Monday, July 30, 2012

requisition \rek-wuh-ZISH-uhn\, noun:

1. A demand made.
2. The act of requiring or demanding.
3. An authoritative or formal demand for something to be done, given, supplied, etc.: The general issued a requisition to the townspeople for eight trucks.
4. A written request or order for something, as supplies.

verb:

1. To require or take for use; press into service.
2. To demand or take, as by authority, for military purposes, public needs, etc.: to requisition supplies.

Requisition comes from the Latin word requīsītiōn meaning "a searching."
Olympic Adoption

• The act of changing which country you root for in the Olympics. Usually done when your home country's team is terrible.

Guy 1: Wow USA is terrible at curling! I'm rooting for Switerland.
Guy 2: What? You can't do that.
Guy 1: Yes I can, its an Olympic Adoption.
Trivia
Which six letters did Benjamin Franklin propose eliminating from the alphabet?

• C, J, Q, W, X, and Y. He considered them redundant. He proposed the addition of six new letters for sounds he felt needed representation.

History

• Baltimore: port town and industrial center was founded (1729)
• "La Marseillaise": the French national anthem was first sung in Paris (1792)
• In God We Trust: became the official motto of the US (1956)
• Kim Philby: the Soviet news service announced that the British intelligence officer and double agent had defected to the USSR (1963)
• Medicare: insurance program for senior citizens was signed into US law (1965)
• Jimmy Hoffa: the former Teamsters president disappeared in suburban Detroit; he has never been found, but he is presumed dead (1975)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act: "Corporate Responsibility Act" — that tightened control of financial reporting and reduced the potential for fraud — was signed into law by President George Bush (2002)

Birthdays

• Emily Bronte 1818
• Thornstein Velben 1857
• Henry Ford 1863
• Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin 1889 - Invented the iconoscope, called the "Father of Television"
• Casey Stengel 1890
• Henry Moore 1898
• Dick Wilson 1916
• Richard Johnson 1927
• Christine McGuire (The McGuire Sisters) 1929
• Thomas Sowell 1930
• Edd "Kookie" Byrnes 1933
• Ben Piazza 1934
• Buddy Guy 1936
• Joe Nuxhall 1938
• Eleanor Smeal 1939
• Peter Bogdanovich 1939
• Paul Anka 1941
• David Sanborn 1945
• William Atherton 1947
• Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947
• Jean Reno 1948
• Frank Stallone 1950
• Ken Olin 1954
• Anita Hill 1956
• Delta Burke 1956
• Rat Scabies (Damned) 1957
• Kate Bush 1958
• Richard Burgi 1958
• Neal McCoy 1961
• Laurence Fishburne 1961
• Lisa Kudrow 1963 - Actress ("Friends")
• Vivica A. Fox 1964
• Dwayne O'Brien (Little Texas) 1964
• Christine Taylor 1971
• Hillary Swank 1974
• Jaime Pressley 1977