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Provided by the compucert acclaim \uh-KLEYM\, verb:
- to welcome with loud approval; praise highly
- a shout or show of approval
c 1320 from Latin acclamare "to shout" from medieval Latin acclamare "to claim."
- What happens to your first career after you appear on American Idol
"I recorded that first album, and it did pretty good. But sales are dropping, I can't get any press, and I guess I feel like I'm American Idling"
Trivia
What is the highest price ever paid by the United States for a territorial acquisition?
- $25 million—for the Virgin Islands, which were purchased from Denmark in 1917 at the outset of World War I, when U.S. control of the Panama Canal and the Caribbean Basin was considered rucial.
Today in History:
- "The Raven": Edgar Allen Poe's poetic lament for the lost Lenore was first published, in The New York Evening Mirror (1845)
- Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were named the first inductees; the hall of fame and museum opened 3 years later (1936)
- Axis of Evil: Iran, Iraq and North Korea were named "regimes that sponsor terror" in President George W. Bush's State of the Union address (2002)
Today's Birthdays:
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): author of The Cherry Orchard; also, writers Romain Rolland (1866-1944), Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) and Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
- Tom Selleck (64): screen actor, Magnum, P.I., Friends; also, actors John Forsythe (91), Noel Harrison (75), Katharine Ross (69), Marc Singer (61), Ann Jillian (59), Nicholas Turturro (47), Edward Burns (41) and Heather Graham (39)
- Greg Louganis (49): champion diver; won the gold even after severely injuring his head in a previous dive in the '88 Olympics
Quote:
- "Start every day with a smile, and get it over with." — W.C. Fields
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