26 May 2013

virulent

[vir-yuh-luhnt, vir-uh-]

adjective

1. actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
2. Medicine/Medical . highly infective; malignant or deadly.
3. Bacteriology . causing clinical symptoms.
4. violently or spitefully hostile.
5. intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious: a virulent attack.

Today’s aphorism

‘For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal’.

– John F. Kennedy

On this day

26 May 1890 – Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, is released in England.

26 May 2012 – death of Festus, our beloved and most awesome budgie.