9 November 2018

stodge

[stoj]

verb (used with object), stodged, stodging.

1. to stuff full, especially with food or drink; gorge.
verb (used without object), stodged, stodging.
2. to trudge:
to stodge along through the mire.
noun
3. food that is particularly filling.

Origin of stodge

1665-1675; origin uncertain; in some senses perhaps blend of stoff (earlier form of stuff ) and gorge1

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Historical Examples

He grabs the Leader and leaves me to stodge myself with his Times.
Man And Superman
George Bernard Shaw

No harm done; but to let him go on here in the stodge is a bit of short-sightedness I can’t understand.
The Pillars of the House, Vol. II (of 2)
Charlotte M. Yonge

It was for the good of Felix, and everyone else, that they should not all hang about at home in the stodge and mire.
The Pillars of the House, Vol. II (of 2)
Charlotte M. Yonge

On this day

9-10 November 1938 – Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) – Nazi paramilitary forces (the Brownshirts) and non-Jewish German citizens attack Jews, smash windows of synagogues, shops and houses. At least 91 Jews were killed in the attack and more than 30,000 incarcerated in concentration camps. Over 1,000 synagogues and 7,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged. The Nazis undertook the attack following the assassination of German diplomat Ernst Vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan in Paris, a German-born Polish Jew. However, it is likely that the attack would have happened anyway, as Kristallnacht is seen as the beginning of Hitler’s Final Solution which was to eliminate Jews from Europe. The Final Solution culminated in the Holocaust, in which more than 6 million Jews were executed, along with many other ‘undesirables’, such as Gypsys, homosexuals and dissidents. At its height, the Nazis had over 40,000 concentration camps in which millions of Jews and others were executed, sometimes by firing squad, but often by gas chamber. The Nazis also conducted medical experiments on the prisoners, in an effort to build a genetically modified ‘master race’. The subjects who survived the experiments were usually executed and dissected.

9 November 1967 – First edition of Rolling Stone magazine is published, and features John Lennon.

9 November 1989 – fall of the Berlin Wall.Construction of the wall commenced in 1961 and was completed in 1962, to separate the Communist controlled East Berlin from the capitalist West Berlin. The Communist government claimed that it was to protect East Germany from Fascist forces in West Germany, although it was mainly to prevent the mass defections from the Eastern bloc. Between the end of World War II and the construction of the Wall, more than 3.5 million people defected to the West. The Wall was more than 140km long, with numerous guard towers and check-points. It symbolised the ‘Iron Curtain’, which was used to describe the attempts of Europe’s Eastern bloc, including the Soviet Union, to severely restrict contact with the West.

8 November 2018

Apeirogon

noun

– a polygon with infinite sides.

Origin

(from the Greek word ἄπειρος apeiros, “infinite, boundless” and γωνία gonia, “angle”)

Example

A regular apeirogon has equal edge lengths, just like any regular polygon, {p}. Its Schläfli symbol is {∞}, and its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is CDel node 1.pngCDel infin.pngCDel node.png. It is the first in the dimensional family of regular hypercubic honeycombs. An isogonal apeirogon has a single type of vertex and alternates two types of edges. A quasiregular apeirogon is an isogonal apeirogon with equal edge lengths. An isotoxal apeirogon, being the dual of an isogonal one, has one type of edge, and two types of vertices, and is therefore geometrically identical to the regular apeirogon. It can be shown seen by drawing vertices in alternate colors. All of these will have half the symmetry (double the fundamental domain sizes) of the regular apeirogon. Apeirogons in the hyperbolic plane, most notably the regular apeirogon, {∞}, can have a curvature just like finite polygons of the Euclidean plane, with the vertices circumscribed by horocycles or hypercycles rather than circles. Regular apeirogons that are scaled to converge at infinity have the symbol {∞} and exist on horocycles, while more generally they can exist on hypercycles.

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On this day

8 November 1836 – birth of Milton Bradley, U.S. board-game maker, credited with launching the board-game industry. Died 30 May 1911.

