Saturday, July 13, 2013

Spanish Word of the Day Saturday, July 13, 2013

Spanish Word of the Day
Saturday, July 13, 2013

alegrarse, verb
to be pleased, to be glad
It’s good to be able to express your pleasure at someone else’s good fortune or success, and alegrarse is just the word for such occasions. It’s related to alegrehappy, which you probably already know.
Pues, ¿te gusta el regalo? Me alegro.
So, you like the present, then? I’m glad.
¡Aprobé! - Me alegro tanto por ti.
I’ve passed! - I’m so pleased for you.
And if you’re really pleased about something, you add on muchísimo - very much.
Me alegro muchísimo de verte después de tanto tiempo.
I’m delighted to see you after such a long time.


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Friday, July 12, 2013

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Word of the Day for Friday, July 12, 2013

Word of the Day for Friday, July 12, 2013

ploce \PLOH-see\, noun:
the repetition of a word or phrase to gain special emphasis or to indicate an extension of meaning, as in Ex. 3:14: “I am that I am.”
When Taylor was educated in England and at Harvard, he was required to study the standard rhetorical handbooks of his time. There he found examples of such figures or tropes as synecdoche, metonymy, meiosis, amplification,ploce, polyptoton, etc., all designed to enhance the style of the would-be poet and preacher.
-- Edited by Everett Emerson, Major Writers of Early American Literature, 1976
Syntactic changes, repetition of key words (ploce), and special connotations imparted to certain words through manipulation of the sounds of Korean help the reader experience the manifold significance of the narrative situation.
-- Edited by Peter H. Lee, Modern Korean Literature, 1990
Ploce comes from the Greek word plokḗ meaning "plaiting" as in "braiding." This extension of the word in a rhetorical sense as been used since Hellenistic Greece.

On This Day: Friday July 12, 2013

On This Day:
Friday July 12, 2013

This is the 193rd day of the year, with 172 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: stars

There are more stars than any other object in the universe. Each is a spinning ball of hot, luminous gas. Most are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. As these gases are converted to heaver elements, energy is produced. A star has a life cycle of billions of years; its mass dictates how it will develop and die.

Holidays

Northern Ireland: Orangeman's Day.
Feast day of St. John the Iberian, St. Jason, Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus, St. John Gualbert, St. John Jones, St. Veronica, and St. Felix.
Kiribati: Independence Day.
Sao Tome and Principe: Independence Day.

Events

1690 - Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne inIreland
1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
1912 - The first foreign-made film premiered in America, "Queen Elizabeth", starring Sarah Bernhardt and Lon Tellegen.
1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch toy went on sale.
1970 - "Evening at Pops" premiered on PBS.
1976 - The game show "Family Feud" had its TV premiere.
1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro ofNew York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket. 
1990 - Russian republic president Boris Yeltsin shocked the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership.
1990 - "Northern Exposure" premiered on television.
1997 - A computer employee at Network Solutions, Inc. in HerndonVirginia, ignored malfunction warnings and caused seven of the world's nine root servers to corrupt all the data sent to them, causing the Internet to break down.
2003 - The USS Ronald Reagan, the ninth Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was commissioned in Newport News,Virginia.
2005 - Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.

Births

100 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar, Roman dictator (traditionally accepted date).
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery designer and manufacturer.
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American author, philosopher, naturalist.
1854 - George Eastman, founded Eastman Kodak Company.
1861 - George Washington Carver, American botanist, scientist.
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist, songwriter with Richard Rodgers.
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (1971) and politician.
1908 - Milton Berle (Berlinger), American comedian.
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist.
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian, actor.
1943 - Christine McVie, British singer, musician, and songwriter.
1948 - Richard Simmons (born born Milton Teagle Simmons), American fitness trainer.
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater.

Deaths

1804 - Alexander HamiltonFounding Father, American statesmanfinancier, and political theorist.
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer, aviator, and automobile manufacturer.
1996 - John Chancellor, American television reporter.
2005 - John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby, chief executive of British Airways since its privatization.

Word of the Day for Thursday, July 11, 2013

Word of the Day for Thursday, July 11, 2013

accrete \uh-KREET\, verb:
1. to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to).
2. to add, as by growth.
adjective:
1. Botany. grown together.
Most things accrete that don't gradually crumble, rust or evaporate.
-- Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata, 2012
...a long history, in the course of which it seems to grow, to accrete difficulties, and to merge and overlap with other problems, so that an attempt to solve the single problem appears hopeless without an assault…
-- Renata Adler, Pitch Dark, 1983
Entering English in the late 1700s, accrete is a backformation of the noun accretion from the Latin word accrēscere meaning "to grow."

