Tuesday, June 28, 2011

June 28, 2011

Word of the Day:
Ignoble - inferior; of low grade; someone who is not noble.
His motives for changing things were ignoble.

Quote:
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
- Margaret Walker

Fact:
If you ever need a deep tunnel dug, you should call a mole. A mole can dig a hole 300 feet long in one night.

Fact About the Day:
On June 28, 1894, the first of a chain of events leading to World War I took place. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot by a Bosnian Serb nationalist. Five years later, to the day, the Allied Powers along with Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, marking the official end of the first World War.

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