Today’s WOTD – 5 September 2012

troglodyte   
[trog-luh-dahyt]
noun
1. a prehistoric cave dweller.
2. a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.
3. a person living in seclusion.
4. a person unacquainted with affairs of the world.
5. an animal living underground.

colloquial: trogg

Today’s quote

‘Wild thing, You make my heart sing,
you make everything … Groovy …’

The Troggs (British rock group), 1966.

On this day

5 September 1847 – birth of Jesse James, U.S. outlaw. (Died 3 April 1882).

5 September 1877 – death of Crazy Horse, Sioux Chief (not to be confused with a Sous Chef). Born around 1840.

5 September 1939 – United States declares its neutrality in the Second World War.

5 September 1997 – death of Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) in Yugoslavia, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in the slums of Calcutta.