Monday. November 4, 2013

shoal \shohl\, noun:

1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.

adjective:

1. of little depth, as water; shallow.

verb:

1. to become shallow or more shallow.
2. to cause to become shallow.
3. Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel).

Shoal comes from the Old English term sceald meaning "shallow." It was spelled with a d up until the 1500s. 

Concentration marks

• The red marks you get on your elbows/forearms from resting your arms on your knees after having spent a long time on the toilet.

"Dude, you were in there for a really long time!"
"Yeah man, I was taking a massive shit."
"Bro, you've got some serious concentration marks. Look at your elbows!"
Trivia

What year in the future was Tomorrowland designed to represent when Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?

• 1986. Tomorrowland has been updated several times since then.

History

• William and Mary: joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland were married (1677)
• cash register: was first patented by James and John Ritty (1880)
  

  
• King Tutankhamen: treasure-filled tomb was discovered in Luxor, Egypt, by archeologist Howard Carter (1922)
• Nellie T. Ross: Wyoming woman became the first female governor of a US state; she was serving out her late husband's term (1924)
• Iran hostage crisis: a mob seized the US Embassy in Teheran after the US admitted the exiled Shah Reza Pahlavi (1979)
• Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli prime minister was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv (1995)
• Barack Obama: was elected the United States' first African-American chief executive (2008)

Birthdays

• Will Rogers 1879
• Pauline Trigere 1912
• Walter Cronkite 1916
• Virginia Field 1917
• Gig Young (Byron Barr) 1917
  
• Art Carney 1918
• Carmen Mitchell 1918
• Martin Balsam 1919
• Alfred Heineken 1923
• Kate Reid 1930
• Dick Groat 1930
• Doris Roberts 1930
• Loretta Swit 1937 - Actress (M*A*S*H*)
• Harry Elston (Friends of Distinction) 1938
• Delbert McClinton 1940
• Robert Mapplethorpe 1946
• Laura Bush 1946 - U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush
• Markie Post 1950
• Van Stephenson (Blackhawk) 1953
• Jordan Rudess 1956 - Musician (Dream Theater)
• Jim Honeyman-Scott 1957 - Musician (Pretenders)
• Ralph Macchio 1962
• Adrea McArdle 1963
• Wayne Richard "Static" Wells 1964  - Musician (Static-X)
• Chris Difford 1954 - Musician (Squeeze)