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Provided by the compucert paralipsis \par-uh-LIP-sis\, noun:
- The suggestion, by deliberately brief treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in "not to mention other faults."
Paralipsis owes its English sense to the Greek paraleíp(ein), "to leave on one side."
Labor Day
- The holiday at the beginning of when school starts that nobody really knows what it means.
Hey When's Labor Day?
Next weekend Foo'
Oh Man! Yes! ..Whats Labor Day anyway?
I don't know Cuh'
Trivia
In days of yore, what was the occupation of a whacker?
- Driver of a team of horses or oxen.
Holiday
- Labor Day: US
History
- Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)
- Continental Congress: delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) convened in Philadelphia to seek repeal of the British Intolerable Acts (1774)
- Sam Houston: was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas (1836)
- On the Road: Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness novel, considered a defining work of the Beat Generation, was published (1957)
- Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists of the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics (1972)
Birthdays
- Louis XIV (1638-1715): king of France and Navarre
- Jesse James (1847-1882): outlaw of the American Old West
- Werner Herzog (69): director, screenwriter and producer; filmmakers Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) and Dennis Dugan (65) were also born on this date
- John Cage (1912-1992): avant garde composer; plus, musicians Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Loudon Wainwright III (65), Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) and Dweezil Zappa (42)
- Raquel Welch (71): actor, sex symbol; also, actors Bob Newhart (82), Carol Lawrence (79), William Devane (74), George Lazenby (72), Michael Keaton (60), Kristian Alfonso (48) and Rose McGowan (38)
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