29 August 2013

jounce

[jouns]

verb, jounced, jounc·ing, noun
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

1. to move joltingly or roughly up and down; bounce.
noun
2. a jouncing movement.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; apparently blend of joll to bump (now obsolete) and bounce

Today’s aphorism

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

– Martin Luther King Jr, from the ‘I have a dream’ speech, delivered on 28 August 1963.

On this day

29 August 29AD – John the Baptist beheaded.

29 August 1991 – the Supreme Soviet of the USSR suspends the Communist Party. The Soviet Union was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991.

29 August 2001 – death of Graeme ‘Shirley’ Strachan, in a helicopter crash near Maroochydore, Queensland. Lead singer of Australian band, Skyhooks.

29 August 2005 – Hurricane Katrina strikes southeastern United States with wind speeds reaching 280km/h. New Orleans is one of the worst hit areas. At least 1,836 people died in the storm and subsequent flooding.

29 August 2012 – Hurricane Isaac strikes southeastern United States with wind speeds reaching 130km/h, making landfall in Louisiana, leaving at least 400,000 houses in New Orleans without power.