Tuesday, September 13, 2011

panache \puh-NASH; -NAHSH\, noun:

1. Dash or flamboyance in manner or style.

2. A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

Panache is from the French, from Medieval French pennache, from Italian pinnacchio, feather, from Late Latin pinnaculum, diminutive of penna, feather. It is related to pen, a writing instrument, originally a feather or quill used for writing.

Serial Infatuator

• A Serial Infatuator is someone who continually has intimate relationships that last only between 3-5 months. It is the defined timeline for infatuation.

My recent lover is a Serial Infatuator. He does not get past the 5 month mark where infatuation gives way to true love.

Trivia

How many members of the California-based pop band the Beach Boys were surfers?

• Only one, drummer Dennis Wilson, despite the group’s hit songs that suggested otherwise—including “Surfin’,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Surfin’ USA,” and “Surfer Girl.”

History

• Margaret Chase Smith: became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress when she was elected US senator from Maine (1948)
• Attica: the four-day revolt at New York's maximum security prison ended when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility; forty-two people died (1971)
• Super Mario Bros.: best-selling video game of all time was first released, in Japan, by Nintendo (1985)
• Oslo Accord: historic handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat in Washington marks the signing of a secret peace agreement in Oslo (1993)

Birthdays

• Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896): pianist and composer; composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) shares this birth date
• Milton Hershey (1857-1945): chocolatier, businessman
• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941): author of short stories and novels, Winesburg, Ohio; writers J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) and Roald Dahl (1916-1990) were also born on this date
• David Clayton-Thomas (70): singer, Blood, Sweat & Tears; plus, musicians Bill Monroe (1911-1996), Peter Cetera (67), Randy Jones (59), Stephen Perkins (44) and Fiona Apple (34)
• Louise Lombard (41): CSI's Sofia Curtis; also, actors Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), Eileen Fulton (78), Richard Kiel (72), Jacqueline Bisset (67), Jean Smart (60) and Geri Jewell (55)

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