solstice \SOL-stis, SOHL-\, noun:
- Astronomy. a. either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator: about June 21, when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22, when it reaches its southernmost point. Compare summer solstice, winter solstice. b. either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.
- a furthest or culminating point; a turning point.
Solstice comes from the Latin solstitium referring to when the sun stands still. It entered English in the 1200s.
Sewage Fart
- Blasting such a disgusting rotten shit smelling fart that it cases people to believe there is a sewer leak in the area.
History
- Galilean moons: Jupiter's moons were first observed by Galileo; Simon Marius, however, named them — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, after the lovers of Zeus (1610)
- Fannie Farmer: published her first cookbook (1896)
- Marian Anderson: the contralto became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House (1955)
- Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's regime was toppled when Vietnam took Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh (1979)
- Bill Clinton: impeachment trial began (1999)
Birthdays
- Millard S. Fillmore (U.S.) 1800
- Charles Laemmle 1867
- Adolph Zukor 1873
- Charles Péguy 1873
- Butterfly McQueen 1911
- Charles Addams 1912
- Vincent Gardenia 1922
- Jean-Pierre Rampal 1922
- Gerald Durrell 1925
- William Blatty 1928
- Terry Moore (Helen Koford) 1929
- Jack Greene 1930
- Douglas Kiker 1930
- Eldee Young 1936
- Lou Graham (golfer) 1938
- Danny Williams 1942
- Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1942
- Leona Williams 1943
- Jan Wenner 1946
- Kenny Loggins 1948
- Marshall Chapman 1949
- Morris Titanic (NHL) 1953
- Katie Couric 1957
- David Lee Murphy 1958
- Kathy Valentine (The Go-Go's) 1958
- David Marciano 1960
- Craig Shipley 1963
- Nicholas Cage 1964
- Guy Hebert (NHL) 1967
- Doug E. Doug 1970
- Jeremy Renner 1971
- John Rich 1974
- Dustin Diamond 1977
Lauren Cohan 1982 (The Walking Dead)
Natalie Gulbis 1983 (Pro-Golfer / Model) - Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer














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