Today in History (June 22nd):
1807: The U.S frigate Chesapeake was fired upon and boarded by the crew of the British battleship Leopold about 40 miles east of Chesapeake Bay.
1856: Birthdays: English adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon’s Mines, She).
1898: Birthdays: German novelist Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front).
1903: Birthdays: Bank robber John Dillinger; Baseball Hall of Fame member Carl Hubbell.
1906: Birthdays: Movie director Billy Wilder; Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1909: Birthdays: Producer Mike Todd.
1918: 53 circus performers and many circus animals were killed when an empty troop train rear-ended the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train, which was stopped in Ivanhoe, Ind., to fix its brakes.
1922: Birthdays: Fashion designer Bill Blass.
1933: Birthdays: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
1936: Birthdays: Singer/actor Kris Kristofferson.
1937: Joe Louis knocked out Jim Braddock in the eighth round to become the world heavyweight boxing champion. He was the first African-American boxing champion since Jack Johnson lost his title in 1915.
1940: France fell to Germany in World War II.
1941: Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Birthdays: TV journalist Ed Bradley.
1943: Birthdays: News commentator Brit Hume.
1947: Birthdays: Writer Octavia Butler; Basketball Hall of Fame member Pete Maravich.
1948: Birthdays: Rock musician Todd Rundgren.
1949: Birthdays: Actor Meryl Streep; Actor Lindsay Wagner.
1952: Birthdays: Actor Graham Greene.
1953: Birthdays: Pop singer Cyndi Lauper.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Freddie Prinze.
1960: Birthdays: Actor Tracy Pollan; Activist Erin Brockovich-Ellis.
1962: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Clyde Drexler.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Amy Brenneman; Writer Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code).
1965: Movie mogul David O. Selznick, producer of Gone With The Wind, died at age 62.
1969: Show business legend Judy Garland died of an overdose of sleeping pills. She was 47.
1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear war. Birthdays: Television host Carson Daly.
1977: Former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell entered a federal prison for Watergate crimes. He was released for medical reasons 19 months later.
1978: Charon, a satellite of Pluto, was discovered.
1990: South African police tightened security around President Frederik Willem de Klerk and detained 11 right-wing activists after a published report detailed an alleged plot to assassinate de Klerk and black nationalist Nelson Mandela.
2003: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered to cede responsibility for security in some West Bank and Gaza Strip areas to the Palestinians.
2004: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s autobiography My Life was published to an awaiting audience so large the publisher ordered a second printing the next day.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate content and marketing of tobacco products for adults. It also outlawed cigarette ads in school and playground areas and the sale of flavored cigarettes designed for young people.
2010: A federal judge in New Orleans blocked a ban on deep-water drilling the Obama administration ordered after a massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
2011: Reputed former Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger, indicted in 19 homicides, was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., ending a 16-year manhunt.
2012: Accused child-molester Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted on 45 sex-abuse charges. He was sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.
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“It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.” – George Jean Nathan
“I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
“Evil is like a shadow – it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.” – Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (b. 1948)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) US writer, aviator:
“After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”
“America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.”
“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”
“Charles is life itself-pure life, force, like sunlight-and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him-caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.”
“Don’t wish me happiness-I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.”
“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”
perquisite
PRONUNCIATION: (PUR-kwuh-zit)
MEANING: (noun)
1. A profit or benefit in addition to a salary or wages.
2. Broadly: The benefits of a position or office.
3. A gratuity or tip for services performed.
4. Anything to which someone has or claims the sole right.
ETYMOLOGY: Perquisite derives from Medieval Latin perquisitum, from the past participle of Latin perquirere, “to search for eagerly,” from per-, “through, thoroughly” + quaerere, “to seek.” In Middle English it meant “property acquired by means other than inheritance.” By 1565 it had acquired the sense “fringe benefit”; by 1721 it had also come to signify “a tip or gratuity.”
USAGE: “Yourself you’ve fixed the ransom of this couple at twenty thousand pieces, and, as I gather, the lady is to be your perquisite. But why should she be your perquisite more than another’s, seeing that she belongs by the articles to all of us, as a prize of war?” – Rafael Sabatini, ‘Captain Blood’
nescient
PRONUNCIATION: (NESH-uhnt, NESH-ee-uhnt, NES-ee-uhnt)
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MEANING: (adjective), Lacking knowledge or awareness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ne- (not) + scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that has also given us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, adscititious, and sciolist.
USAGE: “The most interesting character development occurs in Zeta-Jones’s transformation from nescient wife to underground businesswoman as she tries to preserve her husband’s business.” – Matthew Hunt; Traffic; Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia); Jan 12, 2001.
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obloquy
PRONUNCIATION: (OB-luh-kwee)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. Censure or abusive language towards someone, especially when expressed by many.
2. Disgrace resulting from public condemnation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin obloquium (talking against, contradiction), from ob- (against) + loqui (to speak). Ultimately from the Indo-European root tolkw (to speak) that is also the source of somniloquy, loquacious, and allocution.
USAGE: “[Jimmy Carter] is a man who is prepared to risk the obloquy and criticism of die-hard neocons and nervous fellow senior Democrats to break the chains of Washington’s foolish Middle East peace policy.” – Carter Mission; Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); Apr 9, 2008.