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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48936)	8/23/2005 10:15:14 AM
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ord of the Day for Tuesday August 23, 2005 tyro \TY-roh\, noun: A beginner in learning; a novice. It's difficult to imagine a tyro publishing a book on medical procedures or economic theory. --Philip Zaleski, "God Help the Spiritual Writer," [1]New York Times, January 10, 1999 He was a sensitive, fine soul alert to the pleasures of being green, a tyro, an amateur, unwilling to close his mind before it had been tempted. --Paul West, Sporting With Amaryllis

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48936)	8/24/2005 6:21:18 AM
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August 24: * 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae with volcanic ash. * 410 - The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome. * 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: a massacre of Huguenots began. An estimated 70,000 people were killed in France in the following weeks. * 1821 - The Treaty of Córdoba was signed, ratifiying the Plan de Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence from Spain. * 1992 - Hurricane Andrew, the costliest natural disaster to ever strike the United States, made landfall in South Florida as a Category Five storm.