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Provided by the compucert pica \PAHY-kuh\, noun:
1. An abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat.2. A 12-point type of a size between small pica and English.3. A brown-speckled European lark, Alauda arvensis, famed for its melodious song.4. A 12-point type, widely used for typewriters, having 10 characters to the inch.
Pica is from the Middle Latin meaning "magpie," probably translating Greek kissa, "magpie, jay," also "false appetite."
carnevoyeur
- A vegetarian who derives satisfaction from watching other people eat meat or hearing about the eating of meat.
Amy says she's a vegetarian, but she also professes her love for Dinty Moore beef stew and keeps telling me I should go eat Korean Fried Chicken. She's such a carnevoyeur
Trivia
Where did the term “scapegoat” originate?
- In the Old Testament (Leviticus 16:10), which recounts how Aaron, following God’s direction, was to confess the sins of the people over the head of a live goat and then send it out into the wilderness in symbolic atonement for those sins. In the Jewish religion, Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement.
History
- Empress Myeongseong: the last empress of Korea was assassinated by the Japanese (1895)
- perfect game: Don Larsen pitched what remains the only perfect game in World Series history; the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0 (1956)
- Che Guevara: leftist revolutionary hero was captured by the Bolivian army; he was executed the next day (1967)
- water speed record: was set by Australian Ken Warby at 318 mph/510 kph near Tumut, New South Wales; it still stands (1978)
- Solidarity: and the rest of Poland's labor unions were banned (1982); Solidarity continued to work underground, until it was declared legal in 1989
- Kashmir: a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed some 80,000 and injured 65,000 on the Pakistan-India border (2005)
Birthdays
- Heinrich Schutz (1585 JC-1672): composer and organist
- Juan Perón (1895-1974): president of Argentina
- Jesse Jackson (70): civil rights activist
R.L. Stine (68): author of Goosebumps books; Dune writer Frank Herbert (1920-1986) shared this birth date - Sigourney Weaver (62): award-winning actress, Aliens and Avatar; other actors born today include Paul Hogan (72), Chevy Chase (68), Darrell Hammond (56), Stephanie Zimbalist (55), Emily Procter (43), Matt Damon (41), Nick Cannon (31) and Angus T. Jones (18)
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