Tuesday, July 10, 2012

aliquant \AL-i-kwuhnt\, adjective:

• Contained in a number or quantity, but not dividing it evenly: An aliquant part of 16 is 5.

Aliquant stems from the Latin roots ali- meaning "differently" and quantus meaning "great."
poor man's limo

• any public transportation (bus, train, subway, metro) where you are the ONLY person getting a ride

I rode the poor man's limo home today.

For the second time this month I got the poor man's limo to take me home.
Trivia

Which of her signature phrases did TV cooking star Rachael Ray use in naming her child-oriented healthy eating charity?

• Yum-o! Her charity is the Yum-o! Organization.

History

• Monkey Trial: proceedings began against John Scopes, who broke Tennessee state law by teaching evolution to high school students (1925)
• Meher Baba: Indian spiritual master began a silence "to save mankind from monumental ignorance," which ended up lasting 44 years till his death (1925)
• Battle of Britain: German began to attack Britain by air (1940)
• Telstar: the first communications satellite was launched into orbit (1962)
• Coca-Cola Classic: the Coca-Cola Co. announced it would bring back its original formula after customers reacted negatively to New Coke (1985)

Birthdays

• John Calvin 1509
• James Whistler 1834
• Aldolphus Busch 1842
• Nikola Tesla 1856
• Marcel Proust 1871
• Mary McLeod Bethune 1875
• Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1875
• John Gilbert 1897
• Ljuba Welitsch 1913
• Milt Buckner 1915
• Dick Cary 1916
• Don Herbert 1917
• David Brinkley 1920
• Jake LaMotta 1921
• Jeff Donnell 1921
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921
• Jean Kerr 1923
• Fred Gwynne 1926
• David N. Dinkins 1927
• Ivan Passer 1933
• Jerry Herman 1933
• Sandy Stewart 1937
• Lawrence Pressman 1939
• Mills Watson 1940
• Robert Pine 1941
• Ian Whitcomb 1941
• Arthur Ashe 1943
• Jerry Miller 1943 - Musician (Moby Grape)
• Ron Glass 1945
• Virginia Wade 1945
• Hal McRae 1946
• Sue Lyon 1946
• Arlo Guthrie 1947
• Ronnie James Dio 1949 - Musician (DIO)
• Cheryl Wheeler 1951
• Neil Tennant 1954 - Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
• Bela Fleck 1958
• Hawkshaw Wilson 1960 - Musician (BR5-49)
• Peter DiStefano 1965 - Musician (Porno for Pyros)
• Jessica Simpson 1980