Today’s WOTD – 7 October 2012

abstemious

[ab-stee-mee-uhs]
adjective
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. characterized by abstinence: for example: ‘he lived an abstemious life’.
3. sparing, for example: ‘he maintained an abstemious diet’.

Today’s aphorism

‘Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?’

Edgar Allan Poe

On this day

7 October 1849 – death of Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and novelist, The Raven. Born 19 January 1809.

7 October 1913 – Henry Ford implements the moving assembly line … changing the face of manufacturing forever.

7 October 1931 – birth of Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa. Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

7 October 2001 – United States invades Afghanistan as they hunt for Osama Bin Laden and to take down the Taliban government for allowing him to live there.