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Today's Highlights
April 25, 2008
Al Pacino
Quote: "My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness."
Questions of the Day
What off-Broadway play charged the most-ever for tickets?
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Today's Holidays
Today in History
Dredging The Suez
- "La Marseillaise": French national anthem was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg (1792)
- Suez Canal: ground was broken on the waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (1859)
- license plates: were required for the first time on cars in the US (1901)
Today's Birthdays
Ella Fitzgerald
- Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658): Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): composer of Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937): physicist and inventor of wireless telegraphy
- Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965): father of broadcast journalism
- Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996): jazz singer known for scat
- Renée Zellweger (39): award-winning actress whose latest film is Leatherheads; other actors born today include Paul Mazursky (78), Hank Azaria (44) and Jason Lee (38)
Word of the Day
neanderthal (nee-an-duhr-thawl, nee-an-duhr-tawl)
The ancient and now extinct relatives of modern humans. Neanderthals lived in Europe about 150,000 years ago and were the earliest form of the human species, Homo sapiens.The term Neanderthal is sometimes used to refer to a person who is thought to have primitive or unenlightened ideas: "I tried talking politics to Joe, but he's a real Neanderthal." (© Houghton Mifflin Company)
The ancient and now extinct relatives of modern humans. Neanderthals lived in Europe about 150,000 years ago and were the earliest form of the human species, Homo sapiens.
Usage: The Neanderthal man was named after the valley of Neanderthal where he was discovered. The valley was named for Joachim Neander, a 17th-century poet who frequented the area.
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