Sunday, July 31, 2011

ambsace \EYMZ-eys\, noun:

1. The smallest amount or distance.

2. The lowest throw at dice, the double ace (two ones.)

3. Bad luck; misfortune.

Ambsace stems from the Old French ambes as, "both aces."

2.0 (Read: two point oh | two point zero)

• Marketing catchphrase/buzzword than, when attached to a name, implies an "improved" or "superior" product than it's predicesor. When used in comparisons like ' A is B 2.0" ,' it's like saying "B" is like "A" only "better."

Obama thinks he's Jesus Christ 2.0.

Trivia

Port of Spain is the capital city of what country?

• The island republic of Trinidad and Tobago, which was ruled by the Spanish from 1757 until 1797, when the British invaded and seized control.

History

• Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498)
• Samuel Hopkins: received the first US patent for a process of making fertilizer (1790)
• Christchurch: became the first New Zealand city to be chartered (1856)
• NYSE: closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds (1914)
• K2: the world's second-highest peak, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, was summited for the first time, by an Italian team (1954)

Birthdays

• Henri Brisson (1835-1912): two-time premier of France
• Milton Friedman (1912-2006): Nobel Prize winner for Economics
• Primo Levi (1919-1987): Italian chemist who wrote of his experiences during the Holocaust
• Evonne Goolagong Cawley (60): tennis champ
• Will Champion (33): rocker, Coldplay; also, musicians Kenny Burrell (80), Lobo (68), Gary Lewis (66), Michael Wolff (59), Bill Berry (53), Fatboy Slim (48) and Jim Corr (47)
• B.J. Novak (32): comic writer/actor, The Office; also, actors France Nuyen (72), Susan Flannery (68), Geraldine Chaplin (67), Richard Griffiths (64), Barry Van Dyke (60), Michael Biehn (55), Wesley Snipes (49), Dean Cain (45), Ben Chaplin (41) and Annie Parisse (36)

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