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Provided by the compucert fatuous \FACH-oo-uhs\, adjective:
- Inanely foolish and unintelligent; stupid.
- Illusory; delusive.
Face base
- The point in a romantic relationship when pictures of the couple begin to appear on Facebook, and or when the relationship status changes to "In a relationship".
Trivia
What computer company is headquartered on a street named for a software bug?
- Apple Computer, which is located at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California. An infinite loop is geekspeak for a programming error in which a loop of information will repeat itself forever unless interrupted from outside the program.
Pearl Harbor Day: on this "date which will live in infamy," Japan launched a cowardly sneak attack on a sleeping naval base in Hawaii, drawing the US into WWII (1941)
- Delaware: the First State ratified the United States Constitution and was admitted to the Union (1787)
- "The Blue Marble": famous photograph of Earth was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 as NASA's last moon mission flew away from Cape Canaveral (1972)
- Joseph Cook (1860-1947): Australian prime minister
- Willa Cather (1873-1947): novelist who wrote stories of prairie life, O Pioneers!; other writers born today include Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), Joyce Cary (1888-1957) and Heywood Broun (1888-1939)
- Noam Chomsky (81): linguist
- Tom Waits (60): Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/actor, Mule Variations; plus, musicians Bobby Osborne (78), Harry Chapin (1942-1981) and Aaron Carter (22)
- Larry Bird (53): MVP basketball player and coach; hall-of-famers Gerry Cheevers (69) and Johnny Bench (62) also celebrate birthdays today
- Jeffrey Wright (44): stage and screen actor, Angels in America; actors Eli Wallach (94) and Ellen Burstyn (77) share this birth date
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