Monday, January 06, 2014

Monday, January, 6, 2014

poultice \POHL-tis\, noun:
  • a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
verb:
  • to apply a poultice to.
Poultice came to English in the 1500s from the Latin puls meaning "porridge."
Plutobrat
  • Ruling class of wealthy spoiled children that grew old but never grew up.
The plutobrats tried to buy the Presidential Election of 2012 and failed.
Holiday
  • Armenian Christmas
  • Twelfth Day (Christian)
History
  • George Washington: wed wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis (1759)
  • Maria Montessori: Italian educator, known for the Montessori method, opened her first school in a Rome housing project (1907)
  • Four Freedoms: in his State of the Union message to Congress, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described his goals for all humanity: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (1941)
  • George H.W. Bush: WWII Navy pilot married Barbara Pierce, who had dropped out of college to solidify the union (1945)
  • Wheel of Fortune: TV's longest-running syndicated game show first aired (1975)
  • President Bush: a defeated Al Gore presided as Congress certified George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election (2001)
Birthdays
  • King Richard II (England) 1367
  • Joan of Arc 1412
  • Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier 1745
  • Jebediah Smith 1799
  • Gustave Doré 1833
  • Carl Sandburg 1878
  • Tom (Thomas Erwin) Mix 1880
  • Joey Adams 1911
  • Danny Thomas 1912
  • Loretta Young 1913
  • Eugene Maleska 1916
  • Sun Myung Moon 1920
  • Earl Scruggs (Bluegrass Boys, Foggy Mountain Boys) 1924
  • John Z. DeLorean 1925
  • Pat Flaherty 1926
  • Wilbert Harrison 1929
  • Vic Tayback 1930
  • Dickie Moore 1931
  • E.L. Doctorow 1931
  • Bobby Lord 1934
  • Silvia Syms 1934
  • Nino Tempo 1935
  • Doris Troy 1937
  • Bonnie Franklin 1944
  • Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) 1946 
  • Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) 1951
  • Jett Williams 1953
  • Malcolm Young (AC/DC) 1953
  • Rowan Atkinson 1955
  • Van McCoy 1956
  • Nancy Lopez Knight 1957
  • Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge) 1959
  • Eric Williams (BLACKstreet) 1960
  • Michael Houser (Widespread Panic) 1962
  • Charles Haley (NFL) 1964
  • John Singleton 1968
    Norman Reedus 1969 (The Walking Dead)
  • Gabrielle Reece 1970
  • Danny Pintauro 1976
    Hiromi Oshima ("Bunny" Girl) 1980
    Irina Shayk 1986


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