Today in History (July 24th)
1679: New Hampshire became a royal colony of the British crown.
1783: Birthdays: South American revolutionary and statesman Simon Bolivar.
1802: Birthdays: French novelist Alexandre Dumas the Elder, author of The Three Musketeers.
1847: Brigham Young and 148 Mormon pioneers arrived in Salt Lake Valley after 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young led 148 Mormon pioneers into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
1895: Birthdays: British poet/author Robert Graves.
1897: Birthdays: Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.
1899: Birthdays: Actor Chief Dan George.
1900: Birthdays: Artist Zelda Fitzgerald.
1916: Birthdays: Writer John D. MacDonald.
1920: Birthdays: Feminist and former U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y.
1935: Birthdays: Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant.
1936: Birthdays: Comedian Ruth Buzzi.
1940: Birthdays: Actor Dan Hedaya.
1942: Birthdays: Actor Chris Sarandon.
1946: Birthdays: Comedian Gallagher.
1947: Birthdays: Actor Robert Hays.
1949: Birthdays: Actor Michael Richards.
1951: Birthdays: Actor Lynda Carter.
1956: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed together for the last time.
1963: Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Fame member Karl Malone.
1968: Birthdays: Actor/singer Kristin Chenoweth.
1969: Apollo 11 returned to Earth after its historic moon-landing mission. Birthdays: Actor/singer Jennifer Lopez.
1974: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Richard Nixon should surrender White House tapes for the criminal trials of his former associates.
1979: Birthdays: Actor Rose Byrne.
1982: Birthdays: Actor Anna Paquin.
1983: George Brett of the Kansas City Royals has a home run nullified in the Pine Tar Incident after New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin had Brett’s bat examined by umpires. The home run was later reinstated.
1997: The Scottish scientists who produced Dolly the cloned sheep announced they had cloned a sheep with human genes.
1998: A gunman opened fire at the Capitol in Washington, killing two police officers and wounding a tourist. Police shot the gunman, who survived and was later charged with murder. Birthdays: Australian television host Bindi Irwin.
2002: The U.S. House of Representatives expelled Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat, by a vote of 420-1. Traficant, who had been convicted of racketeering, bribery and corruption, was the second House member expelled since the Civil War.
2006: Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hospitalized on a forced-feeding tube in Baghdad as his massacre trial resumed without him.
2009: An increase in the federal minimum wage, from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour, went into effect. Representatives of small businesses said the increase would threaten their survival.
2011: Hundreds of gay couples in formal suits and gowns and T-shirts recited vows after New York became the sixth and largest state to recognize same-sex weddings.
2012: The British government said 18,200 military personnel are assigned to security duties at the London Olympics, opening in a few days.
Quotes
“Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.” – Lebanese proverb
“There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Everybody likes a kidder but nobody loans him money.” – Arthur Miller
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.” – Jilly Cooper
“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland.” – Adolf Hitler, on the creation of the Gestapo in 1922
“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.” – Fran Lebowitz, author (b. 1950)
“It is also a victory to know when to retreat.” – Erno Paasilinna, essayist and journalist (1935-2000)
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Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) US pilot:
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
preternatural
PRONUNCIATION: (pree-tuhr-NACH-uhr-uhl; -NACH-ruhl)
MEANING: (adjective)
1. Existing outside of nature; differing from the natural; nonnatural.
2. Surpassing the usual or normal; extraordinary; abnormal.
3. Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means.
ETYMOLOGY: Preternatural derives from the Latin phrase praeter naturam, “beyond nature.”
USAGE: “She could not get that sound out of her ears even in Mrs. Kingswards sickroom, where the quiet was preternatural, and everybody spoke in the lowest tone, and every step was hushed.” – Margaret Oliphant, ‘The Sorceress’
meed
PRONUNCIATION: (meed)
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MEANING: (noun), Reward; recompense; wage.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English med. Earliest documented use: before 900.
USAGE: “And speaking of seats, the folding chairs were hideously uncomfortable — something like that fabled throne in Hades, which demanded a meed of blood and bone if you tried to leave it.” – Craig Smith; Axelrod Quartet and NMSO; The Santa Fe New Mexican; Oct 17, 2003.
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agee or ajee
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-JEE)
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MEANING: (adverb), To one side; awry.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scottish English dialect, from a- (to, toward) + gee (a command to a horse to move to one side). Earliest documented use: before 1805.
USAGE: “The knaves go all agee when both my lord and myself have our backs turned.” – Charlotte M. Yonge; Grisly Grisell; Macmillan; 1893.
orthoepy
PRONUNCIATION: (or-THO-uh-pee, OR-tho-ep-ee)
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MEANING: (noun)
1. Study of the pronunciation of words.
2. Customary pronunciation of a language.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin from Greek ortho- (correct) + epos (word), ultimately from the Indo-European root wekw- (to speak) that also gave us voice, vowel, vouch, vocation, evoke, revoke, advocate, and epic.
USAGE:
“‘Splash a little guzzelean,’ the crowd muttered.
‘Gas-o-lean,’ shouted an angry Nikitia Ivanich from above.
‘Is it really all that difficult to assimilate orthoepy?'”
– Tatyana Tolstaya (translated by Jamey Gambrell); The Slynx; Houghton Mifflin; 2003.