Sunday, November 03, 2013

Sunday, November 3, 2013

aureole \AWR-ee-ohl\, noun: 
1. a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
2. any encircling ring of light or color; halo.
3. Astronomy. corona.
4. Geology. a zone of altered country rock around an igneousintrusion.
Aureole comes from the Latin aureus, which is a diminutive term meaning "golden." It came to English in the late 1400s.
question fart
A fart which sounds as if the inflection raises toward it's end, exactly as you would do with your voice when asking a question.
Barry punctuated his statement with a tiny question fart.
Trivia
How many daughters were in the Bennet family in the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice?
  • Five—Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty (Catherine), and Lydia.

Who did Time magazine pick as the 20th century’s Person of the Century?
  • Albert Einstein. In its January 3, 2000, edition, the news weekly described Einstein as “the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.”
History
  • The Times of India: the world's most widely circulated daily newspaper was founded under the name The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838)
  • Opium War: first broke out between China and Britain (1839)
  • US presidential election of 1948: the Chicago Tribune reported erroneously that "Dewey Defeats Truman"
  • Sputnik II: the Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space; Laika died in orbit (1957)
  • Iran-contra affair: Reagan administration scandal came to light when a Lebanese periodical revealed that the US was selling weapons to Iran (1986)
Birthdays
  • John Montague 1718
  • William Cullen Bryant 1794
  • Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski 1908
  • James Reston 1909
  • Bob Feller 1918
  • Charles Bronson 1921
  • Wanda Hendrix 1928
  • Peggy McCay 1931
  • Monica Vitti 1931
  • Ken Berry 1933
  • Micheal Dukakis 1933
  • John Barry 1934
  • Briam Poole 1941 - Musician (Tremeloes)
  • Steve Landesberg 1945
  • Shadoe Stevens 1946
  • Lulu (Marie Lawrie) 1948
  • Tom Shales 1948
  • Mike Evans 1949
  • Larry Holmes 1949
  • Roseanne Barr 1952
  • Kate Capshaw 1953
  • Dennis Miller 1953
  • Adam Ant 1954 - Musician (Adam & the Ants)
  • Phil Simms 1956
  • Lee Montgomery 1961
  • Ian McNabb 1962 - Musician (Icicle Works)
  • Aria Giovanni 1977 - adult model / t3h pr0n
  • Elizabeth Smart 1988

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