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Provided by the compucert redress \rih-DRES\, transitive verb:
- To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
Redress comes from French, redresser, to straighten, from re-, re- + dresser, to arrange.
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Trivia
What baseball slugger once had a fly ball smack him on the head and bounce over the outfield wall for a home run?
- Admitted steroid-user Jose Canseco, in 1993, when he was with the Texas Rangers. The ball was hit by Carlos Martinez of the Cleveland Indians. The Indians won the game, 7–6.
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- The Beatles: gave their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park (now Monster Park) (1966)
- Hurricane Katrina: the costliest natural disaster in US history made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating cities, most notably New Orleans (2005)
- John Locke (1632-1704): English empiricist philosopher who influenced the American and French revolutions
- Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982): Oscar-, Emmy- and Tony-award winning actress; actors Elliot Gould (70) and G.W. Bailey (63) also have birthdays today
- Richard Attenborough (85): director of Gandhi and Cry Freedom; directors William Friedkin and Joel Schumacher (both 69) were also born on this date
- Michael Jackson (50): androgynous pop superstar; other musicians who share his birth date include Charlie Parker (1920-1955) and Dinah Washington (1924-1963)
- John McCain (72): US senator from Arizona, Vietnam War POW / hero, and the presumptive Republican candidate for president in 2008
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