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Provided by the compucert panacea \pan-uh-SEE-uh\, noun:
- A remedy for all diseases, problems, or evils; a universal medicine; a cure-all.
Panacea derives from Greek panakeia, from panakes, "all-healing," from pan-, "all" + akos, "cure."
2KX- An abbreviation of the year 2010 from the Roman numerical system (K meaning 1000 and X meaning 10).
Trivia
Approximately how many bubbles are there in the average bottle of bubbly, according to champagne maker Moët & Chandon?
- 250 million.
- gladiators: last contest of fighters engaged in public mortal combat in Rome took place (404)
- The Times of London: first edition was published under this title; it was previously known as The Daily Universal Register (1788)
- St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line: world's first scheduled airline had its maiden flight, connecting St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida (1914)
- Paul Revere (1735-1818): US Revolutionary War figure who took a midnight ride to warn colonists that the British were coming; the seamstress purportedly responsible for sewing up America's first flag, Betsy Ross (1752-1836), shared this birth date
- Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946): photographer and art exhibitor, pioneer of modern photography
- J. D. Salinger (91): reclusive novelist, The Catcher in the Rye; also, writers James George Frazer(1854-1941), E. M. Forster (1879-1970) and Catherine Bowen (1897-1973)
- Flat Stanley (46): globetrotting fictional character
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