Today in History (November 10th):
1483: Birthdays: Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism.
1697: Birthdays: William Hogarth, English artist and engraver.
1730: Birthdays: Irish author Oliver Goldsmith.
1775: The U.S. Marine Corps was formed by order of the Continental Congress.
1871: Journalist Henry Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone in a small African village. His famous comment: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
1889: Birthdays: Actor Claude Rains.
1907: Birthdays: Singer Jane Froman.
1916: Birthdays: Bandleader/trumpet/arranger Billy May.
1917: 41 women from 15 U.S. states were arrested outside the White House for suffragette demonstrations. U.S. women won the right to vote three years later.
1919: Birthdays: Radio and television announcer George Fenneman.
1925: Birthdays: Actor Richard Burton.
1932: Birthdays: Actor Roy Scheider.
1939: Birthdays: American Indian rights activist/actor Russell Means.
1944: Birthdays: Lyricist Tim Rice.
1945: Birthdays: Country singer Donna Fargo.
1947: Birthdays: Rock musician Greg Lake; Rock musician Dave Loggins.
1949: Birthdays: Actor Ann Reinking.
1951: Area codes were introduced in the United States, Canada and parts of the Caribbean, allowing direct-dialing of long-distance telephone calls.
1955: Birthdays: Filmmaker Roland Emmerich.
1956: Birthdays: Comedian Sinbad, born David Adkins.
1959: Birthdays: Actor Mackenzie Phillips; Sports journalist Linda Cohn.
1968: Birthdays: Actor Tracy Morgan.
1969: Sesame Street premiered on PBS.
1975: The ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald broke in two and sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members. It was the worst Great Lakes ship disaster of the decade.
1977: Birthdays: Actor Brittany Murphy.
1982: Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75 after 18 years in power.
1983: Microsoft released its Windows computer operating system.
1989: Bulgaria’s long-reigning, hard-line president Todor Zhivkov resigned as democratic reform continued to sweep the Eastern bloc. The only privately owned manuscript of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was sold at auction at Christie’s in New York for $30.8 million, the highest amount paid for a manuscript.
1996: A bomb at a Moscow cemetery killed 11 and injured one dozen other people.
2002: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to allow U.S. President George W. Bush to take unilateral military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq without conditions beyond Congress being informed almost immediately.
2003: Lee Malvo, one of two suspects in the rash of sniper shootings in the Washington area, pleaded innocent as his trial opened in Chesapeake, Va. The trial overlapped that of the other suspect, John Muhammad, in Virginia Beach, Va.
2004: Shell Hydrogen opened the first hydrogen outlet at a retail gasoline station in Washington to service fuel cell vehicles from General Motors. An Israeli parliamentary committee approved a bill prohibiting pensions to families of suicide bombers.
2005: A bomb explosion in a central Baghdad restaurant killed at least 34 people and wounded 25 others.
2006: Mexico City lawmakers officially recognized same-sex civil unions, subject to approval by the mayor.
2007: Bank of America, CitiGroup and JPMorgan Chase, the United States’ three biggest banks, agreed to a simplified structure for a reported $75 billion fund designed to stabilize U.S. credit markets.
2008: Close to 30 people were killed and more than 60 were injured when three bombs went off within minutes in northern Baghdad during the morning commute.
2009: John Allen Muhammad, convicted as the sniper who killed 10 people in a 2002 shooting spree in the Washington area, was executed in Virginia.
2010: The intensity and frequency of volcanic eruptions on Java’s Mount Merapi subsided after about three weeks but soon resumed. By the time the eruptions ended in early December the death toll was put at 353 with more than 300,000 displaced. Clashes between Moroccan forces and the independence-seeking Polisario Front broke out in Western Sahara, an area disputed since the 1970s.
2011: The Obama administration said it would take another look at a proposed route for an oil pipeline from Canada to the gulf coast. The 1,700-mile pipeline would transport crude from Canada’s oil sands region to U.S. refineries south to Texas. Israel’s Supreme Court ordered former President Moshe Katsav to start serving a seven-year prison sentence on rape charges.
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“It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.” – Mrs. Patrick Campbell
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” – Josh Billings
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” – Andy Rooney
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” – Rita Rudner
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” – Robert Benchley
“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” – Franklin P. Jones
“My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money.” – Joe Weinstein
“Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul — chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” – Anne Tyler
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look hat says, ‘Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!'” – Dave Barry
“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.” – Phil Pastoret
“A book may be amusing with numerous errors or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.” – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish author
Don’t wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. – Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German leader of the Protestant Reformation:
“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.”
“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
“Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.”
“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”
“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
“First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.”
“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”
complement
PRONUNCIATION: (KOM-pluh-muhnt)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Something that fills up or completes.
2. The quantity or number required to make up a whole or to make something complete.
3. One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete each other; a counterpart.
transitive verb: To supply what is lacking; to serve as a complement to; to supplement.
ETYMOLOGY: Complement is from Latin complementum, from complere, “to fill up,” from com- (intensive prefix) + plere, “to fill.”
USAGE: “Marva was quick to point out that both points brought up at the meeting complemented each other and were not at all contradictory.”
majordomo
PRONUNCIATION: (may-juhr-DO-mo)
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MEANING: noun:
1. Someone whose job is to make arrangements or organize things for another.
2. A steward or butler.
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish mayordomo (butler, main servant), from Latin major + domus (house).
USAGE: “If there hadn’t been a Saudi majordomo to come and collect us, we would have been in limbo — a pair of single women wandering the airport with no man to get them out, trapped forever like Tom Hanks in movie The Terminal.” – Maureen Dowd; A Girls’ Guide to Saudi Arabia; Vanity Fair (New York); Aug 2010.
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