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Answer of the DayWhat's the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? Vegetarians do not eat the flesh of animals — meat or fish. Vegetarians may avoid these foods for humanitarian reasons or dietary ones. Vegans choose to neither eat nor use any animal-derived products — among them, meat, poultry, seafood, dairy products, eggs, honey, gelatin, leather, fur, lanolin or silk. Theirs is a lifestyle choice founded on a reverence for the wellbeing of all living things. Vegans avoid eating or using anything that was produced through the pain or death of a living creature. November is World Vegan Month.
Quote"I became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!"
Word of the daylethologica
the inability to remember the right word
When one works with words, there are many things that can go wrong: they can be misspelled, misused, mispronounced, or go otherwise awry or missing. Here is a selection of words that refer to a variety of lexical mishaps.
Today's History
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| 'Meet the Press' |
- Jefferson Davis: was elected president of the Confederate States of America (he'd already been serving as president under the provisional constitution), one year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America (1861)
- college football: Rutgers beat Princeton in the first intercollegiate game (1869)
- October Revolution: the Bolshevik uprising began in St. Petersburg; the October/November discrepancy is due to Russian Old Style dates (1917)
- Meet the Press: the Sunday morning talk show debuted; it is the longest-running TV program in the world (1947)
- Australia: voted to keep Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (1999)
Today's Birthdays
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| Maria Shriver |
- Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): inventor of the sax; composers John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) and Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) share this birth date
- James Naismith (1861-1939): inventor of basketball
- Mike Nichols (78): multiple award-winning director of stage and screen
- Glenn Frey (61): rock musician, The Eagles; plus, musician Arturo Sandoval (60)
- Maria Shriver (54): newscaster and author
- Kelly Rutherford (41): Gossip Girl's Lily van der Woodsen; also, actors Sally Field (63), Lori Singer (52), Lance Kerwin (49), Peter DeLuise (43), Ethan Hawke (39), Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romijn (both 37) and Zoe McLellan (35)
- Ana Ivanović (22): tennis player
