subitize \SOO-bi-tahyz\, verb:
- To perceive at a glance the number of items presented.
Subitize comes from the Latin word subitāre which meant "to appear suddenly".
friending spree
- Randomly adding anyone you come across on a social network, including complete strangers
Hey, Paul's on a friending spree, he's got a 1000 friends already on his facebook.
Trivia
What did the creators of the Curious George children’s book series originally call their mischievous monkey?
- Fifi. He was a minor character in 1939 in Raffy and the 9 Monkeys, but when authors Margret and H. A. Rey made him the focus of their next book, their new publisher told them Fifi was too feminine a name for a boy monkey. And so Curious George was born.
- United Nations: 50 countries signed the charter establishing the world body (1945)
- Ich bin ein Berliner: John F. Kennedy declared "I am a Berliner," emphasizing US support for democracy in West Germany (1963)
- UPC bar code: the first item marked in this way was scanned, in Troy, Ohio; the 10-pack of Juicy Fruit is now in the Smithsonian (1974)
- CN Tower: a Toronto landmark, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, opened to the public (1976)
- Human Genome Project: completion of the first rough map of the human genetic code was announced at the White House (2000)
Birthdays
- Sidney Howard 1891
- Pearl S. Buck 1892
- Willy Messerschmitt 1898 - aircraft engineer
- William P. Lear 1902 - aircraft engineer
- Peter Lorre 1904
- Col. Tom Parker 1909
- Roy Plunkett 1910
- Richard Maltby 1914
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1914
- Charlotte Zolotow 1915
- Frances Rafferty 1922
- Dave Grusin 1934
- Billy Davis ( The 5th Dimension) 1940
- Larry Taylor (Canned Heat) 1942
- Pamela Bellwood 1943
- Georgie Fame (Clive Powell) 1943
- Mick Jones (Clash, Big Audio Dynomite) 1955
- Chris Isaak 1956
- Patty Smyth 1957
- Barbara Edwards 1960
- Greg LeMond 1961
- Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) 1963
- Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) 1969
- Chris O'Donnell 1970
- Rebecca Budig 1973
- Jason Schwartzman 1980
- Kaitlin Cullum 1986
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