4 February 2014

atychiophobia

noun

[ah-tik-ee-oh-foh-bee-uh]

– fear of failure, fear of not being good enough.

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Today’s aphorism

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

– José Martí, revolutionary and poet (1853-1895)

On this day

4 February 1948 – birth of Alice Cooper, (Vincent Damon Furnier), legendary American shock rocker.

4 February 1948 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is granted independence from Britain, but remains a member of the British Commonwealth.

4 February 1959 – the barbie doll is invented by Ruth Handler.

4 February 1993 – Yugoslavia is dissolved and replaced by a union between Serbia and Montenegro.

4 February 2004 – Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg.