Wednesday, May 11, 2011

irenic \eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik\, adjective:

• Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.

Irenic comes from Greek eirenikos, from eirene, "peace."

powerpuff presentation

• A powerpoint presentation containing lots of flashy animations, cool pictures, and all sorts of other snazzy gimmics, but almost entirely lacking in any real substance.

Didn't the VP's presentation just blow you away? I loved the falling apples turning into dollar bills.

But what was the point?

Dunno, it was definitely a powerpuff presentation.

Trivia

Where did the Roman poet Virgil hide his valuables to keep them safe?

• In beehives.

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)
• 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

• Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874): famously conjoined twins
• Irving Berlin (1888-1989): prolific songwriter of some of America's favorite songs, including "White Christmas" and "God Bless America"
• Salvador Dali (1904-1989):surrealist painter
• Martha Graham (1894-1991): choreographer and modern dancer
• 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!
• Robert Jarvik (65): the physician who invented the artificial heart
• Cory Monteith (29): Glee's Finn Hudson; also, actors Shohreh Aghdashloo and Frances Fisher (both 59), Boyd Gaines (58), Natasha Richardson (1965-2009), Jeffrey Donovan (43), Coby Bell (36) and Jonathan Jackson (29)

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