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Provided by the compucert gnomic \NOH-mik\, adjective:
- Uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy.
Urban Word of the Day
December 27, 2007: good landinghttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=good+landing&defid=2758365
- serendipitous success, surprising satisfaction, landing as lightly as a cat, being better than before.
"After a divorce that tore me up, I made a good landing.
My boss fired me the week before Christmas, but I made a good landing.
The morning sun is shining and I'm coming in for a good landing.
I felt bad about losing her, but it was a good landing for me.
Trivia
What baseball legend made a cameo appearance as a brain surgeon on the soap opera General Hospital?
- Yogi Berra, in 1966. He appeared as Dr. Lawrence Berra as a favor to former Cleveland Indians infielder Johnny Berardino (stage name John Beradino), who played Dr. Steve Hardy on the show.
- Peter Pan: play by J.M. Barrie debuted in London, appealing to both children and adults (1904)
- World Bank: was formed to fund postwar reconstruction in Europe; later, the focus turned to developing third-world countries (1945)
- Afghanistan: was seized by Soviet forces; the president Hafizullah Amin, was overthrown, executed and replaced with Soviet-supported Babrak Karmal (1979)
- Free Aceh Movement: Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their military wing, ending a 30-year armed struggle for independence, in accordance with a peace deal that came out of the 2004 tsunami (2005)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): astronomer and mathematician who developed the three mathematical laws of planetary motion
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): chemist and microbiologist who invented pasteurization and discovered the science of immunology, disproving spontaneous generation
- Chyna (38): wrestler, train wreck
- Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992): German-American actress, singer and entertainment icon, The Blue Angel
- Mick Jones (63): Guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist of Foreigner
- Cokie Roberts (64): award-winning political journalist and author
- Eva La Rue (41): actress
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