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Provided by the compucert plenary \PLEE-nuh-ree; PLEN-uh-ree\, adjective:
- Full in all respects; complete; absolute; as, plenary authority.
- Fully attended by all qualified members.
Plenary comes from Late Latin plenarius, from Latin plenus, "full." It is related to plenty.
Stoptional
Stoptional
- When the braking of a car is left to one's choice due to an unnecessary stop sign.
Passenger: Did you just blow through that stop sign?
Driver: Oh, no worries. It was stoptional.
Trivia
Why were sheep kept on the White House lawn during World War I?
- To free the gardeners for military service. The sheep of state—which at one point numbered 18—not only grazed and kept the lawn well manicured, but their wool was auctioned off to raise money for the Red Cross.
- Brutus: committed suicide after losing to Mark Anthony and Octavian in the Second Battle of Philippi, a war fought to avenge the assassination of Julius Caesar (42 BCE)
- War of Jenkins' Ear: British PM Robert Walpole reluctantly declared war on Spain after a ship's captain brought in his ear, pickled, and told the House of Commons it had been severed by the Spanish coast guard (1739)
- Hungarian Revolution: spontaneous protest began, marking the first anti-Soviet revolt; many thousands were killed or fled; the Hungarian Republic was declared exactly 33 years later(1956)
- Moscow Theater Crisis: Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages; many died during a Russian raid the next day (2002)
- Pelé (68): Brazil's most famous soccer star
- Ang Lee (54): Oscar-winning director of Brokeback Mountain; filmmakers Philip Kaufman (72) and Sam Raimi (49) share this birth date
- Ryan Reynolds (32): actor, Definitely, Maybe; actors Michael Rupert (57) and Masiela Lusha (23) also celebrate birthdays today
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