Tuesday, May 11, 2010

matriculate \muh-TRIK-yuh-leyt\, verb:

1. To enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2. To register (a coat of arms), used esp. in Scottish heraldry.

Matriculate derives from the Latin matrix, "list".
Textual Satisfaction

• The feeling you get when your phone has a new message/missed call.

"dude I've been having textual satisfaction all day I already have 5 new messages." 
Trivia

What top performer won a Grammy for writing the liner notes to Bob Dylan’s country-rock album Nashville Skyline?

• Johnny Cash, in 1969. The award was for Best Album Notes.

History

• Minnesota: became the 32nd US state; its name is Sioux for "cloudy water" (1858)
• CARE package: first ones arrived in Le Havre, France; they cost $10 each and contained a variety of food products (1946)
• Israel: was admitted to the United Nations (1949)
• Deep Blue: IBM's supercomputer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in game 6 of their chess tournament (1997)
• euro: the currency's first coin was struck in a French mint (1998)

Birthdays

• Martha Graham (1894-1991): choreographer and modern dancer
• Salvador Dali (1904-1989): surrealist painter
• Camilo José Cela (1916-2002): Nobel Prize-winner in Literature
• Richard Feynman (1918-1988): Nobel Prize-winning physicist who wrote Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Cory Monteith (28): Glee's Finn Hudson; also, actors Shohreh Aghdashloo and Frances Fisher (both 58), Boyd Gaines (57), Natasha Richardson (1965-2009), Jeffrey Donovan (42), Coby Bell (35) and Jonathan Jackson (28)