Thursday, June 10, 2010

ruth \ROOTH\, noun:

1. Compassion or pity for another.

2. Sorrow or misery about one's own misdeeds or flaws.

3. In the Bible, a Moabite woman who married Boaz and became an ancestor of David: the daughter-in-law of Naomi.

4. Book of the Bible bearing her name.

5. A female given name.

Distinct from the Biblical figure, ruth is a descendent of the Middle English ruthe, from Old Norse hrygdh.

shit just got real

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  An expression that explains how a joking or friendly conversation suddenly took a turn for the worse and is escalating towards a hostel situation and/or a physical scuffle.

Tommy: I have never been so tired in my life

George: That's what your mom said last night

Random Yell from Someone Not Actually Involved: SHIT JUST GOT REAL!

Trivia

How many pounds of pressure does it take to break an ostrich egg?

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  120.

History

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  US Mint: John Hull broke English colonial law to establish America's first mint (1652)
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  University Boat Race: Oxford bested Cambridge in the first of what is now an annual rowing race (1829)
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  Alcoholics Anonymous: was founded by Dr. Bob Smith and Bill W., on the date of Smith's first full "dry" day (1935)
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  Rape of Lidice: Nazis murdered all the men of Lidice and deported the women and children (1942)
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  ballpoint pen: Lásló Bíró got a patent for a pen he had been developing for nearly a decade (1943)
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  Affirmed: the thoroughbred became the eleventh and most recent winner of the Triple Crown (1978)

Birthdays

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  Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): leading Realist painter; artist André Derain (1880-1954) shared this birth date
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  Prince Philip (89): Duke of Edinburgh and royal consort to Queen Elizabeth II
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  Maurice Sendak (82): author and illustrator of children's books, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen; novelist Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was also born on this date
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  Kate Flannery (46): Meredith Palmer on The Office; also, actors Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952), Judy Garland (1922-1969), Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010), Jürgen Prochnow (69), Gina Gershon (48), Jeanne Tripplehorn (47), Elizabeth Hurley (45), Shane West (32) and Leelee Sobieski (28)
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  Tara Lipinski (28): Olympic gold medal-winner in figure skating
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  Sasha Obama (8): America's younger First Daughter