Lisa Veres Volunteer Coordinator NTC Sports & Live Well Campus 1935 Don Wickham Drive Clermont, FL 34711 Office: (352) 241-7144 ext. 4267 Fax: (352) 241-7162 www.usantc.com Email: Lisa.Veres@Orlandohealth.com Word of the Day epistemology Knowing What You Know Word of the Day: If philosophy in general is not quite arcane enough for you, why not carve a niche in this small corner of it, which is concerned with the theory of knowledge, how we can decide whether it is valid, and how we can distinguish it from belief. On This Day in History 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I. 1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth. 1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania. 1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk. 1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S. 1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each. 1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan." 1959 - General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.
Lisa Veres Volunteer Coordinator NTC Sports & Live Well Campus 1935 Don Wickham Drive Clermont, FL 34711 Office: (352) 241-7144 ext. 4267 Fax: (352) 241-7162 www.usantc.com Email: Lisa.Veres@Orlandohealth.com Word of the Day epistemology Knowing What You Know Word of the Day: If philosophy in general is not quite arcane enough for you, why not carve a niche in this small corner of it, which is concerned with the theory of knowledge, how we can decide whether it is valid, and how we can distinguish it from belief. On This Day in History 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I. 1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth. 1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania. 1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk. 1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S. 1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each. 1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan." 1959 - General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.
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