9 August 2014

curricle

[kur-i-kuhl]
noun
a light, two-wheeled, open carriage drawn by two horses abreast.

Origin:
1675–85; < Latin curriculum; see curriculum: < Latin: action of running, course of action, race, chariot, equivalent to curr ( ere ) to run

Today’s aphorism

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

– Alexandre Dumas

On this day

9 August 1936 – Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete, wins his 4th gold medal at the Berlin Olympics – much to Adolf Hitler’s chagrin. Hitler had hoped the games would show-case white Aryan ideals, and was disgusted that a black athlete had achieved more than the white athletes.

9 August 1945 – USA drops an atomic bomb, called ‘Fat Boy’ on Nagasaki, Japan. It is estimated that between 60,000 to 80,000 people died within four months of the bombing, with half that number dying on the day of the bombing.