equipoise \EE-kwuh-poiz; EK-wuh-\, noun:
- A state of being equally balanced; equilibrium; -- as of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
- Counterbalance.
Equipoise is equi-, "equal" + poise, from Middle English poisen, "to balance, weigh," from Old French peser, pois-, ultimately from Latin pensare, "to weigh."
holidrawl - Depression caused by the lack of a holiday to party about for at least a one-month period. Typically occcurs between St. Patrick's Day and Memorial Day in the US and also during the month of August when holidrawl is present between 4th of July and Labor Day.
Dear Diary;
I'm in such holidrawl that I can't think of anything else to tell you!
*flips back to entries from St. Patty's Day and cries hysterically*
Trivia
What are you afraid of if you suffer from iatrophobia?
- Doctors, or going to the doctor.
- freedom of the press: a legal precedent was established when newspaper editor John Peter Zenger was acquitted of seditious libel; he had published criticism of the colonial governor of New York (1735)
- Anne Frank: teenage Jewish diarist was discovered, along with her family, by Nazis; their hiding place was revealed by a Dutch informant and they were sent to concentration camps, where most perished (1944)
- Burkina Faso: West African republic received its new name meaning "land of upright people"; it was formerly called Upper Volta (1984)
- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971): jazz trumpeter
- Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947?): Swedish diplomat/businessman who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during WWII; in 1945, he was taken into custody by the Russians and disappeared
- Helen Thomas (89): venerated White House correspondent
- Dennis Lehane (44): novelist, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone; writers Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) and Robert Hayden (1913-1980) were also born on this date
- Daniel Dae Kim (41): Jin-Soo Kwon on Lost; also, actors Richard Belzer (65), Billy Bob Thornton (54), Lauren Tom (48) and Michael DeLuise (40)
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