26 April 2013

pulchritude

[puhl-kri-tood, -tyood]

noun

– physical beauty; comeliness.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin pulchritūdō beauty, equivalent to pulchri- (combining form of pulcher beautiful) + -tūdō -tude

Synonyms
loveliness, beauteousness, fairness.

Today’s aphorism

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

– Martin Luther King Jr

On this day

26 April 1986 – the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when an explosion and fire at the No 4 reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine, releases radioactive gas across Northern Europe. It is estimated to have killed up to 1 million people from radioactive related cancers.