Friday, February 10, 2012

depone \dih-POHN\, verb:

• To testify under oath; depose. 

In Latin, dēpōnere meant "to put aside." In Medieval Latin it came to mean "to testify" and came directly into English.

somebody's girl syndrome

• when a really hot chick has trouble getting dates because guys all assume she already has a boyfriend and are scared to approach her.... Inspired by the Jackson Browne song "Somebody's Baby"

Can you believe Jennifer didn't have a date for the prom?

She must be suffering from somebody's girl syndrome.

Trivia 

What hobby did fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes pursue after he retired from crime solving?

• Beekeeping, in Sussex Downs.

History

• Canada: was ceded by France to Britain when the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War (1763)
• Queen Victoria: wed Prince Albert; when Albert died in 1861, Victoria went into a period of mourning that only ended 50 years later, when she died
• "All the News That's Fit to Print": first appeared on page 1 of The New York Times; the slogan was coined by owner Adolph S. Ochs (1897)
• 1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City. "Chattanooga Choo Choo": earned bandleader Glenn Miller the first gold record for sales of over 1 million (1942)
• 1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S.
• Deep Blue: computer won its first game against world chess champ Garry Kasparov (1996)

Birthdays

• Charles Lamb 1775
• William Allen White 1868
• Boris Pasternak 1890
• Jimmy Durante 1893
• Maurice Harold Macmillan 1894 - British Prime Minister from 1957-1963
• Bertolt Brecht 1898 - Dramatist, poet
• Dame Judith Anderson 1898
• Lon Chaney, Jr. 1905
• Larry Adler 1914
• Allie Reynolds 1919
• Neva Patterson 1922
• Leontyne Price 1927
• Jerry Goldsmith 1929
• Robert Wagner 1930
• James E. West 1931
• Don Wilson (The Ventures) 1937
• Roberta Flack 1939
• Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) 1940
• Ral Donner 1943
• Frances Moore Lapp 1944
• Mark Spitz 1950
• Greg Norman 1955
• Kathleen Beller 1955
• Lionel Cartwright 1960
• George Stephanopoulos 1961
• Cliff Burton 1962 - Musician (Metallica)
• Laura Dern 1967
• Dude Mowrey 1972
• Elizabeth Banks 1974
• Emma Roberts 1982
• Chloë Moretz 1998