Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sunday, January 12, 2014

schmaltz \shmahlts, shmawlts\, noun: 
1. Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
2. fat or grease, especially of a chicken.
Schmaltz comes from the Yiddish shmalts and the German Schmaltz meaning "fat." It entered English in the 1930s.
no meeting day
  • A very rare fictional concept used by some mystical factions to assign a day where the members of said factions are not to actually meet with one another in hopes of improving individual productivity.
The elves at the Keebler cookie factory decided Thursday was a no meeting day.

History
  • Hattie Caraway: became the first woman elected to the US Senate, exactly 17 years after the House rejected suffrage for women; she made no speeches in the 14 years she served (1932)
  • James Bedford: Californian professor of psychology became the first person to be cryonically preserved when he was frozen a few hours after his death from cancer (1967)
  • All in the Family: groundbreaking sitcom premiered on TV, dealing with issues previously considered unacceptable — including racism, homosexuality and impotence (1971)
  • Deep Impact: space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral to study the core of comet 9P/Tempel by crashing into it; the probe reached its target in July (2005)
Birthdays
  • Edmund Burke 1729
  • Johann Pestalozzi 1746
  • Jack London 1876
  • John Singer Sargent 1856
  • Herman Goering 1893
  • Joe E. Lewis (Klewan) 1902
  • Tex (Woodward) Ritter 1905
  • Henny Youngman 1906
  • Luise Rainer 1910
  • Martin Agronsky 1915
  • P.W. Botha 1916
  • Ray Price 1926
  • Ruth Brown 1928
  • Lloyd Ruby 1928
  • Tim Horton 1930
  • Glenn Yarbrough (The Limeliters) 1930
  • James Fergason 1934
  • The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935
  • Ron Harper 1936
  • William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) 1939
  • Tucker (Ivan) Frederickson 1943
  • Joe Frazier 1944
  • Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows) 1945
  • Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) 1946
  • Anthony Andrews 1948
  • Wayne Wang 1949
  • Drew Pearson 1951
  • Rush Limbaugh 1951
  • Ricky Van Shelton 1952
  • Howard Stern 1954
  • Kirstie Alley 1955
  • George Duke 1956
  • Tommy Ardolino (NRBQ) 1957
  • Per Gessle (Roxette) 1959
  • Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows) 1960
  • Jeffrey Bezos 1964
  • Rob Zombie (White Zombie) 1966
  • Vendela 1967
  • TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1967
  • Raekwon 1970 (Wu Tang Clan)
  • Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) 1973
  • Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls) 1975
  • Alicia Angel (t3h pr0n) 1984
  • Andrew Lawrence 1988

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