25 February 2014

provenance

[prov-uh-nuhns, -nahns]

noun

– place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.

Origin:
1860–65; < French, derivative of provenant, present participle of provenir < Latin prōvenīre to come forth; see pro-1 , convene, -ant
Can be confused: provenance, province.

Anagram

proven acne
rap convene

Today’s aphorism

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

On this day

25 February 1917 – birth of Anthony Burgess, English writer. Most famous for his dystopian novel, ‘The Clockwork Orange’, which Stanley Kubrick made into a controversial movie. Died 22 November 1993.

25 February 1921 – The Russian Army seized the capital of Georgia, eventually incorporating the republic into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

25 February 1948 – communist rule established in Czechoslovakia by President Eduard Benes.

25 February 1982 – the European Court of Human Rights rules that beating school children without the consent of their parents is a violation of the Human Rights Convention.

25 February 1986 – The People Power Revolution in the Philippines results in the ousting of corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos who is airlifted from the Presidential Palace in Manila by U.S. helicopters. The U.S. repatriated him to Hawaii where he lived in exile until his death in 1989 at the age of 72. Marcos had stolen billions from the Philippine treasury and was a suspect in the 1983 assassination of Benigno Aquino, the opposition party leader.