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Provided by the compucert mithridate \MITH-ri-deyt\, noun:
- A confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.
Mithridate originates from the name of Mithridates VI, a legendary king who had an immunity to poisons
Adverblasting
- When a commercials audio is much louder than the program that you actually want to watch's audio.
Man, I was watching NCIS, and then I had to turn down my TV when the commercials came on because of damn adverblasting.
Trivia
The sound track of what animated Walt Disney adventure film includes seven Elvis Presley hits—five of them sung by The King himself?
- Lilo & Stitch (2002).
History
- Battle of Chattanooga: huge battle at a railway junction began during the US Civil War, ending with a Union victory (1863)
- jukebox: the first coin-operated phonograph was installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco (1889)
- Doctor Who: British sci-fi TV program about a doctor who time-travels in a TARDIS debuted; it is still running (1963)
- China: the People's Republic took over Taiwan's seat in the UN Security Council (1971)
Birthdays
- John Wallis (1616-1703): mathematician
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869): South-leaning Northern POTUS; other world leaders born on this date include Otto I (912-973) and José Napoleon Duarte (1925-1990)- William H. Bonney (1859-1881): outlaw known as Billy the Kid
- Jerry Bock (1928-2010): composer, Fiddler on the Roof; plus, composers Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) and Krzysztof Penderecki (77)
- Snooki Polizzi (23): reality TV star, Jersey Shore
- Miley Cyrus (18): singer/actress, the titular star of Hannah Montana: also, actors Boris Karloff (1887-1969), Michael Gough (93), Franco Nero (69), Steve Landesberg (65), Vincent Cassel (44), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (43), Oded Fehr (40), Page Kennedy (34), Kelly Brook (30) and Lucas Grabeel (26)
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