8 November 1847 – birth of Bram Stoker, Irish novellist, author of ‘Dracula’. Died 20 April 1912.

8 November 1960 – 43 year old, John F. Kennedy wins the presidential election and becomes the youngest President of the United States of America.

8 November 1973 – In Brisbane, Australia, a home-made bomb is placed on a teacher’s desk. It detonates, killing one student, injuring 8 others, while the teacher loses both hands.

7 November 2018

verdant

[vur-dnt]

adjective

1. green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass:
a verdant oasis.
2. of the color green:
a verdant lawn.
3. inexperienced; unsophisticated:
verdant college freshmen.

Origin of verdant

1575-1585 First recorded in 1575-85; verd(ure) + -ant

Related forms

verdancy, noun
verdantly, adverb
unverdant, adjective
unverdantly, adverb

Synonyms

1. lush, grassy.

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Contemporary Examples

A jacket resembled a verdant forest with its beautiful chaos of green feathers.
Chanel, Armani, and Givenchy Present Their Haute-Couture Collections in Paris
Robin Givhan
July 4, 2012

It was a typical suburban dwelling with a verdant lawn and lots of flowering shrubs.
My Time With Betty Ford
Sandra McElwaine
July 10, 2011

What better way to celebrate spring than with a verdant bowl of budding goodness?
What to Eat: Easter
Cookstr.com
March 30, 2010

Historical Examples

At length they rose from the verdant green, and chased each other in mock pursuit.
Imogen
William Godwin

Suddenly the whole face of it was adorned with a verdant, undulating robe.
Imogen
William Godwin

On this day

7 November 1879 – birth of Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein). Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet politician, founder and first leader of the Red Army. Major figure in the Bolshevik victory during the Russian Civil War. After the Russian Revolution Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. He was opposed to Joseph Stalin. He was expelled from the Communist Party in November 1927 and deported from the Soviet Union in 1929. Trotsky relocated to Mexico where he continued his opposition to Stalin. Trotsky was assassinated by ice-pick wielding Rámon Mercader in Mexico on the orders of Stalin. Trotskyism is a form of Marxism which is based on Trotsky’s ideas and opposed to Stalinism. Died 21 August 1940.

7 – 8 November 1917 – October Revolution. Part of the Russian Revolution which commenced with the February Revolution (8-12 March 1917) and which overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and replaced it with the Soviet government. (This date is from the New Style Gregorian calendar and corresponds with 25 October 1917 under the Old Style Julian calendar).

7 November 1956 – Suez Canal Crisis. Egyptian President Nasser announces that he will nationalise the Suez Canal Company and in the interim, freezes their assets. In response, France, Britain and Israel attack Egypt, including the bombing Cairo. They had attacked in order to gain control of the Suez Canal and to remove Nasser from power. The United Nations issued a resolution requiring France, Britain and Israel to withdraw. The United States and the Soviet Union backed the U.N. resolution and the three antagonists were forced to withdraw.

7 November 2000 – George W. Bush wins the most controversial U.S. presidential election in history. Because of the closeness of the election results in Florida, a number of actions were taken in the U.S. Supreme Court. Before recounting could close, the Supreme Court declared George W. Bush the victor, with a majority of between 500 and 2,000 votes, even though it was revealed that George W. Bush’s brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush removed 58,000 names from the electoral role (based on ethnicity and who were likely to vote Democrat).

7 November 2016 – death of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter, whose biggest hit was his 1984 song ‘Hallelujah‘, which has since been covered by dozens of other singers. In 2004, Cohen discovered his manager had misappropriated around $5 million from him. Although Cohen sued her and was awarded $9 million, she refused to pay up. Cohen was forced to return to work and embarked on a number of worldwide tours as well as released a book of poetry and a number of albums, including ‘Old Ideas‘, ‘Popular Problems‘ and his 13th and last album, ‘You Want It Darker‘, which was released three weeks before his death. Born 21 September 1934.