18 March 2014

flocculent

[flok-yuh-luhnt]

adjective
1. like a clump or tuft of wool, e.g. ‘the flocculent clouds’
2. covered with a soft, woolly substance, e.g. ‘he appeared more flocculent than hirsute’.
3. consisting of or containing loose woolly masses.
4. flocky.
5. Chemistry . consisting of flocs and floccules.

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Today’s aphorism

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin’s Russia: it’s like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

– Tony Benn

On this day

18 March 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to six years imprisonment by an Indian court for civil disobedience against the British Empire, which included boycotting British made goods. He ended up serving two years.

18 March 1965 – Russian cosmonaut, Lt Col Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, when he exits his spacecraft for a short ‘walk’, which included a somersault.