10 December 2015
jen
[zhuhn, ruhn]
noun, (in Chinese philosophy)
1. a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole.
Origin of jen
Chinese< Chinese (Wade-Giles) jên 2, (pinyin) rén
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Examples from the Web for jen
Contemporary Examples
Between Plouffe and jen Psaki, Air Force One had no room for Robert Gibbs.
No Drama Obama’s Dramatic 2012 Reelection Campaign
Richard Wolffe
September 11, 2013
jen goes to Claremont McKenna, which, though not quite in Los Angeles, is still California.
The West Coast Gossip Girl
Isabel Kaplan
June 30, 2009
Last year, jen Yates asked people to send her pictures of “cake wrecks.”
World’s Ugliest Cakes
Rachel Kramer Bussel
August 31, 2009
Today’s quote
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
– Alfred Nobel
On this day
10 December 1896 – death of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist and armaments manufacturer, inventor of dynamite and the Nobel Prizes. Was known as the ‘Merchant of Death’. A newspaper stated that he ‘became rich by finding ways to kill people faster than ever before‘. As a result, he decided to leave a better legacy than that and used his estate to establish and fund the Nobel Prizes, which included the Nobel Peace Prize. Born 21 October 1833.
10 December – Human Rights Day.
10 December 1948 – Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
10 December 1959 – James Coburn (star of ‘The Great Escape‘, ‘The Magnificent Seven‘) takes 200 micrograms of LSD-25 for the first time as part of a controlled experiment conducted by Dr Janiger. Other famous people who participated in Janiger’s experiments include Cary Grant (‘North by Northwest‘, ‘An Affair to Remember‘) who took over 100 acid trips, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, and author Anais Nin (refer: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_history6.pdf and http://www.carygrant.net/autobiography/autobiography14.html)
10 December 1967 – Soul singer, Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays band are killed when the plane they are travelling on crashes into Lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin.
10 December 1981 – An epidemic comprising of two diseases, skin cancer and pneumonia, spreads throughout the United States since July, killing 75 people, 92% of whom are gay men. The disease is eventually identified as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
10 December 1983 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
10 December 1992 – Prime Minister Paul Keating delivers the historic ‘Redfern Speech’ at Redfern Park, New South Wales. It is regarded as one of the greatest Australian speeches and was the first time a Prime Minister had acknowledged the role that European settlement had in the murders and other travesties inflicted on the indigenous population. In 2007, Radio National listeners voted the speech as the third most unforgettable speech in the world, behind Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech (first) and Jesus’s ‘Sermon on the Mount (second). The speech can be heard here: Redfern Speech – audio or on YouTube. The text is available here: Redfern Speech – Text.
10 December 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts in solving the Middle East crisis in the 1970s.
10 December 2009 – President Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples‘.