Monday, November 21, 2011

salvo \SAL-voh\, noun:

1. Something to save a person's reputation or soothe a person's feelings.

2. An excuse or quibbling evasion.

3. A simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.

4. A round of fire given as a salute.

5. A round of cheers or applause.

Salvo originates in the Latin word salvus meaning “safe.”

Mina

• A beautiful, nice, smart, TALL person that everyone likes. All the guys like her! Especially one special guy who everyone is jealous of... because he has her.

I love that girl named mina!

SAME HERE!

Trivia

What did artists commonly use to hold their oil paints in the early 19th century before the collapsible metal tube was invented?

• Small pouches made from a pig’s bladder. The easily transported metal tube was invented in 1841 by South Carolina portrait artist John G. Rand.

History

• hot-air balloon: first manned free flight was taken by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on a 20-minute, 9-km. flight over Paris (1783)
• phonograph: a new invention was announced by Thomas Edison (1877)
• Verrazano Narrows Bridge: the suspension bridge connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island opened (1964)
• Who shot J.R.? : 350 million people worldwide tuned in to Dallas to find out (1980)

Birthdays

• William Beaumont (1785-1853): doctor who pioneered the study of digestion
• René Magritte (1898-1967): surrealist painter
• Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969): jazz's first great tenor sax player
• Nicollette Sheridan (48): Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives; also, actors Joseph Campanella (84), Laurence Luckinbill (77), Marlo Thomas (74), Juliet Mills (70), Harold Ramis (67), Goldie Hawn (66) and Cherry Jones (55)
• Björk (45): Icelandic singer, songwriter, actor; singer/and, songwriter Livingston Taylor (61)
• Troy Aikman (44): Dallas Cowboys quarterback; plus, team players Stan Musial (91), Earl Monroe (67), Michael Strahan (40) and Ken Griffey, Jr. (42)

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