Today in History (November 2nd):
Scorpio (October 23rd to November 21st)
1500: Birthdays: Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini.
1783: With American independence established, Congress ordered the Continental Army demobilized.
1793: Birthdays: Early Texas leader Stephen Austin, for whom the state capital is named.
1794: Birthdays: Poet William Cullen Bryant.
1803: With the support of the U.S. government, Panama issued a declaration of independence from Colombia.
1908: Birthdays: Chicago Bears legend Bronislau Bronko Nagurski.
1918: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Bob Feller.
1921: Birthdays: Actor Charles Bronson.
1928: Mickey Mouse appeared for the first time, with Walt Disney doing the voice of his soon-to-be-famous creation, in Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon produced.
1933: Birthdays: Actor Jeremy Brett; Conductor/composer John Barry; Entertainer Ken Berry; 1988 Democratic presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
1948: The Chicago Daily Tribune printed the famously premature (and incorrect) headline, Dewey defeats Truman. Birthdays: British pop singer Lulu, both Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie.
1952: Birthdays: Comedian Roseanne Barr.
1953: Birthdays: Comedian Dennis Miller; Actor Kate Capshaw.
1954: Birthdays: Actor Kathy Kinney.
1957: The Soviet Union launched the first animal into space — a dog named Laika — aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Birthdays: Actor Dolph Lundgren.
1964: Lyndon Johnson was elected U.S. president with a margin larger than in any previous election, defeating Republican Barry Goldwater.
1976: Former Democratic Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia was elected the 39th U.S. president, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford.
1979: Five members of the Communist Workers Party, participating in a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., were shot to death by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. Seven others were wounded.
1987: Birthdays: Model and actor Gemma Ward.
1992: Democrat Bill Clinton, the governor of Arkansas, defeated incumbent U.S. Republican President George H.W. Bush for the U.S. presidency.
1995: Typhoon Angela killed more than 700 people in the northern Philippines.
2001: Osama bin Laden, in a taped message, called the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan a war against Islam. Anthrax spores were confirmed in India and Pakistan and on additional postal equipment in the United States.
2004: Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner in Afghanistan’s first presidential election.
2006: Katharine Jefferts Schori was installed as the first female presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
2008: Afghan officials said a U.S. airstrike hit a wedding party in the southern province of Kandahar, killing a reported 40 civilians and wounding 30 others.
2009: The Republican Party, after a clobbering in 2008 at all levels, won the off-year governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, the latter featuring a GOP sweep of statewide offices. Maine voters overturned a law allowing same-sex marriage, the 31st state to block the procedure through a public referendum.
2010: The U.S. Federal Reserve announced it would buy $600 billion of the United States’ huge national debt with treasury bonds.
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2011: U.S. Senate Republicans, joined by one Democrat and one Independent, blocked a $60 billion proposal for transportation and infrastructure President Barack Obama said would put Americans back to work. It was the third GOP block of a provision in the new jobs proposal. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou helped clear the way for his country to get a $178 billion EU bailout when he dropped his call for a referendum on the issue. He said he would resign if necessary to allow formation of a unity government.
Quotes
“Government is not the problem and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.” – Bill Clinton, U.S. President, in his second inaugural address
Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. – RD Laing, psychiatrist and author (1927-1989)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) US poet and newspaper editor:
“What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind’s restless wings, When, from the orchard-row, he pours Its fragrance through our open doors; A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl’s silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.”
“When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing’d insects of the sky.”
“The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.”
“Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.”
“Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat.”
“Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest.”
“Weep not that the world changes–did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.”
“No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth’s silver rivers on the sacred morn.”
marriage
PRONUNCIATION: (MAE-rij)
MEANING: noun:
1 : A wedding, the customary religious, social, or legal ceremony forming an exceptionally close union between two or more people differing in some respect, usually gender;
2 : matrimony, the state resulting from such a ceremony;
3 : a close union of any number of unlike substances, such as the marriage of soft music, a summer breeze, and a view of the ocean.
ETYMOLOGY: Today’s word is the noun of “marry,” which was borrowed from the Old French “marier,” the legitimate descendant of Latin maritare “to give a man in marriage.” The Latin word comes from a Proto-Indo-European stem that seems to have originally referred to a young man, e.g. Sanskrit marya “young man, boyfriend” and Greek meirakion “young boy.” However, the same root is found in words referring to your girls, such as Greek “meirax,” Old Lithuanian merga “girl, maid,” Welsh merch “girl, daughter, maid,” and Breton merc’h “daughter.” Today’s word has been used in referring to a wide variety of close unions, usually ritually legitimized. Instances of group or communal marriages among all the men and all the women of primitive societies have been reported and polygamy is practiced among many peoples. The existence of words like “bigamy,” “trigamy,” and “polygamy” suggests considerable variety among types of human marriage.
USAGE: “To Heidi, the marriage of tattoos, body piercing, and Gothic clothing inevitably lead to a divorce from good taste.”
buttle
PRONUNCIATION: (BUT-l)
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MEANING: verb intr.: To do a butler’s work.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from butler, from Old French bouteillier (cup-bearer), from bouteille (bottle). Originally, a butler was in charge of the wine. Earliest recorded use: 1867.
USAGE: “The top hotels in Saudi Arabia are staffed by foreign men — something I realized must be the case when my butler at the Al Faisaliah folded my underwear unprompted. If I were buttled by a Saudi, we’d probably be shuttled to Deera Square — or Chop Chop Square, as it’s better known — where the public beheadings occur.” – Maureen Dowd; A Girls’ Guide to Saudi Arabia; Vanity Fair (New York); Aug 2010.
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