22 May 2014

vastitude

[vas-ti-tood, -tyood, vah-sti-]

noun

1. vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind.
2. a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude.

Origin:
1535–45; < Latin vastitūdō. See vast, -i-, -tude

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Dave Titus

Today’s aphorism

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

– Che Guevara

On this day

22 May 1927 – A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits the city of Xining in the Chinese province of Quinghai, killing up to 200,000 people. It is the 5th deadliest earthquake recorded.

22 May 1972 – Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka to break away from its colonial past. Ceylon had been the colonial name given by Great Britain to the island. The name itself was derived from Portuguese when part of the island was a colony of Portugal.

22 May 2010 – Jordan Romero, a 13 year old U.S. boy, becomes the youngest person to conquer Mt Everest.