June 21, Mars, eclipses
Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 22 00:19:53 CDT 2001
Main Entry: di·sas·ter
Pronunciation: di-'zas-t&r, -'sas-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French
desastre, from Old Italian disastro, from dis- (from
L) + astro star, from Latin astrum -- more at ASTRAL
Date: 1591
1: a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage,
loss, or destruction; broadly : a sudden or great
misfortune or failure
2 obsolete: an unfavorable aspect of a planet or star
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
--- Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net> wrote:
>
> "we make
> guilty of our
> disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars"
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