22 February 2018

roseate

[roh-zee-it, -eyt]

adjective

1. tinged with rose; rosy:
a roseate dawn.
2. bright or promising:
a roseate future.
3. incautiously optimistic:
a roseate forecast for holiday sales.

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Today’s quote

Yes, it’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, but sometimes you need to remind the darkness just how loud you can be.

– John Pavlovitz

On this day

22 February 1512 – Death of Amerigo Vespucci in Seville, Spain. Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. Vespucci believed that Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the ‘New World’ or ‘East Asia’ (now known as the Bahamas) and the land mass beyond it, was not part of Asia, but a separate ‘super-continent’. America is named after Vespucci. Born 9 March 1454 in Florence, Italy.

22 February 1962 – birth of Steve Irwin, ‘The Crocodile Hunter’, Australian wildlife expert and television personality. (Died 4 September 2006).

22 February 1987 – death of Andy Warhol. (Born Andrew Warhola). American artist who was a pioneer of pop art. American writer, Gore Vidal, once said, ‘Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60‘ Born 6 August 1928.