Today in History (July 22nd)
1376: According to German legend, a piper — having not been paid for ridding the town of Hamelin of its rats — led the town’s children away, never to be seen again.
1587: The Colony of Roanoke was re-established.
1620: Dutch pilgrims started for America. Their ship — called the Speedhaven — set sail from Delfshaven, Holland.
1793: Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific.
1849: Birthdays: Poet Emma Lazarus.
1864: In the first battle of Atlanta, Confederate troops under Gen. John Hood were defeated by Union forces under Gen. William Sherman.
1882: Birthdays: Painter Edward Hopper.
1890: Birthdays: U.S. political family matriarch Rose Kennedy.
1893: Birthdays: U.S. psychiatrist Karl Menninger.
1898: Birthdays: Poet Stephen Vincent Benet; Sculptor Alexander Calder.
1916: A bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded during a Preparedness Day parade on San Francisco’s Market Street, killing 10 people and wounding 40. The parade was in support of the United States’ entrance into World War I.
1923: Birthdays: Former U.S. Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.
1928: Birthdays: Actor Orson Bean.
1932: Birthdays: Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.
1933: Wiley Post completed his first solo flight around the world. It took him 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934: Bank robber John Dillinger died in a hail of bullets from federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater. Birthdays: Actor Louise Fletcher.
1938: Birthdays: Actor Terence Stamp.
1940: Birthdays: Jeopardy! game show host Alex Trebek.
1943: Birthdays: Actor/singer Bobby Sherman.
1946: Birthdays: Actor Danny Glover.
1947: Birthdays: Comedian/actor Albert Brooks; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Don Henley.
1949: Birthdays: Composer Alan Menken.
1955: Birthdays: Actor Willem Dafoe.
1963: Birthdays: R&B singer Keith Sweat.
1964: Birthdays: Comedian John Leguizamo; Comedian David Spade.
1972: Birthdays: Actor Colin Ferguson.
1973: Birthdays: Singer Rufus Wainwright.
1991: Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer as a suspect in the deaths of at least 15 people.
1992: Pablo Escobar, the boss of the Medellin cocaine cartel, and nine henchmen vanished from a Colombian prison. Many months later, Escobar was surrounded and killed. Birthdays: Actor/Singer Selena Gomez.
1994: A U.S. federal judge ordered The Citadel, a state-financed military college in Charleston, S.C., to open its doors to women.
2003: Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusai, were killed by U.S. forces in a 6-hour firefight at a house in Mosul in northern Iraq.
2004: The Sept. 11 Commission recommended a radical overhaul of the way the nation’s intelligence and counter-terror agencies were run and criticized Congress and two administrations for failing to stop the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
2006: Afghanistan was close to anarchy with Western military forces running out of time, the head of NATO’s international security force in that country said.
2008: Jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were indicted on charges of child sexual assault by a grand jury in Texas.
2009: Millions of Hindus bathed in India’s holy rivers and throngs across Asia sought vantage points to view a rare 4-minute total solar eclipse, longest of the 21st century.
2011: Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old Norwegian right-wing extremist, boasted he was responsible for the massacre of 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity. However, he denied criminal guilt at his Oslo trial, saying he was trying to stop a Muslim takeover. Breivik admitted killing 69 people, mostly teenagers, in a shooting rampage at a youth summer camp and setting a bomb that killed eight others in Oslo.
2012: Chinese police, reporting on a crackdown against economic crimes, said they arrested 463 people on counterfeiting charges and seized $18.5 million in fake bills.
Quotes
“There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.” – Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
“The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.” – Mordecai Richler
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.” – Kabir, 1440-1518
“A hungry man is not a free man.” – Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)
“Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.” – Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
“The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
“It’s not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.” – Robert Musil, novelist (1880-1942)
Rose Kennedy (1890 -1995) US wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.:
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.”
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“I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.”
“If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.”
“If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”
“It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.”
scuttlebutt
PRONUNCIATION: (SKUHT-l-buht)
MEANING: (noun)
1. A drinking fountain on a ship.
2. A cask on a ship that contains the day’s supply of drinking water.
3. Gossip; rumor.
ETYMOLOGY: Scuttlebutt comes from scuttle, “a small opening” + butt, “a large cask” — that is, a small hole cut into a cask or barrel to allow individual cups of water to be drawn out. The modern equivalent is the office water cooler, also a source of refreshment and gossip.
USAGE: “I’d never been there, of course, so my information was only scuttlebut.” – Stephen Greenleaf, ‘Blood Type’
sook
PRONUNCIATION: (rhymes with book)
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MEANING: (noun), A timid or coward person; a crybaby.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from English dialect suck. Earliest documented use: 1933.
USAGE: “I usually put on a brave face. I didn’t want anyone to think I was a sook.” – Rosemary Howden; Episodes from a Fractured Childhood; Ginninderra Press; 2008.
betimes
PRONUNCIATION: (bih-TYMZ)
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MEANING: (adverb)
1. Sometimes; on occasion.
2. In good time; early.
3. Quickly; soon.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English bitimes, from bi (by) + time. Earliest documented use: 1314.
USAGE:
“I’m urged betimes to write something about this book or that author.” – A Quest to Fix Unfair Neglect; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Jul 19, 1998.
“Since Knott was leaving in the morning, she went to bed betimes.” – Betty Neels; Roses Have Thorns; Harlequin; 2012.
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beggar
PRONUNCIATION: (BEG-uhr)
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MEANING: (verb tr.)
1. To exhaust the resources or ability; to defy.
2. To impoverish.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English beggare, beggere, from beggen (to beg).
USAGE: “Geraldine Feeney said the story told by Mr Boyle beggared belief. ‘If I heard him right, a 26-year-old is in a mental institution for five years because someone belonging to her thinks she will be promiscuous if she is out in the world.'” – Jimmy Walsh; Call for Review of Psychiatric ‘Detention’; The Irish Times (Dublin); Jun 23, 2010.
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minatory
PRONUNCIATION: (MIN-uh-tor-ee, MYN-)
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MEANING: (adjective), Threatening or menacing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin minari (to threaten), from minae (threats). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (project) that is also the source of menace, mountain, eminent, promenade, demean, amenable, and mouth.
USAGE: “France has seldom assumed a minatory posture towards India, being much less inclined than other major countries to hector, or push and prod in an attempt to influence policy.” – The Statesman (New Delhi, India); Jan 31, 2008.
parapraxis
PRONUNCIATION: (par-uh-PRAK-sis)
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MEANING: (noun), A slip of the tongue (or pen) that reveals the unconscious mind.
ETYMOLOGY: Parapraxis is a fancy word for the Freudian slip. It’s derived from Greek para- (beside, beyond) + praxis (act).
USAGE: “Only one parapraxis suggested a little lingering Scottish resentment*. [Andrew Marr] pronounced Gough Square, where [Samuel] Johnson lived and wrote his dictionary, ‘guff’. A good joke but not, I think, a deliberate one.” – Andrew Billen; Ruling the Radio Waves; New Statesman (London, UK); Oct 1, 2007. [*And not entirely without reason. In his famous dictionary, Johnson defined oats as: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”]