Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

paraph \PAR-uhf\, noun:
  • a flourish made after a signature, as in a document, originally as a precaution against forgery.
Though early incarnations of paraph appear in Italian, Middle French, and Middle English, its earliest origins are Greek with para- meaning "beside" and the final -ph resulting from graphos, referring to text.
psychic
  • A person with a supernatural talent for finding money.
Person A: She removed my hex!
Person B: No, she removed $50 from your wallet for a stupid rock. She's a psychic!
Trivia
Which current U.S. Supreme Court justice was shown holding a gavel and wearing a judge’s black robe in a high-school yearbook photo?
  • Justice Elena Kagan, who joined the high court in 2010. In the 1977 photo the future jurist, then an eighth-grader, was pictured with other members of the student government at New York City’s Hunter College High School.
History
  • Bank of England: issued the first one-pound note after the government forbade paying out from the diminished gold reserves (1797)
  • Grand Canyon: the enormous gorge was established as a national park (1919); Grand Teton National Park was established on the same date in 1926
  • World Trade Center: bomb in basement killed 6, injured more than 1,000 and caused serious structural damage (1993)
Birthdays
  • Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor
  • Victor Hugo 1802 - Author
  • Honore Daumier 1808
  • Levi Strauss 1829
  • William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
  • John Harvey Kellogg 1852
  • Herbert Henry Dow 1866
  • William Frawley 1887
  • Jean Vercors 1902
  • Madeleine Carroll 1906
  • Jackie Gleason 1916
  • Mason Adams 1919
  • Tony Randall 1920
  • Betty Hutton 1921
  • Margaret Leighton 1922
  • Fats Domino 1928 - Musician
  • Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
  • Bill Duke 1943
  • Paul Cotton (Poco) 1943
  • Mitch Ryder 1945 - Singer
  • Bob "The Bear" Hite 1945 - Musician (Canned Heat)
  • Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) 1947 - Singer
  • Priscilla Lopez 1948
  • Jonathan Cain 1950 - Musician (Babys, Journey)
  • Michael Bolton 1953 - Singer
  • Greg Germann 1958 - Actor ("Ally McBeal")
  • John McDaniel 1961
  • John Jon 1961 - Musician (Bronski Beat)
  • Jennifer Grant 1966
  • Suzi Simpson 1968 - playmate from Athens, Greece (Jan, 1992)
  • Erykah Badu 1971 - Singer
  • Rico Wade (Society of Soul) 1972
  • Marshall Faulk 1972 - Football player
  • Mark DeRosa 1975 - Baseball player

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