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A.Word.A.Day--aesculapian What to give to the person who has everything? Give the gift of words. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio Aesculapian (es-kyuh-LAY-pee-ehn) adjective Relating to the healing arts; medical. [From Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing in Roman mythology.] "These apparitions, as is the nature of their kind, vanished as soon as the crowing of the Aesculapian cock announced that the intellectual day of Europe was on the point of breaking." Draper, John William M.D., LL.D., History Of The Intellectual Development Of Europe: Chapter IV. Part II, History of the World, 1 Jan 1992. This week's theme: words from Greek and Roman mythologies. X-Bonus We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -Buckminster Fuller

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