9 April 2015

idiosyncratic

[id-ee-oh-sin-krat-ik, -sing-]

adjective
1. pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual:
The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.

Related forms
idiosyncratically, adverb

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Examples from the web for idiosyncratic
– In short, there is no problem, except tolerating his idiosyncratic presence.
– More than a few presentations still stand out in my memory, perhaps for idiosyncratic reasons.
– It becomes much more systematic, rather than idiosyncratic.

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Today’s aphorism

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you along. You are your hell and your heaven too.

– Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

On this day

9 April 1413 – Henry V crowned King of England.

9 April 1682 – Robert Cavelier de la Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River. He names it Louisiana and claims it in the name of France.

9 April 1865 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.

9 April 1867 – United States Senate ratifies by one vote, a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

9 April 1937 – the first Japanese-made aircraft to fly to Europe lands at Croydon Airport, London. It’s name is the Kamikaze.

9 April 1945 – execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp two weeks before the camp was liberated by US soldiers. Born 4 February 1904.