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Provided by the compucert pelagic \puh-LAJ-ik\, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to the open seas or oceans.2. Living or growing at or near the surface of the ocean, far from land, as certain organisms.
Pelagic is derived from the Greek word pélag which meant "the sea."
medal fatigue
- Inability to stay awake during the day because one has stayed up late watching coverage of the Olympic games.
Halfway through the meeting Barry succumbed to medal fatigue, slumping in his chair, snoring loudly and dreaming that he beat Michael Phelps in the 200 IM.
Trivia
How did Chang and Eng Bunker, the first recorded Siamese twins, come by their first names?
- To tell the twins apart their relatives used the Siamese (Thai) words for their body positions as their names—chang means left; eng means right.
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: the murder of 70,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics began (1572)
- White House: the seat of the US government was burned down by the British when they invaded Washington, DC, during the War of 1812 (1814)
- Treaty of Cordóba: Mexico gained independence from Spain (1821)
- Pluto: got demoted to dwarf planet following a redefinition of "planet" by the International Astronomical Union (2006)
- Joshua Lionel Cowen 1880
Jose Luis Borges 1899 - Edmund Germer 1901
- Preston Foster 1901
- Durward Kirby 1912
- Dennis James 1917
- Penny Edwards 1919
- Louis Teicher 1924
- Yasser Arafat 1929
- Roger McCluskey 1930
- Kenny Baker 1934
- Murray Balfour 1936
- Mason Williams 1938
- David Freiburg (Jefferson Starship) 1938
- Ernest Wright (Little Anthony and the Imperials) 1941
- Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) 1942
- John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger) 1943
- Gregory Jarvis 1944
- Jim Capaldi (Traffic) 1944
- Jim Brady (The Sandpipers) 1944
- Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) 1945
- Joe Regalbuto 1949
- Mike Shanahan 1952
Jeffrey Daniel (Shalamar) 1955 - Gerry Cooney 1956
- Stephen Fry 1957
- Steve Guttenberg 1958
- Cal Ripken, Jr. 1960
- Mark Bedford (Madness) 1961
- Craig Kilborn 1962
- John Bush (Anthrax) 1963
- Marlee Matlin 1965
Reggie Miller 1965 - Kristin Osborn (SheDaisy) 1970
- David Chappelle 1973
- Carmine Giovinazzo 1973
- Chad Michael Murray 1981
- Rupert Grint 1988
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