Sunday, March 17, 2013

rialto \ree-AL-toh\, noun:

• an exchange or mart.

Rialto comes from the name for the mercantile quarter of Venice during the middle ages. Shakespeare is thought to have brought the term into widespread usage from his play the Merchant of Venice, first performed at the turn of the seventeenth century. While it initially referred only to the specific marketplace in Venice, rialto soon took on a broader sense and could be applied marketplaces elsewhere.

it's been real

• A phrase used as a farewell, when the experience shared has been of unique, experimental, or strange phenomenon. Also, a manner of stating that surreal time frame has been shared between two or more peeps.

Cunt: "Thanks for meeting me"

Bax: "I am outtie to NYC. Peace out, yo. It's been real."

Trivia
What color, historically associated with St. Patrick, is on the ancient Irish flag, the Irish presidential standard, and Ireland’s coat of arms?

• St. Patrick’s Blue. The flag, standard, and coat of arms all depict a golden Gaelic harp on a background of St. Patrick’s Blue. A lighter blue is the official color of the Order of St. Patrick, a chivalrous order established in Ireland in 1783.

Holiday

• St. Patrick's Day (for the Irish and Irish-wannabes)

History

• Italy: the modern Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed; it lasted until the Republic was formed in 1946 (1861)
• National Gallery of Art: museum designed by John Russell Pope was dedicated in Washington, DC (1941)
• californium: creation of radioactive element was announced by scientists at UC Berkeley; it was made by bombarding curium with helium isotopes (1950)
• Mount Agung: stratovolcano on Bali erupted, killing 1,500 (1963)

Birthdays

• Roger Taney 1777
• Gottlieb Daimler 1834
• Jim Bridger 1881
• Paul Eliot Green 1894
• Shemp Howard 1895
• Bobby Jones 1902
• Marquis Childs 1903
• John Pastore 1907
• Bayard Rustin 1910
• Frederick Brisson 1913
• Mercedes McCambridge 1918 - Actress
• Nat "King" Cole 1919
• Paul Horn 1930
• Dick Curless 1932
• Adam Wade 1937
• Rudolf Nureyev 1938
• Paul Kantner 1941 - Musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
• Jim Weatherly 1943 - Singer, songwriter
• Patrick McCauley (Them) 1944
• John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)
• Harold Brown 1946 - Musician (War)
• Patrick Duffy 1949 - Actor
• Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor
• Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Susie Allanson 1952 - Country singer
• Lesley-Anne Down 1954 - Actress
• Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY")
• Paul Overstreet 1955 - Country singer
• Mike Lindup 1959 - Musician (Level 42)
• Vicki Lewis 1960 - Actress
• Casey Sirmaszko 1961 - Actor
• Claire Grogan (Altered Images) 1962
• Rob Stich 1962 - Writer, director
• Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor
• Van Connor 1967 - Musician (Screaming Trees)
• Billy Corgan 1967 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins), Uncle Fester Look-Alike
• Mathew St. Patrick 1968 - Actor ("Six Feet Under")
• Patricia Ford 1969 (super hot exotic model)
• Yanic Truesdale 1969 - Actor ("Gilmore Girls")
• Bill Mueller 1971 - Baseball player
• Mia Hamm 1972 - Soccer player
• Melissa Auf der Maur 1972 - Musician (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins)
• Caroline Corr 1973 - Musician (The Corrs)
• Marisa Coughlan 1974 - Actress
• Stephen Gately 1976 - Singer (Boyzone)
• Swifty 1977 - Rapper (D12)