Today’s WOTD – 19 November 2012

nomophobia

[noh-moh-foh-bee-uh]

noun

– fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

Origin: abbreviation of ‘no–mobile-phone phobia‘.

Example:

‘People with nomophobia rarely turn off their phones and become anxious if they lose their phone, battery dies or there is no reception’.

Today’s aphorism

‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal’.

– Abraham Lincoln

On this day

19 November 1863 – President Lincoln delivers the ‘Gettysburg Address’ during the American Civil War, while dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech commenced with the now-famous words, ‘Four score and seven years ago …’, which was referring to the Declaration of Independence in 1777. The speech addressed equality, freedom and democracy being representative of all people.

19 November 2007 – share markets across the globe crashed, as the world entered the Global Financial Crisis.