On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

* Albertus Magnus – De Adhaerendo Deo – On Cleaving to God

On 8 November 1273, Andronikos II married Anne of Hungary ( 1260 – 1281 ), daughter of the king Stephen V of Hungary.

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

On November 8, they won 41 – 10 over the New England Patriots, ending a streak of 22 losses at cold-weather sites.

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

On May 8, after going 12 – 17 in 29 games, the Diamondbacks released manager Bob Melvin and hired A. J. Hinch.

On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 – 61, coming close to European Cup victory in 1983 – 84 ( lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout ), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup for 1990 – 91 ( two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale ).

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

On top of the spray chamber is a burner head that produces a flame that is laterally long ( usually 5 – 10 cm ) and only a few mm deep.

* 1988: Best Gospel Performance, Female – Lead Me On

* 1989: Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year – Lead Me On

* 1989: Short Form Music Video of the Year – " Lead Me On "

* 2003: Song of the Year – " The River's Gonna Keep On Rolling "

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.

* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer

* 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer

* 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer

* 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

* 1991 – Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer

Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.

* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.

* 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

* 1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint ( d. 1231 )

* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director

* 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer

* 1986 – Rúben Micael, Portuguese footballer

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

The etymology from ken – tauros, " piercing bull-stickers " was a Euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus ' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales ( Περὶ ἀπίστων ): mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom.

Piersen writes, " Such an etymology would offer Indiana a plausible and worthy first Hoosier – ' Black Harry ' Hoosier – the greatest preacher of his day, a man who rejected slavery and stood up for morality and the common man.

In another view on the etymology, Athenaeus of Naucratis ( 2nd – 3rd century CE ) says that the original form of the word was trygodia from trygos ( grape harvest ) and ode ( song ), because those events were first introduced during grape harvest.

The etymology of the Japanese word bushido, stemming from the < i > Zhou </ i > Dynasty ( 1111 – 256 BCE )( Zhang, and Fan, 2003 )< ref > 中国历史与文明 The History and Civilization of China, 五月 2003 ( May 2003 ), 页 26 ( pg.

Young men celebrated their coming of age ; they cut off and dedicated their first beards to their household Lares and if citizens, wore their first toga virilis, the " manly " toga – which Ovid, perhaps by way of poetic etymology, calls a toga libera ( Liber's toga or " toga of freedom ").

Cognac-producing regions should not be confused with the northeastern region of Champagne, a wine region that produces sparkling wine by that name, although they do share a common etymology – both being derivations of a French term for chalky soil.

* Breo Saighead (" the fiery arrow " – a folk etymology found in Sanas Cormaic, but considered very unlikely by etymologists )

The folk etymology – involving a châtelaine named, a ruse ending a siege and the joyous ringing of bells (" sona ") – though memorialized in a neo-Gothic sculpture of Mme.

An 1878 publication, Old and New London: Volume 4, mentions the idea that the area was named after a village called " Lomesbury " which formerly stood where Bloomsbury Square is now ,< ref >< cite >' Bloomsbury ', Old and New London: Volume 4 ( 1878 ), pp. 480 – 89 Date accessed: 8 March 2007 </ ref > though this piece of folk etymology is now discredited.

Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 – 1916 ) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures ( also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris ), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies " troni ponderacionem "— which the Public Record Commissioners translates as " troy weight ".

Its etymology can be traced to the unlicensed nature of the transmission, but historically there has been occasional but notable use of sea vessels – fitting the most common perception of a pirate – as broadcasting bases.

Folk etymology traces its name to Ingegerd Olofsdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung ( 995 – 1022 ).

The name has been suggested to be related to Russian Липа ( lipa ), linden tree or to Filippovka, a holiday name dedicated to Saint Philip, however, the accepted etymology says it's derived from name of Filipp Pustosviat ( 1672 – 1742 ), the adepts of whom being named filippovcy or ( fi ) lippovane.

The 1st century BC Greek astronomer Geminus of Rhodes claimed that the etymology of Thule came from an archaic word for the polar night phenomenon – " the place where the sun goes to rest ".

Only several dozen words ( perhaps 200, if we add Gaulish etymology ) survive in modern French, for example chêne, ‘ oak tree ’ and charrue ‘ plough '; Delamarre ( 2003, pp. 389 – 90 ) lists 167.

Frank Le Maistre ( 1910 – 2002 ), compiler of the dictionary Dictionnaire Jersiais – Français, maintained a literary output starting in the 1930s with newspaper articles under the pseudonym Marie la Pie, poems, magazine articles, research into toponymy and etymology.

The related abstract noun – banausia is defined by Hesychius as " every craft () by means of fire ", reflecting the folk etymology of the word as coming from ( baunos ) " furnace " and ( auō ) " to dry ".