Sunday, January 6, 2013

glissade \gli-SAHD\, verb:

1. To perform a glissade, a sliding or gliding step.

noun:

1. A skillful glide over snow or ice in descending a mountain, as on skis or a toboggan.

2. Dance. A sliding or gliding step.

Glissade entered into English in the 1830s as a version of the modern French verb glisser, meaning "to slip."

The 11th Hour

• Used to describe the final moments of a given event, or situation where change is still a possibility.

Right before a deadline.

I procrastinated all night and now, in the 11th hour, I need to work my ass off to finish this report moments before it is due.

Trivia

• Tomorrow

Holiday

• Armenian Christmas
• Twelfth Day (Christian)

History

• George Washington: wed wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis (1759)
• Maria Montessori: Italian educator, known for the Montessori method, opened her first school in a Rome housing project (1907)
• Four Freedoms: in his State of the Union message to Congress, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described his goals for all humanity: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (1941)
• George H.W. Bush: WWII Navy pilot married Barbara Pierce, who had dropped out of college to solidify the union (1945)
• Wheel of Fortune: TV's longest-running syndicated game show first aired (1975)
• President Bush: a defeated Al Gore presided as Congress certified George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election (2001)

Birthdays

• King Richard II (England) 1367
• Joan of Arc 1412
• Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier 1745
• Jebediah Smith 1799
• Gustave Doré 1833
• Carl Sandburg 1878
• Tom (Thomas Erwin) Mix 1880
• Joey Adams 1911
• Danny Thomas 1912
• Loretta Young 1913
• Eugene Maleska 1916
• Sun Myung Moon 1920
• Earl Scruggs (Bluegrass Boys, Foggy Mountain Boys) 1924
• John Z. DeLorean 1925
• Pat Flaherty 1926
• Wilbert Harrison 1929
• Vic Tayback 1930
• Dickie Moore 1931
• E.L. Doctorow 1931
• Bobby Lord 1934
• Silvia Syms 1934
• Nino Tempo 1935
• Doris Troy 1937
• Bonnie Franklin 1944
• Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) 1946 
• Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) 1951
• Jett Williams 1953
• Malcolm Young (AC/DC) 1953
• Rowan Atkinson 1955
• Van McCoy 1956
• Nancy Lopez Knight 1957
• Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1959
• Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) 1960
• Michael Houser (Widespread Panic) 1962
• Charles Haley (NFL) 1964
• John Singleton 1968
• Gabrielle Reece 1970
• Danny Pintauro 1976