Monday, July 14, 2014

Monday, July 14, 2014

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) 
  • Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
  • 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
  • Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913 
  • 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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