Monday, June 16, 2014

Monday, June 16, 2014

wanderlust \ WON-der-luhst \ , noun; 
  • a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. 
Origin: Wanderlust is a German loanword that translates literally to "wander desire." It entered English in the early 1900s. 

Friends with possibilities
  • Starting out as friends with someone, but have the possibility or potential for a relationship on the next level.
"Are y'all dating yet?" 
"No we're just friends with possibilities for now. "

History
  • Battle of Stoke: marked the tail end of the Wars of the Roses (1487)
  • House Divided speech: Abraham Lincoln, as a senatorial candidate, warned that the Union must become either all-slave or all-free (1858)
  • Bloomsday: James Joyce's Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through this one day of his life (1904)
  • New Deal: FDR opened his recovery program, signing bank, rail and industry bills and initiating farm aid (1933)
  • Valentina Tereshkova: Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6 (1963)
Birthdays
  • Stan Laurel 1890
  • Helen Traubel 1899
  • Jack Albertson 1910
  • Hank Lusetti 1916
  • Katherine Graham 1917
  • John Howard Griffin 1920
  • Erich Segal 1937
  • Joyce Carol Oates 1938 - Author
  • Corin Redgrave 1939
  • Billy 'Crash' Craddock 1939 - Country singer
  • Lamont Dozier 1941 - Songwriter
  • Eddie Levert 1942 - Musician (The O'Jays)
  • Joan Van Ark 1943 - Actress ("Knot's Landing")
  • Ian Matthews 1945 - Musician (Fairport Convention)
  • Derek Sanderson 1946
  • James Smith 1950 - Musician (The Stylistics)
  • Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer
  • Gino Vannelli 1952 - Singer
  • Laurie Metcalf 1955 - Actress ("Roseanne")
  • Jenny Smimizu 1967
  • Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player
  • Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper
  • Eddie Cibrian 1973
  • Frederick Koehler 1975
  • China Shavers 1977
  • Kerry Wood 1977 - Baseball player
  • Missy Peregrym 1982 - Actress
  • Olivia Hack 1983








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