Monday, July 15, 2013

Monday, July 15, 2013

lese majesty \LEZ MAJ-uh-stee, LEEZ-\, noun:

  1. Law. a. a crime, especially high treason, committed against the sovereign power. b. an offense that violates the dignity of a ruler.
  2. an attack on any custom, institution, belief, etc., held sacred or revered by numbers of people: Her speech against Mother's Day was criticized as lese majesty.
This term, which entered English in the 1400s, comes from the Latin laesa majestos, which literally means "violated majesty."
cad

  • A rogue, or bounder. A cad is a man who is aware of the codes of conduct which seperate a gentleman from a ruffian, but finds himself unable to quite live up to them. Cads are quite capable of disguising themselves as good chaps for some time, only revealing their true nature in circumstances of particular stress or temptation. Others embrace their caddishness whole-heartedly and delight in behaving in a manner which is, to be quite frank, not cricket. They are certainly intelligent, educated, often cultured and frequently very witty, but, alas, are simply unreliable.
"Even by the standards of Permanent Secretaries, Appleby really was rather a cad."
Trivia
Lexus is the luxury arm of which automaker?
  • Toyota. If you have a Lexus, you bought an expensive Toyota.
History

  • margarine: Hippolyte Mège Mouriés got a patent for the butter substitute in France (1869)
  • Reconstruction: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union after the American Civil War (1870)
  • Second Battle of the Marne: World War I fight began; the Allies' victory halted the German advance toward Paris (1918)
  • MSNBC: the 24-hour all-news network debuted on cable TV and the Internet (1996)
  • the Mozilla Foundation: was founded to govern development of the open source Mozilla project; it's the creator of the Firefox browser and other web products (2003)
Birthdays

  • Rembrandt Van Rijn 1606
  • Clement Clarke Moore 1779
  • William Winter 1836
  • Dorothy Fields 1905
  • Richard W. Armour 1906
  • Cowboy Copas 1913
  • Philip Carey 1925
  • Non Clow Martin 1927
  • Clive Cussler 1931
  • Julian Bream 1933
  • Alex Karras 1935
  • Ken Kercheval 1935
  • Patrick Wayne 1939
  • Tommy Dee 1940
  • Millie Jackson 1944
  • Jan-Michael Vincent 1944
  • Peter Lewis 1945 - Musician (Moby Grape)
  • Linda Ronstadt 1946
  • Trevor Horn 1949 - Musician (Buggles, YES)
  • Jesse Ventura 1951
  • Rick Kehoe 1951
  • Terry O'Quinn 1952 - Actor ("Lost")
  • Jeff Carlisi 1952 - Musician (.38 Special)
  • David Pack 1953 - Musician (Ambrosia)
  • Joe Satriani 1956 - Musician
  • Marc Bell 1956 - Musician (The Ramones)
  • Ian Curtis 1956 - Musician (Joy Division)
  • Kim Alexis 1960
  • William Aames 1960
  • Forest Whitaker 1961
  • Lolita Davidovich 1961
  • Brigitte Nielsen 1963 - Actress
  • Phillip Fisher 1967 - Musician (Fishbone)
  • Stan Kirsch 1968
  • Beth Ostrosky Stern 1972
  • Scott Foley 1972
  • Brian Austin Green 1973 (Mr Megan Fox) 

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