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noctilucent \nok-tuh-LOO-suhnt\, adjective:
- Visible during the short night of the summer.
Noctilucent entered English in the late 1800s. It is a combination of the prefix nocti- (which means "night") and lucent (which means "shining").
armchair activist
- A so-called activist who thinks he is helping towards a good cause by making a topic famous via blogs/social media.
"Forward this link to help breast cancer!!!!"-common saying by an armchair activist.
"Copy this message to help prevent HIV! Look I'm an activist xoxo."
Trivia
What 1996 Tim Burton film was based on a series of bubble gum trading cards?
- Mars Attacks! The Topps cards had a brief life in 1962—they were pulled from stores, after 55 had been produced, because of outrage over their grisly images.
- US Constitution: went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it (1788)
- Ellen Louks Fairclough: was sworn in as the first female member of the Canadian cabinet (1957)
- Women's National Basketball Association: league play began (1997)
- polio: the World Health Organization declared Europe free of the disease (2002)
- SpaceShipOne: the first privately funded and developed spacecraft was launched over the Mojave Desert and piloted into space by Michael Melvill (2004)
- Pluto: newly discovered moons were named Nix and Hydra (2006)
- Martha Washington 1731
- Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859
- Al Hirshfield 1903
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905
- Jane Russell 1921
- Judy Holliday 1922
- Maureen Stapleton 1925
- Carl Stokes 1927
- O.C. Smith 1932
- Bernie Kopell 1933
- Francoise Sagan 1935
- Ron Ely 1938
- Monte Markham 1938
- Joe Flaherty 1940
- Mariette Hartley 1940
- Brian Sternberg 1943
- Ray Davies (Kinks) 1944
- Chris Britton ( The Troggs) 1945
- Brenda Holloway 1946
- Joey Molland 1947
- Michael Gross 1947
- Meredith Baxter Birney 1947
- Leon Everette 1948
Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) 1950 - Nils Lofgren (E Street Band) 1951
- Robyn Douglas 1953
- Robert Pastorelli 1954
- Leigh McCloskey 1955
- Berke Brethed 1957
- Mark Brzezicki (Big Country) 1957
- Kathy Mattea 1959
- Marc Copage 1962
Doug Savant 1964 - Porter Howell 1964
- Sammi Davis-Voss 1964
- Michael Dolan 1965
- Allison Moorer 1972
- Juliette Lewis 1973
- Justin Cary (Sixpence None the Richer) 1975
- Mike Einziger (Incubus) 1976
- Prince William (England) 1982
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