Saturday, July 27, 2013

accrete \uh-KREET\, verb: 

1. to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to).
2. to add, as by growth. 

adjective:

1. Botany. grown together.

Entering English in the late 1700s, accrete is a backformation of the noun accretion from the Latin word accrēscere meaning "to grow." 

Nocializing

• The act of being out in a social public setting (i.e. Restaurant, Cocktail Bar, Coffee shop) and only spending time on your mobile device; not the people with or around you.

"I would have loved to catch up with Sheila but she was nocializing the entire time we were at the bar!" 

Trivia
What bird has the longest bill?

• The Australian pelican, with a bill that is up to 18½ inches long.

History

• transatlantic telegraph cable: was completed, linking the US and Europe; the cord shortened communication time from days to minutes (1866)
• insulin: physiologists isolated the hormone used to manage diabetes (1921)
• Bugs Bunny: debuted in The Wild Hare (1940)
• Billboard: the magazine published its first singles record chart (1940)
• Korean War: the conflict ended with no clear winner, splitting the country into North and South (1953)
• Coronation Street: British soap characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton tied the knot; their wedding got higher telly ratings than that of Prince Charles and Lady Di (1981)

Birthdays

• Charlotte Corday 1768
• George Foster Peabody 1852
• Keenan Wynn 1916
• Homer (Henry D. Haynes) 1918
• Charles P. Ginsburg 1920
• Norman Lear 1922
• Bob Morse (Hi-Lo's) 1927
• Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows) 1929
• Jerry Van Dyke 1931
• Nick Reynolds (The Kingston Trio) 1933
  
• Don Galloway 1937
• Irv Cross 1939
• James Victor 1939
• Dennis Ralston 1942
• John Pleshette 1942
• Bobbie Gentry 1944
• Al Ramsey (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) 1946
• Betty Thomas 1948
• Peggy Fleming 1948
• Maury Chaykin 1949
• Maureen McGovern 1949
• Michael Vaughn (Paperlace) 1950
• Janet Eilber 1951
• Roxanne Hart 1952
• Duncan Cameron (Sawyer Brown) 1956
• Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) 1963
• Rex Brown (Pantera) 1964
• Juliana Hatfield 1967
• Stacy Dean Campbell 1967
• Julian McMahon 1968
• Maya Rudolph 1972
• Peter Yorn 1974
• Alex Rodriguez (MLB) 1975
• John Rhys Meyers 1977