Today is...
Thesaurus Day
Today is Thesaurus Day! Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus,
was born on this day in 1779. In 1840, Roget retired from a successful
career in medicine and spent the rest of his life working on “Roget’s
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.” He published his dictionary of
synonyms in 1852. Since then, it has never been out of print!
Did
you know that the word “thesaurus” is Latin for “treasure”? Roget’s
original treasure trove of information included 15,000 words organized
into six primary categories—existence, relation, quantity, number, and
time. Today the book boasts over 230,000 words, but it is still
organized by ideas and concepts as opposed to alphabetically.
Pull out your thesaurus, use some new words, and stretch your vocabulary in honor of Thesaurus Day!
Today is also
Peking Duck Day
January is
Get Organized Month & National Oatmeal Month
mages and text courtesy of MyPunchbowl.com" -- http://www.mypunchbowl.com/
for January 18 1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor. 1939 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded "Jeepers Creepers." 1958 - Willie O'Ree made his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. He was the first black player to enter the league. 1973 - Pink Floyd began recording "Dark Side Of The Moon." 1996 - Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson. |
"To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard against road
accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned
to each of us."
--Alexis Carrel
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