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Provided by the compucert torrid \TOR-uhd\, adjective:
- Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching; as, "torrid heat."
- Characterized by intense emotion; as, "a torrid love affair."
- Emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; as, "a torrid dance."
Torrid derives from Latin torridus, parched, burnt, dry, from torreo, torrere, to burn, parch, dry up with heat or thirst. The noun form of the word is torridness or torridity.
- "Rave" or form of wild dancing party where all of the members listen to music through headphones on seperate portable music players. The players are all synchronized so everyone is hearing the same thing, but no outsiders hear anything, hence the "silent" portion of the name.
The police didn't bust the silent rave down the street because nobody complained about the noise.
Trivia
What well-known piano piece was written by a 16-year-old British girl named Euphemia Allen?
- “Chopsticks.” Allen wrote “The Celebrated Chop Waltz” in 1877, and had it published under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli.
- "We have met the enemy, and they are ours": message sent by Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812 announcing US victory in the Battle of Lake Erie (1813)
- guillotine: was used for the last time as a tool of execution in France on Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torturing and murdering his ex-girlfriend (1977)
- Switzerland: the famously neutral country joined the UN, becoming its 190th member (2002)
- Roger Maris (1934-1985): baseball great who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record; other athletes born today include Arnold Palmer (79), Bob Lanier (60), Randy Johnson (45) and Gustavo Kuerten (32)
Roy Ayers (68): jazz vibraphonist; some other musicians with this birth date include Danny Hutton (66), Jose Feliciano (63), Joe Perry and Rosie Flores (both 58), David Lowery (48) and Big Daddy Kane (40) - Chris Columbus (50): filmmaker, Home Alone and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; director Guy Ritchie (40) was also born on this date
- Ryan Phillippe (34): actor, Crash, Breach; also, actors Greg Mullavey (69), Judy Geeson (60), Amy Irving (55), Kate Burton (51) and Colin Firth (48)
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