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Provided by the compucert adulterate \uh-DUHL-tuh-rayt\, verb:
- to add an inferior, impure, or improper substance to; lower the quality or purity of a food or other substance without greatly altering the appearance; corrupt
- debased by adulteration; adulterated
by 1505, from Latin adulterationem, from adulteratus, pp. of adulterare "corrupt, debauch," from ad- "to" + Late Latin alterare "to alter"
- When an audience grows weary of clapping, either at a ceremony or musical performance.
"That graduation ceremony was so long, I got clapathetic!"
"I was clapping at the beginning of the song, but I quit when I got clapathy."
Trivia
What country comprises more than 17,000 islands?
- Indonesia. The islands, of which about 6,000 are inhabited, are spread out over a 741,100-square-mile area.
History
- 1969 Second and third men to walk on the Moon: U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan Bean.
- 1959 Edsel: The automobile is discontinued by Ford. With fewer than 100,000 sold since its
- 1957 introduction, it is one of the most famous examples of bureaucratic failures in U.S. industry.
- 1959 Rocky and His Friends debuts on ABC. His "friends" included Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale and of course Bullwinkle the Moose.
- 1956 Edsel: Ford announces the name of its upcoming radical new automobile.
- 1893 First color newspaper supplement, in the New York World.
- 1863 Gettysburg Address: Pres. Lincoln delivers his famous speech.
- 1794 First U.S. extradition treaty with a foreign country: The Jay Treaty is signed with Great Britain. It was proclaimed law in 1796.
Birthdays - 1978 Rachel McAdams, actress: Red Eye, Wedding Crashers, The Hot chick
- Louis XVIII king of France (1755)
- Lee Strasberg stage director (1901)
- Eugene Paul Wigner physicist (1902)
- Isamu Noguchi sculptor (1904)
- Rock Hudson actor (1925)
- Martin Scorsese film director; (1942)
- Danny De Vito actor, director, producer (1944)
- Lorne Michaels TV producer (1944)
- 1966 Daisy Fuentes, actress / model
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