Tuesday, June 7, 2011

wiredrawn \WAH-yuhr-drawn\, adjective:

1. Finely spun; extremely intricate; minute.

2. Drawn out long and thin like a wire.

Wiredrawn is a back-formation from the verb to wiredraw, "to draw (metal) out into wire, especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter."

sextee

• The receiver of a sext message.

OMG, I meant to send my girlfriend a sext message but I misspelled the name and later realized the sextee was actually my mom!

Trivia

How much does $1 million in $100 bills weigh?

• About 22 pounds, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

History

• Treaty of Tordesillas: divided the New World between Spain and Portugal (1494)
• Continental Congress: the delegates heard a motion to declare the United Colonies free and independent from England (1776)
• Vatican City: became an independent, sovereign state as the Lateran Treaty was signed in Rome (1929)
• The $64,000 Question: game show premiered on CBS (1955)
• Betamax: Sony released the first popular videocassette recorder, making it possible to tape one show while watching another (1975)

Birthdays

• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903): Post-Impressionist painter
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): Illinois' Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate; and, writers Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Nikki Giovanni (68), Orhan Pamuk (59) and Louise Erdrich (57)
• Liam Neeson (59): actor, Schindler's List and his new release, Unknown; also, actors Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), Colleen Camp (58), Bill Hader (33), Anna Torv (32) and Michael Cera (23)
• Prince (53): musician, Purple Rain; plus singers Dean Martin (1917-1995) and Tom Jones (71), drummer Bill Kreutzmann, Jr. (65), and guitarist Dave Navarro (44)
• Allen Iverson (36): basketball's shortest MVP and one of its fastest
• Anna Kournikova (30): tennis player and model

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