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Provided by the compucert evince \ih-VIN(T)S\, transitive verb:
- To show in a clear manner; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light.
Urban Word of the Day
September 06, 2007: Chocolate Rainhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chocolate+Rain&defid=2544900
- "Chocolate Rain" is a euphemism for racism created by Tay Zonday in his hit YouTube song "Chocolate Rain".
The school books say it can't be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went
(Replace racism with chocolate rain and it begins to make sense)
Trivia
We all know about the Great Wall of China, but what’s the Great Wall of the universe?
- It’s the largest known superstructure in the universe—a huge sheet of galaxies an estimated 200 million light-years away, which measures more than 500 million light-years in length, 300 million light-years in width, and 15 million light-years in thickness.
Today in History
William McKinley: US president was shot (he died 8 days later, 1901); South African PM Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated (1966)
yellow star: Jews were forced to wear badges in areas occupied by Nazi Germany (1941)
Martina Navratilova: Czechoslovakian tennis star defected while in New York for the US Open (1975)
Today's Birthdays
Joseph Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969): Kennedy clan patriarch, bootlegger
Robert Pirsig (79): author, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Roger Waters (64): rock artist, Pink Floyd
Swoosie Kurtz (63), Rosie Perez (43): actresses
In the News
popcorn lung: fumes from microwave popcorn may be very hazardous to your health (story)
soft drinks: caffeine count shows citrus drinks ahead of colas (story)
Megion: mayor of Siberian town bans his staff from saying "I don't know," "It's not my job," and "I was away/sick/on vacation" (story)
Nepal Airlines: sacrifices goats to god of the sky to protect its Boeings (story)
Luciano Pavarotti: operatic tenor dies from cancer at 71 (story)
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