions.” – Camille Paglia; Dancing As Fast As She Can; Salon (New York); Dec 2, 2005.