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May 17, 2008 
Pierce Brosnan
Quote: "When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."
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Today in History
Mt. Everest
- Edgar Allan Poe: wed his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia (1836)
- shield nickel: US Congress voted to replace the half dime with a new nickel (1866)
- Annie Get Your Gun: opened on Broadway, starring Ethel Merman (1946)
- Junko Tabei: ascended Mt. Everest, becoming the first woman to summit the world's highest mountain (1975)
Today's Birthdays
Liberace at the Keyboard
- Studs Terkel (96): historian, radio personality, author of The Good War
- George Gaynes (91): actor, Police Academy, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid; also, actors Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Harry Carey, Jr. (87), Debra Winger (53), Mare Winningham (49), David Boreanaz and Tracey Gold (both 39), Tori Spelling (35) and Stanislav Ianevski (23)
- Liberace (1919-1987): flamboyant pianist; musicians Betty Carter (1930-1998) and Janet Jackson (42) share this birth date
- Olga Korbut (53): Olympic gold-medal winner in gymnastics; other athletes born on this date include Billy Martin (1928-1989) and Gabriela Sabatini (38)
Word of the Day
surrogate mother
n.(© Houghton Mifflin Company)
n.
- A woman who bears a child for another person, often for pay, either through artificial insemination or by carrying until birth another woman's surgically implanted fertilized egg.
- One that acts as, serves as, or is a mother substitute.
Usage: While she was at college, far away from home, she turned to her favorite professor, who became a kind of surrogate mother.
It was Mother's Day this week in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and elsewhere around the globe. We dedicate this week's words to our mothers — those who gave birth to us, those who raised us and those who love us through thick and thin.
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