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Provided by the compucert rara avis \RAIR-uh-AY-vis\, noun;
plural rara avises \RAIR-uh-AY-vuh-suhz\ or rarae aves \RAIR-ee-AY-veez\:
- A rare or unique person or thing.
Urban Word of the Day: sleep slut
- One who sleeps frequently and is able to accumulate excess hours of sleep above beyond the mean. Sleep sluts are able to fall asleep indiscriminately and value sleep above all else.
Within minutes of boarding the commuter train Mark was fast asleep. Marks sleep slut powers were legendary in that he was always able to wake before his stop.
Trivia
How many silkworm cocoons does it take to produce a yard of fabric?
- Between 2,500 and 3,000.
- the Alamo: fort was overrun by Mexican troops during the Texas revolution; all inside were killed (1836)
- Dred Scott case: US Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens; the decision was overturned a decade later by the 14th amendment (1857)
- periodic table: was presented by Dmitri Mendeleev to the Russian Chemical Society; he had also discovered the elements' periodicity (1869)
- Lou Costello (1906-1959): roly-poly, bumbling half of Abbot and Costello; other comic entertainers born on this date include Rob Reiner (61), D.L. Hughley (44) and Connie Britton (40)
- Valentina Tereshkova (71): cosmonaut who was the first woman in space; astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) was also born on this day
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