Thursday, November 14, 2013

crepuscule \kri-PUHS-kyool, KREP-uh-skyool\, noun:

• twilight; dusk.

Crepuscule entered English around the year 1400 from the Latin meaning "twilight, dusk, darkness." 

charger-challenged 

• The inability to remember to plug a cell phone in to recharge occasionally, thus resulting in a battery-dead device.

Jean's IPhone never work's when she needs it. She cannot ever remember to plug it in overnight. She is definitely charger-challenged.

Trivia

Which familiar features on the face of the Man in the Moon are created by the Sea of Showers and the Sea of Serenity on the lunar surface?

• The eyes. The Sea of Showers or Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium, in Latin) is the left eye; the Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis) is the right eye.

History

• Moby Dick: the famous Herman Melville novel was published (1851)
• Nellie Bly: New York journalist began her around-the-world-in-72-days trip, beating the time of Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1889)
• Coventry: central England city was largely reduced to rubble by Nazi air raids (1940)
• Apollo 12: second successful manned mission to the moon was launched (1969)
• Sedna: this trans-Neptunian object and very far-away dwarf planet candidate was discovered (2003)

Birthdays

• William III (Britain) 1650
• Robert Fulton 1765
• Claude Monet 1840
• Jawaharlal Nehru 1889
• Aaron Copland 1900
• Dick Powell 1904
• Joseph McCarthy 1909
• Rosemary DeCamp 1910
• Barbara Hutton 1912
• Martha Tilton 1915
• Howard Duff 1917
• Johnny Desmond 1920
• Brian Keith 1921
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922
• Phyllis Avery 1924
• Kathleen Hughes 1928
• McLean Stevenson 1929
• Fred Haise 1933
• Ellis Marsalis 1934
• Don Stewart 1935
• Carey Bell 1936
• Freddie Garrity (Freddie & the Dreamers) 1940
• P.J. O'Rourke 1947
• Buckwheat Zydeco 1947
• James Young (Styx) 1948
• Prince Charles (England) 1948
• Stephen Bishop 1951
• Yanni 1954 - Musician
• D.B. Sweeney 1961
• Laura San Giacomo 1961
• Run (Run D.M.C.) 1964
• Patrick Warburton 1964
• Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads) 1964
• Jeannette Jurado (Expose) 1965
• Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) 1969
• Shyheim 1977
• Olga Kurylenko 1979