11 October 2015

Utopia

[yoo-toh-pee-uh]

noun

1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
2. (usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.
3. (usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or social perfection.

Origin of Utopia

Greek< New Latin (1516) < Greek ou not + tóp (os) a place + -ia -y3

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Until that Utopia arrives, it might be heartening to realize that most students have easy, albeit illegal, access to these drugs.
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On Broadway, she won a Tony award in 2000 for The Real Thing and another in 2007 for The Coast of Utopia.
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Jace Lacob
September 22, 2011

Paradise on earth is elusive; there is a reason that the Latin word “ Utopia ” translates as “no place.”
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Today’s quote

What is important is that one utilizes one’s intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one’s convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

– Shirin Ebadi

On this day

11 October – International Day of the Girl.

11 October 1844 – birth of Henry John Heinz, founder of Heinz Company, responsible for canned baked beans. Died 14 May 1919.

11 October 1935 – death of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Born 14 November 1868.

11 October 1930 – Australian Rules football club, Collingwood, win the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.

11 October 1939 – German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein explains to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of building an atomic bomb.

11 October 1967 – premier of the childrens’ TV series, ‘Johnny Sokko and his flying robot‘.