Saturday, March 10, 2012

esculent \ES-kyuh-luhnt\, noun:

1. Something edible, especially a vegetable.

adjective:

1. Suitable for use as food; edible.

Related to the word eat, esculent comes from the Latin word for food, esca.

SMTA

• abbrev. "Sick minds think alike." It is a variation of GMTA.

Person One: I was just about to stab this fork into my rectum!

Person Two: Really? Me too! SMTA!

Trivia

Why did the World Wrestling Federation change its name to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002?

• It lost a court battle over the initials WWF, which had been trademarked by the World Wildlife Fund in 1961.

History

• Personal Rule: King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament and began 11 years of ruling alone (1629)
• Alexander Graham Bell: made the first telephone call: "Watson, come here; I want you" (1876)
• rings of Uranus: were discovered (1977)
• syzygy: all the planets were on the same side of the Sun (1982)

Birthdays

• Marcello Malpighi 1628
• Friedrich Von Schlegel 1772
• Barry Fitzgerald 1888
• Arthur Honegger 1892
• Bix Beiderbecke 1903
• Claire Booth Luce 1903
• Chandler Harper 1914
• Heywood Hale Broun 1918
• Pamela Mason 1919 Don Abney 1923
• Jethro (Kenneth Burns) 1923
• Ralph Emery 1933 - Talk show host
• Norman Blake 1938 - Bluegrass musician
• David Rabe 1940 - Playwright
• Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger")
• Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean)
• Sandra Jean Palmer 1941
• Katharine Houghton 1945 - Actress
• Bob Greene 1947 - Newspaper columnist
• Tom Scholz 1947 - Musician (Boston)
• Paul Haggins 1953 - Director, screenwriter
• Shannon Tweed 1957 - Actress
• Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress
• Gail Greenwood (Belly) 1960 - Musician (L7)
• Jeff Ament 1963 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
• Jasmine Guy 1962 - Actress
• Neneh Cherry 1964 - Singer
• Prince Edward 1964 - Son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
• Rod Woodson 1965 - Football player
• Edie Brickell 1966 - Singer
• Stephen Mailer 1966 - Actor
• Paget Brewster 1969 - Actress ("Criminal Minds")
• Dylan Keefe 1970 - Musician (Marcy Playground)
• John Hamm 1971 - Actor ("Mad Men")
• Daryl Singletary 1971 - Country singer
• Timberland 1972 - Rapper, producer
• Cristian de la Fuente 1974 - Actor ("Family Law")
• Bree Turner 1977 - Actress
• Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast
• Robin Thicke 1977 - Singer
• Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol"
• Emily Osment 1992 - Actress ("Spy Kids" movies)