Saturday, October 26, 2013

annulate \AN-yuh-lit, -leyt\, adjective:

1. having rings or ringlike bands.
2. formed of ringlike segments, as an annelid worm.

Annulate entered English in the 1800s from the Latin annulus meaning "ring."

husband chair

• A chair in a womens' clothes store/department for a guy to sit in and wait while his wife or girlfriend shops.

You go ahead and shop. I'll just be over here in the husband chair.

Trivia

Which state was the first to have a casino open on an Indian reservation?

• Florida, in 1979, when the Seminole tribe opened a high-stakes bingo parlor on its land in Hollywood. 

History

• Erie Canal: 160-mile (257 km.) waterway opened, offering a route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
• Gunfight at the OK Corral: a legendary Wild West shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, killed three, wounded three, inspired movies; it did not actually take place in the corral (1881)
• Baby Fae: neonatal infant was given a baboon's heart by transplant surgeon Dr. Leonard L. Bailey in Loma Linda, California; she lived for 21 days (1984)

Birthdays

• Domenico Scarlatti 1685 - Composer
  

  
• Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803 - Architect, inventor (the hansom cab)
• C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts)
• Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller 1874 - Philanthropist: cofounder of New York Museum of Modern Art
• H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner 1876 - Actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)
• Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich)
• John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)
• Jack Sharkey 1902 - Boxer
• Primo Carnera 1906 - Boxer
• Mahalia Jackson 1911 - Singer
• Charlie Barnett 1913 - Musician (saxophone), bandleader
• Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid)
• Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
• Neal Matthews 1929 - Musician (Jordanaires)
• John Arden 1930
• Rodney "Hot Rod" Hundley 1934 - Basketball player, sportscaster
• Bob Hoskins 1942 - Actor (Hook, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• Michael Piano 1944 - Singer (The Sandpipers)
• Ivan Reitman 1946
• Keith Hopwood 1946 - Singer, musician (Herman's Hermits)
• Pat Sajak 1947 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York (2000-), U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008
• Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)
• Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah 1948 - Baseball player
• Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers 1949 - Baseball player
• Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove 1949 - Baseball player, manager
• Chuck Foreman 1950 - Football player
• Bootsy Collins 1951
• Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros 1951 - Baseball player
• Maggie Roche 1951 - Musician (The Roches)
• Keith Strickland 1953 - Musician (B-52's)
• Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
• D.W. Moffett 1954
• Rita Wilson 1958 - Actress (Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, Runaway Bride)
• Cary Elwes 1962 - Actor (Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights)
• Dylan McDermott 1962 - Actor (Twister, Steel Magnolias)
• Marla Maples 1963
• Natalie Merchant 1963 - Musician (10,000 Maniacs)
• Thomas Cavanagh 1968 - Actor (TV: Ed) 
  Seth MacFarlane 1973 (Family Guy, Ted)