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Provided by the compucert tirade \TY-raid; tih-RAID\, noun:
- A long angry speech; a violent denunciation; a prolonged outburst full of censure or abuse.
- Eating breakfast (or any other meal really) while standing at your kitchen counter instead of sitting at your kitchen table.
My dad drives my mom crazy eating his bachelor breakfast of burnt toast.
TriviaWhich is the only one of the 13 colonies still governed by its original constitution?
- Massachusetts. But its constitution, drafted by John Adams and adopted in 1780, was extensively amended between 1917 and 1919.
- Napoleon Bonaparte: crowned himself emperor (1804)
- separate but equal: key concept in Plessy v. Ferguson case affirmed racial segregation in public places (1896)
- Halley's Comet: put on a dramatic performance, transiting the Sun as Earth passed through its tail (1910)
- Mount St. Helens: stratovolcanic peak in Washington State erupted, shooting a plume of gases 63,000 feet high and killing more than 50 people (1980)
- Les Misérables: closed after 16 years on Broadway (2003)
- Omar Khayyam (1048-1131): poet/scientist; mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was also born on this date
- Frank Capra (1897-1991): director of It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; actors born today include Bill Macy (86), Robert Morse (77), Dwayne Hickman (74), Chow Yun-Fat (53) and Matt Long (28)
- Reggie Jackson (62): MLB hall-of-famer; baseball MVP Brooks Robinson (71) was also born on this date
- Tina Fey (38): Comedienne and actress
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