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orrery \AWR-uh-ree, OR-\, noun:
- an apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc., in the solar system.
- any of certain similar machines, as a planetarium.
Orrery is an eponym named after Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Orrery was the patron of George Graham who created a mechanical model of solar system. It entered English in the early 1700s.
I am an artist
- a lame excuse used by artistic types who maintain that they are profound, spontaneous free-spirits but are really selfish, irresponsible, and inconsiderate flakes.
Where have you been? We've been waiting over an hour for you so we can go out for dinner!
I am an artist.
Fuck you! You're a mediocre cartoonist at best. Now go back home!
Trivia
What gadget did flamboyant Kansas City Athletics owner Charlie Finley briefly use to deliver new baseballs to umpires?
- A mechanical rabbit (named Harvey) that would pop up out of a hole behind home plate. Finley owned the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics from 1960 to 1980.
History
- Siege of Jerusalem: Islamic military leader Saladin retook the holy city from the Crusaders (1187)
- HMS Beagle: naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England after a five-year sea voyage, during which he formulated his theory of natural selection (1836)
- Opus Dei: Roman Catholic organization was founded by St. Josemaría Escrivá; it was popularized in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (1928)
- The first episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE premiered on television (1959)
- Thurgood Marshall: was sworn in as the Supreme Court's first African American justice (1967)
- Rock Hudson: movie star died of AIDS; he was the first celebrity to announce he had the disease (1985)
- Richard III 1452 - He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869
- Wallace Stevens 1879
- Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
- Ruth Cheney Streeter 1895 - The first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
- Bud Abbott 1895
- Graham Greene 1904
- Paul Goldsmith 1927
- Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) 1927
- George "Spanky" McFarland 1928
- Moses Gunn 1929
- Maury Wills 1932
- Rex Reed 1938
- Don McLean 1945
- Jo-el Sonnier 1946
- Donna Karan 1948
- Chris LeDoux 1948
- Avery Brooks 1948
- Richard Hell 1949
- Annie Leibovitz 1949
- Mike Rutherford (Mike & the Mechanics, Genesis) 1950
- Sting (Police) 1951
- Philip Oakey (Human League) 1955
- Freddie Jackson 1956
- Bud Gaugh (Sublime) 1967
- Dion Allen (Az Yet) 1970
- Kelly Ripa 1970 actress, MILF
- Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) 1971
- LaTocha Scott (Xscape) 1973
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