Today in History (April 7th):
0030: By many scholars’ reckoning, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in Jerusalem.
1506: Birthdays: Missionary St. Francis Xavier.
1770: Birthdays: English poet William Wordsworth.
1795: The meter was adopted as basic measure of length by France.
1805: Beethoven’s Third Symphony was performed publicly for the first time.
1859: Birthdays: Father of American Football Walter Camp.
1862: Union forces under the command of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at Shiloh, Tenn.
1873: Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame member John McGraw.
1893: Birthdays: CIA Director Allen Dulles.
1897: Birthdays: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell.
1908: Birthdays: Conductor Percy Faith.
1915: Birthdays: Singer Billie Holiday.
1920: Birthdays: Sitar player Ravi Shankar.
1928: Birthdays: Actor James Garner.
1931: Birthdays: Former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, in 1971.
1933: Birthdays: Actor Wayne Rogers.
1938: Birthdays: California Gov. Jerry Brown Jr.
1939: Birthdays: Film director Francis Ford Coppola; British TV personality David Frost.
1944: Birthdays: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
1949: Birthdays: Musician John Oates.
1951: Birthdays: Musician Janis Ian.
1953: Swedish statesman Dag Hammarskjold was elected secretary-general of the United Nations. He served until his death in a 1961 plane crash.
1954: Birthdays: Actor/martial arts expert Jackie Chan; Football Hall of Fame member Tony Dorsett.
1964: Birthdays: Actor Russell Crowe.
1990: Suspected arson fires aboard the ferry Scandinavian Star killed at least 75 people in Scandinavia’s worst post-war maritime disaster. The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and its director were indicted on obscenity and child pornography charges for displaying a controversial Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit.
2005: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite Muslim, and Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, were named prime minister and president, respectively, in the new Iraqi government.
2006: Three suicide bombers set off explosives in a Baghdad mosque, killing at least 90 people and injuring an estimated 175. The United States and the European Union suspended financial aid to the Palestinian Authority because its ruling Hamas party refuses to recognize Israel.
2009: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was re-elected to a third five-year term despite failing health since his reported stroke in August 2008.
2010: Air travel resumed, most roads reopened and crews worked to restore power in Rio de Janeiro after a rainstorm and mudslide left more than 133 people dead. The president of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, fled the capital Bishkek after a rash of violent demonstrations in which 68 people were killed.
2011: A 23-year-old former student returned to his public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with two revolvers, killing 12 children and wounding 12 others before shooting himself in the head as police closed in.
2012: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said it was investigating Walgreens pharmacies as it cracked down on Florida’s illicit prescription medications market. The DEA said it searched six Walgreens from Fort Pierce to the Tampa Bay area and a distribution center in Jupiter.
Quotes
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” – Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)
“The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.” – James A. LaFond-Lewis
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner -actress and comedian (1946-1989)
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet:
“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”
“A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!”
“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
“Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.”
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
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“For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.”
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.”
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
allege
PRONUNCIATION: (eh-LEJ)
MEANING: (verb), To assert as true; to assert without providing proof.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English “alleggen” from Old French alegier “to vindicate, justify.” The history of today’s word is interesting because the form of the word derives from Latin allegare but the meaning comes from from esligier “to pay a fine, justify oneself” from Late Latin *exlitigare “to legally clear” from ex “out (of)” + litigare “to sue.” “Allegare” went on through French to become English “allay.” Apparently the two were confused at some point and the prefix ex- was replaced by ad- (an-, am-, al-, ar-). The past participle, “alleged,” is used so much more frequently than the verb that it has become an adjective unto itself meaning, “accused without proof.” Even with this innovation, however, the word is often misused, especially in the media. While Nick Dalolli might be an alleged burglar, he did not commit an alleged burglarythe burglary must be conclusively proven if Nick is a suspect. The adverb “allegedly” never works. “Gertrude allegedly trained the suicide newts” does not mean that Gertrude trained the newts in an alleged manner but “It is alleged that Gertrude trained the newts.” So that is what you should say. The noun, of course, is “allegation.”
USAGE: “The suspected perpetrator of what police allege to be a crime has been suspended from the force pending further investigation.”
lex loci
PRONUNCIATION: (leks LOH-sy, -kee, -ky)
http://wordsmith.org/words/lex_loci.mp3
MEANING: (noun), The law of the place.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lex (law) + locus (place). Earliest documented use: 1832.
NOTES: Lex loci says that the law of that country or jurisdiction applies where the act was done.
USAGE:
“Another statute book named Conscience is observed lex loci wherever God sees.” – David Mitchell; Cloud Atlas; Random House; 2004.
“He is also survived by his two Labrador retrievers: Lex Loci and Stare Decisis.” – Obituary: Nathan S. Heffernan, Chief Justice (Ret.); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Apr 17, 2007.
gris-gris or grigri or greegree
PRONUNCIATION: (GREE-gree)
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MEANING: noun: A charm, amulet, or fetish.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, of West African origin. Earliest documented use: 1698.
USAGE: “The marabout [a Muslim holy man] produced a small calculator, punched in some numbers, and quoted a price of more than a thousand dollars for the gris-gris. ‘With it you can walk across the entire desert and no one will harm you,’ he promised.” – Peter Gwin; The Telltale Scribes of Timbuktu; National Geographic (Washington, DC); Jan 2011.
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quiescence
PRONUNCIATION: (kwee-ES-uhns, kwi-)
http://wordsmith.org/words/quiescence.mp3
MEANING: (noun), A state of rest, inactivity, or quietness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quiescere (to become quiet), from quies (quiet).
USAGE: “The Copenhagen debacle could lead to a period of quiescence in which not much is done to pursue climate-change policy.” – Anthony Giddens; Start the World, We Want to Get On; NewStatesman (London, UK); Feb 8, 2010.
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hermetic
PRONUNCIATION: (huhr-MET-ik)
http://wordsmith.org/words/hermetic.mp3
MEANING: (adjective),
1. Airtight.
2. Not affected by outside influence.
3. Relating to the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical.
4. Obscure or hard to understand.
ETYMOLOGY: From the belief that Hermes Trismegistus invented a seal to keep a vessel airtight in alchemy. Who was Hermes Trismegistus? It was the name of a legendary figure that Greek neo-Platonists thought was a blend of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Trismegistos is Greek for thrice-greatest, from tris (thrice) + megistos (greatest), ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great) that’s also the source of words such as magnificent, maharajah, mahatma, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, and magnify. – Another word coined after Hermes is hermeneutic meaning interpretive or explanatory.
USAGE: “So far, however, the net increase in accessibility and therefore accountability is welcome and popular compared to the hermetic secrecy and executive authoritarianism of the Bush administration.” – Obama Makes An Early Impression; The Irish Times (Dublin); Mar 27, 2009.