Thursday, January 12, 2012

bonny \BON-ee\, adjective:

1. Pleasing to the eye.

2. British Dialect. A. (Of people) Healthy, sweet, and lively. B. (Of places) Placid; tranquil. C. Pleasing

; agreeable; good.

adverb:

1. British Dialect. Pleasingly; agreeably; very well.

noun:

• 1. Scot. and North England Archaic. A pretty girl or young woman.

Bonny is of uncertain origin. It may be related to the Old French word bon meaning "good." It entered the Scots dialect in the mid-1400s

Trivial Pursuit

• A veiled invitation for sex.

"Do you want to come over and, uh, play Trivial Pursuit?"

Trivia

Which planet occasionally experiences triple eclipses—with three of its largest moons simultaneously casting shadows on its surface?

• Jupiter, which has more than 60 moons. Its triple eclipses occur once or twice in a decade.

History

• Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
• James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
• All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
• Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)

Birthdays

• Charles Perrault (1628-1703): poet and writer of fairy tales, Tales of Mother Goose; authors Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Jakob Michael Lenz (1751-1792), Jack London (1876-1916), Walter Mosley (60) and John Lasseter (55) share this birth date
• John Hancock (1737-1793): the man who so elegantly signed the Declaration of Independence
• P.W. Botha (1916-2006): PM of South Africa
• Joe Frazier (1944-2011): boxing hall-of-famer
• Howard Stern (58): "shock jock" radio host; plus, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh (61) and TV news anchor Christiane Amanpour (54)
• Jeff Bezos (48): the man behind Amazon.com and Blue Origin

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