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solipsism \SOL-ip-siz-uhm\, noun:
- Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
- extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one's feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption.
Solipsism entered English in the late 1800s from the Latin solus + ipse literally meaning "alone" + "self."
baxolicious - The superlative of donovanesque.
Trivia
How do used tennis balls from Wimbledon and elsewhere enable animal conservationists in Great Britain to help an endangered species?
- They’re recycling the balls to provide homes for harvest mice, Britain’s smallest mammal. Under the conservation program, the mice, which normally weave their nests on tall stalks, are setting up house in tennis balls that conservationists have attached to stakes. Each ball has a small hole bored into it that allows mice to enter, but not their larger predators.
A jaguar is a large wildcat, but what’s a jaeger?
- A predatory seabird that steals food from smaller, weaker birds.
- Act of Supremacy: the English parliament passed a law making King Henry VIII head of the English church (1534)
- War of the Worlds: Orson Welles' radio broadcast purported to deliver news of a fictional Martian invasion; outrage and panic ensued (1930)
- Tsar Bomba: the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was detonated by the Soviet Union over the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (1961)
- the rumble in the jungle: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman for the world heavyweight title (1974)
- Quebec: voters opted to stay part of Canada by a hair's-breadth majority of 50.6% to 49.4% (1995)
- John Adams (U.S.) 1735
- Richard Sheridan 1751
- Alfred Sisley 1839
- Ezra Pound 1885
- Charles Atlas 1893
- Ruth Gordon 1896
- Sue Carol 1907
- Gordon Parks 1912
- Fred Friendly 1915
- Joe Adcock 1927
- Louis Malle 1932
- Hamilton Camp 1934
- Dick Vermeil 1936
- Dick Gautier 1937
- Claude Lelouch 1937
- Eddie Holland 1939
- Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1939
- Ed Lauter 1940
- Otis Williams (The Temptations) 1941
- Henry Winkler 1945
- Timothy B. Schmidt (Poco, The Eagles) 1947
- Harry Hamlin 1951
- Charles Martin Smith 1953
- T. Graham Brown 1954
Shanna Reed 1955- Kevin Pollak 1958
- Joey Belladonna 1960 (Anthrax)
- Diego Armando Maradona 1960
- Ty Detmer 1967
- Gavin Rossdale (Bush) 1967
- Nia Long 1970
- T3h Bax0jayz! (Bobby the Blue) 1971 - accountant, drummer, blogger, supreme dictator of the universe, will become a saint.
- Kassidy Osborn (SHeDAISY) 1976
- Christopher Backus 1981
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