On This Day: Thursday July 11, 2013

On This Day:
Thursday July 11, 2013

This is the 192nd day of the year, with 173 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth made his major league debut on July 11, 1914 for the Boston Red Sox and pitched a 4-3 victory against the Cleveland Naps. He emerged as, some say, the greatest hitter ever to have played the game. However, he was a hopeless spendthrift. He lucked out when he met an agent who obtained huge contracts for him and managed his finances so that he could live comfortably during retirement. Ruth maintained his popularity with the American public, and after his death from throat cancer at least 75,000 people viewed his body in Yankee Stadium and some 75,000 attended his funeral service.

Holidays

Mongolia: National Day / Naadam National Holiday.
Feast day of St. Benedict, St. John of Bergamo, St. Drostan, St. Olga, and St. Hidulf.

Events

1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary and his long-time antagonist, Alexander Hamilton, in a pistol duel in New Jersey.
1945 - The U.S. first used napalm on Japanese forces holed up on Luzon in the Philippines.
1955 - The Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
1966 - "The Newlywed Game" premiered on TV.
1975 - Excavations at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an, uncovered an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors dating to about 206 BC.
1977 - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth after being in space since 1973, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1985 - Explosions sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland HarborNew Zealand.
1987 - It was formally announced that the world population had reached 5 billion, double the level of 1950.
1995 - President Bill Clinton established full diplomatic relations with Vietnam, about two decades after the fall of Saigon.
2006 - Microsoft discontinues official support for Windows 98 and Windows Me.

Births

1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1767 - John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States of America (1825-1829).
1899 - E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, American author, essayist.
1915 - Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan), Russian-born American actor.
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer.
1953 - Leon Spinks, American boxer.
1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician.

Deaths

1937 - George Gershwin, American composer.
1989 - Laurence Olivier, English actor and director.

boniface

Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 10, 2013

boniface \BON-uh-feys, -fis\, noun:
1. any landlord or innkeeper.
2. Saint (Wynfrith), a.d. 680?–755?, English monk who became a missionary in Germany.
3. a jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem.
4. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “doer of good.”
The big man had come on shift at the inn early, for a fellow boniface had not yet recovered from the effects of a dispute with a patron.
-- Poul Anderson, "The Gate of Flying Knives," Thieves' World, 2007
And, in the midst of it, came the jolly Boniface, bearing, as carefully as a mother does her first-born, three long bottles, cobwebbed and dirty.
-- John Reed Scott, The Colonel of the Red Huzzars, 1912
Boniface literally translates to "doer of good" in Latin. The generalized meaning of innkeeper came from the 1707 play The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar in which a jovial innkeeper is named Boniface.

On This Day: Wednesday July 10, 2013

On This Day:
Wednesday July 10, 2013

This is the 191st day of the year, with 174 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: tennis

Starting in the 1930s, many amateur tennis champions became professionals, leading to discussion of having "open" competition between amateurs and pros. Finally, in 1968, twelve open tournaments were approved and the era of open professionalism in tennis began. We see this now in the U.S. Open, French Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Felicity, The Seven Brothers, St. Amelberga, and Saints Rufina and Secunda.
Bahamas: Independence Day.

Events

1460 - In England's Wars of the Roses, the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and captured Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton.
1778 - In support of the American RevolutionLouis XVI declared war on England.
1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency, following the death of President Zachary Taylor
1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state. 
1900 - The Paris underground railway, the Metro, was opened.
1900 - The logo of the Victor Recording Company (later, RCA Victor), with the dog Nipper looking into the horn of a gramophone machine, was registered as a trademark.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification. 
1925 - The official news agency of the Soviet UnionTASS, was established. 
1925 - The trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes opened (for teaching evolution), with Clarence Darrow appearing for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.
1940 - During World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked southern England by air. 
1943 - The Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, in World War II.
1951 - Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape CanaveralFlorida, allowing Europe and the United States to view each other's programs.
1973 - The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule. 
1985 - Bowing to consumer pressure, the Coca-Cola Company said it would resume selling old-formula Coke.
2002 - U.S. Navy officials confirmed that marine archaeologist Robert D. Ballard had likely found PT 109, the patrol torpedo boat commanded by John F. Kennedy, in the Solomon Islands; the vessel was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in MultanPakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

Births

1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer.
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer.
1839 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer.
1856 - Nikoli Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and researcher.
1871 - Marcel Proust, French author.
1915 - Saul Bellow, American novelist.
1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player.
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American performer, songwriter.
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver.

Deaths

1099 - El Cid, Spanish national hero.
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specialized in popular music.
1989 - Mel Blanc, a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros.
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.