Tuesday, July 24, 2012

hypethral \hi-PEE-thruhl\, adjective:

• (Of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.

Hypethral stems from the Greek roots hyp- which means "under" and aîthros meaning "clear sky."

uccessorize, noun:

• Item of clothing or apparel used to make you look or feel more successful

Daniella used her fake glasses to successorize when going to work on Friday. Instantly her coworkers thought she looked smarter.

Trivia

What were the first names of baseball legends Dizzy and Daffy Dean?

• Dizzy was Jay; Daffy was Paul. Together the brothers posted 49 wins for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. Dizzy had 30; Daffy, 19.

History

• Detroit: La Ville d'Etroit, or "city of the strait," was founded by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a French fur trader (1701)
• Brigham Young: seeking a safe haven, the Mormon leader and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, in what is now Utah (1847)
• kitchen debate: US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev debated the merits of capitalism vs. communism in a replica of an American kitchen, set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959)
• Watergate: the US Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over incriminating subpoenaed White House recordings (1974)

Birthdays

• Simon Bolivar 1783
• Alexander Dumas 1802
• Amelia Earhart 1898
• Chief Dan George 1899
• Cootie Williams 1908
• Vera (Salaff) 1910
• Frank Silvera 1914
• Bob Eberly 1915
• Bella Abzug 1920
• Alexander H. Cohen 1920
• Billy Taylor (Billy Taylor Trio) 1921
• Jaqueline Brookes 1930
• Doug Sanders 1933
• Rudy Collins (Dizzy Gillespie Quintet) 1934
• Pat Oliphant 1935
• Ruth Buzzi 1936
• Mark Goddard 1936
• Dan Hedaya 1940
• Barbara Jean Love (Friends of Distinction) 1941
• Cris Sarandon 1942
• Roger Lafreniere 1942
• Heinze Burt (The Tornadoes) 1942
• Robert Hayes 1947
• Michael Richards 1949
• Lynda Carter 1951
• Lynval Golding 1951
• Pam Tillis 1957
• Robbie Grey (Modern English) 1957
• Kadeem Hardison 1965
• Laura Leighton 1968
• John P. Navin Jr. 1968
• Jennifer Lopez 1970 - Singer, actress
• Summer Glau 1981
• Anna Paquin 1982
• Mara Wilson 1987