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Provided by the compucert kitsch \KICH\, noun:
- Art characterized by pretentious bad taste.
- Relating to, or characterized by, kitsch.
Kitsch comes from German.
Diane was giving me a liptease from across the room, so I went over and asked her out.
Trivia
What famous American entrepreneur's first business success was selling the Multimixer, a machine that could mix five milkshakes at once?
- Ray Kroc, the man behind the McDonald’s fast-food empire.
- "The Star Spangled Banner": US anthem was written by attorney Francis Scott Key during the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore (1814)
- Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: widow who founded the American Sisters of Charity was canonized by Pope Paul VI, becoming the first US-born saint (1975)
- Ken Griffey: playing for the Seattle Mariners, he hit a home run that was immediately followed by another homer hit by his teammate and son, Ken Griffey, Jr. (1990)
- Margaret Sanger (1879?-1966): birth control activist
- Larry Brown (68): NBA hall-of-famer and coach
Sam Neill (61): actor, Jurassic Park; Zoe Caldwell and Harve Presnell (75), Walter Koenig (72), Nicol Williamson (70), Mary Crosby (49), Faith Ford (44) and Kimberly Williams-Paisley (37) - Amy Winehouse (25): troubled drug addicted singer of "Rehab" and all around train-wreck; other singers born on this date include Joey Heatherton (64), Jon "Bowser" Bauman (61), Ed King (59) and Craig Montoya (38)
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