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Provided by the compucert propound \pruh-POWND\, transitive verb:
- To offer for consideration; to put forward; to propose.
Propound is a variation of earlier propone, from Latin proponere, "to set forth, to propose," from pro, "for, before, in favor of" + ponere, "to put."
callipygian (kal-uh-PIJ-ee-en). adj.
- Having a beautfully proportioned buttocks.
- A cell phone which copies the look and features of an iPhone.
I heard that Samsung is coming out with an iPhoney this summer.
Trivia
Of all the toothed creatures in the world, which is the largest?
- The sperm whale.
- Burr-Hamilton duel: US vice president Aaron Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel; Hamilton died the next day (1804)
- Niagara Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois and other African-Americans united to call for an end to racial discrimination (1905)
- Skylab: after 6 years in space, the space station reentered Earth's atmosphere (1979)
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): portraitist
- E.B. White (1899-1985): literary stylist who revised William Strunk's Elements of Style and wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little
- Suzanne Vega (49): singer/songwriter, "Luka"; other musicians born on this date include Kirk Whalum (50) and Lil' Kim (33)
- Justin Chambers (38): Alex Karev on Grey's Anatomy; also, actors Yul Brynner (1920-1985), Susan Seaforth Hayes (65), Bruce McGill (58), Sela Ward (52), Lisa Rinna (45), Greg Grunberg (42) and Michael Rosenbaum (36)
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