MONDAY! January 7, 2013

tidings \TAHY-dingz\, noun:

• News, information, or intelligence: sad tidings.

Tidings is most used in the phrase "glad tidings," but it was a word on its own before it entered Christmas lore. The word came from the Old Norse word tīthindi meaning "news." It is related to the common word "tide."

Resolutionist

• A person who joins the gym in early January because of their New Years Resolution. Resolutionists can be spotted by their pasty white skin, excessive fat, poor form, and blank look on their face as they stand next to any piece of gym equipment. Resolutionists usually migrate back to the couch any time from mid-January to early March.

"This damn Resolutionist has been on the Smith machine for 30 minutes. Maybe if he put more than 30 lbs on the bar and stopped taking 10 minute rests it wouldn't take so long. I can't wait until March"

Trivia

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History

• Galilean moons: Jupiter's moons were first observed by Galileo; Simon Marius, however, named them — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, after the lovers of Zeus (1610)
• Fannie Farmer: published her first cookbook (1896)
• Marian Anderson: the contralto became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House (1955)
• Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's regime was toppled when Vietnam took Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh (1979)
• Bill Clinton: impeachment trial began (1999)

Birthdays

• Joseph Bonaparte (Naples) 1768
• Millard S. Fillmore (U.S.) 1800
• Charles Laemmle 1867
• Adolph Zukor 1873
• Charles Péguy 1873
• Butterfly McQueen 1911
• Charles Addams 1912
• Vincent Gardenia 1922
• Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922
• Gerald Durrell 1925
• William Blatty 1928
• Terry Moore (Helen Koford) 1929
• Jack Greene 1930
• Douglas Kiker 1930
• Eldee Young 1936
• Lou Graham (golfer) 1938
• Danny Williams 1942
• Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1942
• Leona Williams 1943
• Jan Wenner 1946
• Kenny Loggins 1948
• Marshall Chapman 1949
• Erin Gray 1952
  

  
• Morris Titanic (NHL) 1953
• Katie Couric 1957
• David Lee Murphy 1958
• Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) 1958
• David Marciano 1960
• Craig Shipley 1963
• Nicholas Cage 1964
• Guy Hebert (NHL) 1967
• Doug E. Doug 1970
• Jeremy Renner 1971
• John Rich 1974
• Dustin Diamond 1977
  Lauren Cohan 1982 (The Walking Dead)
• Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer 
• Lindsy Fonseca 1987