sooth \sooth\, noun:
1. truth, reality, or fact.
adjective:
1. true or real.
Sooth derives from the Old English soð meaning "truth, justice; reality." It shares this root with the word soothe, as reflected in soothe's earliest sense, "to verify."
WSD
- "Write Shit Down". A popular method of organization. Works equally well in one's personal or professional life.
Trivia
What
color, symbolically linked to Lent, are the drapes and altar cloths
used in many churches during that somber 40-day observance?
- Purple, which is associated both with mourning and with royalty. During Lent, as the color of mourning, purple represents repentance and the pain and suffering of the crucifixion; as the color of royalty, it celebrates Christ’s resurrection and sovereignty.
Holiday
- Ash Wedesday: in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10.
History
- Grand Canyon: the enormous gorge was established as a national park (1919); Grand Teton National Park was established on the same date in 1926
- World Trade Center: bomb in basement killed 6, injured more than 1,000 and caused serious structural damage (1993)
Birthdays
- Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor
- Victor Hugo 1802 - Author
- Honore Daumier 1808
- Levi Strauss 1829
- William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
- John Harvey Kellogg 1852
- Herbert Henry Dow 1866
- William Frawley 1887
- Jean Vercors 1902
- Madeleine Carroll 1906
- Jackie Gleason 1916
- Mason Adams 1919
- Tony Randall 1920
- Betty Hutton 1921
- Margaret Leighton 1922
- Fats Domino 1928 - Musician
- Bill Duke 1943
- Paul Cotton (Poco) 1943
- Mitch Ryder 1945 - Singer
- Bob "The Bear" Hite 1945 - Musician (Canned Heat)
- Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) 1947 - Singer
- Priscilla Lopez 1948
- Jonathan Cain 1950 - Musician (Babys, Journey)
- Michael Bolton 1953 - Singer
- Greg Germann 1958 - Actor ("Ally McBeal")
- John Jon 1961 - Musician (Bronski Beat)
- Jennifer Grant 1966
- Suzi Simpson 1968 - playmate from Athens, Greece (Jan, 1992)
- Erykah Badu 1971 - Singer
- Rico Wade (Society of Soul) 1972
- Marshall Faulk 1972 - Football player
Oliver Wakeman 1972 - Keyboardist, son of Rick (YES) - Mark DeRosa 1975 - Baseball player
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