12 March 2013

onomasticon

[on-uh-mas-ti-kon, -kuhn]

noun

1. a list or collection of proper names.
2. a list or collection of specialized terms, as those used in a particular field or subject area.
Origin:
1700–10; < Greek onomastikòn ( bíblion ) vocabulary arranged by subjects; see onomastic

Today’s aphorism

Writing starts with living.

– L.L. Barkat

On this day

12 March 1922 – birth of Jack Kerouac, American beat-generation writer, ‘On the road‘. Died 21 October 1969.

12 March 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi arrested for promoting boycotts and civil unrest. He had campaigned for passive resistance to the British Empire and encouraged followers to not buy anything made in Britain or Europe.

12 March 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi, 61 years old, leads a peaceful protest against the ‘salt tax’ which the British Empire had introduced. He and his followers marched more than 320 km to the salt mines in Jalalpur.

12 March 1945 – death of Anne Frank, author of the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’, from typhus. She was born on 12 June 1929.