Wednesday, May 18, 2011

iota \eye-OH-tuh\, noun:

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the English i.

2. A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a bit.

Iota is the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet. The word jot also derives from iota.

apocalypse sex

• Thoughtless, careless sex happening right before a major disaster or possible ending of the world, without thought of consequences.

Figuring that this was the end of the world I turned to the girl sitting next to me and said 'why not' as we commenced to have passionate apocalypse sex; I just hoped that this time, it was for real...

Trivia

Which president’s inaugural parade featured Geronimo and five other Native American chiefs in full tribal regalia riding on horseback down Pennsylvania Avenue?

• Theodore Roosevelt’s, in 1905. Along with Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache) were American Horse (Oglala Sioux); Hollow Horn Bear (Brule Sioux); Quanah Parker (Comanche); Little Plume (Piegan Blackfeet); and Buckskin Charlie (Ute).

History

• Montreal: the French founded the Quebec city as Ville Marie de Montréal (1642)
• Napoleon Bonaparte: crowned himself emperor (1804)
• Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcanic peak in Washington State, erupted, shooting a plume of gases 63,000 feet high and killing more than 50 people (1980)
• Les Misérables: closed after 16 years on Broadway (2003)

Birthdays

• Omar Khayyam (1048-1131): poet/ scientist; and, mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Walter Gropius (1883-1969): architect who helped found the Bauhaus school
• Frank Capra (1897-1991): director of It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; plus, director Richard Brooks (1912-1992)
• Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991): prima ballerina
• John Paul II (1920-2005): 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church
• Reggie Jackson (65): MLB hall-of-famer; and, baseball MVP Brooks Robinson (74)
• Tina Fey (41): writer/actor/comedian, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock; also, actors Bill Macy (89), Pernell Roberts (1930-2010), Robert Morse (80), Dwayne Hickman (77), Chow Yun-Fat (56) and Matt Long (31)
• Rick Wakeman (62): greatest rock keyboardist of all time, Yes.

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