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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48836)	8/8/2005 7:23:32 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

August 8 U.S. President Nixon announced resignation Button from Richard M. Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. 1974: Faced with the near certainty of impeachment for his role in the Watergate Scandal, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced his resignation from office on this day. 1963: Armed robbers stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail Train near Bridego Bridge, north of London, in the Great Train Robbery. 1945: The Nürnberg trials were authorized by the London Agreement, signed by the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. 1907: American jazz musician Benny Carter was born in New York City. 1846: The Wilmot Proviso, an attempt to prohibit the extension of slavery to new territories in the United States, was proposed; in the debate that followed, the Republican Party was born. 1588: The English fleet won a decisive battle over the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines in northern France.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48836)	8/9/2005 7:12:41 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Word of the Day for Tuesday August 9, 2005 captious \KAP-shuhs\, adjective: 1. Marked by a disposition to find fault or raise objections. 2. Calculated to entrap or confuse, as in an argument. The most common among those are captious individuals who can find nothing wrong with their own actions but everything wrong with the actions of everybody else. --"In-Closet Hypocrites," [1]Atlanta Inquirer, August 15, 1998 Mr Bowman had, I think, been keeping Christmas Eve, and was a little inclined to be captious: at least, he was not on foot very early, and to judge from what I could hear, neither men nor maids could do anything to please him. --M. R. James, [2]The Haunted Dolls' House and With the imperturbablest bland clearness, he, for five hours long, keeps answering the incessant volley of fiery captious questions. --Thomas Carlyle, [4]The French Revolution

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48836)	8/13/2005 7:26:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Word of the Day for Saturday August 13, 2005 tryst \TRIST; TRYST\, noun: An appointment (as between lovers) to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting. intransitive verb: To mutually agree to meet at a certain place; to keep a tryst. And it bothers me that I begin to worry if she's planning a tryst with my handsome neighbour. --Anita Nair, [1]The Better Man Having left a "[2]Dear John" letter for her husband on the kitchen table, she set off to the airport, where she waited, and waited. Of course, Henry had entirely forgotten about the tryst, and she had to return home crestfallen. --"The serial seducer who took Amis's wife," [3]Times (London), May 17, 2000 Once Nick goes into the kitchen to tryst with Martha, it is Ms. Kurtz's turn to let loose with some fireworks. --Frank Rich, [4]Hot Seat Scientists are hoping the cosmos will bear witness to a romantic rendezvous today as a spacecraft attempts a Valentine's Day "tryst" with an asteroid called Eros. Tryst is from Middle English triste, tryste, "a station to which game was driven (in hunting)," from Old French triste, "a station to which game was driven, a watch post," probably of Scandinavian origin.