meliorism \ MEEL-yuh-riz-uhm, MEE-lee-uh- \ , noun;
- the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
Origin: Meliorism entered English in the late 1800s. It comes from the Latin word melior meaning "better."
Conversational Blue Balls
- When someone brings up a topic when talking but immediately drops it and refuses to switch back to the dropped topic.
Conversational Blue Balls is when:
"Goodness, did you hear about what happened?" "What happened?"
"Anyways, I'm gonna go."
"Wait, what happened?"
"Oh, don't worry about it."
History
- Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
- the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865)
- Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
- Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
- large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)
Birthdays
- Andrea del Sarto 1486
- Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
- Florence Bascom 1862
- William Leefe Robinson 1895
- Ken Murray 1903
- Irving Stone 1903
- Gloria Stuart 1910
- William Hanna 1910
- Terry-Thomas 1911
- Woody Guthrie 1912
- Douglas Edwards 1917
- Ingmar Bergman 1918
- Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
- Frances Lear 1923
- Dale Robertson 1923
- Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
- John Chancellor 1927
- Nancy Olson 1928
- Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
- Del Reeves 1932
- Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
- Karel Gott 1939
- Spencer Davis 1941
- Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
- Chris Cross 1952
- Jerry Houser 1952
- Eric Laneuville 1952
- Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
- Jackie Earle Haley 1961
- Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
- Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
- Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
- Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
- Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
- Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
- Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")
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