Tuesday, June 24, 2014

vane \ veyn \ , noun;

1. a person who is readily changeable or fickle.
2. weather vane.
3. a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air.
4. any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air.
5. Aerospace . a. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere. b. a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing.
6. Ornithology . the web of a feather.
7. Navigation, Surveying . either of two fixed projections for sighting an alidade or the like.
8. Archery . feather. 

Origin: Vane is a variant of the word fane , meaning "flag; banner." It entered English in the mid-1400s.

interesting

• (adj) Something which arouses no interest at all. Used to politely avoid admitting this, which indirectly expresses your indifference.

Yes, your bottle cap collection is interesting.

History

• dancing mania: first major outbreak of this phenomenon — wild, uncontrollable dancing, accompanied by hallucinations, to the point of exhaustion — occurred in Aachen, Germany (1374)
• John Cabot: explorer became the first European to sight the continent of North America (1497)
• Henry VIII: crowned king of England (1509)
• flying saucer: Kenneth Arnold described UFOs he had seen near Mt. Rainier, Washington, as "saucers skipping across the water" (1947); the Roswell Report closed the case on other alleged sightings of UFOs near Roswell, New Mexico (1997)
• Berlin blockade: Soviet Union prevented delivery of supplies to Berlin; Allied forces began the Berlin airlift in response (1948)
• FTC: required that a message be placed on all cigarette packages to warn consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health (1964)

Birthdays

• E.I. Du Pont 1771
• Ambrose Bierce 1842
  
• Jack Dempsey 1895
• Irving Kaufman 1910
• Norman Cousins 1912
• John Ciardi 1916
• Al Molinaro 1919
• Manny Albam 1922
• Billy Casper 1931
• Peter Hamill 1935
• Michele Lee 1942
• Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) 1942
• Georg Stanford Brown 1943
• Arthur Brown 1944
• Jeff Beck (Yardbirds) 1944
• John ‘Charlie’ Whitney (Family) 1944
• Colin Blunstone 1945
• Ellison S. Onizuka 1946
  Patrick Moraz (musician: Yes, Moody Blues) 1948
• John Illsley (Dire Straits) 1949
• Nancy Allen 1950
• Derrick Simpson (Black Uhuru) 1950
• Astro (UB40) 1957
• Andrew McCluskey (OMD) 1959
• Curt Smith (Tears For Fears) 1961
• Danielle Spencer 1965
• Sherry Stringfield 1967
• Jeff Cease (The Black Crowes) 1967
• Glenn Medeiros 1970
• Minka Kelly 1980