19 June 2013

hot-spur

[hot-spur]

noun

– an impetuous or reckless person; a hothead.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English; after Sir Henry Percy, to whom it was applied as a nickname

Related forms
hot·spurred, adjective

Today’s aphorism

These three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

– Buddha

On this day

19 June 1623 – birth of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour.

19 June 1945 – birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.

19 June 1978 – The original Grumpy Cat, Garfield, first appears in newspaper comic strips in the USA.