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Provided by the compucert listless \LIST-lis\, adjective:
- Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
Trivia
What British rock band, formed in the 1970s, was named for a despicable blackmailer in a Charles Dickens novel?
- Uriah Heep, who appears in Dickens’s David Copperfield.
- OAU: was founded at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the goals of encouraging African unity, promoting development and fighting neocolonialism (1963)
- Hands Across America: more than five million people joined hands in a line that stretched for 4,000 mi/6,400 km from New York City to Long Beach, CA; participants raised money for the fight against hunger and homelessness (1986)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): poet, founder of transcendentalism; other writers born on this date include Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) and Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
- Bill Bojangles Robinson (1878-1949): tap dancer
- Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972): aerospace engineer who developed the helicopter
- Lauryn Hill (33): R&B singer; other singers with this birthday include Beverly Sills (1929-2007) and Leslie Uggams and Jessi Colter (both 65)
- Mike Myers (45): actor/comedian, Wayne's World, Austin Powers; also, entertainers Ian McKellen and Dixie Carter (both 69), Frank Oz (64), Patti D'Arbanville (57), Anne Heche (39), Molly Sims (35) and creepy looking Cillian Murphy (32)
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