16 March 2014

parlance

[pahr-luhns]

noun

1. a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
2. speech, especially a formal discussion or debate.
3. talk; parley.

Origin:
1570–80; < Anglo-French; see parle, -ance

Anagram

clean rap
plan race
per canal

Today’s aphorism

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn’t hurt each other.

– Rachel Corrie

On this day

16 March 1988 – Iraqi forces under the direction of Saddam Hussein, kill thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq by unleashing a cocktail of gases, including mustard gas, sarin and cyanide.

16 March 1998 – Rwanda commences mass trials relating to the 1994 genocide of approximately 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutus by Interahamwe militia which had been backed by the Rwandan government.

16 March 2003 – 23 year old, American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, is killed when run over by an Israeli bulldozer which she had tried to stop from demolishing a Palestinian house in Gaza.