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today’s wwftd is… logodaedalus today's logodaedalus : logodaedalus [fr. Gk logos, word + Daedalus, famed artificer] obs. : an artificer of words and phrases: wordsmith "But least
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Henry David Thoreau Man is the artificer of his own happiness.HappinessQuotations by Henry David Thoreau
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. Ralph Waldo Emerson Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.GeniusQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bay of Pigs Invasion Begins (1961) The ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion was a US-supported invasion of Cuba by an armed force of approximately 1,500 Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. Trained and armed by the US government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba, but the rebellion never materialized and the Cuban army defeated the invading forces in a ...
Conscription Conscription, compulsory enrollment in a country's armed forces, existed as early as the 27th century BCE in Egypt. Since then, forms of obligatory military service have been recorded in countless cultures; Japanese samurai, Aztec warriors, and citizen militiamen in ancient Greece and Rome are just a few examples of conscripted forces. Conscription in the modern sense dates from 1793, when ...