Friday, August 02, 2013

On This Day

On This Day:
Friday August 2, 2013

This is the 214th day of the year, with 151 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: ceramics

Ceramic products are almost as old as the human race. Ceramics are created from common, naturally occurring raw materials such as clay minerals and quartz sand and are usually baked hard at high temperatures. These materials are made into pottery, clay brick and tile, and many other items such as insulators. Ceramics are heat-resistant and do not conduct electricity. Scientists have devised methods of making ceramic materials as strong as steel.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Theodota and her Three Sons, St. Eusebius of Vercelli, St. Plegmund, St. Stephen I, pope, St. Syagrius of Autun, and St. Sidwell or Sativola.
Costa Rica: Feast of Our Lady of the Angels.
Macedonia: National Day.

Events

1776 - Members of the Continental Congress began signing the Declaration of Independence
1824 - Fifth Avenue was opened in New York City.
1858 - The rule of the East India Company was transferred to the British government.
1887 - Barbed wire was patented by Rowell Hodge.
1921 - A jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious "Black Sox" Scandal.
1934 - With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler became absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Führer.
1939 - Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program.
1943 - A Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being cut in half by a Japanese destroyer off theSolomon Islands.
1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate; the Iraqis were later driven out in Operation Desert Storm.

Births

1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect and engineer who designed the plan for city of Washington, D.C.
1820 - John Tyndall, Irish-born English physicist.
1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor who invented the telephone at about the same time as did Alexander Graham Bell.
1892 - Jack Leonard Warner, American movie mogul.
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American Emmy Award-winning actor.
1924 - James Baldwin, American essayist, novelist, and playwright.

Deaths

1799 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French pioneer developer, along with his brother, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, of the hot-air balloon.
1997 - William S. Burroughs, American Beat movement writer.

Word of the Day for Friday, August 2, 2013

lam \lam\, verb:
1. to beat; thrash.
2. to beat; strike; thrash (usually followed by out or into).
Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling.
-- Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945
That was just before he lammed out—the time he knocked off that crumb from uptown. I remember once when Harry cut up a guy so bad, the guy couldn't walk.
-- Ed McBain, Learning to Kill, 2006
Lam likely finds its roots in the Old Norse lemja meaning "to lame." It entered English in the late 16th century.


Spanish Word of the Day
Friday, August 2, 2013

regularadverb
so-so; not brilliantly
If you ask someone how they are in Spanish they may reply with the single word regular:
¿Cómo te encuentras? - Regular.
How are you? - So-so.
Regular means ‘ok’ but not exceptional.
¿Qué te pareció la película? - Regular.
What did you think of the film? - So-so OR Nothing special.
Me fue regular en el examen.
My exam didn’t go brilliantly.


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Thursday, August 01, 2013

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Word of the Day

Spanish Word of the Day
Monday, July 29, 2013

raroadjective
strange; rare
Raro is another of those Spanish words which may be a bit misleading. Though it can also mean rare, it is very commonly used to meanstrange.
Es un tipo algo raro.
He’s a rather strange guy.
Tiene unas costumbres muy raras.
She has some very strange habits.
If something strikes you as strange, you use the exclamation ¡Que raro!:
No está aquí. - ¡Que raro!
It isn’t here. - How strange!
To emphasize that something that’s happened is really strange, you can use:
¡Que cosa más rara!
How very strange!


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Word of the Day for Monday, July 29, 2013

coaptation \koh-ap-TEY-shuhn\, noun:
a joining or adjustment of parts to one another: the coaptation of a broken bone.
...though nothing be declared thereby of the structure and coaptation of the spring, wheels, balance, etc. and the manner how they act on one another so as to make the needle point out the true time of day.
-- Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. 41936-1938
Harding approved entirely, and it was decided that the two wounds should be dressed without attempting to close them by immediate coaptation.
-- Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, 1874
Coaptation stems from the Latin word coaptātiō which meant "a precise joining together."



Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 30, 2013

esse \ES-se; Eng. ES-ee\, noun:
being; existence.
The esse of the life of every man, which he has from his father, is called the soul, and the existence of life thence derived is called the body.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg, The Earths in Our Solar System, 1758
According to Berkeley, the esse of things is percipi. They exist as they are perceived.
-- Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, 1818
Esse comes from the Latin word of the same spelling meaning "to be." It has been in English since the 1600s.


Spanish Word of the Day
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

redundancianoun
tautology
Here’s a ‘false friend’ whose meaning has very little connection with its English cousin ‘redundancy’.
You can use redundancia when commenting on the use of language, especially when repeating a word you’ve already used:
Las modelos son hoy el modelo de estas jóvenes, valga la redundancia, ...
Nowadays models are the model, pardon the repetition, for these young women...
If an expression says the same thing twice, it’s also una redundancia - a tautology.
Se ha dicho que la expresión persona human es una redundancia.
It’s been said that the phrase ‘persona humana’ is a tautology.
If something is unnecessary, it can also be described as una redundancia, something superfluous:
Este programa televisivo es una redundancia.
This TV programme is superfluous.


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Spanish Word of the Day
Thursday, August 1, 2013

referirsereflexive verb
to refer; to mean
You’ll need to remember that referirse to refer is reflexive.
Me refiero a lo de anoche.
I’m referring to what happened last night.
Se refirió a la necesidad de poner el plan en marcha.
He referred to OR spoke of the need to put the plan into action.
It often translates as to mean, especially in direct and indirect questions:
¿Te refieres a mí?
Do you mean me?
No sé a qué te refieres.
I don’t know what you mean.


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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 31, 2013

residuum \ri-ZIJ-oo-uhm\, noun:
1. the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
2. Also, residue. Chemistry. a quantity or body of matter remaining after evaporation, combustion, distillation, etc.
3. any residual product.
4. Law. the residue of an estate.
Perhaps not: the residuum is, you see, Byres, what is left.
-- Frederick Marryat, The Poacher, 1841
Our friend's corporeal envelope had been so well lined with this residuum, as well as various earlier memories of his parents, that their own special Swann had become to my family a complete and living creature...
-- Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Remembrance of Things Past1922–1931
Residuum shares a root with the word residue. It comes directly from the Latin residuum meaning "a remainder."


Word of the Day for Thursday, August 1, 2013

bemused \bih-MYOOZD\, adjective:
1. bewildered or confused.
2. lost in thought; preoccupied.
He was not only bemused by the voice he had heard. He was bemused by to the very grandeur of the position which he aspired.
-- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, 1946
She said nothing else, she just watched his quiet bemused and intent face as he plumbed his empty pockets one by one.
-- William Faulkner, Pylon, 1935
Bemused comes from the Old French muser meaning "to ponder," "dream" or "waste time." It entered English in the late 1800s, though the verb form bemuse has existed in English since the early-to-mid 1700s.