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Provided by the compucert sempiternal \sem-pih-TUR-nuhl\, adjective:
Trivia
Where did the first potatoes imported to the U.S. come from?
- Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.
Sempiternal comes from Medieval Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperaeternus, from semper, "always" + aeternus, "eternal."
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Trivia
Where did the first potatoes imported to the U.S. come from?
- Bermuda, in 1621. They were sent to Jamestown, Virginia, by the governor of Bermuda.
- Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
- test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978)
- Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace: at the White House, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein agreed to end their official state of war (1994)
- Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930): British prime minister and foreign secretary who authored the Balfour Declaration
- Elias Canetti (1905-1994): Bulgarian novelist and playwright
- Estelle Getty (1923-2008): feisty star of The Golden Girls, who died earlier this week; other actors born on this date include Barbara Harris (73), Bobbie Eakes (47), Ileana Douglas (43), Matt LeBlanc (41), DB Woodside (39) and Brad Renfro (1982-2008)
Robert Zoellick (55): president of the World Bank - Billy Wagner (37): closer for the Mets; basketball hall-of-famer Nate Thurmond (67) shares this birthday
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