Monday, November 29, 2010

impetrate \IM-pi-treyt\, verb:

• To entreat; ask for.

Impetrate ultimately relates to the Latin petrare, possibly linked to pater, Latin for "father."

pop tags

• When you have so much money that all you do is buy clothing. Therefore you are constantly popping tags off your merchandise.

check my restroom trash all i do is pop tags

Trivia

What 1935 tragedy is referred to as Black Sunday?

• The massive dust storm that blew soil all the way from the southern Great Plains states (the Dust Bowl) to the East Coast.

History

• Army-Navy game: football rivalry began at West Point; Navy won 24-0 (1890)
• South Pole: was flown over for the first time by American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others (1929)
• Palestine: the UN voted to divide the region between Jews and Arabs (1947)
• "I Want to Hold Your Hand": The Beatles released their first No. 1 hit in Great Britain (1963)
• Warren Commission: was established by US president Lyndon Johnson to investigate JFK's assassination (1963)

Birthdays

• Gena Lee Nolin (39): actress, Baywatch
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888): author, Little Women; also, authors C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) and Madeline L'Engle (1918-2007)
• Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945): inventor of the diode; also, scientists Christian Doppler (1803-1853) and Yuan T. Lee (74)
• Jacques Chirac (78): former president of France; plus, former Liberian president William V. S. Tubman (1895-1971)
• Chuck Mangione (70): jazz composer/ musician who plays the flugelhorn; also, Shlomo Artzi (61)
• Joel Coen (56): half of the Coen Brothers filmmaking duo, Fargo, No Country for Old Men
• Don Cheadle (46): actor and activist, Hotel Rwanda; also, actors Diane Ladd (78?), Garry Shandling (61), Howie Mandel (55), Jeff Fahey (54), Cathy Moriarty (50), Kim Delaney and Tom Sizemore (both 48), Andrew McCarthy (48), Larry Joe Campbell (40), Brian Baumgartner (38), Anna Faris and Julian Ovenden (both 34) and Lucas Black (28)
• Krystal Steal (28): t3h pr0n