Tuesday, July 21, 2009

sedulous \SEJ-uh-luhs\, adjective:

1. Diligent in application or pursuit; steadily industrious.
2. Characterized by or accomplished with care and perseverance.

Sedulous is from Latin sedulus, "busy, diligent," from se-, "apart, without" + dolus, "guile, trickery."

Writer's crap

• Derived from 'writer's cramp', writer's crap reffers to a stage when one is only capeable of writing utter crap.

'That story was horrible, i think she's got a bad case of Writer's crap'
Trivia

Who was “Brown” in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, which led to the desegregation of U.S. public schools?

• He was Oliver Brown, whose daughter, Linda, a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, had been denied admission to a school near their home because she was black, making it necessary for her to walk a mile through a railroad switchyard to get to a black school.

Today in History:

• Temple of Artemis: marble shrine that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was burned down by a fame-seeking young man, Herostratus (356 BCE)
• Bull Run: Confederate forces won the first major battle of the Civil War; Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
• 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
• Aswan Dam: was completed, preventing Nile floods and providing electricity and water for Egypt and Sudan (1970)
• WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)

Today's Birthdays:

• Jean Picard (1620-1682): astronomer, the first to measure a degree of the Earth's latitude
• Hart Crane (1899-1932): novelist, one of the Lost Generation; plus, author John Gardner (1933-1982)
• Isaac Stern (1920-2001): violin virtuoso
• Edward Herrmann (66): actor famous for his portrayal of FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and more recently as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls; also, actors Art Hindle (61), Robin Williams (57), Jon Lovitz (52), Lance Guest (49), Josh Harnett (31) and Jamie Waylett (20)
• Garry Trudeau (61): creator of Doonesbury and 1st comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
• Yusuf Islam (61): singer, songwriter, aka Cat Stevens; vocalists Emerson Hart (40), Damian Marley (31) and Blake Lewis (28) share this birth date