8 December 2013

brawn

[brawn]

noun

1. strong, well-developed muscles.
2. muscular strength. (The project took brains to plan and brawn to implement).
3. Chiefly British .
a. a boar’s or swine’s flesh, especially when boiled and pickled.
b. headcheese.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English brawne < Old French braon slice of flesh ( Provençal bradon ) < Germanic; compare German Braten joint of meat, akin to Old English brǣd flesh

Synonyms
2. brawniness, robustness, muscle, sturdiness, might, power.

Today’s aphorism

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…

– John Lennon, from the song Imagine

On this day

8 December 1943 – birthday of Jim Morrison, lead singer and song writer for the Doors.

8 December 1980 – Murder of John Lennon. English guitarist and singer-songwriter for the Beatles. Born 9 October 1940.

8 December 1991 – the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign the Belavezha Accords declaring the Soviet Union dissolved and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. The legality of this accord was questionable, however, it was ratified by leaders of all other Soviet republics (except Georgia) on 21 December 1991.

8 December 2004 – death of Dimebag Darrell, (born Darrell Lance Abbott), American musician, founding member of Pantera. Dimebag was shot dead on stage while playing for Damageplan.