Today in History (May 12th):
1812: Birthdays: Edward Lear, an English painter and writer of limericks and nonsense poems.
1820: Birthdays: Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale.
1842: Birthdays: French composer Jules Emile Massenet.
1850: Birthdays: Lawmaker and author Henry Cabot Lodge.
1873: Oscar II of Sweden-Norway was crowned King of Sweden.
1902: Birthdays: Novelist Philip Wylie.
1907: Birthdays: Actor Katharine Hepburn.
1910: Birthdays: Orchestra leader Gordon Jenkins; Jazz trombonist Jack Jenney.
1914: Birthdays: Newscaster Howard K. Smith.
1918: Birthdays: Businesswoman Mary Kay Ash; Convicted spy Julius Rosenberg (executed with his wife on June 19, 1953).
1922: The magazine Radio Broadcast commented, The rate of increase in the number who spend at least part of an evening listening to radio is almost incomprehensible.
1925: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member Yogi Berra.
1928: Birthdays: Composer Burt Bacharach.
1936: Birthdays: TV personality Tom Snyder; Artist Frank Stella.
1937: George VI was crowned king of England, succeeding his brother Edward, who abdicated to marry U.S. divorcee Wallis Simpson. Birthdays: Comedian George Carlin.
1948: Birthdays: Musician Steve Winwood.
1949: Soviet authorities announced the end of a land blockade of Berlin. The blockade lasted 328 days but was neutralized by the Allies’ Berlin airlift.
1950: Birthdays: Actor Gabriel Byrne; Actor Bruce Boxleitner.
1959: Birthdays: Actor Ving Rhames.
1961: Birthdays: Political commentator Paul Begala.
1962: Birthdays: Actor Emilio Estevez.
1966: Birthdays: Actor Stephen Baldwin.
1968: Birthdays: Skateboarder Tony Hawk.
1969: Birthdays: Actor Kim Fields.
1975: A Cambodian gunboat fired on the U.S. cargo ship Mayaguez and forced it into a Cambodian port. All 39 crewmen aboard were freed but a number of U.S. servicemen died during a rescue mission two days later.
1978: Birthdays: Actor Jason Biggs.
2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter began a visit to Cuba. He was the first president, in or out of office, to visit the island since communists took over in 1959.
2004: A Massachusetts Roman Catholic order was sued by nine former students of one of its schools, the Boston School for the Deaf, for alleged abuse as far back as 60 years ago.
2007: About 100,000 people attended a Family Day rally in Rome to protest a move that would grant more rights to same-sex and unmarried couples in Italy.
2008: A magnitude-8 earthquake, China’s deadliest in three decades, killed more than 69,000 people, with nearly 18,000 missing and millions homeless. U.S. immigration agents raided a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, arresting 389 immigration workers. Federal officers said it was the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever at a single U.S. workplace.
2009: The European Commission fined U.S. company Intel, the world’s largest computer chip maker, $1.4 billion for alleged illegal anti-competitive practices.
2010: A man armed with a meat cleaver stormed into a central China kindergarten classroom and slaughtered seven children, a teacher and her mother before taking his own life. Seventeen people died and about 100 wounded in five attacks in Chinese schools in a 2-month period. Britain set up its first coalition government since World War II, with the victorious Conservatives sharing control with the ideologically opposed Liberal Democrats after none of the competing parties won enough votes in the general election to avoid a parliamentary deadlock.
2011: A German court sentenced John Demjanjuk, 91, to five years in prison for his role in killing 28,060 Jews as a World War II Nazi concentration camp guard in Poland. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian, had worked for decades at a U.S. auto plant.
2012: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a commencement speech at Liberty University in Virginia that marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman. His comment came three days after U.S. President Barack Obama expressed support for legalizing same-sex marriage.
Quotes
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“I never let schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” – Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court Justice (1892-1954)
“I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.” – Rita Rudner
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) English nurse:
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
“I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.”
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
“Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement – they have only tried to be “men” and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.”
“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
verbalism
PRONUNCIATION: (VUR-buh-liz-uhm
MEANING: (noun)
1. An expression in words; a word or phrase. The manner in which something is phrased; wording.
2. A wordy phrase or sentence that has little meaning.
3. Abundant use of words without conveying much meaning.
USAGE: “The poor performance of the latest software was attacked at Friday’s meeting with both upper and lower management demanding not mere vitriolic verbalism but effective action in the way of an aggressive marketing campaign.”
ensconce
PRONUNCIATION: (en-SKONS)
http://wordsmith.org/words/ensconce.mp3
MEANING: (verb tr.)
1. To settle firmly and comfortably.
2. To hide securely.
ETYMOLOGY: From en- (in) + sconce (small fortification), from Dutch schans (entrenchment). Earliest documented use: 1589.
USAGE: “Vladimir Putin is once more ensconced behind the Kremlin’s walls.” – Not Such a Strongman; The Economist (London, UK); Jun 9, 2012.
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mysophobia
PRONUNCIATION: (my-suh-FOH-bee-uh)
http://wordsmith.org/words/mysophobia.mp3
MEANING: (noun), An irrational fear of dirt.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin myso-, from Greek mysos (filth) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879.
USAGE: “Cinders the piglet overcame her fear of mud with the help of a pair of boots. The six-month-old saddleback suffers from mysophobia.” – And This Little Piggy Wore Wellies All the Way Home; The Times (London, UK); Jun 11, 2008.
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