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Bloody Sunday (sh) and numerary (iou)


Bloody Sunday (sh)




(1905) Massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Saint Petersburg, marking the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The priest Georgy Gapon (1870-1906), hoping to present workers' request for reforms directly to Nicholas II, arranged a peaceful march toward the Winter Palace. Police fired on the demonstrators, killing more than 100 and wounding several hundred more. The massacre was followed by strikes in Other cities, peasant uprisings, and mutinies in the armed forces. The term "Bloody Sunday" was also used to describe the murder in Dublin, Ireland (Nov. 21, 1920), of 11 Englishmen suspected of being intelligence agents, by the Irish Republican Army; the Black and Tans took revenge and attacked spectators at a Football (Soccer) match, killing 12 and wounding 60. The term was used again in Londonderry (Derry) when on Jan. 30, 1972, 3 participants in a civil rights march were killed by British soldiers, who allegedly had been fired on by the marchers.


numerary (iou)



numerary adjective & noun. E18.
[medieval Latin numerarius (in late Latin used as noun = arithmetician, accountant), from Latin numerus: see NUMBER noun, -ARY1.]
A. adjective.
Ecclesiastical. Of a canon: being a member of a body of regular canons. Only in E18.
Of or pertaining to a number or numbers. M18.
b. noun. A member of the highest of the three ranks of the Roman Catholic organization Opus Dei. L20.