14 March 2016
kismet
[kiz-mit, -met, kis-]
noun
1. fate; destiny.
Also, kismat [kiz-muh t, kis-]
Origin of kismet
Turkish, Arabic, Persian
1840-1850; < Turkish < Persian qismat < Arabic qismah division, portion, lot, fate, akin to qasama to divide
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Examples from the Web for kismet
Contemporary Examples
Being cast in a role like Llewyn was kismet for Isaac, providing an outlet for all of his passions.
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Star Oscar Isaac Is About to Be a Very Big Deal
Kevin Fallon
December 4, 2013
Historical Examples
Shall we build ships and keep a large army and erect fortresses, or simply say ‘ kismet ‘ when Germany comes?
Ten Years Near the German Frontier
Maurice Francis Egan
One told me the other day that he heard the steps of kismet.
The Secrets of a Kuttite
Edward O. Mousley
Anagram
kits me
met ski
Today’s quote
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
– Albert Einstein
On this day
14 March – Pi Day – the date being 3/14 and of course, pi being 3.14.
14 March 1883. – death of Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist and revolutionary socialist. One of the most influential economists in history. Marx’s work included Das Kapital, as well as The Communist Manifesto which he co-authored with German social scientist, Friedrich Engels. He fathered modern communism and socialism with the aim of putting the means of production in the hands of the workers to end exploitation at the hands of the bourgeoisie. He believed in the redistribution of wealth for the benefit of all, rather than accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. The wealth, he believed, was created by the workers and should therefore be shared amongst the workers. He stated that communism would not succeed in the individual nation unless other nations supported it, hence the adoption of L’internationale as the socialist anthem following the ‘First International’ conference held by Marx and Engels in 1864. His international theory perhaps makes him the world’s first globalisationist. He believed socialism would not succeed in poverty, but required the building of wealth to succeed and distribution of wealth to be sustainable. Born 5 May 1818.
14 March 1879 – birth of Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity and of course his mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc2 (energy = mass x speed of light squared). Died 18 April 1955.
14 March 1939 – the independent republic of Czechoslovakia is dissolved, enabling occupation by Nazi forces following the 1938 Munich Act. Czechoslovakia had been created in 1918.
14 March 1983 – Reggae legend, Peter Tosh, plays the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia, as part of the annual Moomba festival.