Friday, July 15, 2011

apodictic \ap-uh-DIK-tik\, adjective:

1. Necessarily true or logically certain.

2. Incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.

Apodictic evolves from the Greek apodeiktikós, "proving fully."

precrestination

• To thoroughly clean one's teeth before visiting the dentist for a teeth cleaning.

I ate a bag of Oreo's and then committed precrestination before going to my dentist appointment.

Trivia

Which two songs from her past films does Julie Andrews hum in Shrek the Third?

• “A Spoonful of Sugar” from Mary Poppins (1964) and “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music (1965). Andrews provided the voice of Queen Lillian in the second and third films in the Shrek series.

History

• margarine: Hippolyte Mège Mouriés got a patent for the butter substitute in France (1869)
• Reconstruction: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union after the American Civil War (1870)
• Second Battle of the Marne: World War I fight began; the Allies' victory halted the German advance toward Paris (1918)
• MSNBC: the 24-hour all-news network debuted on cable TV and the Internet (1996)
• the Mozilla Foundation: was founded to govern development of the open source Mozilla project; it's the creator of the Firefox browser and other web products (2003)

Birthdays

• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669): Dutch painter
• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917): first US saint
• Iris Murdoch (1919-1999): novelist and philosopher, The Sea, The Sea; plus, writers Clement Moore (1779-1863), Jacques Rivière (1886-1925) and Clive Cussler (80)
• Linda Ronstadt (65): singer/actress with multiple Grammys, an Emmy and several platinum albums; other musicians born on this date include Artimus Pyle (63), Marky Ramone and Joe Satriani (both 54), and Jason Bonham (45)
• Peter Banks (64): original guiatrist of prog rock band YES.
• Jesse Ventura (60): former wrestler, who became governor of Minnesota
• Forest Whitaker (50): Oscar winner for Last King of Scotland; also, actors Philip Carey (1925-2009), Alex Karras and Ken Kercheval (both 75), Jan-Michael Vincent (67), Terry O'Quinn (59), Lolita Davidovich (50), Brigitte Nielsen (48), Scott Foley (39) and Brian Austin Green (38), Diane Kruger (35) and Lana Parrilla (34)

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