Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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phantasmagoric \fan-tax-muh-GAWR-ik, -GOR-\, adjective:

1. having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
2. having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one produced by a magic lantern.
3. changing or shifting, as a scene made up of many elements.

Phantasmagoric comes from the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine." It came to English from the Old French in the 1800s.

Passive learning

• Watching tv and letting the knowledge come to you

Instead of going to school today I'm gonna sit back and do some passive learning.
Trivia

What is the full name of Cap’n Crunch, the cartoon cereal mascot?

• Horatio Magellan Crunch.

History

• Kenesaw Mountain Landis: judge was elected the first commissioner of baseball after the Black Sox scandal (1920)
• Leon Trotsky: was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the Soviet ruler (1927)
• Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge: eight-mile-long structure opened for traffic (1936)
• Ellis Island: the New York Harbor facility, which served more than 12 million immigrants, was closed (1954)

Birthdays

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815
• Auguste Rodin 1840
• Jo Stafford 1918
• Richard Quine 1920
• Kim Hunter 1922
• Sunset Carson (Michael Harrison) 1922
• Grace Kelly 1929
• Jack Oakie 1930
• Charles Manson 1934
• Ruby Nash Curtis (Ruby & the Romantics) 1939
• Brian Hyland 1943
• Wallace Shawn 1943
• Jimmy Hayes (Persuasions) 1943
• Al Michaels 1944
• Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) 1944
• Neil Young 1945
• Barbara Fairchild 1950
• Megan Mullally 1958
• Nadia Comaneci 1961
• David Ellefson (Megadeath) 1964
• Tony Montana (Great White) 1965
• Tonya Harding 1970
• Angela Watson 1974
• Tevin Campbell 1976
• Anne Hathaway 1982