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Provided by the compucert interlocutor \in-ter-LOK-yuh-ter\, noun:
- Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
- The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.
Interlocutor is from Latin interlocutus, variant of interloqui "interrupt," from inter- "between" and loqui "speak."
immaturation - the process of becoming immature
by revisiting old posts we were able to witness the immaturation of the internet from a place of cordial dissent to whiny bickering.
TriviaA seal nests in a rookery, an eagle in an aerie—but what animal nests in a drey?
- A squirrel. Using twigs and leaves, the squirrel builds its drey in a tree, in a fork of branches near the trunk.
- Second Battle of Bull Run: in the US Civil War, the Confederates achieved a victory over Union forces (1862)
- Thurgood Marshall: was confirmed as the first black US Supreme Court justice (1967)
- The Late Show with David Letterman: late-night talk show premiered on CBS (1993)
- Jacobus Hoff (1852-1911): first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; other Nobel Prize winners born on this date include Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), E. M. Purcell (1912-1997) and Sir Richard Stone (1913-1991)
- Warren Buffett (79): businessman and billionaire
- Cameron Diaz (37): actress, the voice of Princess Fiona in Shrek; also, actors Bill Daily (82), Elizabeth Ashley (70), Peggy Lipton (63), Lewis Black (61), Timothy Bottoms (58), David Paymer (55), Michael Chiklis (46) and Michael Michele (43)
- Andy Roddick (27): tennis pro; other sportsmen born on this date include Ted Williams (1918-2002), Jean-Claude Killy (66), Robert Parish (56) and Shaun Alexander (32)
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