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Provided by the compucert proponent \pruh-POH-nuhnt\, noun:
- One who argues in support of something; an advocate; a supporter.
Proponent is from the present participle of Latin proponere, "to put forth," from pro-, "forth" + ponere, "to put."
- A term used to describe an electric guitar that is being played without an amplifier, or "unplugged." It's still an electric guitar, but without the distortion and volume that the amp provides it sounds more like an acoustic.
Lenny's neighbors called the cops to complain about his late night guitar solos, so now he has to go elecoustic.
Trivia
Where in the U.S. does the Vatican have an observatory?
- In Arizona, on Mount Graham, northeast of Tucson, where Jesuit astronomers built the 70-inch Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in collaboration with the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona.
- Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
- civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; he did end up attending (1962)
- Billie Jean King: won a battle-of-the-sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)
Red Auerbach (1917-1963): basketball coach who led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA titles; hockey hall-of-famer Guy LaFleur (56) shares this birth date - Kristen Johnston (41): actor, 3rd Rock from the Sun; other actors born on this date include Anne Meara (79), Sophia Loren (74), Betsy Brantley (53) and Gary Cole (52)
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