Monday, March 15, 2010

gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun:

• High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject).

Gravitas is from the Latin gravitas, "heaviness, seriousness," from gravis, "heavy, serious."
FOL

• Fuck OUR Lives. also see FML

How did we forget about the biology project!? FOL!!!
Trivia
What reason did baseball legend Satchel Paige give for not knowing how old he was?

• Paige, who admitted to being 59 in 1965 when he last pitched in the major leagues, claimed the family goat “ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it.” His tombstone has question marks where his birth date should have been engraved. He died in 1982.

History

• My Fair Lady: Lerner and Loewe musical debuted on Broadway, starringRex Harrison and Julie Andrews (1956)
• symbolics.com: the first Internet domain name was registered (1985)
• Sedna: the press announced discovery of the "tenth planet," the farthest celestial body in the solar system (2004)

Berfdays

• Andrew Jackson (1767-1845): 7th US president, nicknamed "Old Hickory"; PMs William Lamb Melbourne (1779-1848) and Christian Michelsen (1857-1925) shared this birth date
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (77): US Supreme Court justice, Columbia University's first tenured female professor
• Fabio (51): model who graced the covers of hundreds of romance novels
• will.i.am (35): rapper with the Black Eyed Peas; other rockers who share this birthday include Phil Lesh (70), Mike Love (69), Sly Stone (67), Ry Cooder (63), Dee Snider (55), Mark Hoppus (38), Joe Hahn (33) and Young Buck (29)
• Kim Raver (41): actor, 24; among other actors born on this date are Judd Hirsch (75), Eva Longoria Parker (35) and Sean Biggerstaff (27)