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Provided by the compucert dolorous \DOH-luh-ruhs\, adjective:
- Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.
Dolorous derives from Latin dolor, "pain, grief, sorrow," from dolere, "to suffer pain, to grieve."
Gift Parasite- A person who adds their name to a gift tag in order to claim partial credit for giving the gift.
I'm totally broke so I had to be a gift parasite and sign on that present you're giving Grandma.
TriviaWhere did New Mexican judge Jack Love get the idea for the electronic bracelet that’s now widely used to monitor prisoners being held under house arrest?
- From a Spider-Man comic strip published in 1977. In the strip, Spider-Man is being tracked by a transmitter that had been attached to his wrist by the villain Kingpin.
- Pilgrims: arrived in the New World, seeking religious freedom; they went ashore near Plymouth Rock, having traveled west after their initial settlement in Leiden, Holland, became unsustainable (1620)
- crossword puzzle: Liverpudlian journalist Arthur Wynne published the first "word-cross" puzzle, in The New York World (1913)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: film version premiered in Hollywood (1937)
- Pan Am Flight 103: went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb exploded aboard, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground (1988)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): English PM
- Rebecca West (1892-1983): novelist and critic; novelist Heinrich Boll (1917-1985) shared this birth date
- Michael Tilson Thomas (65): composer and conductor; rock musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was also born on this date
- Kiefer Sutherland (43): Jack Bauer on 24; also, actors Ed Nelson (81), Jane Fonda (72), Larry Bryggman (71), Samuel L. Jackson (61), Jane Kaczmarek (54), Ray Romano (52), Andy Dick (44), Karri Turner (43) and Julie Delpy (40)
- Chris Evert (55): tennis pro; athletes Joe Paterno (83), Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959-1998), Karrie Webb (35) and Jackie Stiles (31) were also born on this date
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