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Provided by the compucert heterotelic \het-er-uh-TEL-ik\, adjective:
- Having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.
Heterotelic is directly derived from the Greek roots héteros meaning "other", tele- meaning "distant", and the suffix -ic which denotes an adjective, as in metallic and athletic.
Blackberry roulette
- Driving a motor vehicle while talking or texting on a cell phone.
Each time I see someone driving and talking on the phone I say to myself something's got to be done about these dangerous people; but nothing ever is. They just keep motoring along playing Blackberry roulette until one day their carelessness alters the life of an innocent.
Trivia
What compound—included in most diets—is represented by the molecular formula C8H10N4O2?
- Caffeine.
History
- daguerreotype: L. J. M. Daguerre announced the first practical photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences (1839)
- autogiro: aeronautical engineer Juan de la Cierva made the first successful flight in the helicopter-like aircraft he had invented, in Madrid (1923)
- Martyr's Day of Panama: the tearing of a Panamanian flag during protests regarding US sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone led to several days of deadly fighting (1964)
- Commonwealth of Northern Marianas: was established (1978)
Birthdays
- Joseph Strauss (1870-1938): engineer who designed the Golden Gate Bridge
Richard Nixon (1913-1994): 37th POTUS, who was forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal
- Judith Krantz (84): pop novelist; also, authors Hayyim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934), Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), Karel Čapek (1890-1938), Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
- Bart Starr (78): NFL hall-of-famer; plus, sports broadcaster Dick Enberg (77)
- Joan Baez (71): folk rock singer; also, singers Crystal Gayle (61), Steve Harwell and Dave Matthews (both 44) and A.J. Mclean (34)
- Jimmy Page (68): lead guitarist, Led Zeppelin; and, guitarists Eric Erlandson (49) and Carl Bell (45)
- J.K. Simmons (57): big- and small-screen actor, Law and Order, Juno; also, actors Lee Van Cleef (1925-1989), Bob Denver (1935-2005), Susannah York (1939-2011), and Joely Richardson (47)
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