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epithalamion \ ep-uh-thuh-LEY-mee-on, -uhn \ , noun;
- a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
Origin: Epithalamion comes from the Greek epi- + thalamos meaning "at, upon" + "bridal chamber." It entered English in the late 1500s.
flatuglance
- The look that someone gives another person when they pass gas in public.
History
- Purple Heart: the military decoration was instituted by George Washington (1782)
- Ulysses: a US appeals court ruled that the James Joyce novel was not obscene and therefore should not be banned (1934)
- Kon-Tiki: the balsa wood raft made it across the Pacific, crashing at the end on a reef in the Tuomotu Islands; this demonstrated that pre-Columbian South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia (1947)
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution: US Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Vietnam (1964)
- Lynne Cox: swims the frigid Bering Strait, becoming the first person to swim from the US to the to the Soviet Union (1987)
- Twin Towers: Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of New York's World Trade Center (1974)
- US embassy bombings: simultaneous al-Qaeda attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 200 people and wounded thousands (1998)
- Nathaniel Greene 1742
- Mata Hari 1876
- Billie Burke 1884
- Rudolf Bunche 1904
- Warren Covington 1921
- Felice Bryant 1925
- Stan Freberg 1926
- "The Amazing" James Randi 1928
- Magic Slim 1937
- Ron Holden 1939
Verna Bloom 1939- B.J. Thomas 1942
- Garrison Keillor 1942
- Lana Cantrell 1943
- John Glover 1944
- David Rasche 1944
- Rodney Crowell 1950
- Andy Fraser (Free) 1952
- Caroline Aaron 1952
- Wayne Knight 1955
- Alberto Salazar 1958
- Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) 1958
- David Duchovny 1960
DeLane Matthews 1961- Marcus Roberts 1963
- Harold Perrineau 1963 - Actor ("Lost")
- Raul Malo (The Mavericks) 1965
- Charlotte Lewis 1967
- Sydney Penny 1971
- Charlize Theron 1975
- Sydney Crosby 1987
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