Saturday, October 16, 2010

ineffable \in-EF-uh-buhl\, adjective:

1. Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable.

2. Not to be uttered; taboo.

Ineffable is from Latin ineffabilis, from in-, "not" + effabilis, "utterable," from effari, "to utter," from ex-, "out" + fari, "to speak."

No drama 

1. Everything's allright, no harm done.
2. No problem, No worries.

"Sorry but I ate the last slice of pizza."

"No drama's."

Trivia

What singer’s fan club did Hillary Clinton head at her high school in Park Ridge, Illinois?

• Fabian’s. The club consisted of teenager Hillary Rodham and two other girls.

History

• Marie Antoinette: extravagant queen was beheaded during the French Revolution (1793)
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry: the abolitionist John Brown attempted to seize a US arsenal in West Virginia; his group was defeated and he was executed for treason (1859)
• birth control: nurse Margaret Sanger founded the first clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York, for which she was arrested (1916)
• Cuban missile crisis: cold war confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union began when Khrushchev installed ballistic missiles in Cuba (1962)
• Million Man March: African-American men rallied in Washington, DC, led by Louis Farrakhan, in an effort to increase voting and community involvement (1995)

Birthdays

• Noah Webster (1758-1843): lexicographer and philologist
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): the witty and self-promoting author of The Importance of Being Ernest; also, playwrights Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) and Günter Grass (83)
• David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): first prime minister of Israel; Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins (1890-1922) was also born on this date
• William O. Douglas (1898-1980): longest-serving US Supreme Court justice
• Tim Robbins (52): actor/filmmaker, The Shawshank Redemption; also, actors Barry Corbin (70), Suzanne Somers (64), Randy Vasquez (49), Kellie Martin (35), Jeremy Jackson (30) and Brea Grant (29)
• John Mayer (33): singer/songwriter; also, musicians C.F. Turner (67), Bob Weir (63), Gary Kemp (51), Flea (48) and Roy Hargrove and Wendy Wilson (both 41)