15 December 2012

convivial

[kuh n-viv-ee-uh l]

adjective

1. friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
2. fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial.
3. of or befitting a feast; festive.

Today’s aphorism

‘Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise’.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On this day

15 December 1970 – Russia’s Venera 7 spacecraft lands on Venus, the first man-made object to land on the planet. It was launched on 15 August 1970.