Sunday, November 27, 2011

stertor \STUR-ter\, noun:

• A heavy snoring sound.

Stertor comes from the Latin stret which meant “to snore.”

Job Creator

• Euphemism for rich person.

Wow! look at that job creator driving his aston martin to get onto his private jet so he can go to his private island!

Trivia

Following U. S. A-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1955, how hot did the ocean’s surface get?

• 99,000° Fahrenheit (55,000° Celsius).

History

• Toulon, France: during WWII, the French Navy scuttled its own ships and submarines to prevent them from falling into German hands (1942)
• Pope Paul VI: was accosted by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter at a Manila airport (1970)
• Harvey Milk: San Francisco city supervisor was assassinated, along with mayor George Moscone, by former supervisor Dan White; White used the Twinkie defense and was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder (1978)

Birthdays

• Anders Celsius (1701-1744): Swedish astronomer who developed the Celsius thermometer scale
• Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952): Israel's first president; plus Czech politician Alexander Dubček (1921-1992)
• James Agee (1909-1955): screenwriter and novelist, The African Queen, A Death in the Family; and, screenwriter/director Callie Khouri (54)
• Bruce Lee (1940-1973): martial arts actor; James Avery (63), William Fichtner (55), Fisher Stevens (48), Robin Givens (47), Michael Vartan (43), Jaleel White (35) and Alison Pill (26)
• Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970): rock guitarist, "Purple Haze"; other musicians born on this date are Eddie Rabbit (1941-1998), Charlie Benante (49) and Twista (38)
• Kathryn Bigelow (60): first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, for The Hurt Locker
• Bill Nye (56): "the science guy"
• Caroline Kennedy (54): attorney, writer and editor, daughter of JFK

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