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Provided by the compucert cupidity \kyoo-PID-uh-tee\, noun:
- Eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth; greed; avarice.
Cupidity ultimately comes from Latin cupiditas, from cupidus, "desirous," from cupere, "to desire." It is related to Cupid, the Roman god of love.
- a get-together consisting of close friends, partying and drinking.
We're having a kickback at Trent's house for the homecoming alumni.
Trivia
There are six locks on the Panama Canal. How many are there on the Suez Canal?
- None—because there is no change in sea level between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, which are linked by the canal.
Today's Holiday- Bastille Day: commemorates the storming of the Bastille in Paris at the start of the French Revolution in 1789
- the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865)
- large denominations of United States currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)
Gerald Ford (1913-2006): first POTUS to be appointed; he was selected as vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned, and a year later succeeded Richard Nixon, also brought down by the Watergate scandal - Polly Bergen (78): Stella Wingfield on Desperate Housewives; other actors born on this date include Harry Dean Stanton (82), Jerry Houser (56), Jackie Earle Haley (47) and Missy Gold (38)
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