Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

auspicate \AW-spi-keyt\, verb:
  • to initiate with ceremonies calculated to ensure good luck; inaugurate.
Auspicate comes from the Latin word auspicious meaning "divination from the flight of birds." This term entered English in the early 1600s.
  • This is a form of studying where one skims through a text and simply memorizes/learns everything in bold or italicized.
Do you want to meet up cram for tomorrow's Ochem test?

Nah, I'm done studying.

Really? You must be really organized to be able to study ahead of time.

Nah, I used the Bold Font Method...if it's bold I memorized it. & 70% of every test is based off bold font in books.

Trivia What did halfback Fred Gehrke add to the helmets of his Los Angeles Rams teammates in 1948 that started a trend in pro football?
  • He put a team logo on them. Gehrke, an industrial design artist in the off-season, painted the team’s brown leather helmets dark blue and then decorated them with yellow ram horns. 
History
  • United States Constitution: the supreme law of the land was signed at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787)
  • Norton I: Joshua Abraham Norton, a native Englishman who ended up in San Francisco, declared himself emperor of the United States (1859)
  • Battle of Antietam: bloody day — 23,000 killed — of carnage during the American Civil War (1862)
  • Lt. Thomas Selfridge: became the first person to die in an airplane crash, in a plane piloted by Orville Wright (1908)
  • M*A*S*H: the TV show whose final episode remains the top-viewed program on American TV debuted (1972)
Birthdays
  • Ben Turpin 1874
  • Andrew Foster 1879
  • J. (John) Marriott 1900
  • Esther Ralston 1902
  • Dolores Costello 1904
  • Chaim Herzog (Israel) 1918
  • Hank Williams, Sr. (Hiram King "Hank" Williams) 1923 - Country music performer
  • Bill Black 1926
  • Brother Jack McDuff 1926
  • George Blanda 1927
  • Roddy McDowall 1928
  • Sil Austin 1929
  • Pat Crowley 1929
  • Anne Bancroft 1931
  • Dorothy Loudon 1933
  • Ken Kesey 1935
  • Orlando Cepeda 1937
  • Paul Benedict 1938
  • LaMonte McLemore (The Fifth Dimension) 1939
  • David Williams 1946
  • Lol Creme 1947
  • Jeff MacNelly 1947
  • John Ritter 1948
  • Fee Waybill (Tubes) 1950
  • Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson 1951
  • Rita Rudner 1956
  • Kyle Chandler 1965
  • Douglas E. Davis 1966 (Doug E. Fresh)
  • Malik Yoba 1967
  • Keith Flint (Prodigy) 1969
  • Vinnie (Naughty By Nature) 1970
  • Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) 1973
  • Jimmie Johnson (Jimmie Kenneth Johnson) 1975 - Nascar driver
 
    

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