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Word of the Day for Friday, September 13, 2013

anfractuous \an-FRAK-choo-uhs\, adjective:

characterized by windings and turnings; sinuous; circuitous: an anfractuous path.

Down high anfractuous rocks flowed the odor of rotten eggs from nests deserted by the hawks.
-- Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof, 1982

At the foot of this anfractuous path which leads to the summit of Sam's Island lies the incredible Black Bay.
-- Ishmael Reed, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, 1967

Anfractuous is a back formation of the word anfractuosity meaning "a winding bend."

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Friday September 13, 2013

This is the 256th day of the year, with 109 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: meat

In the western world, "meat" usually refers to the flesh of cattle, pigs, sheep, pork, and lamb. Beef, lamb, and mutton are generally classified as red meats and veal and pork are white meats. The category of a cut of meat determines its culinary treatment. Some cuts are to be rapidly cooked (grilling, broiling, frying, roasting) and these generally come from the back part of the animal. Another category includes braising cuts, especially from around the legs. A third category consists of what is left (neck, knuckle, shin, breast, tail), cuts that need to be boiled or stewed for a long time.

Holidays

Rhodesia: Pioneer Day.
Belgium: Bruegel Feesteen, honoring the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Nicaragua: Battle of San Jacinto.

Events

122 - Building of Hadrian's Wall began.
1759 - The British achieved a dramatic victory when they scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec, defeating French forces on the Plains of Abraham in the last of the French and Indian Wars (known as the Seven Years' War).
1788 - Constitutional Convention authorized the first national election for the first Wednesday in February 1789, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1847 - The Battle of Chapultepec, the last action of the war between the United States and Mexico, was waged. U.S. General Winfield Scott captured a fort overlooking Mexico City and then took the town by storm the next day.
1862 - Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discovered General Robert E. Lee's attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1943 - Otto Skorzeny, Adolf Hitler's commando leader, kidnapped Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, rescuing him from the Italian resistance forces that held him in a villa in the Abruzzi Mountains.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1951 - In Korea, U.S. Army troops began their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long fight produced 3700 casualties.
1971 - The four-day revolt at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, came to end when 1,500 state police and National Guardsmen stormed the complex.
1976 - "The Muppet Show" premiered.
1979 - TV show "Benson" premiered.
1989 - Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1993 - Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The historic agreement granted Palestine limited self-government in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho on the occupied West Bank.
2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States.

Births

1847 - Milton Hershey, American businessman, candy company founder.
1851 - Walter Reed, U.S. Army doctor, who discovered the cause of yellow fever.
1860 - John J. ("Blackjack") Pershing, General of the Armies of the United States; led the campaign against Pancho Villa in Mexico and commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I.
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, American short-story writer.
1903 - Claudette Colbert, French-born American film actress.
1911 - Roald Dahl, British children's book author.
1925 - Mel Torme, American jazz singer.
1971 - Stella Nina McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney.

Deaths

1598 - Philip II, King of Spain.
1803 - Commodore John Barry, called the "Father of the United States Navy."
1996 - Tupac Shakur, American rap musician and actor.
1998 - George C. Wallace, former Alabama governor who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s.

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