Wednesday, March 28, 2012

luxate \LUHK-seyt\, verb:

• To put out of joint; dislocate.

Luxate is not related to any word for "light." Rather, it is from the Greek word for "oblique," which was loxós.

fart apnea

• Similar to sleep apnea, though a patient continually wakes themselves up due to the severity of their fart.

Nancy continually wake's herself up due to chronic fart apnea.

Trivia

What phrase and symbol on the Great Seal of the U.S. also serve as the motto and mascot of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Portugal’s popular soccer club?

• The phrase is E pluribus unum, Latin for “out of many, one”; the mascot is the eagle.

History

• Andrew Jackson: US president was censured by the Senate for his actions in the Bank War; the censure was later expunged from the record (1834)
• Virginia Woolf: distinguished novelist, critic and essayist (A Room Of One's Own) committed suicide by drowning; she had been suffering from depression and bouts of mental illness for many years (1941)
• Three Mile Island: the most serious nuclear accident in US history took place at a power station in Pennsylvania (1979)

Birthdays

• Santi Raphael 1483
• Paul Whiteman 1890
• August Busch 1899
• Rudolf Serkin 1903
• Frank Lovejoy 1912
• Jay Livingston 1915
• Dirk Bogarde 1921
• Thad Jones 1923
• Freddie Bartholomew 1924
• Eric Dixon 1930
• Bill Anthony 1930
• Charlie McCoy 1941 - Country musician
• Mike Newell 1942 - Director
• Conchata Ferrell 1943 - Actress
• Ken Howard 1944 - Actor
• Chuck Portz (The Turtles) 1945
• Barry Miles 1947
• Dianne Wiest 1948 - Actress ("Law and Order")
• Milan Williams 1948 - Musician (Commodores)
• Ronnie Ray Smith 1949
• Reba McEntire 1955 - Actress, country singer
• Tracey Needham 1967 - Actress
• Max Perlich 1968 - Actor
• Salt (Cheryl James) 1969 - Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
• Vince Vaughn 1969 - Actor
• Brett Ratner 1969 - Actor
• Mr. Cheeks 1971 - Rapper (Lost Boyz)
• Ken L. 1973 - Actor
• Annie Wershing 1977 - Actress ("24")
• Julia Stiles 1981 - Actress
• Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) 1986 - Musician