Today in History (July 21st)
1858: Birthdays: Composer Chauncey Olcott (When Irish Eyes Are Smiling).
1861: The first major military engagement of the Civil War occurred at Bull Run Creek, Va.
1873: Jesse James held up the Rock Island express train at Adair, Iowa, and escaped with $3,000.
1899: Birthdays: Author Ernest Hemingway; Poet Hart Crane.
1908: Birthdays: Golf Hall of Fame member Harold Jug McSpaden.
1911: Birthdays: Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
1920: Birthdays: Violinist Isaac Stern.
1922: Birthdays: Singer Kay Starr.
1924: Birthdays: Actor/comedian Don Knotts.
1925: The so-called Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in one of the great confrontations in legal history, ended with John Thomas Scopes convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in violation of state law.
1926: Birthdays: Producer Norman Jewison.
1938: Birthdays: Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.
1943: Birthdays: Actor Edward Herrmann.
1948: Birthdays: Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens; Cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
1951: Birthdays: Actor/comedian Robin Williams.
1957: Birthdays: Actor Jon Lovitz.
1969: Neil Alden Armstrong, Aerospace Engineer, became the first person ever to walk on the moon, when at 02:56:15 Coordinated Universal Time he placed his left foot onto the surface of the moon. Astronauts Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin lifted off from the surface of the moon.
1970: After 11 years of construction, the massive Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt was completed, ending the cycle of flood and drought in the Nile River region but triggering an environmental controversy.
2000: A report from special counsel John Danforth cleared U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and the government of wrongdoing in the April 19, 1993, fire that ended the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas.
2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment in the best-selling series, sold more than 8.3 million copies on its first day in bookstores.
2008: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a central figure in the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s, was arrested after a 13-year manhunt and charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
2009: U.S. President Barack Obama continued his campaign for healthcare reform legislation, reaching out to Americans on prime-time TV, lashing at critics and warning lawmakers that, if nothing happens now, nothing will change.
2011: Greece continued efforts to climb out of a financial chasm with a second bailout pledge from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund worth $157 billion. Earlier, the nation dealt with its debt crisis with the help of a $146 billion loan package.
2012: Staff Sgt. Luis A. Walker, a U.S. Air Force boot camp instructor convicted of sexual offenses, including rape, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The victims were female trainees.
Quotes
“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.” – Madame De Stael, writer (1766-1817)
“Talk low, talk slow — and don’t say too much.” – John Wayne
“I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.” – Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer, and politician (1823-1871)
“I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.” – Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)
“The noble and the nobility are usually at odds with one another.” – Johann Gottfried Seume, author (1763-1810)
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“All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
olid
PRONUNCIATION: (O-lid)
http://wordsmith.org/words/olid.mp3
MEANING: (adjective), Foul-smelling.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin olere (to smell) which also gave us an opposite of today’s word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.
USAGE: “Ducks’ blood smells no less olid than pig’s blood.” – Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; A Sow of Violence; The Massachusetts Review (Amherst); Autumn 2004.
disinter
PRONUNCIATION: (dis-in-TUHR)
http://wordsmith.org/words/disinter.mp3
MEANING: (verb tr.)
1. To remove from a grave.
2. To bring to light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dis- (away, apart) + interrare (to bury), from in- (in) + terra (earth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ters- (to dry) that is also the source of territory, terrace, turmeric, toast, and terra firma. – A synonym of today’s word is exhume, from Latin ex- (out) + humus (earth), which is from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth) that also gave us human, homicide, homage, chameleon, chamomile, and Persian zamindar (landholder).
USAGE: “From underneath all this falsity, he needs to disinter what’s true.” – Tessa Hadley; Windows on the World; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 10, 2009.
catachresis
PRONUNCIATION: (kat-uh-KREE-sis)
http://wordsmith.org/words/catachresis.mp3
MEANING: (noun), The misuse of words.
ETYMOLOGY: Here’s a catchall word for all those mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and bushisms. It derives via Latin from Greek katakhresthai (to misuse).
USAGE: “Our neighbors to the north aren’t spared the disease of catachresis, either. A Canadian politician displayed this manifestation of the illness: ‘If this thing starts to snowball, it will catch fire right across the country.'” – Jaime O’Neill; A Verbal Ship Lost in a Sea of Words; San Francisco Chronicle; Sep 25, 2005.