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vertex \VUR-teks\, noun:
- The highest point of something; apex; summit; top: the vertex of a mountain.
- Anatomy, Zoology. The crown or top of the head.
- Craniometry. The highest point on the midsagittal plane of the skull or head viewed from the left side when the skull or head is in the Frankfurt horizontal.
- Astronomy. A point in the celestial sphere toward which or from which the common motion of a group of stars is directed.
- Geometry. A. The point farthest from the base: the vertex of a cone or of a pyramid. B. A point in a geometrical solid common to three or more sides. C. The intersection of two sides of a plane figure.
Vertex stems from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant "a whirl" or "top (of the head)." It comes from the same stem as the word vortex, vert meaning "to turn." The sense of "the highest point" arose in the 1640s.
Studies show
- A term used to validate some erroneous claim. Usually the sources of the "studies" are not revealed. People will use the anonymous "studies" as some sort of statistical evidence.
Studies show that a person's level of happiness is directly linked to his or her involvement in community service.
Trivia
Which U.S. president left a will that was only one sentence long?
- Famously taciturn Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president (1923–29). The single sentence—in which he mentioned his son but left his entire estate to his wife—was 40 words long.
- Anne Boleyn: already pregnant, the lady-in-waiting was wed in secrecy to King Henry VIII of England (1533)
- Nellie Bly: circumnavigated the globe in 72 days, besting Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1890)
- Winter Olympics: were played for the first time in Chamonix, France in the 1st Olympic Winter Games (1924)
- Emmys: the first awards for excellence in TV were presented for local Los Angeles productions; Shirley Dinsdale was the first winner (1949)
- jet age: American Airlines ran its first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707 (1959)
- OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb: discovery of an extrasolar planet was announced; it orbits the star OGLE-2005-BLG-390L and lies near the center of the Milky Way (2006)
Birthdays
- Robert Boyle 1627
- Robert Burns 1759
- W. Somerset Maugham 1874
- Ernst F. W. Alexanderson 1878
- Virginia Woolf 1882
- Earnie Halwell 1918
- Edwin Newman 1919
- Barbara Carroll 1925
- Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) 1928
- Dean Jones 1931
- Corazon Aquino 1933
Elizabeth Allen 1934 - Diana Hyland (Gentner) 1936
- Etta James 1938
- Leigh Taylor-Young 1944
- Richard Finch (KC and the Sunshine) 1954
- Jennifer Lewis 1957
- Dinah Manoff 1958
- Andy Cox (Fine Young Cannibals) 1960
- Mike Burch (River Road) 1966
- Kina Cosper (Brownstone) 1969
- China Kantner 1971
- Mia Kirshner 1975
- Alicia Keys 1981
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