Words derived from animals
cynic (SIN-ik) noun
1. One who believes people are motivated by self-interest only.
2. A person with a negative outlook, one disposed to find fault.
From Latin cynicus, from Greek kynikos (like a dog), from kyon (dog). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwon- (dog), which is also the source of canine, chenille (from French chenille: caterpillar, literally, little dog), kennel, canary, hound, dachshund, corgi, and cynosure. Earliest documented use: 1547.
aegis or egis (EE-jis) noun
Protection, support, guidance, or sponsorship of a particular person or organization.
From Latin aegis, from Greek aigis (goatskin), from aix (goat). Aigis was the name of the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena in Greek mythology. It was made of goatskin. Earliest documented use: 1704.
pedigree (PED-i-gree) noun
1. Lineage or ancestry.
2. A distinguished ancestry.
3. The origin or history of a person or thing.
From Anglo-Norman pé de grue (crane's foot), from p´ (foot) + de (of) + grue (crane), from the resemblance of a crane's foot to the succession lines in a genealogical chart. Earliest documented use: 1425.
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

YouTube has partnered with U. of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and Columbia College of Chicago to launch YouTube Creator Institute Programs. The programs, which are accepting applications at youtube.com/creatorinstitute through March 25, are designed to help college-age students develop digital media skills through special courses to be offered in Los Angeles and Chicago later this year. YouTube users will vote on the submissions and help determine the 20 students who will be accepted into the programs. The application involves students answering a series of questions and submitting a two-minute demonstration of their work. Online voting on the submissions will begin March 28 to determine the first round of candidates. From there, USC and Columbia College faculty members will determine the final 20 winners, to be announced April 20.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118033693?refCatId=1009

Eudora Welty quotes
"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves--like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them . . . "

"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole."

"There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer."
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7973.Eudora_Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001) the oldest of her family's three children and the only girl, was born in Jackson, Mississippi. That neither of her parents came from the Deep South may have given her some detachment from her culture and helped her become a careful observer of its manners. Welty's education in the Jackson schools was followed by two years at Mississippi State College for Women between 1925 and 1927, and then by two more years at the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor of arts degree in 1929. Her father, who believed that she could never earn a living by writing stories, encouraged her to study advertising at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York City during 1930 and 1931. Welty returned to Jackson in 1931 after her father's death and worked as a part-time journalist, copywriter, and photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was aimed at providing jobs for writers. The latter job took her on assignments throughout Mississippi, and she began using these experiences as material for short stories. In June 1936, her story "Death of a Traveling Salesman" was accepted for publication.
http://www.notablebiographies.com/We-Z/Welty-Eudora.html

A seventh anniversary is called septennial--its time period is called septennium or septennary. A seventeenth anniversary is called septendecennial--its time periods is called septendecennium or septendecenniary.
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