Thursday, January 02, 2014

Thursday, January 2, 2014

klaxon \KLAK-suhn\, noun:
  • a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles, trucks, etc., and now often used as a warning signal.
Klaxon got its name from an American manufacturing company that made horns for automobiles. It entered English in the early 1900s.
christmas fatigues
1. camouflage consisting of red, green, and white.
2. Wearing a hodgepodge of Christmas colors in an unfashionable manor.
Careful not to wear your Christmas Pajamas with your Christmas sweater or you will be accused of wearing Christmas fatigues.
Actually I own a Pajama pants that is red, green, and white camo. Christmas Fatigues.
History
  • Granada: last Moorish stronghold in Spain, led by Muhammad XI, surrendered to Roman Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I (1492)
  • Vulcan: the "discovery" of a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury was announced by French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier; it proved to be nonexistent (1860)
  • Russo-Japanese War: ended with Russian General Stoessel's letter of surrender to Japan's General Nogi (1905)
  • 55 mph limit: Congress and President Richard Nixon set a national speed limit to conserve gasoline following the 1973 oil crisis (1974)
Birthdays
  • Nathaniel Bacon 1647
  • Philip Freneau 1752
  • Martha Thomas 1857
  • Sally Rand 1904
  • James Melton 1904
  • Sir Michael Tippett 1905
  • Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) 1917
  • Isaac Asimov 1920
  • Renata Tebaldi 1922
  • Anna Lee 1923
  • Jason Evers 1927
  • Gino Marchetti 1927
  • Julius LaRosa 1930
  • Roger Miller 1936
  • Jim Bakker 1939
  • Donald B. Keck 1941
  • Christopher Durang 1949
  • Chick Churchill (Ten Years After) 1949
  • Wendy Phillips 1952
  • imagebam.comJoanna Pacula 1957
  • Gabrielle Carteris 1961
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968
  • Christy Turlington 1969
  • Todd Haynes 1961
  • Tia Carrere 1967
  • Taye Diggs 1971
  • Paz Vega 1976
  • Kate Bosworth 1983

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