Monday, July 20, 2009

pastiche \pas-TEESH; pahs-\, noun:

1. A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work.
2. A musical, literary, or artistic composition consisting of selections from various works.
3. A hodgepodge; an incongruous combination of different styles and ingredients.

Pastiche comes from Italian pasticcio, "a paste," hence "a hodgepodge, literary or musical," ultimately from Latin pasta, "paste."

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Trivia
Where was the first escalator installed in the United States?

• At Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, as a novelty ride in the mid-1890s. Called the Reno Inclined Elevator, after its inventor Jesse W. Reno, the wooden-slat conveyor belt was built at a 25-degree angle and moved passengers at 1 1/2 mph onto the amusement park’s Old Iron Pier.

Today in History:

• Sitting Bull: Sioux leader surrendered to the US Army under a promise of amnesty (1881)
• Abdullah I: the king of Jordan was killed by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem (1951)
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike: was elected leader of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female prime minister (1960)
• Special Olympics: took place for the first time, in Chicago; 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities competed (1968)
• Viking 1: landed on Mars, taking the first color pictures of the red planet (1976)

Today's Birthdays:

• Petrarch (1304-1374): poet and scholar
• George II (1890-1947): king of Greece
• Sir Edmund Hillary (1918-2008): the man who, along with Tenzing Norgay, was the first to scale Everest
• Cormac McCarthy (76): author of No Country for Old Men
• Carlos Santana (62): rock musician, Santana; other rock stars born on this date include John Lodge (64), Paul Cook (53), Chris Cornell (45) and Stone Gossard (43)
• Josh Holloway (40): James "Sawyer" Ford on Lost; also, actors Sally Ann Howes (79), Natalie Wood (1938-1981), Diana Rigg (71), Donna Dixon (52), Frank Whaley (46), Reed Diamond (42) and Judy Greer (34)
• Julianne Hough (21): creative dancer, DWTS; American Idol runner-up Elliott Yamin (31) shares this birth date