Friday, April 9th, 2010

indefatigable \in-dih-FAT-ih-guh-bul\, adjective:

• Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue.

Indefatigable comes from Latin indefatigabilis, from in-, "not" + defatigare, "to tire out," from de-, intensive prefix + fatigare, "to weary."

bootyism

• Bootyism is a sexy religion often confused with Budhism.

I know more about Bootyism than I do about Catholicism!

Trivia

On what body of water is the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, situated?

• On the Grand River. The city was named for its proximity to the river’s rapids.

History

• public library: America's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire (1833)
• US Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, ending the war (1865)
• Saddam Hussein: statue of Iraqi dictator was toppled in Baghdad, signifying the end of the Baath regime (2003)
• Prince Charles: married Camilla Parker-Bowles (2005)

Berfdays

• Curly Lambeau (1898-1965): football coach who founded the Green Bay Packers
• Leon Blum (1872-1950): France's first Socialist premier
• Gregory Pincus (1903-1967): endocrinologist who helped develop the birth control pill
• Hugh Hefner (84): founder of Playboy magazine, greatest man in history
• Dennis Quaid (56): star of American Dreamz and Vantage Point; also, actors Jean-Paul Belmondo (77), Michael Learned (71), Cynthia Nixon (44), Kristen Stewart (20) and Elle Fanning (12)
• Jesse McCartney (23): singer, Beautiful Soul; singers Paul Robeson (1898-1976), Hal Ketchum (57) and Albert Hammond, Jr. (30) were also born today
• Paulina Porizkova (45): retired super hot supermodel, MILF, married to a possible zombie.