Tuesday, August 14, 2012

aseptic \uh-SEP-tik\, adjective:

1. Free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction.

noun:

1. A product, as milk or fruit juice, that is marketed in an aseptic package or container.

2. Aseptics, (used with a singular verb) a system of packaging sterilized products in airtight containers so that freshness is preserved for several months.

Aseptic was invented in the 1850s by chemists. It is based on the root septic meaning "infected."

Make it Snow

• It is similar to "making it rain", except that instead of throwing dollar bills, one is so rich that they are able to throw diamonds. In effect, making it snow. Diamonds can be substituted for a large quantity of cocaine.

Making it rain is for poor folk, I make it snow.

Trivia

What U.S. military song borrowed its melody from an opera by Jacques Offenbach?

• The Marine Corps Hymn. Its tune is from an aria in Offenbach’s comic opera Geneviève de Brabant.

History

• Oregon Territory: was organized by an act of US Congress, consisting of all of present-day Oregon, Idaho and Washington, and parts of Montana and Wyoming (1848)
• Social Security Act: was signed into law by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, establishing pensions and unemployment insurance (1935)
• V-J Day: Japan surrendered, ending World War II (1945)
• Pakistan: southern Asia country became independent of Britain (1947)
• Ilich Ramírez Sánchez: the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" was captured (1994)
• Northeast Blackout of 2003: 50 million people — one-third the population of Canada plus one-seventh the population of the US — lost electricity (2003)

Birthdays

• Ernest Thayer 1863
• John Galsworthy 1867
• Russell Baker 1925
• Buddy Greco 1926
• Alice Ghostly 1926
• John Brodie 1935
• Dash Crofts (Seals and Crofts) 1940
• David Crosby 1941
• Connie Smith 1941
• Robyn Smith Astaire 1944
• Steve Martin 1945
• Antonio Fargas 1946
• Susan St. James 1946
• Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
• Danielle Steel 1947
• Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side"
• Terry Adams (NRBQ) 1950
• Debbie Meyer 1952
• James Horner 1953
• Jackee Harry 1956
• Earvin "Magic" Johnson (NBA) 1959
• Susan Olsen 1961
• Emanuelle Beart 1965
• Halle Berry 1968
• Catherine Bell 1968
• Mila Kunis 1983