Saturday, January 23, 2010

veritable \VER-ih-tuh-bul\, adjective:

• Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine. 

Veritable derives from Latin veritas, "truth," from verus, "true."
hyphenated

• A woman who is married.

She friended me on Facebook. She's hot, but unfortunately, she is hyphenated.
Trivia
Which beer was the first to be sold in aluminum cans in the United States?

• Coors, in 1959.

Berfdays, yo!

• Édouard Manet (1832-1883): impressionist painter
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948): filmmaker
• Derek Walcott (80): Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright; other writers born on this date include Stendhal (1783-1842) and Camilla Collett (1813-1895)
• Chesley Sullenberger (59): hero pilot of US Airways flight 1549
• Antonio Villaraigosa (57): mayor of LA; also, politicians Frank Lautenberg (86) and Thomas R. Carper (63)
• Princess Caroline (53): heir presumptive to the throne of Monaco
• Mariska Hargitay (46): actor, Law and Order: SVU; also, actors Jeanne Moreau (82), Chita Rivera (77), Lou Antonio (76), Gil Gerard (67), Rutger Hauer (66), Richard Dean Anderson (60), Gail O'Grady (47) and Tiffani Thiessen (36)

History

• Shaanxi Earthquake: deadliest earthquake in recorded history shook central and eastern China, killing more than 800,000 (1556)
• Election Day: date for national elections was set by US Congress as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November (1845)
• Elizabeth Blackwell: became the first female physician in the US, graduating first in her class from Geneva Medical College (1849)
• Daniel Pearl: reporter for The Wall Street Journal was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan; he was killed less than a month later (2002)