7 October 2013

taiga

[tahy-guh, tahy-gah]

noun

– the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.

Origin:
1885–90; < Russian taĭgá < one or more Turkic languages of the Altai Mountain region; compare Altai, Shor tayγa forest-covered mountain

Today’s aphorism

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

– Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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.