27 April 2013

reredos

[reer-dos, reer-i-, rair-i-]

noun

1. a screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church.

2. the back of a fireplace or of a medieval open hearth.

Today’s aphorism

When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest.

– Anonymous

On this day

27 April 1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450 ‘Hiring and Firing Rules for Government Employment’. The order declared homosexuality, communism and moral perversion to be national security threats and grounds for sacking a government employee or not hiring an applicant.