Saturday, April 24, 2010

perforce \pur-FORS\, adverb:

• By necessity; by force of circumstance.

Perforce comes from French par force, "by force." 
doppelbangers

• A person who has sexual intercourse with someone that looks identical to them but is not related.

Omg they both have bowl cuts and are 6 feet tall. TOTAL doppelbangers.
Trivia
In aviation slang, what’s a zoombag?

• A flight suit.

History

• Library of Congress: was established with $5,000; today it has 18 million books and 100 million other items in 470 languages (1800)
• Hersheypark: amusement park opened in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the exclusive use of Hershey Chocolate Company's employees; it was later opened to the public (1907)
• Easter Uprising: unsuccessful Irish rebellion against British rule began (1916)

Birthdays

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  Henri-Philippe Pétain (1856-1951): WWI general and head of the Vichy government
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  Willem de Kooning (1904-1997): abstract expressionist painter
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  Sue Grafton (70): writer of detective novels; also, authors Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) and Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
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  Barbra Streisand (68): award-winning singer and actress; other performers born today include Shirley MacLaine (76), Michael Parks (70), Richard Sterban (67), Doug Clifford (65), Eric Bogosian (57), Glenn Morshower (51), Djimon Hounsou and Cedric the Entertainer (both 45), Derek Luke (36), Eric Balfour (33) and Kelly Clarkson (28)
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  Omar Vizquel (43): defensive shortstop who won 9 consecutive Gold Gloves; baseball players Chipper Jones (38) and Carlos Beltran (33) share his birth date