Tuesday, November 5, 2013

ennoble \en-NOH-buhl\, verb: 

1. to elevate in degree, excellence, or respect; dignify; exalt: a personality ennobled by true generosity.
2. to confer a title of nobility on.

Ennoble comes from the Latin nobilis meaning "well-known" or "high born," which in turn came from the Proto-Indo-European root gno- meaning "to know."

Phosphorus Bromide

• Nerdspeak for Pabst Blue Ribbon. The chemical symbol for Phosphorus Bromide is PBr. PBR is the acronym for Pabst Blue Ribbon.

If you don't tell me what kind of beer you want me to bring to the party, I'll go cheap, and you'll all be drinking Phosphorus Bromide.
Trivia

What Western resort town was the first city in the U.S. to be totally governed by women?

• Jackson, Wyoming, which elected a woman mayor and women to its four city council seats in 1920, the year the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Holiday

• Election Day (USA) (vote for Stacey for PBMS! http://www.playboymisssocial.com/anastasiapokorny )

History

• Susan B. Anthony: the suffragist attempted to vote in the 1872 presidential election although women were not allowed to; she was fined $100 but refused to pay (1872)
• Monopoly: the popular Parker Brothers board game was released (1935)
• FDR: beat Wendell Wilkie to win an unprecedented third term as US president (1940)
• Ella Grasso: Connecticut woman became the first female to be elected governor of a US state without succeeding her husband (1974); Shirley Chisolm, the first black woman representative, was elected to Congress (1968)
• Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (2006)

Birthdays

• Eugene Victor Debs 1855
• Will Durant 1885
• Alfred Neale 1891
• Raymond Loewy 1893
• Joel McCrea 1905
  
• Natalie Schafer 1912
• Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912
• Vivien Leigh 1913
• John McGiver 1913
• Myron Floren 1918
• Ike Turner 1931
• Billy Sherrill 1936
• Chris Robinson 1938
• Elke Sommer 1940
• Art Garfunkel 1941
• Sam Shepard 1943
• Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) 1946
• Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) 1947
• Armin Shimermin 1949
• Bill Walton 1952
• Jon-Erik Hexum 1958

• Robert Patrick 1958
• Bryan Adams 1959
• Tatum O'Neal 1963
• Andrea McArdle 1963
• Famke Janssen 1964
• Angelo Moore (Fishbone) 1965
• Mark Hunter (James) 1968
• Corin Nemec 1971
• Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) 1971
• Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown) 1974
• Heather Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
• Jennifer Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
• Jeremy Lelliott 1982