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Provided by the compucert mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\, adjective:
- Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
- Poisonous; noxious.
Mephitic is the adjective form of mephitis, "a foul-smelling or noxious exhalation from the earth; a stench from any source," from the Latin.
Everyone likes Ben but he's a real asshole. I guess he's just poopular.Trivia
Who were the only competitors allowed to enter a special 100-meter freestyle swimming race at the first modern Olympics in 1896?
- Sailors in the Greek Royal Navy. The 100-meter freestyle for sailors, which took place in the open sea, was closed to all other competitors.
- District of Columbia: was established as the seat of the US government (1790)
- Czar Nicholas II: ruler of Russia was executed, along with his family, by the Bolsheviks, a year after having abdicated (1918)
- Trinity test: US exploded the first trial atom bomb in the New Mexico desert, less than a month before bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
- Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792): portraitist; artists Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) share this birth date
- Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888?-1951): baseball legend
- Pinchas Zukerman (60): violinist and conductor
Will Ferrell (41): comedian and actor, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory; other actors born on this date include Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990), Ginger Rogers (1911-1995), Phoebe Cates (45), Corey Feldman (37) and Mark Indelicato (14)
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