foundling \FOWND-ling\, noun:
- A deserted or abandoned infant; a child found without a parent or caretaker.
Urban Word of the Day
November 26, 2007: cyber mondayhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cyber+monday&defid=1530539
- Cyber Monday is the Monday after [Black Friday], when online retailers will be looking for their biggest sales from those who checked out products over the thanksgiving weekend, and will now be ordering them Monday at work.
Trivia
What inspired Swanson to come up with its first frozen TV dinner?
- The 260 tons of frozen turkey it had left over after Thanksgiving in 1953. Swanson offered its first TV dinner—turkey with cornbread stuffing, peas, and sweet potato—in a three-compartment tray, and sold 10 million the first year.
Today in History
- Kappa Alpha Society: Union College student society became the first college fraternity in the US (1825)
- Alice in Wonderland: author Lewis Carroll gave an illustrated manuscript of the tale to the eponymous Alice as an early Christmas gift (1864)
- Diamant-A rocket: launched France's space program with the Astérix satellite (1965)
- Charles Schulz (1922-2000): creator of Charlie Brown
- Tina Turner (68): singer of "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
- Lil' Fizz (22): rapper, B2K
- Aurora Snow (26): t3h pr0n











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