Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

blithesome \ BLAHYTH-suhm \ , adjective; 
  • lighthearted; merry; cheerful: a blithesome nature . 
Origin: Blithesome entered English in the early 1700s from the Gothic term bleiths meaning "kind, merciful."

Magic Toaster 
  • A derogatory term describing an un-savvy computer users view of what a computer is.
Why my magic toaster no come on? I plug in, but no toast!

History
  • Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
  • Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851) 
    Quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)
  • Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
  • IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
  • Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
  • Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)
Birthdays
  • Thomas Bewick 1753
  • Abbott Thayer 1849
  • Christy Mathewson 1880
  • Cecil B. DeMille 1881
  • Cantinflas 1911
  • Mario Moreno 1911
  • Jane Wyatt 1912
  • Michael Kidd 1919
  • Majorie Reynolds 1921
  • Joe Jones 1926
  • John Derek 1926
  • Porter Wagoner 1927
  • Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
  • Buck Owens 1929
  • William Goldman 1931
  • Parnelli Jones 1933
  • Larry Ziegler 1939
  • George Hamilton 1939
  • Jennifer Warren 1941
  • Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
  • Kid Creole 1950
  • Pat Metheny 1954
  • Sam J. Jones 1954
  • Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
  • Suzanne Vega 1959
  • Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
  • Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
  • Peter Krause 1965
  • Pete Sampras 1971
  • Rebecca Gayheart 1972
  • Linda O'Neil 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
  • Casey Affleck 1975
  • Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
  • Dominique Swain 1980

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