14 June 2017
ave
[ah-vey, ey-vee]
interjection
1. hail; welcome.
2. farewell; goodbye.
noun
3. the salutation “ave.”.
4. (initial capital letter) Ave Maria.
Origin of ave
Middle English
1200-1250 Middle English < Latin: imperative 2nd singular of avēre to be well, fare well
Ave.or ave
1. avenue.
ave atque vale
[ah-we aht-kwe wah-le; English ey-vee at-kwee vey-lee, ah-vey aht-kwey vah-ley]
interjection, Latin.
1. hail and farewell.
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For all her face betrayed, the organ might have been singing an ave Maria.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show
Robert W. Chambers
February 19, 2014
A soaring “ ave Maria” and a tender “Danny Boy” marked the passing of two more brothers.
Boston and New York’s Bravest Are Brothers Bonded by Tragedy
Michael Daly
April 14, 2014
June 24, 2014
ave Atque Vale I’m gonna hang out With these two smoking hotties And fly privately Around the world.
The Poetry of Charlie Sheen
Michael Solomon
February 28, 2011
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Today’s quote
The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
– Che Guevara
On this day
14 June 1158 – Munich founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the River Isar.
14 June 1789 – The Reverend Elijah Craig becomes the first person to distill whisky from maize. The new whisky is named bourbon, because that is the county in Kentucky that Reverend Craig lived in.
14 June 1928 – birth of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author. Executed 9 October 1967 on the order of Bolivian President Rene Barrientos.
14 June 1936 – death of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton – born 29 May 1874), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and owner of one of the world’s worst pompadours:
G.K. Chesterton
14 June 1937 – The USA passes the Marihuana Tax Act, which taxed the sale of cannabis.
14 June 1982 – Argentina surrenders to Great Britain after the six week Falkland’s War.
14 June 2007 – Former Ku Klux Klan member, 71 year old James Seale is found guilty of a number of charges related to the 1964 murder of two civil rights activists in Mississippi. He was sentenced to three life terms of imprisonment. His conviction was overturned the following year, before being reinstated. He died in prison in 2011.