quadrille \kwo-DRIL, kwuh-, kuh-\, noun:
- a square dance for four couples, consisting of five parts or movements, each complete in itself.
- the music for such a dance.
Quadrille entered English in the 1700s from the Latin quadra meaning "square."
commandoflauge
- Is the art of freeballing it while wearing army style pants.
John: Look at Bob, he is always wearing Army pants.
Peter: He never wears undies either, I used to be his room mate.
John: So he is going Commandoflauge then?
John: So he is going Commandoflauge then?
History
- J'accuse: French journalist Emile Zola published his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, the army captain falsely convicted of treason because he was Jewish (1898)
- Henry Ford: patented his plastic car, which ran on ethanol; the plastic was soybean-based, and the car was unsuccessful (1942)
- L. Douglas Wilder: became the first African American elected governor of a US state — Virginia (1990)
- The Fantasticks: the world's longest-running musical ended its off-Broadway run after 17,162 shows and nearly 42 years (2002)
- Horatio Alger 1834
- Sophie Tucker 1884
- Alfred Fuller 1885
- Earle Wheeler 1908
- Butter (Quentin) Jackson 1909
- Jeff Morrow 1913
- Gwen Verdon 1926
- Liz Anderson 1930
- Frances Sternhagen 1930
- Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester (The Chi-Lites) 1930
- Charles Nelson Reilly 1931Rip Taylor 1934
- Billy Gray 1938
- Trevor Rabin (Yes) 1954
- Kevin Anderson 1960
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1961
- Graham McPherson (Madness) 1961
- Penelope Ann Miller 1964
- Patrick Dempsey 1966
- Tim Kelly (Slaughter) 1967
- Anna Marie Goddard 1970 (actress / playmate)
- Nicole Eggert 1972Orlando Bloom 1977
Liam Hemsworth 1990 (Thor)
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