Thursday, April 24, 2014

achromic \ ey-KROH-mik \ , adjective; 

• colorless; without coloring matter. 

Origin: A combination of a- and chromic , achromic entered English in the 1750s. The prefix a- is a variant of an- , which meant "not," "without," or "lacking" in Greek, as in the words anarchy and amoral . A common variant is achromous . 

cyberbaiting

• Cyberbaiting occurs when students, either individually or as a group, make a plan to act so outrageously that the classroom teacher loses self control and begins yelling or acting in another unprofessional manner. The teacher is surreptitiously recorded, and the video of the momentary loss of control is posted to social networking sites.

Mrs. Hoskins, classroom teacher, was the vicitim of cyberbaiting. She lost her composure today when Brian and Irma kept disrupting the class. Her mini-tantrum was videoed by Johnny, who posted it on YouTube.

History

• Trojan horse: traditional date of the ancient Greeks' ruse to gain entry into Troy (1184 BCE)
• "La Marseillaise": France's national anthem was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
• Library of Congress: was established with $5,000; today it has 18 million books and 100 million other items in 470 languages (1800)
• Hersheypark: amusement park opened in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the exclusive use of Hershey Chocolate Company's employees; it was later opened to the public (1907)
• Easter Uprising: unsuccessful Irish rebellion against British rule began (1916)

Birthdays

• John Graunt 1620
• Edmund Cartwright 1743
• Robert Bailey Thomas 1766
• George Bascom 1836
• Henri Philippe Petain 1856
• Robert Penn Warren 1905
• Jack E. Leonard 1911
• Aaron Bell 1922
• J.D. Cannon 1922
• John Griffin 1928
• Freddy Scott 1933
• Shirley Boone 1934
• Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
• Jill Ireland 1936
• Joe Henderson 1937
• Sue Grafton 1940 - Author
• Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer
• Richard Sterban 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Bob Lunn 1945
• Robert Knight 1945
• Doug Clifford 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR))
• Glenn Cornick 1947
• Eric Bogosian 1953 - Actor
• Vince Ferragamo 1954
• Michael O'Keefe 1955
• David J. 1957 - Musician (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
• Boris Williams 1958 - Musician (Cure)
• Glenn Morshower 1959 - Actor ("24")
• Billy Gould 1963 - Musician (Faith No More)
• Paul Ryder 1964 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
• Djimon Hounsou 1964 - Actor
• Cedric the Entertainer 1964 - Actor, comedian
• Patty Schemel 1967 - Musician (Hole)
• Omar Vizquel 1967 - Baseball player
• Aaron Comess 1968 - Musician (Spin Doctors)
• Chipper Jones 1972 - Baseball player
• Brian Aubrey Marshall 1973 - Musician (Creed)
• Eric Balfour 1977 - Actor
• Carlos Beltran 1977 - Baseball player
• Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award, Who's High Pitch?