Quote of the Day November 18, 2010

“Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.”
~ Hyman Rickover

Word of the Day

meiosis (my-O-sis) noun
1: Understatement for rhetorical effect.  2: The process of cell division in which the number of chromosomes per cell is reduced to one half.

Random Fact

On November 18, 1926 George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the “Nobel Prize”.

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Quote of the Day November 12, 2010

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action.“
~ Frank Dibolt

Word of the Day

majordomo (may-juhr-DO-mow) noun
1: Someone whose job is to make arrangements or organize things for another.  2: A steward or butler.

Random Fact

The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with explosives, leading to the exploding whale incident on November 12, 1770.

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Quote of the Day November 11, 2010

“A committee is a clu-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”
~ Sir Barnett Cocks

Word of the Day

cerebrate (SER-auh-brayt) intransitive verb
The power to reason or think, use the mind, ponder consider.

Random Fact

Treaty of Sinchula was signed on November 11, 1865 by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

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Quote of the Day November 10, 2010

“All the strength you need to achieve anything is within you“
~ Sara Henderson

Word of the Day

sock (sawk) noun
1: A light, low-heeled shoe worn by ancient Greek comic actors, and by extension a comedy.  2: Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee.
verb
3: [slang] To hit someone.

Random Fact

The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

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Quote of the Day November 5, 2010

Sound Character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is the highway to success.”
~ Og Mandino

Word of the Day

endemic (en-DEM-ik) adjective
1: Natural to a particular people or place; always present in a particular area.  2: Confined to a geographic region.

Random Fact

In 1913 King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

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Quote of the Day November 1, 2010

“In the world a man will often be reputed to be a man of sense, only because he is not a man of talent.”
~ Sir Henry Taylor

Word of the Day

industrialist (in-dust-ree-ull-list) noun
One who owns, directs, or has a substantial financial interest in an industrial enterprise.

Random Fact

In 1915 Parris Island was officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

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Quote of the Day October 29, 2010

“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.”
~ William Hazlitt

Word of the Day

eldritch (EL-drich) adjective
Strange; unearthly; weird; eerie.

Random Fact

On October 29, 1929 the New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ’29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

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Quote of the Day October 11, 2010

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
~ James Joyce

Word of the Day

saccade (sak-kayd) noun
1: The movement of the eye when it makes a sudden change, as in reading.  2: The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.

Random Fact

On October 11, 1776 the American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.

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Quote of the Day August 26, 2010

“The difference between school and life? In School, you’re taught a lesson and given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~ Tom Bodett

Word of the Day

inure (in-YOOR) transitive verb
To make accustomed or used to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient; to harden; to habituate; as, “inured to drudgery and distress.
intransitive verb
To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

Random Fact

In 1862 American Civil War: James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson led their Confederate troops to a decisive victory against John Pope‘s Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.

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Quote of the Day August 25, 2010

“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.”
~ Author Unknown

Word of the Day

bedlam (BED-luhm) noun
A scene of wild uproar and confusion.

Random Fact

On August 25, 1814 Washington, D.C. was burned and White House was destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.

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