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Provided by the compucert artifice \AR-tuh-fis\, noun:
- Cleverness or skill; ingenuity; inventiveness.
- An ingenious or artful device or expedient.
- An artful trick or stratagem.
- Trickery; craftiness; insincere or deceptive behavior.
Urban Word of the Day
December 11, 2007: wi-fivehttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wi-five&defid=875912
- It's a high five that doesn't involve actually contact, normally over a long distance where a real high-five isn't possible. Mix of "wireless" and "high-five", hence "wi-five", (wireless high-five)
Eric (in response): You need to chill with that [nano] shit, son
Trivia
What was the only suspense-free screwball comedy directed by usually mysterious filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock?
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a 1941 battle-of-the-sexes romp starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery that had its title but little of its content borrowed for a 2005 flick starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
- Hoosier State: Indiana became the 19th US state; originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes, it was controlled by the French and then the British before being passed on to the US in 1783 (1816)
- Edward VIII: king of Great Britain and Ireland became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily; he did it for love (1936)
- UNICEF: the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund was established to provide food, housing and medical aid to children in countries ravaged by World War II; in 1965, UNICEF won the Nobel Peace Prize (1946)
- Chechnya: Moscow sent in troops to restore control over the region (1994)
- Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947): popular NYC mayor who supported social welfare and woman suffrage, fought corruption
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (89): Nobel-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, the publication of which resulted in his being charged with treason and expelled from the Soviet Union
- Rita Moreno (76): actress who played Anita in West Side Story
- Nikki Sixx (49): Bassist from Motley Crue
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