Word of the Day for Thursday, July 3, 2008

tutelage \TOO-tuhl-ij; TYOO-\, noun:

1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection.
2. The state of being under a guardian or tutor.
3. Instruction, especially individual instruction accompanied by close attention and guidance.

fakebook

• Adding friends to facebook who you don't particularly like, socialize with or think you are friends with.

Go to her fakebook pages to see all of her friends he/she does not have.

Trivia

How many digits are in the serial numbers on all U.S. paper currency?

• Eight. All bills contain two prefix letters, eight numerals, and a one-letter suffix.

Today in History

• Quebec: city was founded by Samuel de Champlain (1608)
• great auks: the last pair of the extinct species, found incubating an egg, was killed (1844)
• Battle of Gettysburg: decisive Civil War battle ended after 3 days, in a major victory for the North (1863)
• Algeria: became independent after 132 years of French rule (1962)

Today's Birthdays

• Franz Kafka (1883-1924): author of The Metamorphosis; writer M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Tom Stoppard (71) and Jay Tarses (69) share this birth date
• John Kundla (92): basketball hall-of-famer and coach; baseball outfielder Moisés Alou was also born today
• Pete Fountain (78): jazz clarinetist
• Montel Williams (52): former TV talk-show host
• Tom Cruise (46): 3-time Golden Globe winning actor; other actors born on this date include Kurtwood Smith (65), Jan Smithers (59), Thomas Gibson and Hunter Tylo (both 46) and Yeardley Smith (44)