Weekend Word and History

[mastergraywolf]

The weekend's going to gobble my activity up most likely.

At the moment, I'm trying to get cool.

WORD
July 22: Terror
- Intense, sharp fear: to be frantic with terror; something that causes fear
- From Old French terreur ("terror, fear, dread"; Latin terrorem ("fright, fear, terror")

July 23: Sloven
- person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc; untidy
- From Middle Flemish sloovin (“a scold”) related to sloef (“untidy, shabby”)

July 24: Surplusage (noun)
- An excess of words; an excess amount
- From the word "Surplus" (more simple), meaning excess or more than sufficient.


HISTORY

July 22:
- Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught in 1991.
- Also, Army Pvt. Jessica Linch receives Hero's Welcome returning home in 2003

July 23:
- The Ford Motor Company sells its first car in 1903

July 24
- 1864: The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

- In 1969, Